Sentences with phrase «wadleigh met state standards»

China's cities need to reduce PM2.5 to an annual average of 35 micrograms in order to meet state standards.

The curriculum meets state standards, but the classes are self - paced and taught in a way that considers each student's individual interests, strengths, and learning style.

You'll learn a process to develop engaging units and assessment tools that meet state standards.

The initiative is part of an overall institutional effort to address low - attendance, improve progress for meeting state standards, and feed hungry students.

Under licensure laws, it is illegal for a person to practice a profession without first meeting state standards.

All candidates would have to meet state standards without a waiver from the state's Commissioner of Education.

Tests show that the northern portion of the lake meets state standards for swimming.

The decision by the Office of the Medicaid Inspector General to yank Soundview's funding came after a finding that the health network had no compliance program to meet state standards.

Thanks to persistent and persuasive communication and the urging of many stakeholders, the County Legislature approved a $ 500,000 increase in the Library's 2007 operating appropriation, allowing some libraries that had failed to meet State standards to meet them and improving hours and services at other locations.

In a letter sent earlier today to Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, the group of 34 led by Melissa Mark - Viverito and Letitia James, called for increased physical activity in the public schools, citing reports that they are not meeting state standards.

BEIJING (Reuters)- Almost all Chinese cities monitored for pollution last year failed to meet state standards, the vice-minister of environmental protection said on Saturday as he outlined the country's plans to redress the environmental consequences of rapid industrialization.

Give your students a chance to follow their own interests with projects that meet state standards.

District administrators started the program as a means to share best practices and meet state standards, said Michael Williams - Hickman, the districts executive director of elementary education.

Last year, 0 % of students in grades six through eight at Wadleigh met state standards in math or English.

In their report, Miron and Applegate conclude that Edison Schools do improve from year to year on norm - referenced tests, which measure gains in students knowledge over time, but on criterion - referenced tests, which measure whether or not students meet state standards, Edison students fared no better than students from surrounding public schools.

«With those demographics, it has been an obvious challenge to ensure students meet state standards and go on to college,» Mijares explains.

«We're providing not only the academic skills — by meeting state standards, and through work in theater education, literacy, and public speaking — but we are also targeting anger management and social skills,» she explains.

Her litany of complaints about the academic results of Klein's «radical restructuring» is somewhat familiar — «inflating» test results and «taking shortcuts» to boost graduation — except for the charge that «the recalibration of the state scores revealed that the achievement gap among children of different races in New York City was virtually unchanged between 2002 and 2010, and the proportion of city students meeting state standards dropped dramatically, almost to the same point as in 2002.»

For example, professional judgment panels in Maryland estimated, on average, that elementary schools need 116 instructional personnel per 1,000 regular students to meet state standards.

Solution: Describe how the upcoming week's curriculum meets state standards, and offer the parents a textbook to use as an at - home reference (almost all classrooms have a few extra copies lying around).

They also have had to meet state standards for financial viability and show that their facilities meet health and safety standards applicable to public schools.

In this context, the question for districts and schools becomes: How do we balance the need to meet state standards at a given school with the mandates from the local school board?

Among the students in the city's third through eighth grades, 40 percent of black students and 46 percent of Hispanic students met state standards in math, compared with 75 percent of white students and 82 percent of Asian students.

«We are closing the shameful achievement gap faster than ever,» the mayor said again in 2009, as city reading scores — now acknowledged as the height of a test score bubble — showed nearly 70 percent of children had met state standards.

If just a third of them had met state standards last year, the school - wide percentage of students passing the exam would have nearly doubled.

To make «adequate yearly progress» under the law, schools must show that increasing numbers of students can meet state standards, no matter what their race or poverty level.

(Much of the criticism of No Child Left Behind stems from states keeping their standards low to fulfill the law's requirement of showing that children meet the state standards.)

As we walk through an example project, we show how PBL is the most effective and efficient means to our ends: preparing students for rigorous performance assessments, meeting state standards, and, most important, making learning matter to students.

The model uses the «professional judgment» method to calculate the level of funding required for 90 percent of Oregon's students to meet state standards.

«Emanuel called the school's results «quite impressive,» though state records show only 15 - percent of high schoolers there met state standards.

It's among the key recommendations made in the report released by the Michigan School Finance Research Collaborative, which launched an effort more than a year ago to determine how much money Michigan schools need to meet state standards.

Public charter school teacher Nicholas Simmons once wrote in the Wall Street Journal that he «worked in the same building as the Wadleigh Secondary School, at which 0 percent of students in grades six through eight met state standards in math or English» (emphasis added).

The percentage of high school students who meet the state standards has jumped by 44 percent for English and 45 percent for math.

Administrators are optimistic that some of those schools will emerge from «improvement required» status, but they do not expect the 10 to meet the state standards.

Generally, prospective teachers do not need to meet state standards and have a teaching license in order to teach in a private school.

Hundreds of public schools perform marginally or do not meet state standards, which are not all that tough to begin win.

• Evidence - Based method: Academic research on student performance is used to identify needed resources to meet all state standards.

Being able to work toward and meet state standards, while also incorporating unique and innovative approaches to learning, is part of what makes public charter schools like ISAAC such a desirable option for so many families.

Margaret Kilgo, well - known TX strategist and educator, develops and presents seminars and workshops for districts» teachers and administrators to be better able to excel in today's changing educational arena; topics include: creating curricula to meet state standards, making district / site decisions that are data - driven, and designing district assessments that align with state assessments.

The ELPS Program offers degrees at the master's, educational specialist, and doctoral levels and includes learning experiences to meet state standards for the Principal and Administrator Licenses.

«Too few students meet state standards.»

This means that teachers must know deeply each of their students as individual learners, differentiating their instruction accordingly so that each student meets the stated standard regardless of the student's starting place.

«Student growth data tells us if students are growing toward meeting state standards, but observations of practice tell us how and why students are growing,» explained Michael Beiersdorf, LAUSD teacher and E4E Member.

Most high - implementing schools met the state standard for growth in student literacy proficiency compared to less than half of the lower - implementing schools.

Our solution uses open source learning management software to teach and learn from a distance, meet state standards and provide individualized learning to students.

Interview with Principal Ryan Tomolonis West Carter Middle School Principal Ryan Tomolonis discusses the «no zero» policy as well as a strong tutorial program offered multiple times during the day that allowed all students to meet state standards and demonstrate significant academic growth.

Even experienced educators with a complete understanding of the promise of performance assessments and student - centered learning can quickly lose sight of these lynchpins in the attempt to create projects that meet state standards, and engage students.

, looked at this year's state test scores and compared the difference between Latino students and white students who met state standards.

Such goals as «We will adopt the Junior Great Books program» or «We will create three new labs for our science course» give way to «We will increase the percentage of students who meet the state standard in language arts from 83 percent to 90 percent» or «We will reduce the failure rate in our course by 50 percent.»

1949 — State policy determines that ``... the state must guarantee that a basic educational opportunity be available to each pupil...» and ``... the state should be obligated to contribute to the educational program only if the school district provides a program which meets state standards.»