Sentences with phrase «adopted new tests»

In New Mexico, she's working to keep up the pressure on schools to improve, including deciding that the state would not suspend its accountability measures even as the state adopted new tests.

In fact, if other states that have adopted new tests geared to the Common Core are any indication, Connecticut will likely see a steep drop in scores on the new tests, which does not necessarily mean that students aren't learning as well, only that they are being tested differently.

Many states adopted new tests to measure the new standards.

The latest round of state standardized academic test scores showed gains both across New York State and locally.But rather than celebrate the largest bump since New York adopted new tests tied to the Common Core Learning Standards, education officials reported the increases with caution.

A report last year from Indiana's nonpartisan legislative staff predicted tens of millions of dollars in costs to adopt new tests, plus additional ongoing costs to administer them.

In 2009, the state passed a new education law requiring new, higher academic standards and adopting new tests.

The Massachusetts Commissioner of Education, Mitchell Chester, unlike Connecticut's Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor, believes «that fully adopting the new testing deadline by the 2014 - 2015 school year is «too precipitous» for his state's schools.»

It's an important question, particularly because most states will soon be adopting new tests aligned with the Common Core State Standards.

The recent decision from the NLRB has adopted a new test that will be used by the Board in determining whether or not a company policy or workplace rule violates the National Labor Relations Act.

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Adopting new technologies presents various business challenges and at OAL, we have developed a number of routes for our customers to test and trial Steam Infusion heating and mixing.

This is because the courts have adopted a very demanding test of what constitutes a «substantial lessening of competition», effectively requiring that after a merger the new company must be almost a monopoly.

The new rules adopted in April by the CPSC change the location of a bed's guardrail, which must be at least 5 inches above the mattress, and establishes a strength test of the spindles and slats.

While new bikes will have been designed to meet emission standards, the draft implies that current bikes would be tested too, but it is not yet clear as to what standards will be adopted.

New York State has agreed to adopt high - stakes testing and controversial teacher evaluation systems tied to Common Core State Standards for a one - time installment of $ 700 millions in federal Race to the Top grant money.

In December it recommended reversing Cuomo's push to link controversial standardized test scores to teacher performance reviews, and begin a new four year transitional period to adopt the new standards.

But the fallout from the budget's education measures which Cuomo pushed for continues in Albany: Lawmakers are considering a variety of means to reduce standardized testing in schools and the Board of Regents is pushing back a deadline for school districts to adopt the new teacher performance criteria for those demonstrating hardships.

The report is the latest step in the state's retreat from the Common Core school standards, national benchmarks that New York adopted in 2010, and especially from using student test scores in teacher evaluations.

Forty - five states adopted the Common Core standards, but only New York and Kentucky began testing in this last school year.

«We have to deal with the issue of the effect of Common Core testing on teacher evaluations,» Cuomo said Tuesday at a news conference on the state budget, referring to the tougher curriculum standards adopted by the state that produced sharply lower scores on standardized tests in New York last year.

Tisch lead the push toward greater emphasis on standardized testing as well as a fast track to adopt the new Common Core learning standards.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday a plan to overhaul the state's Common Core system by adopting new, locally - designed standards along with less testing.

That report's recommendations, many of which were adopted into state law and regulations, included a ban on state testing for students before third grade and a restriction against including scores from new Common Core tests on students» permanent records.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, a presumed gubernatorial candidate, has signaled his intention to attack Cuomo for the Common Core, a system of curriculum standards that has been adopted by New York and 45 other states, and Assembly Democrats are advancing a bill to postpone testing based on Common Core curricula.

But the allies who helped him adopt the new curriculum, testing and teacher evaluations law — members of the state Board of Regents and leaders in the State Senate and Assembly — are now defecting as they confront a grassroots revolt.

Tisch led the push toward greater emphasis on standardized testing as well as a fast track to adopt the new Common Core learning standards.

Education Commissioner Pam Stewart said the debate over the policy and its impact occurred in 2016, when the board adopted the rule imposing the new testing structure.

But there are a number of complexities related to the viability of a new fuel, Fretheim added, such as the vehicle payback period, the need for new infrastructure, overcoming maintenance issues and sourcing enough of an alternative fuel to test it and to fully adopt it if it works.

She does see some cause for optimism: A new generation of tests are being developed in the U.S. to assess how well students have met the Common Core State Standards, the set of academic benchmarks in literacy and math that have been adopted by 43 states.

Ghana's strategy, President Akufo - Addo said, was based on innovations — adopting the new generation of insecticides for indoor - residual spraying, as well as being one of the three countries testing the new malaria vaccine.

Partnership to adopt Organ - Chips to provide human - relevant data in drug discovery and development aiming to reduce animal testing, and to implement personalized safety testing of new drug candidates

The improved scores were impressive enough to lead several states and other major school districts, including New York, to adopt elements of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) policy — making student progress toward the next grade dependent on demonstrated achievement on standardized tests.

As states across the U.S. move to adopt standardized tests as a means to determine grade promotion and school graduation, new research presented in the Harvard Educational Review shows that sole reliance on high - stakes tests as a graduation requirement may increase inequities among students by both race and gender.

For one thing, in getting a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Indiana (like other states) promised the Obama administration it would adopt standards that met federal criteria; align curricula and teaching; select, pilot, and administer new tests aligned to the standards; and integrate the standards into both school - and teacher - accountability systems.

Late last week, the board that sets policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress was poised to adopt a new framework for the NAEP reading test that would change the content significantly enough to prevent the continuation of comparisons among tests.

Under the Obama administration, the federal government used carrots and sticks to encourage states to adopt new academic standards and test - based teacher evaluation systems.

Three of the eight states — New Mexico, Oklahoma, and West Virginia — adopted high - stakes testing during the 1980s.

Given that Race to the Top also pushed states to hurriedly adopt new teacher evaluation systems and specifically to use test results to gauge teachers, not - ready - for - primetime evaluation systems are now entangled with the Common Core and new state tests.

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Perhaps most tellingly, the administration let states know they'd ace three of the 19 priorities if they promised to adopt the brand - new Common Core and its federally - funded tests.

While the federal education department was pressuring states to adopt new standards and test - based teacher evaluations, Fagen wanted to go above and beyond in Douglas County.

From 1998 to 2000, most stories adopted a fairly neutral tone, introducing the public to the new accountability system and offering tepid praise and criticism of the testing regimen.

Perhaps most fatefully, states could ace 3 of the 19 priorities by promising to adopt the brand - new Common Core and its federally funded tests.

In pushing states to hurriedly adopt new evaluation systems that specifically used test results to gauge teachers, Race to the Top also ensured that many not - ready - for - primetime systems would be hurriedly rolled out and entangled with the Common Core and its associated tests.

She believes it also takes a lot of courage to resist some new ideas and instead say, «let's test and see what works, let's get some short - term feedback loops and actually see if what we are doing is effective... not to adopt something that somebody else is doing».

It calls on schools to adopt new assessment methods, including problem - solving tests, portfolios, and exhibitions.

And at first blush it looked like they had achieved it, with about 45 states committing to adopt the new set of standards and federally - sponsored standardized tests aligned to those standards.

Although this statement is somewhat true, the vendors of this claim never tell the public that the original New Jersey Core Curriculum State Standards, adopted in 1997, and the corresponding state tests were not born out of some impressive collection of education research or developed voluntary by educators aimed at providing a world class education to New Jersey's children.

Keep in mind that New Jersey signed onto the Common Core before the standards were even finished, adopted them about a month after the final set came out, and was a original supporter of the PARCC tests, before the tests were even developed.

If teachers perceive a new practice as supporting test - preparation goals, such as teaching to the test, they are more likely to adopt the new practice.