Sentences with phrase «against state standards»

Current state plans quite properly put local educators on notice about local performance against state standards.

They rail against state standards and accountability systems, but offer few practical alternatives for ensuring that all public schools perform at a high level.

The new law mandates that all students take tests that measure their progress against state standards every year in grades 3 through 8.

In the future, a students» performance across a variety of programs and platforms will likely give us a much richer picture of how that student is performing against state standards, as compared to a once annual high stakes test.

She'll compare every student's achievement against state standards to decide which...

But unlike the federal grading system, the A + Plan bases half of its points on the percentage of students in each school who improved their performance against state standards over the previous year.

Equally important, teachers at these schools met regularly — monthly or more often — to discuss student performance against state standards in order to reach measurable achievement goals (Richardson, 1999).

The state's department of education describes a student who scores at Level 2 (of five levels) as having «limited success» against the state standards; only students who score at Level 3 or above are considered to be proficient for the purposes of evaluating schools under No Child Left Behind.