Sentences with phrase «ago on the state test»

Every racial and ethnic group is doing slightly better than four years ago on the state test.

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The company began testing the package - delivery program a month ago in three stores — two in New Jersey, one in northwest Arkansas — but did not offer details on when, or where, it would expand across the United States.

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A year ago, North Carolina's Blue Ribbon Commission on Testing and Accountability issued a report recommending a sharp reduction in the number of tests that the state required.

In the area of academic achievement, a few years ago the school's fourth graders had the highest scores in the district on the Connecticut Mastery Test, the state's standardized achievement tTest, the state's standardized achievement testtest.

Third - gradestudents had a pass rate on the state's standardized math test of 95 percent, a gain of 47 percentage points from two years ago.

A few years ago, the school district was doing so badly on state - mandated tests that it was eligible for takeover by the state.

Three years ago, those who worked on the charter school movement here were growing tired of troubles in the schools — known mostly for a few cases of corruption, leader infighting and standardized test scores far below state averages.

Several years ago, the Obama administration recognized the reality that this goal was not going to be attained; and since the Congress could not agree on an alternative, the federal Department of Education granted the states permission to test and hold schools accountable in different ways than the original NCLB had done.

Three years ago, the Wooster City School District (WCSD) took a leap of faith, signing on with the state education agency as a partner district to help design and test the development of a statewide improvement process that could be used by any district, regardless of size and demographics, to improve student learning.

Five years ago, one group of researchers found that charter school students across Chicago and the whole state of Florida scored slightly worse on math tests than their public high school counterparts.

Walnut Valley, with 20 percent low - income families and about 10 percent English learners, had among the state's highest Academic Performance Index scores — a system for rating schools based on test scores — before the index was suspended three years ago, with an average of more than 900.

Still, Robinson says EdPower is on track to turn the school around by 2016, the deadline set two years ago ago when the state intervened for low test scores.

Much like the Kentucky reforms of two decades ago, Common Core comes with a slew of state mandates about content and keeps the emphasis on testing as a measure of school success.

He began wearing it several years ago to faculty meetings as a sarcastic protest against the state's emphasis on standardized testing.

Two years ago, still floundering, Oak Hill became one of the lowest - performing schools in the nation, with only 24 percent of students scoring proficient on state reading exams and 39 percent testing proficient in math.

Not too long ago, California released its statewide 2012 annual school rankings, listing the top - performing schools in the state, based on the Academic Performance Index (API), which is calculated from standardized test results.

To make matters even worse, Superintendent Luizzi is undoubtedly well aware of that fact that less than one year ago, when the Chairman of the State Board of Education and Malloy's previous Commissioner of Education came before a special legislative hearing on the Common Core, both of these public officials admitted that there was no law or mechanism to prevent a parent from opting their children out of Common Core SBAC testing.

In contrast to the district's abysmal performance just a decade ago, Springfield schools made larger composite performance index gains on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System tests in 2012 — 13 than both the state as a whole and the average for the 25 largest urban districts.

Faced with American students» poor results on international tests, a state - based movement arose several years ago to try to raise education standards through a program known as «Common Core.»

I discovered the link between poverty and achievement on standardized tests many years ago when working at a state education agency.

And I really do understand deeply why parents who, during the previous approach in this city and in the state just a few years ago were profoundly frustrated with an overreliance on high stakes testing.

And finally, less than one year ago, when the Chairman of the State Board of Education and Malloy's previous Commissioner of Education went before a special legislative hearing on the Common Core, both of these public officials admitted — on the record — that there was no law or mechanism to prevent a parent from opting their children out of Common Core SBAC testing.

Since implementing the universal screening in English / Language Arts using Accucess two years ago, proficiency ratings on the state test have increased 7 percentage points in reading and have held at a steady 86 % in writing.

Ten weeks ago, I made some predictions about New York City's 2013 proficiency rates on the New York State English Language Arts and mathematics assessments — the first New York tests to be aligned with the challenging Common Core State Standards adopted (more or less) by about 45 states across the country.

Genetic tests show that the panthers in Everglades National Park are not true Florida panthers at all, but descendants of South American cousins released into the wild years ago, biologists say.And they warn there's a threat these cats will eventually mix with the few surviving pure - bred panthers, found mostly in Southwest Florida's Big Cypress Swamp, effectively removing the U.S. government's need to keep them on the endangered - species list.Genetic testing of panthers in South Florida, where almost all of the 50 or so cats left in the state live, show two distinct families.

As reported by The New York Times, Uber and other rideshare companies started testing driverless cars a few years ago in Arizona, after officials in that state promised not to impose stringent restrictions on developers.

For instance, «Reed Smith was testing a real - time feedback app for associates last year, and Drinker Biddle added quarterly performance reviews on top of its annual appraisals a few years ago,» Law.com stated.

Patrick Lin, associate professor of ethics at California Polytechnic State University, posted a very nice «thought experiment» on Ted - Ed a couple of weeks ago that «isolates and stress tests our intuitions» and contributes to this conversation.

A few months ago, Faraday Future got approval from the California DMV to test driverless cars on public roads in the state.