Sentences with phrase «annual statewide tests»

Representatives on the new state committee examining annual statewide tests need to hear your personal stories about SBAC's effect on your students.

Some favor a simple letter - grade system for schools based on student achievement on annual statewide tests.

One dominant model is the streamlined letter - grade system first adopted by Florida, which focuses on student achievement on annual statewide tests.

The law also required annual statewide tests in grades 3 through 8, and again in high school, and states had to publish the performances of students on these tests for every school, breaking out the results by ethnicity, eligibility for a subsidized lunch, and a variety of other categories.

And I hope they come to their senses and reveal a more centrist reauthorization proposal — with annual statewide testing, and data reporting, and school accountability requirements with teeth.

These results confirm what we already know from our own annual statewide testing — millions of students in California are below grade level in math and reading.

Arizona's Measurement of Educational Readiness to Inform Teaching (AzMERIT) is an annual statewide test that measures how students are performing in English language arts and math.

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In state Senate races, antipathy toward Common Core education standards and annual state tests cuts across party lines: both Democrats and Republicans find reasons to pile on to statewide criticism.

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Virginia published statewide passage rates for the Standards of Learning (SOL) exams Tuesday, and the annual tests that measure students» performance across all subjects showed gains in almost every category.

This bipartisan coalition bonds over their hatred of statewide annual testing, but not much else.

Still, given the public beating standardized tests have taken over the last decade, and the negative narrative around testing that's solidified as a result, it remains exceedingly important for those of us that still believe in annual, statewide standardized testing to articulate — again, and again, and again — why it matters.

It may not be popular or politically expedient, but annual, statewide standardized testing, and yes — even accountability and consequences based on that data — at least deserve a defense.

Go beyond the boisterous press releases or slick websites, though, and these plans are feeding on a far more negative undercurrent: NCLB's requirement for statewide annual standardized tests for all kids is harmful and wrong.

But this particular reaction — ending statewide, comparable, annual testing — is an overreaction that creates more problems than it solves.

Again, the result looks a lot like «annual testing,» just not the kind of statewide, comparable annual testing system NCLB requires today.

Ending statewide, comparable, annual testing is an overreaction that creates more problems than it solves.

Annual, statewide testing should be saved, and it can be if moderates in both parties fight off special interests.

While ESSA was designed to reduce unnecessary standardized testing, the new educational policy requires that schools take an annual statewide assessment.

Tuesday's annual release of state test scores included scores from students in the statewide voucher program for the first time.

Los Angeles County schools mirrored the statewide results in the annual basic skills test — which means both good and bad news.

Educational Leadership in an Age of Accountability explores these changes in Virginia, following its implementation of an ambitious accountability plan that called for standards of learning, statewide high - stakes tests, standards of accreditation, and annual school performance report cards.

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.

So much time is spent preparing students to take the annual statewide exams, field tests and an endless number of other tests that history, music, art and gym have been squeezed out of the school day.

Annual statewide math and reading tests in grades 3 — 8, grade - span assessments in science, and English proficiency testing for English language learners (ELLs).

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Virginia public schools receive annual accountability ratings based on the performance of students on Standards of Learning (SOL) tests and other statewide assessments: