Sentences with phrase «area high school tested»

Several rural school districts in northeast Texas have been besieged by both rumors and reporters following the announcement that 6 of 197 students in one area high school tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS.

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In addition to the Barrow Brainbook education module, the full program piloted by the five Bay Area high schools will incorporate a formal exam, which students will need to pass before beginning a sport, as well as ImPACT cognitive testing.

School districts would like to see kids have more time for lunch but are pressed to meet testing objectives, and therefore have weighted core subject areas with a higher time priority.

«Well - off schools with the highest student test scores come under the same tenure law as struggling schools in high - poverty areas.

The state should show residents the geographic distribution of test results, to target areas where exposures may be higher and so they can determine where their own results fit, said Richard Klapp, a professor of epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health.

Students who attend five charter schools in the San Francisco Bay area that are run by the Knowledge Is Power Program, or kipp, score consistently higher on standardized tests than their peers from comparable public schools, an independent evaluation of the schools concludes.

States should seize the possibilities for more innovative approaches to school improvement posed by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaces a law much criticized for its heavy - handed federal role and for focusing schools heavily on teaching for low - level multiple - choice tests in reading and math to the neglect of other subject areas and higher - level skills.

In their article, «The Relative Equitability of High - Stakes Testing versus Teacher - Assigned Grades: An Analysis of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS),» Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers Robert T. Brennan and James S. Kim, and UMass Boston researchers Melodie Wenz - Gross and Gary N. Siperstein compared 736 student results on the MCAS with teacher - assigned grades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and science.

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.

Sacramento — California's high - school seniors improved their scores this year in all areas of the state's basic - skills test, owing in large part, state and local testing officials say, to the availability of $ 14.4 million in incentive bonuses for schools.

For example, while these five urban charter schools offer an existence proof that high standardized test scores are possible and within the grasp of every student in this country, it is equally true that the several practices of successful traditional schools in areas such as special education, the arts, or second language proficiency, offer insights for the charter world.

In contrast to progressive charters in suburban areas, central - city charters typically embrace the «no - excuses» model of teaching and learning, emphasizing strict dress codes, rigorous discipline, extended school days and school years, and high expectations for performance on standardized tests.

As we continue to study choice - based policies in K — 12 education, one challenge we must confront is the push - pull created by high - stakes accountability measures designed to assess schools, students, and educators, based solely on test scores — an area where choice proponents and opponents often find common ground.

However, without the changes Massachusetts made to its entire system of teacher licensing (e.g., subject area licensing tests for all prospective teachers, criteria for achieving full licensure after beginning teaching, and criteria for license renewal for veteran teachers), it is unlikely there would have been enduring gains in achievement for students in all demographic groups and in all its regional vocational / technical high schools — gains confirmed by tests independent of control or manipulation by Massachusetts or federal policy makers.

The state requires prospective high school teachers to complete majors and pass subject - matter tests in the areas they plan to teach.

«In my dream world, before too long we would have this 4th grade reading test and this 8th grade test replicated in elementary, junior high, and high school in several areas,» Mr. Clinton said.

In contrast to charters in suburban areas, which tend toward a progressive pedagogy, central - city charters typically embrace the «no - excuses» model of teaching and learning, emphasizing strict dress codes, rigorous discipline, extended school days and school years, and high expectations for performance on standardized tests.

Critics of opt - out contend that test refusals happen mainly in middle - class and wealthy areas, hurting high - need schools by making it more difficult to measure the achievement gap.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

Eliminating exclusionary zoning in a metro area would, by reducing its housing cost gap, lower its school test - score gap by an estimated 4 to 7 percentiles — a significant share of the observed gap between schools serving the average low - income versus middle / higher - income student.

Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality: Instead of requiring its teachers to complete minimum degrees or coursework in the subjects they plan to teach, Oregon requires its high school teachers to demonstrate subject - matter knowledge by passing tests in their areas of endorsement prior to certification.

Hoxby also finds that urban areas with a large number of school districts, and therefore many options for families choosing where to reside, tend to have higher test scores than cities like Miami, where one school district covers anyone living close enough to work in the city.

ONE OF THE long - standing misperceptions about charter schools is that they cherry - pick the better students from an area, resulting in higher test scores than in comparable regular public schools...

A: There's at least one group of New York City high schools that have allowed their students to create learning portfolios and oral presentations instead of taking state - mandated subject area tests to graduate.

The «Approve R - 55» group will point to the 12 of 13 charter schools in the Chicago area where students are outperforming their traditional public school counterparts on standardized tests and have higher graduation rates.

The Obama administration's final accountability rules for the Every Student Succeeds Act, issued Monday, give states greater flexibility on school ratings, schools with high testing opt - out rates, and in other areas than an earlier draft version, released in May....

In August, 2017, John Logan) of Brown University and Julia Burdick - Will of Johns Hopkins University published an analysis of charter school studies that found «[charter schools] in high - poverty areas have better test scores than non-charters.

In the Chicago area, 12 of 13 charter public schools are outperforming traditional public schools on standards - based tests and averaging an 83 percent graduation rate compared with the 62 percent rate of Chicago's other public high schools.

that found «[charter schools] in high - poverty areas have better test scores than non-charters.

And while Florida's current A-F school grading system tries to adjust for the fact that schools in high poverty areas face challenges that make it very hard for their students to perform well on standardized tests, it's not enough, says Alan Ehrenhalt for Governing Magazine.

Only 2 percent of Texas high schools report that 75 percent their ELL students meet or exceed standards on their state tests in all academic areas, according to IDRA's analysis of the most recent Texas Education Agency data.

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In WSI schools that effectively implement arts integration, a higher percentage of economically disadvantaged students score «Proficient or Above» when compared to all students (not just economically disadvantaged students) at the district and state level, across multiple grade levels, and across multiple subject areas on standardized tests.

High school graduation rates, child poverty and juvenile arrests are among the areas where blacks struggle in Dane County, and state test results show Madison School District achievement gaps peschool graduation rates, child poverty and juvenile arrests are among the areas where blacks struggle in Dane County, and state test results show Madison School District achievement gaps peSchool District achievement gaps persist.

ACT — One of two commonly used tests designed to assess high school students» general educational development and their ability to complete college - level work in four skill areas: English, mathematics, reading, and science reasoning.

The law encourages local districts to submit teacher pay proposals for the pilot that could look like one of two distinct models: either pitch a plan that would reward teachers on the basis of how well their students do on tests, or present an idea for paying teachers who work in hard to staff subject areas or rural / high poverty schools and / or taking on additional leadership roles to improve student success.

In the Chicago area, 12 out of 13 charter public schools are outperforming traditional public schools on standards - based tests, and are averaging an 83 percent graduation rate compared to 62 percent at Chicago's public high schools.

There are two main areas of the DOE requirements that Indiana is not meeting: Monitoring (following up with low performing schools) and implementing college and career ready standards with a high - quality assessment to test them.

Half of the Los Angeles Unified schools testing portfolio defenses have partnered with Envision Schools, a network of three small charter high schools in the San Francisco area that has systematized the portfolio model over the past 13 years and can provide step - by - step instructions on how to build a portfolio pschools testing portfolio defenses have partnered with Envision Schools, a network of three small charter high schools in the San Francisco area that has systematized the portfolio model over the past 13 years and can provide step - by - step instructions on how to build a portfolio pSchools, a network of three small charter high schools in the San Francisco area that has systematized the portfolio model over the past 13 years and can provide step - by - step instructions on how to build a portfolio pschools in the San Francisco area that has systematized the portfolio model over the past 13 years and can provide step - by - step instructions on how to build a portfolio program.

The discrepancies underline the difficulty educators at the local and state level face in tracking students» academic growth through high school, especially when the only standardized tests students take cover narrow subject areas.

These included that new grammars should not be to the detriment of pupils who do not pass entrance tests, should not undermine existing high - performing schools and should be allowed only in areas where parents want them.

High school students continue to take course placement exams, subject - area finals, exit exams, and college entrance tests.

Equally as disturbing, the high poverty schools in the reformed school district in New Orleans scored lower than the high poverty schools in several cities across Louisiana in 11 of 12 areas tested.

The Wisconsin proposal, however, is limited to children who are scoring in the top 5 percent of standardized tests or have been identified «by an education official» as being gifted and talented «if a student demonstrates evidence of high - performance capability in intellectual, creative, artistic, leadership or specific academic areas and needs services or activities not ordinarily provided in a regular school program.»

Karin connects college and career - readiness and assessment development research with classroom - tested tools and strategies for developing and implementing high - quality assessments used to document progress across the school year across content areas.

High school students face additional stress because they are required to take the Common Core test and also have to pass the state's revamped Subject Area Testing Program (SATP) in order to graduate.

To be eligible to attend The Davidson Academy, students must be at the middle or high school level across all subject areas and score in the 99.9 th percentile on IQ tests or at the extreme for their age groups on aptitude tests.

; 2) Gap (percentage of proficient and distinguished) for the Non-Duplicated Gap Group for all five content areas; 3) Growth in reading and mathematics (percentage of students at typical or higher levels of growth); 4) College Readiness as measured by the percentage of students meeting benchmarks in three content areas on EXPLORE at middle school; 5) College / Career - Readiness Rate as measured by ACT benchmarks, college placement tests and career measures and 6) Graduation Rate.

A majority (59 %) also say they are very concerned that students in lower - income areas are less likely than other students to be ready for college when they finish high school, and half (51 %) say they are very concerned that English Learners score lower on standardized tests than other students.

According to the report, the majority of tests could easily be handled by advanced high school students.None of the tests in any of the subject areas examined assessed knowledge at the baccalaureate level.