Sentences with phrase «at all grade spans»

But there is room for improvement on its standards, which have not been rated by the American Federation of Teachers as clear, specific, and grounded in content for English above the elementary level or for social studies at any grade span.

Its academic standards for all four core subject areas at every grade span have been rated as clear, specific, and grounded in content by the American Federation of Teachers.

New York's standards in the four core subjects have been rated as clear, specific, and grounded in content at all grade spans by the American Federation of Teachers.

The state's highest grade is for the standards and accountability section, where it receives full credit for having clear and specific standards at each grade span in the four core subjects, as determined by the American Federation of Teachers.

It has standards that the American Federation of Teachers has rated as clear, specific, and grounded in content for all four core subjects at every grade span.

The state's assessments are aligned to its standards at all grade spans in all of the core subjects, except social studies.

The most rigorous and comprehensive research on vouchers finds that they negatively affect student achievement, but the impact of a nationwide voucher initiative would be particularly devastating in rural communities and small towns where there are not enough students to sustain multiple schools at each grade span.

Not exact matches

Over a span of 18 years, 3,100 students (47 percent of which were athletes) at UNC took advantage of these courses which allowed them to receive quality grades without having to show up for class, turn in papers or take tests.

Improved concentration translates into their time at school during lessons, boosts their attention span and can help improve their grades.

In particular, Maine lags behind in the area of standards, where the American Federation of Teachers has rated only its science standards as clear, specific, and grounded in content at all three grade spans.

In all of the core subject areas and at nearly all grade spans, the state has academic standards rated clear and specific by the American Federation of Teachers and assessments aligned to those standards.

Standards and Accountability: Tennessee has clear and specific standards in English, science, and social studies / history at the elementary and middle school levels, and in mathematics in all grade spans.

Standards and Accountability: Colorado has clear and specific standards for English, mathematics, and science in all grade spans, but it has such standards only at the middle school level for social studies / history.

For example, between 2000 and 2005 — the five years spanning the introduction of accountability via NCLB — the average math scale score nationwide at the fourth grade rose by 12 points, roughly a year of learning.

The state has tests aligned with its standards in each grade span in English and mathematics, but only at the high school level in science.

But Oregon receives high marks for its academic standards, which the American Federation of Teachers rated clear, specific, and grounded in content in all of the four core subjects and at nearly every grade span.

At least two bills have been introduced in the House of Representatives to retreat to grade - span testing: One got public support from the NEA, and the other was saluted by the AFT.

Before we retreat to the pre-NCLB era of grade - span testing or revert to some other testing - light position, let's at least recall some of the benefits of annual testing of all kids.

But before we retreat to the pre-NCLB era of grade - span testing, assess samples of students instead of all students, or revert to some other testing - light position, let's at least recall some of the benefits of annual testing of all kids.

The data span 14 years, from 1996 — 97 to 2009 — 10, and include students in grades 3 — 5 attending a district school located in the same community school district (a sub-unit of a district) where a charter school has at least one overlapping grade.

The first step in estimating education spending was to create an education spending to military spending ratio for primary and secondary grade spans in the analysis.vi To create the ratios, I looked at all the countries that had data for education spending for primary and secondary education and military expenditure figures.

Grade spans, rather than grade levels, were chosen for a very good reason: rarely did we ever come across a research study that specified learning at a particular grade level.

With Seesaw for Schools, students build a comprehensive portfolio of work that spans their entire career at your school, across all classes and grade levels.

It similarly extends the mandate for statewide tests in science at least once in grade spans 3 — 5, 6 — 9, and 10 — 12.

Our prior report, released in August 2012, looked only at K - 12 suspension rates across the entire grade span and contained no new analysis at the secondary school level.

During her presentation at the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics conference in Oakland, California, this week, Learning List's president, Jackie Lain, will address some of the critical attributes to consider as well as some of the grade span - specific trends to be aware of when purchasing new mathematics materials.

With partnerships spanning 281 participating high schools, 17,000 students are expected to enroll in 2016 — 17 — representing more than half of all the Tennessee students who were identified as not college ready at the end of the 11th grade year.

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) can be hard to spot to an unfamiliar eye, but subtlety is part of its effectiveness at St. Andrew's Episcopal School, where the SEL curriculum spans kindergarten through twelfth grade.

States also are required to administer a science assessment annually in at least one grade in each of the following grade spans: 3 - 5, 6 - 9 and 10 - 12.

Ingenuity Prep (DC) This new civic leadership - based charter school located in the nation's capital will span preschool to 12th grade at full maturity.

The following is a list of each probe, the related concepts addressed by the probe, and recommended grade span use (note: modifications, described in the teachers» notes, must be made in order to use some probes at a lower grade level):

Maintaining the requirement for statewide assessments in at least reading / language arts and mathematics in grades 3 - 8 and once in high school; and in science in each of three grade spans (3 - 5, 6 - 9, and 10 - 12), while adding flexibility related to locally selected high school assessments and innovative assessment systems.

To simplify, the test improvement is based on a test given before he has completed the grade level of interest with material taught by four teachers at two different grade levels over the span of one calendar year [this is something that is known in the literature as prior teachers» residual effects].