Sentences with phrase «below average test scores»

School District U46 had below average test scores on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the SAT.

Last May I visited Collegium, a Chester County charter with below average test scores.

To give the oft - repeated «fresh start» to PS 191, a school with below average test scores and a one - time «persistently dangerous» designation, the DOE is moving it into a new building, and renaming it The Riverside School.

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Branson was, and is, dyslexic, a learning disability at least partially responsible for his terrible standardized test scores and below - average grades.

So were the average GMAT scores of its entering classes, which tended to range near 600, more than 100 points below the best schools, which typically report scores in the 700 - plus range on an entrance test where the highest possible score is 800.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

This can be an especially helpful tool if your student has above or below average scores on their test, and can assist in encouraging your student further.

If other southern states participated in the test, I'm sure that they would score below average, too.

According to Read to Succeed Executive Director Anne Ryan, students who miss 10 percent of kindergarten and first grade scored an average of 60 points below similar students with good attendance on third grade reading tests.

Millennium gives preference to students from below Houston Street, and so far all those who meet the admissions criteria — an A average, good attendance and strong test scores — have always been offered a seat.

Millennium, which offers preference to students who live below Houston Street, admits only those with A averages, good attendance and top test scores.

When sniffing the sweat of the men told they scored below average, the volunteers were distracted and slower to respond during their own test.

U.S. students typically score below the average of OECD nations on international math and science tests.

That is, there are no benchmark statistics against which to measure employees, so we don't know whether the score on a test is above or below or about average.

They chose schools that were both above and below average when it came to student test scores and collective efficacy for teachers.

A teacher in New York State is considered to be ineffective based on her students» test score growth if her value - added score is more than 1.5 standard deviations below average (i.e., in the bottom seven percent of teachers).

Their test scores are on average one standard deviation below the North Carolina state average, and they are absent and suspended many more days than the average student (see Figure 1b).

The extent to which a school is above or below that line indicates whether the average test - score improvement among its students has been greater or less than would be predicted based on their fluid cognitive skills.

In 1998, Florida scored about one grade level below the national average on the 4th - grade NAEP reading test, but it was scoring above that average by 2003, and made further gains in subsequent years (see Figure 1).

(Almost all the African - American students came from schools with average test scores below the district mean; the few that did not had almost identical average impacts, but the number of available observations was too small to recover precise estimates.)

The effect is largest for students with below - average test scores, suggesting that later start times would narrow gaps in student achievement.

Chicago — Mastery learning has proved its worth as a method of teaching reading, especially to students whose proficiency is below average, but educators who use the sometimes - controversial method should not regard it as a «quick fix» for poor basic - skills test scores.

Moreover, if an income gap made America unique, you would expect the percentage of American students performing well below proficiency in math to be much higher than the percentage of low performers in countries with average test scores similar to the United States.

Although the gap has closed in recent years, those receiving special accommodations still score, on average, about 60 points below the level reached by those tested under regular conditions.

A school with many poor children, scoring at the 35th percentile, could be highly successful, though it tests below average.»

Conversely, late entrants at district schools had dramatically lower average 4th - grade test scores than on - time enrollees: 0.30 and 0.32 standard deviations lower in reading and math, respectively (in both cases, 0.29 standard deviations below the district average).

If charter schools were primarily established in response to dissatisfaction with traditional public schools, they would tend to be located in areas with low - quality traditional public schools where students would tend to make below - average test - score gains.

For more than three decades, the United States has been scoring below the international average among participating nations on tests of math and science achievement.

Following years of below - average scores on the state achievement test, King students began outscoring the state average in six out of seven subjects in 1999, and they even moved into the top third in some subjects.

In the year before assignment, such schools had an average 4th grade combined reading and math test score that was.67 student - level standard deviations below the average school.

The average combined reading and math test scores one year prior to the management change at schools assigned to for - profit and nonprofit entities were 0.39 and 0.13 standard deviations below the Philadelphia average, respectively, while the pre-intervention scores of the full set of 142 regular public schools were 0.19 standard deviations above the district average.

When researchers examined the prior achievement - test scores of students transferring to charter schools, they found that those scores were near or below the local district or state average.

Massachusetts» urban charter school students are drawn from a population in which middle school students generally score below the average on state - wide math and English tests.

On average, black students typically score one standard deviation below white students on standardized tests — roughly the difference in performance between the average 4th grader and the average 8th grader.

The research design does not benefit from the random variation used in our earlier analysis, so we can not rule out the possibility that the students who enrolled in Noble network schools, despite their below - average test scores, would have been more likely to attend college anyway.

Average students» scores remain well below what test overseers consider to be «proficient» for each grade level.

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.

These schools had a few things in common: Scores on standardized tests for reading and math were far below the city averages.

CPS also admits that test scores and graduation rates for African Americans is significantly below the district average.

That doesn't mean test scores are great — they're below average when they're compared to the state as a whole.

A top - scoring student on Arizona's reading test may fall far below average in states with more rigorous exams, like Massachusetts or Wisconsin.

All 15 schools marked for closure are east of Rock Creek Park, many of them east of the Anacostia River in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods, and all had below - average test scores.

It should come as no surprise that charter schools promoting themselves as special alternatives for low - performing students would have below - average test scores.

Test scores for Native American students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress fourth grade reading test are 25 points below the national average, and the high school graduation rate for students in BIE schools is 59 percent, compared with 80 percent for students across the counTest scores for Native American students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress fourth grade reading test are 25 points below the national average, and the high school graduation rate for students in BIE schools is 59 percent, compared with 80 percent for students across the countest are 25 points below the national average, and the high school graduation rate for students in BIE schools is 59 percent, compared with 80 percent for students across the country.

Test scores are still far below average, but they rose substantially in 2015, Zwieryznski's first year.

Standardized test scores for voucher schools in Louisiana have been unimpressive — coming in 30 points below the state average last year, according to the Times - Picayune.

Most of AUSL turnarounds score below CPS averages on the percentage of students meeting or exceeding state benchmarks on standardized testing.

U.S. students declined in average math scores in the latest round of international testing, ranking below 36 countries or educational systems out of more than 70 that participated.

Of those who pass the Praxis I, a basic skills test required for entry into teacher training programs in 30 states, the SAT scores of would - be elementary school teachers are below the national average, but those of secondary school teachers are at the average, according to Levine's report.

If we look at students» critical reading scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) from 2002 to 2009, during the time NCLB has been in effect, we see a slight increase in points for several years, followed by a decline to below the average score for 2002 (Gewertz, 2009).