Sentences with phrase «boosted test scores too»

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Accounting changes helped boost results, too: Children who were absent on test day now are counted as no - shows; before, they were counted among those with failing scores.

Still, its detractors argue that the law has had unfortunate side effects: too much time spent teaching to narrow tests, schools focused on boosting the scores of students who are just below the proficiency threshold, and some states lowering their standards to reduce the number of schools missing their achievement targets.

Finally, the article suggests that Rocketship is too focused on test scores, to the point where teachers have students retake standardized tests in order to boost scores (Kamenetz 2016).