Sentences with phrase «by standardizing language»

The development of the Burrow platform is seen as a way to reduce friction among smart - contract platforms by standardizing language at the protocol level and allowing for greater interoperability among different implementations of the ethereum blockchain.

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The debates over standardized testing, teacher evaluations and opting out of the tests by students with the backing of their parents were all renewed recently as New York released the results of the math and English language exams for grades three through eight.

Likewise, Christian schools offer models that may prove useful to public schools by eschewing standardized testing; reviving Latin, logic, and rhetoric; emphasizing the place of music and foreign languages; refusing to track students by ability; or choosing an unhurried approach to learning.

The state now knows how much federal funding it stands to lose by declining to give state standardized tests in math and English language arts next spring to all students: at least $ 15 million — and potentially tens of millions of dollars more.

Schools that report low achievement for English - language learners also report low test scores for white and African - American students, and share characteristics associated with poor performance on standardized tests, according to a study released by the Pew Hispanic Center.

IQ and other standardized tests produce results that can be skewed by background cultural knowledge, language learner status and racial and social privilege.

The plan still includes tracking performance on annual standardized tests in grade 3 - 8 and in specific high school courses, measuring how well non-native English speakers are learning the language, and breaking down student performance by subgroups such as ethnicity, economic status, and students with disabilities.

And, with the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act, there is at least implicit acknowledgment that standardized testing and the No Child Left Behind Act have failed at closing stubbornly wide equity gaps by race, income, language, and special education status.

IMPACT was designed to control for variables like the class's income level and English - language proficiency, and scores teachers on two major factors: classroom skill, as determined by multiple evaluations, and results, based on students» improvement on standardized tests.

Impairment to language acquisition because of excessive noise during classroom instruction also can lead to deficits in reading skills according to a study by Evans, G. W. and Maxwell, L. First - and second - grade students exposed to chronic noise scored lower on standardized reading tests taken in quiet conditions.

Critics have pounced on some of the language, which has been used by corporate reformers to support their agenda of emphasizing standardized tests as a way to hold educators, students and schools accountable, as well as expanding school choice through charters.

The standards in English language arts and math have been adopted by nearly all of the states and the District of Columbia, and implementation is under way, along with the creation of aligned standardized tests.

Recalling that the greatest barriers to academic success, as measured by standardized tests, are poverty, language barriers and special education needs, what do the Connecticut Mastery Tests Mean?

This language that mandates standardized education held accountable by testing goes on for many pages.

Governor Malloy's education reform initiative requires teacher evaluation programs to be linked to standardized test scores despite the fact that standardized tests scores are primarily influenced by poverty, language barriers, and the lack of special education services for students rather than teacher performance.

For the second year in a row, LA Unified's independent charter schools outperformed the district's traditional schools on California's standardized math and English language arts (ELA) tests, according to data released Monday by the California Charter Schools Association.

That is because poverty, language barriers and the need for special education services are the greatest predictors of academic success as measured by standardized test scores.

This absurd, unfair and ignorant policy is state law despite the fact that every academic study has shown that standardized test scores are driven primarily by poverty, language barriers and the impact of students with special education challenges... all factors for beyond the control of Connecticut's classroom teachers.

Issue # 2: Governor Malloy's education reform initiative requires teacher evaluation programs to be linked to standardized test scores despite the fact that standardized tests scores are primarily influenced by poverty, language barriers, and the lack of special education services for students rather than teacher performance.

# 2: Governor Malloy's education reform initiative requires that the state's teacher evaluation programs to be linked to standardized test scores despite the fact that standardized tests scores are primarily influenced by poverty, language barriers, and the lack of special education services for students.

If Charter schools educate children who are less poor, have fewer language barriers and few special education needs, they will, by default, end up with high standardized test scores.

And while the students learn 50 percent to 90 percent of their content in Spanish, they beat the state average in the standardized tests (in English) by 20 percentage points in English language arts and 30 percentage points in math.

«We've been so focused on English / language arts and mathematics as measured by state standardized tests as the only indicator of quality and the only thing that matters,» Starr says.

If whole language advocates were willing to play by the rules of external accountability, to assert that students who experience good instruction based upon solid principles of progressive pedagogy will perform well on standardized tests and other standards of performance, they would stand a better chance of gaining a sympathetic ear with the public and with policymakers.

According to the 2016 Michigan Student Test of Educational Prep (M - STEP) standardized test scores released by the Michigan Education State Department, each of the six NHA charters we examined outperformed their respective districts in english language arts and mathematics scores in grades 3 - 8 (MDE, 2016).

On April 30, it will become mandatory for most residential landlords to use a 13 - page standardized lease agreement, recently unveiled by the provincial government in hopes of protecting tenants from being tricked by lengthy agreements rife with illegal clauses and language that is hard to understand and often winds up in litigation.

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Additionally, we hypothesize that children whose caregivers learn how to engage them in high - quality interactions will have better language outcomes relative to their peers in the control group, measured by standardized assessments, parent - report vocabulary checklist and language - sampling analysis.