Sentences with phrase «consistently low test scores»

The dual immersion school, formerly known as Cesar Chavez Charter School, make dramatic changes after months of scrutiny from the state for consistently low test scores.

Part of the state's plan to improve Priority and Focus Schools (schools that have consistently low test scores) include removing ineffective principals or giving them mentors from better performing schools, implementing anti-bullying programs or other programs to improve school culture, improving recruiting and hiring techniques for teachers and providing more teacher development.

But Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, who remained cool and collected throughout the hearing, argued that it wasn't right to keep schools open if they are failing kids with consistently low test scores and graduation rates.

Not exact matches

All over the world, Blacks consistently score lower on IQ test than Whites or Asians regardless of income level, education, national origin, etc..

In addition, teachers whose students» test scores are consistently low; those who have failed to secure their teaching certificates on time; those who haven't had a permanent position for six months or more; those who've faced department probes leading to substantiated allegations of misconduct; and those granted an extension regarding tenure could also be dismissed.

For instance, data may show that the students who pass through one teacher's class consistently score lower on state achievement tests than the students in another teacher's class.

The twins with lower birth weights, a proxy for worse prenatal health, scored consistently lower on reading and math tests through 8th grade.

The state's students have scored consistently lower in math than in reading on both the annual state tests and the NAEP.

Universities and colleges that push their teachers to teach in high income, low need areas will show their «worth» by having graduates that have students that produce consistently high test scores.

It could also improve the quality of teachers in Mississippi, and the academic performance of students in a state that consistently posts some of the lowest test scores in the nation.

Recent studies of voucher programs in Louisiana and Ohio found that students in taxpayer - supported private schools consistently score lower on standardized tests than demographically similar students in the public schools.

Mississippi has consistently posted some of the lowest scores on standardized tests in the nation.

There are many reasons for the lower scores: the new standards being taught changed and are being implemented unevenly across school districts (Warren and Murphy 2014; McLaughlin, Glaab and Carrasco 2014, Harrington 2016); the definition of having met the standards changed; and the testing method changed (London and Warren 2015).1 While it is true that these assessments are in many ways not comparable (indeed, legislation passed in 2013 prohibits the CDE and local education agencies from doing so), 2 it is useful to understand which districts and schools are doing consistently well on both tests, and whether districts doing well on the SBAC English language arts (ELA) also do well on the SBAC math.

The scores were analyzed to see which teachers consistently raised the test scores of their students and which lowered them.

2) Decades of research into the causes of the gap in test scores between low - income and high - income students in the United States has consistently found a limited contribution from school - based factors.

Oklahoma students consistently perform below nearly every other state in the nation, and I imagine that this year's test scores will be lower due to unreasonable state legislators who have seemingly sworn their loyalty to oil and gas corporations.

A slight indication of a weaker association between academic test scores and general health for the BCS compared with the NCDS cohort at the level of consistently low scores was observed (p = 0.01 and p = 0.02 for interaction in the individual and full models respectively).

Children raised in families that experience multiple transitions do not consistently have higher levels of behavioral problems or lower test scores than do children in family types with one or fewer transitions, even when only child characteristics are controlled... Finally, maternal psychological well - being is shown to be an important mechanism by which family structure affects behavioral outcomes, but not cognitive ones.»