Sentences with phrase «declining test scores»

The school board cited declining test scores and below average reading and math skills.

At a 500 - student elementary school with declining test scores in mathematics, a large percentage of those identified as English Language Learners (ELL) were not meeting standards in math at the fifth grade level.

This view would assign less importance to concerns about declining test scores at the elementary - school level, since the increasing skill of the workforce provides evidence that overall student achievement is not falling.

They'll likely become confused by what's true and what isn't, they'll be disinterested in science as a subject, and our already declining test scores in math and science will decline further while we stand around bickering over whether our kids should learn the thing we can prove or the thing we can't prove but choose to believe in anyway.

Declining test scores signaled a systemwide crisis.

After three years of relatively flat and sometimes declining test scores, K12, Inc.'s full - time students appear to have increased their proficiency levels in both reading and math, even as K12, Inc. serves a population with 62 percent of its student eligible for free - and - reduced price lunch, compared to 49 percent nationally.

Its former principal and former Associate Director of the Office of New Schools, Victor Capellan, is running the Central Falls HS and not surprisingly promoting the same profile of in this case declining test scores and rising graduation rates.

For decades, Democrats have embraced the status quo, calling for increased federal spending as the solution to declining test scores and increasing numbers of students ill prepared for the future.

If board members and potential challengers anticipate that voters will punish incumbents for poor school performance, declining test scores may lead board members to retire rather than endure defeat.

The report bemoaned the nation's declining test scores and the absence of a serious curriculum in American public schools.

Similar problems (e.g., declining test scores, weak follow - through with a district professional learning communities initiative) might result from different contributing conditions in different schools.

They tell you that while teachers are concerned about the declining test scores, they have considerable confidence in their own expertise.

Declining test scores, weekly reports of violence, and ongoing budget cutbacks have impacted students.

Pundits criticized that the standards had not been field - tested and declining test scores would particularly hurt the most disadvantaged students.