Sentences with phrase «demand high test scores»

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When schools have both high demand and high test score impacts with students living in poverty, government should not prevent these schools from serving more students!

Indeed, from such tests, many policymakers and pundits have wrongly concluded that student achievement in the United States lags woefully behind that in many comparable industrialized nations, that this shortcoming threatens the nation's economic future, and that these test results therefore demand radical school reform that includes importing features of schooling in higher - scoring countries.

Career pathways would provide more financial incentives for teachers who produce positive outcomes in the classroom, such as higher test scores; for those who teach subjects that are in high demand in the marketplace (e.g. chemistry or math); and for those who teach in hard to staff schools.

It is a movement of teachers, administrators, parents, and students who are demanding something more of their schools than just higher test scores.

A basic distinction between high - scoring and low - scoring schools is that high - scoring schools carry out engaging instructional activities that help students master demanding standards, while low - scoring schools focus on various form of test preparation.

Curiosity aroused in such children would, of course, be contrary and disruptive to obedience and compliance training the children must get, so as to prepare them to produce, on demand, high enough scores on standardized tests to evidence being on track to «college and career ready.»

In today's climate of high stakes testing, business leaders and politicians continue to demand better results with data driven assessments and test scores.

The demand for higher scores has pushed the perceived need for charters, vouchers, higher standards, better tests, and longitudinal data systems to track every student and teacher.

Because if parents really want to know if their local school is helping kids learn — instead of empty reassurance that their artificially inflated test scores means they moved to the right school district and their property values will hold — then they need to start demanding one high bar for proficiency across the country.

In the more demanding 3DMark Fire Strike test, the ZBook 14u G4 scored 1,706, while the Dell Precision 5520 (3,987) scored significantly higher.