Sentences with phrase «determine student promotion»

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It's the evaluation system, as well as processes used for determining student placement and promotion, that lawmakers are targeting.

As states across the U.S. move to adopt standardized tests as a means to determine grade promotion and school graduation, new research presented in the Harvard Educational Review shows that sole reliance on high - stakes tests as a graduation requirement may increase inequities among students by both race and gender.

Amrein and Berliner identified 28 states where test scores are used to determine various consequences, such as bonuses for teachers, the promotion of students, or allowing children to transfer out of a failing school.

This bill would prevent educators from using PARCC scores, «to determine a student's placement in a gifted and talented program, another program or intervention, grade promotion, as the State graduation proficiency test, any other school or district - level decision that affects students, or as part of any evaluation rubric submitted to the Commissioner of Education for approval.»

Accountability must have three components — diagnostics to assist educators in determining the intervention needs of students; transparency for parents and taxpayers; and consequences, for educators in terms of compensation and continuing employment and for students in terms of promotion and graduation.

In keeping with Jindal's months - long offensive, the Jindal administration decried the move, noting that teachers will leave the classroom the week before students take standardized tests that determine, in part, student promotions and graduations, school accountability assessments and teacher evaluations for tenure.

Targeting students aged 18 and older, the promotion requires entrants to read a short article about credit, determine their Credit GPA by taking a 5 - question quiz, and complete an online entry form for a chance to win $ 500 towards tuition and book expenses.