Sentences with phrase «dismal test scores»

Despite dismal test scores, these students earned decent grades by turning in homework and doing extra credit.

The announcement from the Illinois State Board of Education on Monday comes after only two administrations of PARCC, in the spring of 2015 and 2016, following dismal test scores and thousands of students skipping the exams.

After years of dismal test scores, the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) suspended the civics portion of its test in 2013.

In this small, mostly African - American, overwhelmingly poor town in rural South Carolina, Kingstree Junior High School's new principal, Margie Myers, was desperate to boost dismal test scores and rein in severe discipline problems — without spending money she didn't have.

Community leaders have put much of their hope not in the school board but in Connie Hathorn, who became superintendent in 2011, shortly after the district became the first in Ohio to come under the thumb of the state because of its continuously dismal test scores.

But Hispanic community activist Victoria Clayton said dismal test scores and staggering dropout rates show the public school system has failed minority students.

There's been no shortage of stories about dismal test scores in the Milwaukee Public Schools system.

Even before Hurricane Katrina wreaked further damage on the system, the district suffered from dismal test scores, immense poverty, and crumbling facilities.

Many educators counter that New Jersey's schools, in the aggregate, are among the highest - performing in the country, even though there are pockets of chronically troubled schools with dismal test scores and low graduation rates.

The state had administered PARCC only twice, in the spring of 2015 and 2016, following dismal test scores and thousands of students skipping the exams.

Dismal test scores and recent research that warns against a single approach to instruction have spurred California education officials to revamp the state's pioneering techniques for teaching young children to read.

What he realized is that most reform efforts have been directed at the symptoms, things like low graduation rates or dismal test scores.

African American and Latino students, as well as children and youths from low - income families, have been particularly hard hit, according to the unanimous court ruling, which pointed to dismal test scores and graduation rates as evidence of the impact of insufficient funding.

CPS faces the challenges of high student poverty and dismal test scores — though its selective - enrollment schools have posted some of the highest test scores in Illinois — and the district believes it needs more money to help its low - income population.

Diane Ravitch blames a different culprit for Milwaukee's dismal test scores — school choice.