Sentences with phrase «enough on standardized tests»

Colleges and Universities that urge their students to tackle the most difficult teaching environments, poor, inner city schools, will run the risk of being labeled «failures,» because the students of those graduates won't score high enough on standardized tests.

Because of this, Indianapolis is one of the few big cities in the nation where charter school students are progressing enough on standardized tests to close the achievement gap between urban districts and the state average.

Getting into a charter school doubled the likelihood of enrolling in Advanced Placement classes (the effects are much bigger for math and science than for English) and also doubled the chances that a student will score high enough on standardized tests to be eligible for state - financed college scholarships.

Students can receive college credit for such courses if they score high enough on standardized tests.

Not exact matches

Angry teachers held a mock grand jury Tuesday night and indicted Governor Cuomo for such things as depriving students of enough school aid to meet the State Constitution and forcing standardized tests on students.

The improved scores were impressive enough to lead several states and other major school districts, including New York, to adopt elements of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) policy — making student progress toward the next grade dependent on demonstrated achievement on standardized tests.

Granted, the fabulous standardized test scores of those high - performing charter networks who take on this special ed challenge may not be as uniformly high — at least in the short term, but when one in every twenty public school students now attends a charter, the movement is mature and entrenched enough to move to the next stage of reform for both moral and political reasons.

The law applies a series of sanctions, possibly culminating in closure, to schools where students don't show enough «Adequate Yearly Progress» on statewide, standardized tests.

More than half of the Washoe County public schools had been labeled «in need of improvement» for failing to get enough students to proficiency on the state standardized tests required by the No Child Left Behind Law.

And while Florida's current A-F school grading system tries to adjust for the fact that schools in high poverty areas face challenges that make it very hard for their students to perform well on standardized tests, it's not enough, says Alan Ehrenhalt for Governing Magazine.

North Carolina's A-F school grading system doesn't adjust for demographic differences, but it does have a growth component, albeit small — just 20 percent of a letter grade will draw on the degree to which students improve over time on standardized tests, which many pundits and educators say is not enough.

But she frets that the district is relying too heavily on standardized tests and isn't doing enough to help teachers who are struggling.

Granted, the fabulous standardized test scores of those high - performing charter networks who take on this special ed challenge may not be as uniformly high - at least in the short term, but when one in every twenty public school students now attends a charter, the movement is mature and entrenched enough to move to the next stage of reform for both moral and political reasons.

Only 17 % don't think schools place enough emphasis on standardized testing, while just as many (15 %) think the level of emphasis is about right.

He further testified that standardized test scores don't provide enough information about what goes on in a classroom and should therefore not be used to assess a teacher's effectiveness.

Educators repeatedly express concern that standardized tests focus too much on basic skills and not enough on deeper learning, and that testing, including test prep, takes too much time.

She's had enough of what she sees as an overemphasis on standardized testing and suggests it impedes good teaching.

Dana Goldstein: Tom is also correct that not enough states are asking students to do writing on standardized tests, in part because writing is harder to grade.

Since a school in Broward rarely had enough gifted children to fill a class, these classrooms were topped off with children from the same school who scored high on the district's standardized test.

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.»

Fully 57 % of both voters and public school parents with an opinion believe there is too much emphasis on state standardized testing of students, compared to only 12 % who say there is not enough emphasis and 31 % who believe there is the right amount of emphasis.

In fact, over the past 16 years, most schools have been organized around one idea: that students score high enough on state standardized tests so that the school and district will meet acceptable benchmarks in the state accountability system.

However, if the debate exasperates people enough perhaps it will spark needed changes such as a real review of standardized testing and a focus back on student - centered instruction.

For example, educators of really young children — who are not old enough to take the D.C. Comprehensive System exams which are the basis of the school system's test - based accountability system — are still judged on standardized tests, just not the DC CAS.