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.»
Not exact matches
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.
Students can receive college credit for such courses if they
score high
enough on standardized tests.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.