Sentences with phrase «even school exit»

Those are usually summative assessments, whether course based, grade based, or even school exit exams.

Not exact matches

In childhood, adult power hierarchies — based on social status, gender, ethnicity, even height and attractiveness — are replicated inside the school walls, and kids learn early who's on top and who's pushed to the exit ramps.

Even when these challenges are met, one can not be entirely sure of the results, as exit exams may influence student and school performance even before they come into effect, if teachers and students know that they will soon be introduced, which is usually the cEven when these challenges are met, one can not be entirely sure of the results, as exit exams may influence student and school performance even before they come into effect, if teachers and students know that they will soon be introduced, which is usually the ceven before they come into effect, if teachers and students know that they will soon be introduced, which is usually the case.

So at the high school end, we tried to boost standards — and some places did a pretty good job of it — but even much - praised Massachusetts wasn't able to raise its high school exit standard to equal college readiness as traditionally defined.

A federal judge this month refused to delay enforcement of his previous ruling that students who are still learning English can earn a high school diploma even if they have not passed the state's high school exit exam.

• Even places that have clung to statewide exit exams as a condition of high school graduation tend to get cold feet when reality hits — and then waive, defer, or offer workarounds such that not too many kids are actually denied diplomas just because they fail the test.

But even in the absence of opportunity scholarships and charter schools, we had some exit options in the past because of competitive federalism, meaning horizontal competition among jurisdictions.

We look to the end - of - week spelling test, the end - of - quarter biology exam, even the high school exit exam, to tell us whether our children are developing the skills and learning the material they'll need to succeed both in and out of school.

When Bishop examined the effects of high - school exit exams, one traditional form of external accountability, on intrinsic motivation by comparing whether students subjected to this approach engaged in less reading for pleasure or were more likely to associate learning with rote memorization, he found no evidence that accountability undermined natural curiosity and even found some evidence of the opposite.

Thus, any hint of even experimenting with school choice has been vigorously attacked, a notable example being Florida's program of exit vouchers, which permitted students stuck in persistently failing schools to try to find some way to save themselves through an alternative school.

States may include both former English learners and students with disabilities in calculating graduation rates if they were part of the subgroup at any point during high school, even if the student exited during high school.

And in high poverty schools, where students benefit even more from high quality teaching, teachers are even more likely to exit quickly.