Sentences with phrase «fewer graduation tests»

This year's high school freshman and sophomores might have fewer graduation tests to dread if Randy Dorn has his way.

Not exact matches

In addition to a significant jump in math test scores, students receiving tutoring and mentoring failed two fewer courses per year on average than students who did not participate, and their likelihood of being «on track» for graduation rose by nearly one - half.

Evaluations should be based on at least a few years» scores.The district also must find a fair way of evaluating teachers whose students don't take the annual tests and should look at multiple ways of measuring achievement, including student portfolios and graduation rates.

Though discipline and safety at Locke improved quickly, it will take a few years to see whether Green Dot's reforms result in more graduations and higher test scores.

Today's enthusiastic embrace of data has waltzed us directly from a petulant resistance to performance measures to a reflexive and unsophisticated reliance on a few simple metrics — namely graduation rates, expenditures, and the reading and math test scores of students in grades 3 through 8.

Gist, whose reform efforts led to the firings of all teachers and staff at one of the state's worst - performing schools, said test scores in the state need vast improvement, the graduation rate must grow and too few high school graduates — just more than half — are heading directly to college.

Dussault references the rocky path Massachusetts encountered 10 years ago when it established a graduation test and its «mass failure rates in the first few years.»

Most developed countries have graduation at 18 with few tests at 16.

Few differences existed across groups in 9th grade, but by the end of 10th grade, students» test scores, academic grade point averages, and progress to graduation tended to be better for the students in programs of study (i.e., treatment students) than for control / comparison students.

That is, states with high - stakes graduation tests have fewer students who reach «proficient» and more students who fail to reach the «basic» level on NAEP math tests.

Children in the Abecedarian Project had long - lasting positive impacts that led to higher IQ and achievement test scores, fewer grade retentions and placements in special education, higher levels of college graduation and job - holding, and healthier outcomes as adults.

- Reduced achievement gap - Increased course passing rate - Increased graduation rates - Higher standardized test scores in reading and math - More AP and IB tests taken - Fewer suspensions - Lower absenteeism