Sentences with phrase «for good test scores»

The foundation finances the Education Innovation Laboratory, run by Harvard economist Roland Fryer, which carries out large - scale experiments in schools districts, focused on teacher pay for performance and rewarding students for good test scores and grades.

Nothing to inspire, to seek more knowledge, everything down to you now enough for good test scores so shut up or we will throw you out.

Some kids were paid for good test scores, others for not fighting with one another.

A state investigation had found a public «school system fraught with unethical behavior that included teachers and principals changing wrong answers on students» answer sheets and an environment where cheating for better test scores was encouraged and whistle blowers were punished.»

Such a shift in classroom demographics means that teachers will have to assess how to best meet their students» needs all the while pushing for better test scores.

Not exact matches

Perfect scores in recent tests as well as incredible performance make this is top pick for your business.

Personality tests are a «convenient way to categorize people, but they're not the absolute truth,» says Natella, who puts test scores into context by comparing them with the average scores of his best reps.. The bigger test comes when he puts potential salespeople on the phones for two half days to call potential clients.

Among the 18 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's assessment, the U.S. ranked at best eighth and at worst 12th, based on the range of scores from its 1,133 students tested.

The people who chose to wait for the money tended to have the better scores on the test.

In the parlance of one test he uses, for example, good salespeople score high for «expressive» and «driver» and low for «amiable» and «analytic.»

Lower average test scores might not be a problem if you can find out that kids are rapidly improving over time, making that cute house in the cheaper part of town not only good for your wallet, but good for your child's education too.

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

I think that a college religion course better prepares a person for a high score on this test than being a communicant of any religion, if the diversity of the questions are similar to the ten question quiz.

Well, as it turned out all my fears, which the night before the test resulted in me tossing and turning prior to sleep and having visions and thoughts of never, ever getting a driver's license, were for naught because old Bob though limited to one eye, passed the test with pretty much the same score he received in 1963.

In the Gluten - Free Flour Blend Test, I tested Better Batter, Cup4Cup, Jules Gluten Free, and Tom Sawyer gluten - free flour blends in recipes for cake, pastry, yeast bread and cookies and scored them in each of 10 categories.

Hi Matt, Ive recently had my iron and B12 levels tested as a previous lacto ovo (been vegan for 2day at that stage) and i had 21/30 (very good) iron levels and 637 for my B12 score.

New # 16 million Arsenal signing Danny Welbeck scored both of the goals for Hodgson, converting fine assists from Liverpool duo Raheem Sterling and Rickie Lambert, whilst the Three Lions» defence also stood up well to the tests posed by the likes of Xherdan Shaqiri and Haris Seferovic.

Only red flag for me, is his low wonderlic score, although the test is not a good indicator of football smarts (and intelligence also).

The scores were lower than normal for a national championship and that made some upset, but it was a perfect modern test that rewarded all styles of play, so long as those styles were played well.

The Tangerines have endeared themselves to everyone and on Tuesday will provide Sunderland with one of their most testing home encounters in the whole of 2010 simply because they aren't like other sides, they've never heard of the word fear at inside a stadium which has been nothing short of a fortress for the hosts, and Holloway's men will go their with an attacking intent and a purpose to score goals, plenty of them as well.

Test scores go up, truancy goes down and attendance goes up,» says Joshua Simonds, the former executive director of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, who devotes himself to advocating for arts in the schools as part of a well - rounded education.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

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Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

«T his takes an important step closer to ending childhood hunger, better test scores and better nutrition for NYC kids.»

Infants would be examined by medical providers at regular intervals for the presence of atopic dermatitis (using standardized scoring methods) as well as food allergic symptoms and other allergic disease (confirmed by IgE testing), and not just the presence of allergic sensitization.

During the early school years, children spend a lot of time learning basics like reading and math — fundamental skills necessary for a productive life (not to mention good test scores!).

Any indicator that does not score 10/10 on the report card means more needs to be done (the scores are not like a test result where a lower score is good enough for a pass).

State lawmakers earlier this year agreed to a package of education policy changes that linked test scores to evaluations as well as in - classroom observation and made it more difficult for teachers to obtain tenure.

If schools had to compete for students the same way businesses compete for customers, schools would need to strive toward increasing test scores and better preparing students for the workforce.

«Proposals that are supposed to reduce costs by making it easier for the state to hire and transfer state employees would allow state agencies to bypass the best qualified candidates to hire or promote individuals with lower scores on competitive tests or who haven't even taken the tests.

The DOE wants the middle school planed for vacant sections of popular P.S. 158 to admit students who meet somewhat stringent admissions criteria, such as good attendance records or test scores, as well as students who would meet lower standards, according to a notice released by the department.

The state released its annual standardized test scores on Tuesday, bringing measured good news for the city's most struggling schools.

The school, JHS / MS 80, has come under fire for dismal math and English test scores as well as allegations that its principal downplayed other violent incidents.

In this case, failing means student test scores are in the bottom 5 percent, test scores are getting worse instead of better, or the schools» graduation rates are below 60 percent for three consecutive years.

New test scores show that public charter schools are the best public schools in the city for high - need students, but Mayor de Blasio continues to drag his feet in giving...

But the rote memorization of facts, formulas or rules that can lead to high scores on such tests do not a good 21st century scientist or engineer make, notes Alan Friedman, a member of an independent, bipartisan board established by Congress to set policy for NAEP.

Not only did the experimental group score better on tests of their cognition compared with the control group, but the improvement was twice as great as the one that had previously been shown for the antidementia drug donepezil (brand name Aricept).

It found that more than three quarters of the students had good eyesight, but when they were tested for binocular vision, more than a third of the group scored below what was considered normal.

Best known for documenting the eponymous Flynn effect — the tendency for standardized intelligence testing scores to increase over many decades across the world — Flynn is the right man for the job.

A total of 12 individuals and teams chosen from six regional competitions competed for the top prizes; combined with awards to students who score well on advanced placement tests and their teachers, the total Siemens pot comes to nearly $ 1 million.

The students who used their assigned strategy correctly had the highest scores on their science tests, even when the researchers controlled for students who had better reading skills to begin with.

This was true for all of the individual sub-tests conducted in this research, as well as the overall scores on the Norwegian language test,» says Vulchanova.

It's subjective because others may not have observed any difficulty and you may score very well on cognitive tests designed to screen for dementia; however, you feel that there is a decline.

These findings show that there's potential for treating cognitive fatigue in MS with noninvasive interventions that provide a goal, such as winning money (as in the current study), for example, or achieving a good score on a test.»

A study evaluated over 700 elderly Chinese people and those who drank oolong, green, or black tea scored better on tests for brain function.

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In 2005, Browns Mill School became the first sugar - free school in the country, and the results speak for themselves with a 30 percent decrease in nurse visits, a 28 percent drop in teacher referrals for bad behavior, and improved test scores.20 Dr. Sanders - Butler continues to see the difference in the children's health through weight loss and fewer absences, as well as more frequent everyday positive interactions with happier children.

Well - nourished students in Madrid who consumed an adequate breakfast (more than 20 percent of their daily energy) achieved better reasoning scores in the scholastic aptitude test (SAT) than did breakfast - skippers.3 What a good motivator for your profession - aspiring teen: «If you are college - bound, eat breakfast!»

We don't really care about test scores per se, we care about them because we think they are near - term proxies for later life outcomes that we really do care about — like graduating from high school, going to college, getting a job, earning a good living, staying out of jail, etc...