Sentences with phrase «for higher test scores»

Nonetheless, the congressional endorsement was valuable publicity for charters, which gained public recognition and new opportunities to expand and compete with neighborhood public schools for higher test scores.

It will ramp up the pressure for higher test scores in mathematics, and in the process narrow further the curriculum.

Simply offer a bonus for higher test scores, fire the bottom five percent, and you have the perfect combination of carrot and stick.

When students, teachers and schools are rewarded for high test scores and punished for low ones, the tests themselves become the focus of education.

The idea of financial incentives is based on logic that economists find eminently sensible — workers work harder when money is at stake, so giving teachers higher pay for higher test scores should cause test scores to go up.

If you are an administrator, please look for the real commitment and not for the higher test score!!

California charter advocates, however, point to multiple studies indicating that so - called cherry - picking does not account for the higher test scores seen among charter students.

NYST: Was accountability a factor in your decision to move to a charter school known for its high test scores?

If we presume that teachers are responsible for high test scores and improved student proficiency, then that would mean the teachers at PS 199 are «good,» while the teachers are PS 191 are «bad.»

Noble St gets attention for their higher test scores, but their secret sauce has a dark underbelly of push - out, shaming, and abuse.

In the past couple of decades, as test scores drop and the United States falls farther behind other countries in math and science, the idea that schools should follow a business model has been dominant, stressing competition, choice and accountability, raising teacher pay for higher test scores, closing schools that fail.

Last year, it was one of only two schools in California to receive federal recognition as a Title I Distinguished School for its high test scores.

The U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan made a surprise call to New Leader Josie Carbone, principal of Girls Prep Charter School in the Bronx, to congratulate her for high test scores, the New York Daily News reports.