Sentences with phrase «getting higher test scores»

«To pay teachers more for getting higher test scores — if that's what pay for performance is, then I'm not for that at all.»

Furthermore, the kids who are doing more homework also tend to get higher test scores.

In other words, the average school leader faces pressure from the school district, the state, the parents and the local community to get high test scores.

The child who works consistently and diligently may be more successful in life than another who studies 12 hours a day and gets high test scores.

They would get higher test scores if schools could fire more bad teachers and pay more to good ones.

I have taught honors level classes where all of the students got high test scores and remedial classes where students score extremely low.

We are even told that if students have enough «grit» to get high test scores, our economy will be more competitive.

Even those schools that get high test scores often achieve this by cherry - picking new students and culling existing ones through high attrition rates.

I am lucky enough to work in a middle school that gets high test scores and graduates students that stay in high school for four years at a rate of 100 % over the last 5 years (the time I've worked... More...

It makes the public gullible when they hear phony claims about miracle schools, where everyone graduates and everyone gets high test scores, and everyone goes to a four - year college.

Instead, charters have become a competitor to see who can get the highest test scores.

In order to circumvent their difficulty in recruiting and retaining qualified teachers, the charter school sector proposed that their schools, which disproportionately operate in urban environments with largely minority student populations, be allowed to provide the barest minimal training, justifying it because they get high test scores, and call it «teacher certification.»

Those who have challenged the efficacy of charter schools point out that it is a lot easier to get higher test scores if schools don't have to attend to those students who need special help.

Not exact matches

Hard working people who went to top schools, scored high on aptitude tests and had a proven track record of getting results were highly sought after.

Why didn't they entitle the chart with something more positive such as, «Being Asian Can Get You A Lower Mortgage Rate,» or «Although Asians Need Higher Grades And Test Scores To Have The Same Chance To Get Into University, At Least Asians Get To Pay Lower Mortgage Rates,» or «Despite Some Disadvantages Of Being A Minority, You Can Still Get The Best Mortgage Rate Possible,» or «Being A Minority May Make It Easier To Get A Better Rate.»

I haven't got the test but i believe I ll score higher than average and I completely agree that education is the key, unfortunately arogance does not coincide with knowledge.

Although I'm crazy about heirloom varieties that I can get locally, Red Delicious apples scored the highest for anti-oxidant levels on the USDA list; but I'm sure the USDA didn't tackle a huge variety of apples for testing.

Apparently Mattison talked about how kids with 4.0 s and high test scores get turned away from Michigan all the time.

With our culture and our nation's emphasis on high academic achievement, the perception that in order to get into college kids need straight As and perfect test scores, increased course work and more complex curricula, teachers are feeling the pressure to cover more material, and to prepare kids for the next grade.

If you praise your child for scoring the most goals in the soccer game or for getting the highest grade on his math test, your words will fuel his competitive nature.

We also know people who aren't necessarily going to score high on IQ tests but have all of these other skills — and they're not just window dressing, they're important in getting tasks done.

If you only praise your child for getting 100 on a test, or for scoring the most goals in the game, your child may think your love is conditional on high achievement.

Studies show teens who get the slumber they need have better grades and higher standardized test scores.

They would continue to receive the higher test scores they are accustomed to and, as ever, would need remediation when they get to college.

Although thousands of black and Hispanic kids take the admissions test each year, only a handful score high enough to get in.

The Success network is known for its students» high achievement on state tests, and it emphasizes getting — and keeping — scores up.

On the study, researchers tested out exactly which ab moves score high in getting results.

If you get a result where two have the same highest score — do the test again and try to answer as truthful as you can.

I have been reading your book and watching your videos related to iodine and thyroid health since I had a blood test back in January that had a TSH result of 16.8, I got retested in March and the score dropped to 6.8, and then I was just retested in May, and it dropped to 3.8, however my doctor also tested for antibodies (two numbers) that came back high.

So what if you get the CAC test and your score comes back high... would a keto diet help to lower that score?

Lab lowdown: Armani's Black Ecstasy earned a high score in our test for adding length to lashes and got points for its lightweight feel and nonirritating formula.

It's fine to talk about more technology in our classrooms, smaller class sizes, new teaching and learning strategies, teacher training, and higher test scores, but few of these discussions get us to the heart of the matter — the roots of our current system.

Secretary Duncan's reflective take on testing can delay, but can not resolve, the reckoning that seems to be at hand, and will surely come to a head as Americans get their children's sobering scores on tests aligned to the higher Common Core standards.

«If they're worried about their test scores and want a way to get them higher, they need to give kids more arts, not less,» says Tom Horne, Arizona's state superintendent of public instruction.

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...

In Massachusetts, writes Georgia Alexakis in the Washington Monthly, the paradox of these reform efforts is, «The schools most likely to do poorly on the MCAS [the state test in Massachusetts] have also been most likely to embrace it, while those districts whose scores are already quite high are fighting hardest to get rid of it.»

Perhaps it's because white students score higher on achievement tests and graduate at substantially higher rates that many of the loudest voices in this debate aren't troubled by asking for patience and time to get things exactly right before proceeding.

Back when I was a classroom teacher, my principal — to whom I rarely spoke — came by one day to tell me that one of my math students had gotten the highest score in the school on a standardized math test.

We may not be getting higher scores when the tests use traditional cultural content (one can't learn that from the video games and the TV shows), but we are apparently getting better at other kinds of tests, such as Raven Matrices, which test for logic, pattern recognition, and task completion.

This means that in many of California's public high schools, students can graduate, but they won't be able to get into a UC or CSU college even if they have a good GPA and good test scores.

a broad agreement about their mission and purpose — everyone's there to get high scores on standardized tests, everyone's in agreement about the need for results, and everyone's bought into how these results will be obtained.

If kids from all walks of life — wealthy, poor, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, gay, straight, immigrant, native born, Native American, with and without special needs, bilingual, monolingual, rural, suburban, urban — even if kids from all of these groups got equally high test scores, would that satisfy us that we could stop waging this civil rights struggle?

But Dunbar says that when you get down to measuring the ability of students at Dallas's Woodrow Wilson High School, for example, where you're comparing this year's ninth graders to last year's, accountability test scores are not very useful.

That's the case with dozens of other «screened» high schools in New York, too, which are selective — often highly so — but don't rely exclusively on a single test score to decide who gets in.

(Dozens of selective high schools in New York City — not including the eight that rely entirely on test scores — follow a complex citywide dual - track choice - and - selection process akin to the «match» system by which medical residents get placed.)

Based on their research, they developed the National College and Career Readiness Indicators, a multi-metric index that offers a truer picture of whether students are ready for life after high school than you get from simply looking at standardized test scores.

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.

The U.S. Department of Education will not reverse its decision that Oregon is at «high risk» of failing to use student test scores to help evaluate teachers, a step it promised to take to get out from the most onerous provisions of No Child Left Behind.

Philadelphia, Guilford County, N.C., and four small districts in northern New Mexico have scooped up the last of the $ 42 million in federal grant money on offer this fall for rewarding teachers and principals who get higher student test scores in needy schools.

When, however, my colleagues and I analyzed longitudinal data that adjusted for the grades and test scores of students in 8th grade, we found that students at schools with minimum - competency exams with C - grades in 8th grade, while not more likely to drop out, were about 7 percentage points less likely to get a high - school diploma or a General Education Diploma (GED) within six years.