Sentences with phrase «giving those grades nationally»

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The report, released last week by the U.S. Department of Education, is based on 4th grade scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a set of federally mandated tests given periodically to nationally representative samples of students.

In a 2010 PDK / Gallup poll, only 18 percent of Americans surveyed graded our public schools nationally at an «A» or «B.» By contrast, 77 percent of public school parents gave their oldest child's school an A or B, a percentage that grew by eight points over the prior five years.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

As in previous years, the public schools nationally are graded more severely — 24 % of respondents give them an A or B grade.

The latest national Phi Delta Kappa Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools asked participants: «What grade would you give public schools nationally?»

Individual achievement tests give many grade levels of questions, but only a few questions, well selected to differentiate levels of ability, at each level; they compare the child to a nationally normed «average» of children of the child's age;