Sentences with phrase «good test scores despite»

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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.»

However, despite owning the 4th best scoring defense in the nation, MSU will be put to the test against Russell Wilson and the high - flying Badgers attack who possess the # 1 offense in the country (50.2 PPG).

Seals Nevergold said that despite poor test scores and a low graduation rate Brown had a good «transitional» first year.

And despite having built many a bridge to literature for my students, they have been, at best, temporary structures, sturdy enough only to pass a test, score a bit higher on the SAT, or write an argument in a predictable form.

Despite successful implementation of this professional development based on what many experts believed to be the best practice for improving math instruction, scores on the NWEA and state math tests showed small declines (and the NWEA decline was not statistically significant while the state test decline was).

Nevertheless, despite our greatly enhanced commitments to public education — and despite the fact that children are growing up in better - educated and smaller families than ever before — student performance during this period, as measured by NAEP test scores for high school seniors in math and reading, moved hardly a hair's breadth.

A Guide to Better Grades and Test Scores Pre K - 12th Making Winners Out of Struggling Students despite Dyslexia, ADD / ADHD, or Educational Difficulties By Barbara Dianis MA ED

Head Start benefits associated with test scores may fade over time; however, despite that fade, studies have demonstrated that Head Start children have better outcomes later in life (e.g., higher graduation rates).

Despite his unhappiness with how school quality was defined in the piece, Stanford's Reardon acknowledged that among parents and policy makers, raw test scores have often been used to label schools good or bad.

Despite the focus on tests, scores gains on the independent National Assessment of Educational Progress have slowed since the 2002 start of NCLB and are well below pre-NCLB score increases.

However, two careful, large - scale studies, reviewed in detail below, suggest that despite the lack of persistence of value - added on future test scores, one year of experience with a high - value - added teacher predicts higher rates of college attendance and adult earnings, as well as other important outcomes.

Claiming to «speak for their members» the AFT endorsed Malloy, despite the fact that he remains committed to a teacher evaluation system that includes the use of unfair, inappropriate and absurd standardized test scores when determining whether a teacher is doing a good job or not.

The senior teachers had tenure, despite the fact that «reformers» (led by ConnCAN, StudentsFirst, and hedge fund managers) did their best last spring to diminish their tenure and to tie their evaluations to test scores.

Despite steps to increase per pupil spending, decrease student - teacher ratios, and recruit a better - prepared teaching force, student test scores have improved very slowly over the past 35 years.

Back in June of 2017, NPR ran a feel - good story on All Things Considered about Ballou's apparent success in getting all 190 of its graduates accepted to at least one college — despite the fact that only 3 % of students at the school had scored proficient or above on reading tests in 2016.

Fifteen years ago, teenagers in Poland scored below their American peers on the PISA test of critical thinking; today, Polish students perform well above our kids (despite Poland's significant child poverty and political dysfunction).

When Principal James Lee learned that his students at Sylmar Charter High School had among the biggest jumps in state test scores in the local school district, he was thrilled but surprised, because they managed to pull it off despite a well - publicized lunchtime brawl that erupted on campus right in the middle of testing.

July 20, 2015 — Despite concerns that scores would come back lower than previous years» with the introduction of the new Smarter Balanced tests aligned to the Common Core Standards, Oregon students scored significantly better than expected, according to preliminary results shared with the Albany Democrat - Herald.

Since I'm so good at prognostication: I predict that state test scores, in New York and elsewhere, will continue to be used as a basis for important policy decisions, despite the fact that test scores tell us just a little bit about the things we care about.

«Outside of some automakers» proving grounds, such a test isn't currently conducted anywhere else in the United States or Europe,» IIHS said in a statement, noting that despite an increasing number of cars that score well in frontal crash tests, some 10,000 highway deaths still come from frontal collisions each year.

However, ANCAP scored the Steed a maximum 16 out of 16 for the side impact protection, despite not conducting the test, stating: «Experience shows that large vehicles like the Steed can be expected to perform well in this test.