Sentences with phrase «got lower test scores»

He said that's because city kids got lower test scores because their needs continue to go un-addressed.

Odds ratio (OR) was calculated and used as an estimate of the relative risk of getting a low test score among children who had been breast fed less than three months, compared to children who had been breast fed at least six months.

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Don't sweat it if your GPA is low; instead, look for other ways to get an edge, like earning a great score on your Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT).

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.»

We'll have kids who aren't interested in learning and we'll deal with them by writing IEPs (or whatever they're called) to lower the bar so that our dumbbells can maybe crawl over it.We'll have administrators lie and cheat their way to better test scores to get people like Bloomberg off their backs.

Cuomo maintains that too many teachers are getting great evaluations despite students scoring low on standardized tests.

While lower test scores largely result from more difficult tests, they fly in the face of Mayor Bloomberg's constant assertions that everything in our schools was getting better, thanks to his leadership.

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When states set the bar too low — by setting a low cut - score to demonstrate proficiency on a state test — it conveys a false sense of student achievement to kids, parents and teachers This website will help parents see how their states are doing and what they can do to get involved.

If you start bringing in college representatives during freshman and sophomore years, your students can introduce themselves one - on - one, explain that they may have lower tests scores or GPA, and the college representatives can give them advice on ways to increase their scores and grades, what they can write about in their essays, and «what they can actually get in the habit of doing in hopes of getting accepted into their college,» says Cole.

In California, if you are a low - income Hispanic or African - American child, you are more likely get a better education (as measured by test scores and parent demand) if you attend a charter school.

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

Because fewer students passed the test than passed the previous high school exam, the Maryland Board of Education is now considering whether to lower the score needed to pass the test or to issue two different diplomas, one for students who pass the PARCC exam and are ready for college and one for students who get a lower score on the test.

Levin became so confident of his progress at Bastian Elementary School that he defied a principal's order to exempt several of his low - scoring Hispanic students from state tests, a popular technique for getting the school's average scores up.

That's perhaps a clue that even if you could magically get low - income children in other countries to do as much homework as their high - income peers, as the OECD researchers are suggesting, you might not raise their PISA test scores very much.

Listen to Thomas, a white Harvard student who admits to feeling «personally disadvantaged at times,» and goes on to explain, «If you're Latino or if you're black you could have a lower GPA and lower test scores and get in and then I could have the same test scores and maybe not get in.»

Ms. Ravitch shows that claims of improving scores on state tests have actually been produced mainly by ever - lower test score requirements, so low in one instance that many students could get to an acceptable level by random guessing.

Adamowski's dissertation, which exists only in one copy, apparently, is about teacher compensation... you know, those princely salaries teachers get, unlike special masters (150 - 225K + + + plus pensions never earned and platinum health benefits) or superintendent / CEOs of urban districts (with no CT state certification) $ 230K + + plus bonuses for every decimal place attained by test score percentages once the «lowest performing» students are removed from the pool.

Inadequate results even on «basic skills»: Defenders of the Bush plan argue that low - scoring students need to get basic skills, the tests will identify those who need it, and so it is worthwhile.

A reach school is a college that you have a chance of getting into, but your test scores, class rank and / or high school grades are a bit on the low side when you look at the school's profile.

«Are you aware that Milwaukee has had vouchers for low - income students since 1990, and now state scores in Wisconsin show that low - income students in voucher schools get no better test scores than low - income students in the Milwaukee public schools?»

Hey, if you can't get the test scores up high enough, just don't have the lower performing students take the test.

And considering the low - quality of subjective classroom observations that are the norm for traditional teacher evaluation systems, the state laws and collective bargaining agreements governing teacher performance management discourage school leaders from providing more - ample feedback, and that the use of objective student test score growth data is just coming into play, few teachers have gotten the kind of feedback needed to build such expertise in the first place.

His deputies, however, got an earful about some of Duncan's favored initiatives, including linking teacher's pay with standardized test scores and the tough measures required to deal with low - performing schools.

There are principals who report that test scores are not the determining factor for their students» placements at the next level; some high - scoring students don't get into their first choices while some low scorers do.

Wealthy philanthropists invested millions of dollars into their own playbook for reforms that spread to Newark and other cities, including Chicago: Close failing schools with low enrollment and test scores; create «charter schools» that get public money but are run by private groups; and move to a business model that makes fundamental changes in hiring, firing and evaluating teachers.

Schools that had previously scored lower and struggling schools that gained a few points on the outcomes of the test results indeed showed more improvement, though their scores were not in the high range and they got the higher ratings and headlines in the newspaper.

A principal gets feedback that test scores are low and need to be improved.

We can't get there by talking about numbers like standardized test scores, which will always be a reflection of the wealth or poverty of the students» parents, or graduation rates, which can be manipulated simply by redefining the course requirements or eliminating low achieving students.

The first looks only at the lowest - performing students, focusing all resources on getting these students to score above «proficient» on standardized tests so that the school will be in compliance with NCLB.

After reviewing preliminary results of the Smarter Balanced Assessments, LA Unified officials say the test scores are lower than what parents typically see but want them to know «it does not mean our kids are getting dumber.»

These so - called «reformers» reify test scores, making them the be-all and end - all of education and are eager to fire teachers and principals whose students don't get the test scores that the computer says they should, and equally eager to close public schools with low scores and replace them with privately managed schools that all too often escape the same scrutiny as the public schools they replaced.

The QX80 got a small edge because our test car's second - row chairs had remote tumbling from dashboard buttons, but both SUVs scored low.

The 2018 Ford Escape got the lowest score of poor for its protection of a front - seat occupant in the new small overlap front crash test on the passenger side.

But the likelihood that anyone who picked a «wrong» answer did so for the reason that a very smart person would is very very low; the answers scored «correct» were the ones that in fact were ones the likelihood of selecting increased in proportion to how many other correct answers a test taker got.

A close competitor phone, the Moto G4 Plus, got a score of 3047 in the same test - a touch lower than the Honor 6X.

In Geekbench, you get a score of around 8000 in multi-core tests which is 20 % lower than the score of iPhone X and around 20 % higher than the score of Note 8, Pixel 2 etc..