Not exact matches
Scores for fourth - through eighth -
grade math and English teachers and their principals are expected to be finalized by mid-August and could be released through a Freedom of Information request
under the current law.
A:
Under AchieveNJ, qualifying teachers of tested
grades and subjects (language arts
grades 4 - 8 and
math grades 4 - 7 are assigned an SGP
score, which represents the median SGP (mSGP)
score of all of that teacher's qualifying students.
But aside from a slight drop - off in NAEP 4th -
grade reading and
math scores, the overall upward trends put in motion
under Bloomberg have continued through de Blasio's first term.
Under that policy, students
scoring below the national median on the 8th -
grade math exam were required to take two periods of algebra a day during 9th
grade instead of one, with the second class providing support and extra practice.
Under the administration's proposed regulations, fourth - through eighth -
grade English and
math teachers will have their students»
scores on the state's Assessment of Skills and Knowledge (ASK) test count toward 35 percent of their evaluation.
Under the law, for the first time, schools were required to test every student annually in
math and reading in
grades K - 8, and schools had to make «adequate yearly progress» — as measured by student test
scores — or face increasingly heavy penalties.
The newspaper analyzed seven years of student test
scores in English and
math to determine how much students» performance improved
under about 6,000 third - through fifth -
grade teachers.