Sentences with phrase «grade spans»

Maintaining the requirement for statewide assessments in at least reading / language arts and mathematics in grades 3 - 8 and once in high school; and in science in each of three grade spans (3 - 5, 6 - 9, and 10 - 12), while adding flexibility related to locally selected high school assessments and innovative assessment systems.

This book, the third volume in the NSTA Press USI series includes 25 formative assessment probes that can be used across multiple grade spans, as well as pre-service teacher education and teacher professional development in life, physical, earth, and space sciences.

This book, the first volume in the NSTA Press USI series includes 25 formative assessment probes that can be used across multiple grade spans, as well as pre-service teacher education and teacher professional development in life, physical, earth, and space sciences.

States also are required to administer a science assessment annually in at least one grade in each of the following grade spans: 3 - 5, 6 - 9 and 10 - 12.

The Senate bill offers two test options for states: either maintain the current annual testing schedule, or develop new ways to assess students, by either testing in grade spans, evaluating student portfolios, or administering competency - based tests.

We used this information to identify the number and frequency of district and state - required standardized assessments for students by grade spans K - 2, 3 - 5, 6 - 8, and 9 - 12 and to determine the time it took for students to take the assessments.

States can use different measures for different grade spans, using age - appropriate ones where it makes sense, and are limited only by their imagination (and some technical requirements of the law).

Many charters operate non-traditional grade spans.

The SOAR Teaching Frames have been tailored to meet the needs of English Language learners, target disciplinary literacy learning across content areas, focus on Mathematics, and with specific attention to students within different grade spans.

The 13 school teams attending the Summer Design Institute, part of CityBridge's Breakthrough Schools: D.C. initiative, represent the diversity of Washington, D.C.: a mix of charter and district schools serving students across the grade spans and embracing a myriad of academic models from Montessori to bilingual immersion to a residential program for students in foster care.

Brookings, one of the nation's oldest and most respected non-partisan think tanks, reports that attendance fulfills ESSA demands that the fifth indicator provide meaningful differentiation between schools, and also that it deliver valid and reliable data that can be drawn statewide across all schools and grade spans.

The Smarter Balanced Achievement Level Descriptors (ALDs) describe four levels of achievement (1 - 4) across three grade spans: 3 - 5, 6 - 8, and High School.

Cambium Learning leverages technology and a focus on student - centered, personalized learning to serve the world's students across age and grade spans and curriculum content areas.

It similarly extends the mandate for statewide tests in science at least once in grade spans 3 — 5, 6 — 9, and 10 — 12.

Families may consider grade spans in their school selection — K - 5 for families who want their child to transition to a middle school; K - 8 for parents who want their child to stay in one setting until high school.

Later we broke down the grade spans further to: K - 2, 3 - 4, 5 - 6, 7 - 8, and 9 - 12.

Sessions are carefully selected to present a broad perspective of improving whole child education across the grade spans and instructional areas.

For some schools, the district reports data across several grade spans; in those cases, I averaged each observation.

Different grade spans.

The first step in estimating education spending was to create an education spending to military spending ratio for primary and secondary grade spans in the analysis.vi To create the ratios, I looked at all the countries that had data for education spending for primary and secondary education and military expenditure figures.

Match: Over the past five years, Match Charter Public School has tripled its student enrollment, adding new grade spans and programs.

The state has standards - based exams in all grade spans in English, math, and science.

Standards and Accountability: Washington state has set clear and specific standards in all grade spans for science and mathematics.

The state's assessments are aligned to its standards at all grade spans in all of the core subjects, except social studies.

The state does not have clear and specific standards for all subjects in all grade spans.

He has extensive experience in all grade spans and curriculum areas including reading / ELA, math, social studies, science, special education, world languages, CTE, and AP.

Outliers tend to have more extracurricular activities, shorter school hours, and larger grade spans.

The state is one of 12 that have standards - based tests in all grade spans for every core subject.

New York's standards in the four core subjects have been rated as clear, specific, and grounded in content at all grade spans by the American Federation of Teachers.

And the state's assessments for those subjects and grade spans are aligned with its standards.

Standards and Accountability: Colorado has clear and specific standards for English, mathematics, and science in all grade spans, but it has such standards only at the middle school level for social studies / history.

Standards and Accountability: Connecticut has established clear and specific standards in all grade spans in mathematics and science.

Standards and Accountability: Tennessee has clear and specific standards in English, science, and social studies / history at the elementary and middle school levels, and in mathematics in all grade spans.

State assessments use multiple - choice, short - answer, and extended - response questions for all grade spans.

Clear and specific standards exist in English, mathematics, and science in all grade spans.

The state's tests include multiple - choice items, as well as extended - response items in English, in all grade spans.

In all of the core subject areas and at nearly all grade spans, the state has academic standards rated clear and specific by the American Federation of Teachers and assessments aligned to those standards.

In particular, Maine lags behind in the area of standards, where the American Federation of Teachers has rated only its science standards as clear, specific, and grounded in content at all three grade spans.

But there is room for improvement on its standards, which have not been rated by the American Federation of Teachers as clear, specific, and grounded in content for English above the elementary level or for social studies at any grade span.

To simulate school - level Title I funds under the current regime, I assume that districts allocate the same amount of Title I dollars per eligible student to each Title I school, regardless of grade span or FRPL - eligibility rate.

A state where policymakers and stakeholders have strong preferences for statistical reliability could choose to combine data across grade span, years, or subgroups, depending on the policy goals.

The state has tests aligned with its standards in English, math, and science in every grade span.

It is also closer than many other states to having standards - based exams in every core subject in every grade span.

The state offers tests aligned with those standards in every grade span in English and math.

Ohio is one of only 12 states that have standards - based exams in each core subject — English, math, science, and social studies / history — in every grade span.

Within this model, text readability — specifically, its quantitative measure for relative difficulty — is set higher than the mark set by prior readability systems and reading comprehension assessments for each grade span.

The Common Core defines a three - part model for selecting texts in each grade span that will lead to college and career readiness by the end of high school.

The state is one of 12 that give standards - based tests in every core subject in every grade span.

The state has tests aligned with its standards in each grade span in English and mathematics, but only at the high school level in science.

Its academic standards for all four core subject areas at every grade span have been rated as clear, specific, and grounded in content by the American Federation of Teachers.