Sentences with phrase «graduation exams»

Previously, students were required to pass graduation exams in five subjects in addition to completing a college - and career - ready course of study.

They've imposed graduation exams to ensure minimal competency and allowed students to earn college credits early.

Following Governor Kashim Shettima's directive, two hundred and fifty internally displaced persons have began writing this year's West African Examination Council's graduation exams for...

Responding to grassroots campaigns, Texas policymakers cut back the number of mandated tests from 15 to 5 while Minnesota eliminated its high school graduation exam requirement.

State lawmakers, such as those in Ohio, run away from graduation exams in favor of competency - free diplomas.

The day before her final graduation exam, which Eliza must pass with a specified grade in order to claim the scholarship, she is attacked and hurt within sight of her school by an unknown man.

So too could Governor Mitt Romney, touting his own Massachusetts miracle of rising test scores and a tough graduation exam.

That decision by the state board of education, made Jan. 12, comes as a growing number of states are grappling with whether to hold firm on high school graduation requirements even as many students fail to pass graduation exams.

To graduate, they can pass the Ohio Graduation Exams or produce threshold scores on end - of - course - exams, ACT, or SAT.

African Americans, Hispanics, and current and former school employees are all modestly less likely to support graduation exams than other respondents, but in no case does more than 16 percent of a subgroup oppose the policy (Q. 3, 4).

Grace Thomas wasn't satisfied with the reading scores she was seeing, and math scores on the high school graduation exam positively set off alarms.

New York's Regents examinations served this purpose for over 100 years and states such as Florida, Alabama, Nevada, and Virginia had instituted high - stakes graduation exams at least as far back as the early to mid 1980s.

Countries with high school exit exams appear to have higher levels of student achievement, as indicated by PISA and some positive evidence from other countries that have used graduation exams.

In other cases, state virtual schools have been relied upon to provide graduation exam prep for all students in the state at no cost to the districts (e.g., Idaho Digital Learning Academy, Virtual Virginia).

Deal attributed this improvement to increased funding for K - 12 education and eliminating the mandated graduation exam.

Teaching Is Not Testing — 183 A community - led struggle to find an alternative to California's graduation exam by Tina (aka Lisa) Gray - Garcia

Elena is taking her high school graduation exam in philosophy on Monday and Robert is helping her clear up some basic concepts.

Marshall singled out the state's «world class» curriculum frameworks, graduation exams in core subjects, and «accountability measures for every public school student, teacher, administrator, school, and district in Massachusetts.»

He also has proposed introducing an A-F grading system for schools and instituting a 3rd grade reading test and regents - style high school graduation exam.

Chasing the cookie - crumb trail of monoliths to the rendezvous amid the moons of Jupiter is sort of a graduation exam, not all that different than assembling the Interociter in This Island Earth.

Chasing the cookie - crumb trail of monoliths to the rendezvous amid the moons of Jupiter is sort of a graduation exam...»

For instance, they recorded positive or negative results on the NAEP 4th - grade math test for just 12 of the 26 states with stakes for K - 8 students (as noted earlier, two of the states, Georgia and Minnesota had only a high - school graduation exam and thus were not used for this analysis).

The states range from Georgia and Minnesota — where the only penalty is experienced by students who fail a high - school graduation exam — to North Carolina and Texas, where the authors found a total of six stakes each, stakes that affect both schools and students.

While the senior secondary and graduation exams are part of a broader system of regular formal and informal assessments that inform teaching and learning across the school years, they are big events in Shanghai that are feared by some and have been blamed for putting students under too much pressure.

They also ignored the fact that high - school graduation exams have resulted in increased dropout rates and an increasing use of the General Educational Development, or GED, tests as a substitute for a high - school diploma.

That was the message affirmed by the Montgomery County, Ala., school board, which has voted 4 - 3 to keep students who haven't passed the state's graduation exam from walking across commencement - ceremony stages.

Yet Raymond and Hanushek's review looked only at the results from our analysis of NAEP, ignoring the effects that high - school graduation exams have had on college - admissions tests like the SAT and on participation and performance in Advanced Placement courses.

Sixty percent of teachers support the idea of tying grade promotion to test performance, while 66 percent support high school graduation exams, even as these same teachers overwhelming oppose the idea of linking their own remuneration to student test scores.

Shying away from the «quagmire» of intervention in states like New Jersey (noted from the bench during oral arguments), and citing its earlier rejection of a challenge to the state's graduation exams, the court pointedly observed that «protracted litigation» delays the progress of education reform.

A federal judge's ruling this month that the graduation exam in Texas is constitutional doesn't mean other states should assume their own exit exams could survive a legal challenge, some observers cautioned last week.

The real political test will come when students begin to fail the graduation exam, or when schools face dramatic interventions like faculty firings or reconstitutions.

States adopted high school graduation exams to require all students across the state to meet the same bar.

When Andrew Renner sat down to take his state's high school graduation exam this past spring, he had seen a copy of the writing test only once before the first time he failed the exam.

High School Graduation Exam: «In some states, students must pass an exam before they are eligible to receive a high school diploma.

Around the same time as the report's release, British prime minister John Major discarded the portfolio system that had been used for 20 years as the nation's graduation exam in English.

According to the just - released 2013 Education Next annual poll, which Michael Henderson and I discuss in an article in Education Next, two - thirds of the public support Common Core standards and three - fourths favor an end to social promotion in elementary school and support high school graduation exams.

The earliest and most common form of high - stakes testing was the practice of attaching consequences to high school graduation exams (i.e., students had to pass a test to receive a high school diploma).

Under the new state law, high schools will have to identify students who are at risk of failing their graduation exams — specifically in math and English — as early as their junior year.

Steinhauer, the NJEA president, said the state has already softened the impact of the new testing as a graduation exam for students, which won't go into effect for five years.

In many places, the high school graduation exam is also a low bar, Cohen says, while some states have dropped it altogether.

The impact of high school graduation exams.