Sentences with phrase «graduation exams in»

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

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

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

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.

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.

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He failed his university entrance exams twice before gaining admission to Hangzhou Teachers University in 1984; after graduation he spent five years teaching English for 120 yuan (about $ 15) per month.

In some universities, you can go from enrolment to graduation without requiring paper for anything other than exams — study guides, textbooks, assignments, teacher assessments are all executed and delivered digitally.

On Tuesday afternoon of 27 June 2017 the graduation ceremony took place of the diplomas NVC Packaging Professional I and II for those students who successfully completed the exams in the past six months.

Florida high school students who can't pass the two state tests needed for graduation could find it harder to earn a diploma starting next year, as the state moves to change what other exams — and scores — can be used in their place.

... Students who do well on AP exams tend to do better in college and have higher graduation rates, but it is unclear whether this is a direct result of the AP program.

Following his high school graduation, Thompson enlisted in the Army, passed the air cadet exam and started his pilot training.

Not having the opportunity to take the exam midyear, Bloomberg said, «put thousands of prospective graduates in a bad spot and even puts their graduation in jeopardy.»

The study showed that prediction of student graduation may be significantly improved by including in the college admission process consideration of AP exam performance and a small set of personality traits, along with traditional indicators of student abilities and high school grades.

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.

The current tests are not as high a barrier to high school graduation as they are often alleged to be, as a student may generally take the exam multiple times in order to achieve a passing score.

The evidence we have reviewed suggests that high school exit exam programs, as currently implemented in the United States, decrease the rate of high school graduation without increasing achievement.

The committee touts the possibility of alternative incentives to exit exams: «Several experiments with providing incentives for graduation in the form of rewards, while keeping graduation standards constant, suggest that such incentives might be used to increase high school completion.»

'» One of eight specialized public «exam» schools in New York, Stuyvesant had 3,200 students and a 98.4 percent four - year graduation rate.

Amrein and Berliner's simplistic trend analysis attributes all subsequent changes in graduation rates and dropouts to the introduction of this high - stakes exam.

Staffers also conduct summer, fall, and spring home visits between and during the sophomore and junior years to students who are at risk of not graduating because of deficiencies in course credits, the possibility of failing the state high school exit exam (a condition of graduation), or poor grades.

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.

The settlement in the class action on behalf of such students will let them use oral presentations, spell - checkers, voice - recognition software, help from test proctors, and other state - approved accommodations on the Alaska High School Graduation Qualifying Exam.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

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.

The program is not associated with improved high school graduation rates or increases in the number of students taking college entrance exams, suggesting that the APIP improves the outcomes of high - achieving students rather than those students who may not have graduated from high school or even applied to college.

Working with a large population of at - risk students, the Big Picture school in Providence boasts a 90 percent graduation rate, and Oakland's MetWest senior class had the highest pass rate on the California High School Exit Exam of Oakland's eighteen high schools.

Substantial evidence from around the world has linked high - school exit exams to increased learning, but in the United States, where political pressures to relax graduation requirements have always kept the passing bar low, the evidence for their benefit has been inconclusive.

There seems to be no consensus about whether the across - the - board increases in U.S. graduation rates reported by the federal government last week are the result of No Child Left Behind - era accountability mechanisms or the data - based decisionmaking stressed under the Obama administration, more early - warning systems to identify potential dropouts, or fewer high school exit exams.

These students are over 1.6 times more likely to meet a key graduation requirement, over three times more likely to be eligible for a state merit scholarship, and over 3.8 times more likely to take at least one AP exam in a charter school compared to their peers who do not receive charter lottery offers.

Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob, for example, report that exit exam requirements reduced high school graduation rates by about 2 percentage points, with larger effects in states with more difficult examinations, and with effects concentrated among black students and among students in districts with large percentages of students of color.

Starting with the high school class of 2018, Ohio will require students to score well on seven «End - of - Course» exams to graduate under its main graduation pathway - two in English, two in math, two social studies and one science.

While in Washoe County, Martinez improved graduation rates and increased the percentage of students participating in and passing Advanced Placement exams.

They have joined a national protest in which states have repealed their graduation test requirements, postponed the consequences of testing for the Common Core — national standards in more than 40 states — and rolled back the number of required exams.

Early evaluations showed that, compared to statewide averages, students in these programs had higher graduation rates and better pass rates on the California High School Exit Exam.

Along with the new standards was a graduation requirement for students, starting with the Class of 2017, to pass subject - specific state tests in Algebra I, biology and literature called Keystone Exams to earn a diploma.

In particular, the 11th - grade tests are not required for graduation and competed with other high - stakes tests that juniors take, including the ACT and SAT college - entrance exams, and Advanced Placement tests.

Rethinking Pathways to High School Graduation in New York State: Forging New Ways for Students to Show Their Achievement of Standards In December 2013, the Coalition for Multiple Pathways to a Diploma released this report, prepared by Advocates for Children of New York, examining the difficulties that high stakes standardized exit exams pose for many students and addressing the need for more flexible exam requirements and assessment - based pathways to a diplomin New York State: Forging New Ways for Students to Show Their Achievement of Standards In December 2013, the Coalition for Multiple Pathways to a Diploma released this report, prepared by Advocates for Children of New York, examining the difficulties that high stakes standardized exit exams pose for many students and addressing the need for more flexible exam requirements and assessment - based pathways to a diplomIn December 2013, the Coalition for Multiple Pathways to a Diploma released this report, prepared by Advocates for Children of New York, examining the difficulties that high stakes standardized exit exams pose for many students and addressing the need for more flexible exam requirements and assessment - based pathways to a diploma.

Democracy Prep's results are incomparable: 100 percent of graduates are college - bound (two college acceptances are required for graduation); 95 percent pass the Regents exams; and the schools are leaders in urban charter turnaround (with Harlem Prep skyrocketing from the third to the 96th percentile from one school year to the next).

TSDS supports graduation plans and college preparation exams, helping educators improve graduation rates and enhancing success in college and the workforce.

In other districts that we have researched, including Horry County, Randolph, Spokane, and Spring City, we found that one or more people involved in the blended learning program are closely connected to evaluations, whether via state assessments, NWEA MAP, end - of - course exams, graduation rates, or other datIn other districts that we have researched, including Horry County, Randolph, Spokane, and Spring City, we found that one or more people involved in the blended learning program are closely connected to evaluations, whether via state assessments, NWEA MAP, end - of - course exams, graduation rates, or other datin the blended learning program are closely connected to evaluations, whether via state assessments, NWEA MAP, end - of - course exams, graduation rates, or other data.

Exam suspended in 2015 no longer required for graduation, now that state has adopted new Common Core standards and school accountability metrics.

We find positive and substantial longer - run impacts of double - dose algebra on college entrance exam scores, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates, suggesting that the policy had significant benefits that were not easily observable in the first couple of years of its existence.

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.

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They would allow pupils to follow their own interests and gain recognition for what they know, understand and can do, and they would be flexible and allow each young person to gain a unique graduation certificate listing all achievements, something that would be more useful to future employers or for progression to higher education than grades in a few formal exams.

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The agreement proposes to evaluate a teacher's effect on students» learning in part with an unusual mix of individual and school - wide data from such sources as state standardized tests, high school exit exams and district assessments, along with rates of high school graduation, attendance and suspensions.

But for the student who sat through the entire course and for some reason wasn't successful on the final exam and now they are in a credit recovery situation, they are sometimes more highly motivated because this is what is standing between them and graduation.

(Separate Common Core - aligned Regents exams required for high school graduation in New York will be rolled out between 2015 and 2016.)

In this report, you will see data that shows graduation rates, ACT scores, trend - lines on National Assessment of Educational Progress exams, average teacher salaries and early childhood availability.