Sentences with phrase «graduation tests lead»

Comprehensive national studies have found that graduation tests lead to higher dropout rates while they do not improve learning for those who stay in school.

Education: Too Much Focus on Testing (Seattle Times) Mentions Daniel Koretz's book, The Testing Charade, which explains why high - stakes policies such as graduation tests lead to score inflation.

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Sociologist Robert Carini's 2002 review of 17 studies found that «unionism leads to modestly higher standardized achievement test scores, and possibly enhanced prospects for graduation from high school.»

District officials and the school board have come to realize that encouraging more parent centers on school campuses leads to more community engagement, higher attendance and eventually better test scores and higher graduation rates.

At Garfield — the site of a 2013 testing boycott led by teachers that gained national attention — student - government leaders visited classrooms to explain that the test was not required for graduation for juniors, and that students could fill out a refusal form at the school counseling office at any time.

Eleven of 12 random - assignment studies — the gold standard of social science research — have found that school choice programs improve the outcomes of participating students, leading to higher test scores, higher rates of graduation, and higher rates of college enrollment.

Gist, whose reform efforts led to the firings of all teachers and staff at one of the state's worst - performing schools, said test scores in the state need vast improvement, the graduation rate must grow and too few high school graduates — just more than half — are heading directly to college.

Research demonstrates that increased spending per - student leads to increased positive outcomes, such as higher test scores and graduation rates (Does Money Matter, n.d.).

They believe that a uniform curriculum will lead to improved test scores and higher graduation and college admission rates while closing achievement gaps between minorities and whites.

This is due in large part to federal school classification requirements, which were specific by design to label and differentiate treatment of schools based on whether they met annual reading and math proficiency targets.2 This often led to narrow or simple pass / fail categorization systems based on schools meeting incrementally increasing state targets for test scores and graduation rates.

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

The leading edge of student opposition has been the Providence Student Union, which has deployed intelligence and wit to lead the battle against the state's use of a standardized test (with the appropriate acronym of NECAP) as a graduation requirement.

And UIC - led schools are outperforming comparable CPS schools in measures ranging from freshman on track rates to graduation rates to standardized test scores.

Jackson, who led Al Raby High School and Westinghouse College Prep, will focus her energies on continuing the improvement in student test scores and graduation rates.

Children in the Abecedarian Project had long - lasting positive impacts that led to higher IQ and achievement test scores, fewer grade retentions and placements in special education, higher levels of college graduation and job - holding, and healthier outcomes as adults.