Sentences with phrase «high state test scores»

For example, if your students earned high state test scores, or if you received a teaching award, mention these successes.

When ranking their top choices, New Orleans parents tend to prefer schools that have higher state test scores, that offer extracurriculars, that have names that were around before Katrina, and that are closer to home.

Not exact matches

Their first step of the evaluation is comparing scores on state assessment tests to «statistical expectations for the state» and pulling those that have a high gap.

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.

The study showed that the states that spent the most did not have the highest average ACT test scores, nor did they have the highest average graduation rates.

«The success of these new schools... is clear,» Bloomberg said, arguing that they have higher graduation rates, state test scores and parent satisfaction survey scores than the schools they replaced.

In schools that are focused on achieving high scores on the state tests, she said, the curriculum becomes geared towards test day at the expense of deeper learning.

A pro-charter advocacy group wants New York education officials to investigate 10 district schools in Brooklyn that it says had «suspiciously high spikes» in scores on state tests.

But her stance on Common Core could factor into Rosa's relationship with state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, who has supported the move toward higher standards, as well as the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

Unions and advocacy groups have pushed legislation that would cut down on testing or dilute the state's reform agenda by enacting a three - year moratorium on using scores from Common Core - aligned exams for «high stakes.»

Syracuse has one of the highest concentrations of poverty among black and Hispanic people in the United States and some of the lowest test scores and graduation rates in the state.

6,687 students 623 classroom teachers 10 schools (one high school, two junior highs, seven elementary) $ 188.8 million 2010 - 11 budget 1 % of students need free or reduced price lunches 97 % students are white or Asian (3 % black or Latino) 83 % of third - graders scored proficient or higher on this year's state's English test; 90 % on math exam.

The scores of last year's MCAS tests given to Springfield school students rose across the board at a higher rate than the gain recorded by school districts statewide, and the dropout rate has fallen more than any other school system in the state.

The Success network is known for its students» high achievement on state tests, and it emphasizes getting — and keeping — scores up.

In one study of 1,651 high school students from three states, reading ability was just as important to students» science - class grades and scores on state - level science tests as the amount of science knowledge they had.

Furthermore, immigrant children who were learning English and participated in the intervention had achievement scores on those state tests that were nearly as high as the achievement scores of classmates who were proficient in English.

When neither of those pan out as planned, Elizabeth hatches a scheme to steal an advance copy of the state's standardized test to earn the incentive bonus her school awards to the teacher with the highest scores.

Schools that received F grades in 1999 experienced increases in test scores that were more than twice as large as those experienced by schools with higher state - assigned grades.

The Ninth Grade College Preparatory Academy is a state - ordered spin - off of Sam Houston High School, whose test scores have historically been so low that the state labeled the school «academically unacceptable» for six straight years.

«If they're worried about their test scores and want a way to get them higher, they need to give kids more arts, not less,» says Tom Horne, Arizona's state superintendent of public instruction.

In Massachusetts, writes Georgia Alexakis in the Washington Monthly, the paradox of these reform efforts is, «The schools most likely to do poorly on the MCAS [the state test in Massachusetts] have also been most likely to embrace it, while those districts whose scores are already quite high are fighting hardest to get rid of it.»

It's an approach that seems to be working: Valor Flagship Academy, the first Valor school, produced outstanding academic results, including the highest standardized test scores in the city and the state, in its first year of operation (2014 — 15).

Predicting freshman grade - point average from college - admissions and state high - school test scores.

Because these assessments are likely to include some tasks that many students had little exposure to prior to 2010, and because the expectations for student performance represented by the standards are considerably higher than in many states» previous standards, the test scores are expected to be lower than in the past.

The measures used in the NEPC report — whether schools make AYP, state accountability system ratings, the percentage of students that score proficient on state tests, and high - school graduation rates — are at best rough proxies for the quality of education provided by any school.

As test - preparation materials leap off the printed page and onto the Web, an increasing number of states and districts are turning to online test - prep programs to help raise student scores on high - stakes assessments, Advanced Placement tests, and college - entrance exams.

Scores on high - stakes tests rose rapidly in states that were early adopters of school accountability, and Texas was no exception.

«Nearly all states are building high - tech student data systems to collect, categorize and crunch the endless gigabytes of attendance logs, test scores and other information collected in public schools,» reported the New York Times in a front - page story last May, confirming the scope of the trend.

«We have data that shows that if teachers scored high on their evaluations, students showed improvement on state tests.»

In the area of academic achievement, a few years ago the school's fourth graders had the highest scores in the district on the Connecticut Mastery Test, the state's standardized achievement tTest, the state's standardized achievement testtest.

It has such programs for transportation, reimbursement for high - cost special education students, early - childhood education, literacy programs, kindergarten - development grants, support for students scoring low on state tests (the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System), and school construction assistance.

Sacramento — California's high - school seniors improved their scores this year in all areas of the state's basic - skills test, owing in large part, state and local testing officials say, to the availability of $ 14.4 million in incentive bonuses for schools.

Lessons Learned from State SAT and ACT Scores,» researchers Brian Powell, Lala Carr Steelman, and Robert M. Carini compared states that are strongly teacher unionized with those that are not and found a clear link between teacher unions and higher state performance on certain standardized tState SAT and ACT Scores,» researchers Brian Powell, Lala Carr Steelman, and Robert M. Carini compared states that are strongly teacher unionized with those that are not and found a clear link between teacher unions and higher state performance on certain standardized tstate performance on certain standardized tests.

Moreover, if an income gap made America unique, you would expect the percentage of American students performing well below proficiency in math to be much higher than the percentage of low performers in countries with average test scores similar to the United States.

For example, a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile on the state reading and math test and is assigned to a teacher in the top quartile in terms of overall TES scores will perform on average, by the end of the school year, three percentile points higher in reading and two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

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The scores used to determine whether students demonstrated proficiency on the test were set too low, resulting in unexpectedly high passing rates for the state's elementary and middle school students.

The study examined the Praxis II scores of 270,000 test takers and found that 91 percent of graduates of NCATE - accredited institutions pass state licensing exams across the nation - 18 percentage points higher than graduates of non-NCATE institutions.

Central High did not make the Adequate Yearly Progress standard under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and less than 20 percent of its students score «proficient» on state standardized math tests.

The report in question, authored by Arizona State University researchers Audrey Amrein and David Berliner, purported to examine student - performance trends on national exams in states where legislators have attached «high stakes» to test scores.

It also has a strong relationship with the public schools of Massachusetts, and I wanted to see public schools in action that had better funding and higher test scores than my native state of California.

To assess the latter, let's focus on the eight states where Amrein and Berliner concluded that 4th - grade math scores decreased following the introduction of high - stakes testing.

In other words, the average school leader faces pressure from the school district, the state, the parents and the local community to get high test scores.

So far, high scores on relatively low - bar state tests have served to assure middle - class parents that their traditional public schools are good and their real - estate investments are safe.

West Virginia has relinquished the reins of a struggling school system, leaving behind a rare state - takeover success story: a state - hired superintendent in charge of a system with higher test scores and better management and buoyed by local acceptance.

In Massachusetts, the test scores of charter schools on the Spring 2002 state test showed, according to the Boston Herald, «a greater number of improved scores... with more and more of the [charters] scoring higher than their home districts.»

For example, Diane Ravitch states that «[reformers believe] that schools can be fixed now and that student outcomes (test scores) will reach high levels without doing anything about poverty.

The first state standardized test scores are in, and the 11th graders did no better than those at other comprehensive, non-selective city high schools: about one - quarter of the students met proficiency standards in reading and a mere 7 percent in math.

But, he says, even though King Middle School and Casco Bay High School score above the state average on standardized tests, there's no way to know how much of that success is due to the laptops, the expeditionary learning, the collaboration among teachers, or something else entirely.

In other states strong teachers unions may mobilize high turnout among members, their families, and friends, and punish and reward board members for their treatment of teachers rather than hold them accountable for student test scores.