Sentences with phrase «higher pass rate on»

In 2014 - 2015, high school students who used Algebra Nation had a 10 % higher pass rate on the Florida Algebra 1 End of Course exam than students who did not use Algebra Nation.

VCS students in grades 3 to 11 who regularly engaged with their teachers and the curriculum achieved an 80 % and higher pass rate on their state standardized tests.

Under the plan, Asian students are expected to achieve a higher pass rate on state exams than white students, while the state sets lower goals for Hispanic, black and special - education students.

However, the high pass rates on career - ladder evaluations suggest that these assessments were not particularly discriminating (at least through Level I).

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.

The data help explain the disconnect between the relatively high pass rates on many state tests and the low scores on the national exams, known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Carroll County students had significantly higher pass rates on math than the other suburban Baltimore counties.

Linda Darling - Hammond, a professor of education at Stanford University who helped design the edTPA, the national test, says the high pass rate on the PACT is expected.

Our graduation rate is consistently among the highest in DC, and our students demonstrate their high level of college preparation with an exceptionally high pass rate on Advanced Placement exams — more than 75 % received scores between 3 and 5 (all passing, with 5 as the top score).

The change follows concerns that some schools have been securing a high pass rate on the five GCSEs measure by neglecting achievement in other subjects.

Results from the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills and the Stanford Achievement Test indicated that students in all three types of magnet programs in all grades had higher passing rates on the reading, mathematics, writing, and science subtests of the assessments than did their respective grade - level counterparts districtwide.

Not exact matches

The Ebola infection rate and death toll have been particularly high among health workers, who are exposed to hundreds of highly infectious patients who can pass the virus on through body fluids such as blood and excrement.

The bank, in turn, will pass on those costs to households in the form of higher interest rates.

Under the «old» tax code, income from these small businesses would «pass - through» to the owner on her own taxes and were subject to individual income tax rates as high as 39.6 percent.

«Meanwhile, any inflationary impulse from higher tariffs depends on whether firms view the increase as permanent and if the current state of the business cycle would contribute to a high pass - through rate from tariffs to final goods.»

That will be important to private investors, because if the central bank held itself out as a privileged bondholder, effectively passing more risk on to other bond holders, other buyers might undermine the stimulus program by demanding higher interest rates.

Online banks have lower expenses, and they pass those savings along to customers in the form of higher interest rates on savings account and CD account balances.

It said that the average federal income tax rate on pass - through business income was 19 percent and that if pass - through activity had remained at 1980s levels, that tax revenue would have been about $ 100 billion a year higher.

Domestic inflationary pressures, associated with higher wages and incomes, will lead to higher inflation for non-tradable goods and services but, at the same time, the gradual pass through of the initial exchange rate appreciation will lead to lower inflation for tradable goods and services (whose prices in foreign currency terms depend to a significant extent on global considerations).

When the Federal Reserve makes it more expensive for banks to borrow by targeting a higher federal funds rate, the banks in turn pass on the higher costs to its customers.

Our wine schools are endorsed by Universities and Colleges and we pride ourselves on our high pass rates, expert instructors and outstanding quality wines.

Iowa ran and ran and ran on standard downs (70 percent SD run rate, 12th in the country and higher than almost any non-option team), played at the slowest possible tempo, and threw as many screens as it could get away with on passing downs.

Ozil also has a slightly higher average of successful take - ons per game (1.3 to 1), as well as a higher rate of passes per game (56 to 50).

Ben Roethlisberger on 4th - and - 1 rush attempts in his career, including playoffs: 19 attempts 18 first downs Highest success rate (94.7 percent) of any player with over 10 attempts since 2004 (including playoffs) Steelers on 4th - and - 1 today: 0 - for - 2 (Bell run, Ben pass)

Based on national averages for fumble recovery rates and passes defensed, Utah's turnovers luck was worth about 4.3 points per game last year, fourth - highest in the country.

Regardless of the position, the Broncos can not overdraft any of these players and pass up on a higher rated player, or a better talent.

WMU was reasonably efficient on standard downs (37th in standard downs success rate) but played pretty passive, inefficient ball on passing downs; the Broncos» sack rate was actually higher on standard downs (6.2 percent) than passing downs (5.3 percent), which isn't supposed to happen.

i honestly think Welbeck would serve Arsenal and himself on the left wing, he has a high work rate his fast his great dribbler and if he excepts his not a a striker his passing and crossing ability will improve and he can be a top player rather then being called a donkey most part of the season

you people are genuinely clueless... he had the highest pass rate of any arsenal player including a couple of ozil quality... he is the only central player we have who can open up play from the middle... he holds on to ball too long sometimes in part because his support is from donkeys like ramsey and walcott

They carry a slate - high implied total into their matchup with the Jets, who concede far more points in the passing game than on the ground relative to league average rates.

Contradicting what you might have expected, Wilshere is fairly poor when it comes to intercepting and tackling, but instead his game thrives on a high pass success rate — being confident on the ball and beating players.

He averages a pass completion rate of 85.7 %, which is the highest of any other player in his position, and completes on average 49.9 successful passes a match compared to Phillips (30.2), Vieira (35.2) and O'Kane (41.6).

Moreover, Tosun's 74.1 per cent pass - completion rate was the highest among the Toffees» starting XI, while he came out on top in 62.5 per cent of the duels he contested.

And nobody on the pitch recorded a higher passing - success rate than the 28 - year - old's 91.7 per cent.

Towns voted for the fiscal cliff compromise bill, which made permanent most of the Bush tax cuts originally passed in 2001 and 2003 while also raising tax rates on the highest income levels.

On Tues., Mar. 20th, during its full Executive Committee meeting, CB12 formally passed the resolution that sought to limit the New York City Economic Development Corporation's large - scale plan for rezoning great expanses of Inwood that would include high - rise, market - rate apartment buildings.

No. 2, interestingly, is the middle - class tax cut achieved through the extraordinary session tax code reform deal passed earlier this month — a move that also resulted in a higher than pre-millionaire's tax rate for the state's wealthiest residents, causing some on the right to accuse the governor of breaking his no - new - taxes pledge.

Disapprove Teacher Education Program Rule — Vote Passed (59 - 40, 1 Not Voting) The joint resolution would disapprove the rule issued by the Education Department on Oct. 31, 2016, relating to teacher preparation programs that require states to annually evaluate the effectiveness of teacher preparation programs at institutions of higher education and to publicly report this information, including the job placement and retention rates of graduates.

While McMahon believes it should be phased out on schedule, Deutsch believes there should be a higher «recapture» rate for the wealthiest New Yorkers who will see windfalls from the federal tax cut passed by the Republican - led Congress in December.

Natural selection worked her magic, selecting for a fear that would lead to a higher survival rate and a higher likelihood of reproducing and passing on the gene.

Travis does employ slow motion during various action beats, but this is because Dredd's opponents are high on the Slo - Mo drug which makes their brain believe that time is passing at 1 % its usual rate.

Pass rates on the state's 10th - grade exam, which was also a high - stakes exit exam for students, rose from 57 percent to 78 percent between 1994 and 2000, with smaller yet still sizable gains in reading (see Figure 1).

In contrast, school populations closer to the high end of the performance spectrum were only about 5 percent African American, 10 percent Hispanic, and 16 percent poor, with a mean cohort size of only 114 and a mean pass rate of 84 percent on the 8th - grade math exam.

The institutions» education students must have passing rates of 80 percent or higher on the subject - matter - licensing tests for teachers, and 85 percent or higher on the Praxis III exam.

In addition, seven Rochester schools had passing rates of 90 percent or higher on the grade four math exam.

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.

In the Fall 2008 issue of Education Next, economist C. Kirabo Jackson reported that the Advanced Placement Incentive Program, which pays both high school students and their teachers for receiving passing scores on AP exams, boosted AP participation rates in participating schools (no big surprise!)

In a school where one in ten students is a native English speaker, and 95 percent receive free or reduced lunch, the AP Calculus program has grown from 15 students to 150 in three years and boosts the highest pass rate in the district on the AP exam.

Note that the pass rates for white students are very high, well above 90 percent, suggesting that the skills tested by the TAAS are not too challenging and that many students are close to «topping out» on the test.

Participants who had earned relatively high — though still not passing — scores on the placement test passed at a mean rate of 68 percent, similar to students who were not assessed as needing remediation and who took the statistics class the year before.