Sentences with phrase «hit state tests»

Tennessee Education Commissioner Candice McQueen testified Wednesday before state lawmakers there that a «cyberattack» may have hit state tests - which also appears to have affected testing in New York.

Not exact matches

Graham's statement came just days after North Korea tested another intercontinental ballistic missile which experts believe could have the range to hit most of the United States, with the exception of Florida.

This test demonstrates to the other 40 - plus states with less autonomous friendly rules that the technology is ready to hit the road, and it shows that it can be demonstrated with some degree of reliability.

New York was one of seven states earlier this week whose student tests were hit by what was reportedly a «deliberate attack» on the computer system operated by Questar, an outside vendor.

New York also promised to tie student performance on state exams to teacher evaluations in its application for a waiver from No Child Left Behind, legislation under President George W. Bush that requires states to hit certain performance benchmarks on standardized tests.

Be ready for thunderstorms, floods, and tornadoes before springtime severe weather hits; many states will conduct tornado drills and emergency siren tests.

«Basically, we focused on English, history, and math and tested our way through those subjects until we hit whatever level the state standards mandated.»

Participants were excluded from further analyses if their hit rates during the fMRI session for grammatical sequences, ungrammatical sequences with category violations, or ungrammatical sequences with state violations (see Stimuli) fell below the 5 % significance level of performing above chance according to a binomial test.

For instance, it takes a history teacher who, when developing a class that covers the use of water throughout U.S. history, also hits on the skills and content students need to pass the New York State Regents test.

States where tracking isn't practiced as much had fewer students hitting a passing score of 3 or higher on AP tests.

During Roses» first year, however, few students hit the proficiency mark on state standardized tests.

The already diminished reputation of high - stakes testing took another hit this week with the startling news out of Florida that only 27 percent of fourth graders passed the state's comprehensive assessment test (FCAT) for writing.

That backlash may well have hit a tipping point thanks to the Common Core, through which the federal government attempted to get states not just to have state curriculum standards and tests, but national standards and tests.

Achieve's report found that more than half the states had a gap of 30 percentage points or more between the higher percentages of students scoring proficient on state tests compared with the lower number hitting what the national assessment tests deem as proficient in 2013 - 14.

This hit home for me last year when my state of Washington refused to mandate standardized tests in teacher evaluations.

Bluehole announced the news via a developer update on the game's forums, stating that Miramar would be hitting Xbox Test servers in April.

News of a letter from former DEA officials (some of whom profit from drug - testing business and, therefore, have a vested interest in keeping it illegal) to President Obama urging him to use federal power to put down Washington's and Colorado's recent local votes to legalize use of marijuana in their states hit the media week.

Second, having adopted an expansive approach to the fair dealing purposes (and the government having added new purposes that will be subject to a similar expansive analysis), the Court added another wrinkle to the fair dealing test, stating that the first part involves a low threshold: «In mandating a generous interpretation of the fair dealing purposes, including «research», the Court in CCH created a relatively low threshold for the first step so that the analytical heavy - hitting is done in determining whether the dealing was fair.»