Sentences with phrase «hundreds of test scores»

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They have to constantly update players profiles and lists with the different physical testing times and scores for hundreds of players.

They used their knowledge of health, wellness, and fitness to test and rate hundreds of different supplements and it was Flexitrinol that scored the best overall.

State efforts at carrying out requirements to test English - language learners under the No Child Left Behind Act are receiving increased scrutiny, as hundreds of schools across the country fail to meet goals for adequate yearly progress at least in part because of such students» scores.

But the evidence on test score gains is massive: CREDO has studied dozens of cities and have found an overall effect of ~.1 for urban areas serving hundreds of thousands of students.

The department invalidated more than 83,000 8th grade writing scores as a result, costing the state «hundreds of thousands of dollars» in testing development, Bruce says.

Its scores on state tests are among the city's highest, and hundreds of parents — mostly low - income African - Americans and Latinos — vie to enroll their children through a lottery every year.

The truth is that after realizing that student grades are a better indicator of college readiness than standardized tests, hundreds and hundreds of colleges and universities in the United States are dropping the requirement that students even provide an SAT score with their application.

Rhee, a veteran of the reform - minded Teach for America organization, became both demonized and lionized as she fired hundreds of teachers and convinced the local teachers» union to agree to merit pay based on student test scores.

There were lies about her personal accomplishments (those fantasy - land «miraculous» test scores in Baltimore), and there were lies about her policies (the budget «shortfall» and teacher firings even as she hired hundreds of brand - new teachers).

In addition to unleashing «great innovation and creativity» on the part of the participating states, the waivers have pulled in «hundreds of thousands» of students whose standardized test scores hadn't been counted toward accountability plans for schools, Duncan said.

Kane became the lead adviser to the Gates Foundation in developing its «Measures of Effective Teaching,» which has spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to develop the formula for the teacher who can raise test scores consistently.

For example: Auer Avenue School, where hundreds of supporters made a human chain yesterday to defend ALL public schools in Milwaukee, was quickly attacked by Rep. Kooyenga and Sen. Darling for its test scores.

Five hundred eighty - eight students across the United States achieved a perfect score of 36 on the ACT test last school year.

Imagine, the reformers feel entitled to issue a press release claiming the «reform movement» deserves credit for increasing test scores by an insignificant amount, after spending hundreds of millions of dollars implementing the very program they said would «turnaround» the entire New Orleans School System.

Pearson's North American Education division, which last year reported sales of 2.6 billion British pounds ($ 4.03 billion) and operating profit of 493 million pounds, up 5 percent from 2010, designs tests for many U.S. states and scores hundreds of millions of standardized exams each year.

The 50 stories gathered here, along with hundreds of others, were submitted as part of the Rethink Learning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolchildren.

The Times can say that using standardized test scores to evaluate teachers is a sensible policy and Obama can say it and Education Secretary Arne Duncan can say it and Emanuel can say it and so can Bill Gates (who has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop it) and governors and mayor from both parties, and heck, anybody can go ahead and shout it out as loud as they can.

Polls showed that his most unpopular issue was education, where only 22 - 26 % of voters approved his harsh and punitive reform policies of closing public schools, grading schools, rating teachers based on student test scores, opening hundreds of small schools, and favoring charter schools with free public space.

Millions of students nationwide, many trying computer - based exams for the first time, took new tests this spring, and their hundreds of millions of answers have been scored and recorded.

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Look, Bethesda, I love you guys: Skyrim was one of the few games I've ever awarded a score of 10 to, and I spent hundreds of hours in Oblivion, but you really need to test this stuff more thoroughly.

Featured throughout the book are Wood's own quilts and a gallery of contributor works chosen from among the hundreds submitted when she invited volunteers to test her scores during the making of this groundbreaking work.

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