Sentences with phrase «improving state test scores»

A commitment to professional development was made with the goal of improving state test scores, especially the scores of English learners.

On the positive side, our state has made real progress in improving state test scores.

In 2009, through the «Race to the Top» program, the federal government offered $ 4.35 billion in competitive grants to states that adopted Common Core standards and developed plans to improve state test scores and teacher evaluation results.

At best, the improving state test score evidence, which is specious at best, tells us that the new tests have prompted extended instruction targeted to the test and that higher scores indicate substantial test preparation and not much else.

Study Island is designed to help its users prepare for and improve their state testing scores.

Students in blended reading classes are more likely to improve their state test scores than students in traditional reading classes.

Our scholars consistently improve their state test scores each year; surpass their peers in their home district; and achieve some of the highest academic growth in the regions we serve.

Not exact matches

Tisch said she opposed the move to «decouple» students» test scores from teachers» job ratings on grounds that it might detract from state efforts to improve instruction in low - performing school districts.

The state labeled Hughes a «persistently low - achieving» school in early 2010 because of its low test scores, and despite an infusion of state funding and efforts to turn it around, it has not markedly improved, district Chief Academic Officer Laura Kelley said.

In his State of the State address, Mr. Cuomo argued that rooting half of a teacher's evaluation in student test scores and the other half on observation is the only way to improve stubbornly low pupil performance rates.

Requiring private schools that receive public money to report student test scores improves academic achievement and ultimately enhances school choice, a Michigan State University scholar argues.

Back in 2013, 12 Atlanta educators — including five teachers and a principal — were indicted following years of suspicion regarding how Atlanta students had improved their scores on the Criterion - Referenced Competency Test, which is administered throughout the state of Georgia.

The improved scores were impressive enough to lead several states and other major school districts, including New York, to adopt elements of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) policy — making student progress toward the next grade dependent on demonstrated achievement on standardized tests.

Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality: South Dakota continues to score poorly in this category, partly because it is one of only six states that do not test teachers at all before they earn their licenses.

Test scores in Massachusetts continue to improve, and the state consistently scores above the national average in all tested subjects on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Since 1997, states have picked up the pace of their standards - based reforms, and test scores for minority and low - income students, in particular, have improved.

(Because the state's math test was more difficult than its reading test, low math scores were almost always the main obstacle to improving a school's rating.)

In New York for example, and despite the state's pro-bilingual law, New York City schools are replacing bilingual programs with English - only programs to improve test scores.

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.

After further analysis, the state concluded that test scores had improved enough at 10 of the city's schools to lift them out of that category.

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.»

«Positive test results, on both state assessments and the NAEP, show that urban schools are making progress and improving reading and math scores.»

Those time frames are extensive enough to provide a reasonable estimate of the pace at which student test - score performance is improving in countries across the globe and within the United States.

Educators in America's public schools obviously are under tremendous pressure to improve their students» scores on whatever NCLB tests their state has chosen.

In January, principal Elizabeth Michaelis listened to students explain what they are doing to improve their scores on areas of the state tests.

And positive test results, on both state assessments and the NAEP, show that urban schools are making progress and improving reading and math scores.

Student scores on basic - skills tests have improved in 12 of 17 New Jersey schools experimenting with the «effective schools» program, according to a new state report.

Will your students be duct - taping you to the wall if they improve their scores on state tests this year?

Student scores have improved overall, and 26 schools were removed from the state's «failing» list based on improved scores on state tests.

In 2007, Ozkan Eren and Daniel Millimet examined the limited variation that does exist across American states and found weak evidence that longer school years improve math and reading test scores.

Many studies in many states have shown that charter schools do little, on average, to improve student test scores.

Educators in the Lancaster schools analyze students» state and district test scores to improve instruction.

The National Math + Science Initiative program has led to improved Advanced Placement test scores in more than 725 schools in 34 states over three years.

Unnerved by job losses, weak test scores, and competition from an increasingly skilled foreign workforce, state officials have launched a variety of efforts to improve STEM education.

While the state - run Recovery School District created in 2003 has its share of critics, credible external evaluation suggest that test scores and graduation rates have indeed improved under the districtwide takeover by charter schools.

States and localities would be responsible for improving schools with low test scores, and they would still have to break out testing data to show how poor, minority and disabled students are performing — a provision in NCLB that the majority of lawmakers still believes is necessary.

SGP is a measure of how much a student improves his or her state test performance from one year to the next compared to students across the state with a similar score history.

Students must take the state standardized assessment and participating schools that receive a grade D or F in two consecutive years must suspend admitting new scholarship students until test scores improve.

Washington was among the 43 states and the District of Columbia that the Department of Education freed since 2011 from sanctions placed on schools and districts that fail to meet the law's timeline for improving student test scores.

Despite successful implementation of this professional development based on what many experts believed to be the best practice for improving math instruction, scores on the NWEA and state math tests showed small declines (and the NWEA decline was not statistically significant while the state test decline was).

The committee concluded that moves by many states in recent years to require teacher candidates to pass basic - skills tests have failed to improve the quality of students entering the profession because passing scores have been set too low.

The 1994 legislation only suggested penalties for schools that failed to improve student test scores, but Clinton's 1999 proposal, which never made it into law, would have required that states intervene in perpetually failing schools.

Two weeks later, the senators settled on a complicated formula that required states to calculate an overall performance grade for a school based on several factors, including improving test scores for poor and minority children.

The percentage of black Madison students scoring proficient or better on the state reading test dropped to the lowest level in six years, while statewide black student reading scores continued to improve.

The school has been underperforming on Illinois Standards Achievement Tests, but scores have been improving faster than the rest of the state.

The country is still mired in a policy grounded in getting increased scores on state tests, achieved by whatever means, as the way to improve education.

At the same time, it would improve on the blunt - instrument approach of the U.S. Department of Education, which has pushed the use of test scores so hard that some states and districts make those scores count for half or more of evaluations.

This study found that rising scores on the state tests did not correlate with improved performance on the ACT.

Ms. Ravitch shows that claims of improving scores on state tests have actually been produced mainly by ever - lower test score requirements, so low in one instance that many students could get to an acceptable level by random guessing.

The Forum on Educational Accountability has produced a blueprint to rewrite the law to focus on improving schools not just inflating state test scores.»