Sentences with phrase «increased state reading»

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Washington remained top of the list among states with a reading of 104.30, and Seattle increased its lead over other U.S. cities, registering the strongest one - month gain.

According to the U.S. government, there are over 1.3 billion barrels of crude oil and refined products in commercial storage around the United States, an increase of more than 300 Continue Reading

Kuwait's deputy foreign minister Khaled Jarallah said oil exporting countries must freeze production and the market could not support a production increase from Iran, state news agency KUNA reported on Continue Reading

Iran Kuwait Offshore Field Kuwait's state - run oil company is planning US$ 42 billion in investments by 2022, as the country pursues a three-fold strategy to increase oil production, expand its refineries Continue Reading

This state of affairs can be only partially encouraging, however, for the increasing worldwide popularity of TV has been accompanied by a steady decrease in reading (and in nations where the literacy rate is low, television can have an instant impact on people who have never read a newspaper or magazine) At any rate, recent research has concluded that of all media, newspapers do the best job of presenting a satisfactory image of aging.

The Indian state of Odisha is set to construct two new dairy facilities, in order to increase milk production capacity... Read More...

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The Dream Act would allow immigrants in New York to contribute more fully to the state economy, boosting longterm state's $ 1.5 trillion GDP by at least $ 1.8 billion a year, and increasing state and local tax revenues in New York by $ 62 million, according to a report released today by the Fiscal Policy Institute that draws on analyses from the Center for American Progress and... (read more)

Bellone said he hadn't read Croci's bill, but was concerned about «unintended consequences» of increasing the jail population, which could trigger a state mandate to build a $ 300 million jail.

That's according to the State Comptroller, who this week issued a report that said Agriculture contributed $ 37.6 billion to New York's economy in 2012, an increase of more... [Read more...]

The state produced 741 million pounds of yogurt in 2013, an increase of 46 million pounds from the previous year's total, beating... Continue reading →

Upstate Uber, increased tuition assistance, and more money for schools are just a few of the items in the new $ 152 billion state budget poised for passage today in... [Read more...]

To sum up, the scores show a very modest increase — but an increase — in the percentage of New York City third through eight graders that the state deems to be proficient in reading and math.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

«During the investigation, the office reviewed an investment known as Intermedia, which was approved for investment under then - New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi and increased under Comptroller DiNapoli,» read the statement.

The governor's push to increase the weight of test scores upset the teachers» unions and many parents, and was considered a factor when 20 percent of students sat out state math and reading tests — which had been aligned with the Common Core national benchmarks — this year.

Initial polls showed only about a third of voters had heard of the Moreland Commission or its work, but the Quinnipiac poll showed increasing familiarity with Moreland among the state's voters, 51 percent of whom now say they've heard or read something about the scandal.

The State Police began increase patrols at Planned Parenthood locations across the state on Friday and on Monday will visit the... Continue readState Police began increase patrols at Planned Parenthood locations across the state on Friday and on Monday will visit the... Continue readstate on Friday and on Monday will visit the... Continue reading →

In cancer, a state marked by increased protein translation and biomass expansion, HSF1 is activated and binds to numerous genes throughout the genome, as seen in the heat map of HSF1 ChIP - Seq read density in M0 - 91acute myeloid leukemia cells (DMSO, far left).

You can read a more recent discussion of the role the bark beetle and climate change are playing in burning down and reshaping the West in this National Wildlife Federation report, «Increased Risk of CatastrophicWildfires: Global Warming's Wake - Up Call for the Western United States.»

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From the research I have read, both ripe and firm bananas should be okay... The carbohydrates do change (fructose and glucose increase with ripening) but both states of ripeness do not have EXCESS fructose which is key.

I have been reading studies from a Dr. Ebringer that state carbohydrates such as potatoes, pasta and bread increase the presence of Klebsiella bacteria in our colon.

Drawing from math test scores from PISA 2009 in which the United States performed lower than the OECD average, the report argues that while demand for STEM labor is predicted to increase over the next few decades, a shortage of STEM labor in the United States, along with inadequate performance in science, math, and reading compared to other countries, endangers U.S. future competitiveness and innovation.

Highlights of this year's NAPLAN results include: • There is evidence of movement of students from lower to higher bands of achievement across year levels and most domains over the last 10 years • Year 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year levels

Using more recent data, a report by the Center on Education Policy concludes that reading and math achievement as measured by state assessments has increased in most states since 2002 and that there have been smaller but similar patterns in NAEP scores.

Between 2004 and 2014, the percentage of students scoring at or above grade level in reading, writing, and math increased from 33 to 48, far faster than the state average.

NCLB required states to test ELLs and report their subgroup scores, increasing pressure on schools to move students to English fluency and raise reading and math scores.

As a matter of fact, 17 states increased the rigor of their 4th - grade reading assessments by a whole letter grade since 2007, and 17 states did the same for 8th grade.

Considering that as little as 15 percent of current middle school instructional reading is expository (Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2010d), adoption of the Common Core Standards means middle school teachers will need to increase the number of informational texts read in their classrooms.

If you follow the increasing use of Value - Added Measures (VAMs) and Student Growth Percentiles (SGPs) in state -, district -, school -, and teacher - accountability systems, read this very good new Mathematica working paper.

And while revenue from both state and federal sources increased at about the same rate as that of districts throughout the state, Reading averaged almost a thousand dollars more per student from outside sources than the state average (see Figure 2).

While the average district in the state saw its local revenue per student increase during this period, Reading's decreased (see Figure 1).

First, Common Core's standards are vastly different from those in the one state — Massachusetts — whose pre-Common Core standards led to greatly increased student achievement in reading, mathematics, and science in its common public schools and in its vocational / technical high schools.

The changes evident for states are tempting to latch onto — no states increased their 4th grade reading but nine states saw decreases.

«Alabama is light years ahead of everyone else in closing the achievement gap,» Sandi Jacobs, Reading First's former assistant director in Washington, said to me in October of 2005, two years before the state posted the biggest two - year increase in 4th - grade reading scores ever recorded on the National Assessment of Educational PrReading First's former assistant director in Washington, said to me in October of 2005, two years before the state posted the biggest two - year increase in 4th - grade reading scores ever recorded on the National Assessment of Educational Prreading scores ever recorded on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

The state... fell short of reducing achievement gaps for minority students, improving reading and math scores as compared with the best - performing states, and increasing college enrollment.

Though the increase in school attendance among disciplined students led to only very modest improvements in their academic performance on state reading exams, it did not have a substantively negative effect on their peers» academic performance.

Analysts have cited a legion of reasons for the state's slide in achievement: the steady leaching of resources from the schools that was the inevitable result of the infamous 1970s property - tax revolt led by Howard Jarvis; a long period of economic woes caused by layoffs in the defense industry; curriculum experiments with «whole language» reading instruction and «new math» that were at best a distraction and at worst quite damaging; a school finance lawsuit that led to a dramatic increase in the state's authority over school budgets and operations; and a massive influx of new students and non-English-speaking immigrants that almost surely depressed test scores.

Danish Shakeel, Kaitlin Anderson, and I conducted a meta - analysis of the 16 experimental studies, finding that the private - school - choice programs evaluated in the United States have increased student achievement by an average of.13 standard deviations in reading by the fourth year after the study started.

Upping the Ante of Text Complexity in the Common Core State Standards: Examining Its Potential Impact on Young Readers Educational Researcher, January / February 2013 Researchers examine the theoretical and empirical support for assumptions underlying the CCSS's acceleration of text complexity in grades 2 - 3 and identify patterns in American reading achievement and instruction in order to illustrate the consequences of an increase in the first step of the CCSS staircase of text complexity levels.

Thousands of third - graders may have a sense of déjà vu on the first day of school this year: The number of states that require third - graders to be held back if they can't read increased to 13 in the last year.

Martin West, a professor of education at Harvard, states that «weaker scores among voucher recipients may be a result of the fact that public school performance is improving, particularly in the District, where math and reading scores at traditional public and public charter schools have increased quickly over the past decade.»

During the last four years of her tenure, special education student proficiency on state reading and math assessments increased between 13 and 34 points at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

«How to fix reading in the era of ESSA» and «Using ESSA to fix reading: Implications for state policy» by Robert Pondiscio and Lisa Hansel With the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), state and district policymakers have an opportunity to increase achievement and equity by supporting knowledge - rich instruction.

States interested in using ESSA to increase reading ability while also creating more coherent educational systems could follow this idea to its logical conclusion: creating state - wide sequences — and sequence - based reading comprehension assessments — for grades 3 — 8.

Legislation that would make students repeat third grade if they can't pass state reading exams is being considered in Colorado, Iowa, New Mexico, and Tennessee, she writes, reviving debates about whether retaining students boosts achievement or increases their odds of dropping out.

Thanks in part to the Common Core State Standards, but also to the increasing emphasis in education on adequately preparing students for college and careers, reading comprehension has become increasingly important in the non-ELA content areas like math, science, and social studies.

We support policies, practices, and funding to strengthen the state's early childhood system, with the goals of dramatically increasing school readiness, improving third grade reading and math proficiency, supporting families, and ultimately building a strong workforce for Kentucky's future.

The board's accreditation regulations call for an increase in the reading pass rates required for middle and high schools to earn state accreditation to 75 percent.