Sentences with phrase «just academic test»

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Within the academics, we're not just looking for a GPA and test score, we also want to know how you got there — Honors, AP, IB classes, etc..

Moser brings to the subject matter a unique background: As a clinician who has treated hundreds if not thousands of concussed student - athletes at the Sports Concussion Center of New Jersey, she brings real world experience to the subject, not just as a neuropsychologist with specialized expertise on baseline and post-concussion neurocognitive testing but in the management and treatment of concussions, including the academic accommodations that are often needed during the sometimes long road to recovery.

Improved academic performance is just one of the many positive impacts school breakfast has on students, and test - staking season certainly highlights that aspect.

Unfortunately, that test just measures a child's potential to excel at academics (and sometimes it -LSB-...]

He had just told a gathering of state superintendents of education that «white suburban moms» were rebelling against the Common Core academic standards — new guidelines for math and language arts instruction — because their kids had done poorly on the tough new tests.

According to a study by public school education news site, School News Network (SNN), socioeconomic status affects academic achievement; that is, poor students get just as poor test scores.

Though nominally just a commission report, A Nation at Risk (1983) told Americans that we faced a crisis of educational achievement and began to nudge the country through a 90 - degree change of course from the «equity» agenda of the previous quarter - century to the «excellence» obsession of recent decades, complete with academic standards, tests, and results - based accountability systems.

The API, which scores a school's academic success based on test scores, has been suspended for two years to allow for the transition as well as a makeover of the index itself to include more than just test scores.

So far, Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana, and Tennessee, and other states «can use science test scores,» but «they just can't be part of the «academic achievement» indicator.»

For many Charter Schools, the test score is just one measure to assess student academic performance, not the only assessment tool.

«I do think parents see that a well - rounded education is more than just the academic subjects,» says Mike Hightower, principal of Red Oak Elementary in Stockbridge, Ga. «We need to teach them more than just the things that will be on a standardized test.»

NCSECS advocated and helped influence the law including a provision raising the bar a bit higher to ensure high standards for special education students by limiting their participation in tests based on alternate (lower) academic achievement standards to 1 % of students tested (and not just limiting the reporting of their scores on such tests, as was done under NCLB).

Did you know a recent study validated by Marzano Research shows that when students spend just 30 minutes a week practicing in our standards - based practice and test preparation program, Study Island, they achieve significant academic gains?

Parents choose St. Martin of Tours because of its rigorous academic program and safe, nurturing environment; students are never just a test score or enrollment number, but valued as made in God's own image.

• Use of multiple forms of evidence of student learning, not just test scores; • Extensive professional development that enables teachers to better assess and assist their students; • Incorporation of ongoing feedback to students about their performance to improve learning outcomes; • Public reporting on school progress in academic and non-academic areas, using a variety of information sources and including improvement plans; and • Sparing use of external interventions, such as school reorganization, to give reform programs the opportunity to succeed.

In just the past three academic years, FairTest has documented confirmed cases of test score manipulation in 33 states plus the District of Columbia.

Here are six reasons why Coleman's belief that opting out hurts students of color is fundamentally flawed and why his belief that accountability and academic success require high - stakes standardized testing is just plain old wrong.

Many local school districts require their own tests as well, starting just a few weeks into the academic year.

For example, states need the flexibility to evaluate school performance across multiple academic indicators — not just test scores — and to focus resources in the schools that need the most help.

But there didn't appear to be any firm academic goals apart from the AYP metric, just general description of its test results and how they were better than the New Haven Public Schools overall.

Young people's success in life depends on more than just academic knowledge and test scores.

Student perceptions are a powerful complementary measure of academic rigor, beyond just test scores.

No longer is the school day just about preparing for high stakes testing — social and emotional learning has moved to the forefront of the education landscape and educators have an increased awareness that when kids feel safe, have healthy connections with others and can understand and manage emotions, the stage is set, not only for an improvement in academics, but also for changes that impact lifelong success.

Its data revealed that just nine per cent of secondary teachers feel key stage 2 test scores accurately reflected their pupils» academic standards.

It's not just the final set of academic tests of your college years, but also questions about your future life and all the upcoming job hunting that you know you'll have to get to.