Sentences with phrase «kids get a higher score»

I think my kids get a higher score than me.

I think my kids get a higher score than me.

Not exact matches

the problem is not with sanchez but the reluctance of others to move up with him; the guy showed more energy and effort than all the others on saturday; ramsey was poor on saturday but to his credit he continues to get in to scoring positions but we need to have attack minded players who do the same; the ox is still work in progress in this respect but ozil should be encouraged to stay high and another attacker brought in... reus the colombian kid somebody who can link up with sanchez....

Apparently Mattison talked about how kids with 4.0 s and high test scores get turned away from Michigan all the time.

With our culture and our nation's emphasis on high academic achievement, the perception that in order to get into college kids need straight As and perfect test scores, increased course work and more complex curricula, teachers are feeling the pressure to cover more material, and to prepare kids for the next grade.

Furthermore, the kids who are doing more homework also tend to get higher test scores.

Although thousands of black and Hispanic kids take the admissions test each year, only a handful score high enough to get in.

«If they're worried about their test scores and want a way to get them higher, they need to give kids more arts, not less,» says Tom Horne, Arizona's state superintendent of public instruction.

If kids from all walks of life — wealthy, poor, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, gay, straight, immigrant, native born, Native American, with and without special needs, bilingual, monolingual, rural, suburban, urban — even if kids from all of these groups got equally high test scores, would that satisfy us that we could stop waging this civil rights struggle?

America does an especially bad job of getting poor kids into the high - scoring ranks.

«The pressure to show high test scores and get kids into college, combined with the broad leeway given to charter schools to suspend and expel students, means the «difficult to teach» kids have been effectively abandoned,» said investigative reporter Andrea Gabor.

Parents Allege Massive Enrollment Fraud at Carpenter Community Charter in Studio City Los Angeles Unified will let schools use public records to verify student addresses after a high - performing charter in Studio City complained that scores of parents from outside the neighborhood committed fraud to get their kids admitted, officials said Monday.

Are you going to remain silent now, as they get ready to fire you because your test scores are not as high as someone wants them to be for your poor kids and your English language learners?

That we should all be working together to educate all children, not sorting kids or competing with each other to get higher scores.

Those kids were never put in more advanced classes that might help them get a better score on college entrance exams, or get into four - year universities or avoid taking remedial classes after high school.

It should be noted that based on the authors» descriptions, a state could probably have changed nothing about their standards or their accountability exam, set their cut scores to label fewer kids as proficient, and gotten a high grade in their report.

Unfortunately, the way many learning organizations in the United States got serious was to look at their high - stakes student achievement results and focus their plans on the lowest - scoring subject area or subgroups of students or on the bubble kids.

So a school might get a great score simply because the kids came in high performing.

Is it possible to have a school that does very well on writing, not so much on math or some other high school that has average ACT scores gets large numbers of kids into great colleges?

Schools with affluent populations start out with kids who are likely to do well on standardized tests and shouldn't necessarily get the credit for their high scores.

Still this could be frustrating to some who have kids that want to play all the games without having to work on getting higher and higher scores or might find some of the available games hard or just not fun.

Hello all, well this all is getting very dire, My vegetable garden is rotting in the ground, to much rain and scoring heat,, I noticed most of my trees on my 5 acre farm are browning at the top and the leaves are thinning on all of them and around 10 of them are completely dead... We live here in the carpet capital of the world and seems to me that most don't see or don't care about the sky or the trees or the air they breathe... Just this week We had to completely drain our grand kids pool and start over, with all this rain it turned green and no amount of algae killer would clear it up, The PH was insanely high...... It's the small things in life that make what's left of life on this planet........

We all can see where focusing on outputs got us: In education we've focused on test results (outputs) and ended up with some high - scoring kids who don't know how to apply what they've learned to the world at large (outcome), like how the reasons leading to the American Revolution are similar to those that led to the Arab Spring.

Meeeegan's daughter was at a nearby swimming pool scoring three bronze medals; my daughter was at a high school band competition getting a gold award; Megan was showing us the most amazing photographs of food she makes out of felt for kids — she gave Meeeeeegan's granddaughter the most amazing pink cake; Katherine was telling us about her daughter's adventures in Poland and Europe on her gap year.