Sentences with phrase «language arts tests last»

At Union County Teams Charter School, one of the city's five charter operators, fifty percent of students attained proficiency on standardized language arts tests last spring.

Not exact matches

Niccoli, a town supervisor in Palatine, said last year she and her husband decided with their daughter she would not take a round of standardized testing in math and English language arts based on the Common Core standards.

Backlash over the rollout of the Common Core learning standards, along with aligned state tests and new teacher evaluations, came to a head last April when more than 20 percent of the state's eligible students refused to take the state standardized math and English language arts exams.

Flaws in many students» test booklets during the English language arts exam last week spurred complaints from frustrated school officials, who say the errors further undermine confidence in the Common Core assessments — already repudiated by Long Island parents pulling their children from the exams in record numbers.

Although Massachusetts has consistently been among the leading states on a variety of national student assessment tests, nearly half of our 10th graders failed either or both the math and language - arts test last spring.

«Last year's ninth - grade students took the PARCC language arts test, and 82 percent of them were proficient,» says Crites.

Statewide in all tested grades, 49 percent of students met or exceeded the English language arts / literacy standard, an increase of 5 percentage points from last year.

Colleagues and I used US Census data to predict state test results in mathematics and language arts as part of various research projects we have been conducting over the last three years.

Seventy - one percent of Indiana students passed both the math and English language arts ISTEP tests last spring.

However, at the board's last meeting in November, Patricia Rucker, a board member who is a former teacher and now a legislative lobbyist for the California Teachers Association, expressed concern that California started testing students on the Common Core math and English language arts standards last spring before many teachers had fully implemented a new Common Core - aligned curriculum or received adequate training in it.

California also clashed with federal officials last year when it discontinued the standardized tests in math and English language arts students have been taking for more than a decade.

Yet more than 60 percent of the school's third - graders scored proficient or advanced on state tests in English language arts last year.

The report will also feature a graphic that will show how a student's score compares with the average score on the «practice» Smarter Balanced tests in math and English language arts that students in California and other consortium states took last year.

The first results ready for release last week were for students who finished the 3rd and 5th grade math and 7th grade English language arts tests around April 1, according to the PowerPoint presentation.

New York students failed in large numbers on last spring's English language arts and math tests.

Houston Elementary fits the profile of a struggling school: Just 12 percent of students in third, fourth and fifth grade last year met expectations on the districtwide standardized math test, and 6 percent met expectations in English language arts.

In New Jersey — which shortened its tests by 90 minutes and made other changes to reduce time spent testing — 56,000 more students took the English language arts test and 65,000 more students took the math test this year compared to last year.

Higher percentages of Utah students are testing proficient in language arts and science, according to results of Criterion Referenced Tests (CRTs), given to Utah students in grades 3 - 11 last spring.

Last school year, 84 percent of Utah students tested proficient in language arts, up from 82 percent the year before; 69 percent tested proficient in math, the same as in 2011; and 72 percent scored proficient in science, up from 70 percent, according to the State Office of Education.

Last year, leaders of the state's public universities and community colleges agreed to waive placement tests for students who scored 3 or 4 on the Smarter Balanced test in English language arts and math in order to help bridge the gap between high school and higher education.

Last year, only 7 percent of New York City students with disabilities scored «proficient» or better in English and 12 percent in math, and statewide there were at least 190 school districts in which not a single special education student was proficient on the third - grade language arts test.

This is what you see for the English language arts results for the tests taken last spring: sixth - graders were 30 percent proficient in English.