Sentences with phrase «largest grade improvement»

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Retaining students based on reading proficiency can produce large improvements in academic performance when compared to grade - level peers.

Schools received target scores based on their accountability grades, and schools with lower accountability grades needed to make larger improvements to reach their targets.

Students admitted to both types of G&T programs suffer a large drop in their relative rank in terms of grades within their classes, which could have adverse consequences that offset any benefits of improvements in their educational environment.

He contends that it is «abundantly clear» that Florida's aggregate test - score improvements are a mirage caused by changes in the students enrolled in the 4th grade after the state began holding back a large number of 3rd - grade students in 2004 (all school years are reported by the year in which they ended).

Specifically, from 2003 — 2005 Boston's fourth - and eighth - grade students have shown the largest improvement in math scores of the 11 major cities participating in the National Assessment of Educational Progress Trial Urban District Assessment.

In choosing New York for the $ 500,000 prize, the panel noted that the city outperformed other large urban districts in the state on math and reading tests and showed greater improvement at all grade levels.

Following test scores from year to year in the same grade, the study finds that statewide improvements in standard Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT) scores reported by the Connecticut State Department of Education (SDE) between 2008 and 2009 — the period of the largest reported gains — were largely the result of the exclusion of students with disabilities from these standard test results, rather than overall improvements in performance.

«Two other charter schools received F's as their first - ever grades in 2013, only to climb all the way to B's this year... Renaissance Charter School at Chickasaw Trail, in Orlando, is operated by Charter Schools USA, one of the largest charter school management organizations in the state... This year, the company saw improvement throughout the state.