Sentences with phrase «low proficiency rates»

In the 2015 - 16 school year, as a group, charter schools saw slightly lower proficiency rates than district schools.

Lower proficiency rates do not necessarily mean that schools are performing worse or that students are learning less.

A school with low proficiency rates for English language learners needs a different kind of support and strategy than a school with low growth rates in 7th and 8th grade math for all students.

Or maybe it's not exactly gone, in the mind of folks who yearn for Uncle Sam to mandate accountability models that obsess about achievement gaps and give failing grades to any school with low proficiency rates for any subgroups.

Excluding Ohio, which decided that the top three of PARCC's five score bands corresponded to proficient as opposed to the two bands PARCC recommended, states using PARCC actually reported lower proficiency rates than on NAEP.

Parental education has long been shown to be the best family background indicator of a student's readiness to learn at school, and the United States» comparatively low proficiency rates are often attributed to the large numbers of students who come from disadvantaged families, such as those where parents do not have a high school diploma.

Despite better relative performance in math and English when compared to host districts, the hard reality is most charter schools are challenged by low proficiency rates.

Elsewhere in the state, several school systems had dismally low proficiency rates.

The Obama Administration's decision to allow states to implement supposedly «ambitious» yet «achievable» proficiency targets — usually with lower proficiency rates for poor and minority kids than for middle - class and white counterparts — allow districts and schools to do little to help those kids succeed.

New York, which used its own tests, reported lower proficiency rates than NAEP, and Alaska, which never adopted the Common Core but did release a new test last year, reported rates comparable to the nation's report card.

(The 2016 Education Next poll indicates that the lower proficiency rates haven't shaken parents» view that their schools deserve As and Bs, either.)

Here's the rub: There are thousands of Jeffersons out there: Schools with low proficiency rates but strong growth scores.

In New Orleans, for instance, the Recovery School District has shut down schools with low proficiency rates but strong individual student gains over time in the cause of boosting quality.

He said the lower proficiency rates align with reports from businesses and universities that students aren't being adequately prepared.

Council Member Marion Barry (D - Ward 8) said recruitment might be slow because schools with low proficiency rates, including many traditional schools in Southeast, just aren't attractive to parents who have many other choices.

According to the foundation, results from the 2015 assessment do not show that scores are plummeting, but are more accurate representations of the lower proficiency rates that have been present in recent years.