Sentences with phrase «low test scores»

Naturally, schools with high test scores show the smallest academic gains, while schools with low test scores show the largest academic gains.

Now schools labeled as «failing» because of low test scores may become charter schools, in which they could be taken over by business people in an effort to improve test scores.

Aren't we already overwhelmed by threats of global warming, dangerous food additives and low test scores in our schools?

The less affluent one spends more on its schools but posts low test scores on the state assessment.

All of these are well - known «risk factors» that are associated with lower test scores as well as with a greater likelihood of dropping out of high school.

It is also less accurate, because of the very low test scores earned by many students with disabilities.

The report found poor oversight when it came to ensuring accurate student attendance, dramatically lower test scores than their traditional public school counterparts and difficulty accessing technology.

However, these models, if implemented according to their terms, lack evidence they will significantly improve education in schools with chronically low test scores («low - performing» schools).

However, black children had lower test scores if they lived in a single parent home than if they lived in a married home.

The implications meant not just loss of funding, but also lower test scores and higher dropout rates.

Further, it was beyond the scope of our study to identify how computer and tablet access lowered test scores.

They cite low test scores to support their argument.

The impact on her baby would also be substantial — a higher likelihood of early health complications, of reading delays and lower test scores compared to babies born to older moms.

When schools experience low test scores, there may be a tendency to do more practice of standardized test - like items.

He says the additional funding changed that, and to focus only on low test scores overlooks the good it's done.

However, the school districts with a history of low test scores teach exclusively to the Common Core tests because so much rides on raising those scores and not being identified as failing schools.

Schools with a history of low test scores spend concentrated time on test prep; schools with traditionally high test scores do not spend time on test prep.

Negative sanctions tied to low test scores disproportionately impact marginalized students, schools and teachers that serve them.

-- rather than use data to point out patterns («English language learners had lower test scores again») that confirm biases.

This school had lower test scores when we started, but as we continued to develop the relationship between home and school, a strange thing happened.

Rather, students with low test scores and grades and certain other characteristics are generally tracked into remedial courses, and those with stronger academic backgrounds are tracked into advanced courses.

Which leads to the assumption that the cause of low test scores is poverty.

Somehow, it doesn't seem right to blame failing students and low test scores on teachers.

The harm is evident in lower test scores as well as lower rates of college attendance and completion.

Of course some schools and districts have very low test scores and low graduation rates, and this has always been true.

CPS has said its special education overhaul was needed to address persistently low test scores for students with disabilities, insufficient oversight and a lack of consistent standards despite growing budget costs.

Cohen has has some of the persistently lowest test scores in the city, hovering in the 20s when it takes 65 to be considered merely «passing» and 100 is the target.

Ordinarily, one would anticipate lower test scores among those receiving special accommodations.

The lawmakers, concerned with a backlash not just from the teachers but in some cases from vocal parent - constituents, appear to have followed the union's lead: The moratorium, which has been a major legislative priority of New York State United Teachers, would essentially hold harmless teachers, principals and students from low test scores on Common Core - aligned exams for two years.

This post first appeared on Idaho Education News By Anthony Warn We in Idaho hear a lot about low test scores, go - on rates that are in reverse, debates about school funding formulas, and too many students unprepared for college and career.

In 2011, after posting low test scores for years, King became a «promise academy,» an approach to turning around schools that includes a longer school day and a rich set of extracurricular offerings — such as rowing, archery or a poetry club — meant to entice reluctant students.

Critics also say that tests do not adequately measure student and school performance, and that judging (and in some cases punishing) schools with low test scores results in even fewer resources for the students who need them most.

A study matching newborn glucose concentration screening results with fourth - grade achievement test scores suggests that early transient newborn hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) was associated with lower test scores at age 10, according to an article published online by JAMA Pediatrics.

The dual immersion school, formerly known as Cesar Chavez Charter School, make dramatic changes after months of scrutiny from the state for consistently low test scores.

The reasons for Tuesday's three recommended denials include low test scores, which the staff report says is «well below the performance of the public schools that the charter school pupils would otherwise have been required to attend.»

For almost two decades, scores on math and reading tests have dominated how success was defined in American schools; low test scores led to the restructuring — and in some cases closure — of schools across the country under No Child Left Behind.

NCLB required that states test students in math and reading each year, that average student performance be publicized for every school, and that schools with persistently low test scores face an escalating series of sanctions.

He said that's because city kids got lower test scores because their needs continue to go un-addressed.

It comes amid concerns over low test scores for many of the state's students, and harsh rhetoric from Governor Cuomo, saying he wants a «death penalty» option for dealing with failing schools.

When we see low test score performance we are often misdiagnosing the problem as poor content instruction when it may in fact be insufficient development of student character skills.

For the very same reason, small schools are also overrepresented among those with extremely low test scores.

But then again, why would the NPR blogger paraphrase the president of a local district's teachers union who asserts that, despite low test scores, «their parents are happy» and then not ask parents like Salvador Ramirez and Jennifer Perez who have very publicly expressed their unhappiness with that district in their local paper of record?

To the contrary, when schools serving similar populations were compared across the state of Indiana, and poverty was controlled for, those schools with relatively low suspension rates had higher, not lower test scores

The gains are not an artifact of the elimination of social promotion in 3rd grade or of the ease with which low test scores can be lifted.

Though California has embraced new Common Core State Standards so far, parents and educators may feel differently once students produce lower test scores later this year, said Michael Kirst, president of the state Board of Education.

Graylan Hagler, a candidate for D.C. Council who attended the speech, challenged Henderson's record of progress, pointing to the continued low test scores for nonwhite students.

Chronic absenteeism in kindergarten, and even pre-K, can predict lower test scores, repeated patterns of poor attendance and retention in later grades, especially if the absences persist for more than a year.

Results of the 2009 reading tests conducted by the Program for International Student Assessment show that, among 15 - year - olds in the United States and the 13 countries whose students outperformed ours, students with lower economic and social status had far lower test scores than their more advantaged counterparts within every country.