Sentences with phrase «low test scores for»

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.

Approximately nine months ago she was asked to resign her teaching position by the district's interim superintendent — Dr. Michael Rivera — due to her students» low test scores for the 2013 - 2014 school year, and despite her students exceeding expectations on other indicators of learning and achievement.

Schools that report low achievement for English - language learners also report low test scores for white and African - American students, and share characteristics associated with poor performance on standardized tests, according to a study released by the Pew Hispanic Center.

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.

My best estimate is that it lowers test scores for both boys and girls by approximately 4 percent of a standard deviation and has even larger effects on various measures of student engagement.

In his latest blog, Pelto shows that Perry's school has lower test scores for African American students than the much - maligned public schools of Hartford.

Not exact matches

In the parlance of one test he uses, for example, good salespeople score high for «expressive» and «driver» and low for «amiable» and «analytic.»

Lower average test scores might not be a problem if you can find out that kids are rapidly improving over time, making that cute house in the cheaper part of town not only good for your wallet, but good for your child's education too.

Don't sweat it if your GPA is low; instead, look for other ways to get an edge, like earning a great score on your Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT).

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In your article around Baltimore's technology gap («Computer - based tests a challenge for low - income students, some Baltimore teachers say,» April 22), we read that students who took the PARCC scored lower when they took the test on a computer than when they used paper and pencil.

A different kind of surpise was the test result for Red Savina — it scored a rather low heat level of just 248,556 SHU.

Only red flag for me, is his low wonderlic score, although the test is not a good indicator of football smarts (and intelligence also).

The scores were lower than normal for a national championship and that made some upset, but it was a perfect modern test that rewarded all styles of play, so long as those styles were played well.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

Schools certainly feel the immediate costs of failing to prioritize wellness — poor test scores for students, lower standardized test scores school - wide, reduced funding resulting from absenteeism, which is why it is so important to share this report with school administrators and boards of education.

Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

For motor development, we can not reject the null hypothesis, even though we found borderline significant trends towards lower scores on motor developmental tests both at 13 months, and at 5 years of age (balance score).

Any indicator that does not score 10/10 on the report card means more needs to be done (the scores are not like a test result where a lower score is good enough for a pass).

A New York City proposal to diversify middle schools on Manhattan's Upper West Side, by setting aside seats for children with low test scores, is facing stiff resistance from parents worried their high - achieving children might lose access to the popular public schools.

In addition, teachers whose students» test scores are consistently low; those who have failed to secure their teaching certificates on time; those who haven't had a permanent position for six months or more; those who've faced department probes leading to substantiated allegations of misconduct; and those granted an extension regarding tenure could also be dismissed.

UPPER EAST SIDE — Republican mayoral contender Joe Lhota wants to give teachers a pay boost for everything from improving kids» test scores to teaching in low - performing schools.

Mayoral control is commonly proposed as a solution for failing school districts like Syracuse's, which faces low graduation rates and test scores.

Dan Levitan, spokesperson for de Blasio's campaign, responded with the same statement he gave to The Post: «Under Mayor de Blasio, Crime just hit another all - time low, jobs are at record highs, the City is building and preserving affordable housing at a record pace, while graduation rates and test scores continue to improve.

«Proposals that are supposed to reduce costs by making it easier for the state to hire and transfer state employees would allow state agencies to bypass the best qualified candidates to hire or promote individuals with lower scores on competitive tests or who haven't even taken the tests.

In the last days of the 2014 legislative session, Cuomo negotiated with New York State United Teachers for a temporary solution, introduced a program bill creating a «safety net» for educators whose ratings were detrimentally affected by students» low Common Core test scores and advanced the legislation with a «message of necessity,» allowing lawmakers to pass it before gaveling out for the summer.

The DOE wants the middle school planed for vacant sections of popular P.S. 158 to admit students who meet somewhat stringent admissions criteria, such as good attendance records or test scores, as well as students who would meet lower standards, according to a notice released by the department.

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.

A proposal to diversify middle schools on the Upper West Side, by setting aside seats for children with low test scores, is facing stiff resistance from some parents.

White calls this one of the «bold ideas» he wants the board to consider in 2016 after the district has struggled for years with low test scores and graduation rates.

Billy Easton, Executive Director of the Alliance for Quality Education, points out that test scores dropped much more dramatically in schools with high rates of poverty where school funding is significantly lower.

Prospective teachers in New York will no longer have to score as high on a qualifying test in order to obtain teaching certificates, now that the Board of Regents has agreed to lower the passing score on a test required for a teaching certificate.

Governor Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers should consider lowering the stakes in order to account for the flawed rollout of the Common Core standards in New York, rather than removing the test scores from the ratings altogether, King said.

While some children were able to focus their eyes and adjust for their farsightedness, others who were not able to do this and struggled to see close - up had lower scores on tests of visual attention, visual perception and visual - motor integration (eye - hand coordination or copying skills).

And the women with schizophrenia and the highest Candida antibody levels scored almost 15 points lower on the test for delayed memory, from a score of 71.4 without infection to 56.2 with infection.

The researchers then compared the results from the brain imaging tests for the serotonin transporter to those two memory tests, and found that the lower serotonin transporters correlated with lower scores.

The two basic movements in the sitting - rising test — lowering to the floor and standing back up — are each scored on a 1 - to - 5 scale, with one point subtracted each time a hand or knee is used for support and 0.5 points subtracted for loss of balance; this yields a single 10 - point scale.

But the team doesn't know what aspect of fracking caused the low birth weights, which put babies at higher risk for infant mortality, asthma, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, lower test scores, and lower lifetime earnings.

An older test group, he adds, would have a lower mean starting score and more variability in performance, leaving more room for training to cause meaningful improvement.

On a 30 - point test that evaluates for mild cognitive impairment, called the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, the diabetic women had an average score three points lower: 21 points versus 24 points in women with a healthy pregnancy.

Participants who played the video game Tetris for half an hour immediately afterwards had fewer flashbacks in the following week and scored lower on a standard PTSD test -LRB-...

Volkswagen has taken a step into the shameful limelight for installing a deceptive device in their diesel - powered cars that tricks emissions tests into lower scores, NPR reports.

In the main study group, exposure to anesthesia for surgery before the age of 4 was associated with an average difference of 0.41 percent lower school grades and 0.97 percent lower IQ test scores.

However, Anthony Carnevale, vice president for assessments, equity, and careers at the Educational Testing Service, disagrees, saying many lower - income students — with slightly lower SAT scores — could succeed at elite institutions.10

Children with the lowest scores on the social cognition tests showed atypical responses to the unknown words — no response at all, for example, or activity in a different part of the brain, while those with the higher scores showed a more typical pattern of brain activation in the left hemisphere, the authors report online today in PLOS ONE.

In our two previous research collaborations with the Skills for Life team, we already had shown that mental health problems are quite common, are among the strongest predictors of poor attendance, poorer grades, and lower scores on standardized tests, and that improved mental health scores are powerful predictors of improved academic outcomes.»

Scores on the memory test were also lower for veterans with higher estimated exposure and those with self - reported memory difficulties.

After adjusting the results to account for variability between each person's ability, they found that the black students» scored lower when they were told that the task was a test of their intellectual ability.

Women with a low seafood intake (less than 12 ounces a week) had children who scored lower on tests for fine motor, communication, and social development skills from ages six months to eight years, according to a 2007 paper published in the Lancet.

Foods that contain low quantities of carbs can still score highly because large amounts are required for the test.