Sentences with phrase «lower test scores»

An analysis of the state's own attendance data shows that absenteeism correlates with lower test scores and higher dropout rates.

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.

School board vice president Nick Melvoin requested the change at Tuesday's board meeting because he said the added requirements, known as benchmarks, were being applied unfairly to some schools that were showing improvements while others that had lower test scores had none.

The students who sign up for tutoring or transportation to other schools don't have to be the ones with lower test scores, Burkholder said.

These impacts are seen school - wide as students with trauma have more discipline referrals and suspensions, are more likely to be retained, have more school absences, and have lower test scores and academic performance.

And U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is on the defensive, backtracking for «clumsy phrasing» that appeared to criticize parents who worry about their children's lower test scores.

For more than a decade after its founding in 1985, the school actively sought to diversify its enrollment, even if that sometimes meant admitting students with lower test scores than others.

These disadvantages manifest themselves in achievement gaps, in lower test scores and graduation rates.

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

By contrast, OUSD spends more per pupil, has far lower test scores and college acceptance rates, more dangerous classrooms, and is steadily losing students as a result.

Children conceived to mothers living within 2 miles of a Superfund site before it was cleaned are 7.4 percentage points more likely to repeat a grade, have 0.06 of a standard deviation lower test scores, and are 6.6 percentage points more likely to be suspended from school than their siblings who were conceived after the site was cleaned.

The poorer the Connecticut students, the lower their test scores.

Poor oversight when it comes to ensuring accurate student attendance, dramatically lower test scores than their traditional public school counterparts and difficulty accessing technology were only some of problems the report found with CAVA and were echoed by Golovich, who was not involved in the compilation of the study.

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.

When confronted with the truth through lower test scores and other indicators, the unhelpful response, in Arne's view, is to say, «Let's lower standards and go back to lying to ourselves and our children, so that our community can feel better.»

And cities, which have higher concentrations of poverty, tend to have lower test scores.

But now, just a year later, Pryor is saying that although he knew the shift to the Common Core was taking place and despite the fact that shifting to the common core would lead to lower test scores on the Connecticut Mastery Test, he still spent $ 25 million or more conducting the 2013 Connecticut Mastery Test and never once suggested that teacher evaluation plans would need to take into account the news that at drop in scores was not a reflection of a teacher's performance.

When young children miss too much school, it is often linked with long - term reading problems, lower test scores and weaker social - emotional skills.

Elizabeth Ananat, Anna Gassman - Pines, and Christina Gibson - Davis show that local job losses such as those caused by plant closings can lower the test scores of students with low socioeconomic status, even students whose parents have not lost their jobs.

If a charter school has lower test scores or other school metrics, try to find out if the students in the charter improve compared to their previous school experience.

There's a strong correlation between lower socioeconomic status and lower test scores, so critics say the rankings are more a measure of poverty than anything else, and that test scores alone fail to tell the whole story of what's happening in a given school building.

We find that as the share of economically disadvantaged or EL students increases at a school, those students exhibit lower test scores, on average, and we examine the performance of EL and economically disadvantaged students separately at their schools.

For instance, districts are concerned that their placement policy may disadvantage low - income and minority students because these students tend to have lower test scores and because of potential bias in teacher recommendations.

I would think schools with lower test scores would benefit from additional resources, for both educational and moral, and therefor the funds should be awarded accordingly — better yet — split it evenly per child.

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.

[The move was especially ironic considering early childhood education is considered the single most important factor in producing better educational outcomes for students and Governor Malloy's «education reform plan» calls for expanding the amount of early childhood programming in those districts that have lower test scores]

New arrivals with little if any fluency in English, have lower test scores than English Language Learners (ELLs) who are close to exiting services.

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 problem persists for more than a year.

A report by a Washington think tank about a California virtual charter run by the company found a series of problems, including dramatically lower test scores than traditional public schools, startling high dropout rates, questionable attendance figures and a host of other problems.

With teachers facing accountability pressure tied to their students» achievement, they may even be reluctant to leave their classrooms, fearing that any time away from students will decrease time on task and lower test scores.

For example, Jyoti, Frongillo, and Jones (2005) found that food insufficiency in kindergarten girls predicted lagging social skills and lower test scores.

School districts with higher funding disparity, as measured by our previously discussed index, saw lower test scores.

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.

Researchers have linked suspensions with lost learning time and lower test scores.

However — and its a big however — the three factors that lead to lower test scores are poverty, language barriers and lack of parental involvement (often linked to the first two).

Patricia Gandara, an educational psychologist at UCLA, said students in bilingual programs often go to schools with higher concentrations of poverty, which is linked to lower test scores.

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.

Poor acoustics inhibit productivity and contribute to lower test scores.

Listen to Thomas, a white Harvard student who admits to feeling «personally disadvantaged at times,» and goes on to explain, «If you're Latino or if you're black you could have a lower GPA and lower test scores and get in and then I could have the same test scores and maybe not get in.»

While international tests and international comparisons are not without merit, international test data are notoriously limited in their ability to shed light on why students in any country have higher or lower test scores than in another.

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

Poverty, English Language proficiency and unmet special education needs are all key factors in producing lower test scores.

The other good long term news is that Black and Hispanic students, who usually have much lower test scores than white students, are making greater long - term progress than whites — shrinking the achievement gap between whites and the other two groups.

District - level data from New York suggest that relatively affluent districts tend to have higher opt - out rates, and that districts with lower test scores have higher opt - out rates after taking socioeconomic status into account

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

Embracing «slow teaching» does not mean I have to settle for lower test scores; in fact, to me it's somewhat ironic that highly interactive projects and classroom practices promote academic rigor and excellence.

Like students in many urban schools, BPS students have lower test scores, lower high school graduation rates, and are less likely to go to college than students from nearby suburban districts.

Richard Iannuzzi, the union's president, said some charter schools generate lower test scores than neighboring traditional schools, though state data indicates this is more the exception than the rule.

«We know that there is a relationship between poverty and lower test scores,» David Silvernail, director of the Center for Education Policy at the University of Southern Maine, told the Portland Press Herald.

Children whose parents are poor and have low educational attainment tend to have lower test scores.