Sentences with phrase «lower test scores again»

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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?

Oak Park also addresses the fear that transfer students will lower test scores, and with them, yet again, those home values.

The report, while focused mostly on Florida, suggests schools all over the country (again, possibly in TN) may be pushing low - performing students, many of whom are black, into «alternative schools,» as a way of preventing their low test scores and graduation rates from dragging down the average.

A study released yesterday by Mathematica Policy Research (and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education) titled «Teachers with High «Value Added» Can Boost Test Scores in Low - Performing Schools» implies that, yet again, value - added estimates are the key statistical indicators we as a nation should be using, above all else, to make pragmatic and policy decisions about America's public school teachers.

Again, the percentage is much lower if we look only at those who are teachers with just 21 percent of teachers favoring policies that base salary rates on student test scores.

These were still minority, low - income situations, but the test scores rose and rose again.