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

As the Courant article explained, «City school officials on Tuesday cited chronic absenteeism, declining enrollment and years of low test scores as reasons why Clark Elementary School should be converted into an Achievement First charter school.»

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Moreover, of all the cars that NHTSA has ever tested, Model S and Model X scored as the two cars with the lowest probability of injury.

If you want to test my theory, have your spouse, or parent add you as an A.U. on a couple of their cards without even giving you the physical card (to avoid risk if they worry about abuse) watch your scores go through the statosphere if the balances are low because it increases your presumed available amount of credit and expands your ratio of credit vs balances

Why didn't they entitle the chart with something more positive such as, «Being Asian Can Get You A Lower Mortgage Rate,» or «Although Asians Need Higher Grades And Test Scores To Have The Same Chance To Get Into University, At Least Asians Get To Pay Lower Mortgage Rates,» or «Despite Some Disadvantages Of Being A Minority, You Can Still Get The Best Mortgage Rate Possible,» or «Being A Minority May Make It Easier To Get A Better Rate.»

As the strange reality - defying fog of the current administration finally lifts, global warming will become, as it is elsewhere, a political given — something like crime or low test scores that every politician is pledged to fighAs the strange reality - defying fog of the current administration finally lifts, global warming will become, as it is elsewhere, a political given — something like crime or low test scores that every politician is pledged to fighas it is elsewhere, a political given — something like crime or low test scores that every politician is pledged to fight.

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.

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

When I explain that teaching kids to overvalue external measures of success short - circuits their development as self - regulating individuals — the true foundation of a productive life — a shocking number of parents respond that you can't undo bad grades and low test scores, but you can always catch up on the emotional stuff later — a tragic misapprehension.

Researchers have found that children aged 3, who as premature babies have several episodes of apnea and bradycardia, have lower scores in developmental tests than their peers.

A test score below this value is defined as low, while a score equal to or above it, is defined as high.

Odds ratio (OR) was calculated and used as an estimate of the relative risk of getting a low test score among children who had been breast fed less than three months, compared to children who had been breast fed at least six months.

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

Elia's action reflected the state's continuing concern with low test scores and other problems that leave Hempstead as the most troubled of Long Island's 124 districts.

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

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.

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.

He argued the city needed to build on his first - term accomplishments — such as universal preschool, low crime, high test scores and progress on affordable housing — but laid out few brand - new policy plans.

People with mild cognitive impairment were defined as those who have a slight decline in cognition, mainly in memory in terms of remembering sequences or organization, and who score lower on tests such as the California Verbal Learning Test, which requires participants to recall a list of related words, such as a shopping list.

As a child labeled as learning disabled, low test scores relegated him to remedial classroomAs a child labeled as learning disabled, low test scores relegated him to remedial classroomas learning disabled, low test scores relegated him to remedial classrooms.

A more complex picture emerges among people who had anesthesia several times as small children: Although their intelligence is comparable, they score modestly lower on tests measuring fine motor skills, and their parents are more likely to report behavioral and learning problems.

In a study of structural brain connectivity led by the University of Illinois at Chicago and UCLA, those participants with anorexia nervosa who scored lowest on a test measuring their ability to form insight had more connective abnormalities than other patients in brain regions linked to error detection and conflict monitoring as well as self - reflection.

Students who didn't score well on the image test tended to receive lower math scores, even after factors, such as IQ levels, were taken into account.

And being the oldest kid in your class, as it turns out, could not only raise test scores and improve your college odds but lower your chances of incarceration down the line.

According to the researchers, people with long - term low physical activity, as well as people with long - term high television viewing, scored much worse on the tests compared to those who were more active and watched less television.

The analysis of 121 people found that those with lower vitamin B12 levels scored worse on cognitive tests, and had smaller brain volumes as revealed by MRI scans.

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Meanwhile, at certain points its test scores lag behind those of low labor - productivity countries such as Hungary, the Slovak Republic, and Thailand.

For instance, in an April 28, 2004, column, Winerip described a school in Florida as unfairly penalized by NCLB, but he failed to mention that the school reported low overall test scores and had significant achievement gaps between white and minority students.

Using student - level data from two states, Harvard Professor Martin West and I found that 40 to 60 percent of schools serving mostly low - income or underrepresented minority students would fall into the bottom 15 percent of schools statewide based on their average test scores, but only 15 to 25 percent of these same schools would be classified as low performing based on their test - score growth.

If the same approach is applied to the STAR sample to adjust for the fact that some students did not enroll in the class they were assigned to - and a comparable sample of low - income black students is used - the gains in test scores after two years of attending a small class (average of 16 students) as opposed to a regular - size class (average of 23 students) is 9.1 national percentile ranks in reading and 9.8 ranks in math.

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

Because test scores will be used to penalize low - scoring schools, they will act as high - stakes tests for teachers and administrators especially in schools serving high proportions of poor and minority students.

These schools classified low - performing students as eligible for special education services to keep them from lowering the school's rating (special education students could take the 10th - grade state test, but their scores did not count toward the rating).

Results from the 2016 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), released on 5 December, show Australia's average score was lower than those of 13 other countries, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, Northern Ireland and England, which all tested in English, as well as other top - performing countries the Russian Federation, Finland and Poland.

Furthermore, studies in Texas and elsewhere have found that some schools raised their published test scores by retaining low - performing students in 9th grade, by classifying them as eligible for special education (or otherwise exempting them from the exam), and even by encouraging them to drop out.

When test scores came in showing results as low as the 39th percentile in math in those first few years, she and her staff resolved to make a change.

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.

Despite making far larger test - score gains than students attending open - enrollment district schools, and despite the emphasis their schools place on cultivating non-cognitive skills, charter school students exhibit markedly lower average levels of self - control as measured by student self - reports (see Figure 2).

Students who attend middle schools at risk of dropping out of high school As compared to students in K - 8 elementary schools, middle school students also score lower on achievement tests.

Recalling that black students have the lowest scores on both the reading and math tests, one can see that these results can be interpreted as the effects of peer achievement.

Under this program, tens of thousands of students were required to attend summer school, thousands who did not master basic skills were held back rather than being promoted as was traditional in most school systems, and more than 100 schools were put on probation for low test scores.

If parents no longer thought of non-White, majority Free Lunch schools as synonymous with low test scores, they would be more open to desegregation.

Student achievement at schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as measured by scores on standardized tests is considerably lower than that of public schools, according to a report by the federal General Accounting Office.

According to the press release, «The automated scoring competition intends to solve the longstanding problem of high cost and low turnaround of current testing deeper learning such as student essays.

Murray's earlier books — Losing Ground in 1984, on welfare policy, and The Bell Curve (with Richard Herrnstein) in 1994, on the significance of differences in intelligence as measured by intelligence tests — aroused controversy, because, implicitly or explicitly, they focused attention on black Americans, who play a disproportionate role in welfare policy, and as a group score lower than whites on IQ tests.

Detroit is the lowest - scoring metropolitan area on the Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA), a series of math, science, reading, and writing tests administered in 21 urban school districts as part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

In fact, some Los Angeles students saw their test scores fall as a result of the 1996 statewide program, which sought to lower class sizes in kindergarten through the 3rd grade.

As shown in Figure 1, Portugal exhibits the lowest average combined test scores in math and science among the 18 countries in our sample, Singapore the highest.

Instead, school districts, eager to be perceived as plugged in and afraid of being penalized for low test scores, have bought into expensive drill - and - kill software — the kind that costs a fortune and displays a silly animation of fireworks or cheering crowds for every five correct answers — with only minimal improvements on test scores and scant evidence of long - term progress among students.