Sentences with phrase «mandated yearly testing»

In 2001, No Child Left Behind, the last major federal education reform, mandated yearly testing in the basics of reading and math for children in third through eighth grades.

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The passage of the NCLB is a landmark moment for federal control in education, as, for the first time, Washington was to dictate state standards, while mandating state testing and yearly progress goals — even the breaking down of scores by sub-groups of students.

[4] Although the ESSA would end the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) mandates under NCLB, which require that all students in all states make «adequate» annual progress toward universal proficiency in math and reading or have the state risk federal sanctions, the proposal would keep the annual testing structure in place.

We obtained student achievement data for literacy (reading or language arts) and mathematics from scores on the states «tests for measuring Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB).

In August, Oklahoma became the second state to lose a waiver from the 2001 law, which mandated standardized testing and set annual growth goals called Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP).

Finally, we obtained student achievement data for literacy and mathematics in elementary and secondary grades, using scores on the states «tests for measuring Adequate Yearly Progress as mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002.

The test fulfills the federally mandated No Child Left Behind Act, used to determine if students of all sub-groups are making adequate yearly progress.