Sentences with phrase «math exams this week»

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Like, for instance, when he mentions that he was the first New Zealander to be selected as a Fulbright Scholar in entrepreneurship, or tells you he once spent two weeks in a coma after contracting malaria in Indonesia, or says he was among the highest - scoring secondary - school students on a national math exam.

Approximately 30,000 students will take up to three - hour - long field tests for new Common Core - based exams starting Monday — a week ahead of official state exams that will count students» scores in math and English.

In the past two weeks, hundreds of thousands of parents across the state staged a parental uprising against the Common Core curriculum and culture of over-utilization of high stakes standardized tests and exercised their right to refuse to have their children take the grades 3 - 8 ELA and math exams.

Renegade NYC public school teachers have been sending emails to parents the past week encouraging them to boycott the state English and math Common Core exams being administered citywide starting tomorrow.

But nearly one - fifth of students across New York state opted out of taking the English exams when they were given last week, and more plan to skip the math tests.

North Carolina education officials last week ordered a major audit of the state's testing and accountability program to determine the soundness of the system after problems emerged over interim scoring measures for the state's end - of - grade math exam.

As several classes have started taking the PARCC exams in English and math this week, I have been reflecting on an area of our program that many of our students find most challenging — writing.

Lawmakers in both houses of the Legislature introduced bills this week that would prohibit school districts from using the grade 3 - 8 math and English exams from being used to rate teachers and principals.

«The student continued to review for his math exam this coming week.

In the past two weeks, hundreds of thousands of parents across the state staged a parental uprising against the Common Core curriculum and culture of over-utilization of high stakes standardized tests and exercised their right to refuse to have their children take the grades 3 - 8 ELA and math exams.