Sentences with phrase «math scores ever»

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If you've ever wanted to get an up close and personal view of fighter planes in training, but just never had the math scores to get into the cockpit, don't lose hope.

You wouldn't see it in most classrooms, you wouldn't know it by looking at slumping national test - score averages, but a cadre of American teenagers are reaching world - class heights in math — more of them, more regularly, than ever before.

Those students may have notched high scores on their AP exams, but they hadn't ever operated at the level they were asked to in their first university math and science classes, or at the level they'd need for internationally competitive careers.

By every criteria and measure we use, reading and math scores in NAEP, high school graduation, drop - out rates, college attendance rates, public education's performance is the best that is has ever been.

Nevertheless, despite our greatly enhanced commitments to public education — and despite the fact that children are growing up in better - educated and smaller families than ever before — student performance during this period, as measured by NAEP test scores for high school seniors in math and reading, moved hardly a hair's breadth.

My local benchmark test scores have gone up, and I'm teaching the best math I've ever taught!»

This year's release generated even more anticipation and discussion than usual: It was the first National Assessment of Educational Progress administration after states began implementing the Common Core State Standards, and national scores dropped in fourth - and eighth - grade math for the first time ever.

To remove this barrier, a new paradigm is evolving in math education — one that calls for teachers at all grade levels to help District Administration The average score for eighth - graders on the latest National assessment of educational Progress (NaeP) was the highest ever, but only 39 percent scored at or above the proficient level (Lee, grigg, & Dion, 2007).

This includes the ever - woeful South Carolina, whose reading and math proficiency targets declined from an A to a D +, according to Education Next «s analysis; the Palmetto State claimed that 54.9 percent of fourth - graders scored «exemplary» or its version of proficient and advanced levels in 2011, even though NAEP shows that only 36 percent of fourth - graders were performing that well.

At the same time, scores for white students in 2008 were the highest ever in both reading and math for nine - and thirteen - year olds.

Students in the District's traditional public schools scored higher than ever on the city's math and reading tests this year, also posting the largest single - year gain since 2008, according to test results released Tuesday.