«Basically, our agreement continues important
measurements of the academic progress of students but restores to states, local school districts, teachers, and parents the responsibility for deciding what to do about improving student achievement,» Alexander said in a statement.
Not exact matches
Includes State - designed, long - term goals and
measurements of interim
progress for all students and separately for each subgroup
of students, on
academic achievement and graduation rate, that expect greater
progress from groups that are further behind;
States start by defining adequate yearly
progress — the
measurements of academic improvement a school must achieve to ensure that, at the end
of 12 years, every student graduating will have a mastery
of the basics.
It replaces them with a new system called the
Measurement of Academic Performance and
Progress (MAPP), a test developed to assess the new Common Core Standards that will take effect in 2014 - 15.
Now that student
academic progress will be used as a
measurement of teacher effectiveness, it is crucial to transform teacher evaluation from an exercise in compliance to an effective engine
of growth.
The U.S. Department
of Education has blocked an attempt by Pennsylvania's Education Secretary to evaluate state charter schools using a more lenient method for calculating AYP, the «adequate yearly
progress»
measurement that determines whether schools have met the minimum
academic standards under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).
The KCPE provides an external
measurement of our pupils»
academic progress, and the opportunity to compare Bridge results with neighbouring schools.
A number
of parents and teachers showed up to today's jam - packed school board meeting to denounce board member Steve Zimmer's proposal to reject
Academic Growth Over Time (or AGT) as a
measurement of pupil
progress in teacher evaluations.
On Oct. 2, the Governor signed Assembly Bill 484 (Bonilla), which establishes the California
Measurement of Academic Performance and
Progress (CalMAPP) assessment system, which replaces the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program.
Incremental review shall involve the evaluation
of the
academic progress of all students in terms
of meeting both qualitative and quantitative
measurements of satisfactory
progress.