Sentences with phrase «minimum standards of achievement»

They make up a long — and sometimes growing — tail of underperforming students, many of whom continually fail to meet minimum standards of achievement.

Not exact matches

Highlights of this year's NAPLAN results include: • There is evidence of movement of students from lower to higher bands of achievement across year levels and most domains over the last 10 years • Year 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year levels
New York State and North Carolina, by contrast, give students an incentive to study through the use of rigorous end - of - course exams that signal medium and high achievement levels, not just meeting minimum standards.
If the current law's minimum competency standard produces gains among students near the proficiency threshold but disadvantages others, the rules of the accountability system need to be modified, perhaps to reward improvements across the entire achievement distribution.
In contrast, national minimum standards tied to year levels do little to challenge all students to higher levels of achievement.
According to the U.S. Department of Education, the purpose of Title 1 funding, «is to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high quality education and reach, at minimum, proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and state academic assessments.»
The purpose of Title I is to ensure that every student has access to an equal, fair, and high - quality education that meets, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and assessments.
Hobgood noted that the private schools receiving the scholarships are not subject to any requirements or standards regarding the curriculum that they teach, have no requirements for student achievement, are not obligated to demonstrate any growth in student performance and are not even obligated to provide a minimum amount of instructional time.
We believe that such a chart provides users a more nuanced view of reading achievement differences between schools in states with relatively low minimum standards.
«Minimum standards are not enough to prepare young people for the competition that awaits them in a global economy,» said Superintendent of Public Instruction Billy K. Cannaday Jr. «The VIP program provides incentives for schools to challenge students to ever - higher levels of learning and achievement
Employers look for a high standard of academic achievement, often requiring a minimum 2:1 in a related degree.
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