Sentences with phrase «most statewide testing»

But a change in California law last summer that suspended most statewide testing next year threatens the carefully designed program.

(Calif.) A change in law last summer that suspended most statewide testing next year threatens a federally - funded randomized controlled experiment in teaching algebra to at - risk eighth graders.

Not exact matches

This statewide program guides California «s wineries and winegrape growers to adopt an integrated system for their operations based on tested «best practices» in alternative energy, packaging, transportation, production and farming practices to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) footprints in the state with the most stringent environmental laws in the country.

On statewide tests for third through eighth graders this year, New York City's most troubled schools kept pace with the rest of city schools, showing similar gains in reading and math.

The most recent state testing data showed that the percent of Erie County black students considered proficient in English was 31 percentage points lower than their white peers, compared to a 20 - point gap statewide.

It is fairly easy for a party to meet the test in presidential years, when there are six statewide partisan races on the ballot in most years.

In about half the states, graduates have also made it through statewide graduation tests that are typically pegged to an 8th -, 9th -, or at most 10th - grade standard of actual performance.

In 2006, most states were in their first years of statewide testing programs.

For example, California, the country's largest and most financially distressed state, spends less than $ 14 out of its $ 8,955 per - pupil total educational outlay on statewide standardized testing.

Bethesda's collaborative efforts transformed student achievement: For the past two years, it has been among the top 10 percent of Georgia's Title I schools, making the most progress in improving the performance of all students on statewide tests.

Oregon doesn't provide statewide statistics on charter school performance, and many of the schools are too new for their standardized tests scores to show up in the 02 - 03 data, the most recent available from the state Education Department.

LEXINGTON, KY — Statewide assessment and accountability results for academic year 2017 released today show declining reading and mathematics proficiency compared to 2016, along with declines in most tested subjects for African American students and English language learners.

Despite promises from achievement school district backers that some of Tennessee's most troubled schools would be vaulted into the top 25 percent of schools statewide, standardized testing scores have shown no «statistically significant» difference in the district's schools, according to Henry's research.

On one side, parents frustrated with the Payson Unified School District say they would welcome the K - 8 charter school, with a network of campuses with some 6,000 students statewide, higher than average test scores on most of its campuses, uniforms, new buildings and the relative freedom from state regulation charter schools enjoy.

Test scores went up this year in most grades and subjects, but statewide only about 40 percent of students scored at least proficient in math and about 50 percent in reading.

New Hampshire is adopting it, too, and developing a statewide assessment method that would replace most standardized tests.

And, perhaps most troubling of all, county and city schools, since 2008, have had no more than 31 percent and 47 percent, respectively, of students scoring at or above grade level on statewide testing.

Justice Eric Rosen noted that 32 percent of Kansas students did not perform to grade standards in the most recent statewide testing of reading and math.

A year before the administration of the SBAC field tests statewide, I and others wrote about the lunacy of moving the high school test to 11th grade, a year when most students have a heavy course - load, AP tests, ACTs and SATs.

It is more likely, however, that this enlargement of statewide achievement testing will only heighten the harmful effects that most of today's state - level achievement tests are having on children.

Most public school parents (71 %) expected students to score at least as well on the new tests as on the old ones, according to a recent PPIC Statewide Survey.

The statewide average of TCAP test scores for the most recent 3 years.

Formal Recommendations on Revising Statewide Testing Due Out This Month Setting the stage for perhaps the most critical public school issue that will come before the Legislature next year, the state board of education held its first public hearing Thursday on plans for shaping the future of student standardized testing in CaliTesting Due Out This Month Setting the stage for perhaps the most critical public school issue that will come before the Legislature next year, the state board of education held its first public hearing Thursday on plans for shaping the future of student standardized testing in Calitesting in California.

In these statewide studies, the most substantial and consistent finding is a positive relationship between full - time, qualified school librarians and scores on standards - based language arts, reading, and writing tests, regardless of student demographics and school characteristics.