The idea is to measure the impact a teacher has on student learning by
comparing new test scores to previous ones, and whether students met expected gains.
New test scores show that public charter schools are the best public schools in the city for high - need students, but Mayor de Blasio continues to drag his feet in giving...
On Oct. 24, 2013, Julia Ryan wrote in The Atlantic that American Education isn't Mediocre — It's Deeply Unequal, after
digesting new test score data that rank U.S. states among other nations.
Monica Martinez, the education agency's associate commissioner for Standards and Programs, told Hardy earlier in the week that staff needed the board — which only meets a few times per year — to make decisions about implementation before they could proceed with updates to a computer system to
process new test scores.
Four Oregon high schools outperformed the rest, equipping two - thirds or more of their students with the writing, reasoning, research and math skills they'll need in college and in life,
new test scores indicate.
State regents chancellor emeritus Bob Bennett says
the new test scores is like comparing apples to oranges.
For example, why did Maine (and many other states) need to pause accountability if
the new test scores are in line with the old test scores?
Just as soon as the state's
new test scores were released — and even before, in the case of mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio — reactions started flying about the sobering news about student achievement in New York.