Sentences with phrase «numbers of students opting»

During the 2014 - 15 school year, the controversial rollout of the Common Core Standards and corresponding assessments, led to numerous press accounts detailing the threat of growing numbers of students opting out.

As state education officials consider the possibility of sanctions against districts with large numbers of students opting out, they also promise a plan to boost participation.

Andrew Ujifusa of Politics K - 12 has written about how these states plan to rate schools and at how these states are handling the issue of schools with large numbers of students opting out of state tests.

Commenting on the figures, Rudolf Eliott Lockhart, chief executive of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales, said: «While it is fantastic to see increasing numbers of students opting to take the full course GCSE in Religious Studies, a reflection of the attraction of an academically rigorous subject that helps prepare students to understand an increasingly diverse modern world, we should not ignore the troubling news that declining entries for the short course mean that more than 100,000 fewer young people have studied the subject at GCSE level this year than in 2010.

In looking over the numbers of students opting out of tests in different states, Bermudez finds support for poll results showing that most Americans don't support pulling children out of tests.

The number of students opting out was 87,796 in 106 districts reporting out of a total 124 systems Islandwide.

«This past week, several schools had a record number of students opt out of the state's standardized test for English.

«Each school handled the high number of students opting out differently.

Given Tonawanda's proximity to Niagara County and the number of our students opting for Niagara County Community College instead of Erie Community College, we are getting killed.

In addition, the number of students opting out of the state tests slightly declined for the first time in five years, according to data r...

She found that, in states with the largest number of students opting out of state tests, the students opting out were mostly white and affluent, and that a large percentage of students opting out were 11th graders who were also taking college prep and AP exams in the spring.

That's my takeaway after reading through a summary of state education plans for dealing with schools that have a large number of students opting out of state tests.

In New York, the union's well - funded program has provided needed support for parents and students, which, in turn, has helped to boost the number of students opting out from around 40,000 last year to as many as a quarter of a million this year.

Becoming a solicitor has never been an easy process, but this year's Law Student Report reveals the number of students opting to pursue a career outside the legal sector has hit a record high.

I would hazard a guess however that if that were implemented there would be a huge number of students opting for that alternative and somehow firms would get by without articling students.

From 2011 to 2014, the number of students opting for local insurers has gone up from 30 % of the total to 60 % Parents are tensed as the insurance coveRead More

From 2011 to 2014, the number of students opting for local insurers has gone up from 30 % of the total to 60 % Parents are tensed as the insu... read more

From 2011 to 2014, the number of students opting for local insurers has gone up from 30 % of the total to 60 % because of the upgraded plans and lower cost, say industry executives.

Not exact matches

The school board said it wanted to see numbers on how other districts that opted out have been affected and expressed concern about the health of students.

The school also has a record number of students qualifying for free and reduced lunches, which is a sign that many families are struggling financially and likely opting for cheaper, less healthy choices, she said.

Long Island is the region with the highest number of test refusals, with about 70,000 students opting out.

With the state English and math tests looming next month, opt - out movement advocates are predicting even higher numbers of students who take a pass than last year.

Educators on Long Island say the number of students and parents opting - out of taking standardized state tests this week is growing.

A decrease in the number of students buying school lunches and an increase in the amount of food that is being wasted has pushed one Onondaga County school to opt out of the federal program for its high school students.

Statewide, the anti-testing advocates said at least 100,000 students opted out of yesterday's ELA tests — a number expected to grow significantly.

The measure also comes as school districts across the state on Tuesday reported high numbers of students choosing to opt out of the current round of English Language Arts standardized tests that will run for the next two weeks.

Opt - out activists have said the number will continue to grow, citing reasons such as the perceived «over-testing» of students using exams that are not age and grade appropriate, as well as the use of test scores on teacher evaluations.

While most of the roundtable meeting was private, officials met with media and during the briefing revealed that four of the districts had significant numbers of students who opted out of standardized testing.

The number of students who opted out of the tests was roughly the same as the year before, at 21 percent.

But Korea has yet to see the influx of trained scientists that China is enjoying, and increasing numbers of students are opting to study abroad, particularly in the US, and may not return to Korea.

For those here on OPT and student visas, who number in the tens of thousands, visa renewal is far from assured in the uncertain legal and political situation.

A growing number of parents are withdrawing their children from the annual state tests; the epicenter of the «opt - out» movement may be New York State, where as many as 90 percent of students in some districts reportedly refused to take the year - end examination last spring.

While an increasing number of students are opting for online courses and online degree programs, the retention and completion rate...

The number of students with good grades passing up the chance to go to university and instead opting for an apprenticeship increases every year.

[2] I use total enrollment in grades 3 - 8 to estimate the percentage of students who opted out (i.e. the number of opt - outs, which are presumably for tests in grades 3 - 8, divided by the number of students enrolled in those grades).

When the program began, Georgia Tech initially opted to constrain the number of students accepted, which officials did by sorting applications by undergraduate GPA, reading them in descending order, and offering immediate entry only to the first 500 or so applications deemed admissible.

My primary data source for the following analysis is a table indicating the number of students who opted out of the math and ELA tests out in each school district this spring.

According to the New York Times, the opt - out movement more than doubled the number of students who did not take federally mandated math and English Language Arts (ELA) tests, with 165,000 kids — about one in six — not taking at least one of the tests.

While an increasing number of students are opting for online courses and online degree programs, the retention and completion rate for such courses is extremely low.

It was all an effort to tamper down on the number of students who opted out of the state's exams.

Opt - out numbers have soared; in some school districts, more students (grades 3 through 8) were opted out of the testing than the students who took the tests.

A number of Kansas City area schools including Kansas City, Mo., Kansas City, Kan., the Shawnee Mission, Blue Valley, Independence, Fort Osage, Park Hill, Tonganoxie and Olathe districts, have opted to close on Tuesday to allow students and teachers to attend the Royals» World Series win parade.

However, in unethical, immoral and unprofessional attempt to stop students from opting out or being opted out of the unfair and discriminatory Common Core testing scheme, a number of Connecticut schools are telling students that the SBAC test is a graduation requirement.

Students are opting out, primarily because of community, parent, and student concerns about the types of tests being administered, the length and number of the tests administered, the time that testing and testing preparation takes away from classroom instruction, and the like.

Preliminary numbers in New Jersey showed that 15 percent of high school juniors opted out of the tests though the percentage was lower among younger students.

States and districts mostly have opted to look at student growth, as opposed to raw test scores, because raw scores can disadvantage teachers with large numbers of low - income, limited - English or special needs students, who tend to score lower on standardized tests.

Robert Schaeffer of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing estimated a half - million students nationwide opted out of this year's tests, with numbers varying widely among states and cities.

The reason the document can't be used as a menu for zone schools is because when zone schools are opting out of a service such as elementary math curriculum, the district divides the cost by the number of elementary students — not all district students — and gives that money back to the zone schools, said Mark Ferrandino, the district's chief financial officer.

I have a son that is a junior and we asked to «opt out» of the testing and were told that we could but when an overwhelming number of students were being opted out the administration refused the «opt out» for ALL of the students and forced them to take them and to top it all off they said that if they did not do well they wouldn't be able to get into college!

Although 25 % of students opted out in 2015, the proficiency numbers between the 2014 and 2015 tests do not appear different in any appreciable way.