Sentences with phrase «of regents exams»

For example, there is no «speaking» component on any of the Regents exams.

At the secondary level, an additional outcome, or dependent variable predicted is the number of Regents Exams a student passed for the first time in the current year.

State Education Commissioner David Steiner says without more funding, the state may have to cancel some of its Regents exams.

JMAP offers teachers and other users of the Common Core State Standards free resources that simplify the integration of Regents exam questions into their

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Kaminsky had urged the Regents to take up the issue that offers an alternative from what he calls a «one - size - fits - all» path of securing a diploma through Regents exam scores.

Controversy over the Regents Geometry exam arose in June, after hundreds of thousands of teens took that test and others.

ALBANY — State Regents exams will undergo extra scrutiny following the discovery of three flaws in a recently administered geometry test — one of them reported by a 16 - year - old East Setauket student.

«We're going to have more teachers looking at the geometry exams,» Elia said during a brief interview before Monday's monthly meeting of the state Board of Regents.

The newest chancellor of the Board of Regents, she hails from the Bronx and will be tasked with dealing with fraught issues like teacher evaluations, the Common Core and the growing movement to opt out of the curriculum's exams.

Under the 4 +1 pathway assessment option, students must take and pass four required Regents Exams or Department - approved alternative assessments (one in each of English, math, science, and social studies) and a comparably rigorous assessment for the fifth required exam to graduate.

«The Regents and I continue to listen to the concerns of parents and teachers and to make additional adjustments to the grades 3 - 8 exams,» said state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia.

In Westchester County, the Pleasantville school board on Tuesday agreed to a plan that over the next two years will phase out use of the Regents Geometry and Algebra II exams while expanding college - level Advanced Placement exams.

The Board of Regents» new leaders launched an inquiry Monday into the validity of the state test system and its links to teacher evaluations, citing the need to rebuild public trust following a second annual round of massive exam boycotts on Long Island and across the state.

(The Board of Regents itself voted last month to make it easier to pass one of the state's certification exams.)

Elia says teachers will have more say in the new tests, similar to the older traditions of New York's own Regents exams.

The state's Board of Regents acknowledged that failure rates are running far too high — at 23 percent — on a teacher - licensing exam taken so far by about 22,000 college students and others statewide.

Allegations of tampering with Regents exams have soared since Bloomberg took control of the NYC public school system.

History can be a contentious subject in public schools, and so the state's Board of Regents agreed on a new exam that would measure students» knowledge of events starting around 1750 — a date chosen partly in hopes of avoiding arguments.

The New York State Board of Regents went further in its efforts to make it easier for students with disabilities to graduate from high school, essentially eliminating the requirement that they pass any Regents exams.

Under the Regents plan, which was tabled under pressure from Cuomo, teachers and principals who were at risk of losing their jobs because their students performed poorly on new, harder exams would have an additional defense at their disposal during disciplinary proceedings.

In a 20 - page letter to Cuomo, Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch recommended getting rid of the local piece, although her solution was to double the ratings» reliance on state exams to 40 percent, leaving the observation component at 60 percent.

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The Board of Regents today strongly endorsed the rationale presented by Education Commissioner David M. Steiner to adjust the «cut scores» on the state's grade 3 - 8 math and English assessments based on research that clearly suggests the need to more accurately indicate «proficiency» on those exams.

A Regents panel voted to allow teachers and principals who could be fired based on poor student performance on Common Core exams this year or last year to defend themselves by citing the botched rollout of the tough new curriculum.

Less than one - third of students in the third through eighth grade, around 31 percent, passed the new math and English exams given for the first time this year, says Regents Chancellor Merrill Tisch, who made the announcement on a conference call.

History can be a contentious subject in public schools, and so the state's Board of Regents agreed Tuesday on a new exam that would measure students» knowledge of events starting around 1750 — a date chosen partly in hopes of avoiding arguments.

Less than one third of students in the third through eighth grades, around 31 %, passed the new math and English exams given for the first time this year, says Regents Chancellor Merrill Tisch, making the announcement on a conference call.

Six donations of $ 250,000, including one from Mayor Bloomberg, were collected to restore next January's Regents exams, which had been cut by the state.

With New York distracted Monday by Stella's advance, the state Board of Regents junked the literacy exam for prospective teachers — and announced it in a classic press release full...

The Board of Regents voted in April to allow student - teachers who fail the new exam, called the edTPA, to take an old, less rigorous exam instead for two years.

Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa appeared eager to assure teachers and parents that the department is trying to be transparent about exams that have been the target of a record - setting boycott movement, both on Long Island and statewide.

After the April exams are finished, the next step will be for the State Education Department and Board of Regents to design new teacher performance systems that individual districts will then work to adopt by November.

The Regents will also consider changes to one of the other three prerequisite exams for would - be educators, the Teacher Performance Assessment, or edTPA.

In justifying Automotive's removal, the state also cited a slight improvement in scores on Regents exams last year, though only 3 percent of grads scored high enough to be deemed college - ready.

When the full Regents exam data is released later this spring, it will likely show that only a quarter of New York City students are prepared for college.

High school students need to pass five of the exams to get a Regents diploma.

But at 19, the Sudanese immigrant had just two years to learn the language and pass five Regents exams before he would age out of the traditional public school system.

Not satisfied with a state Board of Regents decision to put a hold on the use of test scores in teacher and principal evaluations, New York State Allies for Public Education is urging its members to opt out of local exams that will be taking the place of standardized, Common Core - aligned tests used to evaluate teachers.

Zimpher said the task force will study the effectiveness of the various placement exams — as well as Regents exams — in determining readiness.

WILLSBORO — Willsboro Central School teacher Ashley Hooper gave her students a challenge in October: If 60 percent of the class achieved mastery on the Living Environment Regents Exam, she would allow them to cut her long hair.

Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch and education commissioner John King have opposed delaying implementation of the standards, but King has said one change state officials are considering is pushing back when students would need to pass Common Core - aligned Regents exam for graduation.

The changes, which Education Commissioner John King said are already under way, include increasing public understanding of the standards, training more teachers and principals, ensuring adequate funding, reducing testing time and providing high school students the option to take some traditional Regents exams while Common Core - aligned tests are phased in.

Hacker makes his claim in New York, where the state Board of Regents did its part to raise the bar in math by mandating a score of 65 to pass on the integrated algebra Regents exam required of students.

John Bishop of Cornell University, a contributor and supporter of high - stakes exams, nonetheless notes that dropout rates are likely to rise under New York's new Regents exam policy.

The Zarb Commission relied on the set of school districts meeting the Regents» operational definition of an adequate education: 80 percent of their 4th graders passed the math and English exams and passed five of the high - school graduation tests.

Among the reform milestones they achieved were a new requirement that 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based on student achievement; raising the charter school cap from 200 to 460; and higher student achievement goals on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 4th grade and 8th grade reading tests and Regents exams.

Given that time, our scholars consistently out - perform wealthy Westchester County on their Regents exams in nearly every subject and our first class of graduates outperformed white students on their SAT's.

«It will take immense effort and ingenuity on the part of local educators to help all students meet these standards and pass these exams,» Mr. Mills wrote in the proposal submitted last week to the state board of regents.

The ten indicators were: 9th - grade attendance rates; rates of college readiness at the end of each grade (as measured by the number of students on track to earn a Regents diploma as opposed to a less - rigorous «local» diploma); the number of credits earned and Regents exams passed by grade 12; dropout and transfer rates; graduation rates; and rates of receiving a Regents diploma.

The Urban Academy and more than 30 other alternative high schools that are part of the New York Performance Standards Consortium have adopted these rigorous performance assessments as an alternative to the Regents Exams, which high school students throughout New York State are required to pass in English, math, history, and science in order to earn a diploma.