Sentences with phrase «of passing their standardized tests»

Some schools focus just on «bubble» students — those who are right on the verge of passing their standardized tests.

Not exact matches

Is teaching effective if it results in children who are capable of rote memorization and passing standardized tests, but lack imagination, curiosity, and a love of reading?

Over the period from 8 to 18 years, sample members were assessed on a range of measures of cognitive and academic outcomes including measures of child intelligence quotient; teacher ratings of school performance; standardized tests of reading comprehension, mathematics, and scholastic ability; pass rates in school leaving examinations; and leaving school without qualifications.

The Assembly passed a bill Wednesday that would bar public schools from using students» standardized - test scores to evaluate teachers — a priority of the state's politically powerful teachers unions.

It has caused good schools to be labeled as failing and puts undue pressure on students and teachers to focus on passing standardized tests instead of engaging in other subjects such as the sciences, history, art, or music.

Stephens said that the ability to apply knowledge to real - world situations is missing in many students — an apparent consequence of relaxed standards in the American educational system and a focus in the classroom on passing standardized tests, he said.

Nevaeh got out of school yesterday and made all A's on her report card as well as pass her standardized tests with advanced scores woohoo!

High stakes testing policies requiring students to pass standardized tests for promotion and graduation deepen educational inequity between whites and minorities and widen the educational gap between affluent and impoverished students, according to two studies of education reform in Texas.

The relevance of including students with disabilities in assessment and accountability has been demonstrated by the increase in the number of students with disabilities in many states who took and passed the standardized tests and an increase in graduation rates in recent years.

They can be made to feel like failures after only a couple years in this country, which is the time when they are expected to pass the state of Washington's standardized test at the same level as a native speaker.

That legislation, which also passed the House 95 - 21 and which Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican, was expected to sign, would impose a new set of accountability requirements, including mandating standardized tests for thousands of voucher students attending private schools with public money.

Throughout this process, the district has maintained its scores on Indiana's standardized tests; Lawrence Township's passing scores generally hover around 70 percent and fall within a few percentage points of the state average.

Scope: Compares the percentage of students passing or receiving high marks on standardized state tests in reading, math, writing, and science in various grade levels.

It is possible to help a beginning English - language learner (ELL) improve so much in a matter of months that he or she can pass the sixth through eighth grade state standardized tests.

Their report, Update: Ending Social Promotion, states that the number of students who pass the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS), the standardized test the city's schools use, has increaTest of Basic Skills (ITBS), the standardized test the city's schools use, has increatest the city's schools use, has increased.

More than 200,000 third through eighth graders sat out New York's standardized tests this year, education officials said on Wednesday, in a sign of increasing resistance to testing as more states make them harder to pass.

Receiving college credit for a dual enrollment course is dependent on passing the course, effectively eliminating the unnecessary obstacle of having to pass a standardized test.

Third - gradestudents had a pass rate on the state's standardized math test of 95 percent, a gain of 47 percentage points from two years ago.

Less than half of Maryland elementary and middle school students passed the state's tough new standardized tests, a result school officials attribute to a major revision of teaching and testing standards.

One way of enforcing standards of excellence is through standardized testing, linked to high stakes - such as holding students back until they pass the tests or delaying their graduation.

While observers will judge Bloomberg and Klein's tenure using standardized test scores — and even they agree those scores are important measures — Klein has made no secret of the fact that he wishes his team's work to be marked in the end by significant upticks in both the graduation rate and the numbers of students who pass basic tests in order to qualify for a Regents diploma.

But when New York State began requiring students to pass the standardized Regents tests in order to graduate from high school, Beacon was forced to reduce the number of projects and cut the time for assessing them.

He signs only 15 % of the bill it passes and reigns in its instincts toward excess spending, and he's not a big fan of standardized testing.

Mayor Greg Ballard announced Tuesday he plans to revoke the school's charter because so few of its students passed statewide standardized tests this spring.

It is that time of year when standardized testing is looming or may have already passed for some.

Welcome back to this week's edition of Naiku's Coach's Corner It is that time of year when standardized testing is looming or may have already passed for some.

In 2015 - 16, a few more states passed laws recognizing the right of parents to hold their children out of standardized testing, while similar opt - out bills advanced in one or both houses of several other legislatures.

Leslie Jacobs, a former member of the Louisiana State Board of Education, writes in The Wall Street Journal that in 2007, fewer than half of New Orleans» fourth - graders could pass the state's standardized tests, and only four out of 10 eighth - graders passed.

After months of debate, a somewhat water - downed version of the bill passed that places even greater emphasis on standardized testing.

If passed, this will take what was the state's teacher evaluation system requirement that 20 % of an educator's evaluation be based on «locally selected measures of achievement,» to a system whereas teachers» value - added as based on growth on the state's (Common Core) standardized test scores will be set at 50 %.

A 2013 study of nearly 12,000 Nebraska students also found that aerobically fit students were more likely to pass the state's standardized math and reading tests, regardless of their weight or socioeconomic status.

The elementary schools reached 87 % passing math and 85 % passing reading on standardized tests in the third year of Flippen implementation.

In states that use standardized testing as a portion of the teacher assessment process, covering material is also used by teachers as an attempt to ensure their students remember the content for the short - term in order to merely pass the test.

An education law, passed in 2013, orders a new generation of computer - based standardized tests, starting with Common Core assessments of English language arts and math in 2015.

By age 23, Delhagen was part of a group of young teachers starting a high school in a chain of so - called «no excuses» charters, with a rigorous discipline code and high academic standards geared toward passing standardized tests.

Student scores on Indiana's ISTEP standardized exams were little changed from last year after pass rates tumbled two years ago with an overhaul of the test.

Lakeland Elementary / Middle School teacher Delilah Moss was shocked when a sixth - grade boy at the top of his class didn't pass the math portion of the annual standardized test two years ago.

The sad reality is most people seem to think gifted students will be «fine» since they are usually capable of passing minimum - competency standardized tests (which is what school is all about, right?).

Many Texas school officials have been advocating to push back standardized testing as they feel that students will not be able to successfully pass the STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) tests.

The Senate passed legislation (S.B. 795 — The Excellent Public Schools Act) this session that would label students, schools, and teachers as failing on the basis of a standardized test score.

In 2009, Florida began releasing rankings of education schools based on what percentage of a teacher's students passed the state standardized tests.

In Oklahoma, for example, high school students must pass four standardized tests in order to graduate, regardless of their GPA.

The firestorm over standardized testing in the K - 12 accountability system that has been building in Texas for over two years is coming to a major showdown, and the primary context of the debate is now House Bill 5, which passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 145 - 2 and, after several amendments, was passed by the Senate unanimously.

Similarly, the development of 21st century skills is measured by percentage of students passing 3 out of 5 core subjects, which, again is only a meaningful goal if we know that core subject classes are rigorous, providing grade level instruction, and leading to high levels of performance on state standardized tests.

All of their fourth - graders passed their LEAP [standardized state test].

During the school year prior to Garrison's arrival, just 17 percent of Camden students passed their state standardized tests in language arts.

Of course now the tests will not measure whether they can read but whether they can be coached to pass the standardized test.

Because too few of those disadvantaged students have passed standardized tests for three consecutive years (PDF), George Bush's controversial No Child Left Behind reform requires that the principal and half the teachers be replaced.

The deliberations have addressed various topics such as whether (a) parents should have to be state - certified teachers in order to home educate their children, (b) parents should have to have achieved a particular level of formal education in order to homeschool their children, (c) parents should have to pass teacher qualification examinations that states use for public school teachers, (d) homeschool students should be subjected to mandatory standardized achievement tests, (e) state officials should oversee the social activities of home - educated students (or homeschool socialization), and (f) parents should have to get approval from the state government in order to engage in home - based education with their children (see, e.g., Farris 2013; Yuracko, 2008).

The firestorm over standardized testing in the K - 12 accountability system that has been building in Texas for over two years is coming to a major showdown, and the primary context of the debate is with House Bill 5, which passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 145 - 2 and was passed out of the -LSB-...]