Sentences with phrase «off state test scores»

Of course I was predisposed in that direction because I'm a huge admirer of Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy charter schools — more than 40 of them now, in four boroughs of New York City — which are knocking the top off state test scores and providing terrific educational alternatives for thousands of youngsters, mostly poor and minority, who would otherwise be stuck in some of the country's worst urban schools.

Not exact matches

New York State United Teachers pressured the governor to back off his aggressive timeline for using test scores to evaluate teachers.

The Ninth Grade College Preparatory Academy is a state - ordered spin - off of Sam Houston High School, whose test scores have historically been so low that the state labeled the school «academically unacceptable» for six straight years.

As test - preparation materials leap off the printed page and onto the Web, an increasing number of states and districts are turning to online test - prep programs to help raise student scores on high - stakes assessments, Advanced Placement tests, and college - entrance exams.

By good I mean that they score comparatively well on state tests, have a goodly number of students who receive passing scores on Advanced Placement tests, send a majority of graduates off to college, and enjoy the support of their respective communities.

However, student test scores have increased significantly over the past four years, enough to push Mother Hale off the state's list of failing schools.

Obama's emphasis on evaluating individual teachers by students» test scores has set off a frenzied effort by states to rewrite their laws in hopes of snaring some of the federal billions.

Despite high teacher turnover and failing test scores, the state board of education backed off.

Reform efforts in this state are paying off in higher test scores and lowering the achievement gap between minority and white students.

It was a steep learning curve and a big job, but the hard work of my team paid off and we had strong results on our first state tests with an 85 % Performance Index score.

New York's expected turnabout comes as states across the country are trying to respond to anger over standardized testing, and as the Obama administration is backing off the idea of tying teacher evaluations to test scores.

One would give schools a year off from receiving state report cards and using student test scores in teacher evaluations.

The state Board of Education voted in favor of raising the «cut scores» or cut off scores for what's considered «proficient» on the state's standardized MEAP test.

Test scores improved, school jumped off the failing schools list, and Edwards credits the state's intervention as instrumental to the school's turnaround.

Achievement First has done slightly better on Connecticut's Master Tests but that is because it has «creamed» off the best students and even then Achievement First's — Bridgeport Academy CMT Math scores declined dramatically last year and both the Bridgeport schools and Achievement First Bridgeport Academy were put on the State Department of Education's watch list.

Then came the meteoric shock of consequential accountability, and student test scores (on the National Assessment of Educational Progress and state exams, too) started to take off.

When Principal James Lee learned that his students at Sylmar Charter High School had among the biggest jumps in state test scores in the local school district, he was thrilled but surprised, because they managed to pull it off despite a well - publicized lunchtime brawl that erupted on campus right in the middle of testing.

However, reflecting wariness over being judged too soon on tests they've never taken and standards they're just beginning to implement, the Association of California School Administrators and the California School Boards Association asked the State Board of Education to put off setting API base scores using the new tests for another year.