Sentences with phrase «official high school test»

After seven years of tumult and transition fueled by the common core, state testing is settling down, with most states rejecting the federally funded PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments, and nearly one - quarter embracing the SAT or the ACT as their official high school test.

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NYS has a standardized testing problem, a NYSUT official writes: Many students do poorly on tests for grades 3 - 8, but pass high school Regents exams.

ALBANY — Outgoing state education commissioner John King hopes to help school leaders in other states navigate the difficult transition to the Common Core standards and related standardized testing in his new position as the second - highest ranking official in the U.S. Department of Education.

A pro-charter advocacy group wants New York education officials to investigate 10 district schools in Brooklyn that it says had «suspiciously high spikes» in scores on state tests.

Education groups, dismayed by the federal education secretary's threat to punish schools in New York with high opt - out rates for standardized tests, say he's re-igniting controversy that state education officials have been trying to calm for the past year.

When pushed, they may find a way: As one official at a recent State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA) event noted, in his state districts and schools felt like they were being pushed off the cliff when online testing was implemented, but in reality, the cliff was only a couple of feet high.

Sacramento — California's high - school seniors improved their scores this year in all areas of the state's basic - skills test, owing in large part, state and local testing officials say, to the availability of $ 14.4 million in incentive bonuses for schools.

Federal civil - rights officials are weighing a complaint that the test all Texas students must pass to get a high school diploma unfairly discriminates against minority youths.

Officials from purveyors of the nation's two most widely used admissions tests linked lagging scores in different sections of the exams to high school students» failure to take enough of the core classes needed to prepare them for higher education.

He examined the state's high - stakes exit - examination system — which features tests that students must pass in order to graduate from high school — and state tests that are used to hold schools and districts accountable but carry no official consequences for students.

Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their stories; ninth - grade physical science students design and strength - test mock airplane wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction picture books; algebra students of all grades investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.

Business leaders from important sectors of the American economy have been urging schools to set higher standards in math and science — and California officials, in mandating that 8th graders be tested in introductory algebra, have responded with one of the highest such standards in the land.

Revisions to the General Educational Development certificate that took effect earlier this year have caused headaches for testing officials from several states as they struggle to implement the changes to the high school equivalency program.

Whether the boycott movement grows in the new school year or education officials can successfully talk parents out of opting out, it's more clear that schools with high test boycott rates won't be penalized by losing federal or state monies.

District officials and the school board have come to realize that encouraging more parent centers on school campuses leads to more community engagement, higher attendance and eventually better test scores and higher graduation rates.

In place of using student test scores, the state Department of Education wants federal officials to permit California districts to use high school graduation rates and the participation rates of students in this spring's 11th — grade Smarter Balanced tests as measures of Adequate Yearly Progress in high schools.

The results announced yesterday would be considerably dimmer if state officials hadn't changed the scoring system for the test, administered each spring in elementary, middle, and high schools.

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Several years ago, many organizations, including the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, whose members are top - ranking state education officials, independently noticed that the content and scoring of high school «exit» tests varied widely between sSchool Officers, whose members are top - ranking state education officials, independently noticed that the content and scoring of high school «exit» tests varied widely between sschool «exit» tests varied widely between states.

Current state law requires a high school exit exam to be administered in 11th grade, but state officials and legislators have acknowledged the law may need to be changed to accommodate the new testing.

The Wisconsin proposal, however, is limited to children who are scoring in the top 5 percent of standardized tests or have been identified «by an education official» as being gifted and talented «if a student demonstrates evidence of high - performance capability in intellectual, creative, artistic, leadership or specific academic areas and needs services or activities not ordinarily provided in a regular school program.»

«(Reuters)-- Two Maryland high school students have been accused of using Twitter to cheat on Common Core state standardized tests, officials said on Monday.»

Even as education officials tout increases in test scores around Louisiana and in New Orleans, the only open - admissions school in Uptown New Orleans that exceeded state averages in any subject last year was New Orleans Charter Science and Math High School — and that was only in two of four subschool in Uptown New Orleans that exceeded state averages in any subject last year was New Orleans Charter Science and Math High School — and that was only in two of four subSchool — and that was only in two of four subjects.

The MET report uses data from six major urban school districts to, among other things, compare two different value - added scores for teachers: one computed from official state tests, and another from a test designed to measure higher - order, conceptual understanding.

At the same time, the law's aspiration morphed into a high - stakes target for accountability — not for the politicians, with their unachievable demands, but for school officials who were given an impossible burden of meeting annual testing goals.

Now, despite duplicitous official rhetoric that speaks of the importance of multiple measures to assess learning and teaching, high - stakes test scores are being used to quantify, rank, and judge everything in public schools.

Our schools were not built so educators would have a place to work each day, nor do they exist so that our government officials have locations to administer high - stakes standardized tests each spring.

But in addition, officials will look at how much each student's test score changed from last year to this year — the more students who showed high increases in their scores, the better the school's letter grade.

With high test scores and graduation rates to flash around, suburban school officials have had an easier time than their urban counterparts arguing that charters are an unnecessary drain on their budgets.

· Common Application · $ 75 nonrefundable application fee · Official high school transcript (s) · SAT I / ACT score (s) · Completed Studio Test · Recommendation letter strongly encouraged

· Common Application (Engineering applicants must select a major when applying) · $ 75 nonrefundable application fee · Official high school transcript (s) · SAT / ACT score (s) · Two SAT Subject Test scores - one in Mathematics (Level 1 or 2) AND one in Physics or Chemistry · Completed Writing Supplement · 2 - 3 Recommendation Letters

Return the completed application along with proof of your age and your high school transcript or official GED test results record.

Be within no more than 30 days of successful completion of all requirements needed to obtain a high school diploma or the equivalent, such as the General Education Development test (GED) or other equivalency test recognized by the candidate's state of residency, or diploma and official transcript reflecting equivalent education as evaluated by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers for secondary education (if documents are not in English, a translation into English from a translation service approved in the United States for legal or government documents must be available upon request).

Possess a high school diploma or the equivalent, such as the General Education Development test (GED) or other equivalency test recognized by the candidate's state of residency, or diploma and official transcript reflecting equivalent education as evaluated by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers for secondary education (if documents are not in English, a translation into English from a translation service approved in the United States for legal or government documents must be available upon request).