Sentences with phrase «on national standardized tests»

The National Blue Ribbon Schools are selected based on one of two criteria: performance on state assessments, or in the case of private schools, performance on national standardized tests; or schools with at least 40 percent of students from disadvantaged backgrounds that raise achievement as measured by state assessments or national standardized tests.

Educators in Nevada seem to agree the state could do a lot more to improve the academic achievement of the roughly 400,000 public school students in pre-K-12th grade this year, who, on average, lag behind their peers in most other states on national standardized tests and graduation rates.

Bay State Blues Though Massachusetts leads the nation on national standardized tests, new findings by Associate Professor Nonie Lesaux indicate that there is room for significant improvement.

Maryland's public school students made greater gains on a national standardized test than their peers in nearly every other state, although the achievement gap between white and minority students persists.

The National Blue Ribbon Schools are selected based on one of two criteria: performance on state assessments, or in the case of private schools, performance on national standardized tests and high school graduation rates; or performance in closing achievement gaps between a school's subgroups and all students over the past five years while increasing graduation rates for each subgroup.

The gains show up on national standardized tests and the city's own tests in reading and math, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.

Although overall scores on national standardized tests have been among the fastest - rising in the nation, there are still stark achievement gaps separating white and black students and the wealthy and poor.