Sentences with phrase «on the state tests rose»

For each six - hour day teachers in the 130,000 - student Duval County district, which includes Jacksonville, took part in the program offered by the Schultz Center for Teaching and Leadership, student scores on state tests rose by half a point.

All but one of the eight elementary turnaround schools show substantial gains in closing the achievement gap, with the percentage of students meeting or exceeding standards on the state test rising 8 - 28 percent, compared to the school's pre-turnaround status.

The share of students proficient on state tests rose from 35 percent in 2005 to 56 percent in 2011; 40 percent of students attended schools identified by the state as «academically unacceptable» in 2011, down from 78 percent in 2005.

But as teachers and students adapted to the new standards, scores on the state tests rose.

Not exact matches

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The vote — an abrupt about - face in policies pushed by Cuomo and the Regents in recent years — was the latest in a series of state responses to rising public opposition against Albany's direction on school curricula, testing and educator evaluations.

The changes made to the state's tests have made it difficult to compare student performance on the assessments over time — a fact that has not stopped the de Blasio administration from publicly celebrating rising scores.

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Scores on high - stakes tests rose rapidly in states that were early adopters of school accountability, and Texas was no exception.

These annual volumes make assertions about empirical facts («students» scores on the state tests used for NCLB are rising»; or «lack of capacity is a serious problem that could undermine the success of NCLB») and provide policy recommendations («some requirements of NCLB are overly stringent, unworkable, or unrealistic»; «the need for funding will grow, not shrink, as more schools are affected by the law's accountability requirements»).

Ackerman pointed to the district's support for the growing numbers of students selecting charter schools and to rising test scores by district students on the state's standardized tests.

Longtime Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley had won control over the school system in 1995 and generally received accolades for rising scores on state tests; hard - charging superintendents, including Paul Vallas and Arne Duncan; tough accountability measures such as reduced social promotion; and a slew of new schools and shiny buildings.

Reacting to the rising criticisms directed toward PACT, voters may have grown disenchanted with the state's accountability system and removed test - score performance from among the criteria on which they evaluated school board candidates.

The council's Beating the Odds VI report, a city - by - city analysis of student performance, recently revealed that urban students» scores on state assessments in reading and math as well as on the more rigorous federal test — the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- are rising, with urban students making the most gains in mathematics.

The report, conducted by the Center on Education Policy, a Washington - based research organization that tracks implementation of the federal law, found that schools and districts are better aligning instruction and state standards, that test scores are rising, and that the number of schools labeled «in need of improvement» is holding steady.

The percentage of students scoring at or above grade level on the state's proficiency tests has risen from 56 percent to nearly 75 percent in just six years.

In Arizona's first group of 72 schools to win grants (comprising 1,800 educators and 26,000 students), the percentage of students meeting or exceeding the standard on Arizona's state AIMS (Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standard) reading test rose from 45 percent in spring of 2004 to 59 percent in spring of 2007, nearly triple the gain for the state over the same period (62 to 67 percent).

Mr. Klein said in an interview that he was not discouraged by New York City's performance on the 2010 state tests, and that he still felt «awfully good» about improvements for black and Hispanic students, noting their rising graduation rates and college enrollments.

On tests administered by the federal Education Department, Massachusetts, which had been above average, rose to No. 1 among the 50 states in math.

This study found that rising scores on the state tests did not correlate with improved performance on the ACT.

reported that performances on state standardized math tests rose at the district's high schools as did average daily attendance.

Though scores have risen on the state's TAAS test, the gains usually fail to appear even on other tests.

Texas began tracking college readiness in 2006 based on readiness for post-secondary success as measured by state assessments and scores on the SAT and ACT tests and it rose every year, reaching a peak in 2014.

Its graduation rate rose from 64.3 percent in 2007 to 78.8 percent in 2012, according to data provided by the district, and it narrowed the achievement gaps between the district's Hispanic students and Texas» white students by more than 50 percent on state tests in high school math and science.

N.J.'s big education news is our kids» sharp rise in proficiency levels on this past Spring's state standardized test called PARCC — districts will release scores tomorrow — but you'd never know it by looking at the papers.

Perhaps not surprisingly, scores have risen significantly on many states» tests, including New York's, leading to criticism that they had become too easy.

But Jim Malatras, his director of state operations, said the rise in test refusals did not signal a political miscalculation on the part of the governor.

Performance on state standardized tests also rose — as did the Academic Performance Index (API) score, which increased 54 points.

John Fremer, president of Caveon Consulting Services, a Utah company that has analyzed 20 million test results in 20 states, confirms that cheating is on the rise.

Despite years of state budget cuts and rising class sizes that now average 30 or more, 83 percent of Laurel Street K - fifth grade students scored at the proficient or higher level on a recent state language - arts exam, and 91 percent scored that high on the state math test.

* Poland is showing substantial increases in test scores on all three tests, rising well above the United States.

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