Sentences with phrase «only passing standardized tests»

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This title is only awarded to people who have passed a rigorous a two - day, nationally standardized test.

The only external standardized test in Finland is the national Matriculation Examination, a high - stakes exam that determines college readiness and which all students are required to pass in order to graduate high school exit and enter university.

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.

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.

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.

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.