Sentences with phrase «only the language scores»

Over the last three years, only the language scores on the HSPA showed some significant narrowing of achievement differences.

Not exact matches

Wilsher is very good, all what he needs in his game to make his haters shut up is him scoring goals, bec thats the only language fans understand.

1) Unless your organization's email content regularly involves commercial - sounding language (e.g., you are selling products in an estore, or promoting services provided by affinity marketers), content - only spam scoring systems are of relatively limited utility.

(It's unclear how, say, a foreign - language examination would be scored in a school district with only one teacher qualified to score the test.)

Statewide, only 31 percent of students scored proficient or higher on the math and language arts exams.

Only those with high incomes, stable jobs and high scores on language / integration tests can live with their family.

The data comprised of English language test scores and two types of questionnaires — one asked about personality and linguistic information, and the other only about their personality.

24 Hours to Live Rated R for strong bloody violence throughout, language and some drug use Rotten Tomatoes Score: 38 % Available On Disc and Streaming This practically straight to DVD release stars Ethan Hawke as an assassin who is killed, only to be brought back to life with only 24 hours to live before he will finally meet his demise.

The Ballad of Lefty Brown Rated R for violence and some language Rotten Tomatoes Score: 80 % Available on Disc and Streaming Yet another decent Western this year, The Ballad of Lefty Brown stars Bill Pullman as the titular character: a cowboy who witnesses the death of his partner, only to be blamed for the crime and forced to both prove his innocence and bring the real criminals to justice.

Hostiles Rated R for strong violence, and language Rotten Tomatoes Score: 73 % Available on Disc and Streaming Christian Bale plays a decorated Army Captain who is tasked with escorting a dying Cheyenne war chief and his family back to their tribal lands, only to discover a woman (Rosamund Pike) who is the lone survivor from her family after a brutal Comanche attack.

Miss Sloane Rated R for language and some sexuality Rotten Tomatoes Score: 71 % In this box office dud, Jessica Chastain is a high power Washington lobbyist who tries to force through a bill that would enact common - sense gun regulations, only to find herself in the battle of her life as she fights the gun manufacturers.

Irrational Man Rated R for some language and sexual content Rotten Tomatoes Score: 42 % Available on DVD and Blu - ray Woody Allen's latest stars Joaquin Phoenix as a burnt out writer who becomes a professor at a small college only to get a new lease on life when he toys with the idea of killing a local judge to help out a random stranger.

Straight Outta Compton Rated R for language throughout, strong sexuality / nudity, violence, and drug use Rotten Tomatoes Score: 88 % Available on DVD and Blu - ray Biopics can be very hit and miss but this critically acclaimed story about the rap group NWA found a way to not only tell one of the pivotal stories of rap music, but managed to do so in a way that has the power to change the perspectives of its audience.

I Am Not Your Negro Rated PG - 13 for disturbing violent images, thematic material, language and brief nudity Rotten Tomatoes Score: 99 % Upon his death in 1987, James Baldwin had written only thirty pages of a manuscript that was to become the book «Remember This House,» giving the personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr..

I've also be clear that I believe the reason the test scores are higher is that not only are classrooms sizes small etc. etc. but that AF and other charters are pulling those students that are less poor, speak primarily English, do not go home to households that don't have English as their primary language and have fewer special education needs.

In 2009, only 40 percent of third - grade students scored proficient or advanced on the end - of - grade English language arts exam.

High - stakes tests are given only in math and English language arts, so reformers have decided that all teachers (and, sometimes, principals) in a school should be evaluated by reading and math scores.

For example, students who are fluent in a tonal language, such as Mandarin, tend to have a greater understanding of math concepts — and some special - education students in language - immersion programs score as well on assessments as their general - education peers in English - only programs.

So this means, in the language of PARCC, that «only» 41 % of New Jersey 11th graders are «on track» to be «college and career ready» in English, and «only» 36 % of Algebra students are similarly situated (Again, remember that score distributions are likely almost entirely unchanged from the previous state assessments — this is about how high the cut scores are set).

Last year, only 7 percent of New York City students with disabilities scored «proficient» or better in English and 12 percent in math, and statewide there were at least 190 school districts in which not a single special education student was proficient on the third - grade language arts test.

The district's English learners scored worse than the state average for English learners on the Smarter Balanced tests, with only three percent exceeding or meeting English language standards and only five percent doing so in math.

The school grade is based only on language arts, math and science test scores.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

Hence, what is in store for Connecticut parents, according to Pelto, is what has already occurred in New York State where Pelto indicates «that only 31 percent of all public school students in New York State got a «passing score» on the math and English language arts Common Core tests.»

With 85 percent of Brooke students at that Level 5 in the math and English language PARCC tests, the Boston Public Schools scored only 34 percent and 39 percent, respectively, in these exams.

And, sure enough, E4E's «declaration» includes language endorsing teacher assessments using value added modeling of standardized test scores, a method which is only slightly more reliable than throwing darts randomly at a wall.

But Connecticut joined other corporate education reform industry groupies, and in a shocking display of arrogance and abuse, decided to set the «cut score» on the Smarter Balanced Consortium Common Core Test to ensure that only 41 percent of 11th graders will show proficiency in English / language arts, and 33 percent will do so in math.

The charter group found that the charter students scored nine percentage points higher in English language arts but only four percentage points higher in math.

Additionally, students who score higher over time seem to have mastered the construct, when in reality they only gained more language proficiency.

Using natural language processing, the service scans your documents (in Word format only, for now) and assigns them a score based on how favorable the terms are for the user.

In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting showed modest benefits in children's language and cognitive development.102 In Elmira, only the intervention children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis, children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small, positive effects on children's cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified large cognitive effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107