Sentences with phrase «pass proficiency tests»

(The Consumerist, 7 TSA Agents Fired For Paying Bribes To Pass Proficiency Tests)

Getting a teaching license in Indiana is a lot like getting a drivers license: A student teacher doesn't need to spend a certain amount of time «behind the wheel» of a classroom to earn a license, he or she only has to earn a degree from an accredited teacher preparation program and pass proficiency tests.

78 % of teachers expressed support for requiring students to pass proficiency tests to graduate from high school.

78 % expressed some support for requiring students to pass proficiency tests to graduate from high school.

When I attended college, it was necessary to pass a proficiency test.

3) Question: I am trying to get a job at the TSA but I can not pass the proficiency test.

The score necessary to pass the Proficiency Test is clearly advertised at writing seminars and announced in legal writing classes.

Not exact matches

As per the Texas Food Establishment Rules § 229.163, the person in charge shall demonstrate food safety knowledge by being a certified food protection manager who has shown proficiency of required information through passing a test that is part of an accredited program.

It has also been found that 10 % of healthy, term, exclusively breastfed babies undergoing the Baby - Friendly protocol experience hypoglycemia to levels that are associated with 50 % declines in the ability to pass the literacy and math proficiency test at 10 years of age, even if aggressively corrected.

Some 100,000 city students in grades 3 - 8 fell below proficiency on the tougher 2010 tests after passing in 2009.

Currently, seven states use the National Evaluation System's tests, 27 use the National Teachers Exam, 43 ask new teachers to pass basic skills tests, and 32 require teachers to demonstrate proficiency in the subjects they teach.

Because each state selects its own testing system and sets its own passing scores, there is no direct way to compare the proficiency levels established by one state against the others.

The Cincinnati Federation of Teachers is mobilizing its ranks to tutor high school seniors who have not passed the state proficiency test required for graduation.

From the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 1975 to its more inclusive follow - up in 1997; from the cry for attention from those lobbying for gifted students to calls for greater sensitivity to the learning styles of all student populations; from the initial proficiency tests of the early»90s to their high - stakes, pass - fail descendants; from the rise of bilingual education in some parts of the country to its demise in other regionspublic education has been a veritable vessel of change.

State requires that 75 percent of 9th graders in each school pass the High School Proficiency Test... Test scores for all four regular high schools are considerably below the state requirement.

The scores used to determine whether students demonstrated proficiency on the test were set too low, resulting in unexpectedly high passing rates for the state's elementary and middle school students.

The linguist turned gamer (who bears a passing resemblance to Sci Fi author Isaac Asimov) believes that the full integration of gaming technology into our educational program will end the need for tests — replaced by levels of proficiency as measured while playing the physics or history «game.»

Some teachers are not required to assign homework as long as their classes meet minimal requirements and pass the state proficiency test.

To help address this challenge, the President called on states to require all new teachers of math and science to pass challenging tests of math or science knowledge and teaching proficiency.

Meanwhile, just one in four Newark high school students passed state proficiency tests in reading and math.

Like other public school students in Michigan, HFA students must pass the state's proficiency test, so they needed competence in core areas.

The impact of the exit exam policy in Massachusetts is worth noting, especially since the proficiency threshold for passing the state test is one of the highest in the United States.

Students pass a course as soon as they can demonstrate proficiency as measured by rigorous testing requirements delivered via an advanced assessment system.

Rush says that first year proficiency scores are not the correct benchmark, since passing the 7th grade test is not the goal for the student starting at a 4th grade level.

That was back when NCLB was placing pressure on schools to get low - performing students over a modest «proficiency» bar — even while tacitly encouraging them to ignore the educational needs of their high - achievers, who were likely to pass state tests regardless of what their schools did for them.

Our major challenges are the same as those that face many schools that serve similar populations across the country: Helping our students get to grade - level proficiency and to pass standardized tests.

The tests are more demanding than the old Ohio Graduation Tests that students had to pass before - so much more that proficiency rates have fallen dramatically and students are not earning enough «points» to be on track to gradtests are more demanding than the old Ohio Graduation Tests that students had to pass before - so much more that proficiency rates have fallen dramatically and students are not earning enough «points» to be on track to gradTests that students had to pass before - so much more that proficiency rates have fallen dramatically and students are not earning enough «points» to be on track to graduate.

Change the test, or the passing score, and you change the definition of proficiency.

Known generally as exit exams, students must pass minimum - competency exams like New Jersey's High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) to graduate from high school.

The passing scores for the substitute tests were the same ones used in 2010 when the state transitioned into a new alternate assessment process for students who had failed the High School Proficiency Assessment.

Administrators and teachers were concerned, for example, because they did not know when the state «s high school proficiency test would begin testing for content taught in Algebra II, and what would happen to students who did n`t pass the test.

States are raising their expectations for student «proficiency» on tests of math and English / language arts, and making their tests tougher to pass.

Additionally, admittance into the program will be conditional upon successful enrollment into Relay GSE and passing all required state exams (Test of Academic Proficiency (TAP), Learning Behavior Specialist I, and Special Education General Curriculum) by specific deadlines.

The AMOs represent the minimum percentage of students within each subgroup in the lowest - performing schools that must pass Standards of Learning (SOL) tests in reading and mathematics in order to reduce sufficiently proficiency gaps in reading and mathematics within six years.

My son attends P.S. 289 in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, a chronically struggling school where just one in four children are passing the state's math and English Language Arts proficiency tests.

Some states, such as New York and Illinois, manipulated the passing scores on the tests by lowering the definition of proficiency needed in order to demonstrate progress.

They took English as a second language classes with us, progressed into academic classes, and have now completed all their credits and are poised to pass state proficiency tests to graduate.

The Illinois State Board of Education allows applicants to use their ACT / SAT score in lieu of passing the Test of Academic Proficiency (TAP) for admission.

Another irony omitted by Brill about Mapleton is that Johnston will soon become a State Senator who gets a law passed tying teacher evaluations to test scores while at his own school the scores were terrible with, for example, 11 percent proficiency in math in Johnston's final year as principal there.

Those who pass the test receive a Certificate of Proficiency from the State Board of Education, which is equal by law to a California high school diploma.

When New York State made its standardized English and math tests tougher to pass this year, causing proficiency rates to plummet, it said it was relying on a new analysis showing that the tests had become too easy and that score inflation was rampant.

NCLB sets very high teacher qualifications by requiring new teachers to possess one (or often more) college degrees in specific subjects and to pass a battery of proficiency tests.

This is due in large part to federal school classification requirements, which were specific by design to label and differentiate treatment of schools based on whether they met annual reading and math proficiency targets.2 This often led to narrow or simple pass / fail categorization systems based on schools meeting incrementally increasing state targets for test scores and graduation rates.

In the state's administration of high - school proficiency tests this year in English, Central High School's passing rate rose to 69 % from 37 %.

The state does not require aspiring teachers to pass a test of academic proficiency, nor does the state require a minimum GPA for admission to teacher preparation programs.

Massachusetts should require candidates to pass a test of academic proficiency that assesses reading, mathematics and writing prior to program admission.

I would also add that for high schools, I believe the CAHSEE (an 8th grade level test) was also very heavily weighted, and a number of schools gamed their scored by doing lots of CAHSEE prep, and thus ensuring their 10th and 11th graders could pass 8th grade material with proficiency.

Applicants must pass an Oral Proficiency test at advanced - mid offered by UFLA, to be eligible for an interview.

The so - called group of «state education leaders» also voted to define the «passing mark» on the Common Core tests so that 38 percent to 44 percent of the elementary school children will «meet the proficiency mark» in English / language arts, and only 32 percent to 39 percent will do so in math.

They will have to successfully demonstrate proficiency in the subject they wish to teach by passing the Praxis I and II tests before they can enter a certification program.