Sentences with phrase «place on college readiness»

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The Buffalo Democrat says the CTE diploma would place equal emphasis on college and career readiness, which he says is currently slanted more toward higher education.

Michigan's high school achievement test, in place since 1978, could be on its way out to make way for a set of new tests that would measure students» college readiness.

In a new article for Education Next, Ira Nichols - Barrer, Erin Dillon, Kate Place, and Brian Gill report that scores on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) exam and the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exam do equally well at predicting students» success in college, as measured by first - year grades and by the probability that a student needs remediation upon entering cCollege and Careers (PARCC) exam and the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exam do equally well at predicting students» success in college, as measured by first - year grades and by the probability that a student needs remediation upon entering ccollege, as measured by first - year grades and by the probability that a student needs remediation upon entering collegecollege.

New standards place more emphasis on reading nonfiction, and it's an essential skill for college and career readiness.

Weights: Overall, states generally place emphasis on growth at the elementary level, whereas proficiency and other indicators to gauge college and career readiness play a larger role in high schools; however, Georgia uses uniform achievement and growth weights across grade levels.

Others say they look for homes outside of Cambridge in places like Brookline or Belmont to put their children in those public school districts, which rank higher than the Massachusetts state average on metrics such as college readiness, math proficiency, and English proficiency.

March 2, 2017 — A new report Destination Known: Valuing College and Career Readiness in State Accountability Systems, urges state K - 12 systems to place a greater emphasis on student preparation for and success in postsecondary...

March 2, 2017 — A new report Destination Known: Valuing College and Career Readiness in State Accountability Systems, urges state K - 12 systems to place a greater emphasis on student preparation for and success in postsecondary education when establishing performance goals for high schools.

States will need to build new measures and metrics into their accountability systems to place greater value on these pathways and credentials as part of a system that encourages and supports college and career readiness for all students.

«Connecticut's Board of Regents for Higher Education reportedly already has placed SBAC results on its list of multiple measures that colleges and universities can use to evaluate student readiness and placement.

They are bursting through it with ideas and approaches that place higher student achievement and genuine college readiness first — and accept no limits on the school and learning designs that might best bring them about.»

In writing, the common core state standards reflect college and career readiness by reducing the traditional emphasis on narrative writing and placing a greater emphasis on informational and explanatory writing.

«The revised English standards that schools will begin implementing in 2012 - 2013 place increased emphasis on comprehension, vocabulary and research — areas critical to strengthening adolescent literacy and building college readiness,» Wright said.