Sentences with phrase «poor test results year»

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Regardless, the results are worrying, she said, because children who live in poor neighborhoods are, on average, a year behind academically, according to standardized math, reading and writing assessment tests of the students.

The results of eye tests carried out as part of last year's annual survey of the health of schoolchildren were the worst on record, with the highest ever number of children having sight classed as «extremely poor».

In the study from Northern Ireland, four of the five people who still had positive EMA - IgA test results one year after diagnosis had what the researchers termed «poor dietary compliance.»

While we spent recent years pretending that a teacher might lose his or her job because of an 8th grader's poor test results, we gave short shrift to the reality facing the 8th grader: a lifetime of truncated opportunities dictated by weak performance at an incredibly young age.

Ford added that changing tests after one year of poor results «is a teacher's worst nightmare.

These schools generally enroll students from very poor families, have hard - working but dispirited teachers, have safety problems, and as a result, have had unacceptably low test scores and graduation rates for years.

As Republican lawmakers push for expansion of Milwaukee's 20 - year - old voucher program, state test results for the first time show voucher students performing «similar or worse» than other poor Milwaukee students.

Results were mixed at some of New York City's most highly touted charter schools, often acclaimed as «miracle» schools because in years past, so many of their mostly poor and minority students aced the state's proficiency tests.

If «proficient» and «highly proficient» are achievement labels that should be reserved for students likely to go to a four year college or university, then education reform advocates have never effectively made that case to the public, preferring instead to point to the results on state testing that have been designed with this specific result in mind and declaring themselves correct about how poor a job our nation's schools are doing.

Each year educators raise concerns about the limitations of standardized testing and the downside of «teaching to the test» while policymakers and commentators discuss and pontificate about the «shockingly poor results.»

Faced with American students» poor results on international tests, a state - based movement arose several years ago to try to raise education standards through a program known as «Common Core.»

The poor test results highlighted another problem: Kids were changing schools multiple times; in a given year, about one - third of the students ended up in different schools.

Charter performance would be even better were it not for the very poor test results of a handful of charter schools opened in the past four years under the sponsorship of Ball State University, Raymond said.

«Adelante» means «going forward» in Spanish, which is exactly what the school wants to do; they must improve upon multiple years of poor test results to avoid closure.

However, in the side barrier test, the head of the 10 year dummy contacted the metal frame of the folding roof and protection was rated as poor, based on the resulting high decelerations.

Similarly, protection of the neck was rated as poor for the 10 year dummy, as a result of high tensile forces during the test.