Sentences with phrase «poor test scores»

On one hand, state board members said schools must be held accountable for poor test scores.

This law cost private schools with poor test scores considerable funding.

We shouldn't be blaming poor test scores on the children or their parents, race, or gender.

Schools producing poor test scores will almost inevitably incur harsh criticism from parents as well as policy makers and educators.

Even a few months ago she said she would close public schools with poor test scores.

All students at South Side take advanced English, but principal Carol Burris fears more students in New York will be put in lower - quality remedial classes because of poor test scores on the new Common Core tests.

But can money follow students even if they choose to go to a district, such as IPS, that's been sanctioned for poor test scores in some of its schools?

Emails obtained by The Associated Press show Bennett and his staff scrambled last fall to ensure influential donor Christel DeHaan's school received an «A,» despite poor test scores in algebra that initially earned it a «C.»

Corbett, in particular, certainly wasn't good at everything — other than posting poor test scores.

He listed among his pet causes improving stubbornly poor test scores and college readiness among public school students, bolstering support for the NYPD, cutting business regulations and ameliorating the «national disgrace» of living conditions within the New York City Housing Authority.

Supposedly that ending was used at one point, but it received poor test scores.

Poor tests scores ~ shabby work ~ disorganized.

But, if we're going to support our arguments for choice with test scores (using them to show either shortcomings in public schools or the benefits of choice), we have hitched our wagon to them and can't be surprised if people attack vouchers when poor test score results come out.

According to a study by public school education news site, School News Network (SNN), socioeconomic status affects academic achievement; that is, poor students get just as poor test scores.

Gist said she was troubled by the state's continuing poor test scores, noting only 17 percent of low - income students were proficient in reading, according to the 2009 Nation's Report Card.

Speed up the timeline for state - led interventions in schools with chronically poor test scores or create a parallel timeline for state - led interventions in districts where underperformance has become «systemic.»

Does the fear of punishing a school or a teacher for poor test scores motivate institutions and educators to perform better?

Z.E.C.A., located in Jacksonville, is experiencing a significant financial crisis that prompted CSAB chair Quigley to call their situation «a perfect storm» after considering the school's very poor test scores and low student enrollment numbers along with their financial issues.

With Lafayette High School under orders from Albany to close because of poor test scores, the school is proposing a re-structuring of itself.

It demonstrates that blaming teachers for poor test scores and absenteeism is often both unjust and unconstructive.

Seals Nevergold said that despite poor test scores and a low graduation rate Brown had a good «transitional» first year.

But in state after state, full - time online schools have posted poor test scores and abysmal graduation rates.

Poor test scores in America are an educational problem that can be fixed if we do a better job of first good teaching and teacher training.

He credits low enrollment, along with poor test scores, as the reason for closing Animo Justice.

OECD researchers arrived looking for solutions to Sweden's poor test scores.

Public schools should also receive a copy, although currently those schools are having enough trouble dealing with drugs, bullying, guns, poor test scores, and other problems resulting from general social decay.

Schools certainly feel the immediate costs of failing to prioritize wellness — poor test scores for students, lower standardized test scores school - wide, reduced funding resulting from absenteeism, which is why it is so important to share this report with school administrators and boards of education.

Supporters of the Ark Community Charter School tried to turn up the heat on state university officials with a rally decrying what could happen if SUNY officials go ahead and close the facility due to its poor test scores.

The people who were left behind were poor, and poverty is well - known to be strongly correlated to poor test scores and poor educational levels no matter what country you live in.

It wasn't just record keeping and poor test scores.

In an unprecedented crackdown on schools with poor test scores, the district said it would thoroughly assess each school's shortcomings and help create detailed plans for improvement.

The principal heard the predictions that unruly students, race riots, and poor test scores would plague the new school.

Patricia Chen, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford and the lead author of the study, says she often had students coming to her lamenting their poor test scores.

Just as we found no evidence in the 2002 and 2004 elections that a large block of voters held incumbents accountable for poor test scores, we failed to find any indication that incumbents in 2002 and 2004 based their decisions about running for reelection on student learning trends.

The Philadelphia School District has directed all teachers in «empowerment schools» — the schools with poor test scores — to use Reading Mastery for 45 minutes before starting on another literacy block, 75 minutes of students reading together, independently, or under the guidance of a teacher.

Essentially, the schools are where Commodore was in 2010: poor test scores, declining enrollment, and persistent misbehavior.

As we wrote Monday, Democrat Glenda Ritz earned the support of another newspaper over the weekend: The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette «s editorial board endorsed her in their Sunday opinion pages, criticizing Bennett's push for more school choice and broadened state powers to intervene in schools with chronically - poor test scores.

We wrote earlier today about how the dispute highlights a conflict between the values of parental choice and accountability for poor test scores, largely because the school's enrollment has grown by more than 60 percent despite test scores well below the state average.

Poor test scores, in fact, were Boody Jr..

When your third grader just isn't up to par with reading comprehension (you know that he or she is struggling because of a lack of interest in books, poor test scores, and teacher input) what are you supposed to do about it?

Fearful of poor test scores that can bring punitive measures, schools spend an inordinate amount of time preparing their students for the tests.

They want to highlight the conditions and lack of opportunities in their schools that contribute to poor test scores.

Should they renew a school that has poor test scores, or that the state rates as «unacceptable?»

Klein's story has contributed to the demoralization of tens of thousands of teachers who are now blamed for their low - income students» poor test scores.

It is just the louses responsible for poor test scores that they despise.

If you say poverty is a contributing factor to poor test scores (and in fact it is THE SOLE FACTOR in poor American test scores), you are accused of «the soft bigotry of low expectations.»

These low ratings, which stand in contrast to the high marks given to the vast majority of teachers statewide, highlight the difficulty of turning around schools that have long had poor test scores and graduation rates.

Charters currently educate more than 600,000 students at 3,000 of the nation's 88,000 public schools; they have grown tremendously over the past decade and appear likely to grow even more as No Child Left Behind identifies thousands of schools across the country for possible closure because of poor test scores.