Sentences with phrase «poorly on state tests»

Formerly homeless students continue to do poorly in school for years, scoring as poorly on state tests as their peers who have no place to live.

Some newly hired teachers have been instructed to catch up by simply skipping important eras of U.S. history, which makes it likely that their students will perform poorly on state tests.

The boys who attend the school, which has performed poorly on state tests for years, are distinguishable in the city by their blue blazers and ties, and respectful demeanor.

If they don't sufficiently value learning, your students may do poorly on state tests.

Mr. Packard has repeatedly delivered upbeat assessments to Wall Street about the progress of K12 Inc. students, even as many schools were performing poorly on state tests.

Beginning in 1997, the state assigned assistance teams to intervene in schools that performed poorly on state tests and failed to meet their growth targets from the previous year.

Do opt - outs tend to be concentrated among relatively affluent districts, or are they most common in schools that have historically performed poorly on state tests?

When the seventh grader is actually operating at a fourth - grade level, we have a hard choice to make: meet him where he is, knowing he'll likely learn a lot but do poorly on the state test, or expose him to seventh - grade content, knowing he's not likely to learn most of it, but may pick up a few points along the way.

Not exact matches

Being taught from a syllabus that's «a mile wide and an inch deep,» the report states, could be one reason why U.S. students do relatively poorly on international achievement tests.

In Massachusetts, writes Georgia Alexakis in the Washington Monthly, the paradox of these reform efforts is, «The schools most likely to do poorly on the MCAS [the state test in Massachusetts] have also been most likely to embrace it, while those districts whose scores are already quite high are fighting hardest to get rid of it.»

Results of four experiments showed that women tended to perform as well as men on a math test when the test was administered by a woman with high competence in math, but they performed more poorly (and showed a lower state of self - esteem) when the test was administered by a man.

And the governor and state lawmakers also agreed to a deal that would prevent teachers who score poorly on the new test - based teacher evaluation from being fired until at least 2016.

He had just told a gathering of state superintendents of education that «white suburban moms» were rebelling against the Common Core academic standards — new guidelines for math and language arts instruction — because their kids had done poorly on the tough new tests.

The draft regulation states that «we are requesting public comments on several possible criteria to use to strengthen the test for redesignation of poorly performing Head Start grantees.»

The conclusion of this small and imperfect study was that the more a teacher used student - centered approaches, the more his or her students learned, and the better they did on an exam of complex problem - solving that resembles the PISA international test for 15 - year - olds, on which the United States has historically done poorly.

For years, Florida middle and high school students who did poorly on state math and reading tests had to take remedial classes in those subjects the next academic year.

And although the state's voucher program has more stringent academic expectations than many others — private schools must give the same state tests as public schools, are graded on the same A-to-F scale and can be prohibited from accepting new voucher students if they perform poorly — there are loopholes.

Does anyone really imagine that states did not know what their students were expected to be taught before taking national tests and that this is the reason why these states have always done so poorly on nations tests?

Wiggins's examination of released state test items in Massachusetts, Florida, and Ohio reveals that, in both language arts and mathematics, U.S. students do poorly on questions that demand making inferences, applying knowledge, and drawing conclusions.

In the Pennsylvania study, among others, when administrators, teachers, and librarians agreed that librarians did an «excellent» job teaching to state reading and writing standards, students in their schools were more likely to excel and less likely to score poorly on corresponding tests (Lance & Schwarz, 2012).