Sentences with phrase «posting failing test scores»

Urban schools often conjure up images of dilapidated buildings filled with impoverished kids, posting failing test scores.

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Charter - school advocates say the shift in resources is warranted because charters often excel where traditional schools have failed, posting stellar test scores even in impoverished neighborhoods with little history of academic success.

You can return to the Denver Post or Chalkbeat articles in just about any year just after the release of test score data to find the «it» schools of a particular year getting pages of press in their first year only to be soundly forgotten about when the new «it» schools come online and some of the previous years» schools fail to live up to expectations.

Diane Ravitch wrote a post drawing from an op ed piece written by Michigan teacher Nancy Flanagan decrying the Michigan's third grade «mandatory retention legislation» that requires schools to fail any third grader who scores below a certain level on the standardized tests used to determine «proficiency».