Sentences with phrase «readiness measures»

Parents want to know what services schools offer, including pre-K and kindergarten, not to mention other information such as kindergarten readiness measures.

How to establish a set of evidence - based readiness measures, and how to balance the use of subjective and objective measures continues to be a big challenge.

For this reason, it is crucial to consider a range of readiness measures, including postsecondary experiences prior to high school graduation and persistence in postsecondary pathways.

Overall, ESSA represents a watershed moment for states, with 49 identifying career readiness strategies in some form and 35 adopting career readiness measures in their state accountability systems.

«If we continue to have to trade key readiness measures like spare parts and maintenance and training hours away because the cost of energy has increased, that ultimately erodes our readiness as well as our combat capability, making us less ready to deploy and do our nation's bidding.»

Chronic absenteeism; a mix of attendance indicators; choice to re-enroll in same school; standardized observations that take into account factors including classroom organization, emotional support, and instructional support; college - readiness measured by ACT, AP, and IB participation and scores

Wyoming's plan sets forth a path to success for all of its students by looking beyond college readiness and including career and military readiness measures in its accountability model.

Connection to Career Technical Education (CTE): ESSA both encouraged and allowed states to incorporate CTE into their plans through an emphasis on a «well - rounded education» (which includes CTE programs and activities) and the opportunity to embed CTE and career readiness measures within state accountability systems.

For example, college readiness measures like Advanced Placement classes and college entrance exams are available in most high schools but not elementary or middle schools, and student or academic progress data that looks at year - over-year progress may be less likely to be available in a high school where state standardized tests are only given in one grade.

To make this significant shift, the district took on a list of pivotal tasks, including coordinating curriculum and professional development for teachers of pre-K — 3rd grade, bringing pre-K programs under the authority of elementary school principals, and building kindergarten readiness measures from scratch.

In 50 years of evaluation, PCHP has documented important longitudinal impacts for program participants: graduates enter school as well or better prepared than their classmates, perform significantly better than their socioeconomic peers and as well as or better than the overall population on school readiness measures in kindergarten and first grade, and are reading and doing math on grade level in third grade.

This finding holds with the Race to the Top requirement for grantees to establish teacher evaluations tied to the state assessments (consistency), public reporting of college and career readiness measures (power), and other conditions that add authority to the implementation of CCR standards.

Achievement; growth; graduation rates combined with college -, career -, or military - readiness measures; English - language proficiency

• the expansion of college - and career - readiness measures — going beyond graduation rates to include important, new indicators.

Acceleration and Readiness Measures, consisting of several items including reduction of chronic absenteeism and the improved growth of subgroups