Sentences with phrase «readiness tests last»

Only 8 percent of Perspectives's students passed multi-state college - readiness tests last year, which were designed to test the new, tougher Common Core standards.

Only about one in four of the high - school graduates who took the American College Testing (ACT) program's college - readiness test last year met the benchmarks in reading comprehension, English, math, and science.

Not exact matches

Many fires, shootings and storms last year tested hospital readiness.

Moreover, ACT Inc., which began measuring college readiness as the American College Testing Program in the 1950s, reports that among the college aspirants who took its admission exams last year, only 21 percent of the graduating seniors attained scores high enough in all four subjects — English, reading, math, and science — to indicate that they wouldn't need to take a no - credit remedial course when they entered college.

Last week, the District received its results for two school assessment tests: the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC).

High schools in the state gave the new Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers test, tied to the Common Core curriculum, for the first time last spring.

That last point is key — under Bennett, Indiana agreed to take a new, nationally - developed test known as the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC.

All standardized test makers have been under extra scrutiny in the last year, but few have been beaten up more than the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), one of two groups tapped by the federal government to make tests aligned to the Common Core.

Only 8 percent of Perspectives» students passed last year's multistate Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) tests, which were designed to test the new, tougher Common Core standards.

Last year he took a kindergarten readiness test at his preschool.