Sentences with phrase «reading and math last»

Only 31 percent of students statewide passed the exams in reading and math last year, down from 55 percent in reading and 65 percent in math in 2012.

At Southside Ashpole, for example, only 18.4 percent of students were proficient in reading and math last school year.

Official figures show the school, which joined the trust four years ago, had pupil progress scores in the bottom nine per cent of schools for reading and maths last year.

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That set off a backlash in which a fifth of the eligible students sat out the state's third - through eighth - grade reading and math tests last spring.

A data breach at the company that develops New York State's third - through - eighth grade reading and math tests allowed an unauthorized user to access information about 52 students who took the tests by computer last spring, the state's Education Department said on Thursday.

Commissioner Elia said last spring that she would eliminate questions from both the math and reading tests to make them shorter.

Reading other people's budget posts last month did, however, give me the urge to do a quick tally of my year - to - date numbers, and after doing the math, I figured I'd might as well share it with you.

Last year, Florida students posted the best results ever on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in both reading and math.

EdNext (long question administered to a random half of the sample): As you may know, in the last few years states have been deciding whether or not to use the Common Core, which are standards for reading and math that are the same across the states.

The school district said last month that nearly 450 students will not graduate this year unless they pass the state's four - section exam of reading, writing, math, and citizenship.

Moreover, DCPS students show impressive gains over the last decade, not only on district tests but also on National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading and math assessments.

A Little Rock, Arkansas, performance - pay program lasted only three years and was not renewed by the local school board, despite evidence of positive effects on student achievement in math, reading, and language.

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.

Last school year ~ I worked with one brilliant young lady ~ who could perform math and reading at three levels above her grade ~ recite hundreds of historical facts from memory ~ and trouble - shoot the teachers technology problems ~ but when you gave her a county - required essay prompt to hand - write ~ she would stand in the corner and cry.

• The alternate version drops the program's name: «As you may know, in the last few years states have been deciding whether or not to use standards for reading and math that are the same across the states.

• One version of the question refers to the program by name: «As you may know, in the last few years states have been deciding whether or not to use the Common Core, which are standards for reading and math that are the same across the states.

As you may know, in the last few years states have been deciding whether or not to use the Common Core, which are standards for reading and math that are the same across the states.

The question read as follows: As you may know, in the last few years states have been deciding whether or not to use the Common Core, which are standards for reading and math that are the same across states.

The report discloses that in last years tests, 79 per cent of pupils achieved the expected grades in reading, writing and maths.

When the 2013 test results came out last year, NAGB reported the results against these benchmarks for the first time, finding that 39 percent of students in the twelfth - grade assessment sample met the preparedness standard for math and 38 percent did so for reading.

A sixth grader who posted 4s on the reading and writing sections last year and a 5 on the math section was aiming for all 5s this year.

Last year, 63 percent of the students performed at or above grade level in reading, and 55 percent performed at or above grade level in math, according to Levin, the KIPP principal.

Even as the Department of Education began soliciting proposals from test contractors last week, House lawmakers both criticized and praised the Clinton administration's plan for new national student tests in reading and math.

If there's ever been a case of «wrong for all the right reasons,» it's the laser - like focus on reading and math that has been the hallmark of schooling for the last few decades and was enshrined in education policy under the No Child Left Behind Act.

Under a 10 - principle plan to improve teacher preparation programs unanimously approved by the Georgia state regents last month, elementary education candidates will be required to complete an academic minor in both reading and math.

Last but not least, its teaching approach is designed to work with both advanced and struggling students, and intended to foster abstract skills like creativity, depth of thought, and problem solving, rather than focusing on remediation and basic reading and math skills.

For the analysis, released last week by the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University in Bloomington, researchers analyzed data stretching back as far as 1996 from 4th and 8th grade reading and math tests administered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress and from state assessments in those subjects.

Under the last system which was dropped last year, 80 per cent met the required standard in reading, writing and maths.

Poland has also seen impressive improvements: 48 points in maths (from 470 to 518), 39 points in reading (479 to 518) and 43 points in science (483 to 526)-- ranking 14th, 10th and 9th in these three areas, respectively, in the last round of results.

As you may know, in the last few years states have been deciding whether or not to use [the Common Core, which are] standards for reading and math that are the same across the states.

And our overall growth over the last decade is greater than any other state or district: seventeen scale - score points in fourth grade math, nineteen in fourth grade reading, and twelve in eighth grade maAnd our overall growth over the last decade is greater than any other state or district: seventeen scale - score points in fourth grade math, nineteen in fourth grade reading, and twelve in eighth grade maand twelve in eighth grade math.

U.S. students remained relatively steady in science and reading in 2015 compared with 2012, when the exam was last administered, but dropped below the global average in math.

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the «Nation's Report Card,» «proficiency» rates last year were below 50 percent for every racial and ethnic group, in both reading and math, in both 4th and 8th grade.

In math and reading, passage rates climbed five points from last year, to 69 percent and 71 percent respectively.

This year, 85 percent of students districtwide passed reading tests, up from 81 percent last year, and the passage rate for math rose two points, to 83 percent.

Mirroring national results, scores in California on 4th - grade math dipped by 2 points and in 8th - grade math by 1 point compared with 2013, the last time the... read more

Last year, our younger students earned the highest math and reading scores on record.

They cover high school seniors, who took the test in math and reading last year.

During the last four years of her tenure, special education student proficiency on state reading and math assessments increased between 13 and 34 points at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

And among the schools using the «phase - in» approach (taking over schools grade - by - grade), schools averaged a twenty - two - point gain in reading proficiency on the state assessment, and a sixteen - point gain in math last yeAnd among the schools using the «phase - in» approach (taking over schools grade - by - grade), schools averaged a twenty - two - point gain in reading proficiency on the state assessment, and a sixteen - point gain in math last yeand a sixteen - point gain in math last year.

While reading and math proficiency scores are low at Garfield, Garfield was recognized last year for its improvements in academic achievement.

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.

On a day when party labels had the other chamber in turmoil, a surprisingly unified House overwhelmingly passed a version of President Bush's education reform plan last week that would for the first time tie federal aid to school performance on annual math and reading tests.

But when you compare the charters to the DCPS schools they're actually competing with — the ones outside of Ward 3 — the gap becomes more dramatic: The proficiency rate among charter students last year was about 34 percent higher in math and 30 percent higher in reading.

Sixty one per cent of pupils achieved the government's «expected standard» in reading, writing and maths in this year's key stage 2 SATs, up from 53 per cent last year, interim results published by the government show.

For the last three years, the Obama administration has given waivers from the law's most onerous conditions, including that every child in a school must be deemed proficient in reading and math by 2014.

Overall student performance improved in math and dipped slightly in reading across Wisconsin compared with last year, while in Madison scores declined in all tested subjects.

Over the last four decades, there has been substantial progress across the board in reading and math, especially for African American and Latino students.

At Lanikai, for example, 78 percent of third - graders were proficient last school year in reading and 50 percent were proficient in math.