Sentences with phrase «reading performance beyond»

This downward curve can largely be traced to deficits in reading performance beyond the elementary grades.

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The program helps districts improve reading, writing, and math instruction and use data systems to identify students who are at - risk of dropping out of school, enabling students to improve their performance, stay in school, and put themselves on a path to high school graduation and beyond.

Duncan called for «assessment 2.0,» which would provide timely evaluation of student performance in areas beyond reading and math, including science, advanced class work, and career readiness.

These technologies, which feature the efficiency and consistency of machine - read scoring along with cognitively challenging, open - ended performance tasks, can help us build assessments that move beyond bubble - filling and, at the same time, offer rigorous and reliable evidence of student learning.

Being in a small class, economists Alan Krueger and Diane Schanzenbach found, made a noticeable difference in a student's academic performance: Math and reading scores improved, and more students took college - entrance exams, signaling at least an interest in continuing their education beyond high school.

Achieve3000 differentiates lessons at 12 levels of English and 8 levels of Spanish to ensure all learners engage at their individual reading levels, accelerating reading gains, boosting mastery of state and Common Core Standards and performance on high - stakes tests, and preparing them for college and career — and beyond.

Making the assessments multidimensional (not relying exclusively on test scores), focusing on potential and not just performance, and looking at subjects beyond just reading and math could all prove beneficial.

For example, in ELA, curriculum may be modified with more advanced content (more difficult material, greater depth of exploration), more challenging readings (increased in alignment with students» reading levels), and projects that challenge students to stretch beyond their current level of performance through assessments that appropriately gauge the growth of the advanced learner.

They will give families measures of school performance that extend beyond reading and math: telling them how students are doing in science and career and vocational education, for example, and what percentage of high - schoolers are successfully completing Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate coursework.

As you will have gathered if you've read the preceding pages, the 720S's ultimate performance redefines ferocious at anything sub-hypercar level, perhaps even beyond.

Beyond its immediate artistic program, the gallery has regularly hosted concerts, music symposia, dance performances, book receptions, poetry readings, as well as art exhibitions and special events to benefit various national and community organizations.

«Dealers Check Out of Hotel Fairs,» Art & Auction, February 15 — 28, pp. 20 — 21 Performance: Live Art Since 1960, by Roselee Goldberg, Abrams, New York, pp. 206 «Beyond the Boob Tube,» Museums Boston, Spring Brock Read.

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center presents a wide range of media, including performance, visual art, alternative jazz and new music, literary readings, community presentations and media arts, shared with the communities of WNY and beyond.