Sentences with phrase «reading proficiency on»

«Despite progress, we are still ranked 47th in fourth - grade reading proficiency on NAEP, 50th in eighth - grade math proficiency and 46th in graduation rate.»

As an example, between 2005 and 2015, Kentucky's 4th - grade reading proficiency on the National Assessment of Educational Progress increased:

From 2005 to 2015, for example, fourth - grade reading proficiency on the test known as «the nation's report card,» showed that achievement differences between white and African American students moved from an 8 - point gap to 11 points.

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 year.

Under the leadership of then governor Jeb Bush, the state decided that 3rd graders who did not demonstrate basic reading proficiency on state tests should be held back and receive intensive remediation.

Not exact matches

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Certainly, hiring managers will need to know about your technical proficiencies, but they are even more interested in reading about your accomplishments on the job.

She cites a 1997 University of California, Los Angeles, study that found, among 25,000 students, those who had spent time involved in a musical pursuit tested higher on SATs and reading proficiency exams than those with no instruction in music.

Eden is also carrying on longitudinal studies, comparing brain images from children as they grow and gain reading proficiency, aiming to determine how brain activity changes with advancing skill (Nature Neuroscience, 2003; 6:767 - 773).

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Context is also lacking in his September 3 column, where he noted, «The federal system uses a single yearly proficiency goal - for North Carolina, 68 percent of students reading on grade level this year - and requires all schools to make that number.»

Mean scale scores on state reading and math tests, median growth percentage, four - and seven - year graduation rates, progress in achieving English - language proficiency

Student performance measures include average student achievement on reading and math exams, along with median proficiency and the percentage of students achieving proficiency.

We used statistical techniques similar to the one we employed to examine changes in average scores to assess the effect of the bonus program on the percentage of students achieving proficiency on math and reading exams.

Retaining students based on reading proficiency can produce large improvements in academic performance when compared to grade - level peers.

Because learning in most subjects depends on reading skills, reading proficiency can be considered the most important goal in the early grades.

Perhaps there are some «wrong» answers (such as relying exclusively on proficiency rates in reading and math to judge school quality, or measuring school spending and other inputs and calling it accountability) but mostly there are a whole bunch of right and partially - right answers, depending on policymakers» goals and states» idiosyncrasies.

While the No Child Left Behind Act has a detailed formula for bringing students to proficiency on state reading and mathematics tests by the 2013 - 14 school year, it's much less precise on states» goals for English - language learners.

Reading proficiency: 31.223 percent of U.S. students are proficient on the NAEP, which corresponds to 550.4 on PISA.

«States Raise Proficiency Standards in Math and Reading: Commitments to Common Core may be driving the proficiency bar upward» by Paul E. Peterson and Matthew Ackerman is available now on http://educationnext.org and will appear in the Summer 2015 issue of EducProficiency Standards in Math and Reading: Commitments to Common Core may be driving the proficiency bar upward» by Paul E. Peterson and Matthew Ackerman is available now on http://educationnext.org and will appear in the Summer 2015 issue of Educproficiency bar upward» by Paul E. Peterson and Matthew Ackerman is available now on http://educationnext.org and will appear in the Summer 2015 issue of Education Next.

Has a focus on reading and math proficiency, and on boosting graduation rates, meant less attention and support for the «talented tenth»?

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On Top of the News States Fail to Raise Bar in Reading, Math Tests Wall Street Journal 8/11/11 Behind the Headline Few States Set World - Class Standards Education Next Summer 2008 A new NCES report finds that, while some states have raised their standards for proficiency in math and reading, most states still fall -LReading, Math Tests Wall Street Journal 8/11/11 Behind the Headline Few States Set World - Class Standards Education Next Summer 2008 A new NCES report finds that, while some states have raised their standards for proficiency in math and reading, most states still fall -Lreading, most states still fall -LSB-...]

Of the elementary and middle schools the survey respondents rated, 14 percent received a grade of «A,» 41 percent received a «B» grade, while 36 percent received a «C.» Seven percent were given a «D» and 2 percent an «F.» These subjective ratings were compared with data on actual school quality as measured by the percentage of students in each school who achieved «proficiency» in math and reading on states» accountability exams during the 2007 - 08 school year.

Viewed as a group, schools managed by our CMOs achieve rates of proficiency on state assessments in reading and math that average about 9 percentage points higher than those of schools in their local districts (see Figure 2).

Results reported thus far have been mixed: an analysis of 2013 cohort data by Wayne State University professor Thomas C. Pedroni found that the majority of EAA students failed to demonstrate progress toward proficiency on the state's assessments in reading and math, and some students» performance (approximately one - third) declined.

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Children are then offered lots of books at their «just right» level on the theory that if they read extensively and independently, language growth and reading proficiency will follow, setting the child on a slow and steady climb through higher reading levels.

Because of different math backgrounds, learning strengths, reading skills, and English language proficiency, students have varying levels of achievable challenge in different math topics, so flexible groupings should be designed so students can move easily between them, depending on their mastery of specific math topics.

Everything I know about the slow growing, cumulative nature of language proficiency suggests it is all but impossible to test prep your way to a high score on a third to eighth grade reading test, especially the more challenging Common Core tests.

There are limits on what the public should be asked to support financially; schools that don't help students reach basic proficiency in math and reading, in particular, don't deserve public subsidies.

The lowest performing of the ten brought 75 percent of its students to proficiency or above on last year's state reading test.

We see that only 57 percent of third graders with a prior CPS investigation achieve basic proficiency levels on the statewide reading exam compared with 65 percent of third graders with no prior CPS investigation.

This is evident in the federal law's requirement that each state's accountability system generate a report card for each school and district indicating the proportion of students meeting proficiency standards on state tests of math and reading.

Charter schools in the NewSchools» portfolio achieve proficiency rates in reading and math that are about 9 percentage points higher, on average, than those achieved by schools in their host districts.

By requiring that students demonstrate reading proficiency before moving on, at its core, this policy is a mastery - based approach.

• On average, schools with one year of funding and interventions under their belts saw a two percentage - point gain in reading proficiency — just about the same gain as all other U.S. schools that didn't get these huge cash infusions.

Note also that in Odden's peer review in 2004 of William Driscoll's and Howard Fleeter's Ohio study of the costs of bringing all students to proficiency in math and reading in order to comply with NCLB, he castigates the study's authors, who called for expanded summer school, because they «reference no research to support this assertion, when in fact most research shows that summer school as typically administered has little if any impact on learning.»

In order to assess basic knowledge and skills, we look at whether the child's performance on standardized math and reading tests meet or exceed the state - defined proficiency level.

But those rating sites are based primarily on student proficiency rates on annual standardized tests in reading and math.

• On average, schools with two years of funding and interventions under their belts saw a three percentage point gain in reading proficiency — just about the same gain as all other U.S. schools — those that didn't get these huge cash infusions.

At Blackstone Valley Prep, analysis of the suburban and urban students» scores on the 2013 state exams measuring proficiency in reading and math offers 80 different snapshots, by grade, subject and family income, with Blackstone students faring better than their peers on nearly all.

Everyone at Parkville — classroom teachers, administrators, reading and math specialists, and music and physical education teachers — is being called on to help students on the brink of proficiency make it to the next level.

If ever there were a time to nurture those skills in our young people, it is now, when our nation's future may depend on our creativity and our ability to understand and appreciate the cultures around the world as much as on our proficiency in reading and math.

Standards - based reform was fed by three factors: increased expectations for learning beyond high school, which led to a focus on college readiness for all; the availability of reliable and cheap measures of student proficiency in reading and math; and the push for teacher and school accountability.

Academic Boot Camps Get Students in Test Shape Concentrated reading and test - taking instruction in small groups — known as boot camps — is one of the strategies a California school district uses to help elementary and middle - school students on the cusp of proficiency improve their reading and test scores.

The proposed regulations (§ 200.14) add a definition for «proficient» that requires that the academic achievement indicator «equally measure grade - level proficiency on the reading / language arts and mathematics assessments.»

The proposed rulemaking (§ 200.14) would clarify this statutory provision to say that the academic achievement indicator must «equally measure grade - level proficiency on the reading / language arts and mathematics assessments.»

In this randomized controlled trial involving 312 students enrolled in an after - school program, we generated intention - to - treat (ITT) and treatment - on - the - treated (TOT) estimates of the program's impact on several literacy outcomes of fourth, fifth, and sixth graders reading below proficiency on a state assessment at baseline.

• Empower your teachers to set all students on a trajectory toward grade - level reading proficiency.