Sentences with phrase «recent state scores»

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Though credit agencies have made recent changes to the way they factor medical debt into a credit score, more than half of all the debt that appears on credit reports in the United States stems from medical expenses.

Carli stated in a recent article, ``... Over the years, and definitely over the last four years, I've taken visualization to another level... I've basically visualized so many different things on the field, making these big plays, scoring goals.»

McKeever and new assistant Jasmine Cannady, a recent Sacramento State graduate who played for the Hornets, have emphasized conditioning in practice to open things up in an attempt to score more easy baskets and possibly wear down opponents.

Belluck has used his own Twitter handle in recent days to dog the State Education Department over the results of third - through eighth - grade English and math test scores that showed charter school students performing slightly better than their public school counterparts.

New York is going back to the drawing board to rethink the way it evaluates school teachers and principals after controversy over the use of student test scores in job evaluations helped fuel a massive boycott of state exams in recent years.

But in recent weeks, Cuomo has indicated he will begin to emphasize a new direction in education after a legislative session that saw yet more changes to the state's teacher evaluation system that linked performance reviews to tenure as well as student test scores and in - classroom observation.

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The union is challenging recent state measures that allow superintendents to impose improvement plans on teachers who receive poor evaluation scores.

The Coalition for Educational Justice and the UFT have been urging the city since the start of the school year to provide additional help for those students who scored below state standards on the most recent state exams in reading and math.

In a recent press release, Danna stated that director Michael Bassett (interview) told him, ``... I need you to inject more musicality and orchestral elements into the score...» Danna once again collaborated with Yamaoka to create the aural landscape that we will be hearing in the film.

Using more recent data, a report by the Center on Education Policy concludes that reading and math achievement as measured by state assessments has increased in most states since 2002 and that there have been smaller but similar patterns in NAEP scores.

Recent results from Indiana's state assessments in English and mathematics showed only slightly improved or stagnant scores compared with 2003.

The study, published Nov. 14 by the American Institutes for Research, compares the performance of 8th graders in individual American states not against each other, but against students in top - performing foreign nations, such as Japan and South Korea, as well as against children in recent lower - scoring ones, such as Bulgaria, Jordan, and Romania.

Dismal test scores and recent research that warns against a single approach to instruction have spurred California education officials to revamp the state's pioneering techniques for teaching young children to read.

But can it possibly be true, as reported in his recent post, that the Regents and the New York State Department of Education went to court with the teachers union over whether test scores would count as 20 percent or 40 percent of a teacher's annual evaluation?

And, as if to rebut Ravitch directly, Kemple reported that «the improvement trend continues even taking into account New York state's recent recalibration of test scores.»

Several of the most significant features of recent education policy debate in the United States are simply not found in any of these countries — for example, charter schools, pathways into teaching that allow candidates with only several weeks of training to assume full responsibility for a classroom, teacher evaluation systems based on student test scores, and school accountability systems based on the premise that schools with low average test scores are failures, irrespective of the compositions of their student populations.

Below are the scores from state - mandated mathematics and English / language arts tests given in 2014 - 15 and in 2013 - 14 (or the most recent previous year available).

However, the most recent experimental evaluation of the D.C. voucher program showed negative test - score effects after one year, even though the study did not rely on a state - mandated test — and despite the fact that an earlier study of the program showed no effects.

A quick trip to the NAEP data explorer will demonstrate that this same trend is evident in 4th grade NAEP scores, and state scores have been trending in a negative fashion in recent years as well.

In fact, a recent federal study found that states» «passing scores» have been drifting downward under pressure from NCLB — since each state can set its own standards for «passing,» and each has an incentive to lower the standard so that it «passes» as many schools as possible.

And in recent years, most states have adopted sweeping educational policy changes, including teacher evaluations tied to test scores and Common Core academic standards that have changed what and how students learn in the classroom.

The committee concluded that moves by many states in recent years to require teacher candidates to pass basic - skills tests have failed to improve the quality of students entering the profession because passing scores have been set too low.

In the meantime, the Bloomberg administration has some positive test scores under its belt already, including an impressive 9.9 percentage point gain for 4th graders on the state's most recent reading tests, the largest jump since the test was initiated in 1999.

Nevada has imposed steep penalties on Harcourt Educational Measurement for errors in administering statewide exams, and Georgia is poised to do the same, following scoring glitches typical of the kind that have plagued state - sponsored testing programs in recent years.

A recent study of charter schools in eight states by Rand Corp., a think tank, also found they had higher graduation and college - going rates than traditional public schools, but that test scores were roughly the same.

In fact, Brookings Institution released an article stating that recent research on voucher programs in Indiana and Louisiana found that those students who took advantage of vouchers to attend private school, rather than their local public schools, received lower scores than their public school peers.

Many states rushed in recent months to change their laws to better position themselves to win, such as by expanding their charter school sector, or linking student test scores to teacher evaluations.

▪ A look at how Penfield Central School District scores beat out other area districts in recent state tests

The most recent data from state test scores indicates that 95 per cent of the student here are proficient in math with a further 99 per cent proficient in reading.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, had been reporting results by state since 1990, but in recent years began isolating test scores from selected urban school systems.

Oregon doesn't provide statewide statistics on charter school performance, and many of the schools are too new for their standardized tests scores to show up in the 02 - 03 data, the most recent available from the state Education Department.

Furthermore, the most recent state test scores showed that Denver performed better than most districts in the state, showing commendable improvements in turnaround schools located in Far Northeast and Northwest Denver, even though the district is still far from its own goal of 3.5 percent improvement in growth across all subjects.

Recent state testing reveals that voucher students score lower in reading and math proficiency than public school students.

Scores on the most recent state tests, in 2013, showed strong improvements in mathematics, reading, and writing at all grade levels.

Here in the United States, students in Massachusetts, which has been recognized for setting high standards, scored on a par with the highest - performing countries in both math and science on a recent international assessment.

And in a three - year comparison of similar schools in 2007 and 2008 — the most recent state results — the school scored 6, 7 and most recently a 3 out of 10.

The purpose of this study is to identify trends in Praxis scores on a select number of tests across recent years and across as many states as possible.

However, a recent article published in the Albuquerque Journal indicates that, now according to the NMPED, «only three types of test scores are [being] used in the calculation: Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers [PARCC], end - of - course exams, and the [state's new] Istation literacy test.»

The academy is a K - 8 school where fewer than half the students scored proficient or above on standardized math and reading tests in 2014 - 2015, the most recent year for which state data are available.

HOPE's most recent scores on the 2015 PARCC state assessment were even worse;

According to a recent Washington [Blog] Post written by Valerie Strauss, in New York a 17 - year veteran and current 4th grade teacher, recognized by the district superintendent as having a «flawless» teaching record and being «highly regarded as an educator,» is suing the state of New York over her VAM scores that have just placed her in the «ineffective» teacher category.

The data above comes from 2012, the most recent data in which average scale score on State tests can be compared to other demographic information.

With testing increasingly in the news — from the release of state test scores to the federal Department of Education's recent announcement in support of short delays for teacher evaluation using assessment growth — now is the time set a new course.

The organization has scored some huge advocacy wins at the state legislature in recent years to benefit charter schools including changes to zoning laws, impact fees, property taxes and the transferring of academic credits between charters and districts.

A recent study of urban, suburban, and rural schools in four states found that smaller schools helped close the achievement gap — as measured by test scores — between students from poor communities and students from more affluent ones.

The district won the Broad Prize for Urban Education in 2013, but scores on state and national exams generally have stagnated in recent years.

But on a state level, efforts to change and clarify existing teacher evaluations laws and the use of state test scores have gained some traction in recent years.

Using a time - series regression approach described in a separate publication, this paper adjusts state SAT score averages for factors such as participation rate and student demographics, which are known to affect outcomes, then validates the results against recent state - level National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test scores.

Furthermore, a recent LA Times poll indicated strong familial support across the state — especially from Latino parents — for annual public reporting of school and student test scores.