Sentences with phrase «recent statewide testing»

Justice Eric Rosen noted that 32 percent of Kansas students did not perform to grade standards in the most recent statewide testing of reading and math.

Not exact matches

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 % of students statewide opting out of the tests.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 percent of students statewide opting out of the tests.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 percent of students statewide opting out of the tests.

The most recent state testing data showed that the percent of Erie County black students considered proficient in English was 31 percentage points lower than their white peers, compared to a 20 - point gap statewide.

Following a school year marked by statewide protests to recent changes in the testing procedures and teacher evaluation methods — with 20 percent of New York's students opting out of standardized tests — administrators at Minerva Central are preparing for a year of growth and collaboration, Farrell said in an interview.

The recent news that Washington state legislators voted down a bill that would require statewide tests to be used — in some locally determined amount — as part of teacher and principal evaluations has three major implications:

For non-disabled kids, New York State is considering the recent recommendations of the statewide Coalition for Multiple Pathways to a Diploma which has recommended alternative routes to a standard diploma for kids who for whatever reason don't do well on the new tests.

In recent years, 86 percent of the school's 8th graders passed the state's writing test, above the statewide average of 62 percent and better than the public schools of wealthy Greenwich.

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.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 % of students statewide opting out of the tests.

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.

The program focusing on informational text was implemented in 1998 - 99 after an analysis of recent statewide reading test data.

Delaporte pointed to Department of Public Instruction data that shows less than 40 percent of Madison students have tested proficient in reading in recent years — slightly higher than the statewide average.

High - Stakes Testing With public demand and recent federal legislation calling for high standards and improved student performance, virtually every state in the nation has created and administered statewide tests that measure student progress over time.

Most public school parents (71 %) expected students to score at least as well on the new tests as on the old ones, according to a recent PPIC Statewide Survey.

The statewide average of TCAP test scores for the most recent 3 years.

In the recent Smater Balanced statewide tests, magnets outperformed the district's independent charter schools in nearly every major category, although the demographics of magnets vs. independent charters do not match up evenly, and some magnet schools are for highly - gifted students, which requires them to meet certain academic criteria for enrollment.

The recent Smarter Balanced statewide tests, which this year replaced the STAR exams after two years without any statewide tests, also show impressive results for the three organizations, but they also raised questions.