Sentences with phrase «release of student test scores»

At another faculty meeting, after the release of student test scores, administrators recognized teachers» efforts by waiting on them at candle - lit tables.

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The DOE wants the middle school planed for vacant sections of popular P.S. 158 to admit students who meet somewhat stringent admissions criteria, such as good attendance records or test scores, as well as students who would meet lower standards, according to a notice released by the department.

Test scores for third through eighth graders were released Wednesday and they show a dramatic drop in the number of New York state students who are considered proficient in math and English.

7:15 pm: Juan asks DioGuardi: The NYC Department of Education is poised to release to the public in the coming weeks Teacher Data Reports, which are based on student scores on state tests.

The yearly releasing and parsing of students test scores took place Monday with Mayor Michael Bloomberg finding lots of good news among the reams of data.

In test results released Friday, 38 % of city students scored proficient in English - a jump of nearly eight percentage points from last year that put the city's scores on par with the state overall for the first time.

The scores of New York City students increased slightly in both math and English language arts on the latest state tests, released on Aug. 14, as students became more familiar with the Common Core Learning Standards and their teachers worked hard with what materials and training they eventually got.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has released broad principles for renewing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that seek to address perennial complaints that the law's current version — the No Child Left Behind Act — is inflexible and focuses too narrowly on student test scores to get a picture of a school's achievement.

Student feedback, test - score growth calculations, and observations of practice appear to pick up different but complementary information that, combined, can provide a balanced and accurate picture of teacher performance, according to research recently released from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The report, released last week by the U.S. Department of Education, is based on 4th grade scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a set of federally mandated tests given periodically to nationally representative samples of students.

American teenagers scored lower in science than students in a majority of other industrialized countries participating in a prominent international exam, in results that testing officials said they released early after the scores unexpectedly slipped out abroad.

According to the press release, «The automated scoring competition intends to solve the longstanding problem of high cost and low turnaround of current testing deeper learning such as student essays.

The brief progress report on student performance in those subjects, released last week by the U.S. Department of Education, is the latest study of scores in the long - term trends analysis that uses National Assessment of Educational Progress tests.

In 2000, the release of scores so close to the election date and the media coverage that followed may have primed voters to evaluate candidates on student test scores.

A study released earlier this month by Mathematica finds that students attending charter high schools in Florida scored lower on achievement tests than students in traditional public schools, but years later, the charter students were more likely to have attended at least two years of college and also had higher earnings.

The nationwide practice of releasing to the public the average test scores for every school is slightly less popular than holding students accountable.

Using students» test scores as one part of evaluations for teachers, principals, and superintendents is associated with better academic performance at schools serving the middle grades, a report released this week has found.

After numerous scoring glitches and weeks of delay, California late last month released detailed results of student achievement tests.

The recently released study of the program examines its effects on test scores for students that have used vouchers for one, two, three, or four years.

In the coming weeks, more states are slated to release the scores for their students who took the high - stakes tests, many of which were aligned with the Common Core standards for the first time.

In the work released Wednesday, researchers assess whether these test score gains are actually putting students on a path to better lives or simply the result of charter schools» effectiveness in «teaching to the test» for the MCAS.

Today a coalition of colleges and universities led by the Harvard Graduate School of Education released a report, «Turning the Tide,» that says colleges and universities should focus more on ethical engagement than test scores when considering prospective students.

The release Thursday of the results on the state's Academic Performance Index marks the end of a decade of judging student performance based on test scores alone.

While no group of students scored particularly well, the PARCC test results released Tuesday highlighted wide disparities in achievement, including low levels of performance for special education students, minorities and the poor.

In the wake of high - profile evaluations of teachers using their students» test scores, such as one conducted by the Los Angeles Times, a study released last month suggests some such methods, called «value added» measures, are too imprecise to rate teachers» effectiveness.

Later this month, The Times will publish a database of more than 6,000 elementary school teachers ranked by their ability to improve students» scores on standardized tests, marking the first time such information had been released publicly.

According to Valerie Strauss in her Washington Post Answer Sheet blog, the study found that «the report, together with a number of other studies released in the past year, effectively serve as a warning to policymakers in states that are moving to implement laws, with support from the Obama administration, to make teacher and principal evaluation largely dependent on increases in students» standardized test scores.»

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Monday that parents have a right to know if their children's teachers are effective, endorsing the public release of information about how well individual teachers fare at raising their students» test scores.

The New York City Department of Education's stunning announcement that it intends to release teacher ratings based on student test scores and academic achievement is the latest example of a growing national movement to fix our country's broken public education system...

The Wisconsin test scores released this week show that a disturbing number of Wisconsin students are not proficient in math (48 percent) or reading (36.2).

As reported in an Education Week news blog, the Education Research Alliance at Tulane University and the Education Reform Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas have released a new study («Student Test - Score Performance Fell in Louisiana Voucher Program, Study Finds»).

The WaPo reporters then claim, «But a U.S. Department of Education study released in June showed that students in the program generally scored no higher on reading and math tests after two years than public school peers.»

The state of California has implemented a number measures to close one of the largest and most persistent achievement gaps in the nation, Recently released scores for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a nationwide test for fourth - and eighth - graders in math and reading given every two years, show that California's students are still performing below the... Continue reading California: Moving the Needle on the Achievement Gap

Legislators paused the release of marks for 2014 - 15, due to fear that a change in state tests would significantly decrease student scores.

Tuesday's annual release of state test scores included scores from students in the statewide voucher program for the first time.

Nearly two - thirds of Wisconsin students who took the state reading test last fall scored below proficient, and less than half were proficient in math, according to recalibrated results released Tuesday by the Department of Public Instruction.

Just as soon as the state's new test scores were released — and even before, in the case of mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio — reactions started flying about the sobering news about student achievement in New York.

The report cards, based on student test scores on the state assessments administered during the 2015 - 16 school year, were released Thursday by the state Department of Public Instruction (DPI).

In the latest release of data, we have a sense of how much progress students show on state assessments from one year to the next (as it's been two years since the last time we had growth data, here's a quick reminder on how it is calculated: a student's performance on the test is compared to her «academic peers» — other students who had the same test score she had the previous year, resulting in the individual's student growth percentile.

Students attending private schools receiving taxpayer - funded vouchers in a new statewide program did not score as high overall as public school students on state tests in reading and math, according to data released Tuesday by the Department of Public InstStudents attending private schools receiving taxpayer - funded vouchers in a new statewide program did not score as high overall as public school students on state tests in reading and math, according to data released Tuesday by the Department of Public Inststudents on state tests in reading and math, according to data released Tuesday by the Department of Public Instruction.

Colorado students in 2014 took slight steps backward on the small academic gains made on standardized tests in recent years, part of a long - term trend of flat scores, results released Thursday show.

Standardized test scores released by the Louisiana Department of Education show scholarship students» scores have improved by 13 percentage points between 2010 and 2014, while public school students» scores remained flat.

They never get around to explaining why test scores just released by New York State show 94 percent of Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy students — almost all minority — passed the 2016 math exam and 82 percent passed the reading exam.

More recently, the state's release of the 2011 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) scores — Florida's primary measure of student achievement of the Sunshine State Standards — showed that Brevard's sixth grade students ranked first in Florida in both reading and mathematics, and in June the district was honored for the third consecutive year by the Association of School Business Officials for financial excellence.

In 40 - plus states, the math and English guidelines determine the knowledge students have to master by the end of each grade, what they'll be tested on this year, and in many cases, how teachers and principals will be rated at their jobs once those test scores are released.

This year, charter students once again scored higher than the state average in virtually every grade level and subject area on the state's AzMERIT test for the third straight year, according to results released by the Arizona Department of Education on Sept. 6.

As the California Department of Education prepares to release the first set of student test scores based on the Common Core State Standards, a new poll shows voters have mixed feelings about the new standards, including many who don't understand what they are, or how they're being implemented.

As a result, the Kansas State Board of Education elected not to released student testing scores for the year.

They also, along with others troubled by New York's — particularly NYC's — notorious achievement gaps, yearned to release school leaders from the muzzle of LIFO, which requires that teachers be laid off by seniority, not effectiveness, and change old - school subjective teacher evaluations to reflect student academic growth, measured in part through standardized test scores.

The New York City school system announced Wednesday that it will release ratings for nearly 12,000 teachers based on student test scores, potentially giving the public an unprecedented window into the effectiveness of instructors at the nation's largest school district.