Sentences with phrase «release of the test scores»

The timing of the public release of the test scores is one.

The release of test scores for schools in the hypothetical state of Idyllia has piqued the interest of almost everyone — from school superintendents to realtors.

You can return to the Denver Post or Chalkbeat articles in just about any year just after the release of test score data to find the «it» schools of a particular year getting pages of press in their first year only to be soundly forgotten about when the new «it» schools come online and some of the previous years» schools fail to live up to expectations.

As was true for most of his administration, the story is one of unrelenting progress, and I'm not alone in wishing that the Klein - era Department of Education in New York City had been more tempered in the self - congratulatory tone that accompanied every release of test scores or graduation rates.

As the date for the releases of the test scores approached, we received many notices of «talking points» to inform our communities about the outcomes, with explanations of new baselines and how these tests do not reflect the efforts of students and teachers this year.

It would be even better to reach a point where education is no longer quite such a game of numbers, where high - stakes testing is phased out and decisions about schools don't come down to a tension - filled annual release of test score data.

Even concerned reformers like Bill Gates and Teach For America's Wendy Kopp are antipathetic toward the release of test scores to the public, using phrases like «a capricious exercise in public shaming.»

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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 2011, the second year of more rigorous scoring of state standardized tests, achievement dipped slightly across the state, according to figures just released by the state education department.

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.

Later that same day, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Common Core task force released its recommendations, including a four - year moratorium on the use of state - provided growth scores based on state tests in evaluations.

«More than 150 colleges and universities got failing scores on an annual test of their financial stability by the U.S. Department of Education in results, released this year, that date from 2011,» The Hechinger Report article adds.

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The second report, released in October of 2000 by Stephen Klein and his colleagues, cast doubt on the validity of TAAS scores by suggesting that the results do not correlate with the test results of other standardized tests.

The study by the Educational Policy Institute, released Aug. 11, examined the scores on the Stanford Achievement Test 9 or 10 given to 1,800 5th graders at 24 KIPP schools in the fall of 2003, and again in either...

More recently, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) released new standards for teacher training programs: among them, each cohort of entrants should have a collective grade - point average (GPA) of 3.0 and college admission test scores above the national average by 2017 and in the top one - third by 2020.

Results from the 2016 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), released on 5 December, show Australia's average score was lower than those of 13 other countries, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, Northern Ireland and England, which all tested in English, as well as other top - performing countries the Russian Federation, Finland and Poland.

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.

M. Danish Shakeel, Kaitlin Anderson, and I just released a meta - analysis of 19 «gold standard» experimental evaluations of the test - score effects of private school choice programs around the world.

Test scores in many of America's urban school districts are inching upward at rates that often outpace those of their states as a whole, according to a report released here last week by a national advocacy group for city schools.

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.

When I was a younger education reporter in the old mill town of Lawrence, Massachusetts, the big day came when the state released scores on its school accountability 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.

In the other two election years, the gap of a month or two between the release of scores and election day may have allowed the issue of test scores to fade from voters» minds.

My colleagues and I just released a meta - analysis of 19 «gold standard» experimental evaluations of the test - score effects of private school choice programs around the world.

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

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.

New York's latest round of state test results were released last week and the biggest news is the scores posted by Success Academy, the network of twenty - two charter schools throughout New York City run by Eva Moskowitz.

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.

The first paper, released in July 2009 by Roland Fryer and Steven Levitt, found that while there are no mean differences between boys and girls in math when they start school, girls gradually lose ground, so that the gap between boys and girls after six years of schooling is half as large as the black - white test score gap.

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

Both tests were administered in 2015, and the new scores will be released around the Thanksgiving - Christmas period of 2016.

New York's latest round of state test results were released last week and the biggest news is the scores posted by Success Academy.

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.

A clear majority (62 %) of parents said each public school teacher's impact on test scores should be publicly released, a policy opposed by a majority of teachers (54 %).

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.

08.22.2017 In response to the release of the third through eighth grade English Language Arts (ELA) and Math test scores, Kim Sweet, Executive Director, issued the following statement:

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.