Sentences with phrase «require standardized test»

That said, several of the schools have test - optional admissions and do not require standardized test scores, and the University of Rochester has test - flexible admissions and will accept scores from standardized tests other than the SAT and ACT.

While there is still a mandate requiring standardized testing, the act provides for a cut in the time spent on standardized testing.

Preparing students to be college and career ready through the elimination of instructional time that teachers use to prepare students for college required standardized testing (SAT, ACT) is puzzling, but the taking of instructional time so students can take state mandated standardized tests that claim to measure preparedness for college and career is an exercise in circular logic.

Your chances of getting into a highly selective school that requires standardized test scores will be greatly reduced if your scores are well below the norm for the school.

It does not require standardized testing.

The average U.S. student will take 112 required standardized tests between the ages of preschool and 12th grade, with eighth graders having the most testing required of them in a single year with more than 25 hours of testing.

Last year, Primary Sources: 2012, a report by Scholastic and the Gates Foundation, found that only 28 percent of educators see state - required standardized tests as an important gauge of student achievement.

Coleman argues that if the number of students taking the required standardized tests drops below 95 percent, the government can cut funding to schools, and that will be most damaging to students of color.

In response to the increased testing mandates of NCLB, RTTT and other federal grant programs, some states and districts now require standardized tests for every subject, including art, music, journalism and physical education.

MecklenburgACTS recommends that the state stop requiring any standardized test that is not mandated by the federal government.

Like all states, Maryland has been working to create a plan for complying with the new federal Every Student Succeeds Act, which gives states renewed authority over school accountability while requiring standardized testing and interventions in low - performing schools.

Baumbach's study of high schools concluded students at schools with well - staffed libraries and high circulations performed better on Florida's required standardized tests.

Some juridictions require standardized testing provided by province or country.

My task was to clarify the rules and help the students pass the required standardized testing.

Evaluating cognitive functioning typically requires standardized testing through psychoeducational or gifted assessments.

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First of all, it doesn't come with a keyboard, which is still essential — and legally required — for taking standardized tests.

The only standardized testing is that which is required by the state on Tennessee in order.

Trade schools, unions, and the military also require applicants to take standardized tests.

Explain that standardized testing is required by law in order to access appropriate services and in order to pinpoint the areas in which a child needs a little more help.

As a significant part of the AP Program is a standardized test does the program teach the higher level skills that require nurturing in regular high school courses, or is it also prey to teaching to the test?

At the same time, the 2010 national Common Core standards were being implemented, and the number of standardized tests that students were required to take multiplied.

Tedisco, Graf, Murray and Ra are sponsoring the «Common Core Parental Refusal Act» (A. 6025 / S.4161) to require that school districts notify parents of their rights to refuse to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in the Common Core standardized tests.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Senator Terrence Murphy (R,C,I - Jefferson Valley), Assemblyman Ed Ra (R - Franklin Square), Assemblyman Michael P. Kearns (D - Buffalo), Senator Joseph A. Griffo (R,C,I - Rome) and Senator George Latimer (D - Rye) today joined with parents, students and educators in Albany to call for passage of bi-partisan legislation they are sponsoring, the «Common Core Parental Refusal Act» (A. 6025 / S.4161) to require that school districts notify parents of their rights to refuse to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in the Common Core standardized tests.

Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher, is the sponsor of the bi-partisan Common Core Parental Refusal Act (A. 6025 / S.4161), to require that school districts notify parents of their rights to refuse without penalty to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in the Common Core standardized tests.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), who was the top vote getter in the Assembly on the Stop Common Core ballot line in 2014, today announced new legislation he is introducing, the «Common Core Parental Refusal Act» to require that school districts notify parents of their rights to refuse to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in the Common Core standardized tests.

One detail that is still «in flux,» Wagner said, is whether the education department will be required to design an additional standardized test for use in the evaluation system; the Cuomo administration said on Sunday that would be included in the budget.

Districts would be required to use state - administered standardized assessments as a component in the ratings, but they would also have the option to use an additional test that would also be designed by the state.

Lifton opposes adding an optional state standardized test as a component for the evaluations, and she's not sure about a new «matrix» model for evaluations that the State Education Department will be required to develop under Cuomo's plan.

The No Child Left Behind Act previously required all public schools receiving Title I funding to administer statewide standardized testing with the stipulation that students make «adequate yearly progress.»

New York also promised to tie student performance on state exams to teacher evaluations in its application for a waiver from No Child Left Behind, legislation under President George W. Bush that requires states to hit certain performance benchmarks on standardized tests.

The new law requires that the State Education Department develop new teacher performance reviews, that will be more heavily reliant on controversial standardized tests associated with the new Common Core learning standards.

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The tests — required as part of this year's new teacher evaluations — inspired a boycott at one school and a union - led drive to ban standardized tests for pre-kindergarten through second grade.

Breath tests require you to arrive fasted at the testing facility, usually a gastroenterologist's office, and to drink a standardized dose of pure lactose diluted in water.

And yet the Every Student Succeeds Act, NCLB's successor law, still mandates standardized testing of students and requires states to have accountability systems.

The only external standardized test in Finland is the national Matriculation Examination, a high - stakes exam that determines college readiness and which all students are required to pass in order to graduate high school exit and enter university.

The companies should be required to then forward these instructional data, along with test scores, subscores on specific components of the test, and student demographic information, to the state in a standardized format.

High stakes testing policies requiring students to pass standardized tests for promotion and graduation deepen educational inequity between whites and minorities and widen the educational gap between affluent and impoverished students, according to two studies of education reform in Texas.

Nearly one - third of the 450,000 Arizona students who took a state - required standardized achievement test were given incorrect scores by the computer firm hired to grade the tests.

Compiled data from all 3,001 children and their families showed that Early Head Start children scored higher, on average, than their peers on standardized tests of cognitive and language development; and far fewer children tested as requiring remediation.

Several large systems, including Chicago (beginning in 1996), New York (2004), and Philadelphia (2005), now require students in particular grades to demonstrate a benchmark level of mastery in basic skills on a standardized test before they can be promoted.

In short order, he declared that students whose scores did not reach a certain level on standardized tests would be required to go to summer school and could be held back a year.

PDK: «Some states require that teacher evaluations include how well a teacher's students perform on standardized tests.

In 1999, after taking the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), the standardized exam required of applicants to business schools, Mark Breimhorst sued the test's maker, the powerful Educational Testing Service (ETest (GMAT), the standardized exam required of applicants to business schools, Mark Breimhorst sued the test's maker, the powerful Educational Testing Service (Etest's maker, the powerful Educational Testing Service (ETS).

Additional amendments required private school students to take the state's standardized tests and the state to fully fund its school aid formula before implementing the scholarship program.

A federal appeals court overturns a lower - court ruling that New York State's law requiring disclosure of standardized - test information conflicted with federal copyright law.

The state had already required FTC scholarship students to participate in standardized testing using a nationally normed exam chosen by each private school; a study commissioned by the Florida Department of Education found that, in 2007 — 08, their academic gains were similar to students nationally across all income levels and to similar Florida students who remained in public schools.

To participate in the lottery, students other than those who had yet to begin 1st grade were required to take a standardized test.

The bill required teacher preparation programs to report data on their candidates (and share this information with their university), use higher cut scores on standardized tests for entry, and add portfolio - based assessments as graduation requirements, among other reforms.

Once civil rights statutes banned such de jure discrimination, some fire departments came up with ways to maintain the discriminatory status quo, such as requiring applicants to pass standardized tests before being hired, tests that African American and Latino applicants tended to fail.