Sentences with phrase «require standardized test scores»

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

The new initiative, called «Excellent Educators for All,» aims to bring states into compliance with a teacher equity mandate in the No Child Left Behind Act, the George W. Bush - era law that requires states to reward and punish schools based on standardized test scores.

The technocratic approach to accountability requires that all schools are judged according to uniform metrics, therefore the technocrats rely heavily (indeed, almost exclusively) on standardized test scores, particularly in math and language arts.

Nor are voucher schools generally required to give parents the information necessary to determine whether the schools are meeting the needs of their children, such as standardized test scores (which the schools might not even administer to all their students), curriculum used by the schools, or teacher qualifications.

New York's discussion of teacher discipline comes one week after the state's Board of Regents voted to adapt a new teacher evaluation system that requires districts to use standardized test scores to evaluate 40 percent of teacher review scores — 20 percent from state tests, with the other 20 precent from either district or state tests.

Many U.S. colleges require that undergraduate and graduate students submit standardized test scores as part of their application packages.

But all participating states are to administer new standardized tests aligned with the Common Core in the spring and the Obama administration requires most states to use those test scores to evaluate teachers.

Some states made the standardized tests so easy or set passing scores so low that virtually all students were rated proficient even as they scored much lower on federal exams and showed up for college requiring remedial help.

There is also a flexibility rule that allows students with a minimum 2.75 to still be certified if they achieve a score on the required standardized Praxis test that is at least 10 percent higher than the minimum passing score.

Race to the Top began in 2009, requiring states interested in competing for a slice of $ 4.35 billion in stimulus money to prepare plans that satisfied the Obama administration's education - reform criteria, which include the growth of charter schools and linking student standardized test scores to teacher evaluations.

Race to the Top: President Obama's Race to the Top (RttT) initiative helped (and continues to help) to distribute billions of dollars in federal stimulus monies to states, thus far to a total of $ 4.35 billion, if states promise via their legislative policies that they will use students» large - scale standardized test scores for even more consequential purposes than NCLB required prior.

Rhode Island has joined several other states in requiring preparation programs to raise GPA and standardized test score requirements to align with CAEP's recommendations.

As a parent, it concerns me that you have required states to expand charter schools, increase standardized testing overall, tie teacher jobs to test scores, and turn around schools by firing half or more of the staff, when the overwhelming body of evidence — including that of the research arms of the federal government — is clear that these strategies do not improve academics overall and can have serious negative effects on children and their education.

Conditional acceptance policies and programs, however, must include supports for remediation and receive approval from RIDE.104 Rhode Island takes these requirements further than most states, joining only Delaware in articulating clear state policy that requires higher GPA and standardized test scores outright.105

Arun Ramanathan of Oakland - based The Education Trust - West, who has reviewed waiver requests from four states, said the bill would fail in part because it does not require state standardized test scores to measure students» academic growth.

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.

Brown and the State Board balked at the stipulation that the state require districts to use standardized test scores as a measure of student academic growth when evaluating teachers.

Public school students in Texas, for example, are required to take standardized tests, allowing test data from Amarillo to be compared to scores in Dallas.

And last year, the Florida Education Association and the National Education Association filed suit arguing that the state's teacher evaluation system, which requires that at least 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based on students» test scores from the state standardized exams, is unconstitutional.

His deputies, however, got an earful about some of Duncan's favored initiatives, including linking teacher's pay with standardized test scores and the tough measures required to deal with low - performing schools.

Standardized tests scores are required.

Measuring student success requires moving beyond standardized test scores toward a multi-dimensional and personalized set of indicators that collectively capture a more modern definition of readiness.

Forty - one states now require that students» growth on large - scale standardized test scores (e.g., via VAMs) be used for teacher evaluation and accountability purposes.

Governor Malloy's education reform initiative requires teacher evaluation programs to be linked to standardized test scores despite the fact that standardized tests scores are primarily influenced by poverty, language barriers, and the lack of special education services for students rather than teacher performance.

According to President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), school districts are required to show, every year, that their tests scores are improving and that 95 % of all students have taken the standardized tests.

Diane Ravitch wrote a post drawing from an op ed piece written by Michigan teacher Nancy Flanagan decrying the Michigan's third grade «mandatory retention legislation» that requires schools to fail any third grader who scores below a certain level on the standardized tests used to determine «proficiency».

Chalfant ruled that the Stull Act requires the district to use California standardized test scores in determining student achievement.

The new G&T won't be one that begins at the Kindergarten level, which would require going through the city centralized process outlined here, but one that starts in 3rd grade and doesn't use standardized test scores, but instead employs grades and teacher recommendations to determine admission.

Deasy and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who wrote a 1999 amendment to the Stull Act requiring the use of state standardized test scores in teacher reviews, also hailed the decision.

Under the federal law replacing NCLB, the Every Student Succeeds Act («ESSA»), the federal government no longer requires states to link student standardized test scores to teacher evaluations.

Issue # 2: Governor Malloy's education reform initiative requires teacher evaluation programs to be linked to standardized test scores despite the fact that standardized tests scores are primarily influenced by poverty, language barriers, and the lack of special education services for students rather than teacher performance.

# 2: Governor Malloy's education reform initiative requires that the state's teacher evaluation programs to be linked to standardized test scores despite the fact that standardized tests scores are primarily influenced by poverty, language barriers, and the lack of special education services for students.

Boston district schools educate substantial numbers of students with much more severe disabilities who require more support and resources to educate and are far more likely to score low on standardized tests.

For 13 years under the controversial Bush - era No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the federal government required states to identify schools that were failing by the metric of standardized test scores, and dictated how schools should intervene.

Sponsored by Senator Darrell Steinberg and signed into law on September 26, 2012 by Governor Jerry Brown, SB 1458 limits the contribution to API of standardized test scores to 60 percent for high schools and requires that such tests constitute at least 60 percent of API for elementary and middle schools.

This suit is based on a 2012 ruling in which Sacramento - based nonprofit EdVoice correctly maintained that teacher evaluations require, in part, the use of standardized test scores and the judge promptly ordered their inclusion.

A letter Thursday from Deborah Delisle, an assistant U.S. education secretary, told state schools chiefs of an «amended waiver extension process» for states that want to continue to be free of No Child Left Behind, the Bush - era law that requires states to reward and punish schools based on standardized test scores.

Proposed legislation requiring an appropriate teacher evaluation program THAT DOES NOT INAPPROPRIATELY utilize standardized test scores.

This inventive video on YouTube refers to proposed new high school graduation requirements in Rhode Island that, starting in 2012, would require that all students score at least «partially proficient» on standardized tests.

So now, the school in which 1 in 4 four students aren't fluent in English, 4 in 10 go home to households where English is not the primary language and more than 1 in 10 have disabilities that require special education services, remains a «low - performing» school when it comes to standardized test scores.

The state may require an annual «master plan» submission intended to address standardized test scores, facilities, and financial / operating issues.

Teachers in states that require using standardized test scores for teacher evaluations also voiced opposition.

No paralegal school entrance exam is required, although standardized test scores may be required to enter an Associate degree program.