Sentences with phrase «results from last school year»

The Education Department expects the state to use student test results from last school year to determine which schools are meeting the bar.

At least some results from the last school year beg to differ, even as it's important to note that none of these results were conducted in a rigorous randomized control trial.

Not exact matches

«Following on from the record GCSE results achieved last year, we want to go further and do better still, so we will create a # 100m fund to improve school standards further, giving teachers and education professionals the resources they need to realise our children's» ambitions.»

On the federal science exam given last year, high school seniors» scores fell from four years earlier, while those of 4th and 8th graders remained the same compared with 1996, according to results unveiled last week.

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The fast year - to - year increases in the first and last periods result in large part from increases in the amount of time in school, while the negligible change in overall scores between 2003 and 2004 does not pick up real gains made despite a shortened school year.

Results from a survey released last week showed that support for charter schools has come back up after a sharp drop last year.

With the largest response to date, the eighth annual What Kids Are Reading report includes results from over 12 million comprehension quizzes on fiction and non-fiction titles taken by British school children in the last academic year.

The overall results are also up, with 79 % of all pupils in England's schools achieving Level 4 in the «three Rs» nationally - up from 75 % last year.

Results from national reading tests taken last year show that Virginia elementary and middle school students continue to outperform their peers nationwide and are among the nation's strongest readers.

Jim O'Connor, principal of the KIPP Ascend middle school in Chicago, told me this month that five students from his last year's eighth grade who are in regular public high schools are having the most difficult time, because their schools lack the focus on strong academic results they found at KIPP.

im currently in a school doing extra sixth lessons and im actually finding it detrimental to my learning giving me more work homework time and my mock results are down from my last year many schools do less school and achieve much higher pass rates i fell that this extra time is making students feel worse and limits there ability to socialize when they go to school until 4:10 pm and arrive home at about 5 making it dark in the winter while walking home may i add it also means that when we get home are daily 2 hr of hw leaves us being at home with no extra work at about 7 pm on top of this there is revision for exams and catch up work for students to complete all of this removes a students ability to have fun were we are hunting success in fear of punishment To conclude extra lessons punish the mind and form a generation of students that dislike school and even sometimes even become suicidal all because schools think they are doing things right

Some schools from last year's pilot, which drew more than 100 schools, have changed curricula as a result: One school, chagrined that its kids did poorly on scientific problem - solving, has begun requiring a senior year science project.

In the Oakland Unified School District, just over a third of students (34.7 %) were found to be meeting or exceeding standards in English and Literacy, and an even smaller number (27.6 %) were meeting or exceeding standards in Math, representing a slight increase from last year's results.

Fremont High School, located in Florence south of downtown, was also «restructured» last year, a move that drew fierce criticism from the teachers union and resulted in the departure of most teachers.

But last year, following a subscription to GCSEPod, the school saw its overall L2i results increase, moving the school from quartile 4 to quartile 2 and the L2i outcomes of boys being the highest it had ever been.

The school's voucher students don't post great results on math and reading tests; last year, Our Lady earned the equivalent of a D - from the state.

The analysis included results from 48 traditional CPS schools — almost all of them neighborhood schools — that the city closed after the last school year, citing poor academic performance, declining enrollment and the costs of maintaining aging buildings.

This team of dedicated educators forming the Garfield High School Assessment Committee was born out of the MAP test boycott last school year, which resulted in the Seattle School District backing away from its threat of suspending the boycotting teachers and ultimately — a year ago this month — forced the district to make the test optional at the high school School Assessment Committee was born out of the MAP test boycott last school year, which resulted in the Seattle School District backing away from its threat of suspending the boycotting teachers and ultimately — a year ago this month — forced the district to make the test optional at the high school school year, which resulted in the Seattle School District backing away from its threat of suspending the boycotting teachers and ultimately — a year ago this month — forced the district to make the test optional at the high school School District backing away from its threat of suspending the boycotting teachers and ultimately — a year ago this month — forced the district to make the test optional at the high school school level.

There's an interesting connection between early childhood education and the results released last week from the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment, on which American 15 - year - old students performed about average in reading, math and science among some 65 countries and school systems.

Public charter schools in Michigan are closing the performance gap with conventional district schools in some subjects, according to recently released results from a national assessment test that was given last year.

Cleveland, which for two years has had an SEL program from K - 5, did a survey of teachers at the end of last school year and 86 percent of them said that classroom behavior and overall environment improved as a result of the program.

(Va.) One in five high school students in the U.S. was bullied last year, according to results from a new survey on student health and safety.

The watchdog won a legal challenge from schools, heads and pupils over the grading of last year's English GCSE results, after exam boards were told to move grade boundaries.

With the largest response to date, the eighth annual What Kids Are Reading report includes results from over 12 million comprehension quizzes on fiction and non-fiction titles taken by British school children in the last academic year.

The festival began as a result of an artist residency programme launched in the school in 1999 and has grown from strength to strength in the last five years.