Sentences with phrase «said measured of achievement»

Laurene Saunders, a member of the Champlain Valley Educational Services Board of Cooperative Educational Services, said measured of achievement needs to be tempered.

Not exact matches

Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa says the board wants to make certain the tests continue to provide a valid measure of student achievement.

President Mulgrew said: «By objective measures like the racial achievement gap or the college readiness rate, and by public disenchantment with the governance of the schools, it is clear that mayoral control in its current form has not worked.

«Two days of testing is a natural next step, as long as the assessments continue to cover the material needed to truly measure every student's strengths and challenges, and the changes are implemented carefully and with the input of educators and communities,» High Achievement New York, which advocates for higher standards, said in a statement.

General secretary, Philip Parkin, said: «Whether as a performance measure or an actual certificate of achievement, it has no point.»

This is a «substantial achievement» noted NAO head Sir John Bourn, who says Britain is ahead of other countries in measuring and understanding benefit fraud as a result.

«If we're saying that the only thing that's a valid measure of student achievement is a test score, versus all the other work they do, it's going to be a sad day for the students of New York state,» Mulgrew said.

«Over the past decade we've been able to identify a growing number of educational interventions that have managed to have notable impacts on students» academic achievement as measured by standardized tests,» West says.

«Without publishing, [it is as if] you haven't done anything, because scientific articles are the most important measure of scientific achievement,» says Ana Marušić, editor - in - chief of the Croatian Medical Journal and president - elect of the Council of Science Editors.

Assessment is, of course, a vital part of education, but the stakes attached to these tests are way out of balance when such a limited and imperfect measure of achievement counts for more than all the assessments of all the students» teachers,» says Orfield.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

Schools Minister Nick Gibb said his statement to the House of Commons that: «We (DfE) want new GCSEs to set expectations which match those of the best education systems in the world, with rigorous assessment that provides a reliable measure of students» achievement.

Teachers» unions are strongly against these plans for a variety of reasons, including that they say it's nearly impossible to accurately measure an individual teacher's contribution to a student's success, since a child's achievement is cumulative over a period of years and the result of the efforts of many people.

RAND, a non-profit analysis group, said expanding measures of school performance beyond mathematics and English language arts will give educators better information when evaluating the academic achievements of schools.

Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee earlier this month called on his legislature to hold a special session in January to consider a package of education measures, including a requirement that student - achievement data be used in teacher evaluations, and a proposal he said would strengthen provisions allowing the state to intervene in chronically low - performing schools.

Since it may take a couple of years for states and districts to follow the department's urging and set up systems that will allow them to measure teacher effectiveness based on growth in student achievement, she said, states should be required to show that they are making good on the language about equitable distribution of teachers that's already in the No Child Left Behind Act.

To say that better measures of achievement are «too expensive... and way too complicated for voters to understand and trust» is no reason to institute an accountability system that will never work.

It's hard to say — student achievement tests are everywhere, but finding good measures of cultural change is difficult.

The Stanford study provides the first comparable measures of ethnic achievement gaps in every U.S. school district, Reardon said.

«I have a pen in my pocket at all times to sign a tentative agreement with UTLA that would comply with the Stull Act and use measures of student achievement as a factor in evaluating teachers,» said Deasy.

NAHT general secretary Russell Hobby said: «Anyone who thinks that external tests are somehow an «objective» measure of pupils» achievement should be rapidly disabused of the notion by this year's second exam fiasco.

The measure, which won approval in the Republican - led House of Representatives late Wednesday, would ease federally imposed achievement goals that critics say relied too much on standardized tests and were unrealistic for struggling public school systems such as Baltimore's.

The United Way of Dane County, which has made closing Madison's achievement gap a top priority, also plans to measure the effectiveness of its Schools of Hope tutoring program over time using MAP results, said Kathy Hubbard, director of community impact.

With $ 360 million in additional Race to the Top money, it is backing work by states to design new testing systems that it says will measure student growth — rather than capture a snapshot of achievement — supply real - time feedback to teachers to guide instruction, and include performance - based items to gauge more types of learning.

Opponents say comparing schools in this way is too crude a measure of a school's quality, achievements and character.

But to focus on student achievement, schools have to explain how expenditures align to their needs analyses — a component of strategic planning — and how effectiveness of the funded activities will be measured, Price said.

Pro-voucher groups aren't trying to fight accountability, but are working to make sure that an equitable process is developed to measure the success of school choice programs in improving academic achievement, says Jim Bender, executive director of School Choice Wisconsin.

Combatants on both sides of that fight could claim a measure of validation from the new research: Advocates of school choice who argue that it isn't fair to judge voucher programs based on test results from a student's first year in private school, given that it takes children time to adjust to a new environment, and critics who say vouchers drain funds from public schools without improving student achievement.

Muir says that although the school did administer a standardized achievement test, that program did not: 1) provide a sufficient measure of proficiency against state requirements; 2) enable progress monitoring; or 3) include math - skills benchmarking.

When asked what should determine teacher pay, 86 percent said a teacher's education and training should be either the most important or an important factor, followed by 77 percent who said their students» achievement and progress on a range of measures including standardized tests, classroom observations and parent feedback; 77 percent said whether the teacher is at a low - performing school where students need the most help; 64 percent who said students» achievement and progress on standardized tests; and 57 percent who said seniority in the number of years of classroom teaching experience.

He said the way schools are measured at the moment is «too narrow» with too much emphasis on the «narrow achievements» of individual schools.

«Providing a summative measure does not have to conflict with the multiple indicator approach that California has adopted and can build on it, to ensure that parents have a clear entry point to interact with the richer performance data and the state can clearly identify those LEAs and schools with wide achievement gaps and in need of extra attention,» the letter says.

Measures of student achievement and post-secondary readiness included on the cards are good for reinforcing high standards, he says.

«We did support un-timed tests as providing a truer measure of a student's level of achievement,» Lowry said.

Dan Rossmiller, government affairs director for the Wisconsin Association of School Boards, said districts are concerned the one - size - fits - all system for measuring schools doesn't make sense for certain schools, such as K - 2 schools where students are too young to take the WKCE, schools with high student turnover or schools that don't have achievement gaps to close.

Snow said she'd like to see more meaningful measures of how schools are closing the achievement gap for English learners, such as how quickly a student is able to move out of English - learner status, or finding a way to measure content knowledge without their language limitation being a factor in the score.

These data say nothing about speeded math practice — the measure of math achievement used by Ramirez et al was untimed.

The eight Republican members who attended the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing chastised King, saying he'd failed to follow numerous provisions, including mandates to reduce the size of the Department of Education, allow states to set rules for measuring performance and avoid complex reporting requirements for academic achievement.

Based on the first two complete years of data, that includes sophisticated growth measures of achievement, Social Emotional Learning, school climate, and chronic absenteeism, she said, «there is good evidence that we can use the measures for school improvement, but it's not conclusive.»

State Superintendent Tom Torlakson said the NAEP scores can serve as one of several tools parents can use to measure achievement across states.

«With the onset of testing to measure student achievement, many times at the expense of other disciplines, it is amazing what students can achieve when given half a chance,» Eisenhuth says.

He says his time as a superintendent of Beloit schools, which have a high percentage of low - income students and students of color, will help address the state's longstanding, persistent achievement gap between black and white students — which is the worst in the country by some measures.

Those trade - offs are worth accepting, said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, in order to achieve the goal of measuring student achievement aligned with common national academic standards, which most states have adopted this summer.

There is a growing base of evidence outside California that multiple measure evaluation systems can drive student achievement,» said board president Ted Mitchell.

While the task force results may be eye - opening to the general public, they come as no surprise to local educators, who say they have known for years that the topics covered by New Jersey's High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA), the standardized test used in grades 11 and 12 to measure achievement and required for graduation, is not a measure of college readiness.

And, Fletcher said, the program's key measure of student achievement — known as Academic Growth Over Time — is based on state standardized tests that will be phased out in the next few years as California moves toward a new national curriculum and assessments.

Using Alternative Student Growth Measures for Evaluating Teacher Performance: What the Literature Says is a resource from the Institute of Education Sciences and the Regional Education laboratory that looks at approaches to alternative methods of evaluating student achievement in order to measure teacher performance.

Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa says the board wants to make certain the tests continue to provide a valid measure of student achievement.

Evers also said part of his work to provide schools with guidance on how to reduce gaps in achievement will come through a council convened of educators, education - related lobbyists and lawmakers that Evers heads to figure out how Wisconsin will carry out the measures of the new federal education law Every Student Succeeds Act.

Motor Trend began its annual award in 1949 as «a recognition of engineering excellence,» says its current editor, C. Van Tune.Most awards recognize past achievement, but Motor Trend tries to measure future potential.