Sentences with phrase «same old state tests»

But while exams that test the Common Core are still in development, her kids will be taking the same old state tests.

Not exact matches

Quite surprisingly, he cites New Jersey's tortured 35 - year - old Abbott litigation as an example of «success,» but neglects to mention that the state's black students, the principal beneficiaries of the remedy, are still scoring at about the same relative levels on the NAEP tests as in 1992.

SBAC data is same - old, same - old; we had it all along with our state tests.

At the same time, I believe that it is appropriate for states to debate this question, and we should expect some states to pull out, especially once the testing starts, and we — as we expect — if the test scores come out and kids do much worse on these new tests than the old tests, then there's going to be huge political pressure for some other states to pull out and it won't be the end of the world.

Most of the analysts contacted for this brief said that when states changed tests, they simply applied the same methods they did in other years, except the prior year scores were from the old test and the current year scores were from the new test.

In the old model, states with higher risk student populations were held to the same testing standards regardless of their improvement progress or funding challenges.