Sentences with phrase «saw academic achievement testing»

It's also true that nobody believes social and emotional learning measurement should be employed for over-the-top, high stakes and punitive assessment systems that we saw academic achievement testing used for in the extremes of the No Child Left Behind era.

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And after years of struggling to meet academic goals set by the state, the district has seen student achievement improve in certain measures — almost all grade levels showed positive growth in reading and math on 2015 - 16 state tests.

Millburn Superintendent James Crisfield said he was initially concerned about the high school showing in the 68th percentile for «academic achievement,» until he saw that the mark was based only on the state's High School Proficiency Assessment and biology test results.

Obama has joined the three presidents preceding him in favoring a far different policy of school improvement than that epitomized by Title I. Instead of additional dollars for extra services for children, the creation of academic standards and tests to measure achievement is seen as the way to increase the quality of American schools, especially that of schools with concentrations of low - income children.

According to the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), a group that advocates the widespread adoption of SEL instruction, students exposed to SEL see their scores on standardized achievement test scores rise by an average of 11 percentile points, compared to students who are not exposed.