Sentences with phrase «school exam scores»

That purported de-emphasis comes one week after de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña called a press conference to celebrate hikes in public - school exam scores while crediting their initiatives for the progress.

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They must either score high on the end - of - school exam (which only half of students typically pass) so that they can get admitted to a university and get a reputable job like a teacher or a doctor — or they must marry right away.

Like, for instance, when he mentions that he was the first New Zealander to be selected as a Fulbright Scholar in entrepreneurship, or tells you he once spent two weeks in a coma after contracting malaria in Indonesia, or says he was among the highest - scoring secondary - school students on a national math exam.

Some schools, such as the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, don't have a minimum, but if you want to be considered competitive, it's best to score above 600 on the exam.

The average GMAT score for Rotman's 2013 entering class was 674, and York University's Schulich School of Business says a competitive score would be 660 with a balanced score — that is, in at least the 50th percentile — across the four measures of the exam.

China's Communist Party is a merciless meritocracy... if you're in Chinese leadership, you made it there by scoring high on a long series of exams, starting at age twelve — which means you haven't met a stupid person since you were in junior high school.

«In seventh grade, the big worry is the ISAT score and attendance, and in eighth grade you sit for the selective enrollment exams for high school,» the Chicago mom says.

Homeschooling statistics show that those who are independently educated typically score between the 65th and 89th percentile on such exams, while those attending traditional schools average on the 50th percentile.

The most obvious sign of that were the scores on the citywide math exam at our middle school, which had been the school with the most challenges.

Florida high school students who can't pass the two state tests needed for graduation could find it harder to earn a diploma starting next year, as the state moves to change what other exams — and scores — can be used in their place.

Some colleges like to see that students have taken AP courses when these classes are offered at their high schools; some give extra points to student GPA's when they take AP courses; some give credit for passing scores on the AP exams, while others do not.

New York is going back to the drawing board to rethink the way it evaluates school teachers and principals after controversy over the use of student test scores in job evaluations helped fuel a massive boycott of state exams in recent years.

Charter school's students of the poorest neighborhood of New York City are doing excellent test scores in the state exams & the traditional public schools are falling miserably where those charter schools are co located.

While Syracuse School Superintendent Jaime Alicea is encouraged by the modest improvement in student English and math test scores, he said ``... there are still far too many students who are not scoring proficient on these exams.»

She echoed the union's concerted push for more school aid and a moratorium on using students scores on Common Core - aligned exams for «high stakes» decisions, such as teacher evaluations.

New York's school children made incremental progress in math scores but no gains in English tests in the second year of Common Core - related exams.

They say the test results show that charter school students scored higher on the exams than did public school students.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo named members to a Common Core review panel and called for fewer standardized exams Monday, but gave no sign of rolling back his controversial initiative to tie test scores to school closings and teacher evaluations.

The ACT has scheduled a makeup exam on Jan. 14 for 53 students whose answer sheets went missing after taking the test at Roslyn High School in October, which has left them lacking scores to submit on their college applications.

Charter - school backers ripped Mayor de Blasio as a «disgrace» Wednesday after he said their sparkling state exam scores stemmed from a misguided fixation on testing.

Charter - school backers ripped NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio as a «disgrace» after he said their sparkling state exam scores stemmed from a misguided fixation on testing.

The Coalition for Educational Justice and the UFT have been urging the city since the start of the school year to provide additional help for those students who scored below state standards on the most recent state exams in reading and math.

6,687 students 623 classroom teachers 10 schools (one high school, two junior highs, seven elementary) $ 188.8 million 2010 - 11 budget 1 % of students need free or reduced price lunches 97 % students are white or Asian (3 % black or Latino) 83 % of third - graders scored proficient or higher on this year's state's English test; 90 % on math exam.

Overall, students from richer schools score higher on the tests, around half are considered to have passed the exams.

The reference was to the Department of Education's plan to reserve 25 percent of seats at 17 middle schools for kids who score below grade level on state exams.

But in the English exams even students in the state's wealthiest schools saw scores slip a bit, from an average of 52 percent in 2013 passing to 49 percent this year.

10/3/2007 UCSD's Charter Pharmacy Class Achieves Top Scores in National Licensure Exam The charter graduating class of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences received top scores in the 2006 national and state pharmacy licensure Scores in National Licensure Exam The charter graduating class of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences received top scores in the 2006 national and state pharmacy licensure scores in the 2006 national and state pharmacy licensure exams.

I've had classroom teachers tell me they see their students using «take 5 breath» before exams, and studies have proven schools with yoga see test scores go up.

In 2009 Riverside Primary School in Rotherhithe, South East London, scored a 100 per cent pass rate in Sats tests in English, maths and science after pupils were taught breathing exercises by a yoga teacher before the exams.

However, due to the nature of grading law school exams I won't know my score (which constitutes my entire class grade) until the last week of August.

In fact, when I took it in high school our teacher said if we had an A in the class before the final then our final exam score wouldn't count.

The movie takes place in 1983 at a boys» boarding school in Yorkshire, where the grasping headmaster (Clive Merrison) is delighted to learn that eight young history scholars in the sixth form (equivalent to high school seniors) have scored exceptionally well on their A-Level exams (equivalent to the SATs) and may distinguish the school by getting into Oxford or Cambridge.

The current tests are not as high a barrier to high school graduation as they are often alleged to be, as a student may generally take the exam multiple times in order to achieve a passing score.

In Texas, students and teachers at schools earn money for every score of 3 or higher on an Advanced Placement exam.

More than three years ago, schools in the small central Ohio city of Coshocton launched an experiment to pay elementary students for passing or scoring high on state exams.

A school - by - school breakdown of scores on Massachusetts» first - ever exam for licensing new teachers is forcing some education schools to take a hard look at their curricula, even as state officials propose creating one of the nation's most intensive programs of teacher recruitment and training.

Some are ignored because they have little hope of passing an exam; others are placed dubiously in special education to avoid their being counted in a school's scores; still others are receiving more than their share of attention because they are on the cusp of passing the exam.

The FCAT writing exam, whose scores range from 0 to 6, also shows larger gains for schools earning an F grade in 1999.

Indeed, the strength of the correlation between fluid cognitive skills and test - score growth in oversubscribed charter schools is statistically indistinguishable from the correlations we observe among students in open - enrollment district schools and exam schools.

All nonparticipants in the state exam will receive a score of zero, which will in turn impact school scores on the state's accountability system

Finally, while exam - school students have considerably higher fluid cognitive skills (as would be expected of students who gain admission via test scores and grades), attending one of these locally renowned schools in the company of other bright students confers no systematic advantage.

The designation of low - scoring students as eligible for special education was more common in schools where a small number of students had failed the 8th - grade exam, making it easier for educators to target specific students.

They score higher on the 10th - grade math exam, are more likely to graduate from high school on time, and accumulate more math credits, including in subjects beyond a 10th - grade level.

By comparing grade cohorts who faced different degrees of accountability pressure, we can ascertain how much their level of risk affects not only 10th - grade exam scores but also how much schooling they completed and their earnings later in life.

Our analysis reveals that pressure on schools to avoid a low performance rating led low - scoring students to score significantly higher on a high - stakes math exam in 10th grade.

K - 12 Achievement (2016) The K - 12 Achievement Index scores states based on 18 distinct achievement measures related to reading and math performance, high school graduation rates, and the results of Advanced Placement exams.

The schools that agreed to participate in the study included 22 open - enrollment district schools, five oversubscribed charter schools, two exam schools to which students are admitted based on their grades and standardized test scores, and three charter schools that were not oversubscribed at the time the 8th - grade students in our study were admitted.

School's initial summative score would be multiplied by the percentage of students who took the exam

Furthermore, studies in Texas and elsewhere have found that some schools raised their published test scores by retaining low - performing students in 9th grade, by classifying them as eligible for special education (or otherwise exempting them from the exam), and even by encouraging them to drop out.

From 2009 - 2012, schools retested students who initially failed the exams, and then only the higher of the original and retest scores was used in the accountability measure.