Sentences with phrase «school test scores got»

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Hard working people who went to top schools, scored high on aptitude tests and had a proven track record of getting results were highly sought after.

While unions have said they worry that teachers could be unfairly judged based on their students» test results, the scoring for students and teachers is quite different — students get an objective standardized test score, while teachers are evaluated under multipart programs that are developed by local teachers unions and school leaders.

In this case, failing means student test scores are in the bottom 5 percent, test scores are getting worse instead of better, or the schools» graduation rates are below 60 percent for three consecutive years.

While lower test scores largely result from more difficult tests, they fly in the face of Mayor Bloomberg's constant assertions that everything in our schools was getting better, thanks to his leadership.

As a result they get better scores on tests, better letters of recommendation, and occasionally a tip on a job or graduate school application.

Nevaeh got out of school yesterday and made all A's on her report card as well as pass her standardized tests with advanced scores woohoo!

We don't really care about test scores per se, we care about them because we think they are near - term proxies for later life outcomes that we really do care about — like graduating from high school, going to college, getting a job, earning a good living, staying out of jail, etc...

In Massachusetts, writes Georgia Alexakis in the Washington Monthly, the paradox of these reform efforts is, «The schools most likely to do poorly on the MCAS [the state test in Massachusetts] have also been most likely to embrace it, while those districts whose scores are already quite high are fighting hardest to get rid of it.»

One study [PDF] documenting schools that made this shift found that 60 % of students were able to get at least eight hours of sleep and that both attendance rates and standardized tests scores went up.

«And, the pattern that I saw, over and over again, was schools that would either devote themselves to getting the kids to score well on tests, or they would focus on the culture - and in either case they didn't seem to succeed very well.»

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has released broad principles for renewing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that seek to address perennial complaints that the law's current version — the No Child Left Behind Act — is inflexible and focuses too narrowly on student test scores to get a picture of a school's achievement.

Back when I was a classroom teacher, my principal — to whom I rarely spoke — came by one day to tell me that one of my math students had gotten the highest score in the school on a standardized math test.

The New York Times woke many with a start over the weekend when it reported in its Sunday edition on a school in Arizona investing lots of money in technology but seemingly getting few results from the investment, as student test scores remained stagnant.

This means that in many of California's public high schools, students can graduate, but they won't be able to get into a UC or CSU college even if they have a good GPA and good test scores.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

To be sure, there is nothing in our current forms of direct evaluation that requires schools and teachers to abandon a broad, knowledge - laden curriculum to boost test scores; but it should be abundantly clear that if the field hasn't gotten this message nearly fifteen years after No Child Left Behind, it's not going to.

With variations according to individual talent, children's test scores increase both as they get older and as they experience more years of schooling.

In other words, the average school leader faces pressure from the school district, the state, the parents and the local community to get high test scores.

Beyond test scores is lingering misinformation about intelligence, according to Nisbett, author of the book, Intelligence and How to Get It, who addressed how schools and culture do shape intellectual development.

The Chicago Public Schools first brought in AUSL in 2006 to turn around eight schools in which test scores, attendance, discipline issues, and graduation rates made it clear that the students were not getting the education they Schools first brought in AUSL in 2006 to turn around eight schools in which test scores, attendance, discipline issues, and graduation rates made it clear that the students were not getting the education they schools in which test scores, attendance, discipline issues, and graduation rates made it clear that the students were not getting the education they needed.

But Dunbar says that when you get down to measuring the ability of students at Dallas's Woodrow Wilson High School, for example, where you're comparing this year's ninth graders to last year's, accountability test scores are not very useful.

This indicates that while there are many reasons why school districts and states might want to seek to integrate relatively advantaged and relatively disadvantaged students within the same school, it appears unlikely that a policy goal of reducing the test score gap between students in these groups will be realized through further socioeconomic integration (at least once there gets to be the degree of socioeconomic integration necessary to be part of this study to begin with).

Cincinnati's most influential business and religious leaders say they won't support future school tax levies unless the district superintendent gets more authority to make changes to raise lagging test scores.

Virginia's Maggie Walker Governor's School eases «brain drain» angst by reporting each student's test scores to his or her «home school,» where they get included in the school's state reportSchool eases «brain drain» angst by reporting each student's test scores to his or her «home school,» where they get included in the school's state reportschool,» where they get included in the school's state reportschool's state report card.

The first screen would focus on student outcomes — test scores, growth metrics, and other gauges that demonstrate that the school is in fact getting excellent results.

That's the case with dozens of other «screened» high schools in New York, too, which are selective — often highly so — but don't rely exclusively on a single test score to decide who gets in.

Slate does get at least two things right: Sweden does have a private school choice program, introduced in 1992; and that nation's scores have been declining on the PISA test since the year 2000.

(Dozens of selective high schools in New York City — not including the eight that rely entirely on test scores — follow a complex citywide dual - track choice - and - selection process akin to the «match» system by which medical residents get placed.)

Based on their research, they developed the National College and Career Readiness Indicators, a multi-metric index that offers a truer picture of whether students are ready for life after high school than you get from simply looking at standardized test scores.

Academic Boot Camps Get Students in Test Shape Concentrated reading and test - taking instruction in small groups — known as boot camps — is one of the strategies a California school district uses to help elementary and middle - school students on the cusp of proficiency improve their reading and test scoTest Shape Concentrated reading and test - taking instruction in small groups — known as boot camps — is one of the strategies a California school district uses to help elementary and middle - school students on the cusp of proficiency improve their reading and test scotest - taking instruction in small groups — known as boot camps — is one of the strategies a California school district uses to help elementary and middle - school students on the cusp of proficiency improve their reading and test scotest scores.

I suspect the pilot may get more attention for reducing the number of tests students take and for spreading them out over the school year, so that students are assessed immediately following a unit's completion, leading to a cumulative score.

A third of the school's students in 2016 took an Advanced Placement test — and nearly two - thirds of those students got a passing score.

Getting into a charter school doubled the likelihood of enrolling in Advanced Placement classes (the effects are much bigger for math and science than for English) and also doubled the chances that a student will score high enough on standardized tests to be eligible for state - financed college scholarships.

For him, the best evidence of this is not just improved test scores or faster mastery of content but when parents say that their children are excited about learning and can't wait to get up in the morning and go to school.

One of the teachers bringing this suit is getting evaluated on the test scores of students who aren't even in her school.»

They would get higher test scores if schools could fire more bad teachers and pay more to good ones.

In California, if you are a low - income Hispanic or African - American child, you are more likely get a better education (as measured by test scores and parent demand) if you attend a charter school.

How many schools will be able to spend $ 15 million to get increased attendance and modest test score gains?

New York teacher Kevin Glynn was once a big fan of the Common Core, but he says the standardized testing that's come along with it is reducing students to test scores and narrowing what gets taught in schools.

We will not here get into the many technical problems with measures of achievement growth — they can be significant — and we surely don't suggest that school ratings and evaluations should be based entirely on test scores, no matter how those are sliced and diced.

Philadelphia, Guilford County, N.C., and four small districts in northern New Mexico have scooped up the last of the $ 42 million in federal grant money on offer this fall for rewarding teachers and principals who get higher student test scores in needy schools.

When, however, my colleagues and I analyzed longitudinal data that adjusted for the grades and test scores of students in 8th grade, we found that students at schools with minimum - competency exams with C - grades in 8th grade, while not more likely to drop out, were about 7 percentage points less likely to get a high - school diploma or a General Education Diploma (GED) within six years.

When access to rigorous programs is limited, or entry into them is handled simplistically (e.g., a child's score on a single test), plenty of kids who might benefit don't get drawn into the pipeline that leads to later success at the AP level and in schools like TJ — of which there aren't enough, either.

Before we get too immersed in the details of precisely why standardized - test scores have increased or decreased in a specific school or within a district, several overarching and critically important points should be understood concerning the basic underpinnings of all such assessment tools.

Because fewer students passed the test than passed the previous high school exam, the Maryland Board of Education is now considering whether to lower the score needed to pass the test or to issue two different diplomas, one for students who pass the PARCC exam and are ready for college and one for students who get a lower score on the test.

By deep learning we mean a lot of schools are very good at what you call «superficial» learning, which is teaching towards getting good ATAR scores, or doing well on the NAPLAN test.

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You can return to the Denver Post or Chalkbeat articles in just about any year just after the release of test score data to find the «it» schools of a particular year getting pages of press in their first year only to be soundly forgotten about when the new «it» schools come online and some of the previous years» schools fail to live up to expectations.

That number is small compared to the Atlanta and Philadelphia scandals, yet with more state policies — like teacher evaluations, merit pay, and takeovers of schools with poor ISTEP + scores — riding on students» scores on state tests, state officials, education experts, and parents told StateImpact Indiana they see these pressures to get results as incentives for teachers who can't hack it to bend the rules on state tests.

Levin became so confident of his progress at Bastian Elementary School that he defied a principal's order to exempt several of his low - scoring Hispanic students from state tests, a popular technique for getting the school's average scorSchool that he defied a principal's order to exempt several of his low - scoring Hispanic students from state tests, a popular technique for getting the school's average scorschool's average scores up.