Sentences with phrase «slide in test scores»

We don't yet know whether the troubling slide in test scores for middle - school students persists through the end of high school, a question that is certainly worth studying.

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Analysts have cited a legion of reasons for the state's slide in achievement: the steady leaching of resources from the schools that was the inevitable result of the infamous 1970s property - tax revolt led by Howard Jarvis; a long period of economic woes caused by layoffs in the defense industry; curriculum experiments with «whole language» reading instruction and «new math» that were at best a distraction and at worst quite damaging; a school finance lawsuit that led to a dramatic increase in the state's authority over school budgets and operations; and a massive influx of new students and non-English-speaking immigrants that almost surely depressed test scores.

Fourth - grade test scores in both reading and math slid in five states: Alaska, Louisiana, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Vermont.

The school has struggled to stem sliding enrollment and to address poor safety ratings by parents and test scores that were among the worst in the city.

In that test, the sliding door unlatched at the front, creating a gap between the door and the car body, and the score was penalised for this.

Over the past several years, Microsoft Security Essentials has slid in the malware detection scoring tests.