Sentences with phrase «standardized test scores in»

It's an approach that seems to be working: Valor Flagship Academy, the first Valor school, produced outstanding academic results, including the highest standardized test scores in the city and the state, in its first year of operation (2014 — 15).

- Reduced achievement gap - Increased course passing rate - Increased graduation rates - Higher standardized test scores in reading and math - More AP and IB tests taken - Fewer suspensions - Lower absenteeism

Used innovative and differentiated teaching methods to produce effective learning experiences and increased standardized test scores in Language Arts.

Canine and feline roundworms are common locally and have human health implications, including causing liver and eye infections in people (especially children) and have been recently linked with lower standardized test scores in people.

This 61 - page report concludes that school libraries at the elementary, middle, and high school levels positively impacted students» standardized test scores in English and reading.

(http://www.senatorphilpavlov.com/commentary-how-we-are-reinventing-states-outmoded-education-system/) What Sen. Pavlov fails to mention is that gaining a spot on the state's «achievement gap list» is no measure of any sort of educational or learning issue — its simply an indication that a school's students have not met a predetermined goal, set by the state (not teachers), with respect to standardized test scores in math or reading.

Wendy Lecker, a mother of three children in the Stamford Public Schools, says she wants her children, and all children, to have the best teachers possible, and that's why she strongly opposes using standardized test scores in any part of a teacher's evaluation.

However, to the dismay of teachers, Governor Cuomo balked at a proposal by legislators to impose a two - year moratorium on the use of Common Core standardized test scores in teacher evaluations, saying, «There is a difference between remedying the system for students and parents and using this situation as yet another excuse to stop the teacher - evaluation process.»

Reducing or eliminating the use of standardized test scores in the evaluation of individual teachers,

CEA Executive Director Mary Loftus Levine, parents, and teachers told members of the State Board of Education today that they are concerned about the potential overreliance on standardized test scores in teacher evaluations.

The city's new take on teacher ratings comes roughly a year after the state Board of Regents moved to suspend the use of standardized test scores in most teacher evaluations.

The school has the lowest standardized test scores in Adelanto, with fewer than half the students proficient in math and English.

This regular birthing of new schools is the truest sign of the success of Aspire Charter Schools, whose students produce some of the highest standardized test scores in San Joaquin County.

Standardized test scores in reading and math also have improved significantly in both sectors, with charters leading the way at a time when curricula have been enriched and after - school options expanded in both D.C. charters and DCPS.

In spring 2014, CORE conducted a pilot test of its SEL measures with approximately 9,000 students and more than 300 teachers from all grade levels.33 The districts found that on average, students» self - reported survey responses on all four competencies were correlated with GPA and standardized test scores in English language arts and mathematics.

Gov. Jerry Brown rejected the requirements that states use standardized test scores in evaluating teachers and that state governments oversee plans to improve their lowest - performing 15 percent of schools.

Contrary to Mr. Villar's assertion, there is little, if any, evidence to support the idea that including standardized test scores in teacher evaluations will close the so - called achievement gap.

Clawing back, arts advocates have overreached in asserting that arts will raise standardized test scores in math and science.

Problems with Using Standardized Test Scores in High - Stakes Evaluations of Students, Teachers and Schools

Deasy and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who wrote a 1999 amendment to the Stull Act requiring the use of state standardized test scores in teacher reviews, also hailed the decision.

Chalfant ruled that the Stull Act requires the district to use California standardized test scores in determining student achievement.

Yi's approach seems to work: She is rated «highly effective» in a value - added analysis by The Times based on her students» standardized test scores in English and math.

California's Central Valley Networked Improvement Communities seek to improve fifth - grade mathematics and triple students» math proficiency on standardized test scores in just four years.

This study compared standardized test scores in reading and math for second - and fifth - grade students from two similar technology - rich elementary schools in Miami Dade County, Florida.

Lack of proficiency in reading and writing in social studies is exacerbated by the fact that schools are spending far less time on social studies instruction in the face of increasing pressure to improve standardized test scores in reading and mathematics (Manzo, 2005).

Along with a lot of other analysis by people with a lot more tools than me in their statistics tool belts, I hope this post adds a new wound to the misuse of standardized test scores in teacher evaluation.

The state has proposed using English language arts and math standardized test scores in grades 3 to 8, science test scores when available, an English learner indicator, high school graduation rates, suspension rates, chronic absenteeism, college and career readiness, school climate, parent engagement and school conditions as part of its evaluation.

When asked by the Washington Post why he wasn't able to significantly improve standardized test scores in Chicago, Duncan said;

While the debate plays out dramatically in Illinois, new teacher evaluation systems have created conflict in other states, including Florida and Tennessee, which now use students» standardized test scores in their evaluations of teachers.

The problem with most current systems is they measure growth by using standardized test scores in a few academic subjects, usually math and reading, which are not a very accurate or comprehensive way to check on overall student progress.

But changes, including the elimination of requirements to use state standardized test scores in evaluations and the lack of adequate funding, would have set back efforts in Los Angeles and elsewhere to develop a strong teacher evaluation system, he said.

It is particularly known for its bare - bones curricular focus on standardized test scores in reading and math, its use of computer - based «learning labs» that cut down costs, and its promotion of the Rocketship brand — including a daily pep rally where students chant that they are «Rocketship Rocketeers.»

Last year Students Matter filed a lawsuit, Doe v. Antioch, against 13 California school districts, saying collective bargaining agreements in those districts violated the Stull Act by explicitly prohibiting the use of student standardized test scores in assessing teacher performance.

Lipshutz said after the lawsuit was filed, several of the school districts amended their contracts to remove the language prohibiting the use of standardized test scores in teacher evaluations.

HOPE elementary students fell behind their peers, as 70 % of Colorado students with the same standardized test scores in 2013, scored better than HOPE students in 2014.

In the current education climate, standardized test scores in literacy and math are important to both schools and individual students.

Students Matter, the nonprofit organization that filed Vergara v. California, sued 13 California school districts last year, saying those districts were not in compliance with the Stull Act and their collective bargaining agreements explicitly prohibited the use of student standardized test scores in assessing teacher performance.

Unfortunately, many states are using that federal guidance as rationale for an overreliance on standardized test scores in principal evaluations and are ignoring the complex and various responsibilities that principals carry out to foster high - quality instruction and learning.

In particular, many school and system leaders are experimenting with complementary indicators that focus on social - emotional learning and career - readiness, topics that resonate with parents and can help place standardized test scores in context.

The San Diego - area Barona Indian Charter School, for example, posted big gains in student performance on standardized test scores in the 2003 - 2004 school year, besting the state average.

In addition to the legal action, the union has distributed letters for teachers to give to their principals, expressing opposition to the new evaluations and the use of standardized test scores in setting objectives for teachers in initial planning conferences.

PURE believes that the proposed Policy continues to result in too many retentions and to misuse standardized test scores in a way that damages children and their education.

The Los Angeles Unified School District filed court papers Tuesday asserting that a new tentative agreement with the teachers union has satisfied judicial orders to use state standardized test scores in instructor evaluations.

Under Ms. Alexander's leadership, Yu Ying has become one of the most sought after schools in the District of Columbia with its standardized test scores in the among the highest in the city.

A: We look at standardized test scores in the district, and we also had an evaluation done of some of the models that [Lecturer on Education and Director of the Human Development and Psychology Program] Terry Tivnan did here at HGSE along with Lowry Hemphill, who's now at Wheelock College in Boston.

Data also show that students in the reduced - size classrooms had higher standardized test scores in reading and mathematics than did students in the control group.»

Students at Mother Hale, KIPP, and Crossroads may not have the highest standardized test scores in the city, yet administrators at all three schools consider their programs successful.

The results indicate that the effect of receiving a fail rating is to raise standardized test scores in a school by 0.12 standard deviations in math and by 0.07 to 0.09 standard deviations in English.

In a recently published study in Economics of Education Review, we follow the trajectories of 2.9 million public school students in Florida over a seven - year time period and compare their standardized test scores in years when they had a teacher of the same ethnicity to school years when they did not.

Leasure is currently attaining its highest standardized test scores in nine years and seeing tremendous growth in special education students» proficiency.