Sentences with phrase «start taking standardized tests»

Students don't start taking standardized tests until third grade, but Bowling is still tracking her students closely.

Age eight is the point at which many children start taking standardized tests at school, and expectations for homework, focus, and abstract thinking increase.

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Westchester County Rob Astorino on Tuesday said he and his wife will have their children not take the new round of standardized tests starting today in the state's public schools.

School administrators are closely watching a letter campaign that's taking place in the days before school starts that could lead to even more children opting out of state standardized tests.

For nearly 2,000 years, starting in A.D. 141, the sons of a broad cross section of Chinese society, including peasants and tradesmen, took the equivalent of standardized tests.

Because Maine's standardized tests focus heavily on mathematics and language skills, Salm said, middle school students would start taking their core courses every day instead of every other day as they have done in the past.

I tell my kids that standardized tests don't mean anything in the long run and that they'll never have to take such tests once they start working (unless it's for a certification of some kind).

But starting in spring 2016, Indiana students will be taking a new standardized test.

Orange County schools will give kindergarten - to - second - grade students a multi-day standardized test starting Monday, and two advocacy groups think parents should refuse to have their kids take part.

It all started when I was in high school, when you are a student of a public high school in Arizona you are forced to take a standardized test called the AIMS test.