Sentences with phrase «state achievement tests increased»

After learning to use the Essential Skill Inventories as a competency framework, and to consistently personalize instruction to help each child build essential skills, proficiency rates on grade 3 state achievement tests increased from 37 % in literacy to over 85 %, and from 59 % in math to over 90 % proficiency.

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Test - based incentive programs, as designed and implemented in the programs that have been carefully studied, have not increased student achievement enough to bring the United States close to the levels of the highest achieving countries.

Hanushek examines the report's two main conclusions: a) that test - based incentive programs «have not increased student achievement enough to bring the United States close to the level of the highest achieving countries;» and b) that high school exit exam programs «decrease the rate of high school graduation without increasing achievement.»

An analysis in our recently published book examines the NAEP test - score trends in the four states that have implemented court remedies the longest, and demonstrates that, despite spending increases amounting to billions of dollars, the achievement patterns in three of them — Wyoming, New Jersey, and Kentucky — are largely unchanged from what they were in the early 1990s, before the court - ordered remedies commenced.

As an example of the limitation of this measure, note that the United States is coded as a country where teacher salaries can be adjusted for outstanding performance in teaching on the grounds that salary adjustments are possible for achieving the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification or for increases in student achievement test scores.

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.

Malloy implemented an extremely prejudicial evaluation system for teachers, brought in Common Core and its associated testing (SBAC), crushed the OPT OUT movement, reduced funding for public schools while increasing funding for Achievement First Charter Schools, increased funding for CONNCan (a private Charter School advocacy group), appointed Stefan Pryor (CEO of Achievement First) as Commissioner of Education, vastly increased standardized testing throughout the state, and tried to abolish of tenure for teachers, all endorsed and supported by Melodie Peters against the wishes of the membership in CT..

A key strategy to improving educational outcomes and closing achievement gaps for children from low - income families is improving state finance systems to ensure equitable funding and increased access to resources, according to a new study from Educational Testing Service (ETS).

Black students» achievement on state tests in math increased from 17 percent scoring proficient or advanced during the 2009 - 10 school year to 18.3 percent.

Has the new writing curriculum been chosen to increase our focus on writing achievement as measured by our state testing?

School leaders more than anyone else understand the emphasis on testing and improving student achievement due to increased state and...

In the past five years, the district has seen steady increases in both achievement and growth rates for students with disabilities and ELLs on state tests, and a steady decline in the number of «unsatisfactory» schools on state report cards.