Sentences with phrase «state math»

Asian students have generally performed better than white students on state math tests in the city, and about the same on English tests.

Last year, those five schools average 21 percentage points below their home district on state math tests and 10 points below in reading.

Even so, a stunning 96 % of the school's kids passed the tough new state math exam.

We estimate that an additional 10 days of instruction results in an increase in student performance on state math assessments of just under 0.2 standard deviations.

Do you support or oppose letting parents decide whether to have their children take state math and reading tests?

Only 56 percent of its students meet state math standards, and only 16 percent met state reading standards.

In math, they gained an extra 34 days of learning, as measured by state math exams.

The results for state math, science, and reading tests varied by school and grade.

But the latest state math and English tests show that the proficiency gap between minority and white students has returned to about the same level as when the mayor arrived.

Moreover, the Class of 2003 had to pass the challenging state math and English language arts test to graduate.

We created a map comparing state math performances to individual countries.

Such pacing guides help teachers select and use the lessons corresponding to the local and state math learning goals.

The study found that charter school students scored higher on state math and reading tests.

As measured by state math and reading exams, thousands of public school students enjoyed a modest academic benefit as a result of the program.

Under those goals, 78 percent of white students and 89 percent of Asian students are expected pass state math tests in 2017, while 57 percent of black students, 65 percent of Hispanic students and 49 percent of special - education students are expected to pass.

State math scores from the same year rivaled the impressive reading scores.

Students who scored in the bottom quarter of state math exams in fourth grade had a 62 percent chance of passing the math portion of the high school competency test if they had the most effective math teachers in grades 5 - 8 but only a 16 percent chance of passing if they had four straight years of the least effective teachers.

Making precisely this point, Cole, Kemple, and Segeritz note: «When we looked within groups of similarly performing students, we found that those who were exposed to more on - grade - level skills experienced higher rates of growth on the New York State math test.»

Under a waiver from NCLB approved earlier this month, the goal is for 50 percent of students to score proficient on the new state reading test and 65 percent to score proficient on the new state math test by 2017.

It seems that 26 nations actually ranked higher than Unites States math students in the year 2012, in 2008 only 4 % of Unites States bachelors degrees were given in engineering, and of 2009, of the 56 million people who were in the age bracket 25 and higher, only 20 million of them held degrees in the fields of science or engineering.

The previous state math standards encouraged students to take Algebra I in 8th grade so they could be on track to take Calculus by their senior year.

After the Reteach and Enrich program, the number of third -, fourth -, and fifth - graders meeting and exceeding state math standards increased significantly.

The math teacher assigns and discusses one or two problems in a format modelled on the Massachusetts state math assessment.

He spent 8 months of 2006 as the Senior Advisor for Mathematics, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, United States Department of Education and was one of the coauthors of the Fordham Foundation Report: The State of State MATH Standards, 2005.

In our study, the teachers with larger gains on low - cost state math tests also had students with larger gains on the Balanced Assessment in Mathematics, a more - expensive - to - score test designed to measure students» conceptual understanding of mathematics.

State a math problem aloud or display a flash card with a math problem on it, and ask both students to figure out the answer.

For years now, advocates (present company included) have used state math and reading test scores as the primary means to argue that school choice «works.»

Of the 32 schools in its Upper West Side district, SMS's fourth - and seventh - graders posted the highest proficiency rates on recent state math exams and were second in English.

The data contain state math and reading test scores for all Florida students attending public schools in grades 3 to 10 from the 2000 — 01 through 2008 — 09 school years.

Despite an A in algebra and excellent state math test scores, she had to fight to get into the ninth - grade geometry course that would keep her on track to take Advanced Placement calculus during her senior year.

Our curriculum and instructional designers are National Board Certified teachers who create easy - to - implement ways of supporting state math standards.Read More

The reports compare teachers of fourth through eighth grades — the grades during which state math and English tests are administered — and then make predictions whether the students» achievement will improve.

Sequim enacted Intensified Algebra I for 9th grade students who had struggled with Washington State math assessments in middle school; a significant majority of these students passed no middle school assessments in 6th, 7th, or 8th grades.

Translation: by the spring of 2015, close to 1 million students between Grades 3 and 11 are expected to sit at laptops or tablets taking their annual state math and language arts exams.

The opportunity to bring together state math leaders is crucial to the advancement of math in all states and ensuring that access to math and high - quality math instruction occurs in an equitable way.

Students from high schools and middle schools around the Albemarle region made up the ECSU state math and science competition team.

In my first year of teaching, 96 percent of my students passed the toughest state math test in New York's history, and two - thirds achieved the highest possible score.

City data show that only 43 % of the eighth - graders at The Equity Project passed state math exams in 2013, though that was higher than 26 % citywide.

But a boycott led by parents and unions prompted 200,000 students in grades three through eight to opt out of taking state math and English exams this year.

Meanwhile, the number of students who failed eighth - grade state math exams has tripled from 14,000 in 2012 to 44,483 since Common Core exams in grades 3 to 8 were introduced.

Children who took part in City Connects for at least a year did better on state math exams than children in the comparison group who didn't participate in the intervention.

Vermilion students recently showed strong growth on state math assessments.

Our turnaround efforts have nearly tripled the number of students passing the New York State math test and more than doubled those passing the English language arts exam.

State math standards over the past decade or so have focused on trying to cut across these traditional disciplines — making real - world modeling and real - world data a central part of the math curriculum.

So, when researchers looked at test scores four years after a school closure, displaced students had generally comparable scores on state math exams to scores of their non-displaced peers.

Nine of his 15 teachers were laid off, putting in peril the Diploma Plus curriculum the school adopted that was designed to offer targeted academic help to the students — most of whom scored «below basic» on annual Common Core - aligned standardized state math and reading tests.

United States math achievement, compared to the achievement of other countries, decreases between fourth and eighth grade.

As anti-SBAC advocates in Washington State are reporting, «By comparison, only 12,380 students from the Graduating Class of 2015 failed to pass the previous state math test.»