Sentences with phrase «state reading test»

Most of the school's students are low - income minorities, and 40 percent of fourth - graders were proficient or better on state reading tests last year.

Last year, 27 percent of students attending voucher schools passed state reading tests, compared to 26 percent at district schools and just over a third at charter schools.

The numbers of those fourth - graders achieving proficiency or above on annual state reading tests grew from 27 percent to 32 percent from 2005 to 2011.

They also analyze the outcomes of the annual state reading test for the third grade on up.

Parents whose children attend public schools and struggle on state reading tests could receive up to $ 500 to help pay for books, tutoring, summer programs or other reading - related expenses.

However, the sample size for this part of the study was too small to determine whether students who participated in Reading Recovery sustained their gains on state reading tests in 3rd grade.

Although there are a number of areas that appear to be sources of reading difficulty, Valencia and Buly (2004) found that a substantial number of fifth grade students who scored below the proficient standard on a fourth grade state reading test exhibited difficulties in what the Common Core State Standards have identified as a foundational reading skill — reading fluency.

While just 8 percent of Allen's students passed state reading tests last year, one could easily be fooled walking around the campus.

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.

Achieve3000's forecasting reports, designed to help educators predict and enhance student performance on high - stakes state reading tests, were already available for seven states.

But in May Ms. McNeill felt vindicated when she received the results of her students» performance on standardized state reading tests.

That year, in the wake of the federal No Child Left Behind law, the state put in a policy that all students who missed the mark on the third - grade state reading test would be automatically left back and given remediation.

Florida students» performance on state reading tests and the National Assessment of Educational Progress rose rapidly in the years following the policy's introduction (see «Florida Defeats the Skeptics,» check the facts, Fall 2012).

This year, 88 percent of SUNY - authorized charter schools outperformed their districts on the state math tests, and 83 percent outperformed their districts on the state reading tests.

Since Mr. G.'s arrival five years ago, the percentage of African American 5th graders passing the state reading test is way up, from 55 to 91 percent.

The lowest performing of the ten brought 75 percent of its students to proficiency or above on last year's state reading test.

We also asked respondents what they think about requiring 3rd - grade students to pass a state reading test before moving on to the 4th grade.

So, for example, only 25 percent of 8th graders in South Carolina were deemed proficient on both the state reading test and on the NAEP reading test — an honest, if embarrassing, reckoning of the education situation in the state.

In 1999 Weston, a Boston suburb, spent $ 10,039 per pupil, in adjusted 2003 dollars, and that year its 4th - grade students averaged a scale score of 248 on the state reading test.

In Chicago, the girls at Gen. George Patton Elementary School outpaced the boys by fifty - five points on the 2007 state reading tests.

The percentage of black Madison students scoring proficient or better on the state reading test dropped to the lowest level in six years, while statewide black student reading scores continued to improve.

Soon third - graders will be retained if they don't pass the state reading test.

Evidence for this dramatic improvement can be found in student scores on the state reading test.

In Illinois, charter school students were 21 % more proficient on their state math tests and 16 % more proficient on their state reading tests than their regular public school peers.

She found that students at charter schools performed 5 % better on state reading tests than their traditional public school peers and that charter school students performed 3 % better on state math tests than similar students at public schools.

When compared with students in neighboring schools, Hoxby found charter - school students actually outperformed their public - school peers by a national average of 5 percent in state reading tests and an average of 3 percent in state math tests.

In 2001, only 5 percent of the school's students scored proficient on the state reading test; by 2010, that had grown to 12 percent.

This latter emphasis was sharpened at the beginning of the 1998 - 99 school year partly in response to analysis of student performance on the state reading test.

Nearly two - thirds of Wisconsin students who took the state reading test last fall scored below proficient, and less than half were proficient in math, according to recalibrated results released Tuesday by the Department of Public Instruction.

The district was returned to local control in 2012, even though only 14 percent of the district's third graders scored proficient or advanced on the state reading test that year.

Olson was puzzled over why second and third grade students were not achieving proficiency on state reading tests, so the district began adjusting teaching practices and curriculum.

A year later, improvements were already being seen: 70 percent of third - graders passed the state reading test, a two - point boost.

For instance, at Cleveland's George Washington Carver Elementary School, located in one of that city's poorest neighborhoods, 73 percent of the fourth graders passed the state reading test — a big jump from previous years and more than double the school district average.

In New York City last year, 29 percent of public school students passed the state reading tests, and 35 percent passed the math tests.

For example, the percentage of 3rd graders scoring at Below Basic on the state reading test dropped from 13.4 percent in 2006 to 6.1 percent in 2008.

Yet in just one year, we raised our scores so dramatically that we went from a barely «Acceptable» rating by the Texas Education Agency to being «TEA Recognized,» with 95 percent of our students passing the state reading test in the 2008 — 09 school year.

A year later, the proportion of fourth - graders at P.S. 33 who passed the state reading test dropped by 41 points.

This is Public School 67 in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, where every third - grader flunked the state reading tests.

His son, Aaron, attends Public School 67 in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, where not a single third - grader passed the state reading test.

A teacher's students score 88 % pass rate on a state reading test vs. 100 % of a teachers students make progress beyond struggling on grade level appropriate material.

According to today's New York Times, «88 percent of SUNY - authorized charter schools outperformed their districts on the state math tests, and 83 percent outperformed their districts on the state reading tests.»

Should a teacher be fired when a majority of their latch - key kids don't pass the state reading test?

[5] Associations in this range typically are considered weak: teachers with value - added in the top quartile on the state reading test would have about a 40 percent chance that their value - added on the alternative test would be below the 50th percentile.

Pennsylvania was a particularly effective SRCL grantee, reporting «greater percentages of students across grade levels scoring in the upper quartile and a reduction in the percentage of students scoring in the lowest quartile» on state reading tests, reflecting improvements in reading comprehension.

In Lincoln, across the district, 67 percent of high - school students passed the state reading test, including just 42 percent of African - American 11th - graders and 48 percent of Hispanic students, according to the Nebraska Department of Education State of the Schools Report.

Koretz's argument against predictability makes sense when it comes to math tests — and while he notes one instance of apparent score inflation on a state reading test, all of his other examples relate to math.