Sentences with phrase «state test scores fell»

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The United States has been falling behind on math and science test scores for decades — and waiting for help from the federal government is almost always a bad idea, no matter who is in office.

Charter school's students of the poorest neighborhood of New York City are doing excellent test scores in the state exams & the traditional public schools are falling miserably where those charter schools are co located.

The scores of last year's MCAS tests given to Springfield school students rose across the board at a higher rate than the gain recorded by school districts statewide, and the dropout rate has fallen more than any other school system in the state.

These states should not fear any illusory «fall» in test scores.

Using student - level data from two states, Harvard Professor Martin West and I found that 40 to 60 percent of schools serving mostly low - income or underrepresented minority students would fall into the bottom 15 percent of schools statewide based on their average test scores, but only 15 to 25 percent of these same schools would be classified as low performing based on their test - score growth.

Winters's analysis, «Florida Defeats the Skeptics: Test scores show real progress in the Sunshine State,» will appear in the Fall issue of Education Next and will be available at www.educationnext.org.

Throughout this process, the district has maintained its scores on Indiana's standardized tests; Lawrence Township's passing scores generally hover around 70 percent and fall within a few percentage points of the state average.

When Michigan officials suspended six teacher education programs at Lake Superior State University in 2012, citing falling licensing - test scores and other problems, the action prompted a period of deep soul - searching for the university's top brass.

In results released Wednesday, Maryland was the only state to have falling scores in both subjects in both grades tested.

In New York, and in other states that have introduced the Common Core irresponsibly, test scores for the current school year «will fall, not because there is less learning but because the tests are evaluating skills and content these students haven't yet been taught.»

The percentage of Blue Ribbon Schools with lackluster academic records, based on state test scores from schools in seven states, fell from 24 percent during the 1999 award cycle to 9 percent in 2003, the study concludes.

First — test scores fell under Covington and weeks before he took the job in Michigan the state confirmed that test scores were lower and that we met FEWER benchmarks towards accreditation than when he started.

While a select few of Rocketship schools still show high test scores, two of the five K - 5 Rocketship schools have fallen below the state API goal of 800, and have been deemed failing schools.

It was the first time scores slipped for the district and California since the state's students started taking the test in 2003, and the first time scores fell nationally since the test began in 1990.

Last fall, state officials threw out all of the elementary school's 2013 - 14 test results after Beacon Hill saw an unusual jump in its scores and a district review found «heavy erasure marks» in students» exam booklets.

A top - scoring student on Arizona's reading test may fall far below average in states with more rigorous exams, like Massachusetts or Wisconsin.

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.

Both reports mirror the trend reported by Education Week last fall, when it published its national database of states» 2014 - 15 test scores alongside their previous year's test scores.

But the charter chain's sky - high student outcomes have not held up: A 2014 analysis by the California Department of Education found that in the previous five years the number of Rocketship students scoring at the «proficient» level or above on California state tests fell by 30 percentage points in English and 14 percentage points in math.

Keric Ashley, interim deputy state superintendent, downplayed the importance of the field test comparison in an interview, saying that the purpose was to provide parents «a larger context» of where their students» scores fell relative to other students.

Anne Arundel County Public Schools students made gains in state standardized test scores, but the majority still fell short of the state standards.

Last fall, state test scores showed that the elementary school had the highest math gains of any traditional school in the LA Unified district.

LA Unified's scores on state standardized tests continue to fall below the state average, even though its students posted slightly better gains, according to results released Wednesday.

Twelve schools in Madison, including Lowell Elementary, above, where children played tether ball on an unseasonably mild day Thursday, saw their scores on state report cards fall a full level due to high parental opt outs on state tests.

Test scores for students in general, including those with disabilities, were low, as the state announced this fall.

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The state Department of Education maintains that some parents are misinformed about the tests and has said it hopes parents see the value of PARCC when score reports are released in the fall.

In 2012, the district fell short of the expectations under the law, which holds schools to annual state - specific targets for test scores and graduation rates.

Morgan Polikoff, assistant professor at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California, thinks PARCC might also face a battle in Maryland, after the state was the only one to see falling scores on all four National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests — which are considered the gold - standard for student standardized tests.

Thus, if California were to keep these old rules, a school that should be applauded for its strong gains for English learners would fall in the «red zone» on the display developed by the state to indicate how a school is doing on a number of measures, including standardized test scores.

The scores of last year's MCAS tests given to Springfield school students rose across the board at a higher rate than the gain recorded by school districts statewide, and the dropout rate has fallen more than any other school system in the state.

Key approaches for ensuring and evaluating comparability of educational assessments; e.g., state test results over time, falls under the umbrella of score linking.

Johnson's six - year superintendency saw the test scores of our students fall from next to the top of major Texas districts to next to the bottom, aided by gradually lowered pass rates on the state's TAKS exam.

the break from the trend of far exceeding state averages, and the fact that the tests fell at around the same time as SAT and AP tests, there is reason to believe that this scores are not representative of actual school quality.

Test scores on the most recent Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Exam, administered to students across the state last fall, show that just 34.4 percent of Milwaukee's voucher students scored at the proficient and advanced level in math.