Sentences with phrase «statewide language arts test»

For example, in Kajoshaj v. New York City Department of Education (2013), the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a civil rights suit of a Muslim student of Albanian descent who was retained for a second year in the fifth grade based on deficient performance on the statewide language arts test.

Not exact matches

Long Island appeared on the threshold of cementing its place as the epicenter of the opt - out movement statewide, with tens of thousands of students refusing to take the state's English language arts exam on the first day of Common Core testing, a Newsday survey showed.

In spring 2015, the boycott grew so large — with parents pulling more than 200,000 students out of testing in English language arts and mathematics, about 20 percent of those eligible statewide — that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called for a sweeping review of the state's academic standards and exams.

At BCF's flagship schools, Brighter Choice for Girls and Brighter Choice for Boys, 3rd and 4th graders have been outperforming their district counterparts almost from the beginning on the statewide English language arts and mathematics exams (see Figure 1 for the 2009 test results).

In 2014, Denver students outperformed only 16.7 percent of Colorado students on the elementary English language arts test, but in 2015 they outperformed 42.4 percent of their peers statewide.

Since 2015, students in third, fourth and fifth grades have shown steady improvement on statewide English language arts and math tests, and more than 5,000 students are on the waiting list for String Theory Schools» enrollment lottery.

Johns Hopkins and Old Dominion universities have studied our statewide implementations in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts and have found that students in schools led by NISL - trained principals outperform their peers at matched schools in both math and English language arts as demonstrated on state tests.

This report presents the results of a project to estimate the percentage of U.S. elementary and secondary students being assessed on deeper learning skills through statewide mathematics and English language arts achievement tests at the beginning of the Deeper Learning Initiative.

Statewide in all tested grades, 49 percent of students met or exceeded the English language arts / literacy standard, an increase of 5 percentage points from last year.

We accurately predicted the percentage of students scoring proficient or above on the Grade 7 language arts tests for 77 % of the districts and 66 % of the districts in math for our statewide sample of 388 school districts (Tienken, 2014).

In Florida, math and English language arts are the only two subjects covered by statewide testing.

SCREADY is a statewide assessment that includes tests in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics.

New Mexico divides all teachers into three categories — group A teachers have scores based on the statewide test (mathematics, English / language arts (ELA)-RRB-, group B teachers (e.g. music or history) do not have a corresponding statewide test, and group C teachers teach grades K - 2.

Connecticut law mandates that students take a «statewide mastery test,» defined as «an examination which measures whether or not a student has mastered essential grade - level skills in reading, language arts and mathematics.»

According to this year's standardized test results, statewide nearly 10 percent of English learners met or exceeded the English language arts standards, and about 9 percent did so in math.

The End of Course Examination Program (EOCEP) is a statewide assessment program of end of course tests for gateway courses awarded units of credit in English / language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies.

Statewide, 73.5 percent of Indiana students passed both the math and English language arts ISTEP + tests this spring — that's a 10 percent increase in pass rates since 2008.

Smarter Balanced test scores for all California student subgroups nudged upward this year, in tandem with average statewide gains in math and English language arts.

Last year, only 7 percent of New York City students with disabilities scored «proficient» or better in English and 12 percent in math, and statewide there were at least 190 school districts in which not a single special education student was proficient on the third - grade language arts test.

In these statewide studies, the most substantial and consistent finding is a positive relationship between full - time, qualified school librarians and scores on standards - based language arts, reading, and writing tests, regardless of student demographics and school characteristics.

Arizona's Measurement of Educational Readiness to Inform Teaching (AzMERIT) is an annual statewide test that measures how students are performing in English language arts and math.