Sentences with phrase «statewide math»

«With the exception of the performance of 6th and 8th graders on statewide math exams, charter schools do not seem to be making much of a difference.»

Several years ago, the district began implementing the Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE), which include a new statewide math curriculum that places greater emphasis on problem solving, reasoning, representation, connections, and communication.

Both the House and Senate versions of the ESEA rewrite, while maintaining that states must use yearly assessments to gauge every student's growth, will allow states to use more than just statewide math and reading tests to do that.

Now, states must set their own goals for achievement on English proficiency assessments as well as for achievement on statewide math and language arts assessments.

Back in June, the New York City Department of Education recommended some 34,000 students in grades three through eight attend summer school based on the city's preliminary analysis of the statewide math and English language arts exams.

It was designed for ninth - graders who had struggled through their eighth - grade math classes and were deemed at risk of failing the statewide math Regents exam, which is among the tests that must be passed to earn a high school diploma.

Studying for Ohio's statewide math - proficiency test was all a game for 4th graders at the Robert H. Jamison CompuTech Center, a K - 12 magnet school in Cleveland.

Last August, Fernald recalls, she was looking at the grades for the statewide math exams that had just come in and she stopped when she saw Javier's.

Statewide math and science academies, virtual schools, and entities other than districts all loosen the grip of local officials on the delivery of public education.

In the statewide math test, only 30 percent of low - income students scored proficient or advanced on...

In the statewide math test, only 30 percent of low - income students scored proficient or advanced on the test while only 22 percent of Latino students scored proficient or advanced.

Three years later, their effort had paid off: student passing rates on the statewide math Regents exams had more than doubled, from 31 percent to 70 percent.

In Kentucky this year, the percentage of elementary and middle - school students who rated «proficient» or better on statewide math and reading tests declined by about a third.

Statewide percentile rank is determined for each grade - level by first assigning each grade's performance a z - score based on the statewide math achievement distribution (Scale Score or Percent Met Standards) for all grades in that state, and then evaluating the percentile rank equivalent to that z - score.

In my home state of New York this past year, for example, approximately 20 percent of parents statewide opted to not have their children take the statewide math and English tests mandated by NCLB and Race to the Top.