Sentences with phrase «statewide tests as»

Respondents included only union teachers, who routinely oppose statewide tests as the chief criteria for measuring students» academic achievement.

Ballard's office also cited The Project School's passage rates on statewide tests as a reason for its decision to close the school.

Likewise, in a March 2011 Rutgers poll, 60 % of adults thought it would be «fair» to base teacher evaluations on student results on statewide tests as well as classroom observations, while 37 % thought it «unfair.»

Earlier this month, the Utah State Board of Education voted to seek a waiver from an ESSA provision that would require the state to count students who opt out of statewide testing as zero scores for school accountability purposes.

Not exact matches

Jackson had access to each student's scores on the statewide standardized test, and he used that as a rough measure of their cognitive ability.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

New York City schools and a handful of districts statewide have used the standardized tests under Common Core for grades 3 through 8 as a factor in promoting students to the next grade.

Silver raised the possibility of using one statewide office, that of the state comptroller, as a test case for publicly financed campaigns as a compromise that Republicans in the Senate might support.

As part of Governor Cuomo's Water Quality Rapid Response Task Force, DEC and DOH are working to evaluate potential threats to drinking water supplies statewide and assist communities with testing and technical assistance.

About 250 park officers statewide are trained to assist with search and rescues (including on ice), do field sobriety tests, respond to accidents and serve as liaisons with snowmobile clubs that help maintain the trails.

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.

Dr. Vanden Wyngaard and district staff will provide an overview of state exams and how the Common Core Learning Standards are changing instruction for students at all grade levels, as well as information about how the tests are used in the new statewide evaluation systems for teachers and principals.

As parents and educators statewide continue to protest so - called high - stakes testing tied to Common Core, politicians this election season are tapping into voters» frustration with how the curriculum was rolled out.

As predicted by state education officials, scores on the first English and math tests given statewide to elementary school students under tougher new learning standards are not very good.

This summer, state education officials released statewide test results that showed a drop in the math and English scores for third through eighth graders as the new Common Core standards take hold.

Todd is also the statewide leader on access to diplomas for special needs students, as well as fixing New York's broken standardized testing system for public school students.

But if that same party wants to have a legislative candidate on the ballot in November, the number of voters within that legislative district to choose that party's primary ballot can be as high as 130 voters, i.e., over twenty times as high as the test for statewide candidates.

Koch has raised his statewide profile this year with his NY Uprising PAC and its trio of reform pledges, which he used as a litmus test for dubbing candidates «heroes» or «enemies» of reform — a message he took on the road.

Magee has become central to the statewide effort to battle reforms such as standardized testing, teacher evaluations based on test scores and penalties for schools that do not meet certain standards.

In addition, the Budget puts forward the state's largest investment in education to date, including an increase of more than 5 % in school aid; statewide, universal full - day Pre-k; a bond act to modernize classrooms; as well as signature reforms to fix Common Core implementation and protect students from unfair high stakes test results; and strengthen and support Charter Schools.

Some report interesting information that national observers may not have known, such as Nebraska's abiding love of locally selected tests and its rejection of statewide assessments.

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.

Today in Massachusetts, as in many states, students who fail to pass the statewide graduation test are prevented from receiving a diploma.

If they choose to follow this course, they should redesign their field tests to function as statewide assessments, and provide scores back to students and schools.

In Massachusetts, Romney defended statewide graduation requirement tests, which started during his first year as governor in 2003.

The recent news that Washington state legislators voted down a bill that would require statewide tests to be used — in some locally determined amount — as part of teacher and principal evaluations has three major implications:

Steiner — an academic with Oxford and Harvard degrees who also had pioneered new teacher training programs as head of Hunter College's School of Education — had «charged out of the gate galloping,» observes Meyer, instituting greatly tougher benchmarks for the state's 3 - 8 tests and initiating a major effort to write a statewide curriculum.

Statewide graduation requirement tests were started during his first year as governor in 2003.

Moreover, summative assessment sat at the core of many of the policy reforms that the leaders described: additional accountability levers such as teacher evaluation systems and statewide school report cards draw on data coming out of these summative tests to make determinations and comparisons regarding teacher and school - level performance.

Our data on student achievement come from the Washington State Assessment of Student Learning, a statewide test given annually in 3rd through 8th grade as well as in 10th grade.

In fact, some Los Angeles students saw their test scores fall as a result of the 1996 statewide program, which sought to lower class sizes in kindergarten through the 3rd grade.

If California wants to simply identify underperforming schools on the state's dashboard, as its accountability plan suggests, or if Arizona wants to allow schools to use any standardized test that fits their needs rather than a statewide test, as ESSA's pilot option also allows, DOE should move out of the way of these state laboratories.

Nebraska's enactment last week of a new plan of statewide academic standards and assessments leaves Iowa as the nation's lone holdout in the movement to embrace at least some variety of uniform state testing.

The authors suggest that other states learn from «the danger of relying on statewide test scores as the sole measure of student achievement when these scores are used to make high - stakes decisions about teachers and schools as well as students.»

• Even places that have clung to statewide exit exams as a condition of high school graduation tend to get cold feet when reality hits — and then waive, defer, or offer workarounds such that not too many kids are actually denied diplomas just because they fail the test.

The low opt - out rate in New York City (where, as previously mentioned, tests were used for admissions and placement) skews the statewide statistics.

Schools can build on statewide testing with their own «authentic» assessments of student learning, such as portfolios or demonstrations.

This will not sit well with some political allies, such as Howard Fuller, who argues that Milwaukee's voucher - financed alternative schools should not be forced to participate in the statewide testing program.

A six - person statewide review panel was to review all test items to ensure that they were free of questions about: — a student's or parent's personal beliefs, sex life, family life, morality, or religion; or — personal characteristics such as honesty, integrity, sociability, or self - esteem.

Middle school principal Yesenia Cordova has data from Texas» statewide accountability tests, the district's own system, and the weekly common assessments that are benchmarked to the state tests, as well as marks given by classroom teachers on homework and quizzes.

She does this with her colleagues by providing teacher professional development for K - 14 educators in science, mathematics, reading and writing, and modeling and testing new designs within college outreach programs — including statewide Early Academic Outreach Programs (EAOP) and federal TRIO programs such as Upward Bound.

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.

The report also quantified the use of student performance measures known as «student growth objectives» (SGOs) that were based on more classroom - based assessments and not statewide standardized tests.

LAST week's report on how Washington schoolchildren did on their statewide tests included some positive data on the promise of the state's charter schools, even as they are threatened by another lawsuit.

High Achievement New York, a statewide coalition of parents, teachers, administrators as well as community and business leaders in support of Common Core, is promoting the tests statewide, including statements from Brenda McDuffie, president and CEO of the Buffalo Urban League, and Samuel Radford, president of the District Parent Coordinating Council of Buffalo.

Bush introduced high - stakes standardized tests, school grading and statewide private school voucher programs during his two terms as governor.

Still, given the public beating standardized tests have taken over the last decade, and the negative narrative around testing that's solidified as a result, it remains exceedingly important for those of us that still believe in annual, statewide standardized testing to articulate — again, and again, and again — why it matters.

By focusing on middle school, one can simply use the statewide data on a child's performance on tests for students in grades 3 through 8, as mandated by No Child Left Behind.

Although proper attribution is an important precondition to learning, further development needs to take place to design instruments that measure actual reading gains, as measured on statewide assessment tests and other vehicles.

National opponents of high - stakes standardized testing say if as few as five or six percent of students were to skip statewide exams, state officials could no longer consider the rest of the test results valid.