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The school year is winding down and the last of the statewide standardized tests have been given to students.

New York State United Teachers, a powerful statewide union, denounced the tests last April, claiming that teachers and students did not have enough time or resources to prepare.

20 % of students statewide boycotted the tests last April.

An unauthorized user accessed personal information of 31 Nassau students and 21 others statewide who took a computer - based exam last spring administered by a Minnesota - based testing firm, company and state education officials said.

The state Education Department released 75 percent of the questions on Common Core tests given in April to students statewide in grades three through eight — up from 50 percent of questions made public last year — and pledged that more information will be given in years to come.

The state Education Department on Wednesday released 75 percent of the questions on Common Core tests given in April to students statewide in grades three through eight — up from 50 percent of questions made public last year — and pledged that more information will be given in years to come.

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.

Maine's commissioner of education said last week that his sudden decision to pull the plug on a statewide test stemmed from his belief that questions about suicide were too sensitive a topic for high school juniors.

Last week, California legislators took an unprecedented step: they voted to discontinue their old test and conduct a statewide field test of the Smarter Balanced Assessment in the spring of 2014.

Californians have begun the push to construct a new statewide testing system to replace the controversial program that was disbanded last September.

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.

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.

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.

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.

No one at Hope or Orr attempted the exams, probably because AP courses weren't offered at those schools last year, according to statewide AP testing data.

Last year, 77 percent of students statewide were deemed proficient in English, up from 62 percent in 2006; 86 percent passed the math test, compared with 66 percent three years earlier.

Regardless, last year throughout the state of New York, approximately 20 % of students opted out of statewide testing.

With one of Indiana's worst passing rates on last year's statewide tests, Glenwood is all but assured its sixth straight F — leaving state officials with a decision to make before this school year is over.

More student passed the statewide ISTEP + exam this spring than last, continuing the gains Indiana students have been making on the test for the past five years.

The 15 volunteer parents who spent a week last year reviewing 10,000 Utah test questions were suddenly — in the last minutes of the 2014 Legislature — handed a far broader job: investigating complaints from parents about curriculum and materials used statewide.

Nearby Beloit — a district with 780 students and significantly lower poverty rates — had 89 percent of students pass last year's reading test and 87 percent pass math, which are similar to statewide passage rates.

In New York City, home to the nation's largest public school system with 1.1 million pupils, just 52 percent of the students who took last year's statewide Regents test in Algebra I passed, mirroring statistics elsewhere in the country.

Last year, Desert Trails earned a 1 on a statewide test - score ranking called API, placing the school in California's bottom 10 percent academically.

Well, the state Department of Education is closed at the moment, meaning, among other things, that the results of last year's statewide standardized tests are still embargoed from the public, but Mahmoud has seen his pupils» results and allows as how they are «amazing.»

A series of surveys this past year, including a statewide survey we conducted last spring (https://proedtn.site-ym.com/news/249809/), uncovered a pattern of concerns regarding the culture of testing.

Last year, about 31 percent of students statewide were proficient on the tests.

(Calif.) A change in law last summer that suspended most statewide testing next year threatens a federally - funded randomized controlled experiment in teaching algebra to at - risk eighth graders.

Only four states will take the PARCC exam this spring, and this will be the last year for Illinois, which has bowed to pressure from superintendents statewide who said the tests were too long, the scores too low, and the results too slow to arrive.

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.

But a change in California law last summer that suspended most statewide testing next year threatens the carefully designed program.

When the statewide SBAC pilot tests were to be administered last year, parents expressed reluctance to state and local officials about subjecting their children to this experiment.

The statewide tests were eliminated last year, in anticipation of computerized tests based on the Common Core State Standards, which begin this spring.

Last year, K - 8 students collectively read more than a million books through the district's reading program and showed growth on statewide reading tests.

Last spring, the state won a hard - fought waiver to set aside the test scores for federal accountability purposes largely because of the widely held belief that with all the new content, a huge number of students statewide will fail to pass the CAASPP.

California gave its first statewide tests aligned with the Common Core standards last spring.

The last statewide survey on this topic, conducted over five years ago by WestEd, found that community colleges used placement tests extensively, but the cut - off scores for placement varied a great deal across campuses.

Last year, Ritz warned that scores on a statewide test would plummet because of changes to the test.

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.

When the tests were given last year, the number of students deemed proficient plunged to just 31 percent statewide.

Statewide, about 41 percent of juniors tested last spring scored proficient or better in English compared with about 46 percent of those tested in the prior school year.

In what is likely his last statewide broadcast, Cerf took the unusual step of sending out a letter to school districts refuting the New Jersey Education Association, the teachers union, on what he said were its inaccurate claims about new initiatives in teacher evaluation and student testing.

The state gave practice tests last year, but the results were not publicly released, making today's numbers the first temperature - taking of students on a statewide basis that can be used for comparative purposes in the years ahead.