Sentences with phrase «story about test scores»

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The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs.

The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: Success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs.

A story and chart in the May 14, 2008, issue of Education Week about states that have curtailed bilingual education should have said that trends in student achievement identified by Daniel J. Losen of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, were based on test scores in reading of English - language learners in 4th grade, not 4th and 8th grades.

School choice opponents have seized on these findings as evidence that these programs are ineffective and even harmful while advocates point out that Louisiana is heavily regulated, the first few years of an evaluation tell only the worst part of a story (i.e. there are transition effects), and that we should be careful about a heavy - handed focus on test scores.

Maureen Rover was having her usual coffee and muffin for breakfast one morning in the late 1990s when a newspaper story about New York City state test scores caught her attention.

The varied perspectives and in - depth stories we heard about what made schools work affirmed an essential truth shaping MCIEA's school quality measures work: school quality is more complex and human than any test score or algorithm can capture.

The story that resulted — «Nation's Charter Schools Lagging Behind, U.S. Test Scores Reveal» — is wrong on just about every point that matters.

Stanford researcher critiques last week's NYT Upshot story about districts» test scores http://pllqt.it/Euy6CK

If you read up on New York you'll find stories of adjustments and political back - and - forth about the tests, the scores, pass rates and cutoffs, etc..

Although educators warn that test scores can never tell the whole story about a school, it is notable that economically disadvantaged students at Lockwood made even more progress on the 2014 exams than students who were not.

In fact, The New York Times» own columnist Michael Winerip wrote about that evaluation system last year in this story, which noted that then - Superintendent Jerry Weast had rejected $ 12 million in Race to the Top money because it required districts to use test scores to evaluate teachers.

The 50 stories gathered here, along with hundreds of others, were submitted as part of the Rethink Learning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolchildren.

Back in June of 2017, NPR ran a feel - good story on All Things Considered about Ballou's apparent success in getting all 190 of its graduates accepted to at least one college — despite the fact that only 3 % of students at the school had scored proficient or above on reading tests in 2016.

The primary lesson through this logic, and through Mission High itself, is that stories about schools should not begin and end with test scores; it is dangerous and short sight - sighted to think this way.