Sentences with phrase «student language distribution»

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Since it may take a couple of years for states and districts to follow the department's urging and set up systems that will allow them to measure teacher effectiveness based on growth in student achievement, she said, states should be required to show that they are making good on the language about equitable distribution of teachers that's already in the No Child Left Behind Act.

The PISA data indicate that the observed variation in the distribution of student characteristics across countries does not place the United States at a disadvantage in international assessments compared with other highly developed countries; students with high levels of socioeconomic status had an educational advantage over their low SES counterparts across all 20 countries, even after considering the differences in the percentage of students who are immigrants, from less - advantaged homes, non-native language speakers, and other factors.

IDRA's Education of English Language Learners in U.S. and Texas Schools — Where We Are, What We Have Learned and Where We Need to Go from Here — A 2009 Update gives an overview of increasing numbers of ELL students, distribution of ELL students, increasing diversity and varying languages, instructional programs provided, and funding provided to ELL programs along with recommendations.

So this means, in the language of PARCC, that «only» 41 % of New Jersey 11th graders are «on track» to be «college and career ready» in English, and «only» 36 % of Algebra students are similarly situated (Again, remember that score distributions are likely almost entirely unchanged from the previous state assessments — this is about how high the cut scores are set).

The distributions vary for students who are traditionally disadvantaged because of economic or language barriers: