Sentences with phrase «student over that threshold»

In assessment, some schools have replaced levels with systems which contain all of the problems of levels (vague labels which encouraged teachers to get students over thresholds rather than focus on what they can and can not do) without any of the benefits (at least levels were broadly understood).

* if over 55 % of a district's total enrollment are high need students, the district receives additional funding, called concentration funding, for each student over that threshold.

Not exact matches

And the data showing the increased number of children in low - income households pushed NYC schools over the threshold so that every student could receive free lunches under the federal program.

I propose raising the threshold to $ 125,000 over the next three years, bringing more students into the program.

The boot camp — which consists of approximately 50 hours of mandatory lectures, discussions, and exercises, with additional optional half - day sessions — aims to bring students over a knowledge and confidence threshold so that they can start applying quantitative and programming skills in their work.

These «value - added» measures are subject to some of the same problems, but by focusing on what students learn over the course of the year, they are a significant improvement over a simple average test score (or, worse yet, the percentage of students that score above an arbitrary «proficiency» threshold).

When identifying another student pushes a district over a risk ratio threshold, the district faces a clear incentive to under identify — that is, to withhold services from — children who already face a broad array of systemic disadvantages.

Following a fail rating, the incentives to maximize students passing over the threshold are more intense than prior to the fail rating.

The Stanford researchers followed student - level performance in schools from the time they open through their fifth year, mapping charters» academic showing against a «static set of performance thresholds» so that academic trends over time could be evaluated.

My belief is that for every individual student every grade matters and will definitely bear an impact on the rest of their life, but will the «thresholds of inequality» in the new Progress 8 weighting bias force schools to prioritise higher ability students over others?

Here, the study argues that, notwithstanding changes in tests and proficiency thresholds in the states over this period of time, the relative position of Arizona vis - a-vis these comparison entities remains very similar, with Arizona continuing to lag behind both in percent of ELL students achieving proficiency in reading and math.

Additionally, HUSKY A has been a consistently similar indicator of student poverty to FRPL over the past 10 years and has a slightly higher income threshold than FRPL and a considerably higher income threshold than most other federal programs already included in direct certification.

Eslinger concedes that the school deserved to lose a point in math — 63.4 percent of students showed low growth, well over the 42.4 percent threshold.