Sentences with phrase «students failed»

In 2009, the state suppressed high school standardized test scores because more than 90 percent of students failed.

At a basic level, reteaching means «teaching again» content that students failed to learn.

The SBAC cut scores were specifically chosen to ensure between 60 - 70 % of our students failed which certainly impacts the number of schools that meet the criteria to qualify for the Commissioner's Network Schools.

And yet the DOE insists that it can teach all the material these students failed to learn in 8 years of public schooling in only three months.

State superintendent Tony Bennett announced the change in Gary this morning, opting to bring in the company — already contracted to work in schools from South Carolina to Washington state — to take over a school where 84.3 percent of students failed state standardized tests and 92.2 percent of sophomores failed End - of - Course Assessments.

One after another, teachers used the words «meaningless» and «unfair» to describe the evaluations and the process used to arrive at those judgments... Another teacher said the majority of his autistic, special - needs students failed the SBA — a mandatory assessment test — yet he was judged «highly effective.

Because President George Bush's No Child Left Behind initiative left it to states to decide their own standards but penalized them when students failed to meet them, benchmarks have slipped in many places.

By requiring the states to set high standards, pairing them with assessments that measured whether students were achieving those standards, and holding schools accountable if students failed to do so, NCLB, in the eyes of its sponsors, would close achievement gaps and make America's schools the envy of the world.

At roughly a quarter of city schools, at least 90 % of students failed the exams, which were linked for the first time to benchmarks for college and career readiness.

Like at Sci High, relatively few College Prep students failed the courses outright, ranging from a low of 12 percent in English to a high of 27 percent in Algebra.

McMain students failed the tests slightly more than SciHigh or College Prep, from a low of 18 percent in English to a high of 31 percent in Geometry.

Anderson Elementary — a school in Reno, Nevada, that had slipped from status as a high - achieving school to one in which most students failed standardized tests — turned itself around in three years through focusing intensely on literacy and teacher collaboration.

I still propose each class be given a number that reflects the the average number of years students failed to pass their Mastery Test (The Social Promotion Index).

Fifty - two percent of California's general education students failed to meet achievement targets on the exam in English language arts and 63 percent failed in math.

It cited a systemic culture of passing students, and said that teachers felt pressured to award diplomas even if students failed to meet graduation requirements.

New York students failed in large numbers on last spring's English language arts and math tests.

Rounding out the opening convocation, Lynette Lauretig, Senior Director of Multiple Pathways in the New York City Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Readiness, and Eskolta Executive Director Michael Rothman, highlighted the value of every attendee's experience and commitment to the students failed by the traditional school system.

By the end of last year, only 33 students failed 49 classes.

Because the data from the previous year, «virtually all students failed the test, including academically advanced students (meaning «A» students).

Two years ago, a total of 69 students failed 134 classes.

Schools couldn't score higher than a C if any one subgroup of students failed to make adequate yearly progress, or AYP.

Things started to crumble when the number of expected students failed to track with those who actually showed.

This report focused on the inability of existing evaluation tools to distinguish between different levels of educator performance, finding, among other things, that nearly all teachers were rated as «good» or «great,» even in schools where students failed to meet basic academic standards.

By his calculations, since 70 percent of students failed to meet satisfactory progress on the NAEP, 70 percent of Tennessee teachers must not be performing up to par.

Before the program was put in place, 44 students failed to graduate.

Through close observation and student interviews, we found that students failed to engage in the coursework and spent little to no time studying.

More than half of Maryland students failed to meet standards for English and algebra on new statewide exams, a result officials called both expected and shocking.

Last year, 11,340 more students failed Regents Algebra exams than in 2014, he found.

Three, 2 and 1 meant students failed to meet expectations.

In a troubling picture of performance, the vast majority of Illinois students failed to reach the high academic bar on the new state PARCC exams, meaning they weren't on track academically for the next grade level, let alone for college or careers.

All of my students failed to question both the source of the image and its authenticity (Who posted the image and was it real?).

Because her instructions about how to create and divide up the content creation weren't very specific, some students failed to mention The Grapes of Wrath in any of their articles.

But despite a series of unanimous Supreme Court decisions meant to reverse this trend, in the ensuing years large numbers of black students failed to gain access to the best programs the newly integrated schools offered.

Under the board's proposal, the state would not intervene in schools unless two - thirds or more of their students failed the state tests, rather than the current...

Results reported thus far have been mixed: an analysis of 2013 cohort data by Wayne State University professor Thomas C. Pedroni found that the majority of EAA students failed to demonstrate progress toward proficiency on the state's assessments in reading and math, and some students» performance (approximately one - third) declined.

In 2002, before the inception of Match Corps and the first year in which Match sophomores participated in the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), 20 percent of students failed and 46 percent scored at the needs improvement level.

Most students failed, and the average was 58 %.

Driscoll's personal relationships were also key to weathering the difficult early phase of this reform, when a fair number of students failed.

The elementary school in Oregon's Willamina district set out last year to pick apart a complicated problem that would ultimately require an equally complicated solution: Many of its Native American students failed to show up on a regular basis.

By the early 20th century, Harvard was making loans to help students pay their tuition in a program that suffered one of the problems of today's system: Students failed to repay their loans.

On average with active learning, a little more than one - fifth of students failed.

Aware that even the most talented students failed to receive Ph.D. s and find employment in science and engineering, Hrabowski created a system in 1988 to mold high - achieving minority high school students into elite researchers.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A proposal to expand state - funded tuition assistance to undocumented college students failed by two votes in the New York State Senate today.

797 students failed the entrance exam, which was contentious, to begin with.

The results showed that the students failed in the core subjects that is Mathematics, English, science and social studies.

However, the school authorities set Thursday, 25 May, 2017, as the deadline for payment of the penalty but most students failed to pay since the day was a public holiday.

Last year, more than a 100 students failed in at least one subject, a development the students say was tragic.

Teachers who knew they could do better after students failed adjusted their methods and saw future classes go on to excel.

If the instructor feels that the student isn't relaxed or is too anxious during the exercise, the student fails.

If the student fails to display the essential characteristic of a successful entrepreneur, namely, a work ethic or the «ability to do their homework», then that proves to be a red flag from the outset.