Sentences with phrase «students meet state standards»

This includes: providing financial aid information about postsecondary education, encouraging student enrollment in rigorous and challenging curricula and coursework, implementing activities that help students obtain a secondary school diploma, supporting students with completing college applications, providing tutors, conducting outreach programs, helping students meet state standards, developing graduation and career plans, providing extended day learning programs, or offering other activities designed to ensure secondary school completion and postsecondary enrollment of at - risk children.

High school teachers are under enormous pressure to have students meet state standards in specific content areas.

«Too few students meet state standards.»

«With those demographics, it has been an obvious challenge to ensure students meet state standards and go on to college,» Mijares explains.

In their report, Miron and Applegate conclude that Edison Schools do improve from year to year on norm - referenced tests, which measure gains in students knowledge over time, but on criterion - referenced tests, which measure whether or not students meet state standards, Edison students fared no better than students from surrounding public schools.

Her litany of complaints about the academic results of Klein's «radical restructuring» is somewhat familiar — «inflating» test results and «taking shortcuts» to boost graduation — except for the charge that «the recalibration of the state scores revealed that the achievement gap among children of different races in New York City was virtually unchanged between 2002 and 2010, and the proportion of city students meeting state standards dropped dramatically, almost to the same point as in 2002.»

Among the students in the city's third through eighth grades, 40 percent of black students and 46 percent of Hispanic students met state standards in math, compared with 75 percent of white students and 82 percent of Asian students.

This means that teachers must know deeply each of their students as individual learners, differentiating their instruction accordingly so that each student meets the stated standard regardless of the student's starting place.

The touchstone of a successful charter school has been to have 90 percent of the student population to be on free and reduced lunch, 90 percent of students of color but 90 percent of those students meeting the state standard.

While there are some schools with high concentrations of successful EL students, many more are falling far short — in more than 700 schools, no tested EL students met the state standard.

An Illinois district has boosted the percentage of its students meeting state standards by requiring reading classes throughout high school.

It could be used, for example, to determine how well a student met the state standards.

Not exact matches

The curriculum meets state standards, but the classes are self - paced and taught in a way that considers each student's individual interests, strengths, and learning style.

The initiative is part of an overall institutional effort to address low - attendance, improve progress for meeting state standards, and feed hungry students.

NEW YORK, NY (10/29/2013)(readMedia)-- Today, The Business Council of New York State, Inc. testified at a New York State Senate Education Committee hearing illustrating the need to support Common Core standards, innovative learning models and access to early learning opportunities that will help prepare New York students to meet workforce needs.

«The rules adopted today by the Board of Regents maintain the rigor of our graduation requirements, while providing a new mechanism for students with disabilities to demonstrate they've met the State's graduation standards.»

Some parents, teachers and students have complained in meetings statewide that the Common Core was forced on schools by the state Education Department before teachers and students were prepared for the higher standards.

Under the proposal, half of the expected 300 students would have to meet the higher performance standards while the others — who could be admitted by taking a school tour or signing up for information at a fair, for example — could gain entry based on less stringent criteria, the notice stated.

Only about a third of New York state's third through eighth grade students met the new tougher standards from April's round of state mandated English and math tests.

The fast tracking of the new national Common Core standards set off a near rebellion last fall, as parents, teachers and students voiced their concerns at often raucous meetings with state education officials.

Currently, only one in five Black or Hispanic students can read or write at grade level, and more than 200,000 Black and Hispanic students could not meet academic standards on this year's state exams.

With six weeks to go before students take new Common Core - aligned state tests, the Department of Education on March 4 finally announced recommended curriculums designed to meet the standards.

«To ensure that researchers and research facilities funded through the DHS [Center of Excellence] award meet the highest safety standards possible,» the UCCLS report states, «DHS requires every recipient to develop a Research Safety Plan» showing, among other things, that the researcher has identified the potential hazards in the research and will use accepted and appropriate protocols and practices; that the institution provides faculty oversight for students and education and training to develop a culture of safety; and that subject matter experts not involved in the research review protocols and practices.

Minimester allows the Links to help Sixth Grade students meet state science standards.

The majority of urban students in about half the states fail to meet even minimum national standards in mathematics, reading, and science, finds the report, Quality Counts» 98, scheduled for release Jan. 8.

For example, the report tells us that 70 percent of 8th - grade students at K12 - operated schools met proficiency standards in reading, as compared to 77 percent in all public schools in the same states.

Give your students a chance to follow their own interests with projects that meet state standards.

Highlights of this year's NAPLAN results include: • There is evidence of movement of students from lower to higher bands of achievement across year levels and most domains over the last 10 years • Year 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year levels

Since that change, close to 100 percent of their students — and sometimes 100 percent — have been meeting or exceeding the state standards each year.

New York State and North Carolina, by contrast, give students an incentive to study through the use of rigorous end - of - course exams that signal medium and high achievement levels, not just meeting minimum standards.

To make sure students met California state standards, Carpenter adopted a curriculum from the Global Education Partnership, a nonprofit organization that gives students in low - income communities access to educational resources with a business focus, in 2001.

Last year, 0 % of students in grades six through eight at Wadleigh met state standards in math or English.

Starting with the class of 2005, students can be awarded up to $ 500 more if they meet or exceed state standards on two of the four MEAP exams in 7th and 8th grade as well.

My favorite state is the state where I live, Maryland, where schools are required to report results for groups as small as five (that is, if there are five African American students, schools must report what percentage of those five students meets or exceeds state standards).

The county's program, therefore, has focused its efforts on 63 K - 12 schools at which students have consistently not met state performance standards.

Then they cite statements like «all students can meet the standards,» issued by state departments of education, to support their demands for more money from the courts.

Students in schools that failed to meet the state's standards could receive vouchers worth about $ 4,000 each to attend any public, private, or religious school in Florida.

The standards for an adequate education in this study were that all students must achieve proficiency on the state assessment by 2014, and that all schools must meet «adequate yearly progress» targets.

«It will take immense effort and ingenuity on the part of local educators to help all students meet these standards and pass these exams,» Mr. Mills wrote in the proposal submitted last week to the state board of regents.

On one hand, Americans continue to support state and federal policies that require schools to assess student progress toward meeting state - designated performance standards.

The curriculum study group of the National Association of State Boards of Education urged in a report that policymakers replace the units with systems that require students to meet defined performance standards.

*** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** The passages and comprehension questions in this packet are designed to help you meet both your specific English / Language Arts standards and learning expectations as well as those recommended by the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSS).

Enter project - based learning, designed to put students into a students - as - workers setting in which they learn collaboration, critical - thinking, and written - and oral - communication skills along with the values of a strong work ethic, all while meeting state or national content standards.

The first state standardized test scores are in, and the 11th graders did no better than those at other comprehensive, non-selective city high schools: about one - quarter of the students met proficiency standards in reading and a mere 7 percent in math.

The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) marked a new level of federal oversight by requiring states to set more rigorous student evaluation standards and, through testing, demonstrate «adequate yearly progress» in how those standards were met.

Teacher Erin Okata integrated social studies, language arts, science, math, fine arts, and technology into the project as a way to help students develop an awareness of ocean life and to meet specific Hawaii state curriculum standards.

NEPC notes, for example, that 70 percent of 8th - grade students at K12 schools met proficiency standards in reading, as compared to 77 percent in all public schools in the same states in which K12 operates.

Ensuring that sufficient resources are available for all students to meet state - specified learning standards is a laudable policy objective.

This is evident in the federal law's requirement that each state's accountability system generate a report card for each school and district indicating the proportion of students meeting proficiency standards on state tests of math and reading.

In September 2005, approximately 18 months after the School Funding Task Force report was released, the Association of Metropolitan School Districts, the Minnesota Rural Education Association, and Schools for Equity in Education contracted the services of APA to «examine the Task Force results and, using widely accepted methodologies, determine the costs necessary to ensure that each public school student is educated to meet the state's academic standards.»