Not exact matches
For several days
in early January, Michaelis and support staff members met with classroom teachers
in grades three to six charged with identifying students
in different subgroups (Hispanic, African American, English language learners, special education) at
levels 1 and 2 with the best chance of scoring at a higher
level on the
math, reading, or writing section of the CMTs, if they received intensive,
targeted remediation.
For the first three years, at least, threshold
targets for secondary schools (60 per cent of pupils achieving 5 A * to C
grades), and for primary schools, (85 per cent of pupils achieving
level 4
in English and
maths) will become the new floor
target and will reinforce the importance of hitting
targets rather than focussing on pupil progress.
Number Worlds helps struggling learners
in Response to Intervention Tiers 2 and 3 achieve
math success and quickly brings them up to
grade level by intensively
targeting the most important standards.
For post-16, our funding work is
targeted at learners who have not yet achieved the expected standard (
grade 4 or above)
in GCSE English or
maths, or
Level 2 equivalent.
Every one of its fourth -
grade students met the state's
targets in math, and 93 percent tested at the «advanced,» or the highest,
level.
No Child Left Behind required that every student be testing at or above
grade level in reading and
math by 2014, and required that states build accountability systems around those utopian performance
targets.
Cerf said most schools
targeted as the lowest achieving have one - third or fewer of their students at
grade level in reading or
math, and all remedies must be explored.