Sentences with phrase «test kids in public schools»

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Each year public school children are subjected to standardized tests to measure their achievements in comparison to all other public - schooled kids.

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Only in D.C. can one test whether the Hyde model can be applied to a public school rather than to a private residential one and to a school that serves disadvantaged kids rather than financially privileged ones.

I've come to view annual testing of kids in reading and math, and the disaggregating and public reporting of their performance at the school (and district) level, as the single best feature of NCLB and the one that most needs preserving.

In the piece, headlined «Alternative» Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduation rateIn the piece, headlined «Alternative» Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduationSchools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduationschools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduation ratein order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduation rates.

Her kids go to public school in New York, one of the first states to test students on Common Core.

Dr. Thompson's book, A Teacher's Tale: Learning, Loving and Listening to Our Kids, is a case study of the unintended negative effects of test - driven, competition - driven reform on an inner city high school in the Oklahoma City Public School Sschool in the Oklahoma City Public School SSchool System.

You might think this is a relatively easy proposition to evaluate — just compare whether charter school kids do better on tests than those in public schools.

There was some bad news for charter schools in a government report last week that said children in those schools didn't do as well on national tests scores as kids in public schools.

Moreover, in practice, the «choice» program has been plagued by lack of accountability (no state testing requirements), fraud (private operators taking off with the state aid check, leaving the kids without a school to go to, and MPS to try to deal with it), refusal to accept handicapped children, continued leeching off public schools for lab courses, and — most significantly — absolutely no educational advantage whatsoever for the «choice» students compared to their public school counterparts, which was the ostensible justification for this whole fiasco in the first place.

In a visit last month to a public school where 4 percent of students passed last year's math tests, and that shares a building with a Success school where 96 percent of the students passed, the city's schools chancellor, Carmen Fariña, said, «We would like to be at that percentage, but we keep all our kids from the day they walk into the building.»

The poor - performing kids will either stay in, or be forced back into, the public schools, where they will lower the testing scores.

Reading tests — of the standardized variety that kids in public schools take — are certainly supposed to test reading skills.

But many public school teachers fear that the best charters are skimming off the best students, leaving them with the least motivated and hardest - to - reach kids — and amplifying the gaps in test scores.

I can't understand why kids are so reluctant to use easy cost saving measures like community college (instruction just as good as four year), testing in lieu of classes for credit, summer classes, good public schools instead of private, online courses (more convenient but NOT easier).