Sentences with phrase «test scores and graduation rates»

At least 18 states have adopted simple report cards for schools based on test scores and graduation rates.

In 2012, the district fell short of the expectations under the law, which holds schools to annual state - specific targets for test scores and graduation rates.

The database goes beyond test scores and graduation rates.

With high test scores and graduation rates to flash around, suburban school officials have had an easier time than their urban counterparts arguing that charters are an unnecessary drain on their budgets.

About half of a teacher's evaluation is based on skills and knowledge, with the balance on outcomes like student test scores and graduation rates.

Academic indicators — like test scores and graduation rates — are supposed to weigh «much more» as a group than the indicator of school quality or student success.

The state's current top - to - bottom ranking system uses standardized test scores and graduation rates to measure schools.

The evidence from test scores and graduation rates show that the schools are at least holding their own, and even doing somewhat better.

Kids who eat school breakfast miss less school, do better in math and have higher test scores and graduation rates.

The biggest goal in the new accountability plan is to broaden how school success is measured, reaching beyond test scores and graduation rates.

Nearly all states look at more than just test scores and graduation rates, but tests still account for an average of 91 percent of state systems.

Syracuse has one of the highest concentrations of poverty among black and Hispanic people in the United States and some of the lowest test scores and graduation rates in the state.

New York spends more money per student than any other state in the country, and yet its schools yield mediocre education outcomes, such as test scores and graduation rates.

The UCLA Center for Civil Rights Remedies reported in 2016 that many charter schools artificially boost test scores and graduation rates by using harsh discipline to encourage lower - achieving youth to leave.

There I sat with teenage mothers from remote Jefferson Davis County on their first day of a two - year commitment, and on that first day we delved into discussions of how their children's schools were faring, looked at test scores and graduation rates, analyzed whether their school leaders were following best practices, debated the Common Core State Standards, and more.

The annual report on New Jersey public - school test scores and graduation rates brought mostly good news yesterday, with the 2011 - 2012 numbers up overall for high schools, less so for the lower grades, and all with the expected cautions and caveats.

The report was celebrated widely (see, for example, here) in that it «proved» that students in post-Hurricane Katrina (largely charter) schools, despite the disadvantages they faced prior to the school - based reforms triggered by Katrina, were now «beating the odds, while «posting better test scores and graduation rates than predicted by their populations,» thanks to these reforms.

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 rates.

In a unanimous ruling, the court said black, Hispanic and poor students were especially harmed by the lack of funding, pointing to lagging test scores and graduation rates.

For years, the Menominee Indian School District has posted some of the worst test scores and graduation rates in Wisconsin.

But the changes he made have rippled across the state and he has also presided over improved test scores and graduation rates while the district was mired in debt.

Mr. Klein can make many claims about the successes of his tenure, including rising test scores and graduation rates, and the initial makings of an objective system to evaluate teachers and schools.

For now, though, we should acknowledge that there's a reason we use test scores and graduation rates as the primary measures of school quality: They are the best we've got.

The selection of a «balanced literacy» approach for reading and Everyday Math has itself been controversial and will ultimately be judged by test scores and graduation rates years from now.

Removing services for high school students learning English may have harmful effects on test scores and graduation rates if done too quickly, according to a study conducted in Los Angeles.

In his speech he said: «Firing teachers and closing schools if student test scores and graduation rates do not meet a certain bar is not an effective way to raise achievement across a district or a state... Linking student achievement to teacher appraisal, as sensible as it might seem on the surface, is a non-starter... It's a wrong policy [emphasis added]... [and] Its days are numbered.»

Lawrence test scores and graduation rates have gone up modestly.

For which purpose, let us return to 30,000 feet and suggest that the two essential sets of data for tracking America's progress or lack thereof in revitalizing the high school are objective test scores and graduation rates.

African American and Latino students, as well as children and youths from low - income families, have been particularly hard hit, according to the unanimous court ruling, which pointed to dismal test scores and graduation rates as evidence of the impact of insufficient funding.

In a district like mine, with high poverty and minority representation in the schools and terrible academic outcomes, it is an unfortunate given among those middle class people who have succeeded in school (or think they have) that the only reason that the district has such lousy test scores and graduation rates is «the parents.»

Even years after drastic reforms like the 1982 Education Reform Act, which mandated school attendance and established statewide kindergarten, Mississippi test scores and graduation rates lag behind other states

On measures widely used to judge all public schools, such as state test scores and graduation rates, virtual schools — often run as charter schools — tend to perform worse than their brick - and - mortar counterparts.

The local teachers union passed a vote of no confidence in the superintendent, while student test scores and graduation rates languished among the worst in the state (Rennie Center for Educational Research and Policy, 2012).

Or bait and switch techniques, such as those used in Hartford, to make it appear test scores and graduation rates were up.

These new schools needed to address the city's abysmal test scores and graduation rates, so they put more resources into academics and college preparation.

Second, a wider range of school types might be the answer to the city's flatlining test scores and graduation rate, Dobard said.

These low ratings, which stand in contrast to the high marks given to the vast majority of teachers statewide, highlight the difficulty of turning around schools that have long had poor test scores and graduation rates.

Test scores and graduation rates went up, but thousands of mostly black teachers were dismissed and thousands of students were suspended or expelled due to zero - tolerance discipline policies.

These schools generally enroll students from very poor families, have hard - working but dispirited teachers, have safety problems, and as a result, have had unacceptably low test scores and graduation rates for years.

NCLB relied heavily upon a pass / fail system to measure school performance based on targets for test scores and graduation rates.

Narrowing the gulf on test scores and graduation rates between low - income students — many of whom are in the state's urban areas — and their more affluent peers has been a daunting obstacle in Connecticut for years.

Second, we now judge schools by their results, not by their inputs, intentions, or reputations, and we're increasingly hard - nosed about those results, looking — probably too much — at test scores and graduation rates and such.

She makes clear that, contrary to the claims being made, public school test scores and graduation rates are the highest they've ever been, and dropout rates are at their lowest point.

Oakland - based Aspire Public Schools and LA Alliance have delivered the highest test scores and graduation rates for some of the state's most disadvantaged students.

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