Sentences with phrase «test scores at»

Test scores at this school are far above the state average, suggesting that most students at this school are performing at or above grade level.

Buyers may want to know about the test scores at the local schools or the city's plans to construct a new park.

No effect on California Achievement Test scores at age 17 years was observed.

In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting showed modest benefits in children's language and cognitive development.102 In Elmira, only the intervention children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis, children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small, positive effects on children's cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified large cognitive effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107

find that the Tulsa state - funded «universal» pre-K program, compared to Tulsa's Head Start programs, has about twice the immediate effects on cognitive test scores at kindergarten entrance.

«High Test Scores At A Nationally Lauded Charter School, But At What Cost.»

Rocky Mount's Williford Elementary is one of six schools included on a short - list for the Innovative School District (ISD), which could allow for - profit, charter management organizations to ink five - year contracts with the state in hopes of turning around test scores at selected low - performing schools.

But state test scores at so - called «Renewal Schools» — some of the city's lowest performing schools — have grown just five points in reading.

A 2003 national report by the Brookings Institution shows that test scores at charter schools are rising sharply and surpassing traditional schools.

The peer - reviewed paper focuses on test scores at public middle schools near a state boundary.

Test scores at the zone's highest - performing middle school are in the bottom 9th percentile statewide, meaning more than 90 percent of other similar schools scored better.

The study finds that the children who attended the program had significantly higher test scores at ages 5, 6, 9, and 14 than non-center students.

[The CSDE FAQ sheet indicates that, in Connecticut, only Yale requires the SAT optional essay, while leaving unsaid the fact that many colleges and universities (like Wesleyan, Connecticut College, and others) no longer require any SAT test scores at all because their college admissions» officers have found such scores as a poor indicator of college success.]

ASA further states that test scores at best «predict only performance on the test.»

Teach Like A Champion has been both celebrated as highly effective classroom management and stigmatized as highly controlling «no excuses» teaching that produces higher test scores at the expense of emotional well - being.

Test scores at the school have actually declined over the past several years.

Henderson and others point to data in the test results to argue that the answer is yes: generally higher test scores at the lower grade levels than in high school.

The New Orleans College Prep board also approved the charter network's budget and discussed the challenges of raising test scores at Sylvanie Williams on Monday.

I got interested in test scores at the end of the 1980s when we had 10 - year - old data collected through test scores when young people were ages 14 - 21.

Test scores at this school are far above the state average, suggesting that most students at this school are performing at or above grade level.

As noted in the correction on the page above, we reported that test scores at Shaw Middle School had stayed about the same.

In English, graduates of the program, the New York City Leadership Academy, helped increase test scores at elementary and middle schools at a faster pace than new principals with more traditional résumés, the study showed.

But with noteworthy improvements on test scores at the schools using the program, as well as some gentle encouragement from the district and support from MIND Research Institute, the number of DCPS schools using the program is steadily increasing.

The academic leader of the New Orleans College Prep charter network resigned unexpectedly last week as the organization struggles to improve test scores at its first campus enough to prevent the state from revoking its charter.

This article examines the role of student demographic characteristics in standardized achievement test scores at both the individual level and aggregated at the state, district, school levels.

And lead a campaign against high - stakes decision - making based on test scores at the same time she firms up her union's support of the Common Core.

But the ASD initially saw a decline in test scores at the schools they took over.

Meanwhile, College Prep network has been striving all year to improve test scores at Sylvanie Williams Elementary beyond its current «D' rating, which if unsuccessful would likely mean College Prep would no longer operate that school.

In Tennessee, the commissioner of education called test scores at the new Tennessee Virtual Academy «unacceptable.»

Critics counter that the model isn't inherently superior, and note that test scores at teacher - run schools are all over the map.

After five years of test scores at the back end of the curve, it had been targeted by the federal No Child Left Behind Act

But new district data released to LA School Report show state test scores at all 226 magnets — both the magnet centers and the standalone schools.

(The data show test scores at all elementary, middle, and high schools for two years.

(Note on calculations: I used the appendix information on how test scores varied with free and reduced price lunch status, pre-K participation, and pre-K participation interacted with free and reduced price lunch status, as well as published information on the standard deviation of test scores at kindergarten entrance.

Evansville school leaders will plead their case directly to state education officials Tuesday night, hoping to convince them their newly - implemented school turnaround plan will be enough to reverse years of failing test scores at Glenwood Leadership Academy.

This story is the first in a year - long series following Krystal Hardy, a first - year principal trying to bring order and improve test scores at a struggling New Orleans charter school.

They say test scores at Washington would likely drop this year and earn the school a D, in large part because of students who transferred from the four IPS schools taken over by the state.

This market has a lot of charter schools in it, as well as private schools available through the voucher program, but test scores at Indianapolis Public Schools haven't improved.

Principal Krystal Hardy has dedicated herself to improving the culture and upping the test scores at a struggling New Orleans charter school.

Critics fear that parent triggers will transform the school system into an assembly line of identically run schools that focus on test scores at the expense of teacher autonomy in the classroom.

And she wants to lead a campaign against high - stakes decision - making based on test scores at the same time she firms up her union's support of the Common Core.

Gormley finds that Tulsa's pre-k program has significant effects on test scores at kindergarten readiness for all three groups.

Before LA School Report published a new district database that breaks down state standardized test scores at LA Unified's magnet programs and schools, parents weren't able to compare which magnet programs were academically successful and which ones weren't.

As a result, your students will learn to love reading, and you'll improve reading test scores at the same time!

When we get our children's standardized test scores at the end of the year, we don't get to see the questions or their answers.

Ms. Hardy — who is in her first year as principal — has staked her career on improving the culture and upping the test scores at this struggling elementary school, located in a gritty part of New Orleans» Central City neighborhood.

Beyond Measure Challenges Americans to look beyond test scores at the students themselves.

Last spring, two years after he arrived, test scores at the South Memphis school dropped.

Over the past few years, state test scores at Bazzell Middle School students have risen consistently in all subject areas.

Our main analyses control for students» age, gender, and the average test scores at their middle schools, but we obtain similar results from a simple comparison of lottery winners and losers, as we would expect given the use of the lottery.