Sentences with phrase «test scores go»

Even their reading test scores go up.

Earlier this year we heard Malloy claim, «I don't mind teaching to the test as long as test scores go up,» while proudly uttering the falsehood that teachers need only show up for four years to get tenure.

«Our test scores go up, our principals are asked why — they're chastised and punished,» he said.

«Our test scores go down, our principals are asked why, and chastised and punished.

As the Courant knows, Dan Malloy and the «education reformers» have put an inordinate weight on the role of standardized testing (i.e. his comment that he supports teaching to the test so the test scores go up).

Governor Malloy went so far as to make it clear that he doesn't mind a policy of teaching to the test, as long as test scores go up.

Malloy, now famous for his -» I'd don't mind if they teach to the test as long as the test scores go up» — statement has been leading the mob mentality that is claiming that it is imperative that 20 - 40 % of a teacher's annual evaluation be based on their student's annual test scores.

When test scores go up, it's * Bonus time * for Vallas and Adamowski and Pryor!

As Governor Malloy said himself... He doesn't mind teaching to the test as long as the test scores go up.

When parents get involved in their children's education, grades go up, test scores go up, children become more likely to pass and to attend better schools after high school, they have fewer discipline problems, and they're less likely to use drugs and alcohol.

And here in Connecticut, we know, thanks to Steven Adamowski, Hartford's former superintendent of schools, who presently serves as Malloy's «Special Master» for the Windham and New London schools that when you keep one out of every ten students from taking the Connecticut Mastery Tests, your test scores go up, as long as the 10 percent are the lowest performing students.

What a great tribute to Governor Malloy who said during last spring's «Education Reform» debate that he didn't mind schools «teaching to the test as long as the test scores go up.»

While it is not totally clear why union contracts become more or less restrictive, they find that when these contracts are more restrictive student test scores go down (or at least do not go up).

Test scores go down in the United States the more U.S. students study math and science.

They think that if test scores go up, it'll be okay.

I've had classroom teachers tell me they see their students using «take 5 breath» before exams, and studies have proven schools with yoga see test scores go up.

Test scores go up, truancy goes down and attendance goes up,» says Joshua Simonds, the former executive director of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, who devotes himself to advocating for arts in the schools as part of a well - rounded education.

Again, though, as their approach to their students changed, the classroom climate improved, and their students» test scores went up.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle article on SAT and AP test scores going up for New York City students, quoting BP Adams.

Property taxes dropped dramatically, but so did school performance, with test scores going from the best in the nation to some of the worst.

One study [PDF] documenting schools that made this shift found that 60 % of students were able to get at least eight hours of sleep and that both attendance rates and standardized tests scores went up.

For example, at Hillview Elementary School, in Pompton Plains, the school's test scores went from 255th in the state to 15th.

They converted useful continuous data (test scores) into hollow binary data (test scores went up or down).

Our test scores went from rock bottom in citywide standings to about two - thirds of the way up the pack.

Test scores went up as a result of some commonsense things she and her staff did.

Because our students» test scores went up significantly in 2000 and 2001, all the employees at my school received an extra $ 600 last year, and a $ 50 bonus this year (the low amount this year being due to severe state budget shortages).

But the two years that KIPP ran the regular school in Denver, that school's test scores went up.

They found that test scores went up as teachers gained more experience.

DCPS ELEMENTARY TEST SCORES DOWN — DECLINES IN READING AND MATH Michelle Rhee, unaccountable & unqualified Chancellor «The DCPS had lower math test scores in grades 4 and 8 in 2009, and District African - American test scores went down»....

«The DCPS had lower math test scores in grades 4 and 8 in 2009, and District African - American test scores went down»...

That's one reason Superintendent Diane Woodworth says test scores went up as the number of low - income, Latino students increased in Goshen.

«We have invalid test scores going into an unreliable formula, which equals a bad result,» the president of the United Federation of Teachers, Michael Mulgrew, said at the time.

There is no question that test scores went up in California, but dropping bilingual education had nothing to do with the increase.

Test scores went up this year in most grades and subjects, but statewide only about 40 percent of students scored at least proficient in math and about 50 percent in reading.

In fact, Wyoming's test scores went up across the board that year — despite the fears of state education officials, who asked the federal government months before getting the results to throw out the 2010 data.

Secondly, if two teachers are in an urban classrooms that are side by side and one gets 4 new students who are not proficient in English and their test score drops by 3 percent, are they doing a better or worse job than the teacher who gets 2 new special education students and 1 new English Language Learner, but their test score goes up 2 percent after the special education students are given the alternative test rather than the standard mastery test.

Hartford removed 10 + % of its lowest performing students and the test scores went up by about 6 %.

Principal Pete Hall narrates the school's progress from the precipice of state takeover (for failing to make adequate yearly progress three years running) to an energized school whose test scores went up and stayed high.

The CT Mirror piece also mentions Malloy's anti-teacher, anti-public education reform initiatives although it doesn't contain Malloy's equally famous comment that he didn't mind teaching to the test as long as the test scores went up.

Test scores went up, graduation rates went up, and the achievement gap began to close.»

Interestingly, considering how much attention public education issues received during the recent gubernatorial campaign, this vital topic did not get much play in Malloy's speech, although the governor — who once said that he didn't mind schools teach to the test, «as long as test scores went up,» — did proudly proclaim that his first term accomplishments include that fact that his administration had «raised test scores» in Connecticut.

Like Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy who once said that he didn't mind teaching to the test as long as the test scores went up, West Haven Superintendent of Schools Neil Cavallero has become a poster boy for the Corporate Education Reform Industry and their stance that you will take the tests or you will sit there.

Malloy infamously added, later that year, his observation that he didn't mind teaching to the test as long as the test scores went up.»

That's one reason Superintendent Diane Woodworth says test scores went up, not down, as the number of low - income, Latino students increased in Goshen.

The political operative is widely credited with writing Malloy's 2012 anti-teacher speeches in which Malloy proposed doing away with teacher tenure and observed that he didn't mind having teachers teach to the test as long as test scores went up.

This from the Governor who said he didn't mind teachers teaching to the test as long as the test scores went up.

In defense of his plans to implement the unfair, inappropriate and expensive Common Core and Common Core testing scheme, Malloy said he didn't mind teaching to the test as long as the test scores went up.

Governor Dannel Malloy has pledged to «stay the course» on the Common Core and said he didn't mind having teachers teach to the test as long as the test scores went up.

The one thing we do know is that if Bridgeport's standardized tests scores go down or student grades suffer, it has nothing to do with the teachers, the fault will lie directly with the outside administrators who have come in and screwed things up even more.

Average test scores went up because students who were likely to do poorly were not allowed to take them.