Sentences with phrase «tested at or above»

Last year, after seven years under González, 60 percent of its students tested at or above grade level in math and 30 percent in English.

In 1998, when only 20 percent of the California's fourth - graders tested at or above proficient in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, lawmakers in California passed ambitious legislation meant to strengthen teacher preparation programs.

There are some foods, both certified gluten - free and not certified gluten - free that tested at or above 20 ppm gluten.

Approximately four percent of foods certified gluten - free tested at or above 20 ppm gluten.

Gluten Free Watchdog focused primarily on testing the spices that tested at or above 20 ppm in the Canadian survey.

If a labeled gluten - free product tested by Gluten Free Watchdog, LLC tests at or above 20 parts per million gluten, you will be notified.

As is the policy of Gluten Free Watchdog, all labeled gluten - free products testing at or above 20 parts per million gluten will be retested within one year of the original test date.

One of the most passionately debated topics of 21st Century education surrounds the primary tenet of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act: All students, and that means 100 percent of enrolled students, will test at or above proficiency levels by the 2013 - 2014 school year.

To qualify for the distinction, schools must exceed all state and federal accountability benchmarks for two consecutive years and achieve pass rates on reading and mathematics SOL tests at or above the 85th percentile.

Title I Highly Distinguished schools must exceed all state and federal accountability benchmarks for two consecutive years and have achieved pass rates on English and mathematics Standards of Learning (SOL) tests at or above the 85th percentile.

Adamowski's and his supporters claim that during his years in Hartford, the percent of students testing at or above the proficient level went up 12.3 (Column 4: 60.1 — 47.8 percent) and that there was a 9.1 percent increase in number who scored at or above goal (Column 5: 31.8 - 22.7 percent).

But only 39 percent of New Jersey students test at or above proficient on eigth grade reading.

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.

Before coming to EE my daughter was slightly behind in reading and significantly behind in math - she now tests at or above her grade level.

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But I think there is some risk that it might be misconstrued so as to obscure certain truths which I believe to be fundamental: that the Passion is the moment at which that complete oneness with the Father which is the unique and all - pervading characteristic of the life of Jesus is paradoxically manifested; that it is at that moment, above all, that Jesus discloses to us God himself in action; that the judgement passed on Jesus and the testing brought to bear upon him are a judgement and a testing exercised (of course, within the permissive will of God) by evil men, or, to use mythological language, by the devil; and that the judgement of God pronounced at Calvary is that which Christ's accepting love passes upon those men, and upon ourselves as sharers in their sinfulness, by showing up their sin in all its hatefulness.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

According to the Environmental Working Group, «many of the 250 - plus contaminants detected through water sampling and testing are at levels that are perfectly legal under the Safe Drinking Water Act or state regulations, but well above levels authoritative scientific studies have found to pose health risks.»

The school district released the results of testing water for lead at all 63 school buildings, which showed 308 outlets had levels above the EPA's action limit, including 18 fountains and 33 faucets typically used for consumption or food preparation.

The most recent DOH water tests showed 42 locations with PFOA levels at or above 100 ppt.

At PS134, the numbers were only slightly better, with 36 % of 3rd, 4th and 5th graders scoring «proficient» or above on the state math tests, and only 14 % of 3rd, 4th and 5th graders scoring «proficient» or above on the state ELA tests.

At PS 137, only 11 % of 3rd, 4th and 5th graders scored «proficient» or above on the state math tests, whereas the citywide average was 38 %.

At the end of nine months, those infants with a head circumference above or equal to the 75th percentile, a head circumference that was in 10 percent discrepancy with the height of the baby, or those who failed the head tilting reflex test were considered at risk for ASD or a developmental language delaAt the end of nine months, those infants with a head circumference above or equal to the 75th percentile, a head circumference that was in 10 percent discrepancy with the height of the baby, or those who failed the head tilting reflex test were considered at risk for ASD or a developmental language delaat risk for ASD or a developmental language delay.

The researchers estimate that childhood lead levels at or above 5 micrograms per deciliter of blood accounted for as many as 25 percent of the children in the study failing reading and math standardized tests.

When someone comes to me with sugar cravings that «take over» (like a craving that has you running out for something sweet at 11 pm in your pajamas) then I test him or her for Candida as a root cause not only of their sugar addiction, but also of all the issues listed above.

Experts say that it's normal for your blood test to show a TSH level between 0.4 and 4.5 milli - units per liter, but if you're at 10 mU / L or above, you have hypothyroidism.

If I see a TSH above 2.0 or a trend towards higher values in someone who is testing repeatedly, I get worried — and prefer to see TSH at 0.5 - 2.0.

If this blood test comes back at 5 or above, that indicates you are in menopause.

It's available online free, via google search or at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jf971022g The above study echoes what you've stated, which is that ascorbate appears to help preserve the tea catechins, presumably in the gut, although we don't know for certain since this was just by test tube.

If your home tests at 4.0 picoCuries per liter (pCi / L) or above, activate the system by installing an in - line fan.

EC students are considered eligible to advance to a class at a higher level if they obtain a compiled test score of 70 or above.

At Summit Prep, 82 percent of students scored proficient or above on that test.

Parents worried that the drive to increase performance on state tests came at the cost of an ever - narrowing curriculum and that the focus on getting the «bubble kids» from slightly below proficient to slightly above proficient came at the cost of teaching kids who were way behind or ahead.

Vallas had based his accountability system almost entirely on what percentage of all students scored at or above national averages on the norm - referenced Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

Those who were at or above «proficiency» were, from the perspective of test - driven accountability policies (and the classroom practices those policies encouraged), already where we needed them to be.

The NCLB accountability system divides schools into those in which a sufficient number of students score at the proficient level or above on state tests to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) benchmarks («make AYP») and those that fail to make AYP.

And on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS)- the state's standardized test, first administered in the spring of 1998 - Worcester public school students in different grade levels were 8 to 20 percentage points less likely to score at or above proficiency than were students statewide.

The Arkansas Department of Education has announced that students who score at level 3 or above on new Common Core tests will be deemed «proficient,» even though the makers of the test say that only students who score at level 4 or above are on track to graduate from high school with the skills they need to be ready for college or a career.

Far fewer LEP students performed at or above the national average on the standardized test.

More than 90 percent of Southern students» scores on standardized tests in the 1986 - 87 school year were at or above national averages, a report by the Southern Regional Education Board has found.

The percentage of students scoring at or above grade level on the state's proficiency tests has risen from 56 percent to nearly 75 percent in just six years.

Students scoring at or above grade level on state tests doubled from 31 percent in 2004 to 62 percent in 2014.

An analysis of the data shows 68 per cent of NSW Year 9 students, or 61,015, received at least one test result in band 8 or above, 52 per cent (46,481) received at least two test results at band 8 or above and 32 per cent (28,403) attained band 8 or above in all three.

In California, 75 % of white third - grade students who attend public schools without the minimum threshold number of ELL students perform at or above the proficient level on the state's mathematics assessment test, whereas just 67 % of the white California third - graders who attend schools with the minimum threshold number of ELL students score at or above the proficient level.

In the five states with large ELL student populations, the proportion of ELL students scoring at or above the proficient level on the state mathematics test is often below the proportion of black students scoring at or above the proficient level.

But a major culprit is an NCLB provision requiring all students to take the «same tests» and (at least as interpreted during both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama presidencies) barring material from those tests that's significantly above or below the students» formal grade levels.

Inner - city neighborhoods are where all these dynamics interact, the study points out, and in neighborhoods with poverty rates at or above 40 percent, higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, and crime, and lower rates on cognitive and verbal skill tests and health indicators among school - age children continue.

Specifically, we predicted the percentage of students at the district and school levels who score proficient or above on their state's mandated standardized tests, without using any school - specific information such as length of school day, teacher mobility, computer - to - student ratio, etc..

Test scores: More than 80 percent of students score at or above grade level in math, and 73 percent in reading, on the CTB

In one study soon to be published in an education policy textbook co-edited with Carol Mullen, Education Policy Perils: Tackling the Tough Issues, I report on a study in which I predicted the percentage of students in grade 5, at the district level, who scored proficient or above on New Jersey's former standardized tests, NJASK, in mathematics language arts for the 2010, 2011, and 2012 school years for the almost 400 school districts that met the sampling criteria to be included in the study.

Although the percentage of London Elementary students performing at or above state standards in mathematics was acceptable (and high, relative to similar schools in neighboring districts), the principal «s goals emphasized the success of all students and the need to boost learning outcomes beyond those touched on by the tests.