Sentences with phrase «testing grades make»

Unlike middle school however, where KIPP had a couple schools that didn't make the list, when it comes to elementary schools, all of KIPP's schools that have testing grades make the top 20.

Not exact matches

Almost half of Canadian students (45 %) who wrote the test in 2000 achieved top scores in reading, but in 2009 only 40 % made similar grades.

His company makes enterprise - grade, cloud - powered Wi - Fi products; when employees tested them out in their homes, they came up with the idea for Skydog, a cloud - managed app and Wi - Fi router for home networking.

Why didn't they entitle the chart with something more positive such as, «Being Asian Can Get You A Lower Mortgage Rate,» or «Although Asians Need Higher Grades And Test Scores To Have The Same Chance To Get Into University, At Least Asians Get To Pay Lower Mortgage Rates,» or «Despite Some Disadvantages Of Being A Minority, You Can Still Get The Best Mortgage Rate Possible,» or «Being A Minority May Make It Easier To Get A Better Rate.»

After several weeks of testing the convert may be transferred from the mission itself to the «Home Uptown,» a house where about twenty converts who seem to be making the grade are allowed to go.

Alex had her 3rd grade testing the week I made these (the OAA's), so I asked her what she wanted for breakfast every morning.

Holding has the potential to make the grade while Chambers has less quality.With nothing at stake in the remaining league matches why not test them together.Let's face it Mustafi and Kocielney have not exactly set the Heather on fire this season and neither is likely to figure in the plans of any new Arsenal manager.

The Boss should please not send them out on Loan until he has fully tested them by given them some Premier league games to play to see if they have made the grades.

Because Arsenal play these matches as a test for their youngster players to see who and who among them can make the grades to the senior team squad next season.

I say this because Arsenal play these friendly matches as a test for their youngster players to see who and who among them can make the grade to be promoted to the senior Gunners first team squad next season.

Sports, like grades and test scores, become part of a student's competitive package that is offered to college admissions in hopes of making the cut.

When we met up for extra help, it was almost as if she could read my mind; she looked me directly in the eye and said, «You do know that this test grade doesn't make you a bad person, right?»

Again and again, among the families I treat as a psychologist, I see a disconnect between the skill set that parents are pushing (compete like crazy, get good grades, over-prep for tests, go to a prestigious college, make lots of money) and the assets and attitudes that actually bring young people success in college, at work, in relationships, and in life.

Made from food grade plastic, the patented Milk Saver contains no BPA or phthalates, and has been rigorously tested to ensure zero chemical leaching.

The devastated Chinese mother would then get dozens, maybe hundreds of practice tests and work through them with her child for as long as it takes to get the grade up to an A.» The Tiger Mother believes that children owe their parents everything and «must spend their lives repaying their parents by obeying them and making them proud.»

Your friend Johnny makes good grades on his tests.

[iv] Another administered tests of empathy to grade school children and found that those who had had secure attachments to their fathers as babies were better able to identify other children's feelings, and to take steps to make them feel better.

They also pointed out how the education department has made recent adjustments to standardized testing, such as reducing the number of questions and testing time on state assessments for students in grades 3 through 8 this school year, and receiving a federal waiver to stop «double testing» in math for seventh and eighth graders through a combination of state and federal testing.

Sen. John Flanagan proposed education reform legislation that would address some privacy concerns, ban standardized testing in prekindergarten through second - grade and direct the state Education Commissioner to make sure local school districts aren't over-testing students.

The state Education Department released 75 percent of the questions on Common Core tests given in April to students statewide in grades three through eight — up from 50 percent of questions made public last year — and pledged that more information will be given in years to come.

The state Education Department on Wednesday released 75 percent of the questions on Common Core tests given in April to students statewide in grades three through eight — up from 50 percent of questions made public last year — and pledged that more information will be given in years to come.

Widespread publicity of the opt - out movement last spring, when about 20 % of New York students in grades three through eight boycotted the federally mandated tests, made more families aware of the option.

RUP member Melissa Rock spoke of «proportional grading expansion,» which can only be mitigated by making more tests multiple choice, diluting the education.

With this huge step forward, we believe it is vital that the state makes permanent the current moratorium on using the state English Language Arts and math Common Core tests for students in Grades 3 to 8 to evaluate teachers.

«We still have a long way to go to reduce testing, to make sure that the new curriculum is age - appropriate for every grade, and to restore the public's faith in the process,» said Mulgrew.

Well - written multiple choice questions can test knowledge effectively and are easy to grade, but they take time to write and make cheating easier if you don't take preventive measures.

To make the task manageable, the first round of the process consists of discarding the great majority of candidates on the basis of two quantifiable, and therefore supposedly objective, standards: grade point average and GRE scores, including those in specific subject matter tests.

But, he notes that it will be necessary to perform well - designed clinical trials that test the safety and efficacy of high - grade NMN in humans before making the leap to using NMN (or perhaps its analogs) as pharmacotherapeutic agents.

The researchers also compared sugary ready - to - eat cereal to oatmeal and found oatmeal's nutritional advantage (more nourishing whole food meal) made it a better choice at improving brain power and encouraging better test scores.1 Additional stats show higher test grades and better school attendance in breakfast eaters than in non-breakfast eaters too.2 Bottom line: to excel in whatever we do, whether it be school, work, play or relationships, we need breakfast to be at the top of our mental game.

Spinach, cabbage, apples and pears are budget - friendly, nutrient - dense options that help make sure your brain has enough fuel to ace your next test, and your body has enough energy to celebrate the good grade.

I spent the next few months testing out materials to make decoration from, researching what grade of helium I needed to seek and turned my basement and kitchen table into a balloon lab with my experiments floating around.

The improved scores were impressive enough to lead several states and other major school districts, including New York, to adopt elements of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) policy — making student progress toward the next grade dependent on demonstrated achievement on standardized tests.

Parents can see what grade a child has made on a test, they can receive an email if there is a zero for a grade, they can contact a teacher if a grade hasn't appeared in the amount of time the school has deemed appropriate for grading.

Test and make it happen so that all students can have access to their grades.

Second - and third - grade students using the Seeds of Science / Roots of Reading units made significantly greater gains in understanding science concepts, knowledge of science vocabulary, and reading comprehension, as measured by tests developed by project researchers, compared to students in comparison conditions for both earth science and life science units.

I refuse to pretend that it's caused no mischief in our schools — narrowing curriculum, encouraging large amounts of ill - conceived test prep, and making school a joyless grind for too many teachers and students alike — but neither can any fair - minded analyst deny that there have been real if modest gains in our present era of test - driven accountability, especially for low - income black and Hispanic children, particularly in the early grades.

Wilshaw suggested that the system needed close monitoring, because when boards compete for business they could be tempted to make tests easier to help pupils get better grades.

Cheerleader and Punk Rocker Reward Students for Making the Grade This year was our schools fourth consecutive year of achieving an A grade on our state achievement tests.

A compelling way to see this is to look at the relationship across schools between the average test - score gain students make between the 4th and 8th grade and our summary measure of their students» fluid cognitive ability at the end of that period (see Figure 2).

In 1998, Florida scored about one grade level below the national average on the 4th - grade NAEP reading test, but it was scoring above that average by 2003, and made further gains in subsequent years (see Figure 1).

We analyzed the test - score improvements made between each student's first 3rd - grade year and the following year on both the state's own accountability exam and the Stanford - 9, a nationally normed exam administered at the same time as the FCAT but not used for accountability purposes.

I first analyze changes over time in the FCAT test scores of students in their initial 3rd - grade year in order to discern the extent to which Florida's elementary - school students made true achievement gains during the period in question.

To evaluate the claim that No Child Left Behind and other test - based accountability policies are making teaching less attractive to academically talented individuals, the researchers compare the SAT scores of new teachers entering classrooms that typically face accountability - based test achievement pressures (grade 4 — 8 reading and math) and classrooms in those grades that do not involve high - stakes testing.

Technology could make a powerful difference by administering tests, automating their grading, and displaying data — to district leaders, principals, teachers, and students — in a timely way that makes strengths and weaknesses clear and next steps more obvious.

NCLB requires annual testing of students in reading and mathematics in grades 3 through 8 (and at least once in grades 10 through 12) and that states rate schools, both as a whole and for key subgroups, with regard to whether they are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward their state's proficiency goals.

Since third and fifth grades in my school were the two «promotion» grades (the grades when students are tested and when most promotion and retention decisions are made), the standards on the fourth - grade report card were the standards associated with fifth grade, not fourth grade.

Even if these students make incredible gains in their sixth -, seventh -, and eighth - grade years, they still won't be at grade level, much less «proficient,» when they sit for the state test.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

Although the NewSchools data set does not include state test results for individual students, it does include grade - level performance for most schools, which makes it possible to track improvement of cohorts of students from one year to the next.

«The kids are hurt by this, and the testing profession warns that you don't make grade - retention decisions based on a test.»