Sentences with phrase «tests than the nation»

An analysis of the eight states with multiple years of implementation of the A F grading system found they were making faster improvements on NAEP 4th - and 8th - grade reading and math tests than the nation as a whole.

Not exact matches

The isolated nation conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3, and launched more than a dozen missiles in the past year.

It's the reason our test scores are lower than other nations in math and science.

God Allah wanted us to be more than one nation or single people as mentioned but that was for testing us so to strive as in a race in all virtues for Allah as a goal and that what ever being disputed the truth of which will be revealed to us on earth or after resurrection and on Judgment Day...!

Liberals inclined to minimize the significance of a leftward inclination among the media elite might test themselves on the point by asking how they would react if the situation were reversed — if, in fact, the world taken for granted by the nation's leading reporters and news executives tilted to the right rather than the left.

This is why our test scores are lower than other nations, keeping people ignorant with their noses in a bible.

It's been a testing two weeks for football fans, because although there should be no prouder moment than seeing your nation walk out for an international fixture, these days anything bar the major international tournaments just seem to get in the way of a busy and competitive club schedule.

During annual spring testing, more than 200,000 students in grades three to eight opt out in the nation's largest such boycott.

More than 220,000 students in New York didn't take the tests last spring, by far the highest percentage of any state in the nation.

In spring 2015, an estimated 200,000 students statewide — more than 70,000 of them on Long Island — refused to take state tests in English and math, the largest such boycott in the nation.

It took James O'Neill more than three decades as a cop to ascend to the top of the nation's largest police department, but only a little more than a day to get his first real test.

ALBANY — The Indian Point nuclear center had more degraded bolts than any nuclear facility ever tested in the nation, according to the Nuclear Energy Commission.

In April, parents pulled more than 200,000 students in grades three through eight out of state tests — the largest boycott of its type in the nation.

She says the electorate in the Northern Region should elect competent and time - tested leaders capable of fixing the nation's economy rather than voting based on tribal preference.

The U.S. government cracked down after both nations tested nuclear weapons in May 1998, requiring U.S. organizations to obtain a license before shipping civilian materials deemed to have a dual military use to more than 300 institutions (Science, 24 July 1998, p. 494).

Global warming is altering — and threatening to erase — much more of the Marshall Islands than the shorelines of this independent Micronesian nation that once served as a Pacific Ocean nuclear weapons test site for the U.S..

Improved donor screening and blood testing procedures have made the nation's blood supply safer than it has ever been.

The percentage of students testing in the bottom quarter of the ITBS has dropped from 32 percent to 24.4 — better than the nation as a whole, according to CPS officials.

By 2003 the dropout rate had fallen to 13 percent, the percentage of students meeting national norms was up to 41, and the percentage of students testing in the bottom quartile was down to about 24 - better than the nation as a whole.

The pattern of test scores in Texas and the nation suggest that consequential accountability — adopted early by Texas, then by more states, and finally by the nation as a whole — was a shock to the U.S. school system that altered the ecosystem and led to a different outcome than had existed before.

The study examined the Praxis II scores of 270,000 test takers and found that 91 percent of graduates of NCATE - accredited institutions pass state licensing exams across the nation - 18 percentage points higher than graduates of non-NCATE institutions.

For more than three decades, the United States has been scoring below the international average among participating nations on tests of math and science achievement.

Within the evolving standards and accountability movement, states (rather than the nation or school districts) have borne the responsibility to develop standards, tests linked to those standards, and a system of rewards and punishments for schools depending on their performance.

It is possible that the dynamics between competitive pressures and public - school students» test scores are systematically different in Florida than they are in the rest of the nation.

Dee Alpert says that New York City, like other big cities, provides test accommodations to a higher percentage of students than do schools across the nation.

In fact, he told the Hechinger Report and U.S. News & World Report that most of the 70 OECD nations give their students more standardized tests than we do in the United States.

Young people in the United States today, she says, are suffering because of «school stress, the college admissions process, high - stakes testing, cutthroat competition, the emphasis on stardom rather than on enjoyment of activities, sleep deprivation, parental pressure, the push for perfectionism, the need for escapism, the Age of Comparison, [and] the loss of leisure and childhood...» Among her favorite culprits for this state of affairs are testing in general, the SAT in particular, the «Nation at Risk» report, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which she believes turned elementary schools and junior high schools into testing factories.

Known as the CREDO study, it evaluated student progress on math tests in half the nation's five thousand charter schools and concluded that 17 percent were superior to a matched traditional public school; 37 percent were worse than the public school; and the remaining 46 percent had academic gains no different from that of a similar public school.

After being ranked first in the nation for education for more than a decade, Maryland is seeing its scores in a key national test drop for fourth - and eighth - grade reading and math.

According to an article in the Irish press, Irish teenagers in that nation performed better in computer - based reading tests rather than those involving the printed word.

Peterson does observe that blacks and Hispanics increased their test scores substantially in reading in the 1970s and 1980s — but neglects to mention that this was precisely the period when our nation's schools were substantially more integrated than they were before then or since.

In 2006, 30 of the 56 nations participating in the Program for International Student Assessment math test had a larger percentage of students scoring at the international equivalent of the advanced level on our own National Assessment of Educational Progress tests than we did.

This summer, a Stanford University study estimated students in 37 percent of the nation's charter schools have performed worse on state standardized tests than their peers in typical public - school districts.

Christodoulou, who used to be head of assessment at Ark Schools before moving to her new post this summer, said the purpose of the tests was to give teachers a way to measure the «absolute» progress of their individual pupils over the year — rather than be stuck with their «relative» progress against the rest of the nation as shown by the government's headline progress measures.

(The most recent version, in 2011, tested more than 600,000 students in 63 nations.)

And he walks because childhood matters, because children come first and we have to tell our nation's leaders that our children, their teachers and local public schools are more than test scores.

Diane responds after a bit of redirection and explains how we test more than any other industrialized nation in the world, including the top 10 performing nations as per international exams.

The nation's best teachers said they believe using the Smarter Balanced assessment system puts students on a better trajectory than previous state tests, according to a report issued today.

URBAN NAEP COVERAGE EdWeek: NAEP: Urban School Districts Improving Faster Than the Nation Baltimore Sun: Baltimore students score near bottom in reading, math on key national assessment Cleveland Plain Dealer: Vast poverty differences create unfair comparisons on Nation's Report Card Miami Herald: Miami and Florida students outperform peers on national test

The OECD Test for Schools is a PISA - based assessment tool adjusted for use by individual schools, rather than entire nations.

It's true that student test scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress — sometimes called «the nation's report card» — are higher than when she became chancellor and made the biggest jump of any participating urban school district.

As Dropout Nation noted last week in its report on teacher evaluations, even the most - rigorous classroom observation approaches are far less accurate in identifying teacher quality than either value - added analysis of test score data or even student surveys such as the Tripod system used by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of its Measures of Effective Teaching project.

While it was a project broader than just one, individual state, Norton shared with the committee news of the first comprehensive study ever undertaken to ascertain the true extent of mandatory testing in the nation's schools.

This 18 minutes includes information on the educational policies supporting the history of high - stakes standardized tests in the U.S., how educational policymakers (including U.S. Presidents G.W. Bush and Obama) have unwaveringly «advanced» this history, how our nation's over-reliance on such test - based policies have done nothing for our nation for the past ten years (as cited in this clip, even though they have really done little to nothing for now more than 30 years), how and why the opt - out movement is still sweeping the nation, and the like.

He found that the studies show that while there are some examples of success, particularly in large urban school districts that primarily serve students of color like those in New York City and Boston, they also show that across the nation, there is little evidence that charters do better than traditional public schools when it comes to student test scores.

The nation's best teachers said Smarter Balanced is designed to measure whether underlying concepts have been taught and learned, rather than reflecting mostly test - taking skills.

On the international PISA test, Connecticut's 15 year olds scored higher in reading than students in 63 nations.

NAEP SCORES SLIP AND SPIN ENSUES: Fourth and eighth grade student scores on the Nation's Report Card took an «unexpected downturn» this year after more than two dozen years of small and steady gains, prompting immediate recriminations over the Common Core, testing and the Obama administration's education policies.

As Diane Ravitch, the nation's leading public education advocate, noted on one of her blog posts today, «one of the crucial elements in the grassroots movement to roll back the tide of high - stakes testing started in Texas, when school board after school board voted to oppose high - stakes testing, and eventually more than 80 % of the state's school boards voted against high - stakes testing.»

Similarly, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), which is arguably the leading international educator organization comprised of 125,000 members in more than 130 nations, also recently released a policy brief that also calls for a two - year moratorium on high stakes use of state tests — including their use for educator evaluations.