Sentences with phrase «to pass standardized tests»

Some schools focus just on «bubble» students — those who are right on the verge of passing their standardized tests.

Under the new system, state education officials will still look at the rate at which students passed standardized tests when issuing a school a letter grade rating.

The milk is still unsafe but the producers pass the standardized tests.

When all kids passed standardized tests that would mean that there was a rational and adequate education.

In other words, teachers would tailor their course work towards ensuring students pass the standardized test, rather than providing a comprehensive education.

It has caused good schools to be labeled as failing and puts undue pressure on students and teachers to focus on passing standardized tests instead of engaging in other subjects such as the sciences, history, art, or music.

Nevaeh got out of school yesterday and made all A's on her report card as well as pass her standardized tests with advanced scores woohoo!

High stakes testing policies requiring students to pass standardized tests for promotion and graduation deepen educational inequity between whites and minorities and widen the educational gap between affluent and impoverished students, according to two studies of education reform in Texas.

EW: What is your opinion about high - stakes testing — for example, the trend toward requiring high school students to pass standardized tests in order to graduate?

Once civil rights statutes banned such de jure discrimination, some fire departments came up with ways to maintain the discriminatory status quo, such as requiring applicants to pass standardized tests before being hired, tests that African American and Latino applicants tended to fail.

By age 23, Delhagen was part of a group of young teachers starting a high school in a chain of so - called «no excuses» charters, with a rigorous discipline code and high academic standards geared toward passing standardized tests.

This and others like data re-treats, student data charts, and an assessment protocol across the content and grade spectrum; goes a long way to yield student learning and not only passing standardized tests!

Will Teacher evaluations of Charter School professionals show that they are meeting the criteria for their schools passing standardized tests.

Unless it's a private school, or a posh school from a rich community where every kid is going to pass standardized testing anyway, I think this kind of conversation needs to be tempered with a few more variables that a flustered teacher wrestles with every day.

Stephens said that the ability to apply knowledge to real - world situations is missing in many students — an apparent consequence of relaxed standards in the American educational system and a focus in the classroom on passing standardized tests, he said.

They can pass the standardized tests with their eyes closed, so we tell high - ability kids that their job is to sit still and stay quiet while the teacher focuses on low - achievers.

Because too few of those disadvantaged students have passed standardized tests for three consecutive years (PDF), George Bush's controversial No Child Left Behind reform requires that the principal and half the teachers be replaced.

An oft - quoted 2010 study of Bay Area districts found that nearly half of students who had grades of B - or higher or passed standardized tests in Algebra I were held back for a second year in Algebra rather than promoted to Geometry.

Once civil rights statutes banned such de jure — i.e., legally enforced — discrimination, some fire departments came up with ways to maintain the discriminatory status quo, such as requiring applicants to pass standardized tests before being hired, tests that African American and Latino applicants tended to fail.

More students in Glen Ellyn District 89 passed a standardized test this year than last year, data released by the district this month shows.

That we arbitrarily give up on kids who can't — or won't — pass standardized tests and condemn them to the streets, jail and the grave?

Getting high percentages of students to pass standardized tests and getting students ready for college are «two different goals,» he said.

It seems that with all the rush to pass standardized tests, children have less and less time to play and enjoy it,» teacher Marlie Griffin tells Education World.

Our major challenges are the same as those that face many schools that serve similar populations across the country: Helping our students get to grade - level proficiency and to pass standardized tests.

Where in the workplace is success measured by how many facts you can memorize or whether you can pass a standardized test...

Receiving college credit for a dual enrollment course is dependent on passing the course, effectively eliminating the unnecessary obstacle of having to pass a standardized test.

In Spring 2006, Education Next published research by Marcus Winters and Jay Greene evaluating the impact of Florida's program to hold back third grade students who are not able to pass standardized tests.

Public schools typically require teachers to pass a standardized test to certify their teaching abilities, but that's not necessarily true at private schools.

Authors Jay McTighe, Elliott Seif, and Grant Wiggins (p. 26) address challenges that sometimes interfere with meaningful teaching, especially the need to prepare students to pass standardized tests.

We know an enormous amount about how to provide good education, to design schools that really work to educate for full citizenship rather than to pass standardized tests, but such schools remain few and far between for poor kids.

Often schools are reluctant to participate in experimental research studies for fear that the study will detract students from learning necessary content needed to pass standardized tests.

Set up procedures to coach the producers of milk to pass the standardized test.

Passing a standardized test or other objective assessment might not mean anything either: A learner's ability to correctly answer multiple - choice or true - false questions doesn't mean that she can apply that knowledge to doing her job.

She said less than half of kindergartners who attend state funded pre-K are able to pass a standardized test of basic vocabulary and concept recognition when they start school.

You make teachers more accountable (lowering benefits, replacing tenure with «merit pay») and you put students through high - stakes testing to make sure they've learned the exact body of knowledge you want them to have, or, alternatively, how to pass a standardized test.

To earn the designation of Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT), an individual must accrue a requisite number of working hours as a dog trainer, provide letters of recommendation and pass a standardized test that evaluates her or his knowledge of canine ethology, basic learning theory, canine husbandry and teaching skill.

The hiring process is lengthy, and you must pass standardized tests to even be considered for a position.