Sentences with phrase «to pass the state test»

This year, only 10 percent of the school's African - American students passed the state test in reading, and only 2 percent passed math.

Moving to the Common Core gives you the opportunity to combine strong standards with much higher expectations for passing state tests.

The best way to find out which students might not pass a state test is to conduct universal screening assessments.

More students also pass the state tests on the first try rather than needing to repeat them to meet the graduation requirements.

If applying the concepts to a new problem is the standard, then some students who have passed state tests fail to demonstrate mastery of crucial mathematical concepts.

Success is graduating and going on to pass your state test while excellence is embracing the fact that the journey does not end there.

Teachers can talk about how many students they had and what percentage passed the state test.

The first result answers the question - How many students passed the state test?

In New Lebanon and Hamilton Avenue Elementary, black and Hispanic students are passing state tests at only a slightly lower rate than in the other schools — in math, the difference is six percentage points.

Enrollment there is 7 % Free Lunch and 63 % white; over 80 % of students pass state tests in both subjects.

He made sure that prom tickets were free for students who passed state tests, hosted banquets for honor roll students with free food and T - shirts, and filled the seats at Back to School Nights.

Just 5 % of students in grades 3 - 8 passed state tests administered this spring in both English Language Arts and math.

While most Mississippi students passed the state tests with ease, they scored near the bottom on national assessments.

Astonishingly, the state Web site showed that only 17 percent passed state tests, compared to 64 percent in the low - performing Chicago public school district.

But in the end, there remains an ailing minority - dominated school system in Syracuse in which fewer than 3 of 10 8th graders pass state tests in reading and math.

That was back when NCLB was placing pressure on schools to get low - performing students over a modest «proficiency» bar — even while tacitly encouraging them to ignore the educational needs of their high - achievers, who were likely to pass state tests regardless of what their schools did for them.

For the first time since 1989, New Jersey will next year suspend its requirement that high school graduates pass a state test in language arts and math to receive their diplomas.

Yet four of every five students passed state tests last year in reading and math, earning Adelphi notice as a «National Title I Distinguished School.»

«I see teachers who say to me, «This is why I got into teaching, not to make sure kids pass the state test,»» Gross said.

Graduation rates are up and nearly 60 percent of RSD third - through eighth - graders now pass state tests — but more than half of high school students fail.

In 2001 testing, more students passed the state tests after failing the year before than at any other school in Massachusetts.

Governor Cuomo said earlier this year that the students were passing state tests at a 40 percent rate, but the teacher evaluation was at 98 %, he contended that those numbers don't add up, the state's teachers union disagrees.

The impact of the exit exam policy in Massachusetts is worth noting, especially since the proficiency threshold for passing the state test is one of the highest in the United States.

Achievement data — the headcount of students who passed state tests — is broken down by subject and again by achievement level of 1 - 5, with 5 being the highest.

Just 5 % of students in grades 3 - 8 passed state tests administered this spring in both English Language Arts and math.

Over the past seven years, my district has mandated quarterly and mini-testing leading up to the state test at the end of the year, homogeneously - leveled classes according to test scores, double - blocked reading and math classes for students who do not pass the state tests, detailed lesson plans aligned to tested reading skills, and a strict pacing guide designed to cover all skills on the state test.

The first thing to understand about No Child Left Behind is, when it was passed in 2001, the law pretty much meant what its name suggests: no child should be failing tests on basic skills taught in schools — that is to say, every child should be passing state tests on math, reading, and science.

So we had all of these kids going through the system, passing their classes, getting good grades, passing the state tests with flying colors, and getting their diplomas.

At Indianapolis charter school Christel House Academy, 90 percent of students receive free or reduced price lunches and about 70 percent pass state tests.

While test scores remained painfully low, they rose slightly during the first year of the grant, so that by spring, 32 percent of children in Grades 3 to 8 passed state tests in language arts, up from 24 percent the year before, state data show.

Top Arizona education officials signaled their willingness last week to delay a requirement that high school students pass a state test to receive a diploma, in light of high failure rates and evidence of a persistent academic - achievement gap between minority and white students.

I resently found out that I passed my state test (Firefighter II) YEAH BOY!

Maryland education officials say only 11 students did not graduate this year because they failed to pass state tests.

We hope our students will pass the state tests.

In almost half of the states students now have to pass a state test to receive a standard diploma.

Although the readings hooked students as they came to identify with characters and situations, I knew we had to go beyond cultural relevance if they were to pass the state test.

In other words, the schools can do what they like but if their voucher - bearing students don't learn enough to pass the state tests, the state will do something about it — ultimately (under Louisiana regulations) eliminating those schools from eligibility to participate in the program.

The solution, Rotherham writes, is for Virginia «to set common targets that assume minority and poor students can pass state tests at the same rate as others.»

In the past, the negative effects of testing were most evident in schools where a lot of the students were low - income and struggled to pass state tests.

All of Orackoke's students in grades 3 - 12 passed the state tests in 2003 - 2004, with only three of the students requiring a second try.

once the student has completed all required courses, passed all state tests and has obtained the required 2.0 GPA, they are eligible for a Florida high school diploma.

We know from past experience in math that if students aren't required to pass the state test, then they don't take it seriously because it has no consequence for them personally.

Along with alleged financial problems (which school officials say aren't, in fact, problems), Ballard noted the troubling fact that barely 30 percent of Project School students passed state tests, ranking «among the worst performing schools in Marion County and in the entire state.»

Under his leadership, this 9,000 student urban school system increased its graduation rates by 171 % and post-secondary acceptances by 419 %, while reducing dropouts by 53 % and doubling the percentage of students passing state tests.

It might not be possible for every student to pass the state test, but more are likely to succeed if they are given extra instruction earlier in the year.