Sentences with phrase «to reach proficiency»

In fourth - grade reading, eighth - grade reading, and eighth - grade math, about one out of every four students reaches proficiency in the average large city.

That would mean going back under No Child Left Behind accountability, which requires 100 percent of students reach proficiency by 2014.

In 2014 - 15, the focus turned to what we must do when students do not reach proficiency on the standards as well as what we do when they do.

Why didn't students reach proficiency by the end of 2014?

But what do we do when a student has not reached proficiency?

The scores you report are based on many students reached proficiency levels.

Among its 8th - grade students, only 12 percent reached proficiency in reading and 7 percent in math.

Current accountability systems rely predominantly on the «percent of children reaching proficiency,» which educational measurement experts call a «status» measure.

On the most recent state tests, 3.8 percent of 6th - graders reached proficiency in math.

When more than two - thirds of students fail to reach a proficiency bar, it raises serious questions.

Additionally, assessing growth across different learning levels rather than just at the proficiency threshold would eliminate incentives to ignore students already above proficiency or too far below to reach proficiency soon.

This gives more practice for the students who are just reaching proficiency and more help for those who are still in the developing phase of understanding.

Learn how to implement equitable instruction, assessment, grading, and reporting practices to help diverse 21st century learners reach proficiency.

It is the difference between preparing students to reach proficiency on state standards versus steering students toward advanced academic work that taps expert thinking and complex communication skills — a growing economic necessity.

It also states that just about 100 percent of students must reach proficiency in math and reading by 2014.

In other words, younger students are reaching proficiency levels at higher rates than older students.

The percentage of students passing has improved significantly, but now the goal is to accelerate the number of students reaching proficiency.

It required that every child in every school must reach proficiency by 2014 — or the schools would be subject to sanctions.

In 2004, only 34 percent reached proficiency, but in 2005, 83 percent did.

More succinctly, two students in six high schools reached proficiency on the PARCC test in Algebra 1.

Over the last few years, students» scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System have shown steady upward progress, but the school still has a long way to travel to achieve universal proficiency: In 2006, fewer than 50 percent of students in any grade reached proficiency in any tested subject.

Although Tennessee and Missouri established the same expectations as Massachusetts, somewhere between 10 percent and 25 percent fewer students in the «Volunteer» and «Show Me» states reached the proficiency level, the exact percentage varying with the subject and grade level being tested.

In 2011 - 12, only 46.5 percent of students at Field reached proficiency on the KPREP — a «needs improvement» on Kentucky's ratings scale.

The after - school program is targeted specifically for English language learners who have been in the United States for several years but who have not yet reached proficiency in English.

Just the thought of 100 percent of our students reaching proficiency tingles our spines and quirks our eyebrows.

She's permitted some school districts that have failed to reach proficiency targets to continue to provide tutoring to students, and given leeway when it comes to using alternative assessments for special education students.

NCLB concentrates on the proportion of students below the state determined proficiency level in each year with progress determined by comparing the percentage of successive cohorts reaching proficiency.

(According to the Government Accountability Office, as early as 2002 - 03, 25 charters in California, 28 in Michigan, and 38 in Pennsylvania needed improvement because they did not have enough students in certain subgroups reaching proficiency in reading or math.)

When you chart those student scores, the number of students reaching proficiency appears to accelerate or decelerate rapidly — as if the class has made significant gains or losses.

Across Kentucky, the number of students reaching proficiency fell dramatically when the state started testing the more rigorous standards.

In an intervention program, students attempt to reach proficiency with their skills (the destination); however, how long it takes them to get there (growth) or the journey matters.

The first year Kentucky gave the KPREP, the number of students reaching proficiency dropped by about a third.

Scores were essentially flat since 2015 and not one group reached Proficiency.

Proficiency shows the percent of students within the school who have reached the proficiency benchmark — in this case, who scored a 4 or 5 on the PARCC assessment.

Here's an example of the improvement: the percentage of fifth - graders who reached proficiency or advanced proficiency in language arts (scoring, respectively, 4 and 5) went up to 58.9 %, the biggest jump this year.

In English, just 37 % of Latinos and 31 % of African American students have reached proficiency compared to 64 % of white students and 76 % of Asian students.

The thinking goes that because high - achievers are unlikely to fall below proficiency, and low - achievers are unlikely to ever reach proficiency no matter how hard a teacher works with them, schools don't get «credit» for devoting resources to outlier students.

For example, a study at Stetson University in Florida showed that among fourth graders at a public elementary school in the state, 37 % of boys reached proficiency levels in co-ed classes, while 86 % of boys in single - sex classrooms did (the boys in the study were matched so that they were statistically equivalent).

On the other hand, the numbers are particularly low in places like Berryessa, San Mateo - Foster City and Sunnyvale, where only 10 % of Latinos reach proficiency in algebra by 8th grade.

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As per the plan, not a single state reached the proficiency goals, and schools could only escape sanction by the federal government if they were granted a waiver — which Duncan would only grant to states who would agree to more testing.

Without it, the state would have to go back to strict reporting requirements that penalized schools who failed to make adequate year progress — not to mention the expectation that all students at all schools reach proficiency by 2013 - 14.

Classroom time can also be a concern for teachers when students do not reach proficiency on a skill.

«I just wish that choice proponents would stop promising that charters and vouchers will bring us closer to that date when 100 percent of all children reach proficiency,» she opined in her blog.

But Braeburn's low - income students fared less well: 79 percent reached proficiency in math, while 63 and 69 percent did so in reading and writing, respectively.

EdSource: What do you think of the goal of Common Core State Standards of getting students college and career ready, when we haven't reached the proficiency goal yet?

What students are expected to know in order to reach proficiency levels on exams in some states may be as much as four grade levels below the standards set in other states, according to a study by the American Institutes for Research that uses international testing data to gauge states against a common measuring stick.