Sentences with phrase «tough grading standards»

We found that high - achieving students benefit most from tough grading standards when they are placed in classrooms where the overall level of achievement is relatively low (see Figure 3).

We also found that higher - achieving classes, as measured by their average 3rd - grade test score in the relevant subject, may fare somewhat better than lower - achieving classes under teachers with tough grading standards.

Not exact matches

Only about a third of New York state's third through eighth grade students met the new tougher standards from April's round of state mandated English and math tests.

Over half of poor and minority students have reading and math skills far below grade level, whether measured by the tough performance standards of the NAEP or by the standards of the various states.

The table and the interactive graphic on the Education Next website display the grades under the tougher grading system that has evolved because so many states have raised their standards.

Mr. Carvalho has joined other superintendents and school board members in the state in calling for a delay in the use of new tests, including the not yet validated Florida Standards Assessment — a Common Core variant, with tougher standards than the last assessment used — to grade the state's schools, teachers and students.

Still, if states» higher standards and tougher tests are leading to real changes in the classroom — especially as schools adopt high quality curriculum like Eureka Math — we ought to start seeing a bump soon, at least at the fourth grade level.

Tough - grading teachers, it appears, often teach alongside teachers with far lower standards.

He and others noted that without the bill, schools might actually have a tougher time earning lofty grades because of standards set into the original law two years ago.

Ms Morgan also used her speech to tell the conference that the Tories had «raised the bar on standards in schools with a rigour revolution», for example by ending grade inflation and introducing a «tough new national curriculum».

But critics of the standards say they are too tough on the younger grades, while too easy on the older grades.

In the last few days, the new set of tougher math and English language standards for grades K - 12 has suffered a spate of bad publicity that could undermine its very purpose — and turn off an already skeptical public.

That's tougher than Indiana's current third grade standard, which requires third graders to know how to count by 2's and 5's and 10's.

When Mr. Fulop takes office on July 1, Jersey City could join New York City, Newark and Bridgeport, Conn., as another local laboratory for a national movement known as education reform that emphasizes tougher standards for teachers, uses test scores to grade schools and educators and promotes alternatives such as charter schools.

Regulators were faced with allowing the «unfairness» of a tougher grading for pupils taking the exams in the summer in order to protect GCSE standards.

The company revised its grading system in September 2007, imposing new, tougher standards.