«Along with that, I love to see the lightbulb come on when students finally understand that
tough reading or math concept.»
Not exact matches
Most of the seven hundred
or so children who attend this K - 12 institution located in a
tough neighborhood in Northeast Washington enter scoring well below their grade level in
reading and
math; the school is overwhelmingly black and largely poor
or working - class.
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 waivers freed the states from some of the law's
toughest requirements, including that schools prepare every student to be proficient in
math and
reading by 2014
or risk escalating sanctions.
Illinois launched new and
tougher reading and
math exams in 2015, called the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers,
or PARCC, and state test scores took a dive.