Sentences with phrase «traditional high school exams»

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The changes, which Education Commissioner John King said are already under way, include increasing public understanding of the standards, training more teachers and principals, ensuring adequate funding, reducing testing time and providing high school students the option to take some traditional Regents exams while Common Core - aligned tests are phased in.

The study showed that prediction of student graduation may be significantly improved by including in the college admission process consideration of AP exam performance and a small set of personality traits, along with traditional indicators of student abilities and high school grades.

When Bishop examined the effects of high - school exit exams, one traditional form of external accountability, on intrinsic motivation by comparing whether students subjected to this approach engaged in less reading for pleasure or were more likely to associate learning with rote memorization, he found no evidence that accountability undermined natural curiosity and even found some evidence of the opposite.

In 2016, according to the editorial, «children who attended public charter schools in these eight districts were 146 % more likely to pass state exams than students at traditional district schools, and three times more likely to score at the highest proficiency level.»

Commissioner of Education Robert Scott reasons that state standardized tests, soon to include end - of - course exams in high schools, already prevent some students from graduating — even if they slip too easily through some classes, traditional or otherwise.

According to the report, just six of 25 Detroit charter schools had higher math or science proficiency rates on the Michigan Merit Exam than those in Detroit's traditional public schools.

According to the report, just six of 25 Detroit charter schools had higher math or science proficiency rates on the Michigan Merit Exam than traditional Detroit Public Sschools had higher math or science proficiency rates on the Michigan Merit Exam than traditional Detroit Public SchoolsSchools.

The report found that just six of 25 Detroit charter schools had higher math or science proficiency rates on the Michigan Merit Exam than those in Detroit's traditional public schools.

These data indicate that neither status as an interdistrict magnet school nor as a traditional comprehensive high schools means that black students are accessing the AP coursework and exams available at same rates as their white and Hispanic peers.