Sentences with phrase «when graduation standards»

In Los Angeles, when graduation standards were raised and it looked like many students would be denied high school diplomas, the school district turned to online credit recovery courses to get the students back on track.

Not exact matches

Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch and education commissioner John King have opposed delaying implementation of the standards, but King has said one change state officials are considering is pushing back when students would need to pass Common Core - aligned Regents exam for graduation.

But what will we do when we face hard trade - offs, such as the likely discovery that higher graduation standards will lead to a higher failure (and dropout) rate?

His forthright support of state graduation standards, at a time when other superintendents were praying for a reprieve, was critical to the success of the Massachusetts education - reform efforts.

When the student designs a project the software helps track the applicable graduation standards.

In a recent study, Sherry (2001) found that most of her graduate students who created electronic portfolios planned to retain the standards - based framework when adding to and revising their portfolios after graduation, even though many were initially hesitant about overtly addressing standards for their field.

A lot of people act like graduation rates are the gold standard when it comes to measuring school success.

There's clearly always a long, long way to go, but when you look at a billion dollars for early childhood education, when you look at 40 - plus states adopting higher standards, when you look at yesterday's high school graduation rates at record highs, the fact that we were able to put $ 40 billion behind Pell grants, 1.1 million additional students of color going to college than in 2008.

This system, which for the first time would have, when fully implemented, established a Texas high school diploma as evidence of post-secondary readiness without the need for remediation, was essentially gutted over the following two legislative sessions, so that by 2013 the Texas high school graduation standard was effectively reduced to freshman algebra and sophomore English and language arts!

For the past year in almost every available venue, opponents of high stakes standardized assessments of public school student achievement have been droning on about the perceived oppression of the Texas public school accountability system, which has been rated by national education organizations as having produced the best high school graduation standard in the country when fully implemented.

Texas is committed to an assessment that measures student achievement against the standards at each grade level that indicate what students should know and when they should know it, leading to the postsecondary readiness standard at graduation.