Sentences with phrase «when poor test score»

But, if we're going to support our arguments for choice with test scores (using them to show either shortcomings in public schools or the benefits of choice), we have hitched our wagon to them and can't be surprised if people attack vouchers when poor test score results come out.

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An April 2009 study found that sleep problems in the grade - school years were linked to poor scores on mental tests when the children reached adolescence.

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Arising at a time when the disparity of test scores, college attendance, and graduation rates between wealthy and poor students is reaching an unprecedented level, this volume urges that the problem of educational inequality be addressed and that changes be made within the educational system.

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When reform - friendly commenters and cheerleading journalists write about the NOLA transformation, it's become de rigueur to offer a standard qualifier — words to the effect of, «We still have a long way to go, but...» In this formulation, poor overall reading and math proficiency based on standardized test scores is a mere speed bump before long and laudatory discussions of the remarkable growth demonstrated by the city's charter schools and students since Katrina.

When your third grader just isn't up to par with reading comprehension (you know that he or she is struggling because of a lack of interest in books, poor test scores, and teacher input) what are you supposed to do about it?

The report found poor oversight when it came to ensuring accurate student attendance, dramatically lower test scores than their traditional public school counterparts and difficulty accessing technology.

Poor oversight when it comes to ensuring accurate student attendance, dramatically lower test scores than their traditional public school counterparts and difficulty accessing technology were only some of problems the report found with CAVA and were echoed by Golovich, who was not involved in the compilation of the study.

And teachers don't rely on the rote drills that can take up so much classroom time when schools in poor neighborhoods fixate only on improving test scores.

The fact that the CR - Z scored so poorly in the latest crash tests (only 3 stars over all and only 2 stars for the side passenger) along with its poor rear visibility would be a deal breaker for me (This car has really very little going for it is slow and underpowered and poor handling (yes it handles well when compared to a Prius — but that really isn't saying much).

Three young adult test scores were associated with program outcome in both the observed and the observed plus imputed datasets (Table S8, tasks 5, 10b, and 11a): poor performance on the multistep problem - solving task, latency to vocalize when presented with a novel object, and umbrella - opening reactivity.

Childhood socioeconomic deprivation, family housing tenure other than consistent home ownership, family disruption, lack of parental interest, behaviour problems, low academic test scores and health difficulties were each clearly associated with poor mental well - being in adulthood when estimated by analysing each childhood measure individually, adjusting for cohort and gender, and in the full model considering all childhood measures, although they were to some extent attenuated.