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That garnered a lot of attention, in part, because it came at a time when state leaders sought to use the test results in teacher evaluations.

«As I stated last month, when I released results of our testing program that included over 150 residences across the City of Buffalo, out of an abundance of caution, we are expanding our voluntary initiative to make sure all water we deliver is safe from lead and other contaminants,» said Mayor Byron Brown.

Host Matt Lauer stated that the Today show would have Mr. Karason back on when the results from his blood silver level tests were available.

Amid way too much talk about testing and the Common Core, not enough attention is being paid to what parents will actually learn about their children's achievement when results are finally released from the recent round of state assessments (most of which assert that they're «aligned» with the Common Core).

Results of four experiments showed that women tended to perform as well as men on a math test when the test was administered by a woman with high competence in math, but they performed more poorly (and showed a lower state of self - esteem) when the test was administered by a man.

The two programs were seen by many conservatives as executive overreach, and when ESEA was reauthorized in 2015 as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), NCLB standardized testing requirements were kept, but the evaluation and accountability systems meant to respond to the results of those tests became the responsibility of individual states.

Amid way too much talk about testing and the Common Core, not enough attention is being paid to what parents will actually learn about their children's achievement when results are finally released from the recent round of state assessments.

Which is apt to put even more ill - considered pressure on graduation rates or else throw states back to SAT and ACT results even when those are useless for students who don't take the tests.

The controversy arises when states attempt to test whether students have met a certain standard — and especially when they attach consequences to the results of such exams.

When Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, it rewrote much of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, increasing the amount of testing required and demanding that states hold schools accountable for results on those tests.

But when a state switches to a new test, first - year results can't be used to compare achievement to that of previous years.

Second, when a state gives the same test year to year, those results can show growth or declines in achievement.

When results from the 2010 tests, which state officials said presented a more accurate portrayal of students» abilities, were released last month, they came as a blow to the legacy of the mayor and the chancellor, as passing rates dropped by more than 25 percentage points on most tests.

When ELL students are not isolated in these low - achieving schools, their gap in test score results is considerably narrower, according to a Pew Hispanic Center analysis of newly available standardized testing data for public schools in the five states with the largest numbers of ELL students.

Because the assessments aren't linked to any local or regional set of learning standards, NAEP can be used as a barometer to compare results on state tests, especially when it comes to reading and mathematics.

But now that the results are in for the state's first round of high states testing, State Superintendent Tony Bennett can breath a sigh of relief: Indiana students did much better on the IREAD - 3 this spring than Florida students did when the FCAT was first administered in state's first round of high states testing, State Superintendent Tony Bennett can breath a sigh of relief: Indiana students did much better on the IREAD - 3 this spring than Florida students did when the FCAT was first administered in State Superintendent Tony Bennett can breath a sigh of relief: Indiana students did much better on the IREAD - 3 this spring than Florida students did when the FCAT was first administered in 2003.

We know states are changing their tests to align to the new standards, and those changes have inevitably bred uncertainty, anxiety, and even hostility, especially when results could carry high stakes someday.

Second, we had ESEA reporting requirements, state - based test decisions, and NAEP results back when Secretary Duncan bemoaned the «race to the bottom.»

Test - Refusal Movement's Success Hampers Analysis of New York State Exam Results New York Times, 8/14/15» «I remember the bad old days when achievement gaps between groups of students or between schools and school districts were hidden as if they were a dirty secret,» Thomas Kane, an economist and professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said in an email.

It happened in New York for years, when the proportion of students passing the state tests went up and up until it collapsed in 2010 as a result of an independent investigation.

So, as the Courant wrote, «state education officials were tight - lipped Tuesday about when they will release this year Connecticut Mastery Test scores, but at least two districts eager to brag about their results are jumping the state's embargo.»

Given the potential blowback resulting from the new assessments, state policy leaders should err on the side of caution when using assessment results to make high - stakes decisions about students, teachers or schools in the early years of new tests.

The results also can come back in edu - speak, with reports like «your child is proficient in quantitative reasoning, but borderline on X, Y, and Z.» When I worked at the agency, I even had to call the state's assessment director and ask her whether the questions my daughter missed on her fifth grade math test would hinder her as she went along.

Some states already use or plan to use the results of state tests when they evaluate and give merit raises to the teachers themselves.

The results serve to aid in determining when ELLs have attained the language proficiency needed to participate meaningfully in content - area classrooms without program support and on state academic content tests without accommodations.

The latest results on the most important nationwide math test show that student achievement grew faster during the years before the Bush - era No Child Left Behind law, when states were dominant in education policy, than over the years since, when the federal law has become a powerful force in classrooms.

But in May Ms. McNeill felt vindicated when she received the results of her students» performance on standardized state reading tests.

When the state test scores measuring achievement in social studies and science were released, the results were disappointing.

That has occurred in other states, such as New York, where a backlash ensued when Common Core test results were lower than expected.

California school districts got a dose of bad news last week when new state test results showed many students aren't meeting state standards in math and English.

When legislative priorities are more focused on the results of a test given at the end of a school the year, rather than those educating children then we have lost our focus as a state.

Yet even when the «cut scores» (the point selected on the scale above which students pass and below which they fail) on these improved state tests are set at the level of bona fide readiness for the next grade, the results of a child's test performance are apt to be reported to his parents (and himself) in misleading terms.

And, when changing tests to the Common Core PARCC test, the state has to violate scientific protocol, and mix and match test score results in an indefensible manner.

When its charter was renewed in 2012, the State touted Amistad Academy's high test results compared to New Haven schools in 5th grade, and particularly for 8th grade students.

Not to be outdone, Malloy's Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor told the superintendents that despite what he and Malloy had said in the past and despite federal and state laws to the contrary, he was authorizing greater flexibility when it came to the amount of testing during the coming school year and whether school districts had to include test results in their teacher evaluation program.

The school is part of the Rhode Island Mayoral Academy, which began testing economic integration when they first opened in 2009, and has seen positive results — though half of all their students are low - income, currently 92 percent of the schools» seventh - graders are proficient in math and 86 percent are in reading, which is more than double the proficiency rate for eighth graders across the state in both.

So just when we thought the Common Core SBAC testing farce couldn't get worse, the Hartford Courant is reporting that that the reason that the North Haven and Westbrook test results were so out of line with the rest of the state is that high school students in those two towns «took the wrong test.»

But when New York released its 2014 Common Core test results on August 14, state education officials were selective in their data reporting and did not disclose actual student scores.

As a result of these efforts, my students consistently scored above average in growth on state standardized tests when compared to their peers in the state.

Other states have pushed back dates when Common Core test results will be used in evaluating students, teachers and schools.

The 2017 test results show Texas struggling to keep pace in fourth and eighth grade reading compared to past years, even when accounting for a student population that is less affluent and more in need of specialized education programs, such as bilingual education, than those of many other states.

Rosalie Bespalko, a blunt - spoken principal from Carlstadt charged with the daunting mission of turning around one of the lowest - performing schools in New Jersey, was alone in her motel room last July when she opened her laptop to check the latest results from her students» state tests.

When her students recently took practice versions of the state tests, their scores were «higher than the results last year, when we didn't do all the things we're doing now,» she sWhen her students recently took practice versions of the state tests, their scores were «higher than the results last year, when we didn't do all the things we're doing now,» she swhen we didn't do all the things we're doing now,» she said.

The focus shifted when the State of California took over the school system in the 90s, and schools with sub par test results were identified.

When the Model S was tested by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for the United States safety regulations, and its results were published in August of 2013, it achieved the highest score ever recorded.

When Lexus first introduced the IS F in the United States in early 2008, I was participating in a discussion of the results of one of its early comparison tests.

When I graduated high school I could have written my own ticket to anywhere, including Harvard and Yale, as my grades and test results were among the top in the entire state (New York Ststate (New York StateState).

-- Maryland: When a DWI defendant refuses to take the breath test or has a blood alcohol content result (through a breath or blood test) of 0.08 or higher, the police officer ordinarily seizes the driver's Maryland license (if the driver has one) and, regardless of the licensing state, issues a suspension notice that takes effect in forty - five days unless the defendant timely and correctly delivers a hearing request to the Maryland Office of Administrative Hearings.

Q: Can we submit the IELTS test results instead of the TOEFL results when applying for the Internet Marketing degree programs in the United States?