Sentences with phrase «whole letter grade»
Most changes to standards, as we noted, have been fairly small: only 12 states have made changes to their standards that alter their standing by a whole letter grade.
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As a matter of fact, 17 states increased the rigor of their 4th - grade reading assessments by a whole letter grade since 2007, and 17 states did the same for 8th grade.
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The 2012 edition presents updated scores and letter grades, for the states and the nation as a whole, in five of six areas...
This encouraged them to study effectively, resulting in higher grades for the whole course — one - third of a letter grade higher, on average, than their peers.
This method would place both measures on equal footing without forcing them to compete with each other, and providing a separate letter grade for each measure wouldn't lead to an unfair high or low report card grade for the whole school.
Even data on letter grades take on a whole new meaning when they are anchored in common standards.
Bennett says a move to lift the AYP cap — part of a whole slate of changes to the way state officials want to determine a school's letter grade — has been in the works for some time.