Sentences with phrase «whose grading standards»

For instance, just 57 percent of students with teachers whose grading standards are below the median within their own school continue to have below - median teachers the next year.

Not exact matches

I am here to share with you some data from California, a state whose standards attempted to prepare ALL students for Algebra 1 in grade 8, in an attempt to answer this question.

This effect is as large as the average difference in exam scores for two students whose cumulative GPAs at the start of the semester differ by 0.17 grade points on a standard 0 — 4.0 scale.

In addition, our results do not tell us anything about how to raise the grading standards of teachers whose standards are currently low.

Insofar as the 14 states on whose standards this analysis focuses attend to the content of literacy learning in the primary grades, their efforts should be applauded.

To be sure, some students with the most severe cognitive disabilities won't be able to reach grade - level goals set by the state — but the vast majority of Kentucky's disabled students have conditions mild enough that they should be able to perform on grade - level with sufficient interventions from teachers, said University of Kentucky professor Lee Ann Jung, whose research has focused on special education and academic standards.

And Common Core in Washington, D.C., another nonprofit, whose name predates the creation of the new standards, is writing the math curriculum for all the grades for $ 8 million.

A diamond certified as «excellent» by the EGL, might be graded much lower by the AGS or GIA, whose standards tend to be more stringent.