Sentences with phrase «with low test scores»

In schools with low test scores, there is no free play and, for the most part, recess only happens at lunchtime (weather permitting).

Unlike regular public schools, many charter schools are specifically designed to serve students with low test scores.

Of the children with the lowest test scores, 57 percent were expected by their parents to attend college; of those who scored the highest, 96 percent were expected to attend college.

All of these are well - known «risk factors» that are associated with lower test scores as well as with a greater likelihood of dropping out of high school.

Second, districts with lower test scores have higher opt - out rates after taking socioeconomic status into account.

He is not against ALL teachers, only the «bad» ones with low test scores.

He wants to defend the practices that he thinks benefit children, including the practice of closing schools of choice with low test scores.

The same trend was reported among 8th graders with the lowest test scores.

Naturally, schools with high test scores show the smallest academic gains, while schools with low test scores show the largest academic gains.

It could also be that kids with low test scores are practical.

But the authors write that there are some selective high schools that will take students with low test scores.

The emergence of charters has drained money from the school district that's struggled with low test scores and a 50 - percent dropout rate.

The combination of these two factors is associated with low test scores.

White calls this one of the «bold ideas» he wants the board to consider in 2016 after the district has struggled for years with low test scores and graduation rates.

David Sims showed that Wisconsin schools with low test scores in one year acted strategically by starting the next school year a bit earlier to raise scores.

The effects are particularly large for disadvantaged students, English learners, special education students, and children who enter charters with low test scores.

A study matching newborn glucose concentration screening results with fourth - grade achievement test scores suggests that early transient newborn hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) was associated with lower test scores at age 10, according to an article published online by JAMA Pediatrics.

But Bruno does not regret that students with low test scores from Inglewood flow into his school, despite how it might affect student test scores for Litton.

Elia's action reflected the state's continuing concern with low test scores and other problems that leave Hempstead as the most troubled of Long Island's 124 districts.

Mr. Crew announced a plan that could require about 48,000 students in 3rd, 6th, and 8th grades with low test scores to complete a six - week remedial course beginning in July — or repeat the grade.

If parents no longer thought of non-White, majority Free Lunch schools as synonymous with low test scores, they would be more open to desegregation.

Rather than provide the best means for confronting «difficult truths about the inequality of America's political economy,» such a pedagogy produces the swindle of «blaming inequalities on individuals and groups with low test scores.»

U.S. Undersecretary of Education Hickok, after joking that his first words would be «I'm from the federal government, and I'm here to help,» said he would advise a superintendent faced with lower test scores to learn what those scores indicate.

Critics also say that tests do not adequately measure student and school performance, and that judging (and in some cases punishing) schools with low test scores results in even fewer resources for the students who need them most.

The evidence we have from places like Milwaukee and Washington, D.C. suggests substantial turnover in voucher programs, with minority students and students with the lowest test scores leaving private schools.

Quitman was one of four Newark schools recently selected by the district to try what's known as «blended learning» in third through fifth grades, some of the classes with the lowest test scores.

The second largest school district in the country, Los Angeles Unified has long been plagued with low test scores and graduation rates.

The study from RAND Corporation and New York University found that Ohio students with low test scores who enroll in online - only schools tend to fall even further behind.

A New York City proposal to diversify middle schools on Manhattan's Upper West Side, by setting aside seats for children with low test scores, is facing stiff resistance from parents worried their high - achieving children might lose access to the popular public schools.

She was recruited to help turnaround Concord Middle a few years ago, at a time when the school was really struggling with low test scores and high teacher turnover.

An analysis of the state's own attendance data shows that absenteeism correlates with lower test scores and higher dropout rates.

For example, the positive effects of urban charters in Massachusetts are especially significant for disadvantaged students, English learners, special education students, and students who enter charters with low test scores.

The students who sign up for tutoring or transportation to other schools don't have to be the ones with lower test scores, Burkholder said.

In the state's last attempt to dismiss the case, in 2013, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration claimed that its 2012 reforms, including yearly common core standardized testing of students, evaluating teachers by students» standardized test scores and a system of ranking, shaming and punishing districts with low test scores, would solve all the state's education woes.

Another said there was discussion of an option that involved enrolling 50 % of students currently at schools with low test scores.»

Urban schools typically are associated with low test scores, high dropout rates, and higher absenteeism or tardiness when compared to suburban districts.

For years, colleges of education have battled reputations of attracting students with low test scores and grade point averages.

A proposal to diversify middle schools on the Upper West Side, by setting aside seats for children with low test scores, is facing stiff resistance from some parents.

Previous studies have also shown that children with ADHD struggle academically, with lower test scores and higher risk of dropping out of high school.

Consortium research showed that while elementary school students with low test scores and other problems stood a good chance of improving later on, troubled high school freshmen almost never did so.

He finds it hypocritical «that politicians want to bail out failing banks and faulty mortgages, but punish schools with low test scores.»

Given the same teachers, principal, building and school supplies, filling a school with upper middle class kids with involved parents will create a «good» school, while filling that same school with low income and minority kids with uneducated parents will probably create a «bad» school with low test scores, safety issues, and discipline problems.

States and localities would be responsible for improving schools with low test scores, and they would still have to break out testing data to show how poor, minority and disabled students are performing — a provision in NCLB that the majority of lawmakers still believes is necessary.

The inspiration for Waiting for «Superman» began, Guggenheim explains, as he drove his own children to a private school, past the neighborhood schools with low test scores.

Low - performing schools were defined as those with the lowest test scores in the district.