Sentences with phrase «with poor test scores»

This law cost private schools with poor test scores considerable funding.

He credits low enrollment, along with poor test scores, as the reason for closing Animo Justice.

Even a few months ago she said she would close public schools with poor test scores.

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Public schools should also receive a copy, although currently those schools are having enough trouble dealing with drugs, bullying, guns, poor test scores, and other problems resulting from general social decay.

Schools certainly feel the immediate costs of failing to prioritize wellness — poor test scores for students, lower standardized test scores school - wide, reduced funding resulting from absenteeism, which is why it is so important to share this report with school administrators and boards of education.

The study found that the players had poorer post-season reaction time and scores on a test of visual attention and task switching, which deficits were associated with greater head impact exposures.

With Lafayette High School under orders from Albany to close because of poor test scores, the school is proposing a re-structuring of itself.

Children who performed poorly in agility, speed and manual dexterity tests and had poor overall motor performance in the first grade had lower reading and arithmetic test scores in grades 1 - 3 than children with better performance in motor tests.

«In contrast, students with poor grades and test scores suffered from a decline in positive emotions and an increase in negative emotions, such as math anxiety and math boredom.

In our two previous research collaborations with the Skills for Life team, we already had shown that mental health problems are quite common, are among the strongest predictors of poor attendance, poorer grades, and lower scores on standardized tests, and that improved mental health scores are powerful predictors of improved academic outcomes.»

Poor B12 status as a baby was associated with a decrease in test scores at 5 years of age, reports researcher Ingrid Kvestad at Uni Research in Bergen, Norway and colleagues in a new study.

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Importantly, the highest levels of NfL corresponded with more damage to the brain and poorer scores on movement and reasoning tests.

Breakfast skipping in children is also associated with poor memory, lower test scores and poor school attendance.

«Unfortunately, there is simply no evidence that efforts to raise test scores will provide poor, minority, and bilingual students with the kind of high quality education that their more affluent counterparts receive,» said Mindy L. Kornhaber, the volume's co-editor.

For example, Krueger (1998) uses data from the NAEP and documents test score increases over time, with large improvements for disadvantaged children from poor urban areas; the Current Population Survey shows declining dropout rates since 1975 for those from the lowest income quartile (Digest of Education Statistics, NCES 2012).

Differences in test scores, college attendance, and graduation rates between wealthy and poor students are reaching an unprecedented disparity, with tremendous implications for the American public schooling system.

For example, dissatisfaction with performance in a charter middle school that is not captured by test scores (such as discipline issues or a poor fit between the student's interests or ability and the curriculum being offered) could lead parents to choose to send their child to a traditional public high school.

While traditional schools are rarely closed for poor performance, charters live with a realistic threat of closure should their tests scores falter.

If kids from all walks of life — wealthy, poor, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, gay, straight, immigrant, native born, Native American, with and without special needs, bilingual, monolingual, rural, suburban, urban — even if kids from all of these groups got equally high test scores, would that satisfy us that we could stop waging this civil rights struggle?

A school with many poor children, scoring at the 35th percentile, could be highly successful, though it tests below average.»

Principals who rotate their faculty by strength during the year, or augment classroom teachers with online lessons, will find their staffing models a poor fit for evaluation systems predicated on linking each student's annual test scores to a single teacher.

The study discovered that students from poorer backgrounds are entering secondary schools with better test scores.

And since putting the emphasis on test scores, instead of on educating children, overwhelms schooldays with memorizing and boredom, the efforts that go into improving poor children's test scores necessarily take away from efforts to provide them with a demanding and engaging and worthy education.

With states now appropriately crafting accountability frameworks that focus not just on test scores but on multiple measures, we also will hear less heated rhetoric about the consequences of poor results.

But it was an inner - city high school, initially primarily black, in later years increasingly Hispanic, with all the attributes common to such: poor scores on the various tests, district, state and national, that have come over the years to evaluate schools; poor attendance; low graduation rates; and serious student 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 relatively poor proficiency levels at public schools with high concentrations of ELL students is underscored by comparing the standardized test scores of white and black students who attend the schools in which ELL students are concentrated with the scores of white and black student who attend other public schools.

The largely poor and rural state of Mississippi suffers from the highest rate of childhood poverty in the country, along with some of the lowest scores on standardized tests.

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.

Mr. Klein began to use test scores to measure schools» performance, and joined with the Rev. Al Sharpton in forming the Education Equality Project in 2008 to promote good instruction and education reform for minority and poor children.

Schools that report low achievement for English - language learners also report low test scores for white and African - American students, and share characteristics associated with poor performance on standardized tests, according to a study released by the Pew Hispanic Center.

That number is small compared to the Atlanta and Philadelphia scandals, yet with more state policies — like teacher evaluations, merit pay, and takeovers of schools with poor ISTEP + scores — riding on students» scores on state tests, state officials, education experts, and parents told StateImpact Indiana they see these pressures to get results as incentives for teachers who can't hack it to bend the rules on state tests.

As we wrote Monday, Democrat Glenda Ritz earned the support of another newspaper over the weekend: The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette «s editorial board endorsed her in their Sunday opinion pages, criticizing Bennett's push for more school choice and broadened state powers to intervene in schools with chronically - poor test scores.

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 money went to states to distribute to their poorest - performing schools — those with exceedingly low graduation rates, or poor math and reading test scores, or both.

Linda Darling - Hammond and colleagues have cautioned that statistical models can not fully adjust for teachers who have a disproportionate number of students with greater challenges, or whose scores on traditional tests may not accurately reflect their learning, such as special education students; English language learners; and those affected by poor attendance, homelessness, or severe problems at home.

A poor rating coupled with low student scores on standardized tests is often the foundation for defining a bad teacher.

Speed up the timeline for state - led interventions in schools with chronically poor test scores or create a parallel timeline for state - led interventions in districts where underperformance has become «systemic.»

Students with poor attendance in the month before taking the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress scored significantly lower on the test than their peers who had no absences in that time frame, a new analysis by Attendance Works finds.

National averages on the 4th and 8th grade mathematics and reading tests were between 12 and 18 test - score points lower for students with poor attendance than for their peers who hadn't missed any school in the reporting period, the analysis found.

Indeed, CA's approach to introducing a new tests with likely «apparent» decreases in scores follows very poor educational testing practice....

It's well known that NCLB's narrow focus on reading and math test scores meant that too many students, especially poor students, ended up with little in their school day other than preparation to take tests in math and reading.

Class Warfare is built around the idea of children, particularly poor children, as test - score - producing machines, with little to no attention paid to other aspects of their personalities or lives.

In the application for the $ 100 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Hillsborough predicted they would fire at least 5 % of the districts tenured teachers for «poor performance,» and the grant work led her to develop, with collaboration from the teachers» union, an evaluation system that uses test scores for 40 % of teachers» ratings.

Cross-referencing test scores and demographics, he identified which schools were achieving the most exceptional results with poor students.

However, students are not randomly assigned to teachers — and statistical models can not fully adjust for the fact that some teachers will have a disproportionate number of students who have greater challenges (students with poor attendance, who are homeless, who have severe problems at home, etc.) and those whose scores on traditional tests may not accurately reflect their learning (e.g. those who have special education needs or who are new English language learners).

«Poverty is highly correlated with poor educational outcomes — with test scores, absenteeism, dropout rates, and every other measure of attainment and achievement.»

If you just report straightforward test scores, schools with rich students will likely have higher scores than those with poor students.