Sentences with phrase «worse on standardized tests»

For example, foster children and youth are more likely to repeat a grade, do worse on standardized tests, or drop out of school.

In particular, compared with their sisters, less - advantaged boys «have a higher incidence of truancy and behavioral problems throughout elementary and middle school, exhibit higher rates of behavioral and cognitive disability, perform worse on standardized tests, are less likely to graduate high school, and are more likely to commit serious crimes as juveniles.»

Students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds typically perform worse on standardized tests than their wealthier peers.

A recent study of that program, released in July by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute, found that students who used the vouchers to attend private schools performed worse on standardized tests than similar students who stayed in public schools.

Yet, if he is to be truly «transparent about data,» Duncan would have to admit that, after the turnaround, Sherman actually performed worse on standardized tests than several schools CPS proposed to close for poor performance in 2009.

But four continued to struggle, with some schools actually having a higher percentage of students performing worse on standardized tests.

One such study was released this April, showing that students in the only federally funded voucher program, in Washington, D.C., performed worse on standardized tests within a year after entering D.C. private schools than peers who did not participate.

Students who are not fluent in English and whose parents are not college educated and have low incomes generally fare worse on standardized tests than students who come from more affluent backgrounds and whose parents are highly educated.

A recent study of that program, released in July by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute, found that students who used the vouchers to attend private schools actually performed worse on standardized tests than similar students who stayed in public schools.

A recent Education Department analysis of that program found that after a year in private school, voucher recipients performed worse on standardized tests than their counterparts who remained in public school.

The most startling of these reports indicated that students who used school vouchers performed much worse on standardized tests than those who remained in traditional public schools.

When you are being abused or hearing about children and parents being abused and harassed for opting out of the unfair and discriminatory Common Core SBAC test or when you are paying more in taxes and watching important school programs and services cut, now that thanks to our elected and appointed officials we are pissing away $ 100,000,000.00 a year forcing children to take a test that will tell us that students from rich families tend to do better and student from poor families tend to do worse on standardized tests.

Fewer absences therefore may also explain why later - starting students have higher test scores: students who have an early start time miss more school and could perform worse on standardized tests as a result.

So in addition to doing worse on standardized tests, having higher BMIs, or being less socially competent, the marshmallow test predicts that impulsive individuals may have brain activity similar to those of drug users.

«Studies have found that schoolchildren with stomach worms perform worse on standardized tests that their parasite - free peers,» said Binning.

Not exact matches

«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for high school graduation than their peers in traditional charter and traditional public schools,» said McEachin.

Studies show a familiar pattern: middle - income black and Latino students faring worse than their white counterparts with respect to grades, enrollment in advanced courses, and performance on standardized tests.

In 1995, according to Dayton Public School Superintendent, James Williams, Allen Elementary ranked first in the district on standardized test scores; student absenteeism was the lowest in the district; 87 percent of the students regularly submitted homework; and only 8 students were suspended for bad behavior.

Concludes that many tests are inaccurate or biased against minority and low - income students, and that relying on standardized tests to make decisions results in worse, not better, education.

The cry is for good teachers to be rewarded and bad teachers to be tossed out of classrooms, based on student achievement assessed by scores on standardized tests.

This summer, a Stanford University study estimated students in 37 percent of the nation's charter schools have performed worse on state standardized tests than their peers in typical public - school districts.

By Valerie Strauss March 15, 2010; 6:30 AM ET Categories: No Child Left Behind, Standardized Tests, Teachers Tags: No Child Left Behind, President Obama Save & Share: Previous: Obama and NCLB: The good — and very bad — news Next: Willingham on school choice

I saw how bad a bad education can be, with teachers cheating on standardized tests for their kids and where 5th graders could not read.

A recent Stanford study on achievement gaps shows that African - Americans perform worse academically when it comes to standardized tests, class work, attendance and enrollment in honors, Advanced Placement (AP) and college classes.

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

If you can master these bad boys, then you'll have a much easier time answering those reading comprehension questions on your next standardized test, mostly because these key words are often used so very often in those questions!

And they are adding some of their own bad ideas to make things worse: linking teacher evaluation and pay to how well kids do on standardized tests.

The middle school, which serves students in grades 6 — 8, had low scores on standardized achievement tests, an alarming level of bad behavior, and dwindling enrollment.

And they earn worse grades and score lower than classmates on standardized tests.

On May 3rd, John Oliver asked the question, «If standardized tests are bad for teachers and for students, who exactly are they good for?»

«Value - Added» is, once again, how much better or worse a teacher's students do on a standardized test compared to what a complicated formula predicted the students would get.

There's a constant conversation out there about standardized tests: whether they're good or bad, or how much time we're spending on them.

Standardized tests with high stakes are bad for learning, studies show (Statesman, 3/10/2012) A National Academies of Science committee reviewed America's test - based accountability systems and concluded, «There are little to no positive effects of these systems overall on student learning and educational progress.»

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan famously said that he thought «We should be able to look every second grader in the eye and say, «You're on track, you're going to be able to go to a good college, or you're not,»» — signaling how obsession with standardized testing was only going to get worse in the country.

Labeling children on the basis of unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory standardized tests is bad public policy.

Studies so far tell us that we can expect the «better» teacher's students to score about 6 percentile points higher, on average, on a standardized achievement test than the students of the «worse» teacher.

One of the worst arguments is that by placing so much emphasis on standardized test scores, children may never grow up to question their standardized credit score as a measure of their worth.

It is a product of the education reform industry that is set on convincing policymakers and the public that our nation's public education system is broken, that our public school teachers are bad and that the answer is more standardized testing and diverting scarce public funds to charter schools and other privatization efforts.

When girls fill out the gender bubble on standardized assessments before a math or science test, they do demonstrably worse than when they fill out the bubble after taking the test.

At last week's gathering of school - choice supporters, there was an awkward fact in their midst: A wave of new studies had shown that students receiving a voucher did worse, sometimes much worse, on standardized tests.

Whether the measure is proficiency on standardized tests, graduation rates or college completion, the outlook in terms of school performance is significantly worse for low - income students than for their middle - income and wealthy peers.

It was one of the first states to use the results of standardized math and reading tests to grade every public school on an A to F scale, with rewards for the best - rated and sanctions for the worst.