Sentences with phrase «yearly progress benchmarks»

After analyzing student outcome data and comparing current student performance with annual yearly progress benchmarks for student achievement, the leadership team agrees that there are significant differences in outcomes among students of diverse racial, ethnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds unrelated to socioeconomic status???.

The basics of No Child Left Behind (NCLB)-- adequate yearly progress benchmarks, provision of supplemental services, and a «highly qualified» teacher in every classroom — are known.

Not exact matches

The NCLB accountability system divides schools into those in which a sufficient number of students score at the proficient level or above on state tests to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) benchmarks («make AYP») and those that fail to make AYP.

But an accompanying chart revealed that 12 of Dayton's 19 K — 8 charters did not make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP); 8 of the 10 charter high schools fell short of their AYP benchmark.

Examining the days forfeited to snow and other «unscheduled closings» in Maryland in 2002 - 2003, he concluded that two - thirds of the elementary schools that failed to make «adequate yearly progress» (the federal benchmark under «No Child Left Behind») in math that year would have done so «if they had been open during all scheduled school days.»

And so, five years ago, the district was flagged for not making federal benchmarks for adequate yearly progress (AYP).

In far too many schools, these subjects have been crushed beneath the heavy weight of the concrete (benchmarks), asphalt (standardized tests), and steel (adequate yearly progress) that make up the bulk of the curriculum superhighway.

How to use scientifically - sound and efficient reading / language arts and mathematics assessments for benchmarking K - 6 students to promote adequate yearly progress and support universal screening, and once per year universal and / or individual screening for middle and high school students;

And schools would no longer face federal sanctions if they fail to make what was called «adequate yearly progress» — a benchmark that critics have long called unrealistic and onerous.

It also sanctioned schools if they did not meet performance benchmarks known as «Adequate Yearly Progress.»