Sentences with phrase «yearly progress even»

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A common reality for teachers, especially in areas failing to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) is loss of control and ability to be culturally responsive because of mandated, even scripted curricula, which removes opportunities to be a culturally responsive teacher (Durden, 2008).

Schools that fail to make adequate yearly progress (meet achievement targets) for three consecutive years, even if it's just for a particular subgroup of students, must offer free tutoring to all students.

As the «adequate yearly progress» aspect of the law results in increasingly heightened performance expectations, this number will probably rise, too, even though many schools will «graduate» off the list due to improving (or at least fluctuating) test scores.

As the years passed and the «adequate yearly progress» targets grew, he says, more and more schools in more and more states fell into the category of «failing» — 50 percent, 60 percent, even 70 percent.

The passage of the NCLB is a landmark moment for federal control in education, as, for the first time, Washington was to dictate state standards, while mandating state testing and yearly progress goals — even the breaking down of scores by sub-groups of students.

The No Child Left Behind Act prescribed sanctions for schools and districts failing to make «Adequate Yearly Progress,» and even under the waivers that most states have now obtained from NCLB's accountability provisions they must still show how they will take action on their lowest - performing schools.

Here's the critical point: Even if your school has been an A + school for years — if any of the 39 subgroups of students (learning disabilities, low readers, etc) fail to make adequate yearly progress, the entire school fails.

But the most - interesting piece came not from either Haimson or the generally stellar Carey or Noguera (whose idea of treating schools like hospitals is a good one, even if he can't get the rest of his ideas right), but from Thomas B. Fordham Institute education czar Mike Petrilli, who once again tried to defend the idea of rolling back No Child's powerful Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions (even if the approach taken by the administration is none to his liking).

While the law aimed to close these gaps, they persist despite incremental progress.20 Even after making statistical adjustments to proficiency rates under NCLB, by 2005 — four years after the law passed — the rates of schools making «adequate yearly progress» started to decline.21 Any school missing a single target for any subgroup for two years in a row initiated particular actions, such as offering free tutoring or the option for students to transfer to a higher - performing school.