Kathy Cox and Beverly Hall, the school superintendents of Georgia and Atlanta, have won praise for improving test scores and graduation rates.
An aggressive campaign could recruit 26, 000 new teachers in-state and from across the country in very short order from teachers who are desperate to find work, and who will not mind working longer days or being held accountable for student test scores.
Johnson says he tries to act as a mentor, or life coach, for his students, helping them handle the off-court stress of trying to cut high enough grades and test scores for an Ivy League college.
Colleges like to report higher test scores for a very simple reason: it raises their ranking!
The researchers examined test scores for roughly 20% of the voucher pupils.
There are certainly people who fall into different camps on certain issues, for example people who want to use pay for performance based on test scores, school-choice advocates, people who think reading should be taught by using phonics, people who think there should be no homework, and on and on and on.
StudentAid.com, which launched earlier this year, asks students for detailed financial information and their GPAs and standardized test scores to create detailed cost estimates for up to 10 universities, based on each college's financial aid award formula.
For 20 years Scholastic Aptitude Test scores of our high school students went down, but now they have gone up 2 of the last 3 years.
Those taking aspirin for the entire period saw their test scores fall much less than those who had not.
All high schools, as opposed to just some, also will now receive their students' test scores, allowing for a "back-end check, " Ms. Rice said.
The teacher rankings were based on student test scores that were adjusted for factors such as absenteeism, poverty, race and class size.
Working fast, Vallas moved on to the toughest part of his job -- making public schools accountable for their results rather than blaming poor test scores on parents or society.
He must also recognize that one of the unintended consequences of using test scores as a barometer for judging schools has been that many schools have narrowed the focus of the curriculum to test preparation.
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The state had turned him down for placement in supervised housing, pointing to his test scores.
Last year, the city announced that a new, harder test would count for two-thirds of student scores.
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In many districts, test scores are used as a basis for "school report cards" that are published in local newspapers.
But union leaders worry that in New York, where teacher evaluations are based in part on student test results, teachers will be blamed for low scores.
Under state law, all of New York's roughly 700 school districts must develop a system for evaluating teachers based on a mix of standardized test scores, classroom observations and other measures.
Sahlman told me that beyond high grades and test scores, the HBS admissions department looks for evidence of leadership.
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For now, we tend to build our accountability systems on test scores, maybe graduation rates, and not much else.
These schools take the position that their rigorous admissions processes, which rely heavily on scores from the GMAT test, are sufficient for recruiters to judge future business capability.
Now, in my home state of Arizona, the legislature has ended tenure for teachers, and next year will begin rating them based on test scores.
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Over the decades, its system has helped countless students improve their test scores, and Kaplan wants to take its reputation for success to broader fields.
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Scores released yesterday for the 2006 Programme for International Student Assessment test showed that American 15-year-olds trailed far behind their peers from many industrialized countries.
The Massachusetts Board of Education, for example, fearing most students would flunk, has voted to set low passing scores--just above failing--for a new test students must take to graduate from high school.
There is no substitute of course for electing a challenging curriculum (the most advanced courses for which you qualify), maintaining excellent grades and owning superior standardized test scores, these are the coin of the realm.
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But Bopara, whose place for the decisive final Ashes Test is under particular threat after a poor run of scores, did nothing to enhance his chances of retaining his spot for The Oval, edging only his seventh ball to Kartik at second slip for just 1.
Based on her scores in February from a widely used psychological test called the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, Guyton's mental illness is in remission.
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