Students there have achieved some of the highest test scores in the world in math and science.
Women hold almost all leadership positions in high school, where they also lead SAT reading scores and are catching up in math, and represent 57% of enrollment in four-year colleges, Spar said.
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Math game developer Sokikon, for example, references U.S. Department of Education-funded research correlating its games to progress in test scores and motivation to learn math (up to 15% improvement in one Arizona classroom).
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The latest test scores show Chinese math students in Shanghai far ahead of Americans.
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We have more college degrees but a general decline in math and science scores.
In a press release announcing today's move, Louisiana education chief Paul Pastorek says one reason he chose Vallas was that he'd raised math and reading scores 20 percent in Philadelphia.
Another involved the collection of DNA samples from high-IQ individuals from the U.S. and other countries, including those with extremely high SAT scores, and those with a doctorate in physics or math from an elite university.
The class' math scores soared, from the 21st percentile in September 2006 to the 80th percentile in May 2007, meaning they now outscore 80% of the nation's 13-year-olds.
The skills gap exists not just in Silicon Valley, where jobs demand math SAT scores of 800 and an 80-hour workweek.
The recent improvement, he speculates, may be the welcome byproduct of a upturn in math and reading skills, as measured by test scores, among minorities in the years before the students reach ninth grade.
Tennessee rolled out a system this year that ties most teacher evaluations, even those in subjects like music and gym, to schoolwide math and reading scores.
Mr. MONTY NEILL (Co-Director, National Center for Fair and Open Testing): While scores have tended to go up on NAEP at grade four--and in math they went up fairly solidly for a while--they've now leveled out.
But in Dayton, the students who switched schools initially had similar reading scores and lower math scores than did their peers.
Stagnant math and reading scores for 17-year-olds, and a decline in science scores.
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Math and reading scores are up three years running -- with some of the biggest gains in some of the poorest neighborhoods.
Eighty-five percent of those students were the first in their family to do so. (Applause.) Your math and science scores are consistently higher than other Boston schools, and the attendance rate here is 94 percent.
In addition to a shrinking revenue stream from the state, another big challenge Ms. Black faces is that she'll take over just months after the state changed proficiency scores for public-school students, a move that resulted in tens of thousands more students being deemed not proficient in math and English than the year before.
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