They are considerably behind girls in reading and writing, motivation, grades, and standardized test scores.
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Our students also are considered highly disengaged, meaning they have low GPAs, low standardized test scores and infrequent attendance.
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Meanwhile, standardized test scores and graduation rates remain stuck at mediocre levels nationally, and at worse than abysmal for many urban districts.
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Today, colleges are relying on standardized test scores when making admissions decisions to a far larger degree than they have in years.
Union leaders also rejected the perfectly reasonable demand from the city of Chicago that standardized test scores play a role in evaluating teacher performance.
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It's clear that systems that gauge student, teacher and school performance on standardized test scores put intense pressure on those results and inevitably tempt people to finagle them.
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.
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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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.
Standardized test (SAT and ACT) scores are less and less important.
Teachers at three Seattle schools are refusing to give students district-mandated standardized exams, one of the most dramatic moves in an escalating fight nationwide over using test scores to evaluate teachers and schools.
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