Illinois school test scores: Income-based gap proves hard to close

Chicago Tribune

Nine of every 10 students at the Glen Ellyn school passed state exams in reading and math , according to the 2009 Illinois School Report Card made public ...

Income-based gap proves hard to close Chicago Tribune



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Betanews Comprehensive Relative Performance Index 2.2: How it works and why

BetaNews

The new JSBenchmark from Sean P. Kane is a modern version of the classic math tests first made popular, if you can believe it, by folks like myself. ...

VWSD hopes new calculators will stimulate scores

Vicksburg Post

The effort to raise math test scores for junior high and high school students in the Vicksburg Warren School District got a shot in the ...

Mayoral candidates forecast city students' national math test results

GothamSchools

In contrast, the state's own math test showed gains for eighth grade students, causing some to question the difficulty of the state's exams. ...

Alamance-Burlington students break national trend on math tests

The Pendulum

North Carolina modified the EOG math test in 2006, so comparisons of student pass rates can only be determined based on scores from the past three school ...

A way to improve schools, one instructor at a time

Boston Globe

... Columbia University economist Jonah Rockoff found that student achievement test results in reading and math were about 10 points higher, on a 100-point ...



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DODEA wants answers to students' declining performance on SATs

Stars and Stripes

In 2006, DODEA's math scores were six points below the national average. Now, they are 17 points below, according to test results released recently. ...

College Prep | Testing Proctor, Please Get Off the Phone

New York Times

... who was in a state of panic by the end of the test . Ms. Reeves thought she had covered all her bases: math preparation and vocabulary memorization, ...

XLPrep.com Increases Students' Scores for Math and Algebra I California ...

PR Web (press release)

These findings indicate a great potential for XLPrep.com to help students increase math test scores and improve math skills in California and throughout the ...

Central seniors reap reward

MassLive.com

... System English language arts and math tests They qualified because they scored "advanced" on one exam and "proficient" or "advanced" on their other. ...



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Discouraging math scores

Press-Register - al.com

Only 17 percent of Mississippi eighth-graders demonstrated proficiency on the math test , and only 26 percent of Alabama's fourth-graders did so. ...

Math scores on the incline for eighth-graders Yakima Herald-Republic

Georgia 8th grade scores up in math Newnan Times-Herald

NAEP Scores Put Spotlight on Standards Education Week News (subscription)



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State's teacher of the year helps make math add up for students

Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Some of her good-natured humor comes from the fact she tries to get to know the students, even using their names and situations in examples or on tests to ...



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Boosting Your SAT Score: The Latest SAT Strategy

CBS MoneyWatch.com

What I was hoping for was a huge score in math , which is my son's strongest subject. Ben had done very well on the math section the first time he took the ...

Bloomberg and Thompson Face Off in Final Debate

New York Times

7:29 pm | Mr. Brooks asked about figures suggesting that fourth-grade math test scores in the state had stagnated. Mr. Bloomberg said that the city's test ...

Bill Thompson on Education WNYC

On schools, mayor wears Teflon Crain's New York Business

Campaign 09: Fact or Fiction Gotham Gazette

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Problem solvers: Stillwater schools start new math curriculum

Stillwater Gazette

The multimedia content with these two options includes exercises, tests , tools like graphic calculators and video tutorials. On the sixth-grade math site, ...

Tailoring the lesson plan Stillwater Gazette



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Toward resolving the NAEP-state test score gap

GothamSchools

In the community section, Teachers College sociologist Aaron Pallas suggests reasons why scores on state math tests have increased in ...

School Stat Soup Gotham Gazette

Klein announces that Queens and Staten Island students are progressing on ... Examiner.com



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Board monitors students' progress in mathematics

Chaffee County Times

Results of math tests from Colorado Student Assessment Program and Northwest Evaluation Association are two measures of proficiency and growth in math . ...

Bloomfield board reviews MAP scores Southeast Missourian



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Mass. leads US on math scores

Boston Globe

Our students have made real gains in math over the past two decades, but for the first time since NAEP's mathematics test started in 1990, ...



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the way out

Urbanite Baltimore

By middle school, the achievement gap has actually been reversed: On math tests , Children's Zone students outperform the average white student in New York ...

Hart: Attention helicopter parents, time to chill out

Daily News Tribune

Discussion then turned to the advanced placement math testing that will take place at the end of the year. How would the school determine which kids would ...



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