Mr. Levy also said that the alleged inflation of scores did not significantly affect the number of sixth graders sent to summer school last year, even though that decision was based largely on test scores.
Designed a statewide "report card" for schools that assigned them A through F grades based largely on test scores and pushed charter schools — which operate on public funds but outside traditional school districts — and vouchers and online learning.
Over the past few years, the pool of applicants had included nearly as many girls as boys, and the acceptance rate — based largely on test scores and grades — had followed suit.
The pension pact was part of an accord the Bloomberg administration reached with the teachers' union last fall to implement a plan to award bonuses to teachers based largely on test scores of students at schools with high concentrations of poor children.
The suit argues that students should be admitted based largely on test scores and academic qualifications, so he asks how many in the room would ever hire someone purely on the basis of grades, without an interview, without checking references, and without checking work products.
He created a "Florida Formula" of school reforms that became a model for other states, including state "report cards" that assign letter grades to schools based largely on test scores and widespread school choice right after he became governor in 1999.
That's why bonuses handed out to teachers based largely on test scores turn out not to improve achievement and are often resisted by teachers who want support to succeed, not bribes that undermine intrinsic motivation and collaboration.
First, our conclusions are based largely on testing 1000s of cis-gene expression phenotypes rather than the whole genome for a small number of phenotypes.
In four of the Title I (disadvantaged population) schools that have instituted the program in some of their K-2, classrooms, 93% of 2008 Bright IDEA second graders were recommended as gifted based largely on standard tests.
Her school has an A rating from the state, based largely on strong test scores.
