But last week, the test results came in and every student in third through fifth grade passed the test, Ms. Tatum said.
At the Anderson School in Manhattan, a highly selective school, for instance, 5 out of 65 eighth graders did not pass the English test; last year, the entire seventh grade passed the exam.
In New York City, 26percentt of students in third through eighth grade passed the tests in English, and 30percentt passed in math, according to the New York State Education Department.
Giving administrators the ability to fire teachers for poor performance is one of the central suggestions of "Waiting for 'Superman.' " Over all, 38 percent of Promise Academy I's students in third through sixth grade passed the 2010 English test under the state's new guidelines, placing it in the lower half of charter schools citywide, and below the city's overall passing rate of 42 percent.
(Section V.B.2.c) · Revisit the question about the last grade passed with DRs; this question resulted in the lowest response rate (82.9%) in 2009.
Questions using appropriate scales elicited age, ethnic group, whether they were currently in school, highest grade passed (1 = Primary, 2 = Secondary, 3 = Post matric), employment status, who they live with, who supports them financially, year of ITMC, and if they voluntary decided to undergo ITMC.
More than half the applicants had three A grade passes or better.
In 10th grade, passing the state exam was equivalent to the fifth percentile in the national ranking.
The percentage of pupils achieving A* and A grade passes also rose by 1.2 per cent to 20.7 per cent – the first year that more than one in five scripts was awarded a top-grade pass.
Triplets and twins notch up 40 top grade passes A set of triplets and two sets of twins at the same school notched up an impressive 40 A* and A grade passes between them.
Only six out of every hundred pupils obtained five A* to C grade passes at GCSE, including maths and English.
