Sentence examples for lagging test from inspiring English sources

The social cost of all this noncare: We have the highest rate of child poverty in the developed world, lagging test scores, a shameful incarceration rate and, Kunin adds, an American dream that's in decline.

Set on a bleak block here where the pawn shop passes for a cultural attraction, it has limited space, lagging test scores and music instruction that John Ramos, the superintendent of schools, described as "minimal".

In recent years, Erasmus has been known more for violence and lagging test scores than for illustrious graduates.

Besides its lagging test scores, state audits had cited the school district for financial mismanagement and violence.

On the other are Austin Polytech's own challenges — lagging test scores, dipping attendance and its recent placement on academic probation for the 2010-11 school year.

The Newton experiment began last September after Mr. Thomas, under pressure from the lagging test scores, struck a partnership with the influential Newark Teachers Union and Seton Hall University to remake the school.

In the achievement regressions, the lagged test score controls for previous inputs and persisting innate ability;8 in the time use regressions, the lagged outcome controls for habit persistence.

8 Many papers in the teacher quality literature also use lagged test score for this purpose (e.g., Aaronson et al. 2006; Clotfelter et al. 2007; Todd and Wolpin 2007).

In a rare comparison of both immediate and lagged testing, working memory capacity was significantly reduced during the presence of a stressor 15 minutes after its onset, but the effect was no more present 15 minutes after its offset [37].

The lessons being taught in Mr. Whitaker's classroom have taken on new urgency this fall as Newton's administrators and teachers rally behind the school in an effort to turn around its lagging standardized test scores or risk being completely overhauled because it has been unable to meet federal testing benchmarks under the No Child Left Behind law.

Among strength tests, a positive external rotation lag test (LR, 7.2 [95% CI, 1.7-31]) and internal rotation lag test (LR, 5.6 [95% CI, 2.6-12]) were the most accurate findings for full-thickness tears.