Sentence examples for of student progress from inspiring English sources
LAST week, Education Secretary Arne Duncan acknowledged standardized tests are flawed measures of student progress.
The staff keeps track of student progress in a war room with green, yellow and red posters to indicate which children are likely to fail state exams.
Under the new federal law known as No Child Left Behind, the state is obligated to take careful measure of student progress in many different categories.
The new systems, a central achievement of the reform movement, generally rate teachers on a combination of student progress, including their test scores, and observations by principals or others.
The school, which has about 500 students from grades 6 through 12, achieved a nearly perfect score in the category of "student progress," based partly on course credits earned by students.
At the same time, we would continue to require the reporting of student progress — not so Washington could decide whether to sanction a school, but so that parents, teachers and communities can know whether their students are succeeding.
Only around one-fifth of students progress to high school.
This week Mr Obama noted that 11 states had lowered their standards to give an illusion of students' progress.
They added data from weekly homework and online tests during the course to build a detailed picture of students' progress.
But they acknowledged the additional challenge of tailoring instruction to different groups, as they must produce multiple lesson plans and keep closer track of students' progress.
But in fact, as a group of students progress through the grades, the greater the range of differences among the students will become, if the instruction has been effective and addresses the needs of the students.
