Sentence examples for raise scoring from inspiring English sources

It has helped raise scoring, which dropped to 91.6 points per game in 1998-99, to about 100 points per game — still 10 points shy of the averages in the 1980s.

To speed up the women's game, reduce the physicality and raise scoring, Ackerman has proposed several measures: a wider lane, a 24-second shot clock instead of a 30-second clock, and four 10-minute quarters instead of two 20-minute halves.

Districts hire consultants to raise scores.

One new priority is to raise scores on the SAT exams.

Test prep companies contend that they can raise scores by hundreds of points.

Schools seek pupils who will raise scores in raw league tables.

Yet to raise scores, people usually think only of school reform, forgetting that dollars spent elsewhere might help.

"This is a huge boroughwide effort to raise scores in biology, physics and chemistry," said ARLENE MUKOKO, a spokeswoman for the borough president, ADOLFO CARRIÓN JR.

Ironically, this is precisely what has been accelerated in a desperate effort to raise scores on standardized tests, the heart of the reform efforts you champion.

As the exams seem likely to continue to be used to judge schools and teachers, naturally those under the microscope will do all they can to raise scores.

He added that schools would be faced with more testing in the future and insisted that Freeport had not had to sacrifice its curriculum to raise scores.