Sentence examples for rating schools from inspiring English sources

Michigan uses a color-coded system, rating schools as green, lime, yellow, orange or red.

In an article in The Washington Monthly, Amy Graham takes her former employer to task for rating schools in ways that could mislead prospective students.

Even critics acknowledge that the method can be more accurate for rating schools than the system now required by federal law, which compares test scores of succeeding classes, for instance this year's fifth graders with last year's fifth graders.

These were questions implicitly raised by President Obama's recent proposal that the federal government look at graduates' earnings when rating schools in an effort to steer students toward the best ones.

The notion of rating schools based on the standardized test scores of students is sweeping the nation as nearly every state strives to hold teachers and principals more accountable.

But in rating schools, the system became the first in the nation to make this demand: The school as a whole must attain certain achievement levels, as must each major demographic group -- whites, blacks, Hispanics and low-income students.

Trains to Manhattan are within walking distance, as are Glen Ridge's highly rated schools.

Other states also rate schools, but threaten nonvoucher interventions for failure.

Today, you published "To Cut Failure Rate, Schools Shed Students" on your front page.

One chief is paid almost £400,000 a year for overseeing 37 (admittedly highly rated) schools.

"As part of the move, school inspectors will rate schools on how effectively they are acting to tackle homophobic bullying".