The Use and Misuse International Assessments
The Misplaced Math Students
Urban School Achievement
2006 Presidential Address
Race, Inequality, and Educational Accountabil
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Groups in Washington would like to make this an international benchmark of student performance
What is (PISA) Programme for International Student Assessment?
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The administration made enrolling all children in an algebra course by this grade a national goal
What is eigth grade?
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While big city schools have made significant improvement, these districts have made similar gains
What is smaller urban districts?
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The amount by which a government's, company's, or individual's, spending exceeds income over a particular period of time
What is a deficit?
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This is one of the derogatory nicknames given to the No Child Left Behind Act
What is No Child Left Untested? or No School Board Left Standing or No Child's Behind Left
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TIMMS assesses how well students have learned these two subjects
What is mathematics and science?
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These achievers more than doubles as a proportion of advanced classes, increasing from 3.0 percent in 2000 to 7.8 percent in 2005
What is low achievers?
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Some evidence suggests that the increases are associated with these systems that reward or sanction schools based on gains among low achievers
What are accountability systems?
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Gloria Ladison-Billings compared the nation's monetary debt with the nation's education debt. These are 2 of the factors that she believes has created our nation's "education debt"
What are historical, economic, sociopolitical, and moral decisions?
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This San Francisco school has struggled financially for years and was involved in a school funding lawsuit
What is Luther Burbank Middle School?
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PISA assesses the ability to apply learning in these situations.
What is real-world?
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Advanced students score about one year above grade level. The misplaced students function about this many grade levels below peers enrolled in the same courses
What is 7 grade levels?
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The 2001 NAEP report discussed these three reforms embraced by urban school reformers
What are school choice, standards, and class size?
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This historically black college was named among the many schools that accepted Native American students into their programs
What is Hampton Institute?
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These two subgroups havem added to the controversy of the NCLB Act mainly because the act mandates 100 % proficiency
What are Limited English Proficient (LEP) and Students with Disabilities (SPED) subgroups?
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Analysts typically calculate these two types of correlations with international assessment data
What is between-nation and within-nation?
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Compared to teachers of the typical eighth grader, the teachers of misplaced students are more likely to have these three characteristics
What is less experience, fewer former credentials, and weaker mathematics training?
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This is identified as the most popular reform of recent years
What is mayoral control?
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Randall Robinson made an analogy that compared the gaps between blacks and whites to these familiar geometrical items
What are parallel lines?
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In order to meet AYP, some schools have resorted to these less than reputable solutions
What are grade retention, expulsion, drop-outs, and graduation restrictions?
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A 2006 Brown Center analysis of TIMSS data documented the average national math performance is inversely related to national indices of this....
What is the happiness factor?
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The Brown Center Report on American Education identified these four elements of a realistic algebra policy
What is get the goal right, teach and assess prerequisite skills, early intervention, and collect data, conduct research?
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To learn from recent successes and to sustain gains into the future, better data is need on these two areas
What are policies and practices?
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This historical case dealt with the desegregation of Latino Americans
What is Mendex vs. Westminster
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According to Linda Darling-Hammond, these are 3 possible ways that the NCLB could be amended to help bridge the achievement gap
What are thoughtful assessments used to improve the curriculum, school progress being evaluated on multiple measures, gains being evaluated with measures showing improvement of individual students over time, school progress being measured by their performance and progress rather than statistical data, targets being based on more sensible goals, and investments being made to hire and support highly effective teachers and leaders?
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