Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Alabama requires the Stanford Achievement Test Series; and in Texas, the Texas Higher Education Assessment. That state has discontinued its usage of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills . Since the 2007–08 school year, Kentucky has required that all students at public high schools take the ACT in their junior year.
On July 1, 2010, the State Board of Education adopted the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics, which will replace the Mathematics standards adopted in 1999. [10] In July 2010, the Board also adopted the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts, which will replace the Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening standards adopted ...
Ohio State Board of Education: Ohio Graduation Test: OGT [6] Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Department of Education : Keystone Exam: South Carolina: South Carolina Department of Education: High School Assessment Program (Grades 9-12) HSAP Tennessee: Tennessee Department of Education: Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program: TCAP Texas: Texas ...
The STAAR test was redesigned last year to incorporate more open-ended questions. The state has also recently introduced automated scoring by computers for open-ended written response questions.
The Pennsylvania Department of Education oversees 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania, over 170 public charter schools (2019), Career and Technology Centers/Vocational Technical schools, 29 Intermediate Units, the education of youth in State Juvenile Correctional Institutions, and publicly funded preschools (Head Start and PreK Counts ...
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 37.1 (1913): 76-82. online; Tully, Alan. "Literacy levels and educational development in rural Pennsylvania, 1729-1775." Pennsylvania History (1972) 39: 301-12. online; Walls, Nina de Angeli. Art, Industry, and Women’s Education in Philadelphia (2001) Wickersham, James Pyle.
In Pennsylvania, intermediate units are regional educational service agencies, established by the Pennsylvania General Assembly.Intermediate units are public entities and serve a given geographic area's educational needs and function as a step of organization above that of a public school district, but below that of the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) represents more than 187,000 teachers, educational support professionals, counselors, curriculum specialists, librarians, health care workers, school nurses, school dental hygienists, school nurses, school psychologists, school social workers, vocational-technical instructors, community college and junior college educators, students and ...