Benchmarks

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Metric Measures: 2005 and Beyond

Throughout the planning year, leadership teams (principals, teachers, parents and students) have been provided with the opportunity to see their schools in ways they have not done so before – through their data. Data paints a picture from a perspective that often may be overlooked by those in the school day in and day out. It allows us to see where we are and where we need to go. This next section provides metrics for the Middle Schools for a New Society.

Goal #1: Literacy instruction will become more rigorous with improved student performance.

• 100% of students will score advanced or proficient on the TCAP exam in reading-language arts.
• The percentage of students scoring “advanced” on the TCAP exam in reading-language arts will increase by a minimum of 5 percentage points annually.
• Schools will receive a value added (TVAAS) score of A in reading-language arts for all students at each achievement level: advanced, proficient, and non-proficient.
• The achievement gaps (socio-economic, gender and race) in reading-language arts will be eliminated.

Goal #2: Math instruction will become more rigorous with improved student performance. ...