National Report Released Tuesday Shows Austin ISD Near the Top in the Nation in Math Performance Austin ISD does a abundant job of educating children, and these NAEP array appearance afresh the able administration and abundant teaching in Austin is alteration children’s lives for the bigger said Raymond Ward, Pearson’s carnality admiral for Texas. The humans of Austin should be appreciative of their agents and their children Austin ISD is a civic archetypal for a focused, apprenticed accessible academy commune can do. Congratulations to Austin ISD for this abundant accomplishment.
Austin, TX -- The advertisement that the Austin Independent School District outperformed about every added burghal commune in algebraic on the “Nation’s Report Card” drew acclaim from admiral of Pearson, Texas’ arch provider of technology in the classroom and the world’s better provider of advisory materials.
Austin ISD, which uses Pearson’s ground-breaking agenda and alternate algebraic class enVisionMATH in its elementary schools, outperformed around all its burghal aeon about the country in algebraic at fourth brand on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), federal authorities appear Tuesday.
“Austin ISD does a abundant job of educating children, and these NAEP array appearance afresh the able administration and abundant teaching in Austin is alteration children’s lives for the bigger said Raymond Ward, Pearson’s carnality admiral for Texas. “Austin ISD is a baton in the nation in the apprenticeship of burghal children, and that’s a attestation to harder plan of the agents and principals and the charge of the academy district’s administration to accepting the job done. Pearson is appreciative to be AISD’s accomplice every day in the classrooms.”
Austin ISD fourth graders were additional in the nation, abaft alone Charlotte, North Carolina, out of 18 districts nationwide, in the allotment of acceptance scoring at or aloft the basal akin of achievement on the NAEP. Houston, addition Pearson accomplice district, was third nationally abaft Austin.
The address showed 83 percent of Austin fourth graders denticulate at or aloft basal on the test. Hispanic fourth graders acceptance in Austin were amount one in the country on the test.
Austin elementary teachers, like those in Houston, use Pearson’s enVisionMATH class to advice accouchement learn. Pearson’s enVisionMATH is an avant-garde class customized for Texas that provides a alloy of both book and alternate agenda advisory materials. Teachers can use enVisionMATH’s materials, accumbent with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), to calmly adapt their apprenticeship for students’ alone acquirements needs.
“The humans of Austin should be appreciative of their agents and their children,” Pearson’s Ward said. “Austin ISD is a civic archetypal for a focused, apprenticed accessible academy commune can do. Congratulations to Austin ISD for this abundant accomplishment.”
About Pearson and Texas:
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