Sentences with phrase «8th graders»

Most recently, the district is pushing the state to allow 8th graders to take the end of course (EOC) Algebra exam with 9th graders.

Today, those systems can not even sustain their own gains, which is why American 4th graders tend to have stronger results than 8th graders, and high school students do less well than middle schoolers.

We also linked the lottery data to publicly available CPS data on students» middle schools, including the percentage of 8th graders who scored proficient or better on the math section of the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT), the percentage scoring proficient or better on the reading section, and the percentage of black or Hispanic students.

This was my final benchmark for my 8th graders, after we had finished studying Constitution, US government and the democratic process of how ideas become laws.

Newark's 8th graders do even worse (see Figure 2).

Low - achieving 6th and 8th graders also reported much higher levels of parental support for their schoolwork in 2001 than in 1994.

In 2011, for example, Alabama reported that 77 percent of its 8th grade students were proficient in math, while the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests administered that same year indicated that just 20 percent of Alabama's 8th graders were proficient against NAEP standards.

[7] Among 8th graders, the American results are pretty grim.

To ascertain whether that was the case, we compared the rate of change in the NAEP math scores of the top 10 percent of all 8th graders between 1990 and 2003 (before NCLB was fully implemented) with the rate of change after NCLB had become effective law.

«Imagine if you're in a K — 8 school, you have 900 kids across nine grades, and one out of every ten 6th to 8th graders is making trouble.

The same trend was reported among 8th graders with the lowest test scores.

In science and math, 8th graders in New York and North Carolina were approximately 45 percent of a grade - level equivalent ahead of comparable students in states without such exams.

In the fall of 1997, roughly 20 percent of Chicago's 3rd graders and 10 to 15 percent of 6th and 8th graders were held back.

Academic progress in Boston increased steadily under his leadership, with Boston's 4th and 8th graders handing the 65 - year - old Boston native a nice farewell gift by coming out on top in math improvement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2005 assessments among ten participating urban districts (see Figure 1).

The policy also required 3rd, 6th, and 8th graders to receive passing grades in reading and mathematics and to have no more than 20 unexcused absences.

In 1994 only 16 percent of 8th graders at moderate risk of retention reported attending an afterschool program on a regular basis.

In Massachusetts, on the other hand, roughly the same share of 8th graders achieved proficiency on the state test (52 percent) as did so on the NAEP (51 percent).

After the same adjustments were made for 8th graders, private schools retained a 7 - point advantage in reading but achieved only parity in math.

Achievement scores in grade 8, particularly in reading, showed some break beginning in 1996 (the accountability policy began for 8th graders in 1996).

In reading, scores for 4th graders were stagnant and scores for 8th graders declined.

That meant that nearly half of the school's 600 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th graders were failing to make grade - level in English and in math.

They called for a minimum competency test for 8th graders to pass before moving on to 9th grade.

Four percent of Chicago's schools retained more than one - third of 3rd, 6th, and 8th graders that year.

These soon - to - be 4th and 8th graders have put seasonal pastimes aside for some serious business: a new, high - stakes state test that most of them are at risk of failing when they take it next spring.

If we follow a cohort of 8th graders, roughly 2 in 10 will drop out before high school graduation, and another 3 will graduate high school but choose not to enroll in postsecondary education.

Reading scores stayed flat for 4th graders and rose only slightly for 8th graders on the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress, results that some find disappointing after years of intensive attention to improving the reading skills of American students.

Twenty - five years ago, I observed a heated debate between parents and a superintendent over the introduction of an interdisciplinary program for 7th and 8th graders.

The report released last week shows that 8th graders scored 264, on average, on a 500 - point scale on the 2009 exam.

Today the schools are still a mess, with 70 percent of 11th graders and 65 percent of 8th graders unable to pass the state's math tests.

But its 8th graders are among the least likely to attend such schools.

In the first several years under the policy, more than one - third of all 3rd, 6th, and 8th graders failed to meet the promotion test - score cutoffs by the end of the school year.

This is consistent with the fact that 8th graders faced the largest incentives: they could not move to high school with their peers if they failed to meet the standards for promotion.

The state has a higher percentage of 4th and 8th graders in schools where officials report that physical conflicts are not a problem, or are only a minor problem, compared with other states, based on data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress background survey.

In addition, some 315 of 450 principals responded to the 1999 survey (see Figure 3); 30,000 students (about 50 percent of all 6th and 8th graders) also responded.

Among 8th graders, the percentages were 6 and 0 percent, respectively.

Even though it is difficult to attribute the gains to the new retention policy, since many schools began requiring it, by 2001, 43 percent of 8th graders at moderate risk reported such attendance.

NAEP was administered to U.S. 8th graders in 2005, while PISA 2006 was given one year later to students at the age of 15, the year at which most American students are in 9th grade.

They pointed out that what quantitative work there was attested to «the intellectual underdevelopment of too many young adolescents,» noting that only 28 percent of 8th graders nationally scored at or above the «proficient» level in reading in 1994.

A report that takes a comprehensive look at the critical transition that students make from middle to high school in Philadelphia finds that fewer than half of 8th graders end up attending their top - choice high schools.

For 8th graders, the gains in math were 21 points on the MAIN but only 11 points on the LTT.

On some measures, minority 12th graders score about the same as white 8th graders, who themselves are not scoring well.

Among 8th graders, the percentages were 14 and 3, respectively.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress tells us the majority of 8th graders are below grade level in reading, math, science, and social studies.

And in the spring 2016 round of state testing, the city's 3rd through 8th graders caught up to the rest of the state in ELA, notching a 38 percent proficiency rate compared to 37.9 percent statewide.

For decades, there have been concerted efforts in many places to get more 8th graders taking Algebra I, traditionally a high school course.

Then between 2013 and 2015, 8th graders» enrollment in Algebra I declined from 48 percent to 43 percent, according to NAEP data, while enrollment in general math increased.

Business leaders from important sectors of the American economy have been urging schools to set higher standards in math and science — and California officials, in mandating that 8th graders be tested in introductory algebra, have responded with one of the highest such standards in the land.

California 8th graders will be required to take Algebra 1 and be tested on it as part of the state's accountability system, under a controversial decision made by the state board of education last week after last - minute pressure from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Percent of 8th graders who scored the highest levels on the NAEP reading assessment in 2007: 42 % of Caucasian students 15 % of Black students 19 % of Hispanic students

And the common core may be changing 8th graders» course - taking habits, the study finds.