Sentences with phrase «american eighth»

Watanabe's sensitive reading of this classic historical novel transports listeners to 1941 Hawaii, where Tomikazu Nakaji, a Japanese American eighth - grade boy, struggles to find his identity in his Japanese family and with his American friends just before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

And only 8 percent of African - American eighth - graders scored «proficient» or higher in math, down a percentage point from four years ago.

Findings of the base year are summarized, drawn from the descriptive summary «A Profile of the American Eighth Grader» by A. Hafner and others (1990).

And it made the claim that 70 percent of American eighth - graders read below grade level and that's simply false.

American eighth graders continue to demonstrate lackluster knowledge and skills when asked basic questions about U.S. history, geography, and civics, with between 18 and 27 percent of students scoring proficient or higher, new data show.

On the 2007 Trends in International Math and Science Study, just 6 % of American eighth graders scored «advanced.»

African - American eighth graders in DoDDS schools scored second in the nation when compared with their peers in non-military schools; Hispanics placed first among Hispanic students nationwide.

Not exact matches

Southwest, American Airlines, JetBlue and Alaska Air are all set to report Thursday before the opening bell; U.S. airlines are on track for their eighth straight year of profits in 2017.

Also, U.S. consumers ranked Amazon No. 1 in the American Customer Satisfaction Index for the Internet Retail category for the eighth year in a row.

After hitting a record of 3.80 million units in 2012, auto sales in Brazil - the world's eighth largest market, accounting for a majority of South American sales - plunged 46 percent to 2.05 million in 2016.

«Fewer than one in five African - American fourth graders is proficient in reading and Latino eighth graders are less than half as likely to be proficient in math as their white peers.»

American swimmer and Olympic favorite Michael Phelps nearly missed the Men's 400m IM Finals, finishing eighth in qualifying.

In a way, Patrick's performance could actually be considered more impressive than what she accomplished in the season - opening Daytona 500 when finished eighth in the «Great American Race.»

SKIING — The U.S. girls fared well in the first post-Olympic meet as KIKI CUTTER of Bend, Ore. won the slalom in Oslo and came in third in the giant slalom, followed by three other Americans — Judy Nagel, Wendy Allen and Suzy Chaffee — who placed fourth, seventh and eighth.

All - American Games Operations Manager Joe Hale explained that this regional championship will showcase players from sixth, seventh and eighth grade.

Haas is currently eighth in the constructors» standings, after a decent start to 2017 for the American outfit.

Jones had 107 whiffs, eighth most in the American League, while Soriano had 127, second most in the AL..

Injuries forced Woods to skip the 2014 matches at Gleneagles, where the Euros beat the Americans for the eighth time in the last 10 meetings.

Archibald crossed the line in sixth while double Olympic champion Laura Trott come home eighth, as Italy's Barbara Guarischi beat American Shelley Olds in a sprint finish.

It wasn't all plain sailing for the American though and he saved the best until last as he leapt 17.41 m in the final round to beat his compatriot Christian Taylor, the Olympic champion managing a season's best of 17.15 m. Britain's 2009 world champion Phillips Idowu recorded his best in the first round, but 16.30 m was only enough for eighth.

American owner Stan Kroenke is also believed to be becoming increasingly aware of the frustrations of Gunners fans, who were angry to see the team slip to eighth at the weekend, a massive 15 points behind leaders Chelsea.

The eighth link features a photo of Heastie himself, standing on the rostrum at the front of the Assembly chamber on Feb. 3, 2015 — the day he was elected to replace Assemblyman Sheldon Silver as speaker, becoming the first African - American in New York history to hold that leadership post.

«Eighth hundred thousand stops at the height of the stops, concentrated almost exclusively in lower - income neighborhoods of color, targeting African - American, Caribbean - American and Latino men is an extreme focus on one part of our city.»

In 2009, Mariette DiChristina became the eighth Editor - in - Chief in Scientific American's history and the first woman to hold the position.

As the Environmental Protection Agency's oversight of the cleanup of this neighborhood stretches into its eighth year, new research has linked PCBs exposure to a high rate of diabetes in this community of about 4,000 people, nearly all African American and half living in poverty.

The 256 youth studied, ranging from third through eighth grade, were predominantly Latino and African - American.

WASHINGTON, DC — May 16, 2010 — At a time when the cost of developing a new drug is skyrocketing and research money is tight, it is important to be creative in designing new therapies for rare diseases and bringing them to market, according to speakers at the eighth Annual Meeting of the American Society for -LSB-...]

The 2017 edition is the eighth report in the American College President Study series, conducted by ACE since 1986.

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Actor and singer Adam Lambert began his career on the stage, appearing in the Los Angeles production of the musical Wicked and alongside Val Kilmer in The Ten Commandments before auditioning for the eighth season of American Idol, eventually making it to the top two, but ultimately losing out to talented rival Kris Allen.

It's hard to imagine Hill's sweaty hustler Mike Finkel — fired for inventing a composite character for his eighth Sunday magazine cover story — lasting six months at any American newspaper.

Adam Lambert (left) and Kris Allen, pictured before the May 20 finale of American Idol's eighth season.

Well, this won't come as much of a surprise, but producer Ryan Murphy has confirmed that Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters and Kathy Bates are set to return for the eighth season of American Horror Story.

Which is to say that there isn't another American filmmaker alive who could get away with creating something as brash, overblown and sporadically brilliant as the eighth film by Quentin Tarantino.

DEADLINE — EXCLUSIVE: Billie Lourd is set to return to American Horror Story for the upcoming eighth installment of Ryan Murphy's FX anthology series.

In a year that also sees the official eighth story in the main «Harry Potter» epic, «Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,» debuting as a theatrical production, «Fantastic Beasts» reveals another corner of the wizarding world, exploring an American community of witches and wizards 70 years before the events of Rowling's novels.

Ryan Murphy has revealed the three actors who will serve as the leads for the upcoming eighth season of American Horror Story!

The American Film Institute placed it eighth on its 1998 countdown of the 100 greatest American movies.

There, Davis Knight (Brian Lee Franklin) is in court defending his right to marry a white woman, all because he happens to be one - eighth African American, which deems it illegal under the segregation laws of the time.

We're already aware of many of the plot points that'll be covered in American Reunion, the forthcoming eighth -LRB-!)

THR reports Joan Collins has officially joined the cast of American Horror Story's eighth season.

But progress is generally much larger in math than in reading; in fourth grade than in eighth grade; in eighth grade than in twelfth grade; for African American and Hispanic students than for whites; and for low performers than for high performers.

I've just seen this with the eighth - grade social studies students at Shanghai American School.

Several years ago when I was teaching eighth - grade Latin American history, we were engaged in a unit on the Mayan civilization.

That is so motivating to me, to see 130 eighth graders preparing to go into high school, where they'll take African American history and then other history classes and have a sense of who they are and what they stand for.

I also pointed out the NAEP scores bear out that our African American students tied Massachusetts for number one on the math NAEP, [and in eighth grade science] our Hispanic students were eighth [and] our Anglo students... were second only behind the Department of Defense schools.

And on each of the TIMSS fourth and eighth grade science assessments, only 7 countries scored significantly higher than American students.

The Brown Center at Brookings released their 2013 Brown Center Report on American Education recently, which contains three studies: one on international testing progress, one on tracking and ability grouping and one on advanced math in eighth grade.

African - American fourth and eighth graders also placed first on the reading exam, as did Hispanic fourth graders; Hispanic eighth graders ranked second.