Sentences with phrase «american eighth graders»

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.

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).

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«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.»

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.

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

According to Strong American Schools, seventy percent of eighth graders are not proficient in reading.

Sixth, seventh, and eighth graders at Capt. Nathan Hale School in Coventry, Connecticut — a school named after the town's most famous veteran, American Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale — compiled, through research and interviews, short biographies of all 612 servicemen and plan to publish them in a book by this Veterans Day.

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

The latest international comparisons, released in December 2008, found American fourth - and eighth - graders performing above average, but far behind their counterparts in several European and Asian countries.

Barely half of our African - American and Latino students finish high school on time, and the average African - American and Latino twelfth grader reads and does math at the level of white eighth graders.

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

Eighth - grader Apple, a Filipino American, faces bullying, parental conflicts, fickle friends, and a lack of self - confidence with the help of a Beatles cassette, new friends, and the determination to play the guitar.

Participants were 231 sixth, seventh, and eighth graders (ages 11 — 15; M = 12.6, SD = 1.0) in middle school (48 % male, 67 % African American).