Sentences with phrase «fourth and eighth grade public»

Fourth and eighth grade public school students in Washington DC and Tennessee showed huge gains on national math and reading tests in 2013 from two years ago, the last time the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) exams were administered.

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A significant portion of respondents (71 percent) backs a voluntary national testing program that the federal government would administer to fourth - and eighth - grade students to measure the performance of U.S. public schools.

To get specific: In Chicago Public Schools ~ white and Asian students made minor gains on NAEP in reading between 2003 and 2009 ~ but Hispanic students gained little and blacks gained nothing ~ so the achievement gap widened between whites and minorities at the fourth and eighth grade levels.

By 1999 Feinberg, with fifth - through eighth - graders in trailers on a school parking lot, and Levin, with the same grade levels on the fourth floor of a public school surrounded by housing projects, had the best performing middle schools in Houston and the Bronx, respectively.

The study, by Christopher Lubianski and Sarah Theule Lubianski of the University of Illinois, compared fourth - and eighth - grade math scores of more than 340,000 students in 13,000 regular public, charter and private schools on the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress.

The researchers studied 2,406 students in fourth, fifth, seventh, and eighth grade in a diverse group of 12 public schools at which arts specialists delivered integrated and discipline - based arts instruction.

The federation's review of the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress, often called «the nation's report card,» found that charter - school students» average scores were lower in math and reading in the fourth and eighth grades than the nationwide public - school averages.

Students in fourth, eighth and 10th grades will continue to take the WKCE for science and social studies until new standards in those subjects are adopted and new tests are developed, which could be a few years away, according to Department of Public Instruction spokesman John Johnson.

About 6.5 percent of Wisconsin's fourth - and eighth - grade students took the test early this year, according to Department of Public Instruction spokesman Patrick Gasper.

She attended Urban Day School, a charter school, from fourth through seventh grade, a public school in Tennessee for eighth grade, and South Division High School in ninth grade before transferring to Saint Joan Antida, a Catholic all - girls high school located downtown.

After the charter takeover of NOLA public schools post Katrina, the state began issuing letter grades for all schools in 2011, and 79 percent of charter schools in the New Orleans district received a «D» or «F.» In 2014, RSD - New Orleans schools are still performing below the vast majority of the state's other districts at the fourth and eighth grades in subjects tested by the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, including English language arts, math and science.

In DeVos» native Michigan, for example, children in the fourth and eighth grades in the state's charter schools did worse on a national reading and math test than those in traditional public schools.

Latino children now make up 21 % of the state's child population and 25 % of Rhode Island public school students — but only 20 % of Latino fourth graders are reading at grade - level, and only 13 % of Latino eighth graders have age appropriate math skills.»