Sentences with phrase «fourth grade reading proficiency»

In education, an area that has been called North Carolina's brand, the state breaks into the top 20 best performing states, ranking 20th in two indicators: fourth grade reading proficiency and eighth graders proficient in math.

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Georgia's fourth - grade reading proficiency rate dropped from close to 100 percent in 2013 to less than 40 percent in 2015 — not because the kids were doing worse, but because the state's measure of how they were doing was getting closer to the truth.

In fourth - grade reading, eighth - grade reading, and eighth - grade math, about one out of every four students reaches proficiency in the average large city.

These relative placements translate into deeply distressing overall proficiency rates for DCPS: 30 percent in fourth - grade math, 25 percent in fourth - grade reading, 17 percent in eighth - grade math, and 18 percent in eighth - grade reading.

As my Hechinger Report colleague Molly Callister wrote here, 15 states and the District of Columbia have adopted policies requiring third - grade reading proficiency before a student can move to fourth grade.

Fourth grade reading and math proficiency as well as eighth grade math proficiency have both garnered lower or the same scores since 2011.

n The report highlights data such as fourth grade reading scores, eighth grade math results and Kentucky's college - and career - readiness results showing a 30 percentage - point gap between students based on English language proficiency, a 25 percentage - point gap between African American and white students, a 20 percentage - point gap based on identified learning differences and also family income, and a 10 percentage - point gap between Hispanic students and their white peers.

From 2005 to 2015, for example, fourth - grade reading proficiency on the test known as «the nation's report card,» showed that achievement differences between white and African American students moved from an 8 - point gap to 11 points.

However, it is very difficult for me to find anything positive about the Houston results, particularly the reading proficiency levels for the fourth - and eighth - grade students in the Houston Independent School District, which were scored at 18 % and 17 %, respectively.

Glaring examples of low proficiency benchmarks were set in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math.

«Despite progress, we are still ranked 47th in fourth - grade reading proficiency on NAEP, 50th in eighth - grade math proficiency and 46th in graduation rate.»

The biggest contributors to Minnesota's low national ranking for Asian children are poverty rates and fourth - grade reading proficiency.

They ranked 47th for fourth - grade math proficiency; 47th for fourth - grade reading; 50th in eighth - grade math and 48th in eighth - grade reading.

In 2010, reading proficiency rates were about 75, 86, and 76 percent for the third, fourth and fifth grades respectively; math proficiency rates were about 82, 94 and 78 percent in the same grades.

For students who don't end up successfully passing the portfolio assessments or any of the other ways to demonstrate reading proficiency, they'll then be expected to attend six - week summer reading camps as a last - ditch attempt to make it into the fourth grade.

And when at least 1.2 million fourth - grade students, or one - third of the nation's students in that grade are likely to drop out — and nearly 1 million more of their classmates who are barely reading at Basic proficiency unlikely to succeed in college and career — we have a moral, intellectual, and systems - change obligation to focus on stemming achievement gaps.

Rhode Island children rank just outside the top 10 in the country in reading proficiency among fourth grade students, a critical benchmark of child well - being according to the factbook.