Sentences with phrase «achieving at grade level»

Calculated based on whether all students and each subgroup are meeting or making progress toward their state - set targets for the percentage of students achieving at grade level

At River View — and a similar school that serves K — 6 grades called Summer Heights — more students are now achieving at grade level in math and at a proficient or advanced level in reading than was the case before these schools rolled out a schoolwide intervention.

Los Altos has extended the Khan Academy program to all of its 5th and 6th grade classes, and to its 7th graders who were achieving at grade level and below.

If all students are going to be achieving at grade level or better in reading and mathematics by 2014, progress must come faster.

The real issue is a perception that a focus on gifted programs must automatically detract from children who are not achieving at grade level.

Based on that first - year success, Los Altos extended the program to all of its 5th - and 6th - grade classes, and to its 7th graders who were achieving at grade level and below.

Emma attends a school where more than 95 percent of the students achieve at grade level, including Emma.

The Commission will examine factors in raising student achievement from prekindergarten through high school including: state accountability and curriculum requirements; model programs to improve student achievement beginning in early learning programs and continuing throughout high school; strategies for every student to achieve at grade level such as intervention and support systems; and policies to improve student attendance and retention.

That's a tremendous gap that was reduced, but it wasn't reduced enough for the student to achieve at grade level.

Once they're reading, they're more likely to achieve at grade level.»

Students in the worst performing schools are far less likely to achieve at grade level.

Not exact matches

(Btw, some argue that students with relatively mild disabilities are achieving well in charters, but I'd love to see more hard data proving that in charters kids at risk for special ed are not being labeled, and / or they're being exited from sped at higher rates after meeting grade level standards.)

In fact, a 2011 Fordham Institute study found that somewhere between 30 percent and 50 percent of early - grade «high - flyers» descend and no longer achieve at the most advanced levels.

Because so many of the students who enroll in online schools show up late and are behind in their studies, it's not surprising that many don't achieve grade - level proficiency at the end of the year.

At the other extreme, more advanced students often achieve high grades on what, for them, are middling year - level expectations and are not challenged or extended in their mathematics learning.

The National Children's Bureau (NCB) in Northern Ireland released a study which suggests students who play video games achieve significantly worse grades at GCSE level.

Ormiston Forge Academy in Cradley Heath capped a remarkable year with 84 per cent of the A level cohort achieving three or more passes at grades A * - E. Just 18 months after the Academy was judged as Good by Ofsted and in the same year it was designated as a National Support School, every indicator at Key Stage 5 has improved yet again.

Accelerated or honors courses offer above - grade - level curricula to students who are ready for it, and allow high - achieving youngsters to move at a faster pace than their peers.

At my current school, we decided a few years ago to consciously cross-reference the literary texts in our curriculum to achieve continuity across the grade levels and year groups.

In 1995, the year before initial implementation, 57 percent of children at Key Stage 2 (what would be the end of 6th grade in the United States), achieved at least a level 4 in their overall English assessment.

High - performing Sharnbrook Upper School is celebrating record A level results today — with students achieving outstanding grades and many securing places at some of the world's best universities.

Thamali Wijekoon, from Great Notley, will take A levels in Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Chemistry at Colchester Sixth Form after achieving nine GCSEs, seven with A * / A grade.

are determined, through a district - developed or district - adopted procedure applied uniformly at each grade level, to be at risk of not achieving the State designated performance level in English language arts and / or mathematics.

Facilitating the implementation of a common, rigorous preK - 8th grade curricula as well as the Partnership instructional model to ensure that all teachers have the tools they need to help students achieve at the highest levels

«These statistics about young adolescents» poor academic performance suggest that many middle - grades schools are failing to enable the majority of their students to achieve at anywhere near adequate levels,» noted the Phi Delta Kappan editors.

As is well known, the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB) required states to test students annually in grades 3 - 8 (and once in high school), to report the share of students in each school performing at a proficient level in math and reading, and to intervene in schools not on track to achieve universal student proficiency by 2014.

Thirty - two percent of Virginia students in grade eight met or surpassed the proficiency standard, which was not a statistically significant change from 2007, when 34 percent achieved at or above the proficient level.

Chart comparing the percentage of Virginia public school eighth - grade students achieving at the proficient level or above in mathematics on the National Assessment of Educational Progress with the performance of public school students nationwide.

Chart comparing the percentage of Virginia public school eighth - grade students achieving at the proficient level or above in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress with the performance of public school students nationwide.

Bennett says he believes the trauma of being held back in third grade pales in comparison to what happens if students never achieve literacy at grade level:

This means that the SGP calculation compares the pre / post progress for a student with a history of high achievement to the pre / post progress of other high - achieving students nationwide at that grade level.

For example, parents of a gifted fourth grader who achieves at a sixth grade level on nationally normed achievement test may be told those results are irrelevant as the fourth graders in this district are «really» sixth graders when they take a nationally normed test.

Teachers from Harrow School join teachers at Whitmore High School in helping sixth - formers at Whitmore with Maths revision so they can achieve a high grade at A level.

LS are provided in targeted intervention courses as well as integrated into content courses to help struggling learners catch up and achieve at and beyond grade level.

Districts may extend or enrich their curriculum beyond what is found in the textbook, however it's not too big a stretch to hope that a student who achieves at above - grade results on a nationally normed achievement test should have a textbook at that nationally normed level.

Our consultants are will support your grade level teams in crafting effective units of study that aim at achieving student transfer of knowledge.

«I think aiming for grade - level achievement for all students is still an important goal for K - 12 schools — but not to the detriment of growth and achievement for all students, including those that are achieving at the highest levels,» Hayes says.

Read to Achieve: The Read to Achieve law, enacted in 2012 as part of Senate leader Phil Berger's Excellent Public Schools Act, was designed to ensure that all students are reading at or above grade level by the end of the third grade.

For the first three years, at least, threshold targets for secondary schools (60 per cent of pupils achieving 5 A * to C grades), and for primary schools, (85 per cent of pupils achieving level 4 in English and maths) will become the new floor target and will reinforce the importance of hitting targets rather than focussing on pupil progress.

This holistic approach has yielded results in places like Putnam City West High School in Oklahoma City, where educators have engaged parents and the community to boost the graduation rate of Hispanic students by 70 percent; and Denver, where the teacher - led Math and Science Leadership Academy is taking a collaborative approach that focuses on mentoring and professional development to boost student achievement; and in Las Vegas, where a teacher empowerment program has led to remarkable gains, including at Culley Elementary School, a «high achieving» school where only five years ago, less than a quarter of students were at grade level.

At the high school level, more students are taking the ACT — up 11 percent in the last two years — and more eleventh grade students are achieving a 3.0 GPA, according to the report, demonstrating that «more students are graduating with higher skills.»

To achieve catch - up growth, students must demonstrate fast enough growth that, if kept up, can get them to at least proficient levels within three years or before 10th grade.

The result: the new formula appears to actually penalize schools in which the majority of students were already achieving at or above grade level, unless that school continued to show marked academic improvement.

, is an easy - to - read primer that describes what it takes to achieve student learning growth at every grade level, in every subject area, and with every student group.

Not only does this describe an uphill battle, but it serves to illustrate the puzzling priorities we often emphasize — one half of minority children don't complete high school, over one half of third graders can not read at grade level, and our policy and media attention are focused on affirmative action to achieve diversity in admissions as a compelling objective at our two flagship universities!

Most students enter TEAM Schools one - or - more years below grade level in reading and math, but in a few short years, they achieve at academic levels that outpace their peers across the state.

How could a 10 - minute checklist capture the progress of Maria, who began her seventh - grade year shy and unsure of herself, but finished not only achieving at high levels but with the confidence to apply to one of the city's top magnet schools, and later travel the world with the People to People Ambassador Program?

This handbook can be used at every level of educational organizations, from a grade - level team to a full school or district system working to ensure all students are achieving at high levels.

In addition to meeting ESSA accountability requirements, the inclusion of chronic absence in state accountability rubrics also provides real opportunities for states, districts and philanthropists to achieve the goals of the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, to increase the number of children from low - income families reading proficiently at the end of third grade.

Students in only five states performed at what the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) considers a statistically higher level on the grade - 4 test, and students in only eight states achieved at a higher level on the eighth - grade assessment.