Sentences with phrase «advanced reading scores»

For the first time in the history of the state - level NAEP, a majority of Virginia's white fourth graders — 51 percent — achieved proficient or advanced reading scores.

Forty - five percent of white eighth graders in Virginia earned proficient or advanced reading scores, as did 17 percent of black students, 26 percent of Hispanic students and 49 percent of Asian students.

Four percent achieved advanced reading scores, also the same percentage as in 2011.

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I recently read a study, incorporating «advanced statistics» that show today's NHL players now reach their «peak scoring age» around 14.

Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain scored twice as Arsenal picked up a 2 - 0 win over Reading to advance into the last eight of the EFL Cup.

SN stories tend to use more advanced terms and more complex sentence structures — and thus read at an upper high school to college - level Flesch - Kincaid score.

K - 12 Achievement (2016) The K - 12 Achievement Index scores states based on 18 distinct achievement measures related to reading and math performance, high school graduation rates, and the results of Advanced Placement exams.

New research finds that students attending a district school in New York City within a half - mile radius of a charter school score better in math and reading and enjoy an increase in their likelihood of advancing to the next grade.

But in a new article for Education Next, Sarah A. Cordes of Temple University examines the effects of charter schools on neighboring district school students in New York City and finds that these spillover effects are actually positive: students attending a district school within a half - mile radius of a charter school score better in math and reading and enjoy an increase in their likelihood of advancing to the next grade.

The Beaverton School District did just that four years ago when it started Summa Options, a program of advanced curriculum for students who score in the 99 percentile on standardized reading and math tests or a test of cognitive ability.

African American students advanced from the bottom quarter of Chicago's test score distribution for white students to the 46th percentile in reading and math, essentially closing the racial achievement gap.

In Montgomery County, 59 percent of white elementary - school students score at what the state defines as the «advanced» level on the Maryland State Assessment in reading, while only 26 percent of African American students can boast the same.

Out of 1,183 Title I schools in Wisconsin, 58 — none in Dane County — were identified as «priority» schools, meaning they have the lowest percentage of students scoring proficient or advanced on math and reading tests.

The number of the district's students scoring proficient or advanced in reading increased by 22 percentage points from 2007 to 2012.

Of the more than 1,000 Rocketship students tested in 2013, 50.7 % percent were at proficient or advanced in reading and writing, according to state CST test scores.

It's important to note here that American kids do even worse on the reading section of the National Assessment of Education Progress; just 27 percent scored proficient and 9 percent advanced in 2015.

Student Achievement scores reflect the percentage of students in a given school that scored Proficient or Advanced (P / A) on the TCAP Reading and Math assessments.

In 2011, 29 percent of eighth graders eligible for free lunch in Boston scored at proficient or advanced levels on federal math exams, compared with just 17 percent in reading.

The article also misstated, in some editions, the percentages of children who scored at a proficient or advanced level in math and reading after attending a school in the Uncommon Schools network for two years.

The district was returned to local control in 2012, even though only 14 percent of the district's third graders scored proficient or advanced on the state reading test that year.

When that program was evaluated in 2011, the Department of Public Instruction found that 34.4 percent of voucher students scored proficient or advanced in math, and 55.2 percent in reading.

• In reading, 87 percent of white students scored proficient or advanced, compared to 75.6 percent for Asian students, 71.4 percent for American Indian students, 66.3 percent for Hispanic students and 57.6 percent for black students.

Further, based on National Assessment of Educational Progress scores, Texas black and Hispanic students have advanced multiple grade levels in reading and math since accountability was introduced.

On average, Crown Prep's students increase two years in their reading level within just the first 9 months of attending the school, and in science, 72 % of their fifth graders scored proficient or advanced on state tests.

The percentage of students scoring proficient or advanced in reading is 36.6, an increase of 1.1 percentage points higher than five years ago.

Recommended by their schools and scoring in the 95th percentile or higher on Renaissance Star Reading ® assessments, students take advanced classes on the campuses of Bryn Mawr College, Princeton University, or Yale University.

The school would set high benchmarks for student learning: 90 percent would score at proficient or advanced levels in reading, math and science on state assessments after three years of enrollment.

The researchers found the percent of students scoring either proficient or with advanced proficiency in reading went up at schools on a four - day schedule and were higher than their peers in school districts who remained on the five - day schedule.

With two years of significant growth in reading proficiency, students with disabilities are making the lion's share of improvements in students scoring at the advanced level.

The study, commissioned by the NAEP Validity Studies Panel, an independent panel run by the American Institutes for Research, was published in advance of this week's release of the 2015 NAEP reading and math scores for 4th and 8th grade students.

For example, Maryland proclaimed that 88.7 percent of its fourth - graders read at proficient and advanced levels as measured on its state tests, even though 43 percent of fourth - graders in the state scoring at such levels on the 2011 NAEP; it is why the state was given a C - by Peterson and Kaplan in the report.

This includes the ever - woeful South Carolina, whose reading and math proficiency targets declined from an A to a D +, according to Education Next «s analysis; the Palmetto State claimed that 54.9 percent of fourth - graders scored «exemplary» or its version of proficient and advanced levels in 2011, even though NAEP shows that only 36 percent of fourth - graders were performing that well.

For reporting purposes, the achievement - level cut scores are placed on the reading scales, resulting in four ranges: below Basic, Basic, Proficient, and Advanced.

In Rocky River, for example, almost 84 percent of third - graders were rated «proficient» or better on a preliminary reading test in the fall, above the score required to advance to fourth grade.

At that time, test scores were 30 % proficient or advanced using the DCCAS state test in reading and 3 % in math.

Students are reading, writing and understanding math and science on grade level (look at the percentage of students scoring proficient or advanced);

Last year, about 50 % of 10th graders scored proficient or advanced on those reading and math tests.

At those schools, largely in Northwest DC, 80 % or more students score proficient or advanced in reading.

However, in the case of states where very many schools report proficiency rates in excess of 90 %, ECF provides an additional chart showing the percentage of students who have reached an «advanced» level of reading performance, i.e., a chart showing the percentage of students who have reached a higher cut score on that state's reading assessment.

Thirty - six percent of Virginia eighth - grade students achieved at or above the proficient level in reading, with three percent achieving advanced scores.

Nationwide, 35 percent of fourth - grade public school students demonstrated reading skills at or above the proficient level, with eight percent achieving advanced scores.

But the school system consistently ranks among the top 10 in the state, with the best proficiency rates in reading and math; its students» ACT scores exceed state and national averages; and it boasts Advanced Placement participation rates and scores among the highest in the state.

Just 49 percent of high seniors from college - educated homes read at proficient and advanced levels, according to the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress, a mere three percentage points higher than in 2002; average scale scores for seniors from college - educated homes increased by a mere three points within the past 11 years.

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's figures did indicate that the number of Milwaukee voucher students who showed they were proficient or advanced in math jumped 6 percent compared to a year ago, although those scoring in those categories for reading increased only by about 1 percent.

79 percent of fourth graders achieved proficient or advanced scores in reading, a two - point improvement compared with 2015 - 2016;

For instance, you should mention how much student test scores have improved, how many reading levels the class has advanced, or how many students you have helped bring up to a passing grade.