Sentences with phrase «among kindergartners»

Its highest grade was a C, for progress among students with disabilities and literacy improvement among kindergartners through third - graders.

State leaders want to include more meaningful measurements along with test scores such as absenteeism among kindergartners, how many high school freshmen pass enough classes to be on track to graduate, and the share of high school graduates who go on to college.

Not exact matches

A program aimed at reducing behavior problems in order to boost academic achievement has improved performance in math and reading among low - income kindergartners and first graders, according to a study by researchers at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Lippman said that component of the report illustrates the diversity of cognitive and social skills among incoming kindergartners from the first national picture we have of kindergarteners.

Among the standards for kindergartners: «read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.»

As E.D. Hirsch has written, «General knowledge is... the best single predictor of later academic achievement among preschoolers and kindergartners, as has been shown by analyses of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey — Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS - K1992)» (http://educationnext.org/primer-on-success/).