Sentences with phrase «among students in the early grades»

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Across grades and different student subgroups, the Coleman study found that most of the variation in student achievement is within rather than between schools, but a larger share of the variation is found between schools in earlier grades and among more disadvantaged subgroups.

Identify and train 1,000 Memphians to serve as volunteer tutors to Shelby County Students in the Team Read program and collect 10,000 books to support early literacy among Pre K to 3rd grade children.

As topics shift to earlier or later grades than in previous iterations of state standards, teachers face a new range of readiness gaps among students — both in terms of rigor and prior learning experiences.

... Among students in this cohort who took the Iowa Assessments in third grade (2013 - 14 school year), those with regular attendance in each of the early - elementary years were nearly twice as likely to be proficient [in reading] as those who were chronically absent two or more years.

«The goal of Reading WonderWorks is to close the achievement gap among students, help struggling students develop foundational reading and writing skills in a self - paced and flexible environment starting as early as kindergarten, and accelerate them so that they can read on grade level and graduate with the confidence they need to succeed in college and beyond.»

At Southwestern, we have also developed a variety of initiatives.21 One is a vehicle for me as dean to teach first - year students at the beginning and end of their six - credit legal writing course entitled LAWS (Legal Research, Analysis, Writing, and Skills).22 At the beginning, I present data from the After the J.D. study, which is a longitudinal study following close to 5,000 lawyers admitted to the bar in the year 2000.23 The project is headquartered at the American Bar Foundation and involves the NALP Foundation among others.24 We have data from three years and seven years and will soon collect a third wave of data.25 I do a PowerPoint presentation that shows our students what difference it makes in early careers where one attends law school; what city or region one chooses to begin the career; what law school grades are received; gender, race and ethnicity effects; earnings in various settings; and the job satisfaction of people in different positions.

The first, early childhood education, linked two goals: the need (regarded by many as the most urgent) for a strong collaborative effort between schools and social service organizations in establishing an early childhood program which, among other items, sets «specific benchmarks for all... students to reach proficiency by grade three»; and to closely monitor child development from birth to three years.