Sentences with phrase «around the fifth grade»

Children were pointed down a particular track after taking the «eleven - plus» exam (around fifth grade).

But since 1998, research has shown that while English - learners in bilingual programs might make slow academic progress in the first few years, starting around fifth grade they tend to surpass their peers in English - only programs.

Not exact matches

In fact, bullying increases around fifth and sixth grade and continues to get worse until around ninth grade.

Difficulties in fifth grade often revolve around goal - setting and peer relationships.

That cognitive and pedagogical leap usually occurs around the fourth and fifth grade.

Only Yesterday's memory - lane stroll only goes awry in the strange, perhaps productively inscrutable closing act, which seeks to consolidate Taeko's fifth - grade experiences around a single event while speaking to her current present dilemma over whether to stay in the country and marry Toshio or return to the city.

Incidentally, the typical relative growth from third to fifth grade in this set of heterogeneous schools is modestly negative (around 0.1 standard deviations).

As can be seen in Figure 2, the schools that have larger kindergarten readiness gaps also have larger test score gaps in third and fifth grades: as the kindergarten readiness gap increases by 10 percentage points, the test score gaps increase by around 0.06 of a standard deviation.

We observe that there is virtually no relationship between the relative affluence of the overall student body of the school and the SES test score gap in that school: schools serving primarily high - SES students and those serving primarily low - SES students have the same average SES test score gaps (around 0.8 standard deviations) in both third and fifth grades.

Among schools where high - SES students fall back around 0.2 standard deviations relative to the state average between third and fifth grades, there are some schools where low - SES students lose only around 0.1 standard deviation of relative ground, and others where low - SES students lose nearly 0.4 standard deviations of relative ground.

A teacher at an elementary school that I recently visited told me about Ken, a fifth grade student who had developed a bad reputation but was making an effort to turn things around.

General knowledge measured at kindergarten entrance may reflect early comprehension skills that are necessary when reading changes from a more procedural task in early grades (learning to read) to incorporating more comprehension around third through fifth grades (reading to learn).»

I loved teaching fifth grade, but three years ago I jumped at the chance to shift gears and work with other outstanding teachers and math experts in New York and around the country to help write a world - class math curriculum.

The school, at North Kingshighway and Natural Bridge Avenue, plans to enroll no more than 270 through fifth grade — and only students from the neighborhood around it.

Rocketship has grown over the last decade into a network of thirteen schools around the country, serving nearly 8,000 kindergarten through fifth - grade students who are overwhelmingly poor and Latino.

A book with a level of 7.5 should be read by a student whose reading level is somewhere around the 7th grade and fifth month of the school year.

Parents representing about 69 percent of students at 24th Street Elementary, which has about 685 students in kindergarten through fifth grade, signed a petition seeking the law's «restart model,» which lets parents bring in a new charter operator or pair a charter operator with the district to turn around a failing school.

Over 850 fourth - and fifth - grade students ran a mile around two blocks near Adams Elementary, braving chilly weather in Logan City School District's 11th annual Fun Run.

Community Engagement: We cultivate character in the Lower School through annual clothing, food and toy drives, student - led fundraisers, and a fifth - grade community service team in charge of recycling efforts, classroom volunteer projects and community partnerships — in Atlanta and around the world.

Fifth grade is a vulnerable time in any child's life — the preteen years are just around the corner, and the transition from elementary school to middle school is imminent.

As lesser cars around us slowed at the grades, we put the 370Z in fifth, gave a little more gas, and didn't lose a single mile per hour as we ascended, the powerful V - 6 engine propelling the little car without complaint.

: In this moving clip a middle school assistant principal tells her own story of how a teacher who was a «master of SEL» turned her life around in fifth grade.

Its brick - and - mortar Dallas laboratory school, founded in 1997, engages urban children from age 3 through fifth grade around a rigorous academic curriculum that integrates key social emotional learning concepts and experiences.