Sentences with phrase «as eighth grade reading»

The data show that when measured as their own «state», Arizona charter students outpaced the gains realized by their state level peers in all four major tested subjects: fourth grade reading and math, as well as eighth grade reading and math.

Not exact matches

When the team looked at these numbers — average rate of improvement between third and eighth grade in math and reading — many schools that are traditionally thought of as «bad» suddenly seemed good.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

He also works parttime as a fifth through eighth grade reading specialist for a local Boston - area school.

In eighth grade, for example, in both reading and math, as recently as 2015, pupils in Catholic schools outperformed their public - school peers by a solid margin — more so in reading than in math.

◦ Trend: Nearly four out of five respondents favor the federal requirement that all students be tested in math and reading in each grade from third through eighth and at least once in high school, about the same as in the past.

Teams of «warriors» in sixth through eighth grade at Adams Middle School in Tampa, Florida, read and discuss young adult novels as part of the school's annual «Extreme Read.&raread and discuss young adult novels as part of the school's annual «Extreme Read.&raRead.»

It began as a program exclusively for eighth graders and has grown into a school - wide initiative in which members of every grade - level team — from the sixth - grade «Navajo Team» to the eighth - grade «Sioux Team» — read one book from the spring book fair.

Indeed, I wish the testing requirement extended below third grade and above eighth, and that it was as demanding for science and history as for reading and math.

A 2009 study found that eighth - grade students who were involved in hands - on science projects demonstrated a deeper understanding of concepts than students who were taught with traditional methods such as textbook readings, lectures, and tests (Riskowski et al., 2009).

Since 2009, aside from PISA reading, the percentage of German top scorers has dropped in every math and science measure across age groups — fourth grade, eighth grade, and age 15 — as well as fourth grade reading.

National trends are mostly flat, and as Mike Petrilli notes, it's now been almost a decade since we've seen strong growth in either reading or math, with the slight exception of eighth grade reading.

These and other findings with respect to the correlates of teacher effectiveness are obtained from estimations using value - added models that control for student characteristics as well as school and (where appropriate teacher) fixed effects in order to measure teacher effectiveness in reading and math for Florida students in fourth through eighth grades for eight school years, 2001 - 2002 through 2008 - 2009.

A White student from a comparatively prosperous family in Virginia is more than four times as likely to be brought to grade level in eighth grade reading than a Black student from a lower - income family.

Twenty percent of lower income White students in city schools read proficiently in eighth grade, as do more than half of urban middle class White students.

The results show average reading scores in fourth grade reading dipped to levels of a decade ago and eighth grade scores declined as well.

In reading there have been gains in fourth grade, but the national scores for eighth graders were essentially the same in 2009 as they were in 1998.

«Experimenters separated seventh - and eighth - grade students into two groups — strong and weak readers as measured by standard reading tests,» Hirsch wrote.

This week, as our school enters another season of testing, our sixth - and eighth - grade teachers have chosen to read to students a principal's letter that one parent posted online: «We are concerned that these tests do not always assess all of what it is that make each of you special and unique... the scores you get will tell you something, but they will not tell you everything.

When measured as their own state, Arizona charter students rank first in the nation in eighth - grade math, and second for eighth - grade reading.

When separated and measured as if they were their own state, Arizona charter students rank first in the nation in eighth - grade math, and second for eighth - grade reading.

Seventh and eighth grade students who score at the 95th (or 97th) percentile in mathematics and reading in grade - level assessments take the SAT or ACT as an above - level test.

Being in fourth grade and teaching phonics to first graders, participating in the eighth grade spelling lesson as a fourth grader, being taught in small groups of three to five students from mixed gr... Read More...

NCES noted a troubling trend in scores since two years ago: Even as the status quo held stable for most test takers, scores for the highest - performing eighth - graders (those scoring at the 75th and 90th percentiles) nosed higher, while those for the lowest - performing students (those at the 10th and 25th percentiles) declined in fourth - grade math, eighth - grade math, and fourth - grade reading.

The biggest gainer at the state level is clearly Florida, which saw statistically significant gains in fourth - and eighth - grade math as well as eighth - grade reading.

Fourth grade reading and math proficiency as well as eighth grade math proficiency have both garnered lower or the same scores since 2011.

n The report highlights data such as fourth grade reading scores, eighth grade math results and Kentucky's college - and career - readiness results showing a 30 percentage - point gap between students based on English language proficiency, a 25 percentage - point gap between African American and white students, a 20 percentage - point gap based on identified learning differences and also family income, and a 10 percentage - point gap between Hispanic students and their white peers.

Selections will be appropriate for eighth - grade students in terms of interest, experiences, length and reading level, as determined by the Content Review Committee.

On Track to Graduate: Includes two components, graduation rates for high schools or attendance rate for other schools, and a set of measures including third - grade reading scores, eighth - grade math scores and ACT participation and performance, as applicable to the school.

More than three times as many English language learner students score below the basic level on eighth - grade national math and reading exams as their white, English - proficient peers.

It also would no longer double - count third - grade reading scores, eighth - grade math scores and dropout rates as part of the calculation.

CHEYENNE — Overall, Wyoming's fourth and eighth grade students in 2017 continue to outperform national average test scores in reading and mathematics on the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation's Report Card or NAEP.

This video, developed by the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts at the University of Texas at Austin as part of the Texas Adolescent Literacy Academies, demonstrates use of the Frayer model in an eighth grade math class to increase students» understanding of math concepts.

Just 18 percent of low - income eighth - grade students, for example, scored as proficient or above in reading on the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Detroit tied with Washington, D.C., as the lowest scorer in eighth - grade reading.

The 2017 test results show Texas struggling to keep pace in fourth and eighth grade reading compared to past years, even when accounting for a student population that is less affluent and more in need of specialized education programs, such as bilingual education, than those of many other states.

Delaware, which serves a proportionally larger population of black students than the nation serves as a whole, exhibits a similar pattern with respect to the white - black achievement gap in reading — stronger early - grades performance, but below - average overall performance by eighth graders.

Thirty - six percent of Virginia eighth - grade students achieved at or above the proficient level in reading on the 2013 NAEP, the same percentage as in 2011.

Consider the following facts: by the end of high school, Black and Latino students» reading and mathematics skills are roughly the same as those of White students in the eighth grade.

The analysis from the charter school association, which used data collected by the Michigan Department of Education, concluded the largest gaps were found in the MEAP reading scores — as high as 9.3 percentage points difference in eighth grade; with 43.6 percent proficient for black urban students in charter schools, compared to 34.3 percent proficient for black urban students in traditional public schools, said Buddy Moorehouse, spokesman for the state's charter school association.