Sentences with phrase «at average grade»

The term «recovery» implies a clear objective: to have students develop efficient patterns of learning — patterns that enable them, by the end of their Reading Recovery lessons, to work at average grade levels or above and continue to progress within their school's instructional program.

Mount Weld is one of the highest - grade rare - earths oxide deposits in the world, with 23.9 million tonnes at an average grade of 7.9 per cent.

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The reason Canada scores an average «C» grade on this indicator despite being at the bottom of the list of peer countries is because of the extremely low score of the last two countries in the list.

Branson was, and is, dyslexic, a learning disability at least partially responsible for his terrible standardized test scores and below - average grades.

They don't want to risk their grade in the class by dividing the work equally and hoping that Timmy (the guy who is absent from class two days a week on average and sleeps through class on the other three days) does his part well, if he remembers to do it at all.

Average gold grades achieved in the June half from Karouni were also quite good at 3.37 grams per tonne for the 357 000 tonnes of ore mined.

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.

Most Canadian graduate business schools require you to have completed a bachelor's degree before applying, and the majority expect you to have earned a grade point average (GPA) of at least 3.0 / 4.0, which is roughly a B average.

The Perth based company has locked down an option to purchase a mothballed, fully permitted gold mine that has historically produced around 250,000 ounces of gold at an amazing average grade of around an ounce to the tonne.

The government requires students to maintain at least a C grade - point average, but some schools have their own standards as well.

Each account will contain investment - grade taxable bonds rated BBB − or higher at time of purchase.2 The investment team will seek to maintain an overall portfolio credit rating average of A −.2 Please be aware that lower rated bonds do carry additional risk compared to higher rated bonds.

For example, it does not include euro bonds («reverse Yankees») that are hot in Europe, where junk bond yields are at a ludicrously low 2.35 % on average, and the high - grade yield is just above zero.

This year, in contrast, grades of the top - ranked Kellogg / UST program enjoyed the highest pay — on average, slightly more than $ 392,000, or roughly four times the average at the bottom of the scale.

In the absence of a pickup in consumer spending, annualized, real GDP — adjusted for inflation — is forecast to be between 2 % and 2.5 %, instead of the 4 % average since World War II, and annualized returns on US equities and investment - grade bonds is estimated at 4 % and 1 %, respectively, for the next 10 years.

He went through normal schools with above - average grades, even while his behavior at home remained violent and tyrannical.

As it turns out, those who are considered be physically «above average» are liked just a little more by teachers, get better grades and, ultimately, have a better shot at going to college.

No wonder that the average American church - goer's biblical literacy is at the 8th grade level.

I once did an assignment directed at adults in a professional setting where the editor asked me to reduce the concepts to a fourth - grade reading level because that was the average for those professionals.

He has one of the three highest academic averages in the history of Mansfield High — he received a B for one marking period in seventh - grade English but nothing lower than an A since — and will certainly become the fourth member of his family named most likely to succeed by his classmates at graduation.

At a school considered in some academic rankings as the No. 1 private school in the state and among the top 10 in the nation, both Jayda and Jayla are right at a 4.0 grade point averagAt a school considered in some academic rankings as the No. 1 private school in the state and among the top 10 in the nation, both Jayda and Jayla are right at a 4.0 grade point averagat a 4.0 grade point average.

To be a success any system deployed should not include bang average players like Xhaka and Mustafi.Give Holding and Chambers a run at centre back in a flat back four and I am sure they will make the grade.

Beginning in 1986, the rule stipulated, entering freshmen would be eligible for scholarships only if they had achieved a grade point average of at least 2.0 in a college - preparatory core curriculum and, when it came to the two standard college entrance examinations, attained a minimum score of 700 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or 15 on the American College Testing Program's exam.

Such was our snobbery that we organized something called the Jacobin Club and listed it with the dean as a fraternity simply to appear at the head of the published lists as the fraternity with the highest grade averages.

He got an A. «At first I didn't like it,» says LoVett, who made the honor roll with a 3.75 grade point average during that term at Northwest - Shoals, «but I bought into it.&raquAt first I didn't like it,» says LoVett, who made the honor roll with a 3.75 grade point average during that term at Northwest - Shoals, «but I bought into it.&raquat Northwest - Shoals, «but I bought into it.»

I know he apparently played very well at guard, but PFF graded him poor last season at tackle and it seems like yet another overpay for an average lineman.

The counselor and coach who had been so quick to retain Whatley's services had hurried in vain; LoVett had snorkeled academically ever since enrolling at Oklahoma City in the fall of 1995: He had missed classes and tutoring sessions, and now, as the fall - semester grades posted on Dec. 18 revealed, he had failed three courses and taken incompletes in two others, thereby sinking irretrievably below the 2.0 grade point average required to remain eligible to play under NAIA rules.

From his warm, funny and friendly demeanor to efforts in the classroom — he's earned a 3.5 grade point average this semester at the Hayward school — to excelling on the basketball court, the long, lean, high - flying 6 - foot - 6 wing is a young man for young people — and old — to look up to.

Students at these high - achieving schools can be ranked in the bottom quartile even with excellent grade point averages, and consequently feel «dumb» and «less worthy» compared to the majority of their peers.

For the average child (keeping in mind individual kids may be exceptions to these guidelines), an acceptable amount of homework per night is as follows: — Elementary school: approximately 10 minutes or so per grade level — Middle school: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and family time.

However, some students at Princeton agreed with the article, and cited professors who had complained about the athletes in their classes for bringing down the average grade and for low attendance to lectures.

Unsurprisingly, this was received with criticism among my athlete friends at Princeton, who by my knowledge, received average or better - than - average grades than the regular student body.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

When compared to control group counterparts in randomized trials, infants and toddlers who participated in high - quality home visiting programs were shown to have more favorable scores for cognitive development and behavior, higher IQs and language scores, higher grade point averages and math and reading achievement test scores at age 9, and higher graduation rates from high school.

Angela Duckworth at the University of Pennsylvania started out studying self - control and concluded that it has a huge impact on kids» grade - point average.

On average, 82 per cent of pupils achieve five or more GCSEs at grade A * to C, including English and mathematics.

Pupils whose first language is English achieved the most passes at grades A * - C in their GCSEs, with those of Nigerian background achieving close to the national average, whereas pupils whose first language was Somali, French or Portuguese performed worst in education.

At that time, 31 % said he was doing an average job, and 17 % thought he wasn't making the grade.

At that time, 21 % of voters gave Black above average grades.

The average adult patient has an 8th grade literacy level but over 20 per cent of patients read at or below a 5th grade level.

I was told that the criterion for promotion was to receive at least two consecutive above - average gradings on the annual merit appraisals.

Children born with a large birthweight (above 10 pounds at term) were 69 percent more likely than average weight children to be obese by kindergarten and continuing at least through second grade, the researchers determined.

The results were clear: Students who strategically reflected on how to use their resources to learn effectively ended up with higher grades at the end of the semester, outperforming their classmates by an average of one third of a letter grade.

For example, if you figured out the average height of students in a classroom, that statistic could help you predict the average height of students in other classrooms of the same grade at the same school.

In a recent Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica study, poor academic performance, measured as grade point average (GPA) at age 16, was a robust and strong predictor of suicide attempt up to middle age.

At schools with a student poverty rate of below 10 percent, by contrast, the research team found that regular informal exchange among parents helps improve students» grade point average and makes them more likely to graduate.

The research team, led by Joseph Graziano, PhD, professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, assessed 272 children in grades 3 - 5, who were, on average, 10 years old, from three school districts in Maine where household wells are the predominant source for drinking water and cooking.

By the end of fifth grade, children living in counties with average levels of Smart Start and More at Four funding saw improved educational outcomes.

With a phenomenal grade - point average of 3.99, 18 - year - old Das is the youngest to receive the medal in at least a century.

Please note that the picture and sound grades found at the top of this article represent an average for the four movies.

Washington scored at or above average in three of the four graded policy categories in Quality Counts.