Sentences with phrase «at grade»

More than 70 percent of its 88,000 students are considered economically disadvantaged, and only 25 percent read at grade level.

Join Peggy Coyne, a research scientist at the Center for Applied Special Technology in Wakefield, Mass., and Lori DiGisi, a curriculum coordinator for Framingham Public Schools in Massachusetts, for a discussion of how teachers can use differentiated instruction, universal design for learning and assistive technology to help struggling readers at all grade levels.

Peppercorn hopes that educators at all grade levels will find the activities in his book useful, especially those who are struggling, as he had, to find a reference of this kind.

There are several factors that could possibly be contributing to this pattern in results, such as teachers adopting new strategies in response to the removal of the January series; a slight shift towards Facilitating Subjects affecting outcomes at grade A; and as the A * continues to bed in it becomes more important for highly selective universities and as such provides a greater incentive for students.

Problem - based learning (PBL) is integrated at Two Rivers Public Charter School in Washington, DC, at every grade level — pre-K through eighth grade.

These worksheets provide enrichment in basic Arithmetic, Plane Geometry and Algebra 1 concepts, coinciding with Common Core standards at grade 6 and above and requiring no more than a thorough understanding of that material.

'» Gross continued, «And we realized that when students access texts online, they are interactive, they are at grade - level....

I've also listed activities that can be used at each grade level from PreSchool to grade eight to help students make the distinction between language usage and mathematical language using manipulatables in the lower grades, as well as more intellectual ideas about the differences in language and mathematics which they all unknowingly use every day (another resource to come).

If they do well, those students will rejoin their peers at grade level in September 2002, although they will continue to receive additional support.

And in light of the students» excellent rates for attendance and graduation and their rising test scores, school leaders believe that service learning engages students and enhances academic success at every grade level.

The Commission will examine factors in raising student achievement from prekindergarten through high school including: state accountability and curriculum requirements; model programs to improve student achievement beginning in early learning programs and continuing throughout high school; strategies for every student to achieve at grade level such as intervention and support systems; and policies to improve student attendance and retention.

The lottery at the heart of the LSP experiment was conducted only when schools did not have enough available spaces at a grade level for the number of students that wanted to attend that school and grade level.

One - third of the students are working at grade level in reading and math, says Principal Kilian Betlach.

In what amounted to a sort of grassroots uprising, however, educators at all grade levels in many types of communities have embraced MI theory with a genuine passion.

At every grade level, MC2 STEM provides different opportunities for students to interact with business professionals and to experience workplace environments:

This means that they have only partially mastered the knowledge and skills that are fundamental for proficient work at their grade levels.

For two hours a day, for thirty - six rigorous weeks a year, BHSFX students at all grade levels work in teams with a unique set of materials and class requirements (read: silicone, latex, and a syllabus that includes the phrases «eye fabrication» and «hair punching») to produce work of professional quality — as professionals.

To make accurate decisions about the quality of teaching and the impact of school programs, Willett and Singer urge policymakers to examine not what different classes of children know at each grade level, but how the knowledge and skills of specific groups change over time.

An independent research consortium studying the Chicago decision to end social promotion, which was aimed at helping students not working at grade level, reports a mixed bag of news.

At the start of 2013, six out of 10 K - 6 students at Medina Primary School were reading and writing at a five - year - old level or not working at a grade level.

Provide families with a list of required mastery skills for each subject taught at your grade level.

This involvement makes the students take their work more seriously; they perform tasks considered beyond the abilities of children at their grade level, like mapping data to find trends over time, or going to scientific conferences, which has become so commonplace that we've developed a system to figure out who gets to go.

««The Standards» refers to all elements of the design — the wording of domain headings, cluster headings, and individual statements; the text of the grade level introductions and high school category descriptions; the placement of the standards for mathematical practice at each grade level.

Ironically, however, it is not clear that these growth models would fulfill the more simplistic federal requirements for adequate yearly progress, which dictate that the performance of students at each grade level be measured against a fixed standard of proficiency.

In his State of the Union Address, President Clinton proposed a voluntary, national reading test at grade 4 and a math test at grade 8.

Frustration that I haven't motivated all of them to read their minimum two hours per week, and that some of them are reading books that might not be at grade level.

«How could I not know that my child wasn't reading at grade level?

Good grades suggest that states are setting a high proficiency bar — that students must perform at a high level to be deemed proficient in a given subject at their grade level.

We got all the language arts textbooks in use and went through them carefully, jotting down every topic, subtopic, skill, and subskill we could find at each grade level.

Although many were reading at grade level or above, one group of students did not benefit as much from the additional attention and intervention strategies.

The goal of Reading First is for all children to read at grade level by the end of 3rd grade.

One comprehensive school in Salford, Harrop Fold, has seen the percentage of pupils achieving five GCSEs at grade A * - C rise from 18 per cent to 52 per cent.

And students floundered; fewer than 15 percent worked at grade level in reading, writing, or mathematics.

Reduce basals to reference books — slim core texts that set forth as clearly as a dictionary the essential skills and information to be learned at each grade level in each subject.

There's a lot of content and important stuff in between, but if our kids can't read at grade level, they'll never do as well as they could or should with the rest.»

The curriculum had specific benchmarks at each grade level, recommended minimum teaching times for core subjects, and a full complement of tests.

Can educators — in charters and in other types of schools — say that their students are well prepared for life and further learning if they can't read or do math at grade level?

Eventually, at each grade level, the editors distill their notes into detailed outlines, a task roughly comparable to what sixth - century jurists in Byzantium must have faced when they carved Justinian's Code out of the jungle of Roman law.

Some thought the best evidence came from averaging all the test score results together, while others thought the scores of students at each grade level should be looked at separately.

It can be used at any grade level — yes, even high school — to build or reinforce skills.

Enrollment has climbed, on - time graduation rates have risen from 39 to 65 percent, and the percentage of students scoring at grade level in core academic subjects has risen by 15 percentage points.

The reading skills of 12th graders declined slightly from 1992 to 1994, according to a federal report released last week, which warned that far too few students at any grade are reading at a proficient level.

Initially, her students were reading basal readers at grade level; now they are reading novels, such as To Kill a Mocking Bird, that are nearly two grade levels above their grade level.

Each of the school's fourteen classes chose two delegates to represent them at a grade - level mini-convention.

Suspensions were down, the graduation rate was up, and more students were proficient at grade - level work in math and reading.

As noted earlier, special - education students who were receiving instruction at grade level were included in the state's testing system for the first time in 1999, and Houston imposed an even more inclusive policy.

We can make stress and anger management an integral part of the health curriculum at all grade levels, beginning in kindergarten.

«Our parents at all grade levels are also very involved.»

Three part lesson on drawing box and whisker plots at grade B. Starter revisits previous learning on unit 2 number.

The second is that the Common Core movement muddles through, meaning that we end up, eventually, with a nearly national set of standards for what students need to know and do at each grade, high quality assessments aligned to those standards, cut scores for proficiency on those assessments that are challenging and equal across the nation, and a set of meaningful carrots and sticks for holding educators accountable for preparing all their students for success.