Sentences with phrase «average kid in each grade»

As gifted kids move up in grades, their age - and grade - equivalent scores will become unusually high, because though they are attending classes with the brightest kids in their grade, the age - and grade - equivalent scores compare them only to average kids in their grade.

The logic behind both is that any curriculum must leave out many things that would be appropriate for the average kid in each grade level.

Not exact matches

They're like a grade and a half below the national average,» Reardon tells Slate, but over time kids» performance in Chicago schools shifts dramatically.

Families with kids in kindergarten through 12th grade will spend an average $ 634.78, versus $ 688.62 in 2012, while families of college students will spend $ 836.83, down from $ 907.22 last year.

And regardless of social class, the stresses and distractions that afflict unemployed parents also afflict their kids, who are more likely to repeat a grade in school, and who on average earn less as adults.

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.

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.

Here, the Common Core is being piloted in grades K through 2 and it's crystal clear that many kids - not just disadvantaged students (English Language Learners, low - income kids, students with disabilities), but also just kids with low average abilities, will not meet these standards anytime soon.

For example, Keith Lance reports in the 2000 Colorado study, How School Librarians Help Kids Achieve Standards: «Schools with well - developed library media programs average 10 % to 15 % higher on fourth grade reading scores and 18 % higher on seventh grade reading scores than schools where libraries are less developed.

By the time they reached the fourth or fifth grade, kids who attended pre-K in the state's poorest cities were on average three - quarters of an academic year ahead of their peers who didn't.

An 8th grade teacher in Avon dealing with a class that averages under.25 for the social promotion Index can't be compared with a teacher in high poverty area with kids with a 4.5 on the Social Promotion index — indicating they were socially promoted 4.5 times out of 6.

Expecting most of them to produce above - average results is a contradiction in terms — like expecting most kids in a school to have above - average grades.

Students can also be eligible for discounts based on their grade point average, since kids who are more responsible in the classroom have been proven to also be more responsible behind the wheel.