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BarCap Aggregate Bond Index - A broad - based benchmark that measures the investment grade, U.S. dollar - donminated, fixed - rate taxable bond market, including Treasuries, government - rated and corporate securities, MBS (agency fixed - rate and hybrid ARM pass - throughs), ABS, and CMBS.

I was beaten regularly by the nuns from first through 3d grade and subjected to humiliation on a regular basis thereafter.

«Kerry Agribusiness is proud of its strong dairy heritage and through ongoing engagement with our milk suppliers will ensure the adoption of best practice initiatives, to support our grass - based, sustainable and premium - grade milk production and in doing so secure the viability of present and future generations.»

Landscapes for Learning: A Natural Confluence of Science, Literacy, Mathematics and Place - based Pedagogy The Walden Woods Project is pleased to be partnering with Mass Audubon / Drumlin Farm and Concord Museum to offer a one - week institute for educators for grades 3 - 8, through the Museum Institute for Teaching Science (MITS).

A framework for school readiness and school success based on aligning systems (family, school and community) in which transition is understood as an on - going process beginning with birth and continuing through entrance into formal schooling to 3rd grade.

Were WHO to give such a recommendation, it would have to follow a strict guideline development process based on grading of all available evidence collected through systematic reviews by expert panels free from conflict of interest.»

In order to achieve continuity on a yearly basis, it is advisable for you to plan ahead after looking through various grades.

New York has rolled out new food safety inspection ratings based on letter grades — from A through C — for supermarkets, convenience stores and other food retailers.

In 1984, Conservative Education Secretary Sir Keith Joseph decided to proceed with a merger, on the premise that the new qualifications should be based on general and subject - specific criteria approved by himself; that the O Level exam boards should take responsibility for carrying forward the O Level A to C grade standards into the new scale, while the CSE boards should do the same for grades D to G, which were to be based on CSE grades 2 to 5 respectively; and that most subjects should be examined through tiered papers focusing on different parts of the grade scale, ensuring that each grade reflected «positive achievement» on appropriate tasks, rather than degrees of failure.

- Extending the current freeze on the reporting of test results for grades three through eight on permanent records through the 2018 - 19 school year - The creation of an advisory council for computer - based tests.

Educators who teach English and math to third through eighth graders will be evaluated based partially on the federally required state tests in those grades and subjects.

About 38,000 teachers, or 20 percent, had one - fifth of their evaluations based on their students» scores in the fourth - through eighth - grade English and math tests.

Prohibits school districts from promoting or placing a student based solely or primarily on a student's performance on state - administered ELA and math assessments in grades 3 through 8; and requires school districts to notify parents / guardians of the district's grade promotion and placement policy along with an explanation of how such policy was developed

The tournament is open to area students from kindergarten through high school with sections organized based grade.

There was something for everyone on the menu: using Apple technology, developing research - based practices to teach students in the early grades, engaging students through digital instruction, understanding the new teacher evaluation system as set by state law, preventing high - risk student behaviors and how Community Learning Schools meet the needs of students and their families.

The study examined test results for more than 33,000 students in grades 4 through 12 and found that student performance varied across testing formats by grade band, students» primary language, and the specific features of the computer - based system used.

Based on data collected in a Missouri school district by her MU colleagues Christi Bergin, associate research professor, and David Bergin, associate professor of educational psychology, Wang and her colleagues developed a scale that improves understanding of classroom engagement and can be readily used in fourth through 12th - grade classrooms.

Our Solar System - Through the Eyes of Scientists (TES) is a solar system thematic science and language arts based curriculum for students and teachers in grades 1 - 6.

It provides research - based technology programs, supplemental instructional materials, and high quality literature that support students» achievement in grades pre-K through high school.

Charter school students in grades 3 through 8 perform better than we would expect, based on the performance of comparable students in traditional public schools, on both the math and reading portions of New York's statewide achievement tests.

Published last week in the journal Teachers College Record, the groundbreaking study is based on a nationally representative sample of 553 students in 1st through 5th grades.

Boss Level challenges vary for each grade, based on content and skills emphasized through the previous trimester.

NCLB mandated reading and math testing in grades 3 through 8 and at least once in high school, and it required states to rate schools on the basis of test performance overall and for key subgroups.

Journey through the Digestive System 7/13/2000 [Our Bodies, Science Grades 9 - 12 Submitted by Richard Lord] Students work in cooperative groups to design a theme park based on the anatomy and physiology of the digestive system, prepare a portfolio of the park's attractions, and construct an approximate scale model of it.

Stedman: In the middle school, students in all three grades approach their understandings through a series of eight systems - based case studies.

Here you'll find more photos of the outdoor display, as well as the content that our ninth grade students were able to tackle through project - based learning rather than textbook - directed learning.

Westinghouse Information Service, a scoring contractor based in Iowa City, Iowa, blamed «computer error» for mistakes in the scores of the Arizona students in grades 1 through 12 who took the California Achievement Test in April.

Some decisions were easy: to provide a program from 7th grade through graduation; to move students through the program on an individual basis; to ask our teachers to be well educated, but to act more as generalists than specialists; to keep teachers» student loads down, and to offer advisories instead of more formal and distant «guidance counseling»; to offer only one foreign language, but to expect all to learn it; to put our money into more adults, some of them young adults, rather than into high rents or new furniture.

Active Academics» standards - based activity ideas align to both the Common Core State Standards and a variety of national standards for PreK through fifth - grade classrooms.

Because Paedae taught advanced math to eleventh and twelfth graders, while the Florida FCAT only tested students through grade eight, 50 percent of her evaluation was based «on the school - wide performance of students taking the tenth - grade FCAT reading test — a test in a different subject administered... to different students in an earlier grade» (p. 3).

While Im appreciative of that gesture, that is the only example I can think of a strength - based discussion from kindergarten through twelfth - grade.

Published earlier this month in the electronic journal Education Policy Analysis Archives, the study is based on California's recent experiences at reducing class sizes to 20 or fewer students in kindergarten through the 3rd grade.

Under the changes being proposed to the state's A + school accountability program, Florida's annual school - by - school letter grades would be based on longitudinal data — that is, looking at how students» test scores increase or decline as they proceed through school over several years.

BASIS Scottsdale opened in 2003 and like at other BASIS schools, students can graduate early or stay through 12th grade and complete a senior project — usually off campus, according to the school's website.

Our study was based on data for New York City school children who were in grades 3 though 8 during the 1998 — 99 through 2007 — 08 school years.

Even on a trial basis in grades four through eight, such a program could help states shave school spending by two or three percent — tallying hundreds of millions in some cases while rewarding excellent educators.

To meet this shortfall in current, largely textbook - based curricula, with Institute of Education Sciences (IES) funding we have developed and are studying EcoMUVE (www.ecomuve.org): a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE)- based ecosystems science curriculum centered on grades 6 through 8 life science National Science Education Standards (NSES).

Taking its lead from the United Nations» Sustainable Development Goals, the curriculum — unit - based, with sample lessons that teachers can customize — is divided into two large segments, kindergarten through grade eight, and grades nine through 12.

A group of Georgia schools work together to emphasize project - based learning and STEM courses from the elementary years through 12th grade.

The initial government evaluation gathered data through 2008 - 09, so the graduation rate analysis is only based on about 300 students (as compared to 1,300 students from multiple grades included in the test - score analysis).

The results are based on students who enter charter schools in kindergarten through grade 5, the grades of entry for which we can confidently estimate effects.

We can not use the lottery - based method with any confidence to estimate the effect of attending a charter school on students who enter in atypical grades, like grades 6 through 12.

It is based mainly on student performance on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), which is administered to students in grades 3 through 8 and in grade 10.

Our analyses were based on the approximately 125,000 students in grades four through seven within these districts who completed the surveys in spring 2015 and whose responses we can link to data on test scores in grades three through eight from spring 2013 to spring 2016.

Accordingly, we should see an increase, by design, in problem - and project - based learning, small - group inquiries, Socratic Seminars, and independent studies as learners progress through the curriculum across the grades.

The enrollment figures are based on estimated fall 2000 data reported by the National Center for Education Statistics for prekindergarten through 12th grade in public elementary and secondary schools.

I am 200 percent in favor of personalized learning, defined as enabling every child to move through the prescribed curriculum at his or her own speed, progressing on the basis of individual mastery of important skills and knowledge rather than in lockstep according to age, grade level, and end - of - year assessments.

The enrollment figures are based on estimated fall 2002 data reported by state officials for prekindergarten through 12th grade in public elementary and secondary schools.

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

«Kids need to learn teamwork - based skills because every other class in any other subject that they have — third through eighth grade — requires them to work in different sized groups accomplishing different tasks,» Heckman explains.