Sentences with phrase «before twelfth grade»

The latter figures probably understate the problem, because many poor readers drop out of school before twelfth grade.

Some of that gap can be explained by high school dropouts — kids who left school before twelfth grade and would not be expected to get a college degree.

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This state - administered, federally funded program provides five - year grant funding to establish or expand before - and after - school programs that provide disadvantaged kindergarten through twelfth - grade students (particularly students who attend schools in need of improvement) with academic enrichment opportunities and supportive services to help the students meet state and local standards in core content areas.

Over time, though, Austin and his colleagues have learned to escape those walls in order to do their best work... A few years before Austin arrived as a twelfth grade teacher, a couple of tenth grade colleagues started to brainstorm and coordinate their curriculum, modeling their efforts on the «small learning communities concept.»

I was a ninth grade English teacher with very little seniority in a school where senior teachers who taught eleventh and twelfth grade really didn't understand the extent of the problems some of our students were having because so many of those students would drop out before they made it to higher grade levels.