Students continue to fall
behind through the middle school years, and the outcome is even worse for those students who began middle school at the lower end of the performance spectrum.
Not exact matches
By focusing on
middle school, one can simply use the statewide data on a child's performance on tests for students in grades 3
through 8, as mandated by No Child Left
Behind.
Advocates for Children of New York (AFC) serves all New York City students from birth
through age 26, including
middle school and high
school students who are over the typical age for their grade level or who are
behind in credits.
As my sons started to make their way
through middle school, falling further and further
behind, I began to feel angry and hopeless.
Low - income preschoolers begin Kindergarten
behind their
middle and high - income peers in mathematics, and these achievement differences grow as they progress
through school.