Sentences with phrase «below average grades»

Not surprisingly, I achieved average - to - below average grades, skipped classes, and hung out with what most would consider «the wrong crowd.»

«No room or area in a dwelling may be used for habitation if more than 1⁄2 of its floor - to - ceiling height is below the average grade of the adjoining ground and is subject to chronic dampness.»

Not exact matches

Branson was, and is, dyslexic, a learning disability at least partially responsible for his terrible standardized test scores and below - average grades.

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.

Qualifying securities must have a below investment grade rating (based on an average of Moody's, S&P, and Fitch) and an investment grade rated country of risk (based on an average of Moody's, S&P and Fitch foreign currency long term.

I remember receiving one bleak Friday afternoon [the semester grades] of two first - string basketball players who... had fallen below the required 77 % average.

Remmers graded out as the # 40 OT last season (below average) and Reiff graded out as the # 59 OT (poor).

The counselor and coach who had been so quick to retain Whatley's services had hurried in vain; LoVett had snorkeled academically ever since enrolling at Oklahoma City in the fall of 1995: He had missed classes and tutoring sessions, and now, as the fall - semester grades posted on Dec. 18 revealed, he had failed three courses and taken incompletes in two others, thereby sinking irretrievably below the 2.0 grade point average required to remain eligible to play under NAIA rules.

Last year's high scorer was Guard Barney Hudson, whose high school coach was Herkie Rupp, the Baron's son; unfortunately, Hudson's grade - point average dropped somewhere below one - seventh of his scoring average.

If your child is getting below - average grades in school, yells when you ask him to do homework, seldom comes home on time and has lied about where he was, or has even become verbally abusive or intimidating when you tried to give him a consequence, he is going to need more limits and checking - up on to ensure his safety.

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.

Most children in our local school fail these tests, read below grade average, and are performing math far below grade average.

According to Read to Succeed Executive Director Anne Ryan, students who miss 10 percent of kindergarten and first grade scored an average of 60 points below similar students with good attendance on third grade reading tests.

But as drivers risk being kicked off the platform if their average score drops below 4.6, anything under the maximum five stars constitutes a failing grade.

The average adult patient has an 8th grade literacy level but over 20 per cent of patients read at or below a 5th grade level.

At schools with a student poverty rate of below 10 percent, by contrast, the research team found that regular informal exchange among parents helps improve students» grade point average and makes them more likely to graduate.

Illinois» grade in teacher quality is just below average.

In 1998, Florida scored about one grade level below the national average on the 4th - grade NAEP reading test, but it was scoring above that average by 2003, and made further gains in subsequent years (see Figure 1).

To identify the policy's average impact, we compared the gains in developmental - scale scores made by students who first entered 3rd grade in 2002 and scored below the FCAT benchmark with gains made by students who first entered 3rd grade in 2001 and scored below the FCAT benchmark.

To measure the effect of being in the top 10 percent, the authors compared the grade point averages of students whose class rank was just above or just below the cutoff.

School Climate: Delaware earned the top grade for school climate this year, though many indicators of parent involvement and student engagement from the National Assessment of Educational Progress background survey place the state below national averages.

Delaware, the other RttT First Phase winner, also had below - average standards, for which we awarded a grade of C - and ranked it 36th of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

In 1998, Florida's 4th grade NAEP reading scores were one grade level below the national average; by 2005, their adjusted scores were above the national average.

The table below shows that demographic shifts are particularly unlikely to explain the drops in 8th - grade scores, which fell by about three months of learning over the last two years, compared to an average demographic - predicted score decrease of about one month of learning every two years.

The Secondary School Support Initiative was introduced in 2008 to provide targeted support for low - performing secondary schools where the pass rates in grades 9 and 10 target courses were significantly below the provincial average.

After two years in a middle school, on average a student who entered in the 7th grade will score 0.10 standard deviations in math and 0.09 standard deviations in English below what we would expect if he had gone to a K — 8 school.

The state earns a below - average grade in standards and accountability, in part, because it has not adopted academic standards in social studies.

The earliest findings: First - graders are considered to be at risk of disengaging from school (and potentially becoming fully disengaged and dropping out in the future) if by the third marking period they're absent from school nine or more times, are below grade level in reading and / or mathematics, and / or have a calculated grade point average below 1.2 in the third marking period.

Conversely, late entrants at district schools had dramatically lower average 4th - grade test scores than on - time enrollees: 0.30 and 0.32 standard deviations lower in reading and math, respectively (in both cases, 0.29 standard deviations below the district average).

Students performed variously well or poorly and earned (or were awarded) grades according to achievement — A for superior performance, B for better - than - average performance, C for average performance, D for below - average performance, and F for insufficient performance.

He pointed out that most of his students start two or three grade averages below their current grade level.

When charting the average mathematics scale score and percentage of students eligible for free and reduced - price lunch in the 4th and 8th grades, we find that only nine or fewer states had a smaller percentage of students than Minnesota below «basic» proficiency.

Graduation Rates - When asked to estimate the percent of ninth - graders who graduate within four years of entering ninth grade, Americans on average offer a pessimistic guess of 66 percent, 9 percent below the U.S. Department of Education's official national estimate.

Hawaii scores above the national average in one of the four graded categories of education policy in Quality Counts and below it in two areas.

The typical high - SES student in this sample scored about 0.6 to 0.7 standard deviations above the state average (depending on grade considered), while the typical low - SES student in the sample scored about 0.1 to 0.2 standard deviations below the state average.

States with sparser eighth grade tracking and a below average proportion of high - scoring AP students include: Delaware (64 percent tracked), District of Columbia (63 percent), Louisiana (54 percent), Mississippi (52 percent), and Texas (57 percent).

The United States ranks below average internationally in eighth grade math.

Add to that the changing view of the meaning of specific letter grades (Does today's «C» mean average or slightly below average, for example?)

I vividly remember flying down to Atlanta, Georgia for a meeting with one college's faculty to advocate on behalf of an Urban Prep alumnus when his grade point average dipped hundredths of a point below what was required in order for him to keep his scholarship.

Illinois set its proficiency bar for 8th - grade reading at a level that is 1.01 standard deviations below the national average.

In the year before assignment, such schools had an average 4th grade combined reading and math test score that was.67 student - level standard deviations below the average school.

We found that the positive effects of higher grading standards were restricted to those students who were no more than 0.8 and 0.9 standard deviation below the average score in reading and math, respectively.

In Washington, D.C., for example, the average white student is 2.7 years above grade level; her black and Hispanic peers are 2.2 and 1.4 years below respectively.

The upshot, per the article, is that «children in the school districts with the highest concentrations of poverty score an average of more than four grade levels below children in the richest districts.»

The District of Columbia scores below average for three of the four graded policy categories in Quality Counts.

Mississippi scores below the average state in all four graded policy categories in Quality Counts.

Average students» scores remain well below what test overseers consider to be «proficient» for each grade level.

A study by Education Datalab has previously revealed pupils taking the qualification on average score the equivalent of an A grade, despite achieving an average score of below a C across their GCSEs.

Students below grade level, from various reasons not necessarily poor teaching, can show the greatest jump in achievement with just average teaching.

Its fourth - grade scores are more than 10 percent below the national average, and its eighth - grade scores are more than 9 percent below average.