Few have looked at the relationship
between grade configuration and student outcomes.
Not exact matches
Because the studies use data from a single school year to contrast students in middle schools and K — 8 schools, most of the available research can not reject the possibility that differences
between the groups of students, rather than in the
grade configuration of their schools, are actually responsible for the differences in behavior and achievement.
The key assumption of our methodology is that there are no unobserved differences
between students who in 3rd
grade attended schools that had these different
grade configurations that affect achievement precisely in the year when students enter middle school.
Investigating the transition to high school, we find that students moving to a new high school
between grades 8 and 9 suffer a small drop in achievement of 0.03 standard deviations in math and 0.04 standard deviations in reading (relative to those in
grade 6 — 12 schools or schools with another
configuration that requires no transition at this point).
«The launch of the new King Cab body is the last step in a journey that began in December 2015 with the debut of the breakthrough TITAN XD, which continues to carve out a unique white space
between competitors» heavy - duty and half - ton trucks,» said Fred Diaz, division vice president and general manager, North America Trucks and Light Commercial Vehicles, Nissan North America, Inc. «Now, with the addition of a half - ton TITAN, our new Endurance ® V8, three body
configurations, three bed lengths and a range of
grade levels and equipment packages, we're covering nearly every segment in the personal and commercial full - size truck markets.