Sentences with phrase «black eighth graders»

New national test results find black eighth graders» reading scores in Wisconsin rank lowest in the country.

In 2015, only 14 % of black fourth - graders and 8 % of black eighth graders were proficient in reading, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Black eighth graders in the commonwealth also outperformed their peers, achieving an average score of 268, compared with 260 nationwide and 262 for the region.

Black eighth graders in Virginia achieved an average score of 250, which represented little change from 2007's average of 252.

Fewer than half of those male Black eighth graders, 97 percent of whom have not been taught to read well, eventually graduate.

The exception was the gap widened in math for black eighth graders.

Black eighth graders gained twenty - three points from 1990 to 2015, Hispanic students gained twenty - four, and white students gained twenty - two.

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In the meantime, says his volleyball coach Lou Panzella, Marcus will be the same friendly kid he first saw play as an eighth grader at Black Diamond middle school.

Among black and Hispanic eighth graders, Texas students started at about the same place as their national peers in 1990.

For example, in Texas 22 % of ELL eighth - graders scored at or above the proficient level on the math assessment, compared with 44 % of black eighth - graders.

For several years, data suggested that the city had seen improvements among all ethnic groups, including in graduation rates, which have risen about 14 percentage points for black and Hispanic students since 2005, and a national standardized test given every other year to a sampling of fourth and eighth graders.

The fact that just 23 percent of Black seventh - and eighth - graders in seven states took Algebra 1 (as of 2011 - 2012) is one example of how poor and minority kids lose out on college - preparatory education they deserve.

There's the fact that a mere 16 percent of Black eighth - graders in 2014 - 2015 read at Proficient and Advanced levels (or at grade level)-- and that the remaining 84 percent are either functionally illiterate or barely able to read.

The percentage of black eighth - graders reading at Proficient and Advanced levels in 2015.

The percentage of black eighth - graders reading Below Basic on NAEP in 2015.

«Nationwide the average black 12th grader reads at the level of a white eighth grader.

The gap of 32 points separating average black and white eighth graders represents about three years» worth of math learning.

It found that, among black eighth - graders, those who attended schools that were more than 60 percent black scored notably lower on a national math test.

Less than half of our black eighth - graders are performing at grade level in math.

After the 2014 National Assessment of Educational Progress geography results showed abysmal proficiency rates among eighth graders — 27 % of all students, 11 % of those eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, and 7 % of Black students — the Senate asked GAO to report on the challenges of geography education in K — 12.

Only one percent of the city's black and Latino eighth - graders scored at Advanced levels.

If 99 percent of black eighth - graders are not performing math at advanced levels, the odds are slim that they will pass the admissions test for Stuyvesant and other selective schools.

For non-ELL non-low-income eighth - graders, the increases in reading were 13 points for black students, 17 points for Hispanic, and 4 points for white.

For example during the 16 year period, non-ELL low - income eighth - graders showed these increases in reading: 6 percentage points for black students, 21 points for Hispanic, and 14 points for white.

Thirty - nine percent of black eighth - graders read Below Basic, a two percentage point decline from 2011 and a six point decline from 2002.

The percentage of black eighth - graders reading at Proficient and Advanced levels in 2013, a two percentage point increase over 2011, and a three percentage point increase over 2002.

Delaware, which serves a proportionally larger population of black students than the nation serves as a whole, exhibits a similar pattern with respect to the white - black achievement gap in reading — stronger early - grades performance, but below - average overall performance by eighth graders.

Forty - five percent of white eighth graders in Virginia earned proficient or advanced reading scores, as did 17 percent of black students, 26 percent of Hispanic students and 49 percent of Asian students.