Sentences with phrase «completed eighth grade»

Economists from MIT and Harvard, among other co-authors, found in one paper that voucher winners «were about 10 percentage points more likely than (lottery) losers to have completed eighth grade, primarily because they repeated fewer grades,» and that «on average, lottery winners scored about 0.2 standard deviations higher than losers.»

KIPP spokesperson Debbie Fine said staffers at the two original schools, and at the KIPP to College program, have been keeping track of all 546 students who have completed eighth grade since the two schools began in 1995.

Just recently, KIPP released its long - term study of its earliest cohorts — those students who had completed eighth grade ten or more years ago from its initial Houston and New York City campuses.

Her first class, which she taught from second through eighth grade, completed their eighth grade year in 2010.

In our study, 84 percent of CSFB alumni were enrolled in some type of college five to 10 years after completing eighth grade, 2 percent were still in high school, 1 percent entered the military, and 14 percent did not attend college immediately after graduation.

Not exact matches

It was taking seventh and eighth grade students 4 - 5 hours a night to complete homework assignments.

In eighth grade, all students complete a comprehensive research project, complete with written report, display, and oral presentation.

Eighth - grade groups created mini-documentaries about their interpretation of a time period in the 1800s, using state standards as the content guide and presenting their completed work in a public event.

Indifference to the assignment and to the possibility of receiving a failing grade, lack of help at home, apathy toward completing assignments, and laziness — those are just some of the problems eighth - grade teacher Cindy Shields deals with at Jefferson Middle School, in Columbia, Missouri.

These students at Claremont Middle School have just completed their slave narrative project, a unit that's been taught at the school by eighth - grade history and English teachers for three years.

Through that program, Elaine was able to take Geometry as an online course during her second semester of eighth grade while completing the rest of her courses at her local school.

Readers should keep in mind that not all students in the US complete Algebra I in eighth - grade, but most students do complete it by the time they graduate high school.

By contrast, 43 percent of KIPP students who finished eighth grade at KIPP ten or more years ago have completed a four - year college degree.

Zandra Grady, an eighth grade teacher at Leesville Junior High School, echoed Hagan's excitement after completing a June literacy training with CEL.

Lavette Hicks has been in Harrity since kindergarten, and now in eighth grade, she said there wasn't a sense that completing one's schoolwork made a big difference.

By contrast, 36 percent of KIPP students have completed a four - year college after finishing eighth grade at a KIPP middle school ten or more years ago.

To maintain student cohesion, if a child loses his or her «low - income» status, he or she will maintain the scholarship until completing the eighth or twelfth grade.

For the upcoming 2013 - 2014 academic year, Pinecrest Academy of Nevada — which recently completed its first school year — will be increasing its enrollment to 925 students and serving students in grades kindergarten through eighth.

In the redesigned choice system, all rising ninth graders apply in December of their eighth - grade year by completing the Department of Education's High School Admissions Application form which asks for basic information such as gender, school information, final report card grades, and attendance record.

We asked 576 youth and their teachers to complete a survey every spring, from second grade through eighth grade.

For boys, family involvement showed an additional effect, with boys who completed Family Activities in sixth grade being less likely to report having had sex in eighth grade than boys who did not complete these activities.

For Cohort 1, 46 % of FCUs were completed following the seventh grade family assessment, 53 % were completed following the eighth grade family assessment, and 1 % was completed following the ninth grade family assessment.

For Cohort 2, 93 % of FCUs were completed following the seventh grade family assessment and 7 % were completed following the eighth grade family assessment.

As part of this study, a culturally diverse sample of adolescents who were in the Sixth through Eighth Grades completed measures assessing these variables.

«I skipped fifth grade, completed sixth, seventh and eighth grades in the same year, and received first place in math, spelling, and handwriting contests,» says Nop.

«My dream is to be able to identify who's at risk for sudden death by having every child in the country receive a complete cardiac workup starting at eighth grade.»