Sentences with word «eighth»

At the top of her class in eighth grade, she learned of a program that places children of color in elite prep schools.

Our analysis of 2014 teacher survey data,... showed that 50 percent of eighth grade teachers reported spending 3 to 5 hours per week of classroom instruction time on social studies....

In other words, increasing the share of eighth graders in tracked courses by ten percentage points is associated with an additional 20,000 students scoring 3 or higher on AP exams nationwide.

It's a similar story for eighth graders in reading, better than the national average, but they haven't maintained any significant growth in years.

Students in eighth year are facing the end of middle or junior high school and in the not - so - distant future the start of high school.

Researchers examined test scores for students in third grade through eighth grade in 11,000 school districts across the country.

With the game built from the ground - up for eighth generation consoles, The Evil Within 2 is much more impressive from a graphical standpoint.

Despite having the world's eighth largest economy, the divide between rich and poor is one of the largest in the world.

Even more serious was the Arab invasion of the seventh and eighth centuries.

His comments come despite him admitting that his side's decline could see them finish the season as low as eighth place.

Now, we could wait four years and compare how students scored when they were fourth graders and how they scored later as eighth graders.

Therefore, she was in a unique position, because she would teach seventh graders in geography and teach the last 9 weeks with eighth graders in language arts.

Had it been the seventh or eighth day out, she would most likely not have lived to tell her story.

It is a professionally decorated, brand new, eighth floor unit.

The show's eighth season just wrapped up, which has earned our congratulations and a look at the five coolest pitches that landed deals in the last year.

Despite recording 11 clean sheets this past season, the team allowed 50 goals — eighth most in the league — and conceded numerous late goals in critical matches.

The federal advisory panel's report argues that curricula should be designed to prepare elementary and middle school students to take a formal algebra class by eighth grade.

Our goal is to try not finish eighth again.

In thirty years of educational service, I have taught at all levels from eighth grade through graduate seminars.

The region ranks eighth in annual particle pollution, 14th for 24 - hour particle pollution, and 26th for ozone.

In fact, it's a good idea to start shopping for a car seat around your sixth to eighth month of pregnancy.

A digital coin worth about a dime a day ago has doubled in price, briefly climbing into eighth place by market capitalization.

Most mothers will need to be screened using blood work, which typically happens in the twenty - eighth week of pregnancy.

This is the artist's eighth solo exhibition at the gallery.

Almost half the divorces occur in the first 10 years of marriage; especially between the fourth and eighth anniversary.

The Western Conference's eighth seed is historically weak.

Note that the highest pick traded over the last five years was eighth overall in 2011.

The program concludes with a six - week summer program after eighth grade.

It's a reversal that makes the director's eighth feature his most ambitious and surprising.

And his answer was that his seventh or eighth book generated a lot more interest than his other books — and that that increased interest transferred itself to his other titles too.

He's literally eighth best on the team, among guys who've played at least 50 games.

She was only eighth fastest at the first interval, but she started making up remarkable chunks of time.

He taught eighth - grade physical science and life science.

Use within the past month among eighth graders dropped significantly, down to 5 percent in 2016 compared with 6.5 percent in 2015.

The women produced two more consistent rides as they took eighth place overall.

The state also ranks eighth when in romance and fun and fifth in dating opportunities in the site's report.

«We have 1,000 kids leave between eighth and ninth grade in this city,» the superintendent said last night.

The transmission shifted far too frequently and would only maintain eighth gear going downhill on the freeway — the slightest throttle application kicked it down.

They are currently eighth in the table after five games.

Many of those kids haven't completed eighth grade.

Some members are working on their first manuscript while others are working on their seventh or eighth novel.

Forty - eight percent of white eighth graders earned proficient or advanced math scores, which was statistically similar to achievement in 2015.

The percentage of black eighth graders achieving proficient or advanced math scores increased by eight points, to 20 percent in 2017, compared with 12 percent in 2015.

And it made the claim that 70 percent of American eighth - graders read below grade level and that's simply false.

The class included eighth graders along with two seventh graders and even a sixth grader.

Each of these four beats can be cut in half again, leaving eight parts to the measure (known as eighth notes in music).

I wasn't diagnosed with major depression (one of many types of the disease) until eighth grade, but the earliest signs of the illness surfaced when I was five.