Sentences with phrase «eighth grade according»

Similarly, 67 percent of students were considered proficient in mathematics in eighth grade according to statewide tests, while only 40 percent were if judged by national exam results.

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An eighth - grade dropout who spends less than he earns is smarter than a college professor who can't make ends meet, according to Robert Kiyosaki.

According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, the gap in eighth - grade reading and math test scores between low - income students and their wealthier peers hasn't shrunk at all over the past 20 years.

According to Quote.com, Clinton's grammar and language are geared toward an approximately eighth - grade audience.

One researcher suggested that recent studies saying current middle school programs focus more on developing a nurturing climate than strong academics, and the emphasis on high - stakes tests in eighth grade, may have spurred some principals to drop service - learning programs, according to Kielsmeier.

Our students study North Carolina history and geography in accord with the eighth grade social studies curriculum, review math skills and science concepts with paper airplanes (it's a Wright brothers centennial year), and develop personal narratives in a travel journal they create on the trip.

According to the authors, minority students, with the exception of Asian students, fare worse on the eighth - grade MCAS than their white counterparts.

However, according to Loveless, «If tracking and accelerated coursework in eighth grade represent the beginning of a pipeline for promising young stars in mathematics or literature, that opportunity is more open to white and Asian students in suburban schools than to disadvantaged youngsters in schools serving students of color.»

But according to 2013 NAEP TUDA, it still has the lowest eighth - grade reading scores of every participating city.

More than half of American teachers say they use digital games in their classrooms, according to a national survey of 500 kindergarten through eighth - grade teachers conducted by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop.

Nearly all of the school's students, in kindergarten through eighth grade, are African - American and eligible for free or reduced - priced lunch, according to the most recently available federal data.

According to data from the 2002 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), only 28 % of fourth graders, 31 % of eighth graders, and 24 % of twelfth graders performed at or above a proficient (i.e., competent) level of writing achievement for their respective grade level (Persky, Daane, & Jin, 2003).

P.S. 279, a kindergarten - through - eighth grade school in the Bronx, has hired AUSSIE consultants nearly every year since 2004, spending a total of about $ 800,000, according to the analysis of the school spending data.

KIPP's eighth - grade graduates go to college at twice the national rate for low - income students, according to its own tracking.

By eighth grade, students seemed to have learned some geometry, according to the NAEP results, but the data analysis subsection was still five points lower than two years ago.

Students in fourth, eighth and 10th grades will continue to take the WKCE for science and social studies until new standards in those subjects are adopted and new tests are developed, which could be a few years away, according to Department of Public Instruction spokesman John Johnson.

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, MPS fourth and eighth grade students overall, test well below average in reading.

According to a 2010 Government Accountability Office report, about 13 percent of students nationally changed schools four or more times by the eighth grade.

About 6.5 percent of Wisconsin's fourth - and eighth - grade students took the test early this year, according to Department of Public Instruction spokesman Patrick Gasper.

The benchmark for achieving a «proficient» score on eighth grade science assessments in 16 states is below the «basic» level on the countrywide benchmarks set in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), according to the report.

The fifth - through eighth - grade exams will have one fewer English passage and seven fewer multiple choice questions, which corresponded with the passage, bring it down to 35 multiple choice questions, according to the memo.

She was, according to this report, the worst eighth - grade math teacher in New York City, where she has taught since 2007.

According to the report, high - stakes high school exit exams — HSPA included — establish passing scores that measure proficiency at the eighth to 10th grade levels.

Louisiana standardized test scores for third - through eighth - graders stayed essentially flat this year: 69 percent of those students scored at or above grade level compared to 68 percent last year, according to results released Wednesday.

In fourth and eighth grade math and reading — according to this month's NAEP results — California once again falls near the bottom of the nation.

According to the Hawn Foundation website, the MindUp program — which is in place in schools across the United States, in Canada and abroad — consists of 15 lessons for three developmental levels (pre-kindergarten through second grade, third through fifth grade and sixth through eighth grade).

The investment appears to pay off: Students at the school learn faster than their peers nationwide, and 98 percent who finish eighth grade go on to graduate from high school, according to school officials.

According to a usability expert's review, disclosures from the largest credit card issuers were often written well above the eighth - grade level at which about half of U.S. adults read.

In spite of troubling predictions about Earth's climate, many young people are addressing the problems in positive ways, according to Lynne Cherry, acclaimed author of 30 - plus environmental books for children, whose latest book explores the science of global warming at an eighth - grade reading level.