Sentences with phrase «eighth grade reading level»

The truth is the Scripture is quite clear to anyone with an eighth grade reading level and an average IQ.

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They say most of you read at an eighth grade level - giving you too much credit lol.

He could read at eighth - grade level, but experts say it takes an eleventh - grade education to read and understand the Constitution.

At the start of eighth grade, I was reading at a second - grade level.

We can say everything we want about how much [credibility] we should invest in a one - time test, but some of the most poignant discussions I've had are with parents who didn't find out until their child was in the seventh or eighth grade that she or he was way behind — not reading up to par, not doing math up to par, and not prepared to take on high - school - level work.

Cheverton's books score at a seventh - or eighth - grade reading level on the Lexile range, the framework that helps match grade levels to reading ability.

It began as a program exclusively for eighth graders and has grown into a school - wide initiative in which members of every grade - level team — from the sixth - grade «Navajo Team» to the eighth - grade «Sioux Team» — read one book from the spring book fair.

Two out of three eighth graders in this country can not read or do math at grade level.»

I know of no valid evidence to make the claim that two out of three eighth graders are below grade level in reading and math.

During Levinson's interactive PPE session, she presented participants with a case study focused on an eighth grade teaching team, which had to decide whether to promote or retain a 15 - year - old girl who had failed required classes and was reading way below grade level, but who also had worked hard to succeed in the face of numerous personal traumas.

DiGisi also meets with two groups of seventh - and eighth - grade students who read below grade level.

This year, it is attacking the adolescent literacy issue on several fronts: developing a diagnostic assessment to determine the kind of reading intervention individual students need; an academiclanguage building program called WordGeneration; analyzing data to see which programs work well in the schools; and a remedial reading course for eighth - and ninth - grade students reading at the third - grade level or below.

In 2013, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reported that 91 percent of eighth - grade learners with disabilities performed at or below the basic reading level, with 60 percent performing below basic.

Even middle class Black students are denied a meaningful education in the state's urban schools: Just 12 percent of them are taught to read at grade level in eighth grade.

A White student from a comparatively prosperous family in Virginia is more than four times as likely to be brought to grade level in eighth grade reading than a Black student from a lower - income family.

Mississippi and Michigan are the states in the country with the lowest percentage of African - American students reading at or above grade level in eighth grade.

A Black student from a comparatively prosperous family in Virginia is more likely to read at or above grade level at eighth grade than a White student eligible for the National Lunch Program.

Reading scores also inched downward at the eighth - grade level, staying flat for the fourth grade compared with 2013.

The film claims that 70 percent of eighth - grade students can not read at grade level.

The results show average reading scores in fourth grade reading dipped to levels of a decade ago and eighth grade scores declined as well.

To get specific: In Chicago Public Schools ~ white and Asian students made minor gains on NAEP in reading between 2003 and 2009 ~ but Hispanic students gained little and blacks gained nothing ~ so the achievement gap widened between whites and minorities at the fourth and eighth grade levels.

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

These results can be compared to those for New York City, where 24 percent of male Black students and 25 percent of male Hispanic students scored proficient in grade 8 reading, or they can be compared to the statewide averages: 21 percent of male Black students and 24 percent of male Hispanic students reading at the proficient level in eighth grade.

Chart comparing the percentage of Virginia public school eighth - grade students achieving at the proficient level or above in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress with the performance of public school students nationwide.

«I'm pleased that eighth - grade reading scores improved slightly but remain disappointed that only about one - third of America's fourth - and eighth - grade students read at the NAEP Proficient level,» said former Michigan Governor, John Engler, interim president of Michigan State University and chair of the National Assessment Governing Board that oversees NAEP, in a written statement.

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.

Seventh and eighth grade students who score at the 95th (or 97th) percentile in mathematics and reading in grade - level assessments take the SAT or ACT as an above - level test.

The data show that when measured as their own «state», Arizona charter students outpaced the gains realized by their state level peers in all four major tested subjects: fourth grade reading and math, as well as eighth grade reading and math.

The film also misrepresents some statistics from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, by saying that seventy per cent of eighth graders can not read at grade level, which is false.

The biggest gainer at the state level is clearly Florida, which saw statistically significant gains in fourth - and eighth - grade math as well as eighth - grade reading.

Meanwhile 40 percent of young women in eighth - grade read at the highest levels on NAEP, unchanged from 2013 and two points higher than levels 13 years ago.

Tennessee Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman, whose state's performance on NAEP this year was questioned by this publication after revelations of high exclusion levels (including a 27 percent exclusion rate for eighth - graders in special ed on NAEP's reading exam, and an 18 percent exclusion rate of 14 percent of eighth - grade special ed kids from NAEP's math exam):

Selections will be appropriate for eighth - grade students in terms of interest, experiences, length and reading level, as determined by the Content Review Committee.

«I could never go back to the old model,» says Ms. Mattivi, whose eighth - grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels.

Twenty - one percent of Latino eighth - graders read at the highest levels on NAEP in 2015 (unchanged from 2013, but five points higher than in 2002); 44 percent of white eighth - graders read at Proficient and Advanced (two points lower than in 2013, but three points higher than levels 13 years ago); 22 percent of Native eighth - grade students read at the highest levels (three points higher than in 2013, and four points higher than in 2002); and 52 percent of Asian eighth - graders read at Proficient and Advanced levels (unchanged from 2013, but 16 points higher than levels 13 years ago).

Each item will be linked to a reading selection and will be written at a level appropriate for eighth - grade students.

Researchers used scores of roughly 8 million students tested in fourth and eighth grades in math and reading / ELA in 47 states during the 2008 — 09 school year to estimate state - and district - level subject - specific achievement gaps on each state's accountability tests.

In fact, the largest positive change for a state in any tested subject area and grade level was a +10 change in scale score by California in eighth grade reading.

The college used to offer remedial classes to adults who scored at an eighth - grade level or below in reading and math on placement exams.

Fewer than a third of students are reading on grade level, and the math proficiency rate among eighth - graders is less than half the city average.

To earn the Governor's Award for Educational Excellence, schools and school divisions must meet all state and federal achievement benchmarks and achieve all applicable excellence goals for elementary reading, enrollment in Algebra I by the eighth grade, enrollment in college - level courses, high school graduation, attainment of advanced diplomas, increased attainment of career and industry certifications, and, if applicable, participation in the Virginia Preschool Initiative.

However, it is very difficult for me to find anything positive about the Houston results, particularly the reading proficiency levels for the fourth - and eighth - grade students in the Houston Independent School District, which were scored at 18 % and 17 %, respectively.

More than three times as many English language learner students score below the basic level on eighth - grade national math and reading exams as their white, English - proficient peers.

After just one year of using the Renaissance practice and assessment solutions, eighth - grade students» math scores on state testing quadrupled, and over a three - year period, school reading levels doubled.

It focuses on trends for two different grade levels — eighth and fourth — and two different subjects — mathematics and reading — over the past decade.

In the U.S., these gaps are particularly wide in Algebra I and English I. Nationally, 33 percent of eighth - grade students performed at or above the Proficient level on 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics assessments; 34 percent performed at or above the same level on 2015 NAEP reading assessments.

Thirty - one percent of fourth - grade and 24 percent of eighth - grade students perform at the below basic level in reading.

Thirty - six percent of fourth - grade and 34 percent of eighth - grade students perform at or above the Proficient level in NAEP reading.

When you look at NAEP results for 2013, California's growth in eighth grade reading scores was the top in the nation, getting close to the national average despite high poverty and second language levels and ranking near the bottom in per - pupil expenditures.

It is difficult to see any real growth across the board since 2011, with math scores backsliding to 2009 levels, eighth - grade reading flat for four years, and a small uptick in fourth - grade reading that is not a significant increase from 2013, which, in turn, was not significantly different from 2011.