Sentences with phrase «eighth grade reading proficiency»

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Consider these facts: After a decade of progress, in Atlanta, eighth - grade reading proficiency is still only 22 percent.

In fourth - grade reading, eighth - grade reading, and eighth - grade math, about one out of every four students reaches proficiency in the average large city.

Everything I know about the slow growing, cumulative nature of language proficiency suggests it is all but impossible to test prep your way to a high score on a third to eighth grade reading test, especially the more challenging Common Core tests.

For example, while every student should leave school being able to read, only 10 percent of students with disabilities in NYC demonstrated proficiency in English Language Arts on last year's third through eighth grade state exams.

In 2015 — 16, third - grade reading proficiency fell to 45.7 percent from 48.8 percent two years earlier, while eighth - grade reading proficiency was flat at 39.7 percent compared to 39.9 percent two years earlier.

Supplemental Table 1: Demonstrates that students who won lotteries for SSCs and students who did not are virtually identical on all measured characteristics, including race / ethnicity, gender, poverty status, eighth - grade reading and math proficiency, and English language learner and special education status.

These relative placements translate into deeply distressing overall proficiency rates for DCPS: 30 percent in fourth - grade math, 25 percent in fourth - grade reading, 17 percent in eighth - grade math, and 18 percent in eighth - grade reading.

In eighth grade reading, Missouri had the highest standards, though its proficiency rating was well below NAEP's, while Texas set the lowest bar for proficiency.

Fourth grade reading and math proficiency as well as eighth grade math proficiency have both garnered lower or the same scores since 2011.

n The report highlights data such as fourth grade reading scores, eighth grade math results and Kentucky's college - and career - readiness results showing a 30 percentage - point gap between students based on English language proficiency, a 25 percentage - point gap between African American and white students, a 20 percentage - point gap based on identified learning differences and also family income, and a 10 percentage - point gap between Hispanic students and their white peers.

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.

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.

Glaring examples of low proficiency benchmarks were set in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math.

In eighth grade reading, for example, there are 83 NAEP points between where New York, the top state, set its proficiency mark (at 282), and where Georgia, the lowest state, set its proficiency mark (at 199).

«Despite progress, we are still ranked 47th in fourth - grade reading proficiency on NAEP, 50th in eighth - grade math proficiency and 46th in graduation rate.»

They ranked 47th for fourth - grade math proficiency; 47th for fourth - grade reading; 50th in eighth - grade math and 48th in eighth - grade reading.

In education, an area that has been called North Carolina's brand, the state breaks into the top 20 best performing states, ranking 20th in two indicators: fourth grade reading proficiency and eighth graders proficient in math.