Sentences with phrase «eighth graders»

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.

Previously, I worked with third through eighth graders in a public school, and have taught continuing legal education to attorneys.

The new analysis surveys data from about 200 million standardized math and reading tests given to third through eighth graders in every state between 2009 and 2012.

The technology improvements, along with the prospect of a free college education, have proved to be a big selling point for eighth graders who are considering the school.

I want to get to a question that came from an investment club of seventh and eighth graders who invest $ 1 million in fake money every year.

On the most recent test, 39 percent of fourth graders and 34 percent of eighth graders scored at or above the proficient level.

They help students during the summer before they take algebra 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.

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.

There was a significant drop in past year use among eighth graders, from 2.7 percent in 2016 to 2 percent this year.

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

The percentage of eighth graders achieving at the advanced level in mathematics rose three points, to 11 percent, which also represents a statistically significant improvement in performance since 2009.

The national average for eighth graders also was 149.

With only 24 % of incoming eighth graders performing at proficient levels, educators need tools and solutions to teach writing as a response to reading and build critical thinking skills in young learners.

Just 38 percent of the state's eighth graders passed the math test and 48 percent passed in reading.

Most eighth graders don't have sufficiently developed abstract thinking skills to master algebra.

However, only eighth graders made the above 90 % grade.

Only 42 percent of eighth graders met that mark, but that was still a significant improvement from just a few years earlier.

An trio of eighth graders asks when there will be speed cameras in front of every city school after their school lost three students to hit - and - runs.

Eligible seventh and eighth graders participate in a language immersion trip or exchange for each world language.

Black eighth graders gained twenty - three points from 1990 to 2015, Hispanic students gained twenty - four, and white students gained twenty - two.

Among the graduating eighth graders, however, only 5 percent began the year at or above grade level in both subjects.

For instance, when 64 percent of public school eighth graders today can't read at full proficiency, will they be ready to financially support the record high numbers of tomorrow?

«We're maturing as a company, but we're like eighth graders,» he said.

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

Overall, smoking in eighth graders decreased by an average of 1.3 percentage points each year.

There was a significant change in how eighth graders view K2 / Spice (which the survey calls «synthetic marijuana»).

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

And retained eighth graders were far more likely to drop out and at a younger age.

The number one fear of soon - to - be and new sixth graders, she said, is that industrial - sized eighth graders will pick on them.

Imagine high school seniors reflecting on where they think they will be in 12 months, or eighth graders contemplating their last year in middle school.

However, controlling for demographics does make the ten - year reading gains for eighth graders almost entirely disappear.

But as these two eighth graders figure out their places in the world, friendship and honesty shape the true core of this strong coming - of - age novel.

This represents a 10 percentage point increase from the publicly reported eighth grade results, and a 2 percent increase from 2015 when eighth graders were not allowed to take the accelerated math exams.

The recent state efforts to trim tests for third through eighth graders wouldn't shrink those fixed costs because they happen every day a test is given, regardless of its length.

The proportion of eighth graders scoring at or above proficiency levels in reading was the highest in the country.

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

Results indicated that eighth graders who had frequent use of a home computer also had both positive effects on academic achievement and on improving the school's social environment.

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.

One of the lessons I quickly learned — the hard way — when I began working with eighth graders was that they don't all like the same kind of reading material.

The same applies for the black - white and Hispanic - white gaps in both reading and math among eighth graders.

This test is given every two years to fourth and eighth graders in reading and math.

More than 75 percent of eighth graders scored proficient or advanced on the math exam, a big change from just 9 % in 2008.

«As schools implement these more challenging standards, it is my expectation that the reading performance of Virginia eighth graders on the NAEP will improve.»

In North Carolina eighth graders take the North Carolina Test of Computer Skills, which includes three major sections related to word processing, databases, and spreadsheets.

Before J.Law was an Oscar winner, she was a sweet little eighth grader from Louisville, Ky., who loved statement earrings.

«The board's expectation is that as middle school students meet these higher benchmarks, more students will enter high school on a trajectory for college and career readiness, and this increased achievement will be reflected in the performance of Virginia eighth graders on the national tests.»

Arizona also emerged as a leader in closing the achievement gap between white and Hispanic students, with Hispanic eighth graders making an 11 point gain and the gap shrinking significantly by six points.

On the 2007 Trends in International Math and Science Study, just 6 % of American eighth graders scored «advanced.»