Sentences with phrase «eighth graders almost»

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

Not exact matches

Between 1992 and 1995, the proportion of eighth graders using illicit drugs almost doubled; among tenth graders it jumped by nearly two - thirds; among seniors it escalated by nearly half.

Norway, a wealthy nation with per capita GDP almost twice that of the U.S., can only get 9 out of 100 eighth graders to NAEP proficient.

Eighth graders have gained almost two years.

The eighth - grader who can not make sense of algebra but has an almost mystical knack with machines is told to stick with the college prep track, because to be a success in life he must go to college and get a B.A..

Finally, results for the ICTA by grade level almost identically mirror those for the TOSRA: While both groups made gains over time, the rate of gain for eighth graders superseded that for seventh graders.

However, since the early 1990s, the Hispanic - White achievement gap for public school students has not narrowed for fourth - or eighth - graders in either reading or mathematics, both nationally and for almost every state.

FACT: The Common Core SBAC test is purposely designed that almost 7 in 10 eighth graders are deemed failures and that 6 in 10 third graders fail to reach their arbitrary «goal.»

The offer was taken up with great enthusiasm: almost 90 Amsterdam schools booked educational programmes for their eighth graders.