Sentences with phrase «eighth graders do»

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

U.S. eighth graders did slightly better last year on a national science test than did their counterparts in 2009.

Carbon School District fifth and eighth graders did better than the rest of the state when it comes to Direct Writing Assessment tests given this last school year.

Probably the eighth grader didn't either.

Not exact matches

I tried to think back to the hours I spent as an angsty eighth grader staring at my ceiling until an idea for a drawing came to me, doing nothing but listening to music and painting candle holders, drawing until I was so bored I actually wanted to practice violin.

The first time Vallejo High's new coach, AbeHobbs, met him, CC was an eighth - grader gnawing on a supersized Snickers bar.His cousin Nathan Berhel brought him over to be introduced; a pack of Hobbs «spitchers was doing wind sprints.

He does devious little things, like a misbehaving eighth grader.

Does your infant have more pimples than an eighth - grader?

The state began testing third through eighth graders on the more difficult material last April, despite protests from unions and teachers that schools did not have the resources or time to prepare.

Around one fifth of students statewide did not take the math and English tests required for third through eighth graders.

I took to middle school wrestling as a rather scrawny 80 - pound eighth grader, and in so doing, ironically became all too conscious of my homosexual orientation.

Fifty seventh - and eighth - graders from John Witherspoon Middle School in Princeton came to PPPL for a half day on March 4 to become scientists — doing a variety of hands - on science activities, from building a motor to sampling ice cream frozen with liquid nitrogen in a cryogenics demonstration, to watching cool plasma demonstrations of lightning, static electricity and stars.

Fifty seventh - and eighth - graders from John Witherspoon Middle School in Princeton came to PPPL for a half day on March 4 to become scientists — doing a variety of hands - on science activities, from building a motor to

I even had one student that Skyped with an author who was then in Hawaii doing research but happy to talk with an eighth grader.

It was at Lakeside, notes Gladwell on page 51, that «Bill Gates got to do real - time programming as an eighth grader in 1968.

With nearly 6.3 million students, California is still far from being able to provide a laptop for everyone, as the state of Maine, with its total number of 189,000 students, was able to do for its seventh and eighth graders (as of fall 2009, about half of Maine's high schools had laptops for each student).

«I heard the teachers were meaner and the eighth graders were mean,» said Vincent, an eighth grader who did the voice - overs for the film.

While 93 percent of U.S. eighth - graders failed to achieve an advanced score on the test, only 5 percent of them «Disagreed a lot» with the statement that they «do well in math.»

A small storm has blown up around the fact that certain math items on the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) do not align with what fourth and eighth graders are actually being taught in a few states — mainly places attempting to implement the Common Core State Standards within their schools» curricula.

«Eighth graders are desperately seeking the connection and acceptance by others that CPR offers, yet they often do not know how to go about doing this in school.»

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

Someday the average eighth grader may be able to do that level of mathematics.

African - American fourth and eighth graders also placed first on the reading exam, as did Hispanic fourth graders; Hispanic eighth graders ranked second.

The test would have taken about an hour for fourth graders and eighth graders and would have let parents know how well their children were doing on those basic skills.

Why tracking does not occur equally across schools By examining state - level tracking data, Loveless finds that tracking eighth graders in math courses is quite popular across all fifty states.

When Jennifer, another eighth grader, is asked what she would be doing if she wasn't at school, she answers matter - of - factly, «I'd be cleaning and taking care of my brothers and sisters.»

If we don't get it, they go over it; if we still don't get it, we do work sheets or go to after - school help,» said Leona, 13, an eighth grader at Indian Island School, who is taking an algebra course.

Among Florida ELL eighth - graders at middle schools that do not have a sufficient number of white eighth - grade students, only about 10 % scored at or above the proficient level in math.

Those standards will now mirror the national Common Core standards, which do not include Algebra I for eighth graders.

This doesn't square with the National Assessment of Eduational Progress, which reports that only 40 percent of Keystone State eighth - graders were Proficient and above in reading while 22 percent scored Below Basic.

In Colorado, where a new state law requires that districts allow parents to excuse their children from the state tests, 5 percent of seventh graders did not take the social studies test this year and 6 percent of eighth graders sat out the science test, state officials said.

(Eighth - graders had done worse in reading, too.)

The inclusion of larger percentages of students with disabilities — 11 percent in both grades in 2009 compared with eight percent in 2007 — did not impact overall achievement as average scores and proficiency levels for the commonwealth's fourth and eighth graders were similar to 2007.

Massachusetts eighth graders also did well in mathematics, coming in sixth, behind Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan.

They sought to bar retention of these fourth - and eighth - graders, but the court rejected their due process claim, concluding that students do not have a reasonable expectation of promotion and thus property right under this constitutional provision.

I do not know if you remember me or not, however PURE helped me in 1999 when I was an eighth grader in Chicago Public Schools.

As a rising eighth - grader, Victoria does not like to imagine her plight had she not attended GCP.

The average score of Hispanic eighth graders in Virginia was 256, which is statistically higher than the national average, but did not represent a significant change from 2007.

California did stand out with a 4 - point gain for eighth - graders» reading scores.

«Our sixth - graders are scoring as well or better now than our eighth - graders did in 2004,» said Tim Schell, director of curriculum and instruction for the Waunakee School District.

But he is simultaneously relieved to have the power to make changes and worried that he won't be able to go far enough if the district doesn't allow him to make outside hires.Quitman a school of 493 pre-kindergartners through eighth - graders in Newark's high - crime, high - poverty Central Ward has become a symbol of Superintendent Cami Anderson's new push to turn around the city's struggling schools by closing down the worst of them and replacing staff at others.

When two in five (40 percent) of eighth graders can not achieve even basic levels of comprehension in math, it's obvious we must do far more to improve Mississippi's education system.

While this move reduces testing time for third through eighth graders by an hour to an hour and a half, it does nothing to address the underlying issues with SBAC repeatedly raised by CEA members and leaders.

New York City's fourth graders are doing significantly better in reading since Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took control of the schools, but eighth graders have shown little improvement, according to the results of a national reading test released on Thursday.

The inclusion of larger percentages of students with disabilities and limited English proficient students in the 2009 Virginia testing samples did not significantly impact achievement as average scores, and proficiency levels for the commonwealth's fourth and eighth graders were similar to 2007.

That means the 83 - point gap in expectations was substantially larger than the 46 - point gap between what the average fourth and eighth graders can do!

In my first meeting as a personal learning coordinator at a small, rural school in Vermont, I asked a group of eighth graders what they wanted to do when they grew up.

«When we looked at the aggregated data for our eighth graders, some students who were identified were doing fine academically,» said Ms. Utter.

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

For the first time in 25 years, America's fourth - and eighth - graders are doing worse in math, at least according to The National Assessment of Educational Progress.