Sentences with phrase «eighth graders met»
Only 42 percent of eighth graders met that mark, but that was still a significant improvement from just a few years earlier.
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And more good news: the most recent sixth - grade proficiency scores surpassed AYP targets» for language and eighth graders met AYP language targets, missing AYP in math by one point.
The percentage of Virginia eighth graders meeting the national proficiency standard for mathematics also is significantly larger than in 2003.
The percentage of Virginia eighth graders meeting or exceeding the rigorous national standard for proficiency in science increased significantly in 2011.
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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.
«I first met Ron in 2010 when, working pro bono and working closely with then - Councilman [Vincent] Ignizio and me, he sued the city when it cut school bus service to seventh - and eighth - graders.
People flocked to a Massapequa school board meeting on Aug. 3, 2017, when the agenda focused on the plan to move sixth - graders districtwide into Alfred G. Berner Middle School with the seventh - and eighth - graders.
The large majority of third - through eighth - graders statewide failed to meet the higher standards on tests given in April.
In math tests administered to third to eighth graders, just 35.8 percent statewide were considered to meet or exceed the new Common Core standards.
When Astalos started teaching there in 2003, as few as 20 percent of the students met state benchmarks in math; now that's increased to 40 percent of eighth graders.
At New City School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Sharon Greaves» seventh and eighth graders use morning meetings to practice respect by greeting each other appropriately, sharing with the group, and listening to others while they are sharing.
«She opened up the school by making the morning announcements, visited classrooms and teachers, and also met with a group of eighth graders to discuss social issues, current events (such as Kosovo and Littleton, Colorado), and the challenges of being teenagers in this day and age.
«Tonight, I issue a challenge to the nation: Every state should adopt high national standards and, by 1999, every state should test every fourth grader in reading and every eighth grader in math to make sure these standards are met.»
The researchers found that in 1998, about 38 percent of the eighth graders sent to the district's Transition Centers — alternative schools for students who turn 15 before graduating from eighth grade — were still unable to raise their scores to meet the promotion cutoff after being retained and attending summer school again this August.
The Chicopee team is also planning meetings with two middle schools to coordinate Game Change students visiting and training seventh - and eighth - graders.
Overall, about 67 percent of third - through eighth - graders were proficient or better in Language Arts, and 75 percent of those students reached the same benchmarks in mathematics, according to data released today at the state Board of Education meeting in Trenton.
The parent union leadership, which has been meeting weekly for months, has urged the 359 parents eligible to vote to choose the joint operator option that essentially creates two separate schools: one run by LAUSD for students in preschool through fourth grade, and another run by Crown Preparatory Academy for fifth - through eighth - graders.
Even so, only a quarter of eighth - graders and one in five fourth - graders met the higher criteria of proficiency.
This year's nearly 13,500 eighth graders will be the first students required to meet the changed requirements, which are being phased in gradually.
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.
However, one entire class of eighth graders was expelled for not meeting their testing goals.
School report cards show 48 percent of METS ninth - graders passed their eighth - grade math and reading exams, above the state average.
Data from the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often described as the Nation's Report Card, also shows that U.S. students have work to do — more than 60 percent of eighth and twelfth graders each did not meet the «proficient» level for reading.