Sentences with phrase «eighth graders on»

The overall performance of Virginia eighth graders on the 2017 national mathematics and reading tests also was little changed from 2015.

Their scores, and the scores of eighth graders on the 2011 NAEP in mathematics, will be linked to the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) assessment scale.

I just hopped onto the NCES site and generated a state - by - state ranking for eighth graders on the most recent 2011 math test.

The rankings in the first - of - its - kind report are based on vocabulary scores of fourth and eighth graders on the 2011 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) in reading.

We should know — we spend our days with 100 fifth through eighth graders on a team at Williston Central School in Vermont called Swift House, named for the...

The performance of fourth and eighth graders on a national test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, has also improved.

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.

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As soon as I turned 13, she presented me with my first tube of cherry - red lipstick and my first pair of high heels — three - inch heels they were in those days, and I thought them not only uncomfortable but incredibly hideous — and from then on made me go to church thus shod and painted, indistinguishable from the other eighth - graders whose arms hadn't had to be twisted.

Every bright eighth - grader congratulates himself on the discovery that the assertion of the Declaration of Independence is not literally true.

And, unbelievably, on the last retreat a month ago, an eighth grader came out with this one: «In church on Sunday, it's like it's all about us or something.

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.

As an eighth - grader he started on the high school varsity baseball team.

On the day SportStars visited The Range, Birse's session was followed by an eighth - grader that had flown in with his father from Alaska.

SH's eighth - graders all go on to wonderful, challenging high schools.

They also pointed out how the education department has made recent adjustments to standardized testing, such as reducing the number of questions and testing time on state assessments for students in grades 3 through 8 this school year, and receiving a federal waiver to stop «double testing» in math for seventh and eighth graders through a combination of state and federal testing.

There is more urgency to make changes that would affect students, as third through eighth graders begin taking a second round of Common Core - aligned exams on April 1.

Educators who teach English and math to third through eighth graders will be evaluated based partially on the federally required state tests in those grades and subjects.

On statewide tests for third through eighth graders this year, New York City's most troubled schools kept pace with the rest of city schools, showing similar gains in reading and math.

For the first time, New York City students caught up to their peers around the state in English, officials said on Friday in announcing the results for the standardized tests given to third through eighth graders this year.

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.

During the course of the experiment, sixth, seventh and eighth graders learned about science and social studies in one of two ways: 1) material was presented once, then teachers reviewed it with students three times; 2) material was presented once, and students were quizzed on it three times (using clickers like the ones in Bain's current classroom).

International statistics on seventh - and eighth - graders are just as variable as the U.S. data.

The son of UD alums, Sweeney first visited the Delaware Biotechnology Institute as an eighth grader, for a boot camp on basic laboratory procedures, which sparked his interest in research.

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

These findings come from the 2017 Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey of eighth, 10th and 12th graders in schools nationwide, reported today by the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, along with scientists from the University of Michigan, who conduct the annual research.

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

The film which stars newcomer Elsie Fisher focuses on eighth - grader Kayla as she makes her way through the last week of middle school.

I decided to concentrate on website evaluation in general,» such as teaching eighth - graders how to validate sources.

A study of 648 seventh and eighth graders enrolled in Kids Voting USA found that participation in the program increased their political knowledge and their ability to choose a political candidate based on the issues that the candidate and student agreed on.

At KIPP Ascend, where many fifth - graders start one or two grades behind in reading and math, after four years at the school, 100 percent of eighth - graders passed math and 94 percent passed reading on the Illinois Standards Achievement Test.

Eighth - grader Quin uses his passion for electronics to teach fellow students about 3D printing, arduinos, and other hands - on lessons in STEM skills.

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

Eighth graders at the author's school taught themselves psychology by writing their own primer on the topic.

Review: Though a lot of statistics on the site are disturbing (e.g., 14.9 % of eighth - graders have had a drink in the last 30 days), it's very important that parents and educators have access to this information.

Such is the case with sixth - graders, who are usually nervous about starting middle school and are sometimes much smaller than the eighth - graders, said Judy Klinek, principal of Florida's Loggers» Run Middle School, which has 56 portables on its campus this year.

But a visitor rounding the corner would see a tame scene: fifteen or so eighth graders in a circle, passing on a series of gentle taps to each other's hands, until the chant stops and the last student to be tapped — with laughing and good - natured eye rolling — is «out.»

Eighth grader Alan was to play the lead of Charlie Gordon in our middle school production of «Flowers for Algernon,» that remarkable tale of a man who is mentally retarded yet, through surgery perfected on a mouse named Algernon, acquires an IQ of 200 - plus, only to regress to his...

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.

In the weeks prior to Memorial Day, classes work on Memorial Day lessons put together by the school's gifted and talented students, and sixth graders view a Power Point presentation about the history of the holiday created by eighth graders.

Eighth graders have a graduation that is combined with seventh grades recognitions; but the eighth graders stay on after the ceremony to share refreshments with their paEighth graders have a graduation that is combined with seventh grades recognitions; but the eighth graders stay on after the ceremony to share refreshments with their paeighth graders stay on after the ceremony to share refreshments with their parents.

The sharpest gains for these high - performing eighth graders in Texas were between 2000 and 2005, building on the improvement made in math by Texas fourth graders four years earlier.

We already know from national assessment data that about half of eighth graders with college - educated parents fail to clear the «proficient» bar on NAEP.

The musket demonstration is part of Monastero's living - history presentation for eighth graders, a multiday lesson on the Civil War he delivers in the guise of an army private named John Watkins.

This is all on top of the fact that its overall scores are still distressingly low (e.g., 19 percent of its eighth graders read proficiently).

Japan is not usually considered a slouch on international math assessments, but 43 % of its eighth graders fall short.

«It's better than reading a book,» says Charlotte, another Skowhegan eighth grader, a former «B» student in social studies who is now getting «A's,» in part because of her enthusiasm for researching and reading on the Internet.

Researchers from RAND studying the first year of Vermont's implementation of portfolio assessments for fourth and eighth graders found that the development of portfolios (work was selected by students with input from classroom teachers) had several positive educational outcomes: Students and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on student work.