Sentences with phrase «eighth graders performing»

Despite these aggressive reforms, the city fell midpack, with 24 percent of fourth graders performing below basic on math and 35 percent of eighth graders performing below basic on reading.

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.

(Eighth graders perform a Shakespeare play, aided by professional actors.)

In 1990, the average DC eighth grader performed math at what today would roughly equate to a third - grade level.

I can think of a few wonderful exceptions like our Wikipedia project at Millington High and the year my eighth graders performed Shakespeare at Harding's Renaissance Fair but at least 95 % of the learning my students have accomplished has never been seen outside my room.

During the past 3 decades, a broad national consensus has emerged identifying poverty - related disparities in child development and school readiness as a critical public health problem.1, 2 Children growing up in poverty fall behind their middle - class peers in development from the time they say their first words, usually shortly after their first birthday.3 In a 2009 population - based analysis, 4 40 % of low - income eighth graders performed below the basic level for their age group in reading.

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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.

The headline in the New York Times was «Eighth - graders in 36 states performed above the mathematics and science averages.»

In 2014, eighteen percent of eighth - graders performed at or above the Proficient level in U.S. history, 27 percent performed at or above the Proficient level in geography, and 23 percent performed at or above the Proficient level in civics.

According to data from the 2002 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), only 28 % of fourth graders, 31 % of eighth graders, and 24 % of twelfth graders performed at or above a proficient (i.e., competent) level of writing achievement for their respective grade level (Persky, Daane, & Jin, 2003).

By 1999 Feinberg, with fifth - through eighth - graders in trailers on a school parking lot, and Levin, with the same grade levels on the fourth floor of a public school surrounded by housing projects, had the best performing middle schools in Houston and the Bronx, respectively.

As packaged by the AFT, the numbers showed that fourth - and eighth - graders in charter schools were performing about half a year behind students in other public schools.

NCES noted a troubling trend in scores since two years ago: Even as the status quo held stable for most test takers, scores for the highest - performing eighth - graders (those scoring at the 75th and 90th percentiles) nosed higher, while those for the lowest - performing students (those at the 10th and 25th percentiles) declined in fourth - grade math, eighth - grade math, and fourth - grade reading.

East Chicago's St. Stanislaus School first graders perform their Thanksgiving play for the eighth graders at the school.

The state of California has implemented a number measures to close one of the largest and most persistent achievement gaps in the nation, Recently released scores for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a nationwide test for fourth - and eighth - graders in math and reading given every two years, show that California's students are still performing below the... Continue reading California: Moving the Needle on the Achievement Gap

The latest international comparisons, released in December 2008, found American fourth - and eighth - graders performing above average, but far behind their counterparts in several European and Asian countries.

CPS fourth - and eighth - graders are now performing on par or nearly so with many of their peers in math and reading on the benchmark national assessment test.

Less than half of our black eighth - graders are performing at grade level in math.

If 99 percent of black eighth - graders are not performing math at advanced levels, the odds are slim that they will pass the admissions test for Stuyvesant and other selective schools.

But the scores remain dismal: Only 40 percent of fourth graders and 35 percent of eighth - grade students are performing at or above a level defined as «proficient.»

While the 2016 election brought a renewed interest in engagement among youth, 4 only 23 percent of eighth - graders performed at or above the proficient level on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) civics exam, and achievement levels have virtually stagnated since 1998.5 In addition, the increased focus on math and reading in K - 12 education — while critical to prepare all students for success — has pushed out civics and other important subjects.

In 2017, Akili eighth graders outperformed the state in the percentage of students performing at Basic or Above as well as the percentage of students performing at Mastery or Above.

Eighth - graders attending those schools, the researchers find, perform consistently worse in math than students at non-boundary schools.

On problem - solving - Three Rivers» highest performing area - 100 percent of fifth - and eighth - graders passed state benchmarks.

This result occurred simultaneously with the same students performing satisfactorily on the standardized algebra test given to all eighth graders, exceeding the expectations of the administrators and other teachers.

In education, an area that has been called North Carolina's brand, the state breaks into the top 20 best performing states, ranking 20th in two indicators: fourth grade reading proficiency and eighth graders proficient in math.