Sentences with phrase «enter other grades»

Children are admitted to Success's prekindergarten program through a lottery — the same way that students enter other grades — and students in the prekindergarten are then guaranteed a spot in kindergarten at Success.

Not exact matches

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

One is now a middle schooler and the other is entering third grade.

Remember, many of our children were eating chicken nuggets and other processed foods long before they entered the first grade.

We believe that if children are taught sound decision - making, relationship - building, conflict management and other valuable life skills from pre-school through 12th grade, more of them will choose to go to college or enter the workforce instead of joining gangs and participating in negative activity that will only land them in jail before they begin their lives.

In my twin boys» randomly assigned kindergarten classroom, some students entered school reading Magic Tree House chapter books, while other students were just learning their letter sounds, a four - grade - level spread among five - year - olds (pre-K to 2nd grade).

To evaluate the claim that No Child Left Behind and other test - based accountability policies are making teaching less attractive to academically talented individuals, the researchers compare the SAT scores of new teachers entering classrooms that typically face accountability - based test achievement pressures (grade 4 — 8 reading and math) and classrooms in those grades that do not involve high - stakes testing.

The data also indicate that patterns of student attrition at KIPP schools are typically no different from other local schools except that KIPP schools replace vacancies with fewer students in the last two years of middle school, and those late - arriving students are somewhat higher - achieving than students entering KIPP schools in 5th and 6th grades.

Conclusions Children who entered first grade with the weakest knowledge of the alphabet, phonemic awareness, and other early literacy foundations were most likely to be on - grade - level readers at the end of first grade if they were in a reading group which had a structured phonics format until February and in which a «no nonsense» approach to discipline was taken.

In order for a teacher preparation program to be nationally accredited, entering students must meet minimum grade point averages and demonstrate other academic abilities.

In addition, entering fourth - grade teachers are less likely to be inexperienced teachers than those moving into other elementary school grades.

Schools that enter large numbers of pupils into a fast - track ICT qualification could see Progress 8 scores drop if Ofqual or the DfE recalibrated grades to reflect more closely how pupils score in other GCSEs, a new analysis has claimed.

But a situation had developed where children were being speculatively entered for GCSEs in the hope they could «bank» a C grade and then move on to other subjects.

They are better prepared to enter elementary school, experience less grade retention, and have less need for special education and other remedial coursework.

When they get to sixth grade, for example, start giving your children their allowance every other week and then just once a month when they enter high school.

Some kids get excited about seeing their friends and advancing to a new grade, but many other kids in Michigan experience intense anxiety about entering a new environment.