Sentences with phrase «few grades»

The six reconfigured schools — Blackshear, Highland Heights, Hilliard and Wesley elementary schools, Cullen Middle School and Woodson PK - 8 — would serve fewer grade levels in 2018 - 19 than they do now.

Not only did the children who experienced an intentionally aligned pre-K-3 grade experience outperform their peers on achievement tests in third grade and seventh grade, but they also had fewer grade retentions by age 15 and fewer special education placements by age 18.

Patients who received accelerated RT experienced fewer grade 3 toxicities (10 reported for conventional RT vs. six for hypofractionated RT) and a lower rate of death from hypoxia (two for conventional RT vs. one for hypofractionated RT).

Although middle schools offer far fewer grades than K — 8 schools, Florida middle schools on average enroll 146 more students than their K — 8 counterparts; as a result, typical grade cohorts are almost three times as large.

Maybe NOT for kindergarten and the first few grades... but for Jr. and Sr..

Children of involved fathers do better at school, including better grades, fewer expulsions, and repeating fewer grades.

Children in the Abecedarian Project had long - lasting positive impacts that led to higher IQ and achievement test scores, fewer grade retentions and placements in special education, higher levels of college graduation and job - holding, and healthier outcomes as adults.

John, I think if they can cover up a pedophile scandal for years they to better their football team they can manage to skew a few grades and allow the players to graduate... they lost all credit.

I believe our children will benefit from any amount of home education we can afford to give them - whether it be summer school, part time homeschooling, homeschooling through only a few grades, or even homeschooling all the way through to high school and graduation.

But this was a few grades higher: the Metropolitan Detention Center, in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a windowless cage looming over New York Bay.

However, as the film further unfolds, being behind a few grades turns out to be the least of the portly pepperpot's problems.

By contrast, the Common Core requires a «major work» focus in each grade, with accompanying concepts to be introduced and taught to mastery in just a few grade levels.

But audit testing, in a few grades at year's end, using secret tasks, is inherently unable to improve teaching and learning day in and day out in all classrooms, as my proposal is designed to do and any attempt at fair and comprehensive reform must do.

Table 1 compares a few grade 4 California standards with their Common Core counterparts.

At programs like the NET and ReNEW Accelerated, students typically read and do math a few grade levels below where they should be.

This began in a small way with just a few grade levels and has now spread throughout the entire school.

If the number of participating students is small and widely dispersed across grade levels it is less likely that any such permissive choice could be implemented, but more likely if the number is large and concentrated in just a few grades.

By requiring some sort of feedback (answers to a few questions in this case), and associating a few grade points with that work, we help to ensure that students sink their teeth into the materials and don't just absentmindedly scan it.

I know your typical approach is to start new schools with a few grades and ramp up over time.

This can be achieved by testing at just a few grade levels (as in England, Canada and Singapore), rather than at almost every grade level.