Sentences with phrase «flat reading scores»

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Growing up in the hot, flat midsection of Mississippi known as The Delta, a boy's life tends to be centered around box scores read in the cool of early morning, The Sporting News, the St. Louis Cardinals on radio and TV — all that and church.

Despite widening gaps between highest - and lowest - scoring students, average scores in reading and mathematics were essentially flat from 2015 to 2017, with the exception of eighth - grade reading scores, where the percentage of proficient students increased by two percentage points.

After three years of relatively flat and sometimes declining test scores, K12, Inc.'s full - time students appear to have increased their proficiency levels in both reading and math, even as K12, Inc. serves a population with 62 percent of its student eligible for free - and - reduced price lunch, compared to 49 percent nationally.

Although some relatively small gains have been made (most likely due to Reading First's spread of phonics - based decoding instruction), high - school scores have been flat for decades.

This, however, was not the case for reading, where all subgroup scores are flat or, in the case of African Americans, down since 1992.

Scores ticked up in 8th - grade reading but otherwise remained flat, continuing a period of stagnation that's now persisted for a decade.

Reading scores also inched downward at the eighth - grade level, staying flat for the fourth grade compared with 2013.

In Texas, where there was supposed to have been an educational miracle, eighth - grade reading scores have been flat for a decade.

In the Capitol, he displayed a chart showing that while Minnesota's fourth - grade reading scores on the national test had been flat for years, Florida's had climbed.

Reading scores stayed flat for 4th graders and rose only slightly for 8th graders on the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress, results that some find disappointing after years of intensive attention to improving the reading skills of American stReading scores stayed flat for 4th graders and rose only slightly for 8th graders on the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress, results that some find disappointing after years of intensive attention to improving the reading skills of American streading skills of American students.

Teacher quality plays a role, but note how fourth - grade NAEP math scores have risen over the years while reading has remained flat, even though the same teacher usually handles both subjects.

Fourth - grade scores in 2017 were flat in math and down somewhat in reading, though the decline was not considered statistically significant.

Scores in math, reading and science posted by 15 - year - olds in the United States were flat while their counterparts elsewhere — particularly in Shanghai, Singapore and other Asian provinces or countries — soared, according to the results of a well - regarded international exam released Tuesday.

Reading scores were flat.

The average math and reading scores in high school have flat - lined with only marginal improvement among 9 and 13 year olds according to federal testing.

The NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) reading scores are flat, and everyone is wondering why.

There's been a flurry of test results this fall, and they've generally been showing a similar picture of flat reading and science scores, but falling math scores.

Reading scores were flat at both grades.

Fourth grade reading and math scores both fell, while eighth grade reading and math scores remained flat.

While reading scores were flat, math and writing scores went up.

It is difficult to see any real growth across the board since 2011, with math scores backsliding to 2009 levels, eighth - grade reading flat for four years, and a small uptick in fourth - grade reading that is not a significant increase from 2013, which, in turn, was not significantly different from 2011.

And in Grade 8 reading, all of Duncan's superstars had scores that were flat or took a dive.

It is particularly heartening that reading scores for eighth graders are up, after remaining relatively flat for the last decade.

According to the Nation's Report Card, released April 10, math and reading scores of students across the United States have remained statistically flat since 2015.

Most high school scores in math and reading have been flat since the 1970s.

The results are that math scores on National Assessment of Educational Progress declined for the first time since 1990 and reading scores are flat or decreased, the achievement gaps based on race and income persist, teachers are demoralized, causing teacher shortages, and, most tragically of all, children are receiving an education which harms them.

U.S.A.: Reading scores in the National Assessment of Educational Progress have flat - lined since 1998.

The National School Boards Association's (NSBA) Center for Public Education (CPE) in its analysis of the report found that while overall scores remained flat, more students scored high enough to reach the ACT college - ready benchmarks in each of the test's four subject areas - English, reading, math, and science.

At this point I would typically tell you that Destiny has some good parts and some bad parts followed by summarizing paragraph of my final thoughts and a score but I will do something different this time given that since the game has been out for a while now and you probably read that some critics flat out thought that the game was «bad» — I disagree with that statement.