Sentences with phrase «for at least some grades»

These must include content standards in at least reading and mathematics, aligned «high - quality» assessments, and achievement standards for at least grades 3 - 8 and once in high school.

In a Common Core survey conducted last October by the Consortium for the Implementation of the Common Core State Standards and the County Offices of Education, which covered 818 districts representing 83 percent of California's public school enrollment, only about one - third of school districts have created a scope and sequence for the the Common Core standards in either English Language Arts or mathematics for at least some grades.

Not exact matches

Branson was, and is, dyslexic, a learning disability at least partially responsible for his terrible standardized test scores and below - average grades.

Seen from this perspective, the Ideal Orgs were a much better grade of failure for David Miscavige as they at least left Scientology owning real estate.

If at the Date of Exercise, Participant is not in compliance with the Company's minimum stock ownership guidelines then in effect for Participant's job grade or classification, if any, Participant will not be entitled to exercise the Option using a «cashless exercise program» of the Company (if then in effect), unless the net proceeds received by Participant from that exercise consist only of Shares and Participant agrees to hold all those Shares for at least one year.

Last quarter, Vital reported an ultra-high grade intercept of 4m grading 157 grams per tonne from 76m «associated with the emerging high grade southern zone at Bella Tondi which now appears to extend for at least 200 metres».

There are the animal - grade things, where some occasions, at least, seem to enjoy aims for experience richer than necessary for mere survival.

For the rest of us, too, it is not as if the Creeds were proposed as tests — that the Church puts up tests that we must past with at least the grade of «D,» or we can not be admitted to membership.

The term was in use for at least forty years before USDA grading.

Beginning in 1986, the rule stipulated, entering freshmen would be eligible for scholarships only if they had achieved a grade point average of at least 2.0 in a college - preparatory core curriculum and, when it came to the two standard college entrance examinations, attained a minimum score of 700 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or 15 on the American College Testing Program's exam.

If the grades for his three intellectually daunting courses (Golf 1, Music 140, AIDS: What Every College Student Should Know), which are due on Sept. 4, don't raise his cumulative GPA to at least 2.0, then the man who may be the best player in the nation will be academically ineligible from Sept. 5, when Ohio State opens its season at West Virginia, until mid-December.

Any public school containing these grades with a minimum enrollment of 125 students per school site, have a breakfast program, and serve at least 40 % of its lunches to free and reduced price meals shall be eligible for a state financial supplement.

Thus, the third point in the Concussion Bill of Rights for parents is that the athletic director or administrator, coach, athletic trainer (if there is one) and team doctor have, at the very least, agreed upon and adopted a philosophy for grading and managing concussions before the start of the season which prohibits players who experience concussion signs or symptoms from returning to the same game or practice, and tjhat they use it consistently during the season, regardless of the athlete or circumstances surrounding the injury.

The mercy rule deserves to be eliminated, and hopefully will be, at least in time for this year's 6th - grade house basketball game against the Cheetahs.

A good night's sleep for grade - schoolers and teens means at least 10 hours of solid shut - eye, according to the...

First, it is important to begin expressing your milk for at least 120 minutes a day using a double electric hospital grade pump.

The New York State Sheriffs» Association this week called on the Legislature to include funding in the next state budget for at least one armed school resource officer at every grade school and high school, which could run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- As the New York State Sheriffs» Association requests the state legislature to include funding for at least one armed resource officer at every grade school and high school in New York State, they're finding support from New York State Senator - and former Erie County Sheriff...

Teachers are taken out of the classroom for at least 3 class days in the spring to do the grading, not to mention the days they had to miss in the fall to be trained to grade.

There will be no changes for standardized tests for 3rd through 8th grade English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics at least for the next couple of years.

At least 10 states and a number of cities, including New York City, have adopted standards that call for exposing students to some type of computer science instruction starting in kindergarten and running through grade 12.

I was told that the criterion for promotion was to receive at least two consecutive above - average gradings on the annual merit appraisals.

This suggests that a persistent low grade infection by bacteria that are not commonly detected by routine cultures could potentially be responsible for the irritative symptoms of UUI, at least for some individuals.

The goal of the United States and its negotiating partners is to slow Iran's «breakout time» — the timescale of a crash effort to porduce enough weapons - grade fissle material for one bomb — from an estimated 2 to 3 months to at least a year.

In this agreement, both states committed to dispose of at least 34 metric tons of excess weapons grade plutonium, primarily as MOX fuel for light water reactors (LWR).

Causes of PCOS include excess insulin and low grade inflammation, and if you've been on a ketogenic diet, or at least have explored it for a little bit, you may already know that a reduction in insulin levels and inflammation just happen to be two of the benefits of eating this way!

Being able to state that you lost exactly 10.5 pounds of fat and gained 2.5 pounds of lean mass in a given time frame might be great for supplement ads or to promote the latest weight loss fad, but numbers that precise aren't realistic without expensive, laboratory - grade equipment, or at least a very skilled professional.

I'd knock The Drop up half a letter grade were it not for its truly ruinous final scene — a last beat that stinks of studio interference, or at least of a failure of nerve on the part of the filmmakers.

Classroom behavior, grades, and attendance were all given a more prominent role in the retention decision, and an appeals process was, in theory at least, implemented for parents who wanted to dispute a retention decision — in part the result of an agreement with the U.S. Office for Civil Rights that was brought on by the 1999 PURE lawsuit.

That year, at least 25 percent of all tested students in a high school were required to pass the 10th - grade exit exam in each subject in order for the school to receive an Acceptable rating.

NCLB mandated reading and math testing in grades 3 through 8 and at least once in high school, and it required states to rate schools on the basis of test performance overall and for key subgroups.

My bigger idea is that in the future, students would receive a device in ninth grade that they could keep, at least for the duration of their high school career, and perhaps permanently.

NCLB requires annual testing of students in reading and mathematics in grades 3 through 8 (and at least once in grades 10 through 12) and that states rate schools, both as a whole and for key subgroups, with regard to whether they are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward their state's proficiency goals.

Looking at these data across all the elementary and middle schools that had test results for at least one grade in 2007, one finds a fairly consistent pattern of improvement.

To move our scholars from whatever grade or performance level they enter to be ready for success in the college of their choice and a life of active citizenship takes us at least five years.

During that trip, Mrs. Obama toured at least two private schools in Washington for the couple's daughters, Malia and Sasha, who are in the 5th and 2nd grades, respectively, at the private University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, not far from their home.

This negative effect persists at least through 8th grade, the highest grade for which we could obtain test scores.

Notwithstanding these errors, however, the difference between the current slew of textbooks and those from the new - math days of the 1960s is definitely worth noting: Accomplished mathematicians wrote many of the texts used in that earlier era, and the math — though misguided and inappropriate for the lower grades and too formal for the high school grades — was at least mathematically correct.

Given the underrepresentation of students who enter during early grades, this difference suggests that the average effects of attending a charter school across all grades, 4 through 8, may be less negative than indicated by our final analysis, at least for math.

For example, at Pembroke Elementary School, detentions slid from twenty - eight to three among students who had laptops, suspensions dropped from five to zero, and 91 percent of the students with laptops improved their grades in at least one academic area.

They were assigned to come in with at least 6 sources, correctly cited (which counted for a quiz grade).

We know from a 2003 study by Julian Betts and Jeff Grogger that there is a trade - off between higher standards (for what it takes to get a good grade) and graduation rates, at least for children of color.

A country's performance on any given test cycle (for example, PIRLS 4th - grade reading, TIMSS 8th - grade math) is only considered if the country participated at least twice within that respective cycle.

In Florida, for example, in 33 out of the 44 school districts where at least 10 schools were graded in 2017, at least one school received a grade of A while at least one other school received a grade of D or F.

An MCT is a standardized exam of basic skills on which a passing score is intended to signify that a student has acquired at least the minimum necessary skills and knowledge for promotion to the next grade or for graduation from high school.

To answer this question, we analyzed ten indicators of student performance at the 322 New York City schools that enrolled 9th - grade students for at least four years between 1999 and 2008.

Keep in mind that federal policy — at least the test - related elements of it — has concentrated on the elementary and middle grades and the only statutory NAEP mandates are for grades four and eight.

As for the legal question, as this brief from Dennis Cariello makes clear, Congress debated whether to allow states to let districts choose among a menu of tests, and decided against it — at least for grades 3 — 8.

On average, approximately 18 percent of third grade students has been subject to at least one formal investigation for child maltreatment.

Cordes analyzed 14 years of student achievement data for 876,731 3rd — through 5th - graders attending 584 district elementary schools located in the same community school district within New York City where at least one charter school served students in the same grades.