Sentences with phrase «for eighth»

«If we gave it that way, to fifth graders, for example, then we would know in fifth grade that we have students ready for eighth grade math — and we have students at a third grade level.»

Math: Scholars prepare for eighth - grade algebra and use math in real - world contexts, such as through designing their dream bedroom.

Each item will be linked to a reading selection and will be written at a level appropriate for eighth - grade students.

I just hopped onto the NCES site and generated a state - by - state ranking for eighth graders on the most recent 2011 math test.

Selections will be appropriate for eighth - grade students in terms of interest, experiences, length and reading level, as determined by the Content Review Committee.

Tennessee Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman, whose state's performance on NAEP this year was questioned by this publication after revelations of high exclusion levels (including a 27 percent exclusion rate for eighth - graders in special ed on NAEP's reading exam, and an 18 percent exclusion rate of 14 percent of eighth - grade special ed kids from NAEP's math exam):

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

Reading scores for eighth - graders in poverty rose 3 points, English learners rose 6, and those with disabilities rose 7 points.

California did stand out with a 4 - point gain for eighth - graders» reading scores.

In Los Angeles, fourth - grade math scores declined but rose 3 points for eighth - graders.

Since I had just edited a reporter's story out of Vermont, about eighth - graders trying out new Core - inspired learning techniques, I thought I would take the literacy test for eighth - graders.

For eighth - graders across the district, the report showed a four - year gain of 4 percentage points to 38 percent in reading proficiency, and a 5 percentage - point gain to 44 percent in math proficiency.

This trend is most evident in the scores for eighth - grade reading and math.

When separated and measured as if they were their own state, Arizona charter students rank first in the nation in eighth - grade math, and second for eighth - grade reading.

CCSA congratulates El Camino Real Charter High School's Academic Decathalon team for its eighth overall win, and Leemore Middle College High School's Academic Decathalon team for placing first in Division IV at the 2018 U.S. Academic Decathalon this Saturday, April 21, 2018.

In 1973 I returned to California after successfully interviewing for an eighth grade math position with the Franklin - McKinley School District in San Jose.

When measured as their own state, Arizona charter students rank first in the nation in eighth - grade math, and second for eighth - grade reading.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, results from the study can help parents, students, and community organizations focus on strategies for improving students» attendance and course achievement for eighth and ninth graders to help ensure their on - time graduation from high school.

Effects of intensive reading intervention for eighth - grade students with persistently inadequate response to intervention.

He suddenly found himself attending an elite private preparatory school, Riverdale Country School, for eighth grade.

But it was not a good predictor of whether a student was ready for eighth grade algebra.

The new emphasis on increased rigor in mathematics was so strong that the district shifted toward pre-algebra instruction in the elementary grades to better prepare students for eighth - grade algebra.

While Virginia students again ranked among the nation's highest achievers, the 2009 NAEP results for the commonwealth show that overall achievement among Virginia fourth graders is similar to achievement in 2002, while the overall average reading score for eighth graders has declined.

For eighth graders, the strongest students are advancing.

That means that tuition increases will outstrip the overall rate of inflation — which is running about 4 percent these days — for the eighth straight year.

In reading there have been gains in fourth grade, but the national scores for eighth graders were essentially the same in 2009 as they were in 1998.

Those standards will now mirror the national Common Core standards, which do not include Algebra I for eighth graders.

Yet last spring, for the eighth year in a row, 100 percent of YES graduates were accepted into four - year colleges, including some of the top universities in the country.

The results aren't likely to move Louisiana much in national rankings: In 2011, state four - year graduation rates ranged from 59 percent in Washington, D.C., to 88 percent in Iowa, with Louisiana tied for eighth - lowest.

The National Center for Education Statistics, which administers the test, estimates that Maryland's scores were 7 points higher for fourth - grade reading and 5 points higher for eighth - grade reading because of the exclusion.

For my eighth graders who experienced this as a part of their curriculum, it became a way of handling future conflicts, an understanding of the process to make a change, and an increased awareness of an often hard - to - see problem.

Art, history, engineering, language arts, and technology, both old and new, come together for eighth grade students in this rich project learning expedition at King Middle School in Portland, Maine.

Lehrer spent his spring break rewriting the Robohand assembly manual into language better suited for eighth - graders.

This year, it is attacking the adolescent literacy issue on several fronts: developing a diagnostic assessment to determine the kind of reading intervention individual students need; an academiclanguage building program called WordGeneration; analyzing data to see which programs work well in the schools; and a remedial reading course for eighth - and ninth - grade students reading at the third - grade level or below.

In 2007, the NEAP reported that for eighth - graders, the achievement gap between minority and white students had not narrowed.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upholds the constitutionality of the «off the top» funding method used to allocate Chapter 1 aid to pupils in church - affiliated schools; it is the first appellate court to rule on the question, on which federal district courts have been divided.

At the recent launch event for the CUNY Institute for Education Policy, David Coleman, now known as the «architect» of the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards, was asked by a member of the audience why a teacher, who cited the Common Core standards emphasis on «informational texts,» would claim that she was told to «put away her literature books and photocopy microwave instructions» for her eighth - grade students.

Researchers from Santa Clara University and the University of Maryland compared learning outcomes for eighth graders who completed a six - week unit on early 19th - century U.S. history using traditional instructional methods versus project - based learning.

In Delaware, the math proficiency rate for eighth graders has gone from over 60 percent to below 40 percent.

The musket demonstration is part of Monastero's living - history presentation for eighth graders, a multiday lesson on the Civil War he delivers in the guise of an army private named John Watkins.

It began as a program exclusively for eighth graders and has grown into a school - wide initiative in which members of every grade - level team — from the sixth - grade «Navajo Team» to the eighth - grade «Sioux Team» — read one book from the spring book fair.

In a motion filed on Oct. 6 with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the districts said that the landmark St. Louis plan, if allowed to continue, could compromise their right «to a fair and orderly trial.»

Last Monday, just two weeks before the scheduled opening of school, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis denied the black plaintiffs» request to halt the new plan.

For the Halloween Math Goofy Glyph for Eighth Grade, click here.

Working together on op - ed drafts, poring over survey data to determine how to present a powerful story, practicing a presentation for the eighth time, so it's just right: These are the types of 21st - century skills that writer and educator Tony Wagner declares that we need.

For instance, the U.S.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuitupheld the expulsion of an Arkansas eighthgrader who wrote a letter in which he usedthe F - word ninety times in four pages anddescribed his wish to sodomize, rape, and killa female classmate.

And in another case that has gained widespread attention, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit last week refused to delay implementation of a voluntary student - desegregation plan involving public schools in St. Louis and its suburbs.

Either way, the gains for eighth graders were only half as large, and they all but evaporated by twelfth grade.

The Gallagher family is back for the eighth season of this darkly humorous dramedy about a poor but scrappy family trying to get by in a rapidly - gentrifying south side Chicago neighborhood.

The Belgian director Joachim Lafosse hits Morocco for his eighth feature, Keep Going.