Sentences with phrase «for eighth graders»

The technology improvements, along with the prospect of a free college education, have proved to be a big selling point for eighth graders who are considering the school.

However, controlling for demographics does make the ten - year reading gains for eighth graders almost entirely disappear.

It's a similar story for eighth graders in reading, better than the national average, but they haven't maintained any significant growth in years.

You might, for example, give students in fifth grade a test designed for eighth graders.

Plan to come out and enjoy the presentations while showing your support for our eighth graders.

The national average for eighth graders also was 149.

The school is part of the Rhode Island Mayoral Academy, which began testing economic integration when they first opened in 2009, and has seen positive results — though half of all their students are low - income, currently 92 percent of the schools» seventh - graders are proficient in math and 86 percent are in reading, which is more than double the proficiency rate for eighth graders across the state in both.

The offer was taken up with great enthusiasm: almost 90 Amsterdam schools booked educational programmes for their eighth graders.

Differences between grade levels were not significant at either Time 1 or Time 2, and over time, gains were significant only for eighth graders (see Table 3).

We were talking about September 11 — a date that for this eighth grader marked history, not memory.

It all began when St. Joe's head coach Frank LaPorte (who died of cancer in 1997) approached me one year at the CIF state finals and told me to be ready for this eighth grader who was going to be a freshman starter for him the following season.

Volunteer and charitable endeavours are particularly important for eighth graders as their awareness of the world expands ever wider.

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.

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.

Guidance counselors also were asked not to talk to the eighth graders about the need to prepare for college, and the math midterm for eighth graders was dropped because it usually was scheduled about the same time as the state's high - stakes test.

Massachusetts has sharply improved math achievement for its eighth graders.

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

My fourth example, a Common Core National Standards question for eighth graders in New York State, must have been written by an advocate of «rigor.»

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

Scores increased only marginally for eighth graders and not at all for fourth graders, continuing a sluggish six - year trend of slowing achievement growth since passage of the law, which requires schools to bring 100 percent of students to reading and math proficiency by 2014.

Los Angeles attained the highest gains — 15 points — in reading scores for eighth graders compared with other districts over the past 10 years.

Finally, results for the ICTA by grade level almost identically mirror those for the TOSRA: While both groups made gains over time, the rate of gain for eighth graders superseded that for seventh graders.

«When we looked at the aggregated data for our eighth graders, some students who were identified were doing fine academically,» said Ms. Utter.

Over that same period, math scores for eighth graders in Los Angeles Unified increased by 13 points, which was higher than the national average.

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

The offer was taken up with great enthusiasm: 76 Amsterdam schools booked a total of 128 educational programmes for their eighth graders.

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

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.

For eighth graders, the strongest students are advancing.

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.

EXTRA EXTRA — READ ALL ABOUT IT: Once again, Massachusetts leads the nation on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests — reports released today show that the Commonwealth leads the nation on math and reading for eighth graders.

For eighth graders it was also found that the professional development of teachers in computer technologies was positively related to both academic achievement and to the improvement of the social environment of the school.

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

For the eighth graders, the most fun part of the lab work was when their cheek cells were swabbed.