Sentences with phrase «fourth and eighth grade proficiency»
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In fourth - grade reading, eighth - grade reading, and eighth - grade math, about one out of every four students reaches proficiency in the average large city.
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These relative placements translate into deeply distressing overall proficiency rates for DCPS: 30 percent in fourth - grade math, 25 percent in fourth - grade reading, 17 percent in eighth - grade math, and 18 percent in eighth - grade reading.
The inclusion of larger percentages of students with disabilities — 11 percent in both grades in 2009 compared with eight percent in 2007 — did not impact overall achievement as average scores and proficiency levels for the commonwealth's fourth and eighth graders were similar to 2007.
Fourth grade reading and math proficiency as well as eighth grade math proficiency have both garnered lower or the same scores since 2011.
n The report highlights data such as fourth grade reading scores, eighth grade math results and Kentucky's college - and career - readiness results showing a 30 percentage - point gap between students based on English language proficiency, a 25 percentage - point gap between African American and white students, a 20 percentage - point gap based on identified learning differences and also family income, and a 10 percentage - point gap between Hispanic students and their white peers.
Major sticking points included evaluating how much weight should be given to scores attained from language arts and math tests on the state's Assessment of Skills and Knowledge for fourth through eighth grades, and the High School Proficiency Assessment.
During the 2005 - 06 school year, 66 % of all students in third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and eleventh grade were proficient or advanced as measured by the Proficiency Assessment of Wyoming Students (PAWS).
However, it is very difficult for me to find anything positive about the Houston results, particularly the reading proficiency levels for the fourth - and eighth - grade students in the Houston Independent School District, which were scored at 18 % and 17 %, respectively.
Glaring examples of low proficiency benchmarks were set in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math.
«Despite progress, we are still ranked 47th in fourth - grade reading proficiency on NAEP, 50th in eighth - grade math proficiency and 46th in graduation rate.»
They ranked 47th for fourth - grade math proficiency; 47th for fourth - grade reading; 50th in eighth - grade math and 48th in eighth - grade reading.
In education, an area that has been called North Carolina's brand, the state breaks into the top 20 best performing states, ranking 20th in two indicators: fourth grade reading proficiency and eighth graders proficient in math.