Sentences with phrase «fourth and fifth grade take»

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Conley, the 1992 Olympic gold medalist in the triple jump and a former high school point guard in Chicago, had taken a job with USA Track and Field in Indianapolis, moving there from Fayetteville, Ark., where he had coached Mike Jr.'s AAU teams to fourth - and fifth - grade national titles.

This hydroponics project has now evolved into a transdisciplinary STEM approach to learning in that fourth and fifth grade students have taken an active role in improving the world in which they live.

Under a plan that takes effect next week, the district will be responsible for instruction in pre-kindergarten through fourth grade, and Crown Prep will oversee fifth through eighth grade.

Blazar and his co-author Cynthia Pollard were able to take advantage of earlier unrelated studies that had videotaped thousands of hours of fourth - and fifth - grade math lessons in Massachusetts, Georgia and Washington D.C..

The district has taken significant steps to expand the advanced and higher learning opportunities for all of its students (over 6,600), including reducing tracking for many courses All fourth - and fifth - grade students now benefit from the English Language Arts enrichment program and the district is in the second year of phasing in the rigorous, inquiry - based curriculum in its new International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Program to prepare its students for college preparatory courses at the high school.

Also new this year were 39 - item adaptive math tests in grades 4 - 5, which replaced 60 - item math SOLs fourth and fifth graders took last year.