Sentences with phrase «fourth grade reading scores»

However, implementation of the third grade «reading gate» correlated with improved fourth grade reading scores in 2015.

For example, Keith Lance reports in the 2000 Colorado study, How School Librarians Help Kids Achieve Standards: «Schools with well - developed library media programs average 10 % to 15 % higher on fourth grade reading scores and 18 % higher on seventh grade reading scores than schools where libraries are less developed.

It shows fourth grade reading scores for the nation, California and New York.

Some Floridians claim education success because the Florida fourth grade reading scores, according the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test, have shown significant improvement: increasing from 205.7 in 1998 to 225.7 in 2009.

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.

In a statement made last week, Levesque said Arizona had been on the same track, and had been painting a «picture of overwhelming success,» despite a 49 - point gap between fourth grade reading scores on state and national assessments.

Using third or fourth grade reading scores to plan prison construction may be an urban myth but it's no joke that poor literacy skills are strong predictors of a whole host of serious social problems.

One statistic that was discussed during the conference was that third and fourth grade reading scores are now consulted to determine the number of prison cells that will need to be built in upcoming years, to hold low performers.

«The fourth grade reading scores in Wisconsin had kind of plateaued and it was at a level that [officials] were not real thrilled with, so they wanted to improve reading instruction in the state, to make sure that every teacher who is teaching grades K - 5, or special education, or getting a reading teacher, or reading specialist license, that they really know the theory and the content and the different ways to teach reading,» says David DeGuire.