Another grave concern for educators is the academic gap that would be left by teacher assistants that are primarily tasked with making sure students read on grade level by the third grade — presumably still a significant goal for Senator Berger who was a key driver in the state's Read to Achieve legislation that mandates all third graders read on grade level or be held back
from advancing to the fourth grade.
If a student fails to achieve that benchmark, then the law requires that student to be held back
from advancing to the fourth grade.
Read to Achieve: Several fixes to the Read to Achieve program, which keeps students
from advancing to the fourth grade if they can not read on grade level, were included in the House budget.
Not exact matches
About 86 percent of Indiana third graders passed a statewide reading exam in March that will allow them
to advance to fourth grade, a slight improvement
from 2012.
Learning
to use and understand vocabulary words
from these science areas at the third
grade level is key for students
to advance to fourth grade science and beyond.
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.