Sentences with phrase «grade math scores grew»

That is slower growth than during the seven years preceding the federal law, when average fourth - grade math scores grew by 11 points, to 235 in 2003 from 224 in 1996.

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Fourth grade scores have largely stayed above the international mean, with math results improving significantly over time — 518 in 1995 grew to 539 in 2015 — and science scores remaining steady around 540.

Their team found that, as early as third grade, math scores help to predict who will be awarded patents in later life — that's the metric they used for «Einsteins» — but also that such scores explain less than one - third of the «innovation gap» between those growing up in high - versus low - income families.

North Carolina, Louisiana, and Tennessee all independently concluded that TFA corps members were the most effective out of recent graduates from other teacher preparation programs with which they had worked.151 A controlled study conducted by Mathematica found that students taught by TFA teachers earned higher math scores than students taught by non-TFA teachers with similar years of experience; the TFA - taught students learned approximately 2.6 months of additional material in math during the school year.152 Similarly, another study found that TFA first to third grade teachers» students grew 1.3 additional months in reading compared with their peers who had non-TFA teachers.153