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Graduate programs across the nation usually require a minimum GRE score for admission — in combination with a minimum grade point average, recommendation letters, and other extraneous variables.

TMT will now make its first annual contribution to The Hawaii Island New Knowledge (THINK) Fund, a program that promotes science, technology, engineering, and math education across grades K - 12, secondary, and post-secondary education.

But the same local administrators who have been charged with getting more students across the graduation stage also have considerable leeway — via course grades, credit recovery programs, and shadier practices — in determining whether students have earned the privilege.

As principal of Ariel Community Academy in Chicago, Dr. Coleman and her staff facilitate a unique program that focuses on financial literacy across all grade levels and subject areas.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Service Learning in Action Across the Grades An Education World article explains ways that service projects enhance classroom programs.

Included: Descriptions of a handful of exemplary school - to - work programs across the grades!

Another Obama effort, The Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy grants program, assists states in creating or maintaining a comprehensive literacy plan for children birth through grade 12; creating quality learning environments across the age span has the potential to promote academic outcomes for all children, including EL learners.

Many thus far have called for more arts programs ~ which have been proven to boost student test scores and grades across the board.

School - based reward programs that offer students such incentives as cash, free MP3 players, or other gifts appear to produce improved reading achievement across grade levels, preliminary findings from an ongoing research project suggest.

Program present 25 great ideas from teachers — ideas that are sure to get kids across the grades excited about reading.

And then, back inside the school again, class formation, designing learning programs with small numbers of students across a wide range of grade bands or year levels.

The results were outstanding so Tony decided to roll out the one - to - one program across the grade three and four classes.

Khan was approached by the Los Altos, California, school system and developed a program for experimental use of Khan Academy material in two 5th - and 7th - grade classes; the latter held children from «across El Camino Real,» the poorer part of Los Altos.

«There was a need, however, for a more integrated and unified program to promote core values across every grade level.

Read — and Pedal — Across America Georgia fourth - grade teacher Faye Smith's PAUSE (Pedal Across the United States Every day) program pairs reading and cycling.

Nearly 20,000 demonstrators marched across the Brooklyn Bridge for a chance to denounce the mayoral front - runner for undermining one of the few educational programs in the city that gets high grades from parents.

Today, Clifton Public Schools has standardized Accelerated Reader 360 across grades 2 — 11, Star Reading in grades 2 — 8, and the Renaissance English in a Flash ® vocabulary - building program in ESL classes.

The 60 - minute tests, available for up to 4 administrations a year, provide a common measure for instructional feedback across grade levels, schools, and districts as part of a comprehensive standards - based assessment program.

A 2009 study of seventh and eighth grade students at 10 Boys & Girls Clubs across the country found that those attending afterschool programs skipped school fewer times, increased school effort, and gained academic confidence; moreover, the first two outcomes cited above increased as the number of days attending afterschool programs increased (Arbreton, Bradshaw, Sheldon, & Pepper, 2009).

Implemented in eight secondary schools and a local college, this program was designed to build students» college preparedness by training instructors in shared teaching strategies and best practices, strengthening academic rigor in the classroom, and promoting collaboration and consistency in teaching and study strategies across grades and schools.

The studies [xi] of the Georgia and Oklahoma universal pre-k programs get the highest grade for external validity because the programs in these two states have been held up by President Obama and others as models to be replicated across the nation.

The studies of the Georgia and Oklahoma universal pre-k programs get the highest grade for external validity because the programs in these two states have been held up by President Obama and others as models to be replicated across the nation.

Positive family - program connections have been linked to greater academic motivation, grade promotion, and socio - emotional skills across all types of young children, including those from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.Sandra L. Christenson, «Families and Schools: Rights, Responsibilities, Resources, and Relationships,» The Transition to Kindergarten, ed.

In their special strategies study, Stringfield et al. (1997) found that reform programs that focused on the primary grades had larger achievement gains in reading than schools that spread their efforts out across the elementary grades or into the secondary grades.

Teachers at every grade level follow prescribed pedagogical procedures, thus creating a degree of consistency and uniformity for learners throughout the program and across time.

This study (the first with the 2011 edition of the Second Step program) conducted a randomized controlled trial over a 1 - year period with 7300 students and 321 teachers in 61 schools across six school districts, from kindergarten to second grade.

Through the support of the program, the school is starting to see gains in student achievement, with scores increasing across all grades in reading and writing over last year.

NSCS curriculum offers an emphasis on business and economics across grades K - 12 and the opportunity to participate in the prestigious International Baccalaureate (IB) program in grades 11 - 12.

All teachers across all grade levels were involved in implementing the program.

She is currently overseeing the elementary program, secondary program, special programs, individualized learning, and assessment departments for grades K - 12 across 36 schools in three regions within Texas, impacting over 19,000 students and growing.

ASCD's proven track record of delivering top - quality professional programs that are relevant and applicable to a variety of teaching situations makes attending the 2011 Summer Conference a must for educators across various grade levels and disciplines.

The Office of Academics is responsible for the development and leadership of the district's academic goals and policies, directing the instructional program pre-K to grade 12 across all content areas and special programs, and it engages constituent groups, teachers, principals, other staff, parents, and community in the ongoing process of educational reform, curriculum planning and implementation, and program development.

Other school structures like All School Meeting, school - wide service time and buddy program help to not only ensure students know their classmates, but that students develop connections and friendships across grades.

It will include nearly 200 teachers and 10,400 seventh - grade students in 66 public middle or junior high schools across North Carolina, which researchers find provides a demographic sampling that is more representative of the entire nation and thus more likely to reliably reflect the impact of the program.

There is strong evidence of a common program of instruction that is properly scoped, sequenced and articulated across grade levels and has been aligned with developmentally appropriate practices and student language proficiency levels in English and the students» first language.

Now that all 37 elementary schools have implemented the Extended Day Enrichment Program, all pre-K to fifth - grade students across the community can participate in an enriching and educational environment that further facilitates student success.

Through its Schools to Watch ® (STW) program, the Forum has developed criteria for identifying high - performing middle - grades schools, and created tools to help schools use the criteria and expand the program states across the United States and selected and honored hundreds of successful schools across the country during the Annual STW Conference.

This kind of informational learning can be found in collaborative teacher teams in schools across the country as well: an ELA teacher team discusses incorporating a new book into the curriculum or a grade team learns how to use a new software program to input grades.

School - Year AYD (SY - AYD), for students in grades 8 - 10, is for advisory, homeroom, and after - school programs, and provides students with strategies to be successful in mathematics, science, and across their school day.

What does matter is having a solid portfolio system across grades; high - quality work; students who are deeply invested and well prepared; strong organizational logistics (it's helpful to have a school handbook that explains these programs); and clear roles for panelists.

The school, for gifted students in grades 2 to 5, will be run as a magnet program, so it will be open to children from across the county and will operate without an attendance zone.

Our pre-K through 6th grade solution brings learning to life across six different subjects, all in one intuitive, online program.

How does a single school program address the needs of children across skill and grade levels?

Because programs produce teachers across a range of grades and subject areas, looking at the overall and average student growth achieved by graduates provides meaningful insight into program quality and should anchor the accreditation process.»

Combining a classical literacy curriculum unavailable to our target community with a unique and progressive blended learning model across content areas, our curriculum is poised to achieve our mission of matriculating all fifth grade students positioned for success in a rigorous Middle Years IB Program and a life of opportunity.

By developing an extensive program that uses movement - based techniques to build a strong foundation in literacy in math and reading, and healthy habits, the NMF will show immediate results through improved grades and will continue to benefit communities as math scores improve across the country.

Establishing the components of an effective literacy program is a structural cornerstone for improving student performance across the grades and subject areas.

In order to address the challenges of educating English learners in the middle grades (4 - 8), the national Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners (CREATE), conducted a program of research designed to develop language and literacy skills while building grade level skills across the content areas.

The 13 school teams attending the Summer Design Institute, part of CityBridge's Breakthrough Schools: D.C. initiative, represent the diversity of Washington, D.C.: a mix of charter and district schools serving students across the grade spans and embracing a myriad of academic models from Montessori to bilingual immersion to a residential program for students in foster care.