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For a current look at third grade reading proficiency in Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) schools, visit the public OUSD Scholastic Reading Inventory interactive dashboard.

The Oakland Reads 2020 Baseline Report is an in - depth analysis of the current state of third grade reading proficiency in Oakland.

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When their reading proficiency was evaluated at the end of this period, Facoetti found that those who showed difficulties with visual attention in preschool tended to also express difficulties with reading in second grade.

Lesaux's 2010 report, Turning the Page: Refocusing Massachusetts for Reading Success, formed the basis for a third - grade reading proficiency bill passed in Massachusetts in 2012, and Lead for Literacy, her series of memos aimed at policymakers and education leaders, has been used across the nation for literacy plReading Success, formed the basis for a third - grade reading proficiency bill passed in Massachusetts in 2012, and Lead for Literacy, her series of memos aimed at policymakers and education leaders, has been used across the nation for literacy plreading proficiency bill passed in Massachusetts in 2012, and Lead for Literacy, her series of memos aimed at policymakers and education leaders, has been used across the nation for literacy planning.

Context is also lacking in his September 3 column, where he noted, «The federal system uses a single yearly proficiency goal - for North Carolina, 68 percent of students reading on grade level this year - and requires all schools to make that number.»

For example, the report tells us that 70 percent of 8th - grade students at K12 - operated schools met proficiency standards in reading, as compared to 77 percent in all public schools in the same states.

One state's experience with the Lead for Literacy framework in its drive for 100 percent third - grade reading proficiency

Those rates could rise in the coming years, since 16 states and the District of Columbia have enacted policies requiring that students who do not demonstrate basic reading proficiency when they first take state tests in third grade be held back.

That's in large part owing to a provocative body of research showing that students who don't read with proficiency by the end of 3rd grade are far more likely to experience poor academic outcomes, including leaving school without a diploma.

Retaining students based on reading proficiency can produce large improvements in academic performance when compared to grade - level peers.

Because learning in most subjects depends on reading skills, reading proficiency can be considered the most important goal in the early grades.

NCLB requires annual testing of students in reading and mathematics in grades 3 through 8 (and at least once in grades 10 through 12) and that states rate schools, both as a whole and for key subgroups, with regard to whether they are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward their state's proficiency goals.

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Of the elementary and middle schools the survey respondents rated, 14 percent received a grade of «A,» 41 percent received a «B» grade, while 36 percent received a «C.» Seven percent were given a «D» and 2 percent an «F.» These subjective ratings were compared with data on actual school quality as measured by the percentage of students in each school who achieved «proficiency» in math and reading on states» accountability exams during the 2007 - 08 school year.

To see whether states are setting proficiency bars in such a way that they are «lowballing expectations» and have «lowered the bar» for students in 4th - and 8th - grade reading and math, Education Next has used information from the recently released 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to evaluate empirically the proficiency standards each state has established.

The authors use data from state tests and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to estimate changes to each state's proficiency standards in reading and math in grades 4 and 8 by identifying the difference between the percentages of students the state identifies as proficient and the percentages of students identified as proficient by NAEP, an internationally benchmarked proficiency standard.

Georgia's fourth - grade reading proficiency rate dropped from close to 100 percent in 2013 to less than 40 percent in 2015 — not because the kids were doing worse, but because the state's measure of how they were doing was getting closer to the truth.

Among its 8th - grade students, only 12 percent reached proficiency in reading and 7 percent in math.

Consider these facts: After a decade of progress, in Atlanta, eighth - grade reading proficiency is still only 22 percent.

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As students develop dual - language proficiency around third grade, they also receive reading, writing, and social studies instruction in their second language.

NEPC notes, for example, that 70 percent of 8th - grade students at K12 schools met proficiency standards in reading, as compared to 77 percent in all public schools in the same states in which K12 operates.

Peterson, Barrows, and Gift used data from state tests and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to estimate changes to each state's proficiency standards in reading and math in grades 4 and 8 by identifying the difference between the percentages of students the state identifies as proficient and the percentages of students identified as proficient by NAEP, an internationally - benchmarked proficiency standard.

Although the increases were most significant in the lower grades, the number of seventh - grade students with limited English proficiency who scored above the 50th percentile also increased — by 2 percent in language, reading, and spelling and by 3 percent in math.

At Blackstone Valley Prep, analysis of the suburban and urban students» scores on the 2013 state exams measuring proficiency in reading and math offers 80 different snapshots, by grade, subject and family income, with Blackstone students faring better than their peers on nearly all.

More than 41 percent of students in grades 2 - 6 demonstrated proficiency in math, and the proficiency rate for reading was 21 percent.

Those responsible for NCLB reauthorization, as they struggle forward, should first and foremost establish a clear and consistent definition of grade - level proficiency in reading and math, even if it means giving up the cherished but decidedly unrealistic goal of proficiency for all students by 2014.

Figure 1 shows a scatterplot of proficiency rates in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math as an example.

In many elementary schools, third grade marks the start of letter grades, standardized testing, and state - mandated reading - proficiency requirements.

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the «Nation's Report Card,» «proficiency» rates last year were below 50 percent for every racial and ethnic group, in both reading and math, in both 4th and 8th grade.

Achieving grade - level reading proficiency by third grade, when the focus shifts «from learning to read to reading to learn,» is a reliable indicator of success in school and in life.

The law requires that every state test every student from grades three to eight in reading and mathematics, then disaggregate each school's scores by race, limited English proficiency, disability and low - income status.

First Florida started grading its schools from A to F, based on the proficiency and progress of pupils in annual reading, writing, maths and science tests.

For example, while every student should leave school being able to read, only 10 percent of students with disabilities in NYC demonstrated proficiency in English Language Arts on last year's third through eighth grade state exams.

In 2015 — 16, third - grade reading proficiency fell to 45.7 percent from 48.8 percent two years earlier, while eighth - grade reading proficiency was flat at 39.7 percent compared to 39.9 percent two years earlier.

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And among the schools using the «phase - in» approach (taking over schools grade - by - grade), schools averaged a twenty - two - point gain in reading proficiency on the state assessment, and a sixteen - point gain in math last year.

Students in the 3rd, 6th, 8th, and 9th grades could be held back if they failed to score at the district benchmark in math and reading on nationally normed tests - the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) or the Test of Achievement and Proficiency (TAP) for 9th graders.

The writers of Risk believed that the goal of the early grades is to gain proficiency in the skills of reading, writing, thinking, and arithmetic in order to «provide a sound base» for high - school study.

These relative placements translate into deeply distressing overall proficiency rates for DCPS: 30 percent in fourth - grade math, 25 percent in fourth - grade reading, 17 percent in eighth - grade math, and 18 percent in eighth - grade reading.

As is well known, the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB) required states to test students annually in grades 3 - 8 (and once in high school), to report the share of students in each school performing at a proficient level in math and reading, and to intervene in schools not on track to achieve universal student proficiency by 2014.

State and NAEP proficiency rates are the average of 8th grade proficiency rates in math and reading.

These include students» grade level, Limited English Proficiency status and eligibility for subsidized school meals, their teachers» years of experience in North Carolina public schools, class size, school size, schools» racial and socioeconomic makeup, and schools» average math and reading scores on statewide tests.

As amended, the law required, among various other provisions, retention in grade 3 with intensive interventions for students who did not exhibit the requisite level of reading proficiency.

Students in grades 3 and 4 had the District's highest level of proficiency at 8.3 percent, which indicates that the District's focus on helping students to read on grade level by third grade is yielding results over time.

Ensuring that Kentucky's young children benefit from high quality early learning that keeps each and every child on a path toward proficiency in reading and mathematics by the end of third grade

In eighth grade reading, Missouri had the highest standards, though its proficiency rating was well below NAEP's, while Texas set the lowest bar for proficiency.

Keep in mind that about a third of TMA's entering ninth - graders start off at or below a fifth - grade level of proficiency in math and reading, and come from 50 to 60 different middle schools across Washington, Pardo adds.

While proficiency rates on grade - level math and reading tests hovered in the 30s, performance at surrounding traditional schools was worse.