Sentences with phrase «grade reading scores after»

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Seizing on a sharp drop in reading and math scores after students took their first Common Core tests, the teachers fed fears that kids would somehow suffer because their grades had fallen, when the opposite was true.

In the D.C. voucher experiment, African - American students in grades 2 through 5 reportedly increased their scores by an average of 10 national percentile points in mathematics and 8.6 points in reading after two years of private schooling.

After much analysis and deliberation, the board settled on cut scores on NAEP's twelfth - grade assessments that indicated that students were truly prepared — 163 for math (on a three - hundred - point scale) and 302 for reading (on a five - hundred - point point scale).

After being ranked first in the nation for education for more than a decade, Maryland is seeing its scores in a key national test drop for fourth - and eighth - grade reading and math.

If black students in the sample continue to lose ground through 9th grade at the rate experienced in the first two years of school, they will lag behind white students on average by a full standard deviation in raw math and reading scores and by more than two - thirds of a standard deviation in math even after controlling for observable characteristics (the gap would be substantially smaller in reading).

After a similar policy of ending social promotion in third grade was embraced by Joel Klein in New York City, Paul Peterson wrote about its impact on reading scores.

By eighth grade, after the cumulative benefits of a more coherent curriculum and more productive tests, students would begin to score much better on all reading exams, including those that aren't based on a school curriculum.

Just two years after the program passed, National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) scores for fourth grade reading bucked national trends and increased from 209 to 214 over a two year period.

Just two years after the program passed, National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) scores for fourth grade reading bucked national trends and increased from 209 to 214 over a two - year period.

When over 80 % of our children can not read proficiently by the third grade, it is a travesty of enormous proportions, particularly when compared with the TAKS reading test results (even after a significant standard deviation adjustment), their comparison with national norm - referenced test scores, and the wide gap between scores of white and minority children.

After just one year of using the Renaissance practice and assessment solutions, eighth - grade students» math scores on state testing quadrupled, and over a three - year period, school reading levels doubled.

[i] Research shows that after two years in reduced size classes, children in a second grade classroom scored higher on reading skills than those who educated in a regular class size.

(Mich.) As one of the few states in the nation with declining reading scores for more than a decade, Michigan officials are considering a plan to do away with traditional grade levels and instead to promote students only after they've shown mastery of content.

Students enrolled in WINGS for kids after school program have significantly higher math & reading scores, better grades, improved school attendance, and reported higher self - esteem and less anxiety than non-WINGS students.

For example, classroom concentration, attention, and memory immediately increase after physical activity, and student test scores correlate positively with regular participation.122 Research has also shown that elementary school students that perform better in reading, mathematics, and science have higher physical fitness test scores.123 In addition, children who perform below grade level academically and participate in a physical activity program are more likely to improve their performance on standardized tests than are their less active peers.124

«After integrating the Reading Horizons method into the Naturita Elementary Title I program for the past two years,» she explains, «all Title I students have increased reading confidence, grade levels, and test Reading Horizons method into the Naturita Elementary Title I program for the past two years,» she explains, «all Title I students have increased reading confidence, grade levels, and test reading confidence, grade levels, and test scores.

After controlling for students» economic and language backgrounds, Florida's fourth - grade scores lead the nation in both reading and math.

Shortly after our visit, Riverside decided to stop providing CPS with grade - equivalent score labels which CPS used to make the political claim that flunked students were simply reading or doing math «below grade level.»