Sentences with phrase «grade reading tests»

National tests for years have indicated that over 50 percent of students in urban poverty schools fail 4th grade reading tests which indicate that these students can not read.

Students scored lower on the fourth - grade reading tests and on both math tests.

Although the gap is closing among students completing algebra by the 10th grade, it has widened on 4th grade reading tests and in high school graduation rates since 2003.

Passage rates on the third - grade reading tests at Carlin Springs rose to 81 percent, and students performed far better than those two years ago, when less than half of the third - graders passed.

Failure rates in the rest of the schools ranged from 50 percent to 80 percent in 4th - grade reading tests; citywide, the failure rate was 64 percent.

In particular, since 2001 (that is, since NCLB was passed), there have been sizable gains in NAEP 4th - and 8th - grade math tests, small improvements in 4th - and 8th - grade reading tests, and very little change in 12th - grade scores.

Among the reform milestones they achieved were a new requirement that 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based on student achievement; raising the charter school cap from 200 to 460; and higher student achievement goals on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 4th grade and 8th grade reading tests and Regents exams.

According to Read to Succeed Executive Director Anne Ryan, students who miss 10 percent of kindergarten and first grade scored an average of 60 points below similar students with good attendance on third grade reading tests.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

He also has proposed introducing an A-F grading system for schools and instituting a 3rd grade reading test and regents - style high school graduation exam.

On the 3rd grade reading test, the average female scored 1.1 points - about half a standard deviation - higher than the average male.

The first passage on the fifth - grade reading test was «My Grandma Talley,» a short story by Nadine Oduor that makes frequent use of vernacular language.

Everything I know about the slow growing, cumulative nature of language proficiency suggests it is all but impossible to test prep your way to a high score on a third to eighth grade reading test, especially the more challenging Common Core tests.

For example, on the 1998 4th - grade reading test Florida was near the bottom, with Arizona, California, Hawaii, Mississippi, Louisiana, and New Mexico.

«In my dream world, before too long we would have this 4th grade reading test and this 8th grade test replicated in elementary, junior high, and high school in several areas,» Mr. Clinton said.

The article cites research by Marcus Winters finding that Florida students who were held back after not passing a third grade reading test did better academically than students who just barely passed the test and were promoted to fourth grade.

Canada wanted to calculate how much the program was improving the reading ability of these students, so he asked to see their scores on the previous year's citywide fourth - grade reading test for comparison.

The difference the [Final Report] estimates comparing the teacher at the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the average teacher (50th percentile) is -22 scaled score points on the 5th grade PSSA Reading test... [referring] to the 2010 PSSA Technical Manual raw score table... for the 8th grade Reading test, that would be a difference of approximately 2 raw score points, or the equivalent of 2 multiple choice (MC) questions (1 point apiece) or half credit on one OE [open - ended] question.

«It would be difficult to see how the range of teacher effects on the 8th grade Reading test would be considered substantively meaningful if this result holds up in a larger and random sample.

A sample of 36 Great Expectation model elementary schools were matched with 556 Oklahoma non-Great Expectations elementary schools based on the following variables: ethnicity, free and reduced lunch eligibility, school size, average number of days students absent, percent of parents attending conferences, percent of teachers with advanced degrees, percent passing third grade reading test, district population size, unemployment rate, average household income, teachers per administrator, percent of student's in special education, instructional support budget, and district percent passing Algebra I. Five years of pass rates on third grade reading and third grade math state exams were examined.

He pushed for a third grade reading test.

We were able to get some of our kids who were projected not to pass the third - grade reading test to pass it proficiently,» Sipes said.

In 2013, Maryland excluded 66 percent of special - needs students from the fourth - grade reading test and 60 percent from the eighth - grade reading test.

Given the current federal policies I guess when the child you refer to fails a 4th grade reading test, the school system will be justified in firing all her teachers from kindergarten to the 4th grade.

Test scores for Native American students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress fourth grade reading test are 25 points below the national average, and the high school graduation rate for students in BIE schools is 59 percent, compared with 80 percent for students across the country.

Similarly, it now should come as no surprise that State A was number 1 in the nation in the 4th grade reading test, although tied with 2 others.

The limited English proficient kids in Texas scored better on the fourth - grade reading test in 2013 than same - grade limited English proficient kids in Oregon.

Not exact matches

Almost half of Canadian students (45 %) who wrote the test in 2000 achieved top scores in reading, but in 2009 only 40 % made similar grades.

Between 2007 and 2009, Fryer distributed a total of $ 9.4 million in cash incentives to 27,000 students in Chicago, Dallas, and New York City, incentivizing book reading in Dallas, test scores in New York, and course grades in Chicago.

According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, the gap in eighth - grade reading and math test scores between low - income students and their wealthier peers hasn't shrunk at all over the past 20 years.

When we met up for extra help, it was almost as if she could read my mind; she looked me directly in the eye and said, «You do know that this test grade doesn't make you a bad person, right?»

Students in 4th - 6th grade who went to bed an average of 30 - 40 minutes earlier improved in memory, motor speed, attention, and other abilities associated with math and reading test scores.

6) If you don't read the lesson or study for the test, you will get a bad grade.

I was reading way above my grade level, but that didn't matter as much as a «C» on a spelling test (because girls are suppose to be GOOD at spelling!).

Most children in our local school fail these tests, read below grade average, and are performing math far below grade average.

I recently read the book «Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, «A's, Praise, and Other Bribes» by Alfie Kohn, a noted author and outspoken critic of traditional education, including grades, test scores, and homework.

When compared to control group counterparts in randomized trials, infants and toddlers who participated in high - quality home visiting programs were shown to have more favorable scores for cognitive development and behavior, higher IQs and language scores, higher grade point averages and math and reading achievement test scores at age 9, and higher graduation rates from high school.

Students would continue taking standardized state tests in reading and math annually in grades three to eight and at least once in high school.

A new analysis from StudentsFirstNY found that at 75 city schools this year, all the students in at least one grade failed the state math or reading test.

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.

That set off a backlash in which a fifth of the eligible students sat out the state's third - through eighth - grade reading and math tests last spring.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

A data breach at the company that develops New York State's third - through - eighth grade reading and math tests allowed an unauthorized user to access information about 52 students who took the tests by computer last spring, the state's Education Department said on Thursday.

Elementary school children who read below grade level may have challenges with their eyesight even if standard tests show they see 20/20, according to a new study from the University of Waterloo.

Children who performed poorly in agility, speed and manual dexterity tests and had poor overall motor performance in the first grade had lower reading and arithmetic test scores in grades 1 - 3 than children with better performance in motor tests.

In one study of 1,651 high school students from three states, reading ability was just as important to students» science - class grades and scores on state - level science tests as the amount of science knowledge they had.

However, there were no differences in grade - level standardized test performance in math or reading.

The new research builds on two previous studies that found the two programs benefitted children in early elementary school, boosting third - grade reading and math - test scores and reducing third - grade special education placements.

In 2012, third - grade students in warning on the state's standardized test in reading dropped to 15 percent, compared with 24 percent last year and 39 percent in 2008.

Jubilee students are reading at grade level within a year of arriving; they are then outperforming their peers on standardized TerraNova tests.