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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.

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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.

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.

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!).

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.

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.

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

That is, as Anderson recognizes, «a very lofty aspirational goal, considering that we have about a third of our kids reading at grade level by the 3rd grade, and that we graduate about 55 percent of our kids, and only 23 percent of those do so by passing high - stakes tests.

At KIPP Ascend, where many fifth - graders start one or two grades behind in reading and math, after four years at the school, 100 percent of eighth - graders passed math and 94 percent passed reading on the Illinois Standards Achievement TesAt KIPP Ascend, where many fifth - graders start one or two grades behind in reading and math, after four years at the school, 100 percent of eighth - graders passed math and 94 percent passed reading on the Illinois Standards Achievement Tesat the school, 100 percent of eighth - graders passed math and 94 percent passed reading on the Illinois Standards Achievement Test.

For admission, they must score at an 8th - grade level on standardized reading and math tests (the Richmond Tech PLC raised that to 9th grade because it had so many applicants), pass an interview, and sign an achievement contract that also commits them to attend a daily meeting called Morning Motivation.

Under the NCLB law, states must test students in math and reading in grades 3 - 8 and at least once in high school.

Nearly two thirds of the public favor the federal government's requirement that all students be tested in math and reading each year in 3rd through 8th grade and at least once in high school, and only 24 % oppose the policy.

NCLB mandated reading and math testing in grades 3 through 8 and at least once in high school, and it required states to rate schools on the basis of test performance overall and for key subgroups.

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.

We then linked the grades given to each school to data on the school's characteristics: its size, the size of classes at the school, the racial and ethnic composition of its students, the percentage of students from poor families, and the percentage of students performing at proficient levels on state reading and math tests.

◦ Trend: Nearly four out of five respondents favor the federal requirement that all students be tested in math and reading in each grade from third through eighth and at least once in high school, about the same as in the past.

The only tests that got a modicum of respect were the Metropolitan Achievement Tests, which were given in reading and math at every grade level except kindergarten, with school - by - school results published in the Boston newspatests that got a modicum of respect were the Metropolitan Achievement Tests, which were given in reading and math at every grade level except kindergarten, with school - by - school results published in the Boston newspaTests, which were given in reading and math at every grade level except kindergarten, with school - by - school results published in the Boston newspapers.

Conversely, late entrants at district schools had dramatically lower average 4th - grade test scores than on - time enrollees: 0.30 and 0.32 standard deviations lower in reading and math, respectively (in both cases, 0.29 standard deviations below the district average).

When people are asked whether the federal government should continue the requirement that all students be tested in math and reading in each grade from 3rd through 8th and at least once in high school, nearly four out of five respondents say they favor the policy (see Figure 2).

-- In Côte d'Ivoire, 55 % of grade 5 students who speak the test language at home learned the basics in reading in 2008, compared with 25 % of those who speak another language.

In Texas and Virginia, teachers administer tests that help identify the instructional needs of children at risk for reading disability in kindergarten and 1st and 2nd grades.

A country's performance on any given test cycle (for example, PIRLS 4th - grade reading, TIMSS 8th - grade math) is only considered if the country participated at least twice within that respective cycle.

Our findings come from assessments of performance in math, science, and reading of representative samples in particular political jurisdictions of students who at the time of testing were in 4th or 8th grade or were roughly ages 9 10 or 14 15.

Under the 1994 reauthorization, each state was supposed to put in place criterion - referenced tests to be administered annually at three grade levels, in both reading and math.

Under the reauthorization, each state was supposed to develop comprehensive academic standards with curriculum - based tests that would be administered annually at three grade levels, in both reading and math.

At one point, it looked like Congress might limit the number of tests mandated under the NCLB law (that's annual tests in reading and math in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, plus science tests in certain grades).

Using the state test data and the full randomized sample, the evaluators report negative impacts for reading, math, and science scores at the end of third grade for children assigned to TVPK.

A story and chart in the May 14, 2008, issue of Education Week about states that have curtailed bilingual education should have said that trends in student achievement identified by Daniel J. Losen of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, were based on test scores in reading of English - language learners in 4th grade, not 4th and 8th grades.

For the analysis, released last week by the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University in Bloomington, researchers analyzed data stretching back as far as 1996 from 4th and 8th grade reading and math tests administered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress and from state assessments in those subjects.

In his State of the Union Address, President Clinton proposed a voluntary, national reading test at grade 4 and a math test at grade 8.

The analysis extends previous work (see «Johnny Can Read... in Some States,» features, Summer 2005, and «Keeping an Eye on State Standards,» features, Summer 2006) that used 2003 and 2005 test - score data and finds in the new data a noticeable decline, especially at the 8th - grade level.

In a study tracking children from age 3 through middle school, David Dickinson, now a professor of education at Vanderbilt University, and Catherine Snow, an education professor at Harvard University, found that a child's score on a vocabulary test in kindergarten could predict reading comprehension scores in later grades.

Third grade reading proficiency is up 15 percent at all community schools, based on end - of - year tests and Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills or DIBELS scores.

For example, states must now test their students annually and with reliable, objective, and comparable assessments at least in reading and math in grades 3 through 8.

When the latest scores of our country's national reading test arrived this spring, they were as depressing as usual: Two - thirds of American fourth - graders, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, can not read at grade level.

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.

Less than one - third are reading and writing at grade level, and barely more than one - third are performing at grade level in math, according to results on California's standardized tests.

Florida could become the first state to require students to pass a reading test to advance at every grade level, under a plan approved by the state school board last week.

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.

At grade eight, 12 (again, three percent) of 435 male Black students tested were proficient (levels 3 and 4) in reading.

No Child Left Behind requires tests in math and reading at the end of the school year in grades 3 to 8 and once in high school.

According to a special report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, 67 % of American children are scoring below proficient reading levels at the beginning of 4th grade on the National Assessment of Educational Progress reading test.

Test scores: More than 80 percent of students score at or above grade level in math, and 73 percent in reading, on the CTB

According to a special report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation (2010), 67 % of American children are scoring below proficient reading levels at the beginning of fourth grade on the National Assessment of Educational Progress reading test.

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

Study Island begins instruction at each grade level with a diagnostic test that assesses students» vocabulary skills and ability to read and understand literary and informational texts.

Seventh and eighth grade students who score at the 95th (or 97th) percentile in mathematics and reading in grade - level assessments take the SAT or ACT as an above - level test.