Sentences with phrase «grade span»

It similarly extends the mandate for statewide tests in science at least once in grade spans 3 — 5, 6 — 9, and 10 — 12.

In the three - group structure, clusters also differ on the number of student support staff, while in the five - group structure, they differ on grade span.

These groups vary statistically in the number of sports offered and student support staff, and also grade span.

The study found that schools with shorter grade spans (6 - 8 or 5 - 8) experienced more bullying than K - 8 schools.

For some schools, the district reports data across several grade spans; in those cases, I averaged each observation.

Five years ago, researchers from the University of California, Davis, took a look at reading - exam scores across the K - 12 grade span for students growing up in non-English-speaking homes.

Because the data include information about students» ages, we are able to compare degrees of satisfaction by grade span in each sector.

Aggregating across grade span or year is more effective for higher enrollment subgroups — Black and Hispanic students.

They call for preserving statewide annual testing requirements for students, but they would base school - level accountability only on tests taken once per grade span — once in elementary school, once in middle school, and once in high school.

States can use different measures for different grade spans, using age - appropriate ones where it makes sense, and are limited only by their imagination (and some technical requirements of the law).

This book, the fourth volume in the NSTA Press USI series includes 25 formative assessment probes that can be used across multiple grade spans, as well as pre-service teacher education and teacher professional development in life, physical, earth, and space sciences.

Under these rules, districts rank their schools by need (they are required to use a percentage rather than count of economic disadvantage, and often use free - and reduced - price - lunch eligibility rates for this purpose) and then have discretion about how they wish to concentrate funds — that is, they choose how far down the list to go, subject to the requirement that they can not «skip» a poorer school and then serve a wealthier school serving the same grade span.

The first is a selective - admissions OPSB charter school with a curricular theme, fewer school hours, more extracurricular activities and sports, and a large grade span.

Student Testing: Both versions would essentially leave in place the law's annual testing schedule, under which states would have to test students in grades 3 through 8 in reading and math, and once in high school, plus science in certain grade spans.

Schools that have wider grade spans can diffuse the difficulty of those scores by adding other grades that have higher performance on tests (eleventh grade, for example, which has a generally high scoring test).

Middle schoolers report higher rates of bullying and fights than students in any other grade span, and their academic performance also tends to dip.

Match: Over the past five years, Match Charter Public School has tripled its student enrollment, adding new grade spans and programs.

Families may consider grade spans in their school selection — K - 5 for families who want their child to transition to a middle school; K - 8 for parents who want their child to stay in one setting until high school.

Our prior report, released in August 2012, looked only at K - 12 suspension rates across the entire grade span and contained no new analysis at the secondary school level.

Many charters operate non-traditional grade spans.

We used this information to identify the number and frequency of district and state - required standardized assessments for students by grade spans K - 2, 3 - 5, 6 - 8, and 9 - 12 and to determine the time it took for students to take the assessments.

States also are required to administer a science assessment annually in at least one grade in each of the following grade spans: 3 - 5, 6 - 9 and 10 - 12.

The following is a list of each probe, the related concepts addressed by the probe, and recommended grade span use (note: modifications, described in the teachers» notes, must be made in order to use some probes at a lower grade level):

* The information measures growth and progress during the crucial third - thru - eighth grade span, a time when students learn to comprehend what they are reading and develop math skills that they will continue to use in high school and college.

Summary: This article reports on a research study conducted by Syracuse University on the effects of grade span on bullying behaviors in New York City public schools.

Report of enrollment and number of schools in California public schools by grade span and type of school for the 2016 — 17 school year.

• CAP teamed with AFT to offer a «compromise»: NCLB's annual tests would stay for informational purposes, but only one test per grade span would be linked to accountability (hence its placement between the grade - span and NCLB approaches) • Even Senator Alexander's draft offered a far - reduced assessments option.

The law does preserve the requirement for states to have a system that addresses data by race, income and learning needs; to test in at least math and reading in grades 3 - 8 and once in high school as well as science in grade spans, and to identify low - performing schools requiring intervention... [more]

School district funding is divided into three categories: Basic grants given for all students, with different levels based on grade span; supplemental grants for students in poverty, English learners and foster children, called high - needs students; concentration grants for school districts with more than 55 percent of high - needs students.

Mindful of this potential hodgepodge, in my book Making History Mine, I show how to use these goals and lessons within any secondary grade span or subject.

The SOAR Teaching Frames have been tailored to meet the needs of English Language learners, target disciplinary literacy learning across content areas, focus on Mathematics, and with specific attention to students within different grade spans.

This book, the first volume in the NSTA Press USI series includes 25 formative assessment probes that can be used across multiple grade spans, as well as pre-service teacher education and teacher professional development in life, physical, earth, and space sciences.

A state where policymakers and stakeholders have strong preferences for statistical reliability could choose to combine data across grade span, years, or subgroups, depending on the policy goals.

Outliers tend to have more extracurricular activities, shorter school hours, and larger grade spans.

One option would give states leeway on how they assess students — for example, testing only certain grade spans — without forcing states to seek testing plan approval from the U.S. Secretary of Education, as currently required.

A second very practical reason that we used grade spans is that we knew from personal experience that in any classroom and grade level, there is a range of learners at various developmental stages.

Although the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 shifted public - school money toward mathematics and literacy at the expense of science programs, starting in 2007 states must also measure student progress in science at least once in each of three grade spans: 3rd through 5th, 6th through 9th, and 10th through 12th.

But there is room for improvement on its standards, which have not been rated by the American Federation of Teachers as clear, specific, and grounded in content for English above the elementary level or for social studies at any grade span.

In particular, Maine lags behind in the area of standards, where the American Federation of Teachers has rated only its science standards as clear, specific, and grounded in content at all three grade spans.

Its standards for the four core subjects at nearly every grade span have been rated as clear, specific, and grounded in content by the American Federation of Teachers.