Sentences with phrase «grade students in»

On average, participating first - grade students in the program started the school year seven months behind their peers in reading, but mentoring made a difference.

One would think that the schools, particularly non-prestigious ones, have a real incentive to at least try to grade students in a way that reflects the realities of lawyering, if only so they could distinguish themselves from all the other law schools facing a very uncertain future.

Art by pre-kindergarten and 1st — 5th grade students in the Phillips's partner schools in the Art Links to Learning: Museum - in - Residence program.

At Kidspace, the initial works of art, through which all other works were inspired, were created by 5th grade students in North Adams and Northern Berkshire schools.

This year, the 2nd grade students in four classes worked together and raised $ 88 to fund eight more island fox vaccinations.

These 6th ‐ grade students in a village in Ghana, who had used cell phones but had no experience with computers, were all able to learn to use the Kindle successfully after several hours of training and several days of practice.

Robin Smith encourages her second - grade students in Nashville to take risks.

The national tests — also known as the Nation's Report Card — are taken every two years by representative samples of fourth - and eighth - grade students in each state and nationwide.

Ivy Prep received its charter from the State Board of the Georgia Department of Education in January of 2008, and opened its doors to its first class of 6th grade students in August of 2008.

A study conducted by the UEPC showed that first, second, and third grade students in Utah who were chronically absent during the school year were significantly less likely to read on grade level at the end of the year.

Her teaching experience began with 4th grade students in Bastrop, Texas.

Scenarios, rough draft writing samples, items, and prompts will be appropriate for fifth - grade students in terms of difficulty, interest, and reading level, as determined by the Content Review Committee.

We have fifth and sixth - grade students in a middle school setting who are working on how to save the bees.

To take one representative example, 51 percent of the third - grade students in the public school last year were reading at grade level, 49 percent were reading below grade level and none were reading above.

Invitied by Athletes for Education to be a motivational Speaker to 3rd grade students in San Diego City Schools

Ohio In Ohio, state law requires that districts and community schools administer the state - funded ACT or SAT exam to all 11th grade students in the spring semester of each school year.

We are starting small, once again, with 400 ninth and 10th grade students in an Optimized Learning Math pilot in our two San Jose schools.

Fourth - grade students in Arizona, California, and Colorado charters outperform their traditional public school counterparts in their states in reading.

Lamar Elementary is a public school serving 400 Pre-K through 6th grade students in the San Antonio Independent School District.

The eighth - grade students in Ms. Chambers» Science class at Monarch Academy Baltimore Public Charter School presented their science projects to the administrative staff and board members at the Monarch Academy Baltimore board meeting on Thursday, February 8th.

A randomized controlled study with 9th and 10th grade students in 60 high schools has proven the efficacy of the materials provided by Facing History and Facing Ourselves:

The national reading and mathematics assessments are taken every two years by representative samples of fourth - and eighth - grade students in each state and nationwide.

We currently have no KIPP based High School options for our 8th grade students in Boston.

For example, if a school has a 2003 Mean NCE Gain in Grade 4 of 5.2, it means that on the average, 4th grade students in this school gained 5.2 NCE points more than 4th graders statewide gained in the baseline year of 1998, i.e., the «Growth Standard» year.

The printing rates of their kindergarten children are comparable to the rates of the first - grade students in the original study, whose teachers had NOT been previously monitoring printing rate.

SRI is evaluating efforts to improve the literacy of pre — K through third - grade students in the Twin Cities.

Carpe Diem — Westwood is a tuition - free public charter school that successfully educates 6 - 12th grade students in a smaller, relationship centered setting.

Liza came to Learning Heroes from Urban Teachers, where she worked as a resident teacher for 4th and 5th grade students in the District of Columbia.

The researchers tracked the development of a cohort of third - grade students in eighteen New York City public elementary schools (2003 - 2006).

In 2008, Power Center Academy opened its doors to 125 sixth - grade students in Hickory Hill.

Two Harvard alumni guide seventh grade students in Classroom 205, home to humanities and Spanish, at the Community Charter School of Cambridge.

This spring, 11th grade students in many states are taking new assessments designed to measure college - ready skills in mathematics and English.

He says Hong Kong covers only 40 percent of the topics in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), an assessment given to fourth and eighth - grade students in more than 60 countries, including the U.S.

It opened its doors to 80 pioneering 6th grade students in...

Like Ms. Hernandez, Mrs. Gleason often engages her first - grade students in higher - level thinking.

KIPP New Orleans's first school, KIPP Phillips Preparatory, opened its doors in July 2005 to a class of 120 eighth - grade students in the former E.H. Phillips Middle School building.

For the first time, Russian students outperformed U.S. 8th grade students in math, but Finland's math scores dropped compared to their stunning performance in 2007 and came in lower than students in Massachusetts and Minnesota.

The Latin Policy Debate team began during the 2016 - 2017 school year with two sixth grade students in the novice division.

A study of 4th and 5th grade students in New York City found that students performed worse when teacher turnover within their grade - level team was higher (Ronfeldt, Lankford, Loeb, & Wyckoff, 2011).

TIMSS compares data on the mathematics and science achievement of fourth - and eighth - grade students in the United States with that of students in other countries.

Eight in 10 of Connecticut's fastest - growing careers that require a bachelor's degree will also require a deep knowledge of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)-- yet only four in 10 fourth - grade students in Connecticut were able to demonstrate math proficiency in 2017.

Thunderbird, which had about 500 kindergarten through fifth - grade students in the year that just ended, received more than $ 2.5 million in state money for 2015 - 16.

Academic Talent Search (ATS) provides academically challenging, fast - paced courses to highly able and motivated 4th through 9th grade students in the greater Sacramento area.

NAEP uses the results of scaling procedures to estimate the performance of groups of students (e.g., of all fourth - grade students in the nation, of female eighth - grade students in a state).

For example, 5,217 California public schools tested third - grade students in mathematics.

«Just looking at numbers, we certainly have enough to fill all our kindergarten and pre-kindergarten vacancies,» Dupre said, though upper - grade students in the French and Montessori programs are harder to replace.

For example: A study of all 10th - grade students in Chile (more than 160,000 students) showed that holding a Growth Mindset predicted academic achievement across every socioeconomic level.

As a 2011 Appalachia charter corps member, Ms. Tanner taught Spanish to 7th - 12th grade students in the small town of Barbourville, KY..

Throughout the next several years, Kate implemented interactive writing on a daily basis with her primary grade students in both urban and suburban classrooms.

Prior to joining the Leadership Academy, Gloria was a New York City - wide Regional Superintendent responsible for Pre-K to 12th grade students in 110 schools.