Sentences with phrase «grade testing the week»

Alex had her 3rd grade testing the week I made these (the OAA's), so I asked her what she wanted for breakfast every morning.

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After several weeks of testing the convert may be transferred from the mission itself to the «Home Uptown,» a house where about twenty converts who seem to be making the grade are allowed to go.

Not only was resolution a «bonus» word on last week's third grade spelling test, it has also been on my mind.

For example, a poor grade on an English test during the week might require extra time studying Friday night instead of hanging out with friends or playing video games.

A graded treadmill test to exhaustion was performed 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after each marathon.

In the past two weeks, hundreds of thousands of parents across the state staged a parental uprising against the Common Core curriculum and culture of over-utilization of high stakes standardized tests and exercised their right to refuse to have their children take the grades 3 - 8 ELA and math exams.

This year, Teacher Appreciation Week comes amid a daily drumbeat of criticism of the recent grades 3 - 8 English - language - arts and math state tests — and of standardized testing in general.

In a show of opposition to Governor Cuomo's education policies, Ken - Ton's School Board voted this week to «seriously consider not administering» the state's mandatory math and English tests to students in grades 3 through 8.

Next week, students in grades three through eight statewide are slated to take the state math test during portions of three days, Wednesday through Friday.

But when it comes to grading last week's State of the State Message, Governor Cuomo, passed every test of New York's political arithmetic and hence, has left the GOP with few if any openings.

This week, the Kingston City School District, like public school districts across New York, administered state assessment tests in math for students in grades 3 - 8.

Links between student testing and teachers» job evaluations are an explosive issue on Long Island, where tens of thousands of students in grades 3 - 8 boycotted English and math tests in recent weeks.

The move to refuse the state standardized tests scheduled for later this week is getting more vocal, as test dates approach for children in third through eighth grades.

Summary: Twenty - one moderately trained men ran a graded exercise test on a treadmill to a voluntary maximum output on two occasions separated by a week.

So on a bright November afternoon three weeks after the test, Hope's math specialist, Christine Madison, and two of the school's 4th - grade teachers huddled over five pages of test - score data assembled for them by ANet.

Chicago ninth - graders were paid every five weeks for good grades in five core courses; in New York, fourth - and seventh - graders were paid for doing well on tests.

An English teacher that I read about, after weeks of essays and test prep, surprised his 12th grade class with a game of kickball out on the blacktop.

But a survey of the 50 states and the District of Columbia by Education Week found less movement on other fronts, such as the number of states now testing in the required grades.

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A story in the Sept. 3, 2003, issue of Education Week about the American Board for the Certification of Teacher Excellence («Essays on New Teachers» Test to Be Graded by Computers») misstated the requirements for veteran teachers seeking the board's approval.

The report, released last week by the U.S. Department of Education, is based on 4th grade scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a set of federally mandated tests given periodically to nationally representative samples of students.

Mr. Crew announced a plan that could require about 48,000 students in 3rd, 6th, and 8th grades with low test scores to complete a six - week remedial course beginning in July — or repeat the grade.

In a report released last week, the Washington - based council urges school systems to tread carefully when using test scores to decide who graduates, who is held back a grade, and who is put in a remedial program.

Under the proposal first introduced by Gov. Jeb Bush, which the House was expected to pass this week, the state would assign letter grades to schools based on their performance on state tests.

North Carolina education officials last week ordered a major audit of the state's testing and accountability program to determine the soundness of the system after problems emerged over interim scoring measures for the state's end - of - grade math exam.

I was tested for gifted in the first grade and placed in a pull - out program, where the teacher came (maybe once per week, don't remember) to work with me and another student.

«We send home a calendar at the beginning of the six - week grading period with all major tests and projects listed for all academic subjects,» said Sharon Lynch, a seventh - grade language arts teacher at the school.

Education Week developed a comprehensive grading across grade - specific standards, testing, and the accountability that goes with them in each state.

Every year, during the first week of school, Gruber gives her first - graders a second - grade test in math and reading.

Using students» test scores as one part of evaluations for teachers, principals, and superintendents is associated with better academic performance at schools serving the middle grades, a report released this week has found.

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.

I was tested for gifted in the first grade and placed in a pull - out program, where the teacher came (maybe once per week, don't remember) to work...

Spirit Week provided opportunities for all grades to get involved, not just the testing grades, added Tremain.

Weeks earlier, data had been released showing that 42 percent of Agora students tested on grade level or better in math, compared with 75 percent of students statewide.

«We ended our Spirit Week with a school assembly for students in our testing grades, grades 3 to 5.

And that undercurrent has grown stronger in recent weeks as reports have surfaced that the new chairman of the Senate education committee, Lamar Alexander (R - TN), seems ready to introduce a bill to reauthorize NCLB that would eliminate the annual testing requirement in grades 3 - 8.

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.

Two weeks later, the senators settled on a complicated formula that required states to calculate an overall performance grade for a school based on several factors, including improving test scores for poor and minority children.

Don — The 12 - week window for CAASPP test administration for grades 3 - 8 is not good educational measurement policy.

The teacher «efficiently grades in a way that helps students understand their performance and where they are in relation to the big goal,» by sitting down with students in the week after the benchmark exams are returned and guiding students to fill out their personal tracking sheets to see which objectives they have mastered (i.e., «So, for example, after they took the first benchmark, I sat down with about five students every day for a week and reviewed the test.

State English and math tests in grades 3 - 8 are coming in the next several weeks, and school districts across the state have debated how to handle them.

This week, as our school enters another season of testing, our sixth - and eighth - grade teachers have chosen to read to students a principal's letter that one parent posted online: «We are concerned that these tests do not always assess all of what it is that make each of you special and unique... the scores you get will tell you something, but they will not tell you everything.

Every week, each 10th and 11th grade student receives a block of test preparation and support.

When student test scores on the Ohio Academic Assessment indicated that only 33 % of Jones sixth graders were at the minimum state acceptance rates, middle childhood education students at Lourdes College stepped in to volunteer an hour each week to work with the sixth grade students to improve their reading proficiency.

The lowest third were individually tested in the first few weeks of grade 1 using an observation survey.

TUNICA, Miss. — This summer, Sunflower County ran an intensive four - week program to give students who have failed statewide tests a final chance to avoid repeating the third grade.

The city Department of Education followed a similar logic this week in changing its student promotion policy, basing such decisions not only on test scores but also on grades and portfolios of student work.

As of last week, Visalia had received 102 scores in 6th, 7th and 8th grades in a district with about 14,000 test takers.

The first results ready for release last week were for students who finished the 3rd and 5th grade math and 7th grade English language arts tests around April 1, according to the PowerPoint presentation.