Sentences with phrase «graders across»

President Obama's Every Kid in a Park Initiative was developed to introduce 4th graders across the nation to public lands in an effort to build the next generation of outdoor stewards.

The school is part of the Rhode Island Mayoral Academy, which began testing economic integration when they first opened in 2009, and has seen positive results — though half of all their students are low - income, currently 92 percent of the schools» seventh - graders are proficient in math and 86 percent are in reading, which is more than double the proficiency rate for eighth graders across the state in both.

My Post colleague Emma Brown reports in this story that math scores for fourth - graders and eighth - graders across the United States dropped this year, the first time since the federal government began administering the exams in 1990.

While states administer their own standardized tests for elementary students, fourth graders and eighth graders across the country take the same tests as a part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

They show that for the first time in two decades, the math scores of 4th graders across the nation were flat, showing no improvement on how 4th graders performed when last tested in 2007.

A bit about the data: the National Assessment of Educational Progress is given to a statistically significant number of fourth graders across the United States every other year.

Now the Illinois State Board of Education is moving to expand free testing, providing a set of college - admissions - related exams to all ninth -, 10th - and 11th - graders across the state, potentially costing taxpayers up to $ 75 million through 2024, ISBE records show.

by: Jeffrey Solocheck, Tampa Bay Times April 4, 2016 Parents of third graders across Florida have raised loud complaints lately that their school administrators and teachers have threatened their children with retention if they don't pass the Florida Standards Assessment or an alternate test.

Ms. Han produced multiple grade levels of progress with her fifth - graders across subjects each year, as well as developing their critical thinking skills and level of learning engagement.

Next year, 2nd graders across the state will be subjected to these tests, too.

For eighth - graders across the district, the report showed a four - year gain of 4 percentage points to 38 percent in reading proficiency, and a 5 percentage - point gain to 44 percent in math proficiency.

Fourth and eighth graders across the country have shown meaningful progress on it since the early 1990s, especially in math.

That study looked at only ninth graders across 24 school districts in California, but also found that students who took algebra a second time were unlikely to score «proficient» on the state exam following the second attempt.

The AGI will release a report this spring on how teaching affects opportunities and outcomes for sixth - to - ninth graders across 14,000 classrooms from the 2013 — 14 school year.

Central - city eighth graders across the nation and in the SREB states have the lowest achievement.

Test results for third - through eighth - graders across New York state improved this year even amid concerns about the length of the standardized exams and reports of erroneous questions, according to data released by the state Education Department.

In last year's inaugural Illinois 5Essentials Survey, 87 percent of all schools in the state met the 50 - percent participation threshold to receive a Report with participation from more than 70 percent of all teachers and eligible 6th through 12th graders across Illinois.

Not exact matches

Mr. Popper's Penguins comes as no surprise to many since the book, upon which it is based, is considered a staple and practically every 3rd grader has come across it.

I recently came across an an open letter, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, in which a doctor expresses dismay over the glut of junk food his first grader is offered at school.

But nearly one fifth of students across New York opted out of taking the English exams when they were given April 14 and 15, and more plan to skip the math tests, which are administered to third to eighth graders.

But nearly one fifth of students across New York opted out of taking the English exams when they were given April 14 and 15, and more plan to skip the math tests, which are administered to third to eight graders.

«Across the 9 interactive computer tasks, we found that 42 percent of 4th graders, 41 percent of 8th graders and 27 percent of 12th graders gave correct answers on the steps they attempted,» reports Jack Buckley, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, which administers NAEP tests.

Participants included 435 kindergartners and first graders and their parents across 22 elementary schools.

Three celestial guides, Mrs. Which (two - time Academy Award ® nominee Oprah Winfrey), Mrs. Whatsit (Oscar ®, Golden Globe ® and Emmy ® winner Reese Witherspoon) and Mrs.. Who (Emmy nominee Mindy Kaling), come to Earth to share their wisdom and love with struggling eighth - grader Meg Murry (Storm Reid) as she journeys across dimensions with classmate Calvin (Levi Miller) and younger brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe) in search of her father (Chris Pine), a world - renowned physicist who mysteriously disappeared four years ago.

«This means every ninth - grader has a big sister or big brother in each of the other classes.This vertical integration, as opposed to horizontal integration of grouping students in grade levels by age, fosters deep friendships across grades and promotes a feeling of family in our school community.

Table 2 shows how the share of Hispanic third graders not covered by a subgroup varies by subgroup definition strategy across the states.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

A search on Google indicates that across the country, 5th graders regard it as hilarious to watch their parents squirm: Quick — what is the most common element in the earth's atmosphere?

This year, a semester - long program called Lab Atlanta, sponsored by the Lovett School, opens with its first cohort of 10th graders from both public and private schools across the Atlanta region.

Why tracking does not occur equally across schools By examining state - level tracking data, Loveless finds that tracking eighth graders in math courses is quite popular across all fifty states.

Now the kindergartners march across the street to Footville Methodist Church for school, and 5th and 6th graders saunter to classes in the school's gymnasium...

Fifth Graders Soar in the Blogosphere Across the curriculum, Gillian Ryan asks her fifth graders to respond in writing to the topics they discuss — whether in math, science, social studies, or language arts — and their ideas become posts to classroomGraders Soar in the Blogosphere Across the curriculum, Gillian Ryan asks her fifth graders to respond in writing to the topics they discuss — whether in math, science, social studies, or language arts — and their ideas become posts to classroomgraders to respond in writing to the topics they discuss — whether in math, science, social studies, or language arts — and their ideas become posts to classroom blogs.

«Imagine if you're in a K — 8 school, you have 900 kids across nine grades, and one out of every ten 6th to 8th graders is making trouble.

Students in New Orleans» Recovery School District produced gains on Louisiana's high - stakes exam this spring, with 4th graders posting scores that showed across - the - board growth in language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies.

Keep in mind that about a third of TMA's entering ninth - graders start off at or below a fifth - grade level of proficiency in math and reading, and come from 50 to 60 different middle schools across Washington, Pardo adds.

With less than half of sixth through twelfth graders feeling their learning helps them outside of school, we can imagine hundreds of thousands of students across the country wondering, «When will I ever use this in real life?»

Herein lies the conundrum for educators in low - performing schools across the nation: If a student arrives in fifth grade reading like a first grader and makes three years» worth of growth, he still will not pass a grade - level state test despite major progress and clearly effective teaching.

The author of the report, Caroline Hoxby, a Harvard University economics professor who specializes in the economics of education, said she analyzed the scores of fourth - graders at 99 % of charter schools across America.

Under the bill, sponsored by Sen. Todd Weiler, R - Woods Cross, eighth - graders at participating schools would opt - in to the program, which would encourage children to alert an adult if they come across a firearm.

It is a test whose results can be compared across states, but is not a test that all Arkansas fourth - graders take, nor is it aligned with the Common Core.

Similar across - the - board score increases were reported for Utah fourth graders.

Tenth - graders made across - the - board improvements on the MCAS last academic year, and 84 percent of students have already met the state's minimum testing requirements needed to earn a high school diploma on their first try.

By following individual students» growth across grade levels, value - added models can circumvent NCLB's «cross-sectional» analyses whereby test scores of this year's crop of 4th graders, for example, are compared with the test scores of last year's crop of 4th graders.

There were 1,094 public schools in Utah that year with a total enrollment of 587,745 students (2011 - 2012 Fingertip Facts, Utah State Office of Education)(Dividing those student across 13 grades there would be approximately 45,000 4th graders, which would indicate that the test is administered to less than 10 percent of the total students.)

Putting their heads together to define the process and identify strategies for higher levels of thinking for problem solving resulted in 100 % mastery across all six classes of sixth graders... year after year after year.

In Figure 2, the curved lines provide a sense of how this relationship varied across districts.6 The lines indicate the upper and lower bounds for the shares of 4th graders who met the ELA standard in 68 percent of demographically similar school districts.7 Overall, the scores were lower in districts with larger shares of high - need students, but in some districts student performance was either better or worse than expected, based on the shares of high - need students.8 The orange dots (for the CST) and the teal dots (for the SBAC) represent the 20 school districts that were furthest above or below expectations — these dots are mostly outside the curved lines.

At grade 12, the national sample of schools and students is drawn from across the country, and results from the assessed students are combined to provide accurate estimates of the overall performance of twelfth - graders in the nation.

PARCC is the best tool available to know where our son falls when it comes to fourth - graders in his school, our state and across the country.

Across the U.S., about 32 percent of students in both grades were proficient or higher in reading, and about 40 percent of fourth - graders and 34 percent of eighth - graders scored tested proficient or higher in math.

On one recent afternoon, fifth - graders reflected on passages from the book «How to Eat Fried Worms,» fourth - graders learned about topography in preparation for a field trip to the Museum of Science, and some students in other grades slid bows across cellos and violins to the tune of «Carnival.»