Sentences with phrase «graders failed»

Even worse, 57 percent of non-poor eighth graders failed to hit the proficient mark in reading.

In the 2010 - 2011 school year, 70 percent of the school's sixth - graders failed to reach proficiency in math, and 72 percent failed to test proficient in English.

In the spring, more than half of the eighth - graders failed the LEAP test.

On the first MCAS, two - thirds of Chelsea 10th graders failed math.

Last fall semester in Tacoma, 46 percent of ninth - graders failed at least one class, according to a recent district analysis.

In 2005, more than 60 percent of 11th graders failed the state math test.

In the first several years under the policy, more than one - third of all 3rd, 6th, and 8th graders failed to meet the promotion test - score cutoffs by the end of the school year.

American 4th graders failed to show progress, despite spending more time on reading lessons than their peers internationally.

Seventy and 56 percent of its 8th graders failed to reach proficiency in math and reading, respectively.

While 93 percent of U.S. eighth - graders failed to achieve an advanced score on the test, only 5 percent of them «Disagreed a lot» with the statement that they «do well in math.»

Although Massachusetts has consistently been among the leading states on a variety of national student assessment tests, nearly half of our 10th graders failed either or both the math and language - arts test last spring.

If a third grader fails the IREAD - 3, it is up to individual districts to decide how to remediate the student before fourth grade.

When I think about it now, how crazy is it to think that a first grader failed that year.

Six of 10 ninth - graders fail to earn enough credits to advance to 10th grade, marking a «critical tipping point» for them, the application said.

«In our highest - poverty public schools, a whopping 68 % of fourth - graders fail to reach the basic level of achievement.

FACT: The Common Core SBAC test is purposely designed that almost 7 in 10 eighth graders are deemed failures and that 6 in 10 third graders fail to reach their arbitrary «goal.»

Not exact matches

Leo, the reason the schools are «failing» (and they ARE N'T all failing) is because parents like you are idiots who never got a decent education and can't even manage to figure out something 3rd graders should know.

I've made this multiple times without fail, the last one of which I managed to make it while helping with 7th grade math questions, and paying attention to what my 4th grader was telling me at the same time.

With more rigorous assessment tests this year creating concerns that the number of failing students could rise, Chicago Public Schools plans to revamp its promotion policy for third -, sixth - and eighth - graders.

State Education officials say there's some improvement in the Common Core related Math and English tests taken by third through eighth graders this year, but admit that two thirds of the students who took the test are still, essentially, failing the exams.

New York State Education officials say there's some improvement in the Common Core aligned math and English tests taken by third through eighth graders this year, but admit that two - thirds of the students who took the test are still, essentially, failing the exams.

The large majority of third - through eighth - graders statewide failed to meet the higher standards on tests given in April.

Even my husband, who called it a «third grader's failed art project» when he first saw it, has come around to admitting that it is, in fact, awesome.

However, she says a 2004 study by Robert Balfanz and Nettie Legters at Johns Hopkins University also found that many ninth - graders who fail algebra and are held back from entering tenth grade end up dropping out.

The state also invested substantial support for early readers and focused on retaining 3rd graders who fail to read at grade level; state law allows for, but does not require, those students to be held back, which both Skandera and Martinez criticized as insufficient in a state with exceptionally low rates of adult literacy.

The New York City public schools, which in the past two years began holding back 3rd and 5th graders who fail city tests, will extend the promotion policy to 7th graders.

My ninth graders write about failing math tests, getting cut from the soccer team, and auditioning for the lead in the musical only to be cast in the ensemble.

In 2011, Negash taught two summer - school classes of 9th, 10th, and 11th graders who had failed Algebra I.

About 30 percent of all 9th graders still fail to finish high school within four years.

They said the gains were inflated by the retention of low - performing 3rd graders after 2002, when Florida ended «social promotion» by requiring students who failed 3rd grade tests to repeat that grade.

We already know from national assessment data that about half of eighth graders with college - educated parents fail to clear the «proficient» bar on NAEP.

Rather than hold back failing 2nd, 5th, and 8th graders for another year, the district plans to channel them into transition programs that could last up to 15 months.

In 1995 one - fourth of 5th graders and one - third of 6th graders in Houston failed the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) in reading.

When the state in 2003 required students to pass the proficiency bar on the high school examination offered to tenth graders, critics claimed many students would fail.

Most of the students he was speaking to at Livingston Middle School in New Orleans were 8th graders who have failed at least twice.

Between fall 2002 and fall 2008, the school district closed 23 large failing high schools (with graduation rates below 45 percent), opened 216 new small high schools (with different missions, structures, and student selection criteria), and implemented a centralized high school admissions process that assigns over 90 percent of the roughly 80,000 incoming ninth - graders each year based on their school preferences.

In the Los Angeles Unified School District alone, 44 percent of ninth graders enrolled in beginning algebra during the fall 2004 semester failed.

At the heart of its high school reforms were three interrelated changes: the institution of a districtwide high school choice process for all rising ninth - graders, the closure of 31 large, failing high schools with an average graduation rate of 40 percent, and the opening of more than 200 new small high schools.

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.

This is consistent with the fact that 8th graders faced the largest incentives: they could not move to high school with their peers if they failed to meet the standards for promotion.

These soon - to - be 4th and 8th graders have put seasonal pastimes aside for some serious business: a new, high - stakes state test that most of them are at risk of failing when they take it next spring.

That meant that nearly half of the school's 600 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th graders were failing to make grade - level in English and in math.

To enroll as an 8th grader, a student must have failed one or more grades.

And this fall, just before the first nine - week report card, he got word that nearly half the fifth - graders had failed math.

The Rochester City School District has failed to teach 83 percent of the male Black third - graders in its care how to read as well as they should at that point and none to read as fluently as would lead later to success in school.

Florida third graders, who fail FCAT are held back and labeled failures in the eyes of the state regardless grade point average.

Learn, grow, struggle, fail, succeed, cry and laugh with one teacher aspiring to lead her 4th graders to dramatic academic achievement.

The same 4th graders who failed the reading tests were perfectly comfortable reading — and explaining — new passages to me.

Compared with past years, an increasing number of 9th graders are failing to be promoted to the 10th grade.

«Under a system created during Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's administration, eighth graders can apply anywhere in the city, in theory unshackling themselves from failing, segregated neighborhood schools.