Sentences with phrase «graders in»

The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, or TIMSS, assessed 4th - graders, 8th - graders and advanced 12th - graders in 2015.

SAN FRANCISCO — The fifth graders in Jade Cooney's classroom compete against a kitchen timer during lessons to see how long they can sustain good behavior — raising hands, disagreeing respectfully and looking one another in the eye — without losing time to insults or side conversations.

An estimated 18 percent of ninth - graders in the district go on to earn a bachelor's degree within 10 years of starting high school, according to a recent study by the University of Chicago's Consortium on School Research.

For the first time since 1990, math scores dropped for fourth and eighth graders in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the country's most respected tool for measuring how well students understand key academic concepts.

John Merrow talks with 8th graders in NY about taking their first state test aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

One of our closing keynote speakers is a DC teacher leader whose 4th graders became the top performing 4th graders in the city for two years in a row after 3 years when their school added APTT to the mix after building trust with home visits.

With an average score of 258, DC students attending DCPS regular public schools fall roughly around the national average for sixth graders in 2015 (students nationally scored 281 on average in 2015).

In Experiment 1 they tested 169 Black and 186 White seventh graders in a correlational study.

Third - graders in a dual immersion class taught in English and Spanish at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr..

Tenth graders in the U.S. take an advanced algebra course in mathematics.

A study involving a class of fourth graders in Germany (Marx, Fuhrer & Hartig, 1999) looked at whether different seating arrangements led to students asking more questions.

He saw another version of that gap when his undergraduate work led him to teach 3rd graders in the state's capital, Trenton, about acid rain, and to study in Capetown, South...

Recently tenth and eleventh graders in a Connecticut high school developed a values list.

One evening last December, Kay Lee gathered her class of third graders in front of a webcam in Georgia, Vermont, to «meet» a class more than 6,000 miles away in Sejong City, South Korea, for the first time.

«For the past three years, I have challenged the second and third graders in our school to pass AR tests by setting a school - wide goal,» says Maureen Hughes, the school's principal.

In addition, significant gains by fourth graders in English language arts scores were noted, which also might be a result of the science / technology integration program.

He has the advantage of teaching seventh graders in a single - sex setting.

Chatting the USA: Building Understanding Through Web Conferencing Last year, third graders in Brewer, Maine, conversed through Web conference with classes from Florida to Alaska.

These analysts took advantage of the fact that the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Survey (TIMSS) not only tested a nationally representative sample of U.S. 8th graders in math and science, but also asked their teachers what percentage of class time was taken up by students «listening to lecture - style presentations» rather than either «working on problems with the teacher's guidance» or «working on problems without guidance.»

An attempt by Clinton in 1996 to develop voluntary assessments for fourth - graders in reading and eighth - graders in math was thwarted when Congress refused to fund it.

But can you think of a better return on investment than the success of Tonya Wilson's sixth graders in Hartville, Missouri?

Donald Trump could learn much about the beautiful culture and rich history of Mexico from the 1st graders in Angela Napoletano's class at Icahn Charter School 3 in the South Bronx.

Dressed in jeans (he'd come that morning from New York, and said he hadn't been willing to risk waking up his two - year - old daughter to grab his suit from her room), walking casually around the stage throughout the lecture, Fryer showed some 2011 data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress of eighth - graders in reading and math.

The researchers, led by developmental psychologist Nancy Hill, surveyed 624 ninth, 10th, and 11th graders in an economically and racially diverse public high school.

Fifth graders in schools where teachers faithfully used the Responsive Classroom teaching approach performed better on statewide assessments of mathematics and reading skills than their peers at schools that did not use the social - emotional - learning program's strategies as much, according to new research presented at a national conference here last week.

Now all of the third - graders in the school are doing autobiographical time lines.

In a 1999 survey of nearly 4,500 third graders in Maine by the Maine Project Against Bullying, 23 percent said they'd been threatened, 40 percent called hurtful names, and 38 percent hit, kicked, or pushed.

So, for example, only 25 percent of 8th graders in South Carolina were deemed proficient on both the state reading test and on the NAEP reading test — an honest, if embarrassing, reckoning of the education situation in the state.

Another district, Cambridge (Mass.) Public Schools, is trying an entirely new model: This fall it moved away from its long - held K — 8 configuration with the creation of a lower school and an upper school, with sixth - through eighth - graders in the upper school still housed within four of the city's elementary buildings.

Between 2002 and 2005, 3rd graders in that state exhibited substantial improvements in performance on math assessments, a fact clearly reflected by Minnesota's accountability system.

But in the United States, where reading also isn't taught until age six or seven, 38 percent of 4th - graders nationally and up to 70 percent of 4th - graders in urban schools can't read at the basic level.

Carol Troxell has been at teacher at Cleveland Central Catholic High School in Cleveland, Ohio since 1999 teaching 9 - 12 graders in the Consumer Science and Technology Department.

«You are only as strong as the weakest piece in your portfolio,» Doug Martin frequently tells the eleventh and twelfth graders in his graphic design and illustration classes at the Mingo Career & Technical Center, in Delbarton, West Virginia.

In a report issued here, the panel of the National Academy of Education said the assessment of 8th graders in mathematics conducted in 1990 by the National Assessment of Educational Progress demonstrated that such a test is «technically feasible» and generated useful information.

The study used a team of outside educators to evaluate research projects produced by 4th and 6th graders in seven U.S. cities.

And on a third level, sixth - graders in Dubuque, Iowa, or Sydney, Australia, will learn more about Japanese culture.»

In other words, bringing virtually all 8th graders in the United States up to a NAEP - like level of proficiency in mathematics constitutes a challenge no country has ever mastered.

On TIMSS, the average score of U.S. fourth - graders in math put them behind students in 10 other systems: Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Russia, Northern Ireland and Ireland, Norway, and the Flemish portion of Belgium.

Four years later, she takes it as almost a personal failure that the 4th graders in her Reading First schools, more than 3,700 students, have cut the achievement gap with the state by more than half but haven't eliminated it.

Results of the Student Achievement Guarantee in Education, or SAGE, program showed that between 1996 - 97 and 1998 - 99, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders in 30 public schools performed better on the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills than did students in bigger classes.

The darker squares represent the percent of third graders in the district who are referred for a maltreatment investigation before third grade.

Now Huseby brings what she learned at MBE to her classroom of third graders in Santa Cruz, Calif..

Hardly less popular is the more stringent rule that students must pass a test before moving on to the next grade, as is currently required for 3rd graders in both Florida and New York City.

The law, signed by acting Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco on Jan. 9, grew out of a controversy in the fall of 1999 in which 2,000 7th through 12th graders in the suburban Ridgewood district were given a voluntary survey that asked them about their drug and alcohol use, social attitudes, and sexual habits.

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.

Likewise, the math proficiency of 8th graders in Louisiana, Mississippi, and the District of Columbia — the lowest - ranked states — is comparable to that of students in the worst - performing nations, such as Jordan, the National Science Foundation study says.

Over the past 12 years, she's worked with 9th - 12th graders in all levels of English classes.

This year, she is expanding the program, known as ALIAS, or Academic Language Instruction for All Students, to reach between 2,000 and 2,500 sixth - graders in mainstream classrooms in 14 schools.

In other words, increasing the share of eighth graders in tracked courses by ten percentage points is associated with an additional 20,000 students scoring 3 or higher on AP exams nationwide.

Fourth graders in math design a new park, estimate its construction cost, and produce a presentation arguing in favor of building it.