While not required by the law, many school districts were reluctant to hinge the possibility of a third
grader moving on to the fourth grade on his or her performance on a single test, especially considering that North Carolina just adopted more rigorous standards and more difficult assessments based on those standards — meaning that even more students are likely to fail End of Grade tests than in years past.
Not exact matches
Every Indiana third
grader will take a new reading exam in March
to determine whether he or she can
move on to the
fourth grade.
She says third
graders shouldn't have
to pass a reading test
to move on to fourth grade.
Being in
fourth grade and teaching phonics
to first
graders, participating in the eighth
grade spelling lesson as a
fourth grader, being taught in small groups of three
to five students from mixed
grade levels
on particular skills or topics, having assessments
on various skills before
moving on,
moving on to the next skill level when ready (regardless of
grade level)-- is this competency - based education?
In case you didn't hear about it, Columbus has had good news about its reading scores: 87 percent of third -
graders met the state's reading requirements and will
move on to the
fourth grade, compared with about 74 percent last school year.