Sentences with phrase «graders on»

Actually, I kind of like the 6th graders on that one.

I hauled four fifth - graders on a field trip and everyone fit without complaint (without complaint about the Highlander, anyway).

The overall performance of Virginia eighth graders on the 2017 national mathematics and reading tests also was little changed from 2015.

And, according to a study by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, the same is true for Texas eighth - graders on the science test.

It's far more rigorous, and more successful — it's helped Hillcrest realize a 10 percent gain in the number of ninth - graders on track to graduate — and completing the program earns students up to $ 400 in cash.

Although the overall performance of Virginia fourth graders on the 2017 NAEP was statistically similar to 2015, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) says Virginia fourth graders have made statistically significant gains in reading during the last two decades.

This isn't to say that Hamilton County's suburban districts are as woeful as IPS — which, despite improving the passing rates for its poorest fourth - graders on ISTEP + by 12 percent between 2009 and 2011, remains the worst - performing district in the Midwest outside of Detroit.

Although the performance of Virginia fourth graders on the 2015 NAEP was similar to 2013, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) says Virginia fourth graders have made statistically significant gains in both reading and mathematics since 2007.

Their scores, and the scores of eighth graders on the 2011 NAEP in mathematics, will be linked to the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) assessment scale.

Averages for fourth - and eighth - graders on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also called the Nation's Report Card, were mostly unchanged between 2015 and 2017.

American fourth graders on average scored 544 in science, higher than the international average of 500, ranking in the top 10 of all participating systems.

But time — along with the fact that half of all fourth - graders on free - and reduced - cost lunch in suburban schools are functionally illiterate — has proven that integration on its own doesn't deal with the systemic problems of low - quality teaching, shoddy curricula, lackluster leadership, and cultures of low expectations (especially for poor and minority kids) that plagues American public education even when those kids are put into suburban middle - class schools.

Fifty percent of D.C.'s fourth graders read Below Basic, a six percentage point decline over 2011 and a 19 percentage point decline from levels in 2002; 60 percent of fourth - graders on free - and reduced - priced lunch plans read Below Basic, a six percentage point decline from 2011 and a 15 percentage point decline from 2002.

In 2008, teacher assistant Johanna Munoz helped her Orlando - area fourth - graders on the state achievement test.

Public school teachers often reach into their own pocketbooks to buy essentials like pencils and copy paper for overcrowded classrooms, nevermind having the financial support to take 95 sixth graders on a bus to a local farm for project work.

The findings come from a National Center for Education Statistics study that uses the scores of 8th graders on the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress to predict their performance on the 2011 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).

This morning we watched two great clips of first grade teacher Jennifer Crucetti Cold Calling her first graders on the second day of school at Abram Lansing Elementary in Cohoes, NY.

In a prepared statement, state Superintendent of Education John White said the state ranked second nationally on gains by fourth - graders on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in the past two years.

To remove this barrier, a new paradigm is evolving in math education — one that calls for teachers at all grade levels to help District Administration The average score for eighth - graders on the latest National assessment of educational Progress (NaeP) was the highest ever, but only 39 percent scored at or above the proficient level (Lee, grigg, & Dion, 2007).

For 4th graders on the SBAC ELA assessment, the scaled score ranges from 2,131 to 2,663.

The state also ranks second nationally for fourth - graders on NAEP gains in reading between 2003 and 2015 and 12th in improvements by fourth - graders in math during the same period.

For 4th graders on the ELA portion of the SBAC, the scaled score must be at least 2473.

It was black and in the hand of someone the first - graders on the playground would later describe as a thin, towering figure with wispy blond hair and angry eyes.

The California district opened a school last summer, and two more are under construction, yet more than half the students are housed in relocatable classrooms, and several schools have first - and second - graders on «staggered» schedules - some attend morning sessions and some attend afternoon sessions.

The high school with the highest percentage of 9th graders on track to graduate is Ferris High School at 81.7 percent for all students.

On a sunny Friday morning in March, Miyaji gathered her second - graders on the carpet at the front of the class for a lesson on lions and tigers.

Three indicators are new to the state's accountability system, and according to state education officials are designed to give an understanding of a students» opportunity to learn: the opportunities students have to take advanced placement or college - level courses in high school; 9th graders on track to graduation; and the percentage of students who aren't chronically absent.

I just hopped onto the NCES site and generated a state - by - state ranking for eighth graders on the most recent 2011 math test.

The percentage of eighth - graders on school lunch reading at Proficient and Advanced levels in 2015.

The percentage of fourth - graders on free - and reduced - priced lunch reading at Proficient and Advanced in 2015.

The percentage of eighth - graders on school lunch reading Below Basic in 2015.

The rankings in the first - of - its - kind report are based on vocabulary scores of fourth and eighth graders on the 2011 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) in reading.

In the meantime, the Bloomberg administration has some positive test scores under its belt already, including an impressive 9.9 percentage point gain for 4th graders on the state's most recent reading tests, the largest jump since the test was initiated in 1999.

Reading scores stayed flat for 4th graders and rose only slightly for 8th graders on the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress, results that some find disappointing after years of intensive attention to improving the reading skills of American students.

At the high school level, former School for International Studies principal Fred Walsh claimed he had no idea his assistant principal dismissed eighth - graders on the last day of school in June 2011 while marking them present.

In Minnesota, Mr. Bush cited the improvement of Florida fourth - graders on national reading tests.

We should know — we spend our days with 100 fifth through eighth graders on a team at Williston Central School in Vermont called Swift House, named for the...

It took results for eleventh graders on an established reading comprehension test and assessed their correlation to several measures of their general knowledge, not knowledge specific to the passages on the test as the baseball study had done.

In 2000, the average scale score for 12th graders on NAEP was 301 out of 500.

Published in the December issue of Psychological Science, thestudyevaluated two groups of 8th graders on such factors as grades, standardized - test scores, and IQ - test scores.

Pastore recalled how the second graders took the school's first graders on a «field trip» to see the Flat Stanley display.

The reading and math scores of 4th and 8th graders on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have risen steadily since NCLB was put into place.

The show has been taped weekly since early last month and shown to 4th graders on the school's closed - circuit television system.

Attempts to expand the testing of 12th graders on the National Assessment of Educational Progress have the support of the White House, but that potential overhaul awaits approval from a key panel, which is weighing the implications.

Since 1992, the achievement of America's 12th graders on NAEP reading and math tests has been unchanged.

Imagine how much grit it would take to do something like the Shrimp Project, where teacher Laurette Rodgers led her fourth graders on a multi-month quest to protect an endangered species.

If you want to see a real blood - and - guts fight - to - the - death 9th graders on an island, check out Battle Royale.

He gave a talk to sixth graders on May 23rd at the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation in the Bronx.

The performance of fourth and eighth graders on a national test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, has also improved.

The chancellor has said she wants to get all second graders on their proper reading level and has repeatedly stressed the importance of hiring more guidance counselors.