Sentences with phrase «graders who»

One chart informed the audience that Hartford was able to increase the percentage of 3rd graders who achieved «goal» in Reading by 4.2 percent in just one year.

And attendance is highly correlated with performance: those 9th graders who end up being retained in grade have four times as many absences (almost five weeks) as their peers who are promoted, and are ten times as likely to drop out.

In Alabama, where the state sustained aggressive reading instruction and curriculum reform (even as it failed to overhaul teacher quality and expand school choice), 33 percent of students read Below Basic, a 15 percent decline from nine years ago; the percentage of poor fourth - graders who were functionally illiterate declined by 16 percent in that same period, from 61 percent to 45 percent.

Augustine Literacy Project provides consistent, intensive one - on - one literacy instruction to low - income 1st and 2nd graders who struggle with reading.

Incoming ninth graders who are unprepared for high school coursework are more likely to drop out of high school, and this trajectory starts in middle school: Each course failed in eighth grade increases the odds of non-promotion from ninth to tenth grade by 16 %.

A communitywide initiative to increase the number of third graders who read at or above grade level.

Educational experts who would use the CCSS as a justification for lowering math fluency standards will only exacerbate the problem of trying to teach algebra to 7th - graders who have to stop every five seconds to calculate 6x8.

Less than 10 percent of eighth graders who receive special education services scored proficient in reading in the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests.

For his part, Bass is thinking about next year's seventh - and eighth - graders who will need to solidify the skills too few of their older schoolmates have mastered.

Arizona, along with Indiana and Oklahoma, recently passed legislation to hold back third graders who are not reading at grade level.

In addition to raising literacy performance of first graders who struggle even in good classroom settings, Reading Recovery has wider implications for the curriculum and for the development and expansion of teacher expertise.

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.

58 % of 4th graders and 56 % of 8th graders who scored at the advanced level had perfect attendance the month before the test.

Louisiana ranked last in the number of fourth graders who read proficiently and had the highest drop - out rate in the country.

During the first year of the program, a $ 1500 non-refundable tax credit would be provided for first grade students and $ 2500 would be available for ninth graders who wish to attend private schools.

While Duncan's did lower dropout rates in the city's high schools, when he left Chicago, the number of 11th graders who failed to meet the state standards was about 70 percent.

Currently, 83 percent of eighth - graders who take the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Exam are said to be proficient in reading, for example.

In Evanston — a diverse mixed - income suburb of Chicago — Summer - Start Academic Youth Development (AYD) was enacted for rising 8th graders who had struggled in mathematics.

It holds wrapped sandwiches, ripe bananas and chocolate milk for a few dozen sixth graders who are in the hall crying and hugging, too upset to eat in the cafeteria.

First graders who listened to as many books as possible, even if they skipped the quizzes that checked for comprehension, did the best.

Third - graders who spend a class session in a natural outdoor setting are more engaged and less distracted in their regular classroom afterward than when they remain indoors, scientists found in a new study.

Third graders who have good sleep habits have higher grades in 5th grade than other students, after controlling statistically for earlier test scores (Buckhalt, El - Sheikh, Keller, & Kelly, 2009).

Second graders who read over 20 books were correlated with a 1.2 level increase in STEP scores.

Here's an example of the improvement: the percentage of fifth - graders who reached proficiency or advanced proficiency in language arts (scoring, respectively, 4 and 5) went up to 58.9 %, the biggest jump this year.

For example, this summer Newark Public Schools is operating an innovative literacy program for 750 rising second - graders who are behind in reading.

International students, older students, and seventh graders who missed out on regular talent search enrollment can be considered for TIP programs by taking the ACT or SAT on their own and reporting their scores to us through 8th — 10th Grade Option.

A new study concludes that those first - graders who are behind their peers would have learned more if their teachers had just taught them to add and subtract the old - fashioned way.

The pullout program is for 11th graders who are not currently enrolled in a math class at the high school, and are in particular danger of not doing well on the TAKS Math test.

Third graders who do not demonstrate proficiency on the state assessment or the portfolio tests will be given one final life preserver in the form of summer reading camps that will run three hours a day for six weeks.

We got an interesting email in response to our post about LAUSD's low math scores from a Cochran Middle School math teacher named Rustum Jacob, who offers two additional reasons why scores are as low as they are: more 9th grade students being placed into Geometry, and no real alternatives for 9th graders who aren't...

The most exceptional middle school grade cohort were the seventh graders who exceeded their expected Lexile growth by an average of 37 points.

Some members expressed concern that the alternative assessments could fail to measure up to the intent of the statute, which is aimed at ensuring all third graders who are promoted to the fourth grade are proficient readers.

The percentage of fourth - graders who scored Below Basic (or were mathematically illiterate) declined from 23 percent to 18 percent between 2003 and 2011; the percentage of fourth - graders scoring at proficient and advanced levels increased from 32 percent to 40 percent within that same period.

She loves teaching her second graders who loop with her to Third Grade.

A new data study shows that third graders who can't read proficiently are unlikely to graduate from high school in New York City.

The Madison School District has spent about $ 5.2 million in the last five years on the program that provides extra reading instruction for first graders who have low proficiency in reading.

The group's report, «Promoting Excellence for All,» found that 27.9 percent of white third - graders who qualify for subsidized school lunch are proficient or advanced readers.

Typically, lower performing second graders who are provided with effective reading instruction from the beginning of the year, will make bigger gains from fall to winter.

At the same time, 35.1 percent of eighth - graders who are white and poor are proficient or better in math.

The second graders who participated in the intervention received one - on - one tutoring twice a week for 45 minutes beginning in October and ending in May.

The classroom will serve both third and fourth graders who are nominated and chosen for the program, with the nominations for Avondale students already closed.

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

Recognizing that some children will need intensive support beyond first grade, Book Buddies has served a small number of retained first graders and second graders who are behind in reading.

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Los Angeles Unified's fourth - graders who qualified for free or reduced - price lunch, a poverty indicator, lost 2 points in math.

Percentage of 9th graders who graduate from high school and college within a reasonable time period:

At the same time, Florida also started «holding back» third graders who were not making reading improvement.

Researchers also compared the test scores of second - graders who entered and won lotteries to attend KIPP schools in kindergarten with those who applied but didn't get a spot.

Stay tuned for additional Telestory examples from Fox Hill third graders who recently read The Lemonade Wars and created book reviews with this excellent application.

In English, it was much better, with 46.8 percent of the 11th graders who took the test hitting the college - ready mark.