Sentences with phrase «grades schools across the nation»

We partner with the nation's leading education researchers and practitioners and draw upon decades of high - quality research to provide excellent support and resources to middle grades schools across the nation.

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When asked to grade the nation's schools on the same A to F scale traditionally used to evaluate students, only 18 percent of survey respondents give them an «A» or a «B.» This equals the percentage that awarded one of the top two grades in 2009, which had been the lowest level observed across the three years of our survey.

Teachers across the nation report being pressured to fudge grades, pass students who don't deserve it, and accept students into classes they can't keep up in, all because of school evaluation models that use these metrics to keep up appearances for taxpayers.

Herein lies the conundrum for educators in low - performing schools across the nation: If a student arrives in fifth grade reading like a first grader and makes three years» worth of growth, he still will not pass a grade - level state test despite major progress and clearly effective teaching.

«I give this budget an «F» grade for failing public school students in California and across the nation,» Torlakson said in the statement.

It will include nearly 200 teachers and 10,400 seventh - grade students in 66 public middle or junior high schools across North Carolina, which researchers find provides a demographic sampling that is more representative of the entire nation and thus more likely to reliably reflect the impact of the program.

WICHITA, Kan. — The smiling, blissful and confused - looking emojis dotting the electronic landscape may hold the key to ferreting out grade - school children's true feelings about foods, Kansas researchers say, and could help schools across the nation cut down on lunchroom food waste.

At grade 12, the national sample of schools and students is drawn from across the country, and results from the assessed students are combined to provide accurate estimates of the overall performance of twelfth - graders in the nation.

Brookings, one of the nation's oldest and most respected non-partisan think tanks, reports that attendance fulfills ESSA demands that the fifth indicator provide meaningful differentiation between schools, and also that it deliver valid and reliable data that can be drawn statewide across all schools and grade spans.

I'm proud of the impact we've made, but we need to double - down on our efforts at a time when so many students are being targeted or unfairly treated because of their race, religion, gender, and nation of origin; when vital funding that helps disadvantaged children is at risk; and when proven solutions that can significantly increase the number of children who read by third grade and who graduate high school career or college ready still aren't in place across our nation.

NAEP, dubbed «The Nation's Report Card,» is a set of standardized tests given to a representative sample of students in 4th grade, 8th grade, and high school from all states every other year, and it is the only consistent measurement of student knowledge across 4 decades of administration.