Sentences with phrase «high end of the grades»

RI.3.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history / social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2 - 3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

Common Core State Standards require that students should, «By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the grades 11 - CCR text complexity band, independently and proficiently.»

By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history / social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2 — 3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

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The PowerShares CEF Income Composite Portfolio tracks an index of three types of yield - focused closed - end funds: investment - grade fixed - income; high - yield fixed - income; and option - writing.

I was educated from 1st grade to the end of high school in Catholic schools.

The grading system is entrenched at the larger - volume end of Australia's wine industry: lower grade fruit and wine ends up in casks and cheaper bottles, such as the # 5 UK supermarket specials that drove much of Australia's export growth in the early 2000s; higher grade fruit and wine ends up in more expensive bottles, such as the Penfolds Bin Series wines that are driving much of Australia's success in China now.

The only reason this isn't getting a higher grade is due to a little hesitation from the source of the rumor: Morosi says that the Yankees also want Sonny Gray from the A's, so there is a possibility that they go with Gray instead, or that this gets too big and the Yankees end up missing out on both players while haggling over details.

Smith was two grades ahead of Gundy and ended up attending Del City High, Midwest City's chief rival.

Or how my supply slowly dwindled from no baby nursing and from mastitis from the incomplete emptying of my breasts with even a high - end hospital - grade pump.

Milestones End - of - Grade (EOG) exams are administered every spring in Grades 3 - 8 in the subjects of English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies; Milestones End - of - Course (EOC) exams are administered for designated high school courses... and, middle school students who are taking any of those courses for high school credit must also take the EOC for that subject.

Undoubtedly one of Africa's best live performers, the High - grade Family CEO, Emmanuel Dagaati Samini was tagged best performer at the just ended Vodafone Ghana Music Awards nominees jam in Cape Coast by almost everyone that was either live at the venue or caught the caboodle live on TV 3.

Fourteen percent of the high school students transferred to other schools, with more than half ending up at another school with a grade of C or lower on its School Progress Report.

Despite the intervention's brevity, the black children who received the affirmative assignment scored one fourth to one third of a grade point higher in that course than the black control group at the end of the term, and the difference showed up in other classes, too.

The results were clear: Students who strategically reflected on how to use their resources to learn effectively ended up with higher grades at the end of the semester, outperforming their classmates by an average of one third of a letter grade.

The research was carried out on three groups of students in Israel from sixth grade through the end of high school.

The fact of the matter is, those who do not eat breakfast tend to exhibit lower productivity, they have poorer grades in school and ultimately end up experiencing higher unemployment rates than their breakfast noshing counterparts (fastcoexist.com).

Depending on where you find these shops and the grade of shops that they are, you can expect to find a wide range of vintage to modern, high and low end clothing.

Made of the highest grade mulberry silk, these pillowcases prevent fine lines, reduce split ends, and de-frizz unruly bed head.

Thirteen - year - old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

The film sees Kalu take on a community leadership role as traditional Hawaian burial sites are disturbed; Kalu's status Kumu sees her teach her male high school students as they prepare for a end of performance, accompanied by sixth grade tomboy Ho'onani, who is also «in the middle» like Kalu.

Who knew the End of Days would be filled with giant sinkholes, oversexed demons, the proliferation of the «F» word and a cameo appearance by the Backstreet Boys bathed in a thick haze of burnt high - grade weed?

Dramatically inert and flatter than a buzz cut, the movie ends up diminishing their moment of heroism by turning it into a defiantly amateurish piece of junior - high - grade theatrics (the film asks the impossible of people who have already achieved greatness), as if to say: Reality doesn't need to be gussied up.

Achieving a high combo of Burst kills will net you enough points to get a higher grade by the end of a stage.

Thirteen - year - old Kayla (Elsie Fisher) endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

It's high concept that devolves into low - grade horror schlock, resulting in one of the most predictable and disappointing endings you'll ever see.

But few people are willing to admit that perhaps college just isn't a good bet for people with seventh - grade reading and math skills at the end of high school.

While we've made some gains at the 4th - grade level (probably reflecting better instruction in decoding), reading - achievement trends by the end of high school are depressingly flat.

10 complete starters with 10 minute timer and answers Aimed at grade 4 5 6, top end of foundation and bottom end of higher.

In contrast, school populations closer to the high end of the performance spectrum were only about 5 percent African American, 10 percent Hispanic, and 16 percent poor, with a mean cohort size of only 114 and a mean pass rate of 84 percent on the 8th - grade math exam.

We reached this conclusion after examining responses to a citywide survey of parents of children in grades K — 8 and students in grades 6 and higher, which was conducted at the end of the 2006 — 07 and 2007 — 08 school years as a part of the city's new school accountability system.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

We're looking at the teachers that students have in 4th through 8th grade and two different measures: end of the 8th - grade test score and at the number of advanced math courses students take in high school.

The recent absence of growth in Texas fourth - grade math skills among these high - performing students may portend the end of a remarkable period of growth among the highest performers in the second - largest state in the union.

One highlight that had nothing to do with teachers was that a lot of the gap we see in end of 8th - grade test scores and high school course taking between advantaged and disadvantaged students can be explained by a student's 3rd - grade test.

In international comparisons, U.S. students start out doing well in elementary grades and then fade by the end of high school.

Under the new system, grades one through three are measured against a goal of reading by the end of third grade; grades four through six on proficient or advanced performance on the English and math portions of a state test indicating middle school readiness; seven, eight, and nine on high school readiness with passing all ninth - grade; grades 10, 11, and 12 focus on the goal of high school graduation.

Despite the higher average education level of their parents, charter school students exhibit lower levels of performance on end - of - grade tests in both reading and math.

The Common Core defines a three - part model for selecting texts in each grade span that will lead to college and career readiness by the end of high school.

Students themselves and the United States as a whole benefit from improved performance in the early grades only if that translates into measurably higher skills at the end of school.

Also includes Higher and Foundation end of topic tests with 9 - 1 grade boundaries.

Should our focus be getting all students to proficiency by the time they graduate high school rather than by the end of each grade or by 2014?

• A different Chetty study reports that «students who were randomly assigned to higher - quality classrooms in grades K — 3 — as measured by classmates» end - of - class test scores — have higher earnings, college attendance rates, and other outcomes.»

There are exceptions, of course, in the form of high school exit exams, end - of - course exams, and grade promotion requirements.

The second is that the Common Core movement muddles through, meaning that we end up, eventually, with a nearly national set of standards for what students need to know and do at each grade, high quality assessments aligned to those standards, cut scores for proficiency on those assessments that are challenging and equal across the nation, and a set of meaningful carrots and sticks for holding educators accountable for preparing all their students for success.

Loveless» study is the first to assess whether outcomes at the end of high school — specifically participation and scoring on AP exams — may be associated with tracking in eighth grade.

Unfortunately, too many policymakers are moving schools in the wrong direction by removing the few tools, such as meaningful grading standards and high - quality end - of - course exams, that might encourage more student effort.

The schools also have a Family and Graduate Support Program that not only tracks students through high school but helps them and their parents with tutoring and counseling, long after they leave left San Miguel at the end of 8th grade.

If VA estimates capture teachers» true impact on their students, students entering grade 4 in that school should have higher year - end test scores than those of the previous cohort.

The students taking the course online did substantially better on assessments of algebra knowledge at the end of eighth grade, scoring 0.4 standard deviations higher than students in the control group.

As young adolescents make the transition into high school, many experience a decline in grades and attendance (Barone, Aguirre - Deandreis, & Trickett, 1991); they view themselves more negatively and experience an increased need for friendships (Hertzog et al., 1996); and by the end of 10th grade, as many as 6 % drop out of school (Owings & Peng, 1992).