Sentences with phrase «higher in reading»

In a study published in the Real Estate Economics journal, they found that children of homeowners performed 9 % better in math and 7 % higher in reading.

Instill a love of reading, and prevent the «Summer Slide» — children who participate in Summer Reading and read a minimum of 6 books over the summer score higher in reading AND math when they retu

In follow - up surveys from the earliest cohorts of the program, principals reported that nearly 9 in 10 iTeachAZ graduates scored «effective» or «highly effective» on their evaluation and that the achievement scores of graduates were significantly higher in both reading and math than those of students whose teachers graduated from other programs.60

Test results from a partner school district of third - through eighth - grade students of first - year teachers demonstrate that those taught by Teachers College graduates scored significantly higher in reading and math than students of other teachers.

On the international PISA test, Connecticut's 15 year olds scored higher in reading than students in 63 nations.

Across the U.S., about 32 percent of students in both grades were proficient or higher in reading, and about 40 percent of fourth - graders and 34 percent of eighth - graders scored tested proficient or higher in math.

Improved Brain Function: Physically active students scored higher in reading comprehension with just 20 minutes of physical activity.

Fourth - grade students recorded the highest gain — four points — among 21 urban school systems since 2011; fourth - graders also scored higher in math, and eighth - graders scored higher in reading.

A multi-year study of students enrolled in two - way dual - language programs in North Carolina between 2007 and 2010, found that low - income black children in these programs scored higher in reading and math than their classmates of the same race and socioeconomic background who were being taught in one language.

NAEP's 2012 long - term trend assessment shows that students in the two younger tested groups — 9 - and 13 - year - olds — scored significantly higher in reading and math than these age groups did forty years ago in the early 1970s.

Their study showed charter school students in Arizona and California score 7 percent to 8 percent higher in reading and math proficiency compared to the nearest public school.

But when you compare the charters to the DCPS schools they're actually competing with — the ones outside of Ward 3 — the gap becomes more dramatic: The proficiency rate among charter students last year was about 34 percent higher in math and 30 percent higher in reading.

A general pattern could be seen in which students who very much like reading scored significantly higher in reading, on average, than did those who somewhat like reading, who in turn scored higher on average than students who do not like reading.

During the 1998 - 1999 school year, KIPP students scored higher in reading and mathematics than did kids in any other Bronx middle school program, Levin said.

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

Students whose teachers receive an overall rating one standard deviation above the mean are predicted to score roughly 0.06 standard deviations higher in reading than students whose teacher received an average rating.

The results suggest that elementary schools with no bilingual - education enrollment score six points higher in reading and three points higher in math than schools with all their English Learners enrolled in bilingual education.

In the racial and ethnic comparison, the results show that being surrounded by peers who score 1 point higher in reading raises a student's own reading score by 0.3 to 0.8 points.

Students who choose score higher in reading and math, are more likely to graduate and are more likely to succeed in college.

To put this in perspective, an all - female class would score about one - fifth of a standard deviation higher in reading, all else being equal.

The study by ctb / McGraw - Hill found that, in 1987, students in grades 1 to 8 who took its Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills scored an average of 6.63 percentile points higher in reading, 10.83 points higher in language, and 14 points higher in mathematics than a 1981 comparison group.

For example, a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile on the state reading and math test and is assigned to a teacher in the top quartile in terms of overall TES scores will perform on average, by the end of the school year, three percentile points higher in reading and two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

What quickly became clear was that the students who could break down words and make connections between similar words and word parts also scored higher in reading skills and word reading fluency.

Boys who were mainly breastfed for at least six months scored 9 per cent higher in mathematics and writing tests, 7 per cent higher in spelling, and 6 per cent higher in reading, compared with boys fed with formula milk or breastfed for shorter periods.

When kids eat breakfast they demonstrate broader vocabularies, improved memory and faster speed on cognitive tests, and they score higher in both reading and math.

Also on an international test, the 2012 Program of International Student Assessment (PISA), Connecticut's 15 year - olds also scored extremely high in reading.

Not exact matches

I read the actual book a few years ago, and it's definitely one that I wish I could go back and tell my seventh - grade self is worth reading, especially since I liked «Brave New World» so much when I read it in high school.

I was assigned to read The Glass Castle in high school and it's a huge part of why I love reading (and writing) non-fiction today.

In the above table, I have selected a few prior years with interim high and low readings, as well as the last 4 years, and further broken out 2015 by quarter.

Last month, conservative news outlet Daily Caller published a story with a headline that read, «It's High Time Barron Trump Starts Dressing Like He's In the White House.»

While the literacy rate in Ethiopia is 50 percent for males and 23 percent for females, 100 percent of people in most high - income countries, such as Canada and Norway, can read.

«These efforts may prove more expensive than we currently anticipate, and we may not succeed in increasing our revenue sufficiently, or at all, to offset these higher expenses,» the filing read.

China's testing was limited to Shanghai students, a narrow scope Lusardi likened to the U.S. testing only students in Washington, D.C. Still, China and other Asian countries typically rank among the top five for other school subjects — and OECD data showed some positive correlation between financial literacy skills and high performance in mathematics and reading.

«This is the highest reading since 2007 and suggests that employers will continue to face wage pressure in order to attract and keep good employees.»

He explained that some time ago he was conducting an empirical study of street prostitutes in the city of Chicago, and, through a connection at a company he was consulting with, met a high - end call girl who had read «Freakonomics,» and who was willing to help him with his study by providing data.

What's more, the news - reading public has grown accustomed to announcements of multi-million-dollar investments over the last 15 years, a period of extremely active venture capital funding, which reached new highs in 2015.

British inflation stood at 2.3 percent in annual terms in the month of March, unchanged from the near four - year high seen in the February reading.

Youth in higher - income homes spend more time than disadvantaged kids in reading the news and searching out information online.

Sounds like a must - read for everyone who's struggled with awkwardness, in high school and beyond.

I read it in high school and have always carried the core ideas with me regarding the balance of power between nations, companies, industries, value chains, and people.

Jobs read «Autobiography of a Yogi» by Indian yoga guru Paramahansa Yogananda when he was in high school.

«A very high bar is set by using the word «Favorite,»» he wrote in a blog post that suggested several changes to Twitter's interface — including pictures and videos that are double - clickable to heart (à la Instagram), receipts when Tweets have been read, and a «Thank you bomb» feature that enables users with lots of followers to send mass gratitude notifications all at once.

A couple of weeks ago I read about the pillow online, which claimed to be so cool thanks to a knit fabric that has a higher heat transfer than most materials (ultra-cool knit polyethylene), and asked Helix if they could send us a pillow to try out in person.

«Whether they made their money lobbying lawmakers at the Capitol or cashed in on a tech IPO, rich millennials are clustered in cities where there are lots of high - paying professional jobs,» reads a post today on Zillow's Porchlight blog.

The doctor came up with the ground - breaking technique in 1974 after reading about the high rate of choking deaths in restaurants.

He read the Billings Gazette and the St. Paul Pioneer Press to figure out which high school students were putting up big points in rural parts of the country.

The 35 - year - old has many interests in life — in high school he played every sport he could try out for, and at home, he'd watch every movie and read every comic book he came across — but his chief interest is simply listening to his mind wander.

Other amenities in the suite include seats that are wider than the average of 21 inches on existing Delta One classes (for competitive reasons, the airline did not release the specific width); roomy stowage compartments for shoes, headphones, and laptops; two consoles so passengers can comfortably spread out their drinks, reading materials, and laptops; and an 18 - inch - high resolution entertainment monitor, the largest among United States - based carriers, according to the airline, and bigger than the 11 - to 15 - inch monitors in Delta One classes.

After reading a fundraising flyer about the blind, Banerjee felt inspired to turn a high - tech version of Legos, the toy building blocks, into a device that could print in Braille.

He mentioned he had just read one of my articles (one of the first ones I had written for this column) and was fascinated by the correlations I made between the culture of the U.S. special - operations community and building high - performance teams in the business world.