Sentences with phrase «in grade spans»

The Senate bill offers two test options for states: either maintain the current annual testing schedule, or develop new ways to assess students, by either testing in grade spans, evaluating student portfolios, or administering competency - based tests.

It similarly extends the mandate for statewide tests in science at least once in grade spans 3 — 5, 6 — 9, and 10 — 12.

The state has standards - based exams in all grade spans in English, math, and science.

Standards and Accountability: Washington state has set clear and specific standards in all grade spans for science and mathematics.

The state does not have clear and specific standards for all subjects in all grade spans.

He has extensive experience in all grade spans and curriculum areas including reading / ELA, math, social studies, science, special education, world languages, CTE, and AP.

The state is one of 12 that have standards - based tests in all grade spans for every core subject.

Standards and Accountability: Colorado has clear and specific standards for English, mathematics, and science in all grade spans, but it has such standards only at the middle school level for social studies / history.

Standards and Accountability: Connecticut has established clear and specific standards in all grade spans in mathematics and science.

Standards and Accountability: Tennessee has clear and specific standards in English, science, and social studies / history at the elementary and middle school levels, and in mathematics in all grade spans.

Clear and specific standards exist in English, mathematics, and science in all grade spans.

The state's tests include multiple - choice items, as well as extended - response items in English, in all grade spans.

The state has tests aligned with its standards in English, math, and science in every grade span.

It is also closer than many other states to having standards - based exams in every core subject in every grade span.

The state offers tests aligned with those standards in every grade span in English and math.

Ohio is one of only 12 states that have standards - based exams in each core subject — English, math, science, and social studies / history — in every grade span.

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.

The state is one of 12 that give standards - based tests in every core subject in every grade span.

The state has tests aligned with its standards in each grade span in English and mathematics, but only at the high school level in science.

We compared how districts fund schools that are eligible to receive federal Title I dollars with other schools in their grade span — elementary, middle, or high school grades — and found vast disparities throughout the country in how districts spend state and local dollars on Title I schools.

Consequently, there is a real possibility that, going forward, states may only be required to test students once in each grade span (i.e., once in elementary, middle, and high school).

Whenever possible, we compared Title I schools with non-Title I schools in each grade span.

Even if just a handful of students utilized the vouchers, a district such as Hot Springs County — which covers a wide geographic area with one school in each grade span — would face difficult decisions such as reducing classes and course offerings, cutting activities, or reducing student supports to compensate for the reduced funding when students leave.

In the past, students have typically been asked to write only once in each grade span — in elementary, middle, and high school.

Sixteen test twice in that grade span for those subjects (two of these test twice in one subject, thrice in other; one is phasing a grade out of testing).

It also required testing science just once in each grade span.

Not exact matches

Over a span of 18 years, 3,100 students (47 percent of which were athletes) at UNC took advantage of these courses which allowed them to receive quality grades without having to show up for class, turn in papers or take tests.

When her daughter was in kindergarten, Tatelli and other parents of children with food allergies worked with Highland Park School District 112, which spans pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, to develop a policy.

Our highly qualified math tutors provide instruction to students of all academic levels in every subject of math spanning from elementary grade math to graduate school math, business course subjects, and beyond

Low - grade chronic inflammation in humans is a risk factor for the development of more serious diseases that reduce life spans.

But there is room for improvement on its standards, which have not been rated by the American Federation of Teachers as clear, specific, and grounded in content for English above the elementary level or for social studies at any grade span.

In particular, Maine lags behind in the area of standards, where the American Federation of Teachers has rated only its science standards as clear, specific, and grounded in content at all three grade spanIn particular, Maine lags behind in the area of standards, where the American Federation of Teachers has rated only its science standards as clear, specific, and grounded in content at all three grade spanin the area of standards, where the American Federation of Teachers has rated only its science standards as clear, specific, and grounded in content at all three grade spanin content at all three grade spans.

Since students in the early grades generally have a limited attention span and suffer from learning fatigue in a more demonstrative way than older students, elementary school teachers are constantly forced to manage the learning state more acutely than teachers of middle school and high school.

In all of the core subject areas and at nearly all grade spans, the state has academic standards rated clear and specific by the American Federation of Teachers and assessments aligned to those standards.

States and school districts across the country are reevaluating the practice of educating young adolescents in stand - alone middle schools, which typically span grades 6 through 8 or 5 through 8, rather than keeping them in K — 8 schools.

Another Obama effort, The Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy grants program, assists states in creating or maintaining a comprehensive literacy plan for children birth through grade 12; creating quality learning environments across the age span has the potential to promote academic outcomes for all children, including EL learners.

Its academic standards for all four core subject areas at every grade span have been rated as clear, specific, and grounded in content by the American Federation of Teachers.

But Oregon receives high marks for its academic standards, which the American Federation of Teachers rated clear, specific, and grounded in content in all of the four core subjects and at nearly every grade span.

New York's standards in the four core subjects have been rated as clear, specific, and grounded in content at all grade spans by the American Federation of Teachers.

Our research has found that a wide range of instruction spanning eight or nine grade levels of reading achievement exists in the average third or fourth grade class.

Moreover, the program gets students out of their comfort zone and helps them develop social skills by having them work in teams that span grade levels.

He was lucky to have been the beneficiary of «outstanding» educators in his private K — 6 school located within the beltway of Washington, D.C., and the fact that his new school spanned grades three through 12 meant he would avoid making another transition once he reached high school.

These data span the school years 1988 — 89 through 2008 — 09 and cover roughly 2.5 million children in grades 3 through 8.

VTS, which started in grades 3 - 5, now spans K - 8, and Housen and Yenawine are developing curricula for prekindergarten and high school.

Because the data include information about students» ages, we are able to compare degrees of satisfaction by grade span in each sector.

The groups are not statistically different in extracurricular activities, sports, student support staff, or grade span.

Newly built to support college and career readiness standards, the bank spans grades 1 — 12 in reading and math and helps districts build assessments that produce high - quality data about student performance and match the level of rigor and item types found on statewide assessments.

Mindful of this potential hodgepodge, in my book Making History Mine, I show how to use these goals and lessons within any secondary grade span or subject.

His experience in education has spanned four decades, beginning with a job in Chelmsford, Mass. as an eighth - grade history teacher.

For instance, a small school may serve grades K — 6, but if no kindergartners were enrolled in 2013 — 14, the grade span would be 1 — 6.