Sentences with phrase «in later grades»

This has contributed to high drop - out rates and low achievement scores in later grades.

First, high school scores might appear to be stagnant because not enough time has passed for the gains from earlier grades to show up in the test scores of students in later grades.

The vocabulary and experimentation may give kids a head start in later grades.

They were less likely to be retained in a later grade and better prepared when they entered high school.

It calls for a 50 percent / 50 percent split in grade four, with an increasing emphasis on informational texts in later grades.

It helps students understand the how and the why of math concepts, which leads to ease of learning when they encounter more difficult math topics in later grades.

And that continues to be a problem in later grades.

The new study found no evidence for one piece of conventional wisdom: that having a good teacher in an early grade has a bigger effect than having a good teacher in later grades.

As in later grades, teacher quality is a huge factor in the success of preschool classrooms.

And it doesn't get better in the later grades.

It enables all students to meet more rigorous reading standards and prepares students for the more complex text they will read in later grades.

In addition, as academic challenges increase in later grades, he may simply give up trying.

By contrast, the researchers found little evidence that being bullied increased a child's risk of becoming depressed in later grades.

That foundational understanding will aid them as they work with more abstract representations of fractions in later grades.

Students feel less pressure because they have more time to study at their own pace at home, especially in the later grades.

For skills that your students may still be mastering, you can probably find a typical peer in a later grade who would be more than happy to play the game with your students.

These articles cited technology as a benefit to the early learning environment even though technology initiatives within a school are often thought to be the domain of educators in the later grades.

Literacy is the foundation on which all academic success is built, opening access to challenging subject matter and critical thinking in later grades and life pursuits after high school graduation.

The instructional techniques, emotional supports, and assessment approaches for early childhood settings are different from classroom settings in later grades.

Students who attend preschool regularly are significantly more likely than chronically absent preschoolers to be ready for kindergarten and to attend school regularly in later grades, the report finds.

It wasn't just that the new standards were the latest of so many changes; it was also that they were asking students to perform tasks often taught in later grades.

These are the subjects in which children acquire academic vocabulary, not to mention the essential conceptual knowledge that prepares children for more in - depth studies in later grades.

Students can't rely solely on content they produced in a previous grade to meet an expectation in a later grade and neither should instructional materials.

Because students who arrive in later grades can bring down a school's overall test scores, we need to be careful when comparing schools that have different admissions practices.

Evidence suggests these strategies can help reduce the achievement gap, help avoid more costly interventions in later grades, and are highly valued by the public.

They can introduce an array of topics in the early grades to build vocabulary and come back to those topics in later grades to deepen understanding.

He recently offered an analysis that shows the average number of proficient students increasing at Democracy Prep and declining at Success in later grades.

Although these percentages decline in later grades, 83 percent of the English teachers in 8th grade are female, as are more than half of 8th - grade math and science teachers (see Figure 2).

The promise and potential of standards - and accountability - driven reform is that, by setting clear and rigorous expectations for what students should know and be able to do, teachers can better prepare students for the more advanced work that they will be asked to do in later grades, in college, and beyond.

Even if 1st grade math is never built on in later grades, a student's addition and subtraction skills are still likely to improve somewhat by the 6th grade.

Chronic absenteeism in kindergarten, and even pre-K, can predict lower test scores, repeated patterns of poor attendance and retention in later grades, especially if the absences persist for more than a year.

To ensure that all children fulfill their potential as individuals and citizens, we must re-imagine public education as a system that begins not with kindergarten, but with quality pre-k, and builds on that foundation to raise performance in later grades.

It places emphasis on individually administered assessments in the early primary grades, but graduates to a computer - administered and scored measures in the later grades (AUTOreading, aReading) for improved efficiency.

compromised because of early literacy assessments that are far easier than the state's measures of academic standards in later grades

Although our data do not allow us to address this issue directly while still accounting for the self - selection of students into charter schools, simple comparisons indicate that students who entered charter schools in the later grades made smaller gains in math (but not reading) than students who entered earlier.

They are supposedly working on reading, which, according to the same survey, gets an hour and a half on average in the early elementary grades, and almost as much in the later grades.

That can mean former DoDEA students with shaky academic foundations struggle in later grades at a public school.

High school transfer students in later grade levels also face a serious uphill climb to graduate if they enter a college - prep charter school with cumulative academic deficiencies that put them many grade levels behind.

The impact can be minimized, however, by improved attendance in later grades.

Lessons in how to change a light bulb come in later grades, when they teach basic electrical circuits.

When students move on to harder topics, they continue to accumulate gaps in their knowledge — a setup for failure in the later grades or collegiate years.

Observers note that second - grade students gain a love of learning through kid - friendly classroom activities that pay off academically in later grades.

That classification differences for SLD in later grades are a major driver of the gap is especially interesting.

As a result, the gap between charters and districts for students with this type of disability declines to the point of insignificance in later grades.

The yearly discrepancies in later grades are somewhat smaller,...

Beginning in fourth grade, the average time spent on homework falls short of the recommended amount — a gap of only four minutes in fourth grade that steadily widens in later grades.

Having few new entering students is an enormous advantage not only because low - scoring transfer students are kept out but also because in later grades, KIPP students are surrounded only by successful peers....»