Sentences with phrase «in selected grades»

These are the PSSA (a state - mandated test given in selected grades for reading, math, writing, and science) and the TerraNova (a test designed for national use and introduced by the District this year in grades 2 - 10 as a replacement for the SAT - 9).

Cheatham on Monday released the district's second annual report, which tracks student progress in selected grades in reading and math and in readiness for college or graduation.

All families in the selected grade level were asked to participate.

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Human raters review selected content on the blog in order to refine and streamline the algorithmic formulae behind content quality grading.

The team focuses on selecting investment - grade bonds which offer strong relative value in an effort to generate income while seeking to limit risk to the money invested.

We like U.S. investment - grade credit, hard - currency EM debt, stocks in selected EMs and global quality and dividend growth stocks.

While still tender, Select meats may lack some of the flavor and juiciness due to the lack of marbling found in Prime and Choice grades.

Select is very uniform in quality and somewhat leaner than the higher grades.

Thus some players with grades in the second round will end up getting selected on Thursday night of the draft.

In the 1990s, a researcher named James Stigler coordinated a vast international project that involved videotaping the classrooms of hundreds of randomly selected eighth - grade math teachers in the United States, Germany, and JapaIn the 1990s, a researcher named James Stigler coordinated a vast international project that involved videotaping the classrooms of hundreds of randomly selected eighth - grade math teachers in the United States, Germany, and Japain the United States, Germany, and Japan.

Space is available in our play - based kindergarten (for ages 4 - 6) and select grades.

Many experts believe that if your child waits to play on a select team until sixth grade or later, and waits until high school to specialize in a single sport, he is likely to be better adjusted and happier, have a more balanced identity, and less likely to be better adjusted and happier, have a more balanced, and less likely to have an identity crises when his competitive sports career ends, as it is likely to do after high school.

In addition to posting the criteria used to develop, select, and review every item and every passage, we released 50 percent of this year's 3rd — 8th grade items with explanations of the correct and incorrect answers.

The program provides selected high school teachers a curriculum geared to students in ninth or 10th grade in the required health education classes.

Budimirovic says the current study updated the 2013 recommendations by using a more systematic approach that classified existing outcome measures as either being able to detect shorter - term changes (measures in FXS placebo - controlled trials lasting less than 12 months) or longer - term changes (lasting longer than 12 months) changes and by grading the measures» quantitative properties using the COnsensus - based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) system, an initiative that aims to improve how health measurement tools are selected.

Digital external photographs representing each grade of D and S for selected participants enrolled in the study.

VärmlandsMetanol AB has selected Uhde, a ThyssenKrupp company, as technology supplier and engineering partner for a biomass - to - methanol plant in Hagfors, Sweden, with an annual production of 100,000 tonnes of fuel - grade methanol from forest - residue biomass.

Check out their detailed yet simple buyer's guide for help in selecting the perfect grade of matcha for your needs.

▻ matcha is a type of green tea that is grown in Japan ▻ matcha is technically a «loose - leaf» tea, but it's different than other standard teas because the tea leaves that have been ground into a powder ▻ because the entire tea leaf is consumed, you get more nutritional benefits than regular steeped tea (like vitamins, minerals & antioxidants) ▻ matcha has less caffeine than coffee and the effect is said to be gentler and more gradual on the body ▻ when making matcha, make sure you select a high quality, ceremonial grade matcha that is shade grown from Japan

We've teamed with Peloton, the tech company revolutionizing the fitness industry, to give you access to the new Peloton commercial - grade bike in select guest rooms and WestinWORKOUT fitness studios throughout the United States.

Devika sourced local yarns in Peru; the precious wools she selects are of the highest quality available and include top grade baby Alpaca, pima cotton and silk, dyed and spun in sustainable, traditional ways.

The first session of the Teacher Institute on Science and Sustainability (TISS) will begin this summer, and it will allow selected teachers in grades 3 - 5 to participate in a two - year professional - development program.

In November 2007, the New York City DOE launched the School - Wide Performance Bonus Program, randomly selecting 181 schools serving kindergarten through 8th grade to participate from a group of 309 high - need schools.

The breakfast book club is organized by the PTA and begins in the spring when a lead parent collaborates with teachers to select a book list for each grade level.

The report from the Learning First Alliance, a permanent partnership of a dozen education groups, says the districts were selected in part because they showed three or more years of improvement in student test scores that crossed subjects, grade levels, and racial and ethnic groups.

Next fall the program will be attempted during the standard school day in sixth and seventh grade in selected schools scattered throughout NYC boroughs.

Vouchers were awarded to families, with all children in grades one through five receiving a voucher if the family was selected.

Federal law also mandates the periodic administration of tests in selected subjects to a representative sample of students in 4th and 8th grade as part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often called «the nation's report card.»

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.

Full - time teachers in grades P - 12 who spend 50 percent or more of their time in a classroom or in classroom - like settings, work in select areas, and have three years of teaching experience.

Pathways program planners «look at such traditional criteria as grade point averages and test scores, but they also use interviews and writing samples to select people who are committed to teaching in urban schools.»

Those first - through twelfth - grade teachers and administrators, who will be selected by a panel of educators in March 1998, will participate in three - week study visits as guests of the Japanese government.

In one of their studies, students in grades 5 - 10 were given a mathematics problem selected to be potentially boring and difficulIn one of their studies, students in grades 5 - 10 were given a mathematics problem selected to be potentially boring and difficulin grades 5 - 10 were given a mathematics problem selected to be potentially boring and difficult.

They were selected from more than 120 nominations of students in grades 7 — 12, and they share a commitment to building strong, kind, and fair school communities.

The city randomly selected 181 schools out of a group of 309 high - need schools serving kindergarten through 8th grade to participate in the program, the remaining 128 schools serving as the control group for the purposes of the evaluation.

With funding from the World Bank, ICS Africa provided each of the 140 selected schools with funds to hire an additional 1st - grade teacher on a contractual basis starting in May 2005, the beginning of the second term of that school year.

At the same time, a lack of monitoring of both assessment practices and grading in many of the selected countries may inhibit the capacity of education systems to accurately assess student progress objectively.

In the senior secondary school, assessment in the interests of learning tends to take second place to assessment for the purposes of grading, ranking and selectinIn the senior secondary school, assessment in the interests of learning tends to take second place to assessment for the purposes of grading, ranking and selectinin the interests of learning tends to take second place to assessment for the purposes of grading, ranking and selecting.

We began thinking about the task with a museum metaphor: a relatively large number of works would be collected and stored in the basement, with a small subset of them selected for public exhibit in various galleries, by various curators, organized by grade level, core content, media type, etc..

Edison is a career academy, which means students in tenth grade select from one of four career areas: business and finance, communication and digital technology, law and public service, and medical and health.

Ohio State's program selects promising minority students in grades six through eight and offers them career and cultural programs, summer institutes, tutoring, and financial aid if they do well and choose to enter OSU.

Inside, in Emily Richey's 9th - grade English class, students are selecting and reading a nontraditional text, such as a political cartoon, video, or song about a social problem, and writing a paragraph that explains the text's point.

When they prepare to enter ninth grade, the students select either an entry - level pathway, which could result in a diploma and a certificate in a field upon graduation, or a professional pathway, which would mean more math and science in core courses, probably leading to postsecondary education.

Students are randomly selected by public lottery in grades K and 5, and we maintain waiting lists through grade 8.

During the last month of fourth - grade, 370 children were pretested on a measure of reading comprehension and vocabulary and randomly assigned to (1) a treatment group in which children received 10 self - selected books during summer vacation, (2) a family literacy group in which children received 10 self - selected books and were invited with their parents to attend 3 2 - hour summer literacy events, and (3) a control group.

As noted above, LEAs may choose to consider only schools of selected grade levels (e.g., only elementary schools) in determining eligibility for grants, as long as all schools in which 75 percent or more of their students are from low - income families receive grants.

[15] LEAs can generally choose to focus Title I services on selected grade levels (e.g., only elementary schools), but they usually must provide services in all schools, whatever their grade level, where the percentage of students from low - income families is 75 percent or more.

In November 2005, she announced a pilot program that would allow a few selected states to incorporate student growth into their AYP grading scheme.

Here is a list of the different lessons in this Year 3 SpringBoard Pack: Lesson 1a: PLACE VALUE AND ORDERING OF NUMBERS TO 100 Lesson 1b: PLACE VALUE AND ORDERING OF NUMBERS TO 100 Lesson 2a: ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION FACTS Lesson 2b: ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION FACTS Lesson 3a: COUNTING AND ORDERING Lesson 3b: COUNTING AND ORDERING Lesson 4a: DOUBLING AND HALVING NUMBERS Lesson 4b: DOUBLING AND HALVING NUMBERS Lesson 5a: MENTAL CALCULATION STRATEGIES Lesson 5b: MENTAL CALCULATION STRATEGIES Lesson 6a: SUBTRACTION BY COUNTING ON FROM THE SMALLER NUMBER Lesson 6b: SUBTRACTION BY COUNTING ON FROM THE SMALLER NUMBER Lesson 7a: UNDERSTANDING MULTIPLICATION Lesson 7b: UNDERSTANDING MULTIPLICATION Lesson 8a: SELECTING THE APPROPRIATE OPERATION TO SOLVE A PROBLEM Lesson 8b: SELECTING THE APPROPRIATE OPERATION TO SOLVE A PROBLEM Lesson 9a: USING MONEY Lesson 9b: USING MONEY Lesson 10a: READING SCALES Lesson 10b: READING SCALES Do you ever wish there was a simple to use, comprehensive way to boost your Year 3 Numeracy grades?

Employing strict discipline, an extended school day and year, and carefully selected teachers, No Excuses schools move disadvantaged students who start behind their peers academically up to and above grade level in reading and math, and on the path to success in college.