Sentences with phrase «increasing grades toward»

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Toward the end of fourth grade year, we began to prepare our son for the increased independence of middle school (6th grade).

Where the grade begins to increase, as if the road aspired to eventually climbing out of the surrounding high hills, one's eyes cast leftward toward a graciously imposing bluff.

The new emphasis on increased rigor in mathematics was so strong that the district shifted toward pre-algebra instruction in the elementary grades to better prepare students for eighth - grade algebra.

Grade retention that results from narrow measures of academic preparedness can increase student risk for problems in school, including increased drop - out rates, and even when the student is promoted, the use of such assessments to sort students creates tracks within grade levels that reflect racial, ethnic, and social - class differences and that function to direct entire categories of students toward low - wage jobs or incarceration.

The emails showing former state superintendent Tony Bennett «s staff made last - minute changes to the grading criteria in 2012 has generated increased ill will toward the grading system among local school officials.

In comparison with their never exposed peers, children continuously and intermittently exposed to secondhand smoke in childhood showed an increased propensity toward physical aggression and antisocial behaviour by the end of fourth grade.