Additionally, along with Dave Levin, Atkins co-founded and is a board member for Zearn, a non-profit online math program designed
for kindergarten to eighth grade based on the Common Core standards (Zearn, n.d.).
We've organized our classrooms sequentially, from
kindergarten to eighth grade.
Measurement of academic achievement in the ECLS - K came from teachers» ratings of students in terms of their proficiency in reading, math, and general knowledge / science (1 = not yet proficient, 5 = proficient) from
kindergarten to eighth grade.
Ms. Hoxby found that students who attended a charter school from
kindergarten to eighth grade would nearly match the performance of their peers in affluent suburban communities on state math exams by the time they entered high school, a phenomenon she characterizes as closing the «Harlem - Scarsdale» achievement gap.
Take, for example, 50 kids in Oakland, California, who had intensive character education from
kindergarten to eighth grade.