Sentences with phrase «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.

In these studies, later grade school students worked on a task, succeeded nicely on the first set of problems, and received praise.

By engaging with early learning providers and raising the quality of early learning and elementary classes, districts are seeing immediate gains — and improvements which persist through later grades.

Why hasn't this improvement carried into later grades?

In many programs, the instructional skills specific to the job of preschool teaching are marginalized, buried by other content only relevant to a teacher of later grades.

Additional results that apply to later grade levels and longer periods of schooling will be available in the near future.

But the shift of resources from later grades to early grades is practically a certainty without action from state lawmakers.

How do you speed smaller classes in the vital early grades without sacrificing later grades, local school budgets and arts teachers?

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

However, during the middle to late grade school years, children begin to distinguish «regular» friends from «best» friends.

Capture all student work for later grading while ensuring academic integrity

Immersion programs are effective and, in fact, generate equivalent learning in less time if started at later grades.

In a letter to Michael Gove and the exams regulator, the NAHT union said it had been inundated with calls about late grade changes in English GCSEs.

Prepare students for later grades by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.

As in version 1.0, some content that is never explicitly stated for the earlier grades seems to be taken for granted in the standards for later grades — where it won't likely be found in students» heads if the early - grade teachers aren't prompted by the standards to teach it.

By the time kids are in late grade school, they're becoming a little too sophisticated (or so they think!)

When I rebuffed the advance, he complied, but later my grade changed from «outstanding» to «pass.»

other content only relevant to a teacher of later grades.

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.

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

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

For instance, a kindergartener who experiences separation anxiety may become a social butterfly who bounds into school in the later grades.

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

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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.

I uncover no support for the hypothesis that school districts failing to supplement the state grants placed African American students in lower - quality programs, either in kindergarten or in later grades.

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.

Encourage use of text - to - speech: In later grades, students with dyslexia will need to access text that is above their academic ability in order to complete class assignments, and text - to - speech can be a real game changer.

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

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

But you don't emphasize an important point: Whatever benefits students experienced in kindergarten that resulted in higher test scores, they did not cause higher test scores in later grades — even though they produced better later - life outcomes.

As they put it, «The effects of class quality fade out on test scores in later grades, but gains in non-cognitive measures persist.»

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....»

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

Other critics point to greater gains in word recognition than in reading comprehension and to diminished gains in the later grades, as in the so - called 4th - grade slump.

Within KIPP schools, students in early grades have lower entering achievement levels, on average, than those in later grades, a pattern that is not evident at district schools.

Is it that we should use many of the Chinese strategies (that promote self - discipline, a deep respect for learning, the understanding that effort is critical, and a strong foundation of basic facts and knowledge) early on, and then, in later grades, focus more on critical - thinking skills, analytical abilities, and the pursuit of individual passions through curious exploration?

This trend reverses in later grades.