Sentences with phrase «moving on to the fourth grade on»

While not required by the law, many school districts were reluctant to hinge the possibility of a third grader moving on to the fourth grade on his or her performance on a single test, especially considering that North Carolina just adopted more rigorous standards and more difficult assessments based on those standards — meaning that even more students are likely to fail End of Grade tests than in years past.

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(Observe what a big deal it is when a state insists that children must be able, say, to read by the end of third grade in order to move on to fourth.)

Students move on to middle school after fourth grade, so they are often finally well - trained news reporters just as they depart the elementary.

Lessons on fractions previously taught in fourth grade have moved to third grade.

End Social Promotion: In some states, third grade students are required to pass the state's reading test to be eligible to move on to the fourth grade.

Every Indiana third grader will take a new reading exam in March to determine whether he or she can move on to the fourth grade.

She says third graders shouldn't have to pass a reading test to move on to fourth grade.

As a fourth grade teacher, I find it very difficult to help my students master long number long division and fractions because of the limited amount of time that we have to spend on those lessons before moving on to a new chapter with a new concept and not really being able to review the previous chapters.

According to NAEP results, released by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, Alabama is one of four states to show significant gains in fourth - grade reading, and over the past eight years has shown a greater increase in scale than any other state, moving from 207 in 2003 to the national average of 220 on a 500 - point scale in 2011.

From 2005 to 2015, for example, fourth - grade reading proficiency on the test known as «the nation's report card,» showed that achievement differences between white and African American students moved from an 8 - point gap to 11 points.

Students who don't pass can not move on to the fourth grade.

And considering that Virginia has done little to address its educational woes — including addressing the mere one - percent decline in the percentage of young black men in fourth - grade mired in functional illiteracy (as measured on the National Assessment of Educational Progress) between 2003 and 2011 — Gov. Bob McDonnell, state Supt. Patricia Wright, and their colleagues were rightfully shamed by reformers and civil rights activists into revamping those targets (and the Obama administration, which also moved to push Virginia into revising them, deserves criticism for accepting those low targets in the first place).

Spencer reports on how a gifted and talented math program has been moved from a fourth grade start to a sixth grade start.

This rigor in third grade, of course, prepares them to take on even more complex math as they move into the fourth grade and beyond.

The new law allows parents to request an exemption to allow their child to move on to the fourth grade.

Being in fourth grade and teaching phonics to first graders, participating in the eighth grade spelling lesson as a fourth grader, being taught in small groups of three to five students from mixed grade levels on particular skills or topics, having assessments on various skills before moving on, moving on to the next skill level when ready (regardless of grade level)-- is this competency - based education?

In case you didn't hear about it, Columbus has had good news about its reading scores: 87 percent of third - graders met the state's reading requirements and will move on to the fourth grade, compared with about 74 percent last school year.