Sentences with phrase «number of grade levels»

It is an artificial and poorly created attempt at testing students against a set of standards that are a number of grade levels above what schools are now teaching.

The schools varied in terms of the total number of grade levels represented at each site.

Not exact matches

One is the «10 - minute rule,» which recommends multiplying students» grade level by 10 to get the number of minutes they should be spending on homework each night.

«Although the number of fatalities and accidents at highway - railroad grade crossings have fallen steadily on a national level, over the past several years collisions have increased across New York State,» said Carlucci, a Rockland lawmaker and member of the independent Democratic Conference.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called for a number of commuter rail safety changes, including an elimination to grade - level crossings.

In 2009, 82 % of students in grades three to eight had supposedly performed at grade level on the math tests; but on the 2010 tests, that number fell to 54 %.

The state Education Department dropped the number of raw points needed to hit proficiency levels in six of the 12 English and math exams given to students in grades 3 to 8, officials acknowledged.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

The report recommends narrowing the number of core ideas to be covered within a particular course while emphasizing the cross-disciplinary nature of science, and it urges teachers to integrate the principles that scientists follow in doing their work into every course, at every grade level.

It took me a number of attempts to clear the first level with a passing grade when I was playing solo, but my friend and I perfected it on our second attempt when we played together.

Context is also lacking in his September 3 column, where he noted, «The federal system uses a single yearly proficiency goal - for North Carolina, 68 percent of students reading on grade level this year - and requires all schools to make that number.»

This purchase is for one teacher only: This resource is not to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.

According to the BBC, a number of universities have minimum entry grades at GCSE level - such as a C grade pass at maths and English.

Data averaging pools students across grade levels at the school - year level, and / or across years at the school - grade level, increasing the number of observations and, consequently, the chance of getting to the minimum n - size.

The importance of substitutes in the lives of students is made more poignant by class - size reductions, which have increased the number of classes at different grade levels and increased the demand for substitute teachers.

Encarta Schoolhouse One of the most comprehensive of those is Encarta Schoolhouse — a great place to find a large number of lesson plans that are sure to capture the interest of students at almost every grade level.

Fourth grade teacher Mary Kreul offered a number of Internet - based activities for all grade levels.

Though not as extensive as many of the sites listed, this one does provide a good number of activities at each grade level in various subject areas.

This resource is not to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level or subject, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.

You might also vary the number of words for each letter, according to the students» grade levels.

For example, there were few differences by age (over or under 30), highest degree attained, the length of time a teacher had student - taught, the number of teaching methods courses taken, grade level taught, community type, and whether a teacher had ongoing guidance from a mentor.

Depending on the grade level, a rubric can be used to help students document that they have a required number of features, and a required number of details for each feature.

The state calculates the number of teacher units required for each school by taking the school's average daily membership and dividing it by student - to - teacher ratios for different grade levels established by the legislature.

As Jon East explained in, «The estimating conference went even further, combining American Community Survey data from 2005 - 09 with private school enrollment data to make projections about the actual number of low - income students enrolled in each grade level in private schools in 2012.»

While we want our children to reach curriculum and grade level expectations, as a huge country with very large numbers of children, we might have to spend some time and quite a bit of energy in just helping them catch up and build the basic skills first.

While the demands of the federal No Child Left Behind Act have some districts fighting to raise the achievement of students who aren't performing at grade level, the 185,000 - student Philadelphia district plans to expand greatly the number of enrichment programs for its students.

The school characteristics include whether it is in an urban area, grade level (e.g., high school), the number of students enrolled, student - teacher ratio, the percentage of students who are eligible for the free or reduced - price lunch program, the percentage of minority students, and measures of student achievement in reading and math.

For a decade or more, school reform has been an urban tale of superintendents seeking to «turn around» schools in poverty - stricken communities, where vast numbers of children read below grade level and drop out before graduation.

Since 2004, the Jenks Public Schools has tracked the number of students entering first grade whose reading skills are below grade level.

Committed to a balanced budget, Hite and the SRC put forth a «doomsday» budget that severely cut the number of noontime aides, counselors, and teachers, and created «split» classrooms, that is, classrooms with two grade levels in the same room.

According to statistics from CGCS, since 1995 - 1996, the number of third - grade students scoring at or above grade level in reading increased 18 percent.

There are 300 things to cover in each grade level, not a small number of things to do well and deeply.

And then, back inside the school again, class formation, designing learning programs with small numbers of students across a wide range of grade bands or year levels.

School reports often rely on numbers and grades to convey how much of the year - level curriculum a student has mastered or how well they have performed against other students.

The class with the highest number of points gets to house the grade - level trophy in their room for the next month.

Since 2006, the number of Houston schools earning one of the state's top ratings has more than doubled to exceed 200 campuses, fewer students are repeating a grade level, and more are testing at the highest levels of academic achievement.

But these standards do not by themselves necessarily account for the gains in achievement by all demographic groups and by our regional vocational / technical high schools (which enroll a disproportionate number of special education students and below - grade level readers).

(Adjust the number of facts for your grade level.)

The Education Next research article «Stuck in the Middle,» featured in the Fall 2010 issue of Education Next, finds that the steep drop - off in middle - school students» academic achievement may be linked to the larger number of students in each grade level but can not be explained by differences in per - pupil spending or class size, which were similar in middle and K - 8 schools.

In the first half of the 20th century, the skills list was gradually replaced by a number grade and then by a letter grade, both of which usually indicated a student's level of progress according to a specified numerical standard.

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..

This resource is not to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.

This resource is not permitted to be shared with colleagues or by an entire subject or grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.

The lottery at the heart of the LSP experiment was conducted only when schools did not have enough available spaces at a grade level for the number of students that wanted to attend that school and grade level.

To help teachers in their efforts to integrate technology and science, Greece provides students and teachers with a number of technology resources: At the elementary level, each school contains a wired computer lab, capable of serving an entire class; a wireless, mobile computer lab; five student computers in each grade 1 - 5 classroom; and three student computers in each pre-K and kindergarten classroom.

* There has been a pleasing number of A and A * grades (level 7/8 and 9) across a large number of subjects including Maths, English, ICT and Biology.

In California, 75 % of white third - grade students who attend public schools without the minimum threshold number of ELL students perform at or above the proficient level on the state's mathematics assessment test, whereas just 67 % of the white California third - graders who attend schools with the minimum threshold number of ELL students score at or above the proficient level.

(The number of items to be collected might vary by grade level.)

Because the school has large numbers of students below grade level, it has drastically cut back on science, social studies, art, music — even gym and recess — to focus on reading and math.

In SY 2013 - 14 there are 20 states operating multi-district fully online schools without restrictions, and nine states operating them with restrictions such as available grade levels, and caps on the number of students per class / school / district / state.