Sentences with phrase «of eighth graders»

More than 75 percent of eighth graders scored proficient or advanced on the math exam, a big change from just 9 % in 2008.

On the most recent test, 39 percent of fourth graders and 34 percent of eighth graders scored at or above the proficient level.

In other words, increasing the share of eighth graders in tracked courses by ten percentage points is associated with an additional 20,000 students scoring 3 or higher on AP exams nationwide.

In fact, the article cites statistics that half of eighth graders can't put three fractions in order of size.

By that standard, two - thirds of eighth graders are still falling short.

The percentage of eighth graders achieving at the advanced level in mathematics rose three points, to 11 percent, which also represents a statistically significant improvement in performance since 2009.

The proportion of eighth graders scoring at or above proficiency levels in reading was the highest in the country.

An trio of eighth graders asks when there will be speed cameras in front of every city school after their school lost three students to hit - and - runs.

Perhaps, the report suggests, too little is expected of those eighth graders.

In another district, the efforts of middle school staff and community members to improve the health and wellness awareness of its eighth graders led to district - wide changes.

She also questioned the ability of eighth graders to make decisions that will affect the next five years of their lives.

Only 42 percent of eighth graders met that mark, but that was still a significant improvement from just a few years earlier.

Lots of eighth graders have pets, some don't, but many want to help the animals in any way they can.

This past spring, 97 percent of the eighth graders were at or above grade level.

It's a familiar professional development experience for many educators: Seven middle school math teachers gather around student work and content area standards in preparation to observe an experienced consultant teach a group of eighth graders how to talk about their own learning, which today includes how to graph on a coordinate plane.

Last year, 100 percent of eighth graders passed Massachusetts statewide exams in math and English, with 96 and 98 percent respectively scoring «proficient or advanced,» compared to a state average of 78 and 48 percent, and a Boston average of 59 percent and 28 percent.

Raymond and Leinenbach (2000) studied five classes of eighth graders in a pre-algebra in an inner - city middle school.

Specific examples: In Baltimore, 16 percent of eighth graders read proficiently.

However, rates are still low, showing a significant decline from peak rates in 1995, when 12.8 percent of eighth graders reported using an inhalant to get high in the past year.

In 2017, 79.8 percent of eighth graders said they disapprove of regularly vaping nicotine, but that number drops to 71.8 percent among 12th graders.

Parents of eighth graders at Christ Lutheran School in Rancho Palos Verde, California, understandably were a little nervous last year about their children traveling to Washington, D.C., on a school field trip.

After teaching sixth - grade English for years, I was assigned two classes of eighth graders who seemed destined

Between 1992 and 1995, the proportion of eighth graders using illicit drugs almost doubled; among tenth graders it jumped by nearly two - thirds; among seniors it escalated by nearly half.

The preschool enrollment figure is one of the education indicators, along with percentage of fourth graders not proficient in reading, percentage of eighth graders not proficient in math, and percentage of high school students not graduating...

Nationally, 34 percent of eighth graders achieved proficient or advanced scores and 4 percent earned advanced scores.

Update (4:02 p.m.): Mr. Grimm issued a statement responding to news of the eighth grader's confession in which he expressed relief the attack was «not politically motivated,» admitted he may have jumped to conclusions and described an «ongoing» media «smear campaign» against him.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress, sometimes called the nation's report card, reveals that nearly one - third of eighth graders don't possess even the most basic math skills, a fraction that rises to nearly two - fifths for high school seniors.

Sure, it has a lot of cursing, strippers, and other «adult» stuff, but the game feels like it was written by and for a collection of eighth graders.

The Orchard's «And Then I Go» culminates in a school shooting carried out by a pair of eighth graders, a story that has only grown more relevant since its premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival last June.

We already know from national assessment data that about half of eighth graders with college - educated parents fail to clear the «proficient» bar on NAEP.

Japan is not usually considered a slouch on international math assessments, but 43 % of its eighth graders fall short.

Grannan, the mother of an eighth grader at the school, says that by replacing prepackaged foods with fresher and less expensive raw materials and by offering tasty but healthier snacks, the school was able to keep costs low and nutritional content high.

(On the NAEP exam, the scores of eighth graders declined during the same period, she notes.)

«Last year at Science Bowl, our team was made up almost entirely of eighth graders — I was one of the only sixth graders,» Yuan says.

The researchers found that in 1998, about 38 percent of the eighth graders sent to the district's Transition Centers — alternative schools for students who turn 15 before graduating from eighth grade — were still unable to raise their scores to meet the promotion cutoff after being retained and attending summer school again this August.

In a 2007 test of eighth graders, the U.S. students placed just tenth, behind countries like Japan, England and Russia.

In Colorado, where a new state law requires that districts allow parents to excuse their children from the state tests, 5 percent of seventh graders did not take the social studies test this year and 6 percent of eighth graders sat out the science test, state officials said.

After an uncomfortable conversation with his parents, a few months later, he was instructing a classroom of eighth graders.

The film also misrepresents some statistics from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, by saying that seventy per cent of eighth graders can not read at grade level, which is false.

In 2011, 29 percent of eighth graders eligible for free lunch in Boston scored at proficient or advanced levels on federal math exams, compared with just 17 percent in reading.

Further, 100 % of our eighth graders entered high schools this fall, and they're all college preparatory.

In my first meeting as a personal learning coordinator at a small, rural school in Vermont, I asked a group of eighth graders what they wanted to do when they grew up.

Despite these aggressive reforms, the city fell midpack, with 24 percent of fourth graders performing below basic on math and 35 percent of eighth graders performing below basic on reading.

This NAEP data also shows a disturbing trend, with reading scores of eighth graders across demographic groups declining from 2013 to 2015.

Nationally, 34 percent of eighth graders earned proficient or advanced scores; eight percent achieved at the advanced level.

Their scores, and the scores of eighth graders on the 2011 NAEP in mathematics, will be linked to the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) assessment scale.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The current study uses information from Fleming, Mason, Thompson, et al. (2015) on an urban sample of eighth graders to examine how child - and parent - report measures of parenting are related to substance use and suspensions.

Even with 58 percent of fourth graders lacking proficiency in reading and 51 percent of eighth graders failing to show on standardized tests they are proficient in math last year, New Jersey's kids had significant improvement over prior years — and still outperformed their peers in most other states, according to the report.

Surveys by Rozelle's team have found that more than half of eighth graders in poor rural areas in China have IQs below 90, leaving them struggling to keep up with the fast - paced official curriculum.

«One of the writing assignments students can choose to do when they get back is to write a letter about the trip to the next group of eighth graders,» said Prather.»