Sentences with phrase «of repeating a grade»

In theory, retained students were supposed to participate in an enriched, accelerated academic program that would, through additional help and tailor - made interventions, result in a better outcome at the end of the repeated grade or even help the student catch up to his or her classmates.

Not only do they tend to increase children's intellectual abilities, positive social behaviours, school commitment, and their likelihood of graduating from high school, but they also lower children's likelihood of repeating a grade and of engaging in antisocial behaviours during their adolescence.

Not exact matches

And regardless of social class, the stresses and distractions that afflict unemployed parents also afflict their kids, who are more likely to repeat a grade in school, and who on average earn less as adults.

Yellen repeated her third grade teacher tutorial about how savers have indirectly have benefited because of the bounty of jobs available for them and their children and grandchildren and they should stop complaining because home prices have increased to pre-crisis levels in many parts of the country — all because of the wonderful work of the FED and its QE programs.

Some of us just repeat a grade or level.

Immaturity is one of the factors that can contribute to the overall picture of a school child who would benefit from repeating a grade, but grade retention by itself does not encourage maturity.

«In grade three, math really kicks in, though I bet most parents can not follow along to the hopping, skipping, times table repeating song — again, an example of the sheer genius of combining play, movement, coordination, repetition, all leading to mathematical concepts and comprehension.»

This wasn't the kind of summer school you attended because you didn't want to repeat 2nd grade; it was the kind that your parents paid for you to attend to give you an enriching summertime experience.

The complaint details the experience of a 12 - year - old student at Success Academy's Harlem 5 location, who was made to repeat second grade three times before being given an Individualized Education Plan (IEP).

More than 80 percent of women with advanced stage high - grade serous ovarian cancer experience relapses even after repeated surgeries and multiple rounds of chemotherapy, and this effective new approach to treat the disease could be a major step forward in preventing cancer from returning.

«In sixth grade, I kept a planner of outfits so I wouldn't repeat!»

27 - year - old Billy Madison must repeat all 12 grades of school - in just 24 weeks - to earn his father's respect and prove he has what it takes to run the family's multi-million dollar empire.

27 - year - old Billy Madison must repeat all 12 grades of school - in just 24 weeks — to earn his father's respect and prove he has what it takes to run the family's multi-million dollar empire.

Co-starring Christopher McDonald, Carl Weathers and Kevin Nealon.Billy MadisonHe's the heir to the Madison Hotel millions but in order to win his father's respect, and his Fortune 500 company, grown - up goof - off Billy must repeat all 12 grades of school - in just 24 weeks!

However, evidence presented in the report sheds doubt these large test score increases: according to an Education Writers Association study, when neighborhood schools were restored, the superintendent in Oklahoma City reduced the number of low - achievers taking the standardized tests by increasing the number of students retained (or «flunked») and implementing transition grades (in which students repeat all or part of the previous grade).

Recent studies have found that roughly 15 percent of students repeat a grade between kindergarten and graduation.

New research from Harvard Graduate School of Education professor Martin West tells a nuanced and evidence - based story about grade retention, finding that — contrary to critics» fears — repeating third grade does not reduce students» chances of completing high school.

But the guidelines for what students should learn in each grade have a low level of rigor compared with those of some other states, content is repeated across and within grades, and the tests are not as challenging as they should be, the analysis concludes.

They said the gains were inflated by the retention of low - performing 3rd graders after 2002, when Florida ended «social promotion» by requiring students who failed 3rd grade tests to repeat that grade.

A rigorous study by David Deming of Harvard, for example, found that Head Start graduates were less likely to repeat grades or be diagnosed with a learning disability, and more likely to graduate from high school and attend college.»

Part of the explanation for this trend is the comparatively high rate of students who repeat grade 5 at KIPP schools.

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.

It contains a total of 99 sight words (there are three volumes * and a total of 20 stories), which are repeated frequently to enable the student to make a smooth transition from pre-primer level to first grade level.

While most of the movement between classes was due to parental complaints or behavioral problems, the attrition figures could also reflect other factors unrelated to the study, such as students» moving out of a school's geographic zone or having to repeat a grade.

2012 UNESCO Education for All Global Monitoring Report3 shows that 61 million children are out of school, 32 million of those in school repeat grades, while 31 million of grade repeaters drop out of school.

The grim statistics are well known but bear repeating: In Chicago, close to 60 % of young Black men do not graduate from high school; only 6 % of Black males in the ninth grade will earn a bachelor's degree by age 25; and nearly half of Black males between the ages of 20 and 24 are both unemployed and out of school.

Most of these students had reached 3rd grade by that time, but those repeating an earlier grade were also tested.

In the second year of the program, all children not repeating the grade remained assigned to the same group of peers and the same teacher.

Twenty - three percent of children who moved frequently repeated a grade compared with 12 percent of children who never or infrequently moved.

«School - aged children in both two - parent and single - parent families are more likely to get mostly A's, to enjoy school, and to participate in extracurricular activities and are less likely to have ever repeated a grade and to have ever been suspended or expelled if their fathers or mothers have high as opposed to low levels of involvement in their schools.»

For example, in 1999, 6.6 percent of first graders repeated the grade.

Another downside of the Chicago policy is that nearly a third of the students who repeat a grade or attend an alternative school drop out when they reach age 16.

Interestingly, in PISA 2012, about 34 per cent of 15 - year - olds in Portugal had repeated at least one grade, compared to the OECD average of 12 per cent.

Our personal strategy is to divide the total number of papers by five and put out one gummy bear for each group — grade papers with a timer on (see next tip), eat a gummy bear, and repeat until finished.

If this process is repeated throughout the year and across grades, a real culture of poetry could be generated.

The variable Sigt is the years spent in a charter or pilot school as of the test date, counting any repeated grades, and counting time in all charter and pilot schools, not only the ones in our lottery sample.

If a school receives repeated grades of D or F, it can be required by the state to take a variety of drastic measures, such as making the entire faculty reapply for their jobs, converting the school to a charter or closing it down altogether.

«While some researchers have found that retained students «can significantly improve their grade - level skills during their repeated year,» others have found that less than half of retained students meet promotion standards after attending summer school and repeating a grade.

The National Writing Project, begun in 1974 at the University of California at Berkeley, stemmed from a similar notion: that regular reviews of the process of writing, with repeated drafts and frequent editing, were a better way to assess how the student was doing than the old way of grading grammar and spelling tests and the final version of any written assignment.

In 2006, Ed Next published a study by Marcus Winters and Jay Greene, «Getting Ahead by Staying Behind,» that reviewed the efforts of several states and school districts to end social promotion and analyzed the impact of Florida's policy of requiring low - performing students to repeat a grade.

This attrition could reflect ordinary factors unrelated to the study, such as students» moving out of a school's geographic zone or having to repeat a grade, as well as families» responses to being assigned to a particular class.

About 5 percent of students had to repeat the same grade for the third time.

While complete data were not available for any other year, we repeated this analysis with the Class of 2012 using 10th - grade test scores to control for differences in student ability and found, reassuringly, a similar pattern.

I also find large and meaningful reductions in the percentage of students at district schools who are required to repeat a grade as a result of charter school entry.

Students who again failed to meet the standard were required to repeat the grade, with the exception of 15 - year - olds who attended newly created «transition» centers.

Legislation that would make students repeat third grade if they can't pass state reading exams is being considered in Colorado, Iowa, New Mexico, and Tennessee, she writes, reviving debates about whether retaining students boosts achievement or increases their odds of dropping out.

The policy of having students repeat their grade placement based on insufficient academic or social development has a history of fluctuation in the public schools.

But many of the students originally took algebra in eighth grade and repeated it in ninth.

A Study of Cumulative Advantage in the Educational Career,» by Notre Dame sociologist Megan Andrew, published Sept. 26, 2014, in the journal Social Forces is an empirically solid analysis that adds more weight to those who say retention — what education wonks call repeating a grade — is ultimately harmful.

The United States reported an average of more than one in 10 students repeating a grade, higher than the OECD average, while top - performing Finland and South Korea do not allow grade retention.