Sentences with phrase «point in reading»

If it isn't, the hiring manager isn't going to think there is much point in reading on and will drop your resume in the «no» pile.

Since we only get like a 1/4 of Nintendo games that come out in US, there was no point in reading an import mag.

I've gotten to the point in my reading life where I do most of my day - to - day reading digitally or via the library, but most of my physical book purchases are Very Nice To Look At editions.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith I'm lucky to have a long list of books recommended to me by my mom, but Smith's sublime classic — the story of a girl's coming of age in early 20th - century Williamsburg — marked a turning point in my reading life.

Despite confusion over how much New York students are improving, New York City's small gains in proficiency (almost 5 percentage points in math and 1 percentage point in reading) appear to be real progress, experts say, because they mirror similar improvements on national tests (specifically the Trial Urban District Assessment portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-RRB-.

The overall score decreases were quite small — roughly two points in math and a single point in reading — but continued a trend of lackluster 12th - grade performance on the national test.

• Suburban Chicagoland: In 229 school districts in suburban Chicagoland, low - income enrollment rose by an average of 22 percentage points, but average achievement declined by an average of only 1 point in reading and 3 points in math.

The district improved or maintained proficiency scores on 19 of 24 tests this year, but dropped one point in reading.

For 17 - year - olds, however, changes in achievement have been so small as to be insignificant — 2 points in math and 1 point in reading.

All of these gains by racial / ethnic groups were significant, and all exceeded the insignificant overall change of 2 points in math and 1 point in reading at age 17.

But teachers think the emphasis needs to be increased by only about half a point in reading and even less in math, while parents would increase the emphasis in the two subjects by no more than two - thirds of a point.

Teachers learn why, for whom, in what way, and at what point in reading development certain practices are most effective.

In reading, across all of cohort two, the average school gained just a single point in reading proficiency.

They do not see much point in reading that someone said «yes,» or similar words several times.

anyone who, s been on justarsenal long enough will know there is no point in reading @soopa aeon comments, the guy has no objectivity or common sense for that matter!!!

I have heard of Bart Ehrman but have never seen the point in reading his works (see «Bart Ehrman, Mind Reader «-RRB-.

While it would undermine any point in reading it if the Bible was entirely unintelligible, the point may not be to undertsnad it on first reading.

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And afterwards I wasn't shattered (though two hours later...) * Blood pressure — mine is down about 18/10 points in each reading (before I even began losing weight) and with fewer fluctuations.

In the D.C. voucher experiment, African - American students in grades 2 through 5 reportedly increased their scores by an average of 10 national percentile points in mathematics and 8.6 points in reading after two years of private schooling.

The performance of students attending small schools has been recorded as between 11 per cent and 34 per cent higher when compared to children in overcrowded schools; 15 per cent higher in mathematics scores and 4 per cent to 9 per cent higher points in reading scores.

The estimated impact of using a scholarship to attend a private school for any length of time during the three - year evaluation period was a gain of 5.3 scale points in reading.

The data indicate that members of the treatment group who were attending private schools in the third year of the evaluation gained an average of 7.1 scale score points in reading from the program.

Test scores for the elementary schools have increased 6.5 points in reading and 9.8 points in math.

A translation of the results finds that being surrounded by peers who score 1 point lower on average has the following effects: it lowers a Hispanic student's own score by 0.439 points in reading and 0.587 points in math, and it lowers a white student's own score by 0.176 points in math.

But between 2007 and 2010, the gains in percent proficient were 9 percentage points in reading and 15 percentage points in math.

A translation of the results shows that being surrounded by peers who score 1 point lower on average has the following effects: it lowers a black student's own score by 0.676 points in reading and 0.402 points in math; it lowers a Hispanic student's own score by 0.266 points in reading and 0.185 points in math; and it lowers a white student's own score by 0.168 points in reading and 0.092 points in math.

U.S. performance in reading and science has also declined (slightly but steadily) since 2009, by three points in reading and six points in science.

By way of comparison, the authors note that the impact of being assigned to a teacher in the top - quartile rather than one in the bottom quartile in terms of their total effect on student achievement as measured by student - test - based measures of teacher effectiveness is seven percentile points in reading and six points in math.

The same Stanford researcher conducted an RCT of charter schools in Chicago and found: «students in charter schools outperformed a comparable group of lotteried - out students who remained in regular Chicago public schools by 5 to 6 percentile points in math and about 5 percentile points in reading....

The English Learners who transferred from bilingual education to structured English immersion made gains of four points in reading compared with gains of only two points for the students who had been taught in English previously.

Adjusting statistically for the lower testing rate among students in bilingual education, Bali found that the effect of being in bilingual education in 1997 - 98 was negative and statistically significant, but the magnitude was only 2.4 points in reading and 0.5 in math.

Their scores climbed a modest 7 points in reading over this period of time, with no change in the math scores.

Those at the very bottom — the lowest 10 percent — showed an even sharper gain of 17 points in reading and 12 points in math.

It is important to note that Houston rebounded in 2000, posting a gain of nearly 6 percentage points in reading and math.

On average across our national sample, charters put up 17 more NAEP points in math and 16 more points in reading for every Cleveland they receive, which amounts to charters being 40 percent more cost effective in math and 41 percent more cost effective in reading.

Poland has also seen impressive improvements: 48 points in maths (from 470 to 518), 39 points in reading (479 to 518) and 43 points in science (483 to 526)-- ranking 14th, 10th and 9th in these three areas, respectively, in the last round of results.

Whites trotted along as well, marching forward by 13 points in math and 5 points in reading.

This gap is troubling, to be sure, but Peterson fails to mention that Shaker Heights blacks outperformed blacks statewide by 13 percentage points in math and nine percentage points in reading.

The biggest gains occurred in high schools, where student proficiency increased by 30 points in reading and 34 points in math.

This activity takes place at two points in the reading of the play.

Between 1999 and 2009 black 4th - grade students gained 18 points in math and 14 points in reading on the authoritative National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

NAEP performances of both black and white students in 8th grade fell by one point in math and rose by just 2 points in reading between 2009 and 2015.

Between 2009 and 2012, the performance of 15 - year - olds on tests administered by the International Student Assessment (PISA) fell by 6 points in math and 2 points in reading.

Meanwhile, average proficiency rates in a matched set of comparison schools increased by lesser amounts, 9 percentage points in reading and 13 percentage points in math (although the Edison advantage is statistically significant only in math).»

The cumulative effect of being assigned to an own - race teacher for four consecutive years is roughly 9 percentile points in math and 8 points in reading (see Figure 3).

To bolster his case, he questions my account by saying that «Shaker Heights blacks outperformed blacks statewide by 13 percentage points in math and nine percentage points in reading.»

These students outperformed national averages on MAP by 29 or more percentile points in math and 34 or more percentile points in reading.

Statewide, the gap between black and white students has closed by 7.5 percentage points in math and 3.6 percentage points in reading over the past five years.

Between the early 1970s and 2008, 9 - year - olds have made sizable gains in both math and reading — increases of 24 points in math and 12 points in reading on the NAEP scale of 0 - 500.