Sentences with phrase «proficient in math»

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...

In education, an area that has been called North Carolina's brand, the state breaks into the top 20 best performing states, ranking 20th in two indicators: fourth grade reading proficiency and eighth graders proficient in math.

However, despite these positive trends, the number of Missouri fourth graders who are not reading at grade level is only slightly lower than the national average and the percentage of Missouri's eighth graders not proficient in math is slightly higher than the national average.

They should also be proficient in math and medical terminology.

I am proficient in math and work well with numbers.

And since two thirds of students are scoring below proficient in math once they hit the eighth grade level, tutoring is in high demand.

In 2010, 92 percent of students were proficient in math, while the percentages for reading and writing were 88 and 93, respectively.

A coalition of 110 of the nation's top CEOs are behind the report that found only 33 percent of eighth - graders are proficient in math.

of tested students were proficient in English language arts, and 5 percent were proficient in math.

One analysis of Milwaukee's voucher program in 2013 revealed that only 13 percent of voucher students scored proficient in math and only 11 percent scored proficient in reading on statewide tests.

Nearly 2/3 of 8th grade students scored below Proficient in math in the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assessments.

This year, 24 percent of tested students were proficient in English language arts, and 5 percent were proficient in math.

«Compared to students in the nearest regular public school with a similar racial composition, charter students are 5 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3 percent more likely to be proficient in math.

Just 43 percent of American high school sophomores from highly - educated homes scored proficient in math on PISA, a level lower than 56.5 percent proficiency rate for Canada, a nation with equivalent levels of socioeconomic diversity.

«Compared to students in the nearest regular public school, charter students are 4 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 2 percent more likely to be proficient in math, on their state's exams,» Hoxby wrote in her study published in September.

Yet there is still improvement to be made — 42 percent of 4th grade students are proficient in math, and 35 percent are proficient in reading; 36 percent of 8th graders are proficient in reading and math.

Citywide, 53 percent of students are proficient in math and 49.5 percent are proficient in reading.

Many policymakers have been backing off the aggressive NCLB mandate that 100 percent of students nationwide be proficient in math and reading by 2014.

The report said on average, only 6 % of third - through eighth - graders at these schools are proficient in math and language arts.

While the proficiency rate has been inching up, last year only 54 % of DC students were proficient in math and just under half in reading.

These goals were designed to ensure 100 percent of students could test as proficient in math and reading by 2014.

In all, during the first year of the program, the proportion of students who were proficient in math or reading on state tests went up in roughly 60 percent of SIG schools, he added.

And she says their numbers are on the rise: The percentage of students proficient in math increased from 24 percent in 2013, to 55 percent in 2016; in ELA from 33 percent to 68 percent; and in science from 3 percent to 26 percent.

Breaking with its steadily upward trend, California's annual test scores have stagnated, with fewer than half of students proficient in math and English, and a wide ethnic achievement gap persisting.

The school has the lowest standardized test scores in Adelanto, with fewer than half the students proficient in math and English.

The piece presents many figures that highlight the importance of the case, explaining that 250,000 California students are served by the 13 named districts and that «about 98 percent of teachers in the state receive a satisfactory rating every year, but only 44 percent of students are proficient in reading and 33 percent proficient in math.»

In every county in the state the majority of Latino students are not proficient in math or English language arts.

And just a quarter are proficient in math.

For example, the law eliminated an accountability system that punished schools which failed to increase the percentages of students proficient in math and reading each year — a policy largely blamed for creating the high - stakes culture of over-testing.

Martínez's fourth - grade students at KIPP Raíces scored 82 percent advanced and proficient in math and 92 percent in English, compared with 29 percent and 39 percent in LA Unified, respectively.

Scroll down and this is what you would see for math: sixth - graders were 16 percent proficient in math.

The Obama administration initially acted as if the miracle of 2014, with every student proficient in math and reading, would come to pass.

At I.S. Meyer Levin in Brooklyn, 95 percent of students are Black, 81 percent are economically - disadvantaged, 29 percent were proficient in ELA and 14 percent were proficient in math.

With English learners and low - income students making up two - thirds of its enrollment, 57 percent of its students scored proficient in English language arts and 45 percent scored proficient in math, 8 percentage points higher than the state average.

Becoming proficient in math word problems is crucial in 2nd grade because it sets children up for success in the grades to come.

But at PS 172, special education students did much better: Of the 70 grade 3 - 5 students tested, 60 percent were proficient on the language arts test, and almost all were proficient in math.

This graphic shows 77 percent of the students in the STEAM program were proficient in English last year (a 4 percentage point increase from 2016) and 65 percent were proficient in math (a 5 percentage point increase).

On state standardized tests 48 % of students were proficient in language arts and 67 % were proficient in math.

Students who participate in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) are 5 percent more likely to be proficient in English and 4 percent more likely to be proficient in math than traditional public students.

Given that only about one - third of eighth graders in the US are proficient in math, and that over 60 % of community college students are required to enroll in developmental math courses, it seems clear that our current practices are not improving student thinking and problem - solving ability in mathematics.

The school is part of the Rhode Island Mayoral Academy, which began testing economic integration when they first opened in 2009, and has seen positive results — though half of all their students are low - income, currently 92 percent of the schools» seventh - graders are proficient in math and 86 percent are in reading, which is more than double the proficiency rate for eighth graders across the state in both.

Last school year, 84 percent of Utah students tested proficient in language arts, up from 82 percent the year before; 69 percent tested proficient in math, the same as in 2011; and 72 percent scored proficient in science, up from 70 percent, according to the State Office of Education.

The 2017 standardized tests revealed that just 9 percent of the students were proficient in English, while zero percent were proficient in math.

We have assembled a page of resources, including our Eureka Math Homework Helpers, to help parents support their children in becoming proficient in math.

In Milwaukee, just 13 percent of voucher students scored proficient in math and 11 percent made the bar in reading this spring.

Criticized as a perfunctory checklist of expectations that doesn't help teachers improve, the system awarded 99.3 % of L.A. Unified teachers the highest rating in 2009 - 10 — even though only 45 % of district students that year performed at grade level for reading and 56 % were proficient in math.

At the time, only 37 percent of students were proficient in reading, and just 44 percent were proficient in math.

LA's English learners trailed badly among other large districts in the state: 6 percent were proficient in math, only a single percentage point improvement from last year.

Despite their close proximity, Lincoln Elementary enrollees are nearly twice as likely to meet or exceed state reading standards, 37 percent more likely to be proficient in math, more than twice as likely to excel in science.

At New Directions Secondary School in the Bronx, which took on at least one ATR teacher, 100 percent of students are economically - disadvantaged; 29 percent are Black, 67 percent are Hispanic, 0 percent are white; two percent tested proficient in English Language Arts and one percent tested proficient in math.