Sentences with phrase «rate for eighth graders»

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.

In Delaware, the math proficiency rate for eighth graders has gone from over 60 percent to below 40 percent.

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[1] It shows, for example, that students who rated themselves in the bottom quartile with respect to self - control were absent 2.9 more days than students in the top quartile, and were nearly three times as likely to have been suspended as eighth graders; similar differences in absences and suspension rates are evident for conscientiousness and grit.

Another educator, language arts / humanities teacher Nancy Slentz of Meridian Middle School in Lynden, Washington, was searching for a way to boost the homework completion rate among her eighth graders, so she developed a system that allows students to record their own grades.

For several years, data suggested that the city had seen improvements among all ethnic groups, including in graduation rates, which have risen about 14 percentage points for black and Hispanic students since 2005, and a national standardized test given every other year to a sampling of fourth and eighth gradeFor several years, data suggested that the city had seen improvements among all ethnic groups, including in graduation rates, which have risen about 14 percentage points for black and Hispanic students since 2005, and a national standardized test given every other year to a sampling of fourth and eighth gradefor black and Hispanic students since 2005, and a national standardized test given every other year to a sampling of fourth and eighth graders.

Tennessee Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman, whose state's performance on NAEP this year was questioned by this publication after revelations of high exclusion levels (including a 27 percent exclusion rate for eighth - graders in special ed on NAEP's reading exam, and an 18 percent exclusion rate of 14 percent of eighth - grade special ed kids from NAEP's math exam):

Of the 21 public high schools in the lottery, just six were rated above D. Kaylan Nelson applied to one B - rated high school and one C - rated, competing with more than 1,400 eighth - graders for 150 open 9th - grade seats at the two campuses.

Finally, results for the ICTA by grade level almost identically mirror those for the TOSRA: While both groups made gains over time, the rate of gain for eighth graders superseded that for seventh graders.

After the 2014 National Assessment of Educational Progress geography results showed abysmal proficiency rates among eighth graders — 27 % of all students, 11 % of those eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, and 7 % of Black students — the Senate asked GAO to report on the challenges of geography education in K — 12.