Sentences with phrase «repeat a grade because»

Most kids need to repeat a grade because they are having trouble with the work or other stuff they need to do in that grade.

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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.

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.

Retention policies are controversial because the research is mixed for students who are held back, but a report published on August 16th by the Brookings Institution suggests that at least for younger children who struggle with reading, repeating a grade may be beneficial.

While that program has not yet graduated its first cohort, its record through the early years of high school is impressive: Not a single student has dropped out, and the promotion rate in school is 98 % (the only exceptions are a student who transferred to a parochial school where he was asked to repeat a grade, and a boy who lost a month of schooling because of family turmoil).

Economists from MIT and Harvard, among other co-authors, found in one paper that voucher winners «were about 10 percentage points more likely than (lottery) losers to have completed eighth grade, primarily because they repeated fewer grades,» and that «on average, lottery winners scored about 0.2 standard deviations higher than losers.»

Warm = snowfall is a dolts attempt to explain a fallacy with something only Cooper or Couric could repeat with a straight face because they have never takes a physics class, much less 7th grade weather science.

That benefit increases when more children in a community participate in early childhood education because they are less likely to repeat grades or drop out.

Pre-Kindergarten Fight Crime: Invest in Kids continues to fight for increases in high - quality pre-k programs because the preponderance of scientific research (and the experience of law enforcement leaders) shows that at - risk young children who participate are significantly less likely to commit juvenile and adult crime, need special education, and repeat an early grade and are more likely to graduate from high school and be productive members of society.

I have two kids going to ishikawa both my my kids had have bad experience with bad teachers in kinder and first grade my son in this past school year 1st grade did not pass do to very poor support from his teacher we tried to set a meeting with the principal because the teacher had been telling us in our conference we had in the beginning of the school year that she felt like our child was going to repeat first grade which is kind of odd to say in the beginning of the school year she also said she felt like we needed to go see a doctor for her son because she felt there was something wrong with his head.