Sentences with phrase «retaining students at grade»

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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.

The state also invested substantial support for early readers and focused on retaining 3rd graders who fail to read at grade level; state law allows for, but does not require, those students to be held back, which both Skandera and Martinez criticized as insufficient in a state with exceptionally low rates of adult literacy.

Additional question for Tim: Is there any evidence for or against the state policies about retaining students who are not yet reading at grade level by the end of grade 3?

In a study conducted in 2004 by scholars at the Consortium on Chicago School Research, the performance of 3rd - and 6th - grade students who scored just below the benchmark on the ITBS, most of whom were retained because of the mandate, was compared with the performance of students who scored just above the benchmark, most of whom were promoted.

«Retained students continue to perform markedly better than their promoted peers when tested at the same grade level and, assuming they are as likely to graduate high school, stand to benefit from an additional year of instruction.»

As Dr. Haertel points out, contrasts between age - based and grade - based gaps and trends can be useful because children are starting school at a later chronological age and students of various racial and ethnic groups are retained in grade at different rates.

We'd be remiss if we didn't mention that WNYC recently did its own dive into the data to find out if charters or districts are better at retaining their students — and they found that in NYC, across all grades, a smaller percentage of charter students transferred out of their schools than did students at district schools.

Many school systems have gotten the message that they need to be more data driven, and they are now awash in data - not just yearly student test scores, but figures on how different groups of students are doing in particular subjects or grade levels, how successful a school is at attracting and retaining teachers or closing the achievement gap among disadvantaged students, or how equitable funding is from school to school.

With student reading at third grade a known predictor of future success, retaining a student is a controversial and oft debated issue.

One of the factors is that retained students who enter ninth grade at the age of 16 have more options to join the work force full time.

The bipartisan framework for the new law would retain NCLB's requirement that states test all students in grades three through eight every year, and at least one grade every year in high school, in reading and mathematics.

The ESSA would retain NCLB's requirement that states test all students in grades three through eight every year, and at least one grade every year in high school, in reading and mathematics.