Sentences with phrase «rising first grade students»

Señora Pasion, our Spanish teacher, begins working with our rising first grade students towards the end of their kindergarten year (at age 5 or 6), and Spanish studies continue until they graduate from our middle school.

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Those rates could rise in the coming years, since 16 states and the District of Columbia have enacted policies requiring that students who do not demonstrate basic reading proficiency when they first take state tests in third grade be held back.

Because nearly all rising 12th graders received their first choice, I restrict my study to students in grades 6 through 11.

Uncovering Student Thinking in Mathematics (Grades K - 12)- 25 Formative Assessment Probes, by Cheryl Rose, Carolyn Arline, and Leslie Minton (2007) This first volume in the series contains 25 formative assessment probes that can be used across multiple grade levels.

The proportion of students performing at grade level rose to 36 percent from 16 percent in its first year, she said.

«We are proud of the steps New York City has taken in recent years to strengthen tenure but we also recognize that we still don't have a fully fair, efficient system that protects teachers and students,» said April Rose, a fourth grade teacher in Queens, N.Y. «Our vision for tenure is to set a high bar and a clear process, and in doing so, allow district and school leaders to focus on more pressing concerns like reducing attrition among educators in their first few years and creating safe, supportive school environments.»

A Johns Hopkins University study found that low - income and wealthy students» reading test scores over summer breaks from first to fifth grade rose by.26 and 52.49 points, respectively.

Gains are measured by how much students math scores rose between kindergarten and the end of first grade.