Sentences with phrase «schools read below»

Richard Allington (p. 40) reminds us that two of every three students in U.S. schools read below the level needed to adequately do grade - level work.

In 2006, 82 percent of freshmen entered the school reading below grade level.

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Most children in our local school fail these tests, read below grade average, and are performing math far below grade average.

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Studies have suggested that the reading age of children in schools under flight paths is below the national average.

The school is eligible to receive millions of dollars in federal money to improve its performance, but Dr. Tisch said its problems ran so deep — students read far below grade level, and there was little instruction taking place — that money alone might not be enough to solve them.

The Coalition for Educational Justice and the UFT have been urging the city since the start of the school year to provide additional help for those students who scored below state standards on the most recent state exams in reading and math.

At 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty line.

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Elementary school children who read below grade level may have challenges with their eyesight even if standard tests show they see 20/20, according to a new study from the University of Waterloo.

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Most of the seven hundred or so children who attend this K - 12 institution located in a tough neighborhood in Northeast Washington enter scoring well below their grade level in reading and math; the school is overwhelmingly black and largely poor or working - class.

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After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

Statewide, more than three quarters of 4th graders read below grade level, the same share of 8th graders are below grade level in math, and nearly one third of high - school students drop out.

Kettle Moraine participated in the OECD Test for Schools a second time in February 2015, and the school's reading scores improved noticeably (see figure below).

Such an aspiration is a challenge at the school, where up to 90 percent of students in the inaugural class entered with reading and math skills below grade level.

New findings by Harvard Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Nonie Lesaux released in a report today by Strategies for Children, Inc., revealed that 43 percent of Massachusetts third graders read below grade level, which may lead to continued struggles in high school and puts themSchool of Education Associate Professor Nonie Lesaux released in a report today by Strategies for Children, Inc., revealed that 43 percent of Massachusetts third graders read below grade level, which may lead to continued struggles in high school and puts themschool and puts them at...

For a decade or more, school reform has been an urban tale of superintendents seeking to «turn around» schools in poverty - stricken communities, where vast numbers of children read below grade level and drop out before graduation.

The earliest findings: First - graders are considered to be at risk of disengaging from school (and potentially becoming fully disengaged and dropping out in the future) if by the third marking period they're absent from school nine or more times, are below grade level in reading and / or mathematics, and / or have a calculated grade point average below 1.2 in the third marking period.

Since 2004, the Jenks Public Schools has tracked the number of students entering first grade whose reading skills are below grade level.

Armed with this information, staff members at the school district, city, and partner organizations have been developing strategies and practices that give both dropouts and at - risk students a web of increased support and services, including providing dropout - prevention specialists in several high schools, establishing accelerated - learning programs for older students who are behind on credits, and implementing reading programs for older students whose skills are well below grade level.

Conversely, late entrants at district schools had dramatically lower average 4th - grade test scores than on - time enrollees: 0.30 and 0.32 standard deviations lower in reading and math, respectively (in both cases, 0.29 standard deviations below the district average).

Many years ago, in my third year as a public school teacher, I discovered that about half of my 7th - grade students read four or more years below grade level, and about half read four or more years above grade level.

This year, it is attacking the adolescent literacy issue on several fronts: developing a diagnostic assessment to determine the kind of reading intervention individual students need; an academiclanguage building program called WordGeneration; analyzing data to see which programs work well in the schools; and a remedial reading course for eighth - and ninth - grade students reading at the third - grade level or below.

Seventy percent of children in high - poverty schools scored below even the most basic level of reading.

In 2015, the majority of high school seniors performed at or below basic on the reading assessment section of the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Her research revealed that 43 percent of Massachusetts third - graders read below grade level, which may lead to continued struggles in high school and puts them at significant risk of not graduating or contributing to the state's knowledge - based economy.

In the year before assignment, such schools had an average 4th grade combined reading and math test score that was.67 student - level standard deviations below the average school.

Five years ago, thirty percent of students entering seventh grade at the school scored below a reading age of ten.

School districts would be required to tailor individual plans to help students who were reading below grade level.

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«At the end of the last school year, we looked at every student who started reading below grade level.

At the Wild Rose School, one of the Wildflower Montessori schools in Cambridge, Massachusetts, only 1 out of its 16 students reads below grade level.

Among a subgroup of students who entered school with below - average alphabet skills and ability to sound out words, those who participated in SFA for three years performed significantly better than peers whose schools were not in the program on tests of phonics skills, word recognition, and reading fluency.

The average combined reading and math test scores one year prior to the management change at schools assigned to for - profit and nonprofit entities were 0.39 and 0.13 standard deviations below the Philadelphia average, respectively, while the pre-intervention scores of the full set of 142 regular public schools were 0.19 standard deviations above the district average.

The reading performance of students at the five schools was, on average, 18 percent of a standard deviation below what could have been expected had the schools been under district management, a difference that is statistically significant in three of the six years.

Although only those students from priority districts (Hartford and Bloomfield) are required to attend summer school if they are below the goal in reading, school staff are encouraging all students who did not meet goal to come, Kloczko says.

In this randomized controlled trial involving 312 students enrolled in an after - school program, we generated intention - to - treat (ITT) and treatment - on - the - treated (TOT) estimates of the program's impact on several literacy outcomes of fourth, fifth, and sixth graders reading below proficiency on a state assessment at baseline.

Because the school has large numbers of students below grade level, it has drastically cut back on science, social studies, art, music — even gym and recess — to focus on reading and math.

Hispanic elementary - school students are still reading below par, but they seem to be edging up quickly toward the national average, according to an analysis conducted by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (naep) and released this summer.

As the chart below shows, the United States is the only country among this set to require annual testing in primary and middle schools in reading and mathematics.