«You will be
seeing certain grades, certain progressions where there's more time spent on areas and ideas that are critical — are foundation points moving them through school and into college and careers,» Reyna says.
Admissions committees want to
see a certain grade point average, evidence that the candidate has participated in one or more co-curricular activities of significance, and, often, a background that has included some volunteer and / or leadership experience.
Not exact matches
And when a student's home life is less
certain, school can be a welcome oasis: Jacqueline McDowell fondly remembers that her sixth -
grade teacher «was constant and stable — she
saw the whole me and was steady when other things in my life were not.»
I
see whether differences in the achievement of adjacent cohorts within a
certain grade within a
certain school are systematically associated with differences in the gender composition of those cohorts.
Are
certain grade levels or
certain school sites
seeing attendance swings?
And after years of struggling to meet academic goals set by the state, the district has
seen student achievement improve in
certain measures — almost all
grade levels showed positive growth in reading and math on 2015 - 16 state tests.
After 6 years of teaching 5th
grade, I am
certain students benefit from
seeing writing as more powerful than accolades or
grades.
My parents
saw an advantage, and the law was laid down: keep my
grades above a
certain minimum or cut my hair.