Sentences with phrase «standard by eighth grade»

We say we want to get students achieving such - and - such a standard by eighth grade.

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You're just parroting the kind of standard eighth grade atheist questions that are answered by reading any number of excellent authors.

In math the graduates of the University of Florida, the state's premier university, outperformed the other institutions at teaching students in fourth to eighth grade by as much as 10 percent of a standard deviation, even though NCTQ gave it no better rating than Florida State or Florida Atlantic.

At the recent launch event for the CUNY Institute for Education Policy, David Coleman, now known as the «architect» of the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards, was asked by a member of the audience why a teacher, who cited the Common Core standards emphasis on «informational texts,» would claim that she was told to «put away her literature books and photocopy microwave instructions» for her eighth - grade students.

A new voluntary national test of eighth grade mathematics would stimulate change by raising the public's awareness of the more challenging standards all students should meet.

«Experimenters separated seventh - and eighth - grade students into two groups — strong and weak readers as measured by standard reading tests,» Hirsch wrote.

Just two states offer eighth - grade math curricula standards that matches up to that of the top seven performing nations on the PISA exam of global student achievement; the math curriculum standards in all but 11 states fall short of the rigor now being set by the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

The writers of the standards have defended them by arguing, for example, that algebraic concepts are covered extensively before high school, even if the standards don't include a formal algebra course by eighth grade.

On eighth - grade reading and math tests, charter - school students performed worse than their public - school counterparts by enormous margins — 2 to 3 standard deviations.

(In adopting the Common Core math standards, California rescinded its previous requirement that students take Algebra I by eighth grade.)