Sentences with phrase «students repeat a grade»

Recent studies have found that roughly 15 percent of students repeat a grade between kindergarten and graduation.

The policy of having students repeat their grade placement based on insufficient academic or social development has a history of fluctuation in the public schools.

The United States reported an average of more than one in 10 students repeating a grade, higher than the OECD average, while top - performing Finland and South Korea do not allow grade retention.

When a student repeats a grade, it reflects positively on the district.

Not exact matches

When, like Oher, your journey includes a mother who was a drug addict and a father murdered in prison, when you repeated the first and second grades, went to 11 different schools in your first nine years as a student and was dumped into foster care at age seven — well, you instinctively know who really wants you and who really cares.

The calculated growth is determined by a New York State Education Department (NYSED) formula that factors in poverty, a student's prior test scores, whether a student has repeated a grade, whether a student is an English language learner or a student with disabilities.

The complaint details the experience of a 12 - year - old student at Success Academy's Harlem 5 location, who was made to repeat second grade three times before being given an Individualized Education Plan (IEP).

Students who do poorly on the exams have to try to improve their performance in summer school or face having to repeat a grade.

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.

More than 15,000 students avoided repeating a grade and thousands more boosted their test scores substantially.

In reality, most retained students simply repeated the previous grade level.

However, evidence presented in the report sheds doubt these large test score increases: according to an Education Writers Association study, when neighborhood schools were restored, the superintendent in Oklahoma City reduced the number of low - achievers taking the standardized tests by increasing the number of students retained (or «flunked») and implementing transition grades (in which students repeat all or part of the previous grade).

New research from Harvard Graduate School of Education professor Martin West tells a nuanced and evidence - based story about grade retention, finding that — contrary to critics» fears — repeating third grade does not reduce students» chances of completing high school.

He also suggested heavily monitoring students that repeat grades and drop out, increase professional development for principals, and help some teachers find new careers.

For high impact, couple scales with assignments that are designed to require repeated revision and provide students only with feedback on the revisions, not a grade.

Mr. Crew announced a plan that could require about 48,000 students in 3rd, 6th, and 8th grades with low test scores to complete a six - week remedial course beginning in July — or repeat the grade.

But the guidelines for what students should learn in each grade have a low level of rigor compared with those of some other states, content is repeated across and within grades, and the tests are not as challenging as they should be, the analysis concludes.

They said the gains were inflated by the retention of low - performing 3rd graders after 2002, when Florida ended «social promotion» by requiring students who failed 3rd grade tests to repeat that grade.

Part of the explanation for this trend is the comparatively high rate of students who repeat grade 5 at KIPP schools.

Since 2006, the number of Houston schools earning one of the state's top ratings has more than doubled to exceed 200 campuses, fewer students are repeating a grade level, and more are testing at the highest levels of academic achievement.

It contains a total of 99 sight words (there are three volumes * and a total of 20 stories), which are repeated frequently to enable the student to make a smooth transition from pre-primer level to first grade level.

In 1995 the delayed entry students were less like likely than students who started kindergarten on time to have repeated first or second grade.

While most of the movement between classes was due to parental complaints or behavioral problems, the attrition figures could also reflect other factors unrelated to the study, such as students» moving out of a school's geographic zone or having to repeat a grade.

Most of these students had reached 3rd grade by that time, but those repeating an earlier grade were also tested.

Students from more than one racial background are more likely than their single - race peers to experience trouble in school, such as repeating a grade, skipping school, and being suspended, a new study shows.

Repeating Grades: More States Requiring Students To Be Held Back, Is It The Right Thing To Do?

Another downside of the Chicago policy is that nearly a third of the students who repeat a grade or attend an alternative school drop out when they reach age 16.

These comparisons take into account students» test scores in the prior year as well as their race or ethnicity, gender, age, suspensions and absences in the previous year, whether they repeated a grade, special education status, and limited English status.

Obama repeated his support for a longer school year after being asked about it by students from a sixth - grade class in Cincinatti, Ohio.

Retention policies are controversial because the research is mixed for students who are held back, but a report published on August 16th by the Brookings Institution suggests that at least for younger children who struggle with reading, repeating a grade may be beneficial.

«While some researchers have found that retained students «can significantly improve their grade - level skills during their repeated year,» others have found that less than half of retained students meet promotion standards after attending summer school and repeating a grade.

The National Writing Project, begun in 1974 at the University of California at Berkeley, stemmed from a similar notion: that regular reviews of the process of writing, with repeated drafts and frequent editing, were a better way to assess how the student was doing than the old way of grading grammar and spelling tests and the final version of any written assignment.

In 2006, Ed Next published a study by Marcus Winters and Jay Greene, «Getting Ahead by Staying Behind,» that reviewed the efforts of several states and school districts to end social promotion and analyzed the impact of Florida's policy of requiring low - performing students to repeat a grade.

This attrition could reflect ordinary factors unrelated to the study, such as students» moving out of a school's geographic zone or having to repeat a grade, as well as families» responses to being assigned to a particular class.

About 5 percent of students had to repeat the same grade for the third time.

I find that students in district schools do better when charters open nearby: students in these schools earn higher scores on reading and math tests and are less likely to repeat a grade.

And, it is true, compared with peers who have progressed normally through early grades, students who repeat a grade during elementary school tend to have notably worse outcomes.

While complete data were not available for any other year, we repeated this analysis with the Class of 2012 using 10th - grade test scores to control for differences in student ability and found, reassuringly, a similar pattern.

I also find large and meaningful reductions in the percentage of students at district schools who are required to repeat a grade as a result of charter school entry.

Students who again failed to meet the standard were required to repeat the grade, with the exception of 15 - year - olds who attended newly created «transition» centers.

Legislation that would make students repeat third grade if they can't pass state reading exams is being considered in Colorado, Iowa, New Mexico, and Tennessee, she writes, reviving debates about whether retaining students boosts achievement or increases their odds of dropping out.

The published study that I was analyzing highlighted the fact that the average student who had repeated algebra improved his grades and test scores.

But many of the students originally took algebra in eighth grade and repeated it in ninth.

These students are more likely to fail, repeat a grade, and, eventually, drop out.

Other findings include that 20 % of homeless students dropped out compared to housed students, and 15 % of all homeless students are held back or required to repeat one or more grades.

Repeated reading can be used with students who have developed initial word reading skills but demonstrate inadequate reading fluency for their grade level.

Yet — and despite what many educators already know — more and more states are adopting laws that require students to repeat the third grade if they don't score at or above the proficient level.

A North Carolina study found that students who attended sixth grade at a middle school were more likely to be suspended, and later to repeat a grade or drop out of school, compared to counterparts who attended sixth grade in an elementary school.17 A longitudinal study of New York City sixth graders found that attending sixth grade in a middle school, as opposed to a K - 8 school, produced a negative impact on achievement that began in the first year and extended throughout the middle school years.

These repeated exposures help students generalize the use of these strategies to other areas — in and outside of school and beyond the middle grades.

TUNICA, Miss. — This summer, Sunflower County ran an intensive four - week program to give students who have failed statewide tests a final chance to avoid repeating the third grade.