Sentences with phrase «than a fourth grader»

There are few things more creative than a fourth grader engaged in deep, critical reflection about ways of being.

U.S. fourth graders in 2011 performed no higher than fourth graders in 1995 and 2007.

Not exact matches

«Fewer than one in five African - American fourth graders is proficient in reading and Latino eighth graders are less than half as likely to be proficient in math as their white peers.»

Half of girls ages 8 to 10 are unhappy with their size, while 40 percent of fourth graders have been on a diet before and more than half of girls ages 9 to 15 have exercised to lose weight.

Overall, the two scientists from the University of Bonn interviewed more than 800 third - and fourth - graders at twelve elementary schools in North Rhine - Westphalia.

Made up of scores from 550,000 fourth and eighth graders from more than 40 countries, the assessment shows a handful of East Asian countries scored among the highest, whereas U.S. students wound up in the middle of the pack.

Gross cites an unpublished study that found a cohort of fourth graders in schools with Vermont Mathematics Institute — trained teachers performed significantly better in math four and six years later than a matched group attending schools without such teachers.

Fourth graders who showed signs of depression were more likely than their classmates to be victimized as fifth graders, and kids who were picked on in fifth grade tended to be less accepted by their peers in sixth grade.

At the same time, there has been a fourteen - point gain (a little more than a grade level) among fourth graders at the fiftieth percentile and a mere six - point gain among those at the seventy - fifth and ninetieth percentiles.

Gains among Texas fourth graders were sustained over a longer period of time, but also show evidence of little growth since 2005, with Hispanic and the lowest - performing students actually scoring lower in the latest assessments than in 2007.

More than 1,500 fourth and fifth graders in the New Haven public schools agree!

Since 1979, more than 200,000 fourth graders in the Hillsborough County School System, in Tampa, Florida, have learned about the city's history and built environment through a program started by Tampa Preservation.

Nearly three - fourths of the 25,000 10th graders surveyed said that courses are harder in high school than they were the year before, and more than half said that teachers and rules are more strict.

Fewer than 21 percent of Nevada's fourth - graders and eighth - graders who qualified for free or reduced price lunch were at or above grade level.

Hispanic fourth - graders read better than the average of all students in 31 other states.

Maryland excluded 66 percent of fourth - graders with disabilities for the reading test, far higher than the national rate of 16 percent.

They include private - school vouchers, online courses and requiring third - graders to pass reading tests before they move up to fourth grade, rather than being pushed along with their peers — or «social promotion.»

The New York public schools that reported results for ELL fourth - graders educated less than 20 % of white fourth - grade test - takers in the state and slightly more than half of black fourth - grade test - takers.

Fourth - graders have made greater gains than eighth - graders, and eighth - graders have made larger gains than twelfth - graders.

A 2006 study by the Department of Education found that charter school fourth graders had lower scores in reading and math on the National Assessment of Education Progress, a federal achievement test, than their counterparts in regular public schools.

Twenty - six percent of Hispanic fourth graders in the commonwealth demonstrated proficiency or better, a significantly higher percentage than the 16 percent nationwide.

SPARK fourth graders have performed in the 70th percentile in math and the 61st percentile in reading in the nation much higher than fifth graders who enter our schools from other schools, who typically start around the 25th percentile in math and reading.

American fourth - graders, on average, had worse reading skills than they did five years earlier, in 2011, with scores slipping seven points on a 1,000 - point scale.

Hispanics make up a third of Florida's fourth - graders and fewer than a fifth of Massachusetts».

In that statewide test of fourth -, seventh -, and tenth - graders, students in urban and suburban districts tended to score higher than those in rural districts.

Leslie Jacobs, a former member of the Louisiana State Board of Education, writes in The Wall Street Journal that in 2007, fewer than half of New Orleans» fourth - graders could pass the state's standardized tests, and only four out of 10 eighth - graders passed.

Twenty - eight percent of suburban fourth - graders were functionally illiterate in 2011, no better than the levels four years ago; this compares poorly to the one - and two - point declines, respectively, among big - city and rural districts.

Since then, Boston's students made great strides in math and its fourth - graders have grown faster than average on reading, too, rising to within a percentage point of the national average.

After a two - month period (40 consecutive school days) implementing this poetry lesson plan, Ms. Eikenberry found that her third graders made over a year's worth of growth in reading achievement as measured by the i - Ready reading comprehension standards, while her fourth grade students made more than three - quarters of a year's growth.

Still, D.C.'s fourth - graders score about 8 percent lower than the national average and its eighth - graders score about 10 percent below average.

Fourth graders scored a 224 in math, four points lower than in 2013.

Given that the one out of every eight white suburban fourth - graders not on free - or - reduced lunch are struggling with reading is equal to the levels in big - city districts — and the rate of black fourth - grade suburban counterparts who are functionally illiterate is only four percentage points lower than that of big - city peers — suburban districts are actually falling down on their jobs.

With more than 100 curriculum - based pages — arranged in a progressive, 10 - week format — targeting vocabulary, reading, writing, spelling, phonics, grammar, math, and more this book will help prepare fourth graders for fifth grade.

State math and English exams, which are given to all third through eighth graders, have historically been easier to pass than national math and English exams, which are given to a sampling of fourth and eighth graders around the United States.

A 2011 study of the effects of teacher turnover on the performance over five years of more than 600,000 fourth - and fifth - graders in New York City found that students who experienced higher teacher turnover scored lower in math and English on standardized tests — and this was «particularly strong in schools with more low - performing and black students.»

This means that her estimated growth is the same or higher than 33 percent of all fourth graders in her district.

For many award - winning elementary schools, the average number of fourth graders taking MCAS is frequently less than 60 students, the number researchers say can lead to «considerable volatility» of results.

There are now 172,078 fewer functionally - illiterate fourth - graders than in 2002, the year the No Child Left Behind Act was passed.

When comparing Jennell Jernigan's growth to all fourth graders in the country, her rate of improvement is the same or better than 38 percent of fourth graders.

More than a traditional 4th grade math dictionary, this assortment of targeted lists, combined with exciting and challenging elementary math vocabulary drill and practice games, makes learning math words fun for fourth graders everywhere!

In its 1994 Reading Assessment, the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), a federally supported program that tracks the performance of American students in core academic subjects, reported that more than four out of 10 fourth - graders (42 percent) in American schools were reading at a «below basic» level.

The report also found that only one in 10 of the state's fourth - graders and one in six of the older students are considered «proficient» in math, a skill level higher than merely mastering the basics.

For example, the NAEP data reveal that charter fourth - graders in California and Arizona, representing fully a third of all charter schools, do better than their traditional public school counterparts in reading performance.

The test found that 54 % of California's fourth - graders are not mastering essential basic skills such as measuring something longer than a ruler.

The percentage of Hispanic Virginia fourth graders meeting or exceeding the NAEP standard is significantly larger today than in 2000, when only 16 percent met or exceeded the standard.

Only Hispanic fourth graders in Montana achieved a statistically higher average score than those in Virginia while no states were statistically higher in grade 8.

Forty - three percent of Virginia fourth graders met or exceeded the rigorous NAEP standard for proficiency, statistically higher than both the 38 percent nationwide and 36 percent in the South.

So, our fourth graders found NAEP slightly harder than PARCC in language arts and NAEP slightly easier than PARCC in math.

For instance, at Cleveland's George Washington Carver Elementary School, located in one of that city's poorest neighborhoods, 73 percent of the fourth graders passed the state reading test — a big jump from previous years and more than double the school district average.

But more than half of third -, fourth -, and fifth - graders were still not reading at grade level.