Sentences with phrase «through eighth graders on»

We should know — we spend our days with 100 fifth through eighth graders on a team at Williston Central School in Vermont called Swift House, named for the...

The state began testing third through eighth graders on the more difficult material last April, despite protests from unions and teachers that schools did not have the resources or time to prepare.

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They also pointed out how the education department has made recent adjustments to standardized testing, such as reducing the number of questions and testing time on state assessments for students in grades 3 through 8 this school year, and receiving a federal waiver to stop «double testing» in math for seventh and eighth graders through a combination of state and federal testing.

There is more urgency to make changes that would affect students, as third through eighth graders begin taking a second round of Common Core - aligned exams on April 1.

Educators who teach English and math to third through eighth graders will be evaluated based partially on the federally required state tests in those grades and subjects.

On statewide tests for third through eighth graders this year, New York City's most troubled schools kept pace with the rest of city schools, showing similar gains in reading and math.

For the first time, New York City students caught up to their peers around the state in English, officials said on Friday in announcing the results for the standardized tests given to third through eighth graders this year.

The large majority of third - through eighth - graders statewide failed to meet the higher standards on tests given in April.

The film which stars newcomer Elsie Fisher focuses on eighth - grader Kayla as she makes her way through the last week of middle school.

Eighth grader Alan was to play the lead of Charlie Gordon in our middle school production of «Flowers for Algernon,» that remarkable tale of a man who is mentally retarded yet, through surgery perfected on a mouse named Algernon, acquires an IQ of 200 - plus, only to regress to his...

More than 200,000 third through eighth graders sat out New York's standardized tests this year, education officials said on Wednesday, in a sign of increasing resistance to testing as more states make them harder to pass.

By 1999 Feinberg, with fifth - through eighth - graders in trailers on a school parking lot, and Levin, with the same grade levels on the fourth floor of a public school surrounded by housing projects, had the best performing middle schools in Houston and the Bronx, respectively.

For example, in the eighth - grade data from the US National Assessment of Educational Progress [NAEP] show that students continue to struggle on very straightforward algebra problems: Only 59 % of 8th graders were able to find an equation that is equivalent to n + 18 = 23, and only 31 % of 8th graders were able to find an equation of a line that passes through a given point and with a negative slope (National Assessment of Educational Progress, Question Tool, 2011).

The tests, which are given to third through eighth graders and will begin this year on April 5, were shortened, time limits were removed, and the results will not be a factor in teacher evaluations, among other changes.

Scores on the tests inched up this year, with 34.5 % of third - through eighth - graders passing math exams and 29.4 % earning proficient scores in English Language Arts.

Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch said parents and teachers have complained that students have struggled to finish the English exams, which third through eighth graders will begin taking on April 14.

The report said on average, only 6 % of third - through eighth - graders at these schools are proficient in math and language arts.