Sentences with phrase «through third grade settings»

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That set off a backlash in which a fifth of the eligible students sat out the state's third - through eighth - grade reading and math tests last spring.

Grade: Third Through Fifth Grades School: South Marshall Elementary School, Benton, Kentucky Students / Room Dimensions: 61 students; three and a half classrooms have been converted into one large room Setting It Up: Our goal was to provide students with a flexible, comfortable learning environment.

Currently, test scores make up 10 percent of the final grades for third - through eighth - grade students, which is set to increase to 15 percent next school year.

Family engagement from birth to third grade has also been described as «parents» efforts to promote their children's healthy development and learning through activities that can be encouraged by educators in child care, preschool and school settings.»

In addition to helping spearhead the lowering of the bond threshold, O'Connell was also instrumental in getting class - size reduction money set aside for kindergarten through third grade - a program that still survives despite the state's fiscal troubles.

The 2016 Appropriations Act envisions inter-agency collaboration to «develop a comprehensive approach to early childhood education, birth through third grade,» that focuses on a comprehensive set of data indicators, guided in part by the NC Pathways to Grade - Level Reading.

Developmental science has long identified the years from birth through age 8 (the age at which most children are in third grade) as a critical period during which children's educational pathways are set.