«Beginning with first -
time ninth grade students in 2018 - 2019, graduation requirements shall include a requirement that students either (i) complete an Advanced Placement, honors, or International Baccalaureate course or (ii) earn a career and technical education credential that has been approved by the Board, except when a career and technical education credential in a particular subject area is not readily available or appropriate or does not adequately measure student competency, in which case the student shall receive satisfactory competency - based instruction in the subject area to earn credit.
Not exact matches
With the importance of
ninth grade firmly established, it's
time to present steps your
student can take now to begin building a solid foundation for college admission success.
But in general, instruction is both lively and practical, such as in one classroom where a biology teacher, donning a lab coat, leads a lab on extracting DNA from strawberries, or a
ninth -
grade math class in which a teacher integrates a Texas Instruments navigator system into every part of her lesson; she has her class turn assignments in via a graphing calculator and checks for comprehension with every
student in real
time.
Four years of high school isn't enough «catch - up
time» for
students who enter
ninth grade not speaking English or who lack strong reading and math skills.
«Getting to do the scenes a couple different
times really helps because then we get to take the feedback and we get to apply it, and that is the whole learning process,» says Kara, a
ninth -
grade theater
student.
By following and surveying
ninth - through 12th -
grade students three
times over a period of two years, and by using social network analysis, the researchers hope to develop a greater understanding of how we make friends and what that means for our identities.
«If you want to reduce dropouts and increase the number of on -
time graduates, focusing your work on
ninth grade students is consistently an effective strategy.»
One of the factors is that retained
students who enter
ninth grade at the age of 16 have more options to join the work force full
time.
Maryland's Baltimore County Public Schools closely examines the academic progress of
students in
ninth grade, which research shows is a particularly vulnerable
time for
students to start failing high school.
A cohort «on -
time» graduation rate is the percentage of
students in a cohort who earn a diploma within four years of entering the
ninth grade.
Our research shows that when
students achieve a 92 percent attendance rate, earn 11 or more credits and pass at least one Regents exam in
ninth grade, they are far more likely to graduate on
time and be ready for entry into a college or career path.
Don Reynolds, a
ninth -
grade teacher at West Generation Academy — part of the Generation Schools Network — praised this system: «With a minimum of ninety minutes a day of collaborative planning
time, all
grade level and content teams have the necessary
time to develop standards - based, fully - aligned, yearlong plans, unit plans, and daily lesson plans as well as ample
time to review and act upon
student data.
Other
ninth -
grade teachers take advantage of the
time to meet their incoming
students.
In the spring, six weeks of the course are dedicated to the
ninth grade Capstone Project, which is designed to help
students grow in their ability to collaborate, solve problems, think creatively, manage
time effectively, and present persuasively through working with a small team of
students on a topic of their own choosing.
On the other hand,
students who finish
ninth grade on track are four
times more likely to graduate from high school.
Student must be enrolled in public school in the Racine Unified School District the previous school year; be entering school for the first
time; or is applying to attend kindergarten, first
grade or
ninth grade at a participating private school.
Students in Seattle Public Schools take the standardized Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test up to three
times a year, from kindergarten through
ninth grade or beyond.