Sentences with phrase «times by the eighth grade»

According to a 2010 Government Accountability Office report, about 13 percent of students nationally changed schools four or more times by the eighth grade.

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An analysis of local news reports and school district data by The New York Times found that at least one out of every six students eligible to take the third - through eighth - grade tests in New York State sat at least one of them out this past school year, part of the so - called opt out movement.

By the time he left eighth grade, he'd been awarded a full ride to high school.

Inspired by a letter he received from an eighth grade class, Coppola turned The Outsiders into a devouring CinemaScope fever dream: an homage to Robert Wise and Nicholas Ray that took its chief inspiration from the timeless backlit twilights of Gone with the Wind, which the boys read to pass their time in self - imposed exile.

For a long time, I've dreamed of creating something different within our publicly funded school system, and I've recently been given the opportunity to realize these dreams by designing a new arts - based initiative for seventh - and eighth - grade students in an elementary school near Toronto.

The first NAEP eighth - grade math assessment was in 1990, at which time Texas eighth graders lagged the nation by 5 points.

But by the time students leave eighth grade here, they all share a deep and lasting appreciation for the goodness and the value of growing and preparing healthy, delicious food.

As Winters, who teaches eighth - grade history, explains: «We hope that by participating in past events, students will learn not only about their historical figures» lives and achievements but also about the times when those people lived.

By the time students are in eighth grade, each class has a full stock portfolio and students are able to create a small - business plan.

By eighth grade, students are supposed to spend slightly more time on nonfiction than fiction.

Readers should keep in mind that not all students in the US complete Algebra I in eighth - grade, but most students do complete it by the time they graduate high school.

that the real problem is the lack of excellent K - 8 schools that tragically limit a student's choices by the time they reach eighth grade.

Finally, results for the ICTA by grade level almost identically mirror those for the TOSRA: While both groups made gains over time, the rate of gain for eighth graders superseded that for seventh graders.

For students who choose the advanced placement course for mathematics studies, their high school education actually begins in seventh and eighth grades where they will be expected to take Algebra I or Geometry before entering high school in order to free up time to study more advanced maths by their senior year.

«By the time they're taking the PSAT, it's much too late to determine whether they should be taking algebra in the eighth grade, biology, and other important gatekeeper classes needed for college,» he said.

By the time our kids left eighth grade, whether by staying with us for high school or going elsewhere, they had taken upper level classes and four high school examBy the time our kids left eighth grade, whether by staying with us for high school or going elsewhere, they had taken upper level classes and four high school examby staying with us for high school or going elsewhere, they had taken upper level classes and four high school exams.

Eighth - grade science results have been more mixed over time with stronger gains between the 1995 and 2003 administrations, followed by a slight decline.

«By the time you're in eighth grade, you're solving two equations and two unknowns.

It's like daydreaming, like that second just before you fall asleep, but for hours, they said, for the whole of eighth grade, their eyes glazed with the shine of the newly converted, and by tenth grade they gave up and now, start of junior year, it was habit to make fun of him every time there was occasion, every time they circled up to light and puff and smoke, these friends.

The difference diminished over time, and these boys were bullied about the same amount by eighth grade.