Sentences with phrase «to advance to the next grade»

Many students know they will advance to the next grade no matter what their achievement.

Goodwill Industries in Houston developed a program to help Right Turn participants prepare specifically for the Texas state assessments that are required for them to advance to the next grade level.

Legislators are also expected to vote today on other bills supported by Gov. Phil Bryant, including a teacher merit pay pilot program and a literacy bill would hold most third - graders back from advancing to the next grade if they are not on reading level.

New research finds that students attending a district school in New York City within a half - mile radius of a charter school score better in math and reading and enjoy an increase in their likelihood of advancing to the next grade.

Gov. George W. Bush of Texas has launched his 1998 re-election bid with a get - tough pledge to make it harder for public school students to advance to the next grade before mastering basic academic skills.

Roster the students in their current grade levels, do not advance them to the next grade for summer 2017.

The first step in Chicago's accountability effort was to end the practice of «social promotion,» whereby students were advanced to the next grade regardless of achievement level.

In a departure from the past decade's heavy reliance on test scores to determine which students advance to the next grade, the New York City Department of Education said Wednesday that schools will use a basket of measures instead.

Teachers who took pay cuts to work at Ron Brown grumble about a district - wide mandate: Students will advance to the next grade even if they didn't do enough passing work to qualify.

In a growing number of states, scores on standardized tests weigh heavily in determining whether an 8 - year - old advances to the next grade with her classmates; whether a teen can get his high school diploma; which teachers keep their jobs; how much those teachers are paid; and even which public schools are shut down or turned over to private management.

Some use these tests to create «high stakes» for students (preventing them from advancing to the next grade or graduating) or for educators (taking over underperforming schools, requiring the schools to accept external assistance, or simply shaming them by identifying them as poor schools).

In pitching the reading initiative during his election campaign, Walker said students who couldn't read by the end of third grade should not advance to the next grade.

Still, it might be testing that determines whether they advance to the next grade level.

Would they view district efforts as supportive of their own work in the classroom: helping to motivate students, sending the message that achievement matters, and ensuring that students have the basic skills they need before they advance to the next grade?

Following the seven - week program, two - thirds of them were able to advance to the next grade.

Portfolio Review Panels 8th, 11th and 12th grade students must successfully present a portfolio of their work to a panel of college representatives and community members to advance to the next grade / graduate.

The tests will not be used to keep students who are taking the test — those in Grades 3 to 11 — from advancing to the next grade.

Known in Colorado as «TCAP on steroids,» PARCC is a more high - stakes test that will have far more bearing on whether a student passes or fails a certain subject matter or is allowed to advance to the next grade.

During the Nov. 14 House committee hearing, Morath told lawmakers that he did not have authority under state law to waive state testing requirements, although he might have authority to address requirements that fifth - and eighth - graders must pass the STAAR test in order to advance to the next grade.

Teach for America training starts with thick packages of readings and then five weeks co-teaching a summer class, usually in an urban school district, with students who have fallen behind and are taking remedial coursework in order to advance to the next grade.

Aurelio asks Paula about the drawbacks of «social promotion» of students who are not prepared to advance to the next grade.