Sentences with phrase «to do math at grade level»

It requires all students to be able to read and do math at grade level by this year.

Most will not read, write or do math at grade level without some serious interventions now.

Twenty - three percent of second -, third -, fourth -, and fifth - graders were doing math at grade level in September, and by November, that rate had risen to 44 percent.

They are among the 5,000 worst schools in America, where the percentage of kids who can read or do math at grade level often hovers in the teens or 20s and only about half graduate.

In Baltimore — where fewer than 15 percent of eighth - graders were reading or doing math at grade level last year, according to national tests — the overwhelming majority of students in the summer program are African - American and most are low - income.

In states like Georgia that have made it a priority to educate our youngest children, states like Oklahoma, students don't just show up in kindergarten and first grade more prepared to learn, they're also more likely to grow up reading and doing math at grade level, graduating from high school, holding a job, even forming more stable families.

Unfortunately, most districts and unions across the state set the bar so low that nearly 60 % of teachers got the highest rating when only a third of students read and do math at grade level.

Right now, it's at least obvious that a school has failed, since the state exams show that nearly all the kids there can't read or do math at grade level — even as nearly all the school's teachers are rated «effective.»

At 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty line.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

Two out of three eighth graders in this country can not read or do math at grade level.»

This line of attack closely resembles the talking points of Eva Moskowitz and Jeremiah Kittridge of Families for Excellent Schools, who both promote the notion that in New York, «800,000 kids can't read or do math at grade level» and «143,000 kids are trapped in persistently failing schools.»

Can educators — in charters and in other types of schools — say that their students are well prepared for life and further learning if they can't read or do math at grade level?

Despite progress, two - thirds of Springfield kids still can't read or do math at grade level - almost thirty percent fewer than the state average.

In fact, far too many state leaders spent a lot of time and energy over the past decade bashing the law instead of getting all of their students to read and do math at grade level.

Both charter schools and traditional schools gained students.The school system, as Ms. Henderson acknowledged last week, still has a long way to go: Unacceptably high numbers of students remain unable to read or do math at grade level.

Unfortunately, most districts and unions across the state set the bar so low that nearly 60 % of teachers got the highest rating when only a third of students read and do math at grade level.

So despite all the resources the Department of Education claims to have pumped into our school, fewer students are doing math at grade level.

Great schools are so much more than just test results, but being able to read and do math at grade level is critical to giving our students the skills to compete with their peers across the state and country, so we're proud of the steady progress we're seeing,» said Superintendent Rouhanifard.

In his State of the State speech in January, he derided the state's evaluation system as «baloney,» because even though only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests, more than 95 percent of teachers were rated effective.

In states that make it a priority to educate our youngest children... studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, form more stable families of their own.

In his State of the State speech in January, Mr. Cuomo said that the state's evaluations were «baloney» because 96 percent of teachers were rated effective, even though only about a third of students in the state were reading or doing math at grade level, according to the assessments.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

Yet the K - 5 elementary school still has a dismal record: Two - thirds of its students can't read or do math at grade level, and it's been that way for six years.

Obama said in the State of the Union, «Studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, and form more stable families of their own.

«The most unsatisfactory - rated teachers, the most «U» - rated teachers, are found in minority neighborhoods and we need to look at that because if we have almost 80 percent of minority kids not reading, writing and doing math at grade level that's a problem.

In fact, in Philadelphia (2009 NAEP data), 80 percent of 8th students weren't reading or doing math at grade level.

These are bad schools — schools like J.H.S. 145 Arturo Toscanini, which has never had more than 8 % of its students read or do math at grade level in the Common Core era, or I.S. 229 Roland Patterson, which has never had more than 13 % of its students read or do math at grade level in the Common Core era.

This includes a number of truly good schools, but it also includes far too many schools where the vast majority of students are not reading, writing, or doing math at grade level, and where there is little evidence they will ever get to grade level.

Only about 16 percent of its children can read and do math at grade level.

«In states that make it a priority to educate our youngest children... studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, form more stable families of their own.