Sentences with phrase «to read at grade level»

Children from low - income families who are not reading at grade level by third grade are six times less likely to graduate from high school.

Children who are not reading at grade level by third grade are four times more likely to drop out of high school.

They start with Key 1, focusing on all students reading at grade level by grade 3.

Low - income students not reading at grade level in third grade are 13 times more likely to drop out of school.

The goal is to help children read at grade level by the end of third grade.

Two - thirds of low - income third graders do not read at grade level compared with one - third of third graders who do not come from poor families.

For years, we have known that children who read at grade level by 3rd grade are more likely to graduate from high school.

Over the last two years, on average only 7 percent of our incoming sixth - graders began their middle school career reading at grade level.

In other words, the fact that two - thirds of fourth - graders can not read at grade level means our current policies and systems are failing them in multiple ways.

Kids who aren't successfully reading at grade level by the third grade are four times less likely to finish high school.

Even middle class Black students are denied a meaningful education in the state's urban schools: Just 12 percent of them are taught to read at grade level in eighth grade.

In the 2013 - 14 school year, 7 percent of its students read at grade level, and 5 percent met the state's math standards.

Children reading at grade level by third grade have a better chance to graduate high school and succeed in college and life — our ultimate goal as educators.

More than 80 % can not read at grade level by fourth grade.

The majority of them aren't reading at grade level as it is.

In contrast to 2006, when the proportion of 3rd graders reading at grade level jumped from 67 percent to 75 percent, and previous years, when that percentage rose only 1 to 3...

A lack of number sense often translates into struggles later in a student's math career, similar to how a lack of phonemic awareness can keep a child from reading at grade level.

We think that having professional, trained school librarians helping kids read at grade level - and ensuring that there are books for the most disadvantaged kids in their school libraries - is a high - impact use of our tax dollars.

What the administrator said next, however, was alarming: «We don't think he will ever read at grade level.

Additional question for Tim: Is there any evidence for or against the state policies about retaining students who are not yet reading at grade level by the end of grade 3?

More than 70 percent of its 88,000 students are considered economically disadvantaged, and only 25 percent read at grade level.

AIR's team has worked with clients across the country to refine their practices in order to ensure that students achieve key educational milestones such as reading at grade level, on - time graduation, and postsecondary readiness and persistence.

Jubilee students are reading at grade level within a year of arriving; they are then outperforming their peers on standardized TerraNova tests.

As the percentage of students reading at grade level changes little between 8th and 12th grades, it means that more than 90 percent of Black students in these states are unlikely to graduate from high school college - and career - ready.

When asked about dropout prevention programs, school officials pointed to the district's Reading by Four program, which is a response to one of the greatest indicators of a future dropout — whether a child can read at grade level while still in elementary school.

Examples of high - leverage indicators: Absenteeism Grades Graduation and dropout Participation in advanced high school coursework Reading at grade level by Grade 3 Sense of feeling welcome in the school Suspension and expulsion

More than 95 % of the students that attend HOPE will not read at grade level which could deny them access to job options that provide a living wage.

At the same time, the state has moved towards a higher standard for education results with the Mississippi Assessment Program (MAP), our most challenging assessment to date, and the Literacy Based Promotion Act, or 3rd Grade Reading Gate, which requires students to read at grade level before entering 4th grade.

What the standards say is that children need to read at grade level proficiently.

At our school we are doing Silent Sustained Reading at all grade levels, and everyone will be reading the same book.

The other reason that I am writing about East Gresham is that Kimberly talked to me on the phone and told me that they now were at 50 % achievement in the school for overall reading at grade level.

The most recent reading assessment of KIPP Academy Boston Elementary students shows a 74 % increase in students reading at grade level when compared with assessments completed at the beginning of the school year.

Particularly during their first year of using Star assessments, teachers were occasionally perplexed to find discrepancies between assessment data and their classroom observations, such as high schooler who got all As but could not actually read at grade level and a failing student who turned out to be highly proficient in math and reading.

According to readability statistics (Flesch - Kincaid), the BGMC questionnaires read at a grade level of 4.2.

Attendance in a high quality Pre-K program is important for school readiness and is highly correlated with reading at grade level, high school graduation, and even income level.

While 49 percent of White, non-Hispanic, fourth - graders are taught to read at the level expected at that grade, only 17 percent of Pennsylvania's African - American fourth graders read at grade level.

Walker said researchers helped the state identify «key transactions» that will help get kids reading at grade level.

While nationally 30 percent of urban children read at grade level in fourth grade, Pennsylvania's urban schools successfully teach only 19 percent of their students to read proficiently in primary school, while the state's suburban schools teach more than half of their students to read well — approximately the same proportion left functionally illiterate in fourth grade by the state's urban schools.

Access to high - quality preschool is central to school readiness, and school readiness can significantly impact everything from reading at grade level to graduating high school to being career ready later in life.

Or, conversely, whether they are not yet reading at grade level.

More than 70 percent of its 88,000 students are considered economically disadvantaged, and only 25 percent read at grade level.

But it's not hard to fathom the potential appeal of such an approach in an affluent community, where the vast majority of children read at grade level, graduate, and attend college.

States, districts, and schools use research - based indicators to identify students at - risk of failing to meet key educational milestones such as reading at grade level, on - time graduation, or college readiness and college persistence.

Read Charlotte is «a collaborative, community - wide movement to double the percentage of 3rd grade students reading at grade level from 40 % now to 80 % in 2025.»

To reach the goal of doubling the percentage of Charlotte - Mecklenburg third graders reading at grade level by 2025, Read Charlotte needs the help of the whole community.

If 97 percent of Rochester's male Black students can not read at grade level in grade 8, how is it that 44 percent are given diplomas?

The administrator told my mother that I wasn't reading at grade level.

That around 12th grade, out of the remaining children who have not dropped out or been expelled, 84 percent of them can't read at grade level.