Sentences with phrase «transition grades»

However, in transition grades (e.g., entering high school) more families participate.

At Monday's School Board meeting, district officials shared with board members five focus areas for improving the program: identifying advanced learners; teaching advanced learners; communicating the needs of advanced learners with parents, within schools and between schools as students transition grade levels; staffing; and overall assessment of the advanced learning program.

However, evidence presented in the report sheds doubt these large test score increases: according to an Education Writers Association study, when neighborhood schools were restored, the superintendent in Oklahoma City reduced the number of low - achievers taking the standardized tests by increasing the number of students retained (or «flunked») and implementing transition grades (in which students repeat all or part of the previous grade).

Some districts fully transitioned all grades; others only did so with their youngest students.

Among students who regularly attended OST programs, they had higher promotion rates than their peers, entered 6th and 9th grade with higher school attendance (important transition grades to middle and high school), and were significantly less likely to be chronically absent.

• Student achievement should be sampled and reported at key «transition grades,» namely fourth, eighth, and twelfth grades, in addition to age levels.

Of the 30 schools on the top - ten lists for these transition grades, 12 are charter schools.

Research has found, however, that when middle school students took part in a high school transition program with several diverse articulation activities, fewer students were retained in the transition grade (Mac Iver, 1990).

Each event will highlight one of the transition grades of 5, 8, or 11.

Participation rates in transition grades (K, 6, and 9th grade) stayed consistent from 2016.