Sentences with phrase «twelfth grader reads»

Barely half of our African - American and Latino students finish high school on time, and the average African - American and Latino twelfth grader reads and does math at the level of white eighth graders.

«Twelfth graders read 20 - 40 pages a night in English, and history and analytical writing classes meet every day,» said Howland.

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Back in 1992, 40 percent of twelfth graders were «college - prepared» in reading, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Thirty - five percent of twelfth graders were prepared for college in reading (and 36 percent in math); eight years later, 34 percent of their age cohort had completed a college degree.

Because Paedae taught advanced math to eleventh and twelfth graders, while the Florida FCAT only tested students through grade eight, 50 percent of her evaluation was based «on the school - wide performance of students taking the tenth - grade FCAT reading test — a test in a different subject administered... to different students in an earlier grade» (p. 3).

In 2002, it reported that about 25 percent of eighth - and twelfth - graders read below basic levels, and it found that more than 6 million adolescents have been «left behind» academically and will be similarly disadvantaged when they enter the U.S. labor market.

African - American twelfth - graders are 2.6 times likelier to score below the proficient level on the NAEP reading exam than are white students.

In 2015, even though just 37 percent of twelfth graders were college - prepared in reading and / or math, a whopping 69 percent enrolled in post-secondary education in the months after graduating from high school.

The report found that nearly one - third (31 percent) of eighth - graders and nearly one - third (30 percent) of twelfth - graders are also reading at a «below basic» level.

NAEP has two major goals: to compare student achievement in states and other jurisdictions and to track changes in achievement of fourth -, eighth -, and twelfth - graders over time in mathematics, reading, writing, science, and other content domains.

Eleventh and twelfth graders would benefit from reading brief passages of literary criticism and then applying them to the story.

Data from the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often described as the Nation's Report Card, also shows that U.S. students have work to do — more than 60 percent of eighth and twelfth graders each did not meet the «proficient» level for reading.