Sentences with phrase «twelfth graders at»

When I'm not at Fordham, I teach a seminar in civics and citizenship to twelfth graders at Democracy Prep, a New York City charter school that consciously (some might say aggressively) tries to inculcate a sense of civic duty and a spirit of activism.

So Miller arranged for her eleventh and twelfth graders at James Buchanan High School in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, to visit five classes at nearby Mountain View Elementary School, and offer fun chemistry activities for the school's kindergartners and third and fourth graders.

Most of her twelfth graders at Maplewood High School have grown up in rental housing.

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Attaching high school graduation to the attainment of college readiness would mean denying diplomas to at least 60 percent of the nation's twelfth - graders.

They got to work, and the thirty eleventh and twelfth graders meticulously combed the cafeteria for clues, examining a cut gas pipe, scattered fingerprints, a spattering of blood, and even vomit left at the scene.

The people at ACT, the College Board, and NAGB have sweat bullets developing metrics that gauge what a twelfth grader must know and be able to do in order to be truly college - ready — again, in the sense of having solid prospects of succeeding in credit - bearing college courses in one subject or another.

But when you look at proficiency, the situation seems grim: just about 24 percent of students are considered proficient (24 percent of fourth graders, 22 percent of eighth graders, and 27 percent of twelfth graders).

«You are only as strong as the weakest piece in your portfolio,» Doug Martin frequently tells the eleventh and twelfth graders in his graphic design and illustration classes at the Mingo Career & Technical Center, in Delbarton, West Virginia.

According to data from the 2002 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), only 28 % of fourth graders, 31 % of eighth graders, and 24 % of twelfth graders performed at or above a proficient (i.e., competent) level of writing achievement for their respective grade level (Persky, Daane, & Jin, 2003).

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.

At grade 12, the national sample of schools and students is drawn from across the country, and results from the assessed students are combined to provide accurate estimates of the overall performance of twelfth - graders in the nation.

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.