Sentences with phrase «when eighth graders»

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When Consolato Errico was an eighth - grader in Brooklyn, N.Y., his teacher asked him what he'd like to be when he grewWhen Consolato Errico was an eighth - grader in Brooklyn, N.Y., his teacher asked him what he'd like to be when he grewwhen he grew up.

But nearly one fifth of students across New York opted out of taking the English exams when they were given April 14 and 15, and more plan to skip the math tests, which are administered to third to eighth graders.

«I first met Ron in 2010 when, working pro bono and working closely with then - Councilman [Vincent] Ignizio and me, he sued the city when it cut school bus service to seventh - and eighth - graders.

An trio of eighth graders asks when there will be speed cameras in front of every city school after their school lost three students to hit - and - runs.

Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has been reassuring teachers, administrators and parents that computer testing can help ease the fatigue many third to eighth - graders got when taking the year - end state assessments.

People flocked to a Massapequa school board meeting on Aug. 3, 2017, when the agenda focused on the plan to move sixth - graders districtwide into Alfred G. Berner Middle School with the seventh - and eighth - graders.

He especially liked working with eighth - graders, who, he says, are at the age when it is «still cool to be curious.»

Evan played a sixth grader in the film who imagines the worst will happen when he bumps into two eighth graders in the hall and drops his lunch.

Eighth grader Jordan, who transferred from a school where racial prejudice was a problem she ran into, says she was «shocked when I came here» to see the students working together.

When Astalos started teaching there in 2003, as few as 20 percent of the students met state benchmarks in math; now that's increased to 40 percent of eighth graders.

African - American eighth graders in DoDDS schools scored second in the nation when compared with their peers in non-military schools; Hispanics placed first among Hispanic students nationwide.

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.

When Jennifer, another eighth grader, is asked what she would be doing if she wasn't at school, she answers matter - of - factly, «I'd be cleaning and taking care of my brothers and sisters.»

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).

When I was a teacher, my eighth graders and I read Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 and discussed the similarities and differences between the sonnet and Bruno Mars» song «Just the Way You Are.»

I was reading children's books to my eighth graders, using the stories to reinforce literary elements, when a student asked if she could sit on the floor at my feet.

Librarian Joshua Kolbet says he got to know his student aide when the shy, lanky eighth grader was just a fifth grader struggling to get along with both peers and teachers.

An attempt by Clinton in 1996 to develop voluntary assessments for fourth - graders in reading and eighth - graders in math was thwarted when Congress refused to fund it.

When Blanco was an eighth grader, older students pushed her down and shoved snow into her throat until she could not breath.

The PISA - TIMSS difference is especially surprising when one considers that the 15 - year - olds taking the PISA exam and eighth graders taking TIMSS are not far apart in their school careers.

(A student who was a first grader when the Kansas suit was filed in 2010 would now be in their last semester of eighth grade.)

The State Board of Education ended a decade - long controversial policy of pushing eighth graders to take Algebra I when members voted unanimously Wednesday to strip California's Algebra I standards from the state's eighth grade math standards.

American eighth graders continue to demonstrate lackluster knowledge and skills when asked basic questions about U.S. history, geography, and civics, with between 18 and 27 percent of students scoring proficient or higher, new data show.

I do not know if you remember me or not, however PURE helped me in 1999 when I was an eighth grader in Chicago Public Schools.

Saying that he teaches the concepts of reliability and validity to his eighth graders, Goerner asked, «How can you control for all of the variables that exist when some students are taking the exam on Chromebooks while others have access to desktops with large screens and full keyboards?»

State Board Shifts Policy on Eighth Grade Algebra The State Board of Education ended a decade - long controversial policy of pushing eighth graders to take Algebra I when members voted unanimously Wednesday to strip California's Algebra I standards from the state's eighth grade math stanEighth Grade Algebra The State Board of Education ended a decade - long controversial policy of pushing eighth graders to take Algebra I when members voted unanimously Wednesday to strip California's Algebra I standards from the state's eighth grade math staneighth graders to take Algebra I when members voted unanimously Wednesday to strip California's Algebra I standards from the state's eighth grade math staneighth grade math standards.

Carbon School District fifth and eighth graders did better than the rest of the state when it comes to Direct Writing Assessment tests given this last school year.

When two in five (40 percent) of eighth graders can not achieve even basic levels of comprehension in math, it's obvious we must do far more to improve Mississippi's education system.

The scores for fourth - graders and eighth - graders were higher than in previous years, but psychometricians have yet to untangle the degree of improvement attributable to No Child Left Behind (no NAEP math test was given in 2002, when No Child Left Behind began).

When Horace Mann Middle School principal Orlando Johnson thinks about the eighth - graders he sent off to high school last year, he worries about how they will fare.

In my first meeting as a personal learning coordinator at a small, rural school in Vermont, I asked a group of eighth graders what they wanted to do when they grew up.

«When we looked at the aggregated data for our eighth graders, some students who were identified were doing fine academically,» said Ms. Utter.

Nicholas Prosper, an eighth - grader, said that when he recited the line, «Not bad for a white girl» about the main character's dance moves, he learned about reverse racism.

The students» mean - scale scores dropped from 586 to 419 in 2010, when they were eighth - graders.

The school is part of the Rhode Island Mayoral Academy, which began testing economic integration when they first opened in 2009, and has seen positive results — though half of all their students are low - income, currently 92 percent of the schools» seventh - graders are proficient in math and 86 percent are in reading, which is more than double the proficiency rate for eighth graders across the state in both.

The researchers looked at a group of borderline kids, the last few eighth - graders who made the cut - off to go to an elite school and the first few who didn't; that meant there was little if any academic difference between them when they started their freshman year.

Mitch will have to prove itself again this school year, when its new fifth - and eighth - graders take state benchmark tests.

Now, we could wait four years and compare how students scored when they were fourth graders and how they scored later as eighth graders.

For the eighth graders, the most fun part of the lab work was when their cheek cells were swabbed.

Being in fourth grade and teaching phonics to first graders, participating in the eighth grade spelling lesson as a fourth grader, being taught in small groups of three to five students from mixed grade levels on particular skills or topics, having assessments on various skills before moving on, moving on to the next skill level when ready (regardless of grade level)-- is this competency - based education?

In the fall of 2011, when the district area academic manager heard about student improvement in another district using Success Highways, administrators gave the Success Highways resiliency assessment to every eighth grader at selected schools.