Sentences with phrase «who repeat grade»

Success in the early years of schooling is important as children who repeat grade one are particularly at risk for future dropout.

And, it is true, compared with peers who have progressed normally through early grades, students who repeat a grade during elementary school tend to have notably worse outcomes.

Another downside of the Chicago policy is that nearly a third of the students who repeat a grade or attend an alternative school drop out when they reach age 16.

Part of the explanation for this trend is the comparatively high rate of students who repeat grade 5 at KIPP schools.

Not exact matches

And regardless of social class, the stresses and distractions that afflict unemployed parents also afflict their kids, who are more likely to repeat a grade in school, and who on average earn less as adults.

When, like Oher, your journey includes a mother who was a drug addict and a father murdered in prison, when you repeated the first and second grades, went to 11 different schools in your first nine years as a student and was dumped into foster care at age seven — well, you instinctively know who really wants you and who really cares.

Immaturity is one of the factors that can contribute to the overall picture of a school child who would benefit from repeating a grade, but grade retention by itself does not encourage maturity.

Studies indicate that children who experience quality early education are less likely to repeat grades or require special education.

The complaint details the experience of a 12 - year - old student at Success Academy's Harlem 5 location, who was made to repeat second grade three times before being given an Individualized Education Plan (IEP).

Students who do poorly on the exams have to try to improve their performance in summer school or face having to repeat a grade.

Teachers wrote about parents who failed to return repeated phone calls; who never showed up for conferences or school events; who appeared uninterested in their childrens educational progress; who did nt notify them when difficult family situations threatened a childs behavior or grades.

They said the gains were inflated by the retention of low - performing 3rd graders after 2002, when Florida ended «social promotion» by requiring students who failed 3rd grade tests to repeat that grade.

Kids who failed to get promoted from one grade to the next were told to repeat the former.

In 1995 the delayed entry students were less like likely than students who started kindergarten on time to have repeated first or second grade.

Twenty - three percent of children who moved frequently repeated a grade compared with 12 percent of children who never or infrequently moved.

Retention policies are controversial because the research is mixed for students who are held back, but a report published on August 16th by the Brookings Institution suggests that at least for younger children who struggle with reading, repeating a grade may be beneficial.

I also find large and meaningful reductions in the percentage of students at district schools who are required to repeat a grade as a result of charter school entry.

Students who again failed to meet the standard were required to repeat the grade, with the exception of 15 - year - olds who attended newly created «transition» centers.

The published study that I was analyzing highlighted the fact that the average student who had repeated algebra improved his grades and test scores.

Research shows that teachers who have repeated experience teaching the same grade level or subject area improve more rapidly than those whose experience is in varied grade levels or subjects.

A Study of Cumulative Advantage in the Educational Career,» by Notre Dame sociologist Megan Andrew, published Sept. 26, 2014, in the journal Social Forces is an empirically solid analysis that adds more weight to those who say retention — what education wonks call repeating a grade — is ultimately harmful.

Repeated reading can be used with students who have developed initial word reading skills but demonstrate inadequate reading fluency for their grade level.

A North Carolina study found that students who attended sixth grade at a middle school were more likely to be suspended, and later to repeat a grade or drop out of school, compared to counterparts who attended sixth grade in an elementary school.17 A longitudinal study of New York City sixth graders found that attending sixth grade in a middle school, as opposed to a K - 8 school, produced a negative impact on achievement that began in the first year and extended throughout the middle school years.

TUNICA, Miss. — This summer, Sunflower County ran an intensive four - week program to give students who have failed statewide tests a final chance to avoid repeating the third grade.

Research shows that children who attend high - quality prekindergarten programs are less likely to drop out of school, repeat grades, need special education, and have greater opportunity to succeed in life.

Pisa 2015 also found that the later students are selected into different academic programmes / schools and the lower the percentage of students who have to repeat a grade, the greater the equity in science performance.

California education code states that students who don't meet grade standards — as measured by state standardized tests at promotion «gates» in elementary and middle schools — must repeat the grade.

Middle school students are more likely to face discipline problems when surrounded by large numbers of students who are repeating grades, according to a new study from researchers at Duke University.

Children with hunger are more likely to have repeated a grade, received special education services, or received mental health counseling than low - income children who do not experience hunger.

It found that the majority of students who attend virtual charter schools are low - achieving; they are also more likely to be designated as special education and more likely to have repeated a prior grade than their traditional brick - and - mortar school counterparts.

While that program has not yet graduated its first cohort, its record through the early years of high school is impressive: Not a single student has dropped out, and the promotion rate in school is 98 % (the only exceptions are a student who transferred to a parochial school where he was asked to repeat a grade, and a boy who lost a month of schooling because of family turmoil).

Black students who participated in the program were 10.7 % less likely to repeat a grade, 7.1 % less likely to be diagnosed with a learning disability, 11.1 % more likely to graduate from high school, and 13.6 % more likely to enter college.

Students in the program who received special academic and counseling services reported significantly higher grades and were less likely to repeat a grade than students who did not receive these services.

Children conceived to mothers living within 2 miles of a Superfund site before it was cleaned are 7.4 percentage points more likely to repeat a grade, have 0.06 of a standard deviation lower test scores, and are 6.6 percentage points more likely to be suspended from school than their siblings who were conceived after the site was cleaned.

In one class I had about four students who were repeating the sixth grade.

The three primary reasons to repeat a course include: students who have previously failed a course and repeat it to earn credit (remediation); students who enroll in additional units of credit to further their understanding and skills (i.e. band or journalism); and students who repeat an entire course to improve their grade.

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Studies indicate that children who experience quality early education are less likely to repeat grades or require special education.

Pre-Kindergarten Fight Crime: Invest in Kids continues to fight for increases in high - quality pre-k programs because the preponderance of scientific research (and the experience of law enforcement leaders) shows that at - risk young children who participate are significantly less likely to commit juvenile and adult crime, need special education, and repeat an early grade and are more likely to graduate from high school and be productive members of society.