For many of the fifth graders, it's clearly a struggle to demonstrate the second-grade-level skill.
It guaranteed that a child enrolled in kindergarten this year would be reading at grade-level by the end of the second grade.
The database Transparency Labs, meanwhile, is launching a free web-based service that promises to translate every contract issued by America's largest corporations and financial institutions into readable, ninth-grade-level text.
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We have a system that administers grade-level assessments and gives no credit to students who start well below grade level and make amazing progress or to those who are able to race ahead.
While we should maintain the law's strong focus on getting kids to proficiency in reading and math, grade-level math and reading skills are just the beginning of what children will need to succeed in 21st-century workplaces.
Thanks to this parental freedom, Milwaukee's public schools are now promising parents who enroll their kids in kindergarten personal tutors -- at the school's expense -- if those students are not reading at grade-level by the end of second grade.
For a subject such as economics, applicants might have an A grade in A-level economics, but some universities might also require pupils to have a high grade at maths A-level as well.
Moody's has a Baa3 rating--the lowest investment-grade level--with a stable outlook on India's debt.
The average student enters KIPP two years below grade level in fifth grade, and leaves KIPP in eighth grade achieving at a ninth-grade level.
International powers want it to stop enriching uranium to a level of 20%, which can then be more easily enriched to weapons-grade level.
"Further it has been reported that some students are often 'coached' to a C-grade at AS and A-level rather than attempting to produce higher quality answers, " it said.
Those with a ninth-grade literacy level or higher were 4 to 5 times as likely to maintain their mental capacity with age.
Five Wishes is written at a sixth- to seventh-grade level, says Paul Malley, president of Aging with Dignity, a nonprofit that distributes the document.
I'm currently utilizing the English version of the game because, after 34 years, I've somehow managed to grasp it at a solid third-grade level.
He coaches auditors to use action verbs such as "verify" and "confirm" and tells them to write below a 12th-grade reading level so it can be easily understood.
Cleverly, who achieved an A grade at A-level maths, said the degree course, particularly the social side, had helped him to cope with the rigours of training up to six days a week.
And I ask for a dramatic increase in federal support for adult literacy, so we can mount a national campaign aimed at millions of working people who read at less than a fifth-grade level.
Rhode Island, for example, in 2009 passed regulations requiring that all health insurance policies in the state, beginning in 2010, be written at an eighth-grade level, which is the average reading level for state residents.
Non-relational databases and the arrival of SLA (systems-level architecture)-grade cloud infrastructure have made life a lot easier.
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She had to be pulled out of fifth grade because she could not pass the test for 7-year-olds -- a first grade level.
He said the statistics which should be considered were those showing the percentage of people who achieved three grade As at A-level.
The marks from this discipline counted towards his final A-level grade.
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It has assigned 270 points to an A-level at grade A, ranging down to 150 points for a grade E (the pass grade).
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By third grade, children from low-income families who are not reading at grade level are six times less likely to graduate from high school than students who are proficient.
Each GCSE-level qualification and grade is given a score in points, enabling an average point score per pupil to be calculated for each school.
We really mean it--every kid on grade level by 2014, and obviously that causes some discomfort, particularly as we come closer and closer to that date.
In addition, a new lower priced entry-level LEAF S grade joins the previous SV and SL grades, while an array of feature enhancements are added to the LEAF SL grade, including leather-appointed seating and 17-inch aluminum-alloy wheels.
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It basically looks at a single student's prior performance and says: This student, amongst his peers at this grade level, was in the - let's say 60th percentile.
James Blythe, now a student at Oxford, was given a D grade for coursework in his history A-level last year - in contrast to much higher marks for other parts of the exam.
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