Mr. MONTY NEILL (Co-Director, National Center for Fair and Open Testing): While scores have tended to go up on NAEP at grade four--and in math they went up fairly solidly for a while--they've now leveled out.
The average scores were categorized at each grade level into four groups: below basic, basic, proficient, and advanced.
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Fairyhouse staged four Grade One races in one afternoon, and Tranquil Sea won the John Durkan Memorial Punchestown Chase.
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She's even seen as much improvement as four grade levels in a year.
Smith Breeden is advising most clients to hold investment-grade bonds with durations of four months to six years.
Figures released by the Education Department showed more pupils achieved a level four or five grade at Key Stage Two, compared to the previous year.
New lens elements and glass materials ensure the clearest possible imaging performance, and the proven dust and splashproof mechanism originally featured in the Four Thirds SHG (Super High Grade) series lenses is now incorporated for the first time in a Micro Four Thirds System lens.
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The sprawling estate on the Cornish side of the River Tamar is a handful, with 55 Grade I and II structures and four ancient monuments, four beaches and a deer park.
Heading into the Derby, Castellano and Gemologist have won four straight races, including the Grade 1 Wood Memorial.
The law firm decided to start small--there are only four classes, prekindergarten through second grade--and plans to add a grade each year.
The Reds captain faces three to four weeks out because of a grade two hamstring tear suffered in England's 2-1 defeat by France on Wednesday.
Fifty-four percent of teens received a failing grade (F), compared to 46 percent of adults.
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While Cincinnati public schools have not hit their targets, they have improved in all four consistently measurable areas: fourth-grade reading, eighth-grade math, graduation rates and college enrollment.
On a recent day in Lopez's third-grade English class in Miami, the students learned the four points of the compass by reading and acting out a poem.
Again, I wasn't party to the negotiations, but it's probably no coincidence that the new chief executive of ITV is Michael Grade, who was our chairman here at the BBC until four months ago.
From fourth grade, Saruki says, her boy began to attend cram school four times a week.
The state gives extra money to schools that get an A or improve their grade, and children at schools that get two F grades in four years are allowed to transfer to better schools.
Even the non-investment grade municipal paper averaged a 4.2% default rate for the past four decades.
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The university operates four charters for (mostly) poor black children up to ninth grade (14-15), and college-acceptance rates for children going through them have been above 98% in each of the past three years.
They indicate the minimum score on each of the four subject tests for a student who has a 75% chance of earning a grade of C or higher or a 50% chance of earning a B or higher in a typical first-year college course.
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The Madness concert was followed on BBC Four by Goodbye Television Centre, a two-hour show hosted by former BBC Chairman Michael Grade.
The children of the rich have a four-year advantage because they attend nursery, prep school and kindergarten even before they go into Grade 1, while the children of the poor go straight into Grade 1.
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