Even more staggering, 4% of Detroit public-school 8th graders are proficient in math.
Another man who appeared to be a teacher held his arm up and shouted, "5th graders!"
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At the same time, there was a corresponding decrease among eighth graders who smoked.
Overall, smoking in eighth graders decreased by an average of 1.3 percentage points each year.
Police also said the seventh-graders had received death threats from people near and far.
The ninth- and 10th-graders are in a district-owned building converted into a temporary school.
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Mr. Johnson said 338 of the district's 1, 650 third- through eighth-graders didn't take the test.
"Only 28% of ninth graders in the Detroit public schools are graduating high school, " he notes.
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You created special academies for ninth graders to start students off on the right track.
You tell me how I can make those middle-school sixth-graders out there eat green beets.
Then I like to help the first graders with their reading and sight words.
At the Fur Auction, graders remove a few representative pelts from each lot for display.
The third floor, where fifth- through eighth-graders have classes, now sports a French Quarter-meets-Mardi Gras theme.
We look like a pair of ninth graders waiting out detention after gym class.
For many of the fifth graders, it's clearly a struggle to demonstrate the second-grade-level skill.
These fifth graders have to get past some addition flashcards before they can enter the classroom.
In 2009, 95% of third-graders at Harlem Success passed the state's English Language Arts exam.
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In New York, a class of sixth graders invented a milk pitcher that detects spoilage.
Math scores are up there, but reading scores among eighth graders have declined a little bit.
Eleven fifth graders from Harriet Tubman and Bancroft Elementarys spent the morning in the garden.
Early this morning she began to read cards made for her by some 4th graders!
Apparently, Estonia recently announced schools there would start teaching programming to first graders.
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Some 95% of Blind Brook eighth-graders met or exceeded state math test standards, compared with 61% statewide.
But the class time mandated is actually trivial: an hour a week for fifth and sixth graders.
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Already he's seeing pet projects, such as new mining shovels and motor graders, postponed until next year.
Back then, only 30% of ninth graders in nearby East Palo Alto even graduated from high school.
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In October, Melinda and I sat among two dozen 12th-graders at Eagle Valley High School near Vail, Colo.
Sometimes, for example, it makes sense to group Ursetta's kindergarten students with first-graders working on the same subject.
's eighth-graders increased their math proficiency at a faster rate than all other big cities save San Diego.
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