Lisa Comitino, whose daughter is in fourth grade, said she thought the school had excellent teachers who wouldn't cheat on behalf of the students.
Carroll works at Poyner Elementary, where Elizabeth was in fourth grade.
One of the winners, Shree Bose, did her first experiment in second grade by trying to turn spinach blue. (Laughter.) In fourth grade, she built a remote-controlled garbage can.
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Thanks to the actions of this Congress last year, we will soon have for the very first time a voluntary national test based on national standards in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math.
In fourth-grade reading, six urban districts have participated since the exam was first given in 2002 and each posted gains of at least twice the national average of three points.
In 1998, the percent of fourth-grade students in the highest-poverty public schools who met or exceeded the NAEP Basic level in reading was about half the national rate, and progress in reading overall is only back to 1998 and 1990 levels.
According to the Council of the Great City Schools, students in sixty-six major city school systems in thirty-eight states showed gains in fourth- and eighth-grade math and reading in 2005.
This is a trend nationwide, but not in Buffalo's fourth-grade classrooms.
Friends since fourth grade and roommates in college, they now share an apartment in San Francisco with another high school buddy, Conan Reidy, 28, who also works at Plumtree.
John's fourth-grade class in a suburb of Chicago recently invited Ms. Rudnicki to consult with the planning committee for a spring fair to help select refreshments that won't trigger John's allergies.
As in many districts this year, 20% of fourth- through eighth-grade teachers' evaluations will be based on an analysis of the change in students' test scores year-over-year.
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.
Jack Gantos is author of the Joey Pigza books, Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade without a Clue and Hole in My Life.
With only a fourth grade education, he started three businesses in Hong Kong, including one that went under after a relative embezzled money.
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Speculative-grade bond defaults were barely 2% in the fourth quarter, according to the agency.
The forthcoming UNESCO Education For All Global Monitoring Report estimates that some 61 million primary school - age children still have no access to school, while 250 million children who should have reached fourth grade cannot read or write whether they are in school or not.
She saw that the Web and the blogosphere would act as a giant fourth-grade classroom (oops, another metaphor), in which honor mattered and slander could not hurt you.
But it was Perry's fourth-grade teacher, Mr. Kensel, who saw the potential in Perry and set him straight.
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In addition, participants who have higher levels of literacy and numeracy skills are encouraged to attend formal adult fourth grade evening classes at a school that partners with the project.
"I'm in a car running from the tornado, " said Amy Sharp, who last week pulled her fourth-grade daughter from the Plaza Towers Elementary School as a storm approached with 210 mph winds.
Just 7 percent of fourth-grade and 3 percent of eighth-grade English learners scored "proficient" or above in a nationwide reading exam, and thousands languish for years in ineffective English-as-a-second-language programs.
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