The government's ambitious interim target is for 65% of children to complete sixth grade.
The story, which started out interesting, devolved into one told at a sixth grade reading level.
From kindergarten through sixth grade, most children in New York City attend neighborhood public schools.
They???ll stop asking for your mother's maiden name and start asking for your sixth grade math teacher's name.
So in sixth grade I played goalie for my Princeton middle school team.
He came alone with a sixth grade education, the shirt on his back, and without a word of English.
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Reggie was the team's leader, having played for Coach Dez since sixth grade.
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As the years went by, I moved from Montreal to an upper-middle-class suburb of Boston for the sixth grade.
Founded in 1908, this is a program run by Southern Baptist churches for boys in first through sixth grade.
My second brother, who was in the sixth grade in Kishoin Primary School, began to develop an interest in the trumpet.
Jibreel, in sixth grade, and Raymond, in seventh, are required to get three hours of schooling for every day of classes they miss.
But in today's China, English was compulsory from the sixth grade on, and the language had become an obsession among the younger generation.
The shuttle mission was orchestrated by my sixth grade teacher, Mr. K, who, built a simulator in a broom closet of our school.
It would please them to think of me doing the things that normal children in the sixth grade did, like going to movies.
In poorer states, one child in five drops out of school before sixth grade, compared with fewer than one in ten in richer states.
He fasted twice a week and, each morning after dawn prayers, studied the Koran, which he had memorized by the time he finished sixth grade.
For example, she shared the story of Staff Sergeant Shaun Murphy, an Army veteran who taught sixth grade special education in Delaware for Teach for America.
So I played soccer in sixth grade, and followed it like a typical American sports fan up until my oldest son got really into Premier League soccer.
For our older daughter, also named Lucy, it happened when she was in sixth grade and we allowed her and a friend to walk to school together.
He entered his first international science competition in the sixth grade and won a silver medal and then won gold medals in the 7th, 8th and 9th grades.
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She said she remembered him as a boy in her fifth and sixth grade classes, but said he apparently left the country for a time, and then one day reappeared at her high school.
The computations require about a sixth grade education.
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There is no summative exam, but learners are given the option to have their learning certified, allowing them to move into the formal educational system from sixth grade of primary level onwards after completion of the programme.
The school district's legal papers tell us that Tyler was diagnosed with ADHD, bipolar disorder, and Asperger's when he was in sixth grade, and while the family's response brief objects to the bipolar diagnosis as "immaterial, " it does not factually challenge it.
Started coding in sixth grade.
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Not that I'm necessarily equating the two in terms of literary merit, but I remember when I discovered "The Hardy Boys" in fifth or sixth grade: After reading the first book, I was so smitten I begged my parents to buy me the remaining fortysomething volumes for my birthday.
The Collective Focus, led by the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh in partnership with the AAAT and supported by the Pittsburgh Public Schools and the United Way of Allegheny County, has identified a two-pronged intervention approach wherein African American Achievement Trust participants volunteer as sixth grade mentors and twelfth grade Graduation Coaches.
Diana Chen, a sixth-grade teacher at Public School 126 in Manhattan, said her students could have used at least a half-hour more.
He's Steve Nash from the three-point line on his sixth-grade basketball team.
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