And, yes, this is the same Senator Grothman who wants to defund kindergarten programs for 4-year-olds because, argues Grothman, any academic benefits disappear by the fourth grade, and the program is used by school districts to pad their budgets to get more state aid.
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.
"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.
She returned to the office by noon with a fourth-grade school portrait.
Jack Gantos is author of the Joey Pigza books, Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade without a Clue and Hole in My Life.
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.
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.
Speculative-grade bond defaults were barely 2% in the fourth quarter, according to the agency.
He started to blubber loudly enough for a pair of fourth-grade girls who had just walked by the open door of the office brandishing their hall passes to come back and gawk.
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.
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 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.
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.
Steven Wyner's client, Deborah Porter, asked the Manhattan Beach district (south of Santa Monica) to give her fourth-grade son extra reading instruction and work on his socializing skills. (He would later be diagnosed with autism.) She won an administrative ruling requiring the district to provide them.
That was enough for the new computers to have had a large (and apparently malign) influence on fourth-grade maths scores.
Georgia's fourth- and eighth-grade reading, math and science scores all trail the national average, and the spread between white and black or Hispanic students is 25 points.
C. who goes to the thrift store every week and uses her own money to buy pencils and books for her fourth grade class.
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.
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.
And by that time, you know, fourth grade, I'm believing, is when girls are making a lot of sense of the world, where they're starting to make decisions about themselves.
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