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It is administered to all students from 3rd grade through 8th grade in the subjects of ELA, mathematics, science, and social studies. There are five levels of achievement: Unsatisfactory, Approaching Basic, Basic, Mastery, and Advanced. Advanced is the highest level of achievement, while Unsatisfactory is the lowest.
Year 8 is an educational year group in schools in many countries including England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand. It is the eighth or ninth year of compulsory education. It is known as First Year in Scotland and Ireland. Children in this year are between 12 and 13. This is generally equivalent to Seventh grade in the United States.
Additionally, many schools add .33 for a plus (+) grade and subtract .33 for a minus (−) grade. Thus, a B+ yields a 3.33 whereas an A− yields a 3.67. [ 18 ] A-plusses, if given, are usually assigned a value of 4.0 (equivalent to an A) due to the common assumption that a 4.00 is the best possible grade-point average, although 4.33 is awarded ...
Drone sightings in recent months, primarily over New Jersey and portions of New York, have raised the alarm among locals and security concerns for authorities, who fear foreign agents are behind them.
Through most of this season, the Philadelphia Eagles have been just there. They weren't bad. But they weren't great either. The past couple weeks might have changed that.
A British radio host has been dubbed a hero without a cape after attempting to save a dog from a river. Jordan North, who hosts Capital Breakfast, was running along the banks of the River Thames ...
From December 2011 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Lee M. Thomas joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -4.9 percent return on your investment, compared to a 14.6 percent return from the S&P 500.
Whole language is a philosophy of reading and a discredited [8] educational method originally developed for teaching literacy in English to young children. The method became a major model for education in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s, [7] despite there being no scientific support for the method's effectiveness. [9]