On the state tests, the researchers took "grade level" to mean hitting the third-highest of four scoring levels — below basic, basic, proficient and advanced — for the grade above the grade ...

Dorchester District Two’s Gifted and Talented Education program (GATE) has been around since the early eighties. The goal of the program is to help students learn above grade level material ...

There's also this: If grade-level performance is simply determined by performing at the 50th percentile or above, than by definition, half of American schoolchildren will always be performing ...

The percentage of fourth-grade students reading at or above grade level declined from 2019 to 2021. In 2019, 43% of students were reading at or above grade level.

Those also include SAT10, Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS), Terranova, NWEA MAP, STAR Enterprise, I-Ready and I-Station. Students also can use a portfolio of classroom work to show their abilities.

“I think every child needs to have some kind of reading intervention,” says Ballone, a former seventh-grade English teacher. “It might mean acceleration or it might mean remediation. If it means we ...

Statewide more than 36% of students are on grade-level in English language arts, test scores show; Some are celebrating that Tennessee students as a whole are 'largely back to pre-pandemic levels’ ...

But in the spring of 2019 — before the pandemic — 68% of kindergarten through third graders were reading at grade level, meaning DPS’ young students are still seven percentage points below ...