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MSCS improved third-grade reading proficiency by almost 4% between 2023 and 2024. The second week of Memphis-Shelby County Schools ' Summer Learning Academy wraps up June 13.
This was the 12 th crewed flight of New Shepard and the vehicle has now carried 64 people, four of whom have flown more than once. With this flight, Rocket became the first person from New Zealand ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — VIDEO ABOVE: AG Rejects League of Women Voters Ballot Initiative Again (May 22) The Arkansas attorney general approved the ballot title for a constitutional amendment that ...
The researchers, who used data from a nationally representative survey of 10,146 youths in 2023 and 2024, said 5.4 percent of 10th- and 12th-graders reported having used nicotine pouches, up from ...
Act 602 requires ballot titles be at no higher than an eighth grade reading level. That’s determined by running text through the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Readability Test, designed by the Navy ...
According to his written opinion, Griffin states the ballot title the League submitted was calculated at a 12.2 reading level. That new eighth-grade reading level requirement falls under Act 602 ...
Winning trainer Willie Mullins said: "He just does it when he has to. He's not the world's best jumper. Paul asked him for a big one at the last, he gave it to him but he nearly tipped him out of ...
The main reading and math tests, which are required by Congress, were preserved. But to cut costs in an attempt to appease Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE, the National ...
Eighth grade reading scores, however, continue to decline, though at a slower rate. At the current rate of improvement, it would take 62 years for the state to reach a 95% proficiency rate.
Reading Quest founder and Executive Director Rayna Dineen poses with Lorenzo Mendez, one of the organization's students, as he displays a certificate attesting to his improvement to a 12th-grade ...
1. The PA’s new “abridged curriculum” for Gaza replicates antisemitic material and content that incites hatred and violence. 2. Reopened schools in Gaza continue to use textbooks and teaching ...
The average reading score for high school seniors dropped between 2015 and 2019, while math scores for those soon-to-be-graduates remained flat, according to the latest round of national test ...