Beginning with incoming ninth graders, students will be required to pass at least five Regents exams with a score of 65 or better to earn a Regents diploma and graduate.
It finds that among fourth and eighth graders, students with a higher relative age score better than those with a lower relative age.
On NAEP tests administered to fourth graders and eighth graders, students have shown incremental growth.
As sixth graders, the students in this study commenced SciLG programming in the spring term of 2015.
So will Ms. Raphaelson send her seventh grader, a student at the Research Academy, to a new John Jay? "If his program moves intact, with the directors and teachers that he's had, I have no problem moving him there," she said.
The fact that she didn't come to this realization during her training to become an educator, but rather via a fifth grader: "A student told me I couldn't understand because I was a white lady". To Ms. Smith's credit, she chose self-reflection and positive action over defensiveness.
Maritza Lauriano, a fifth grader, said students used to be "nervous that we wouldn't pass the test" but now took exams with confidence.
It wasn't busywork, necessarily, but some of it would not challenge a typical seventh and eighth grader: the students did addition and subtraction, including decimals, at the blackboard; they wrote stories based on images and on moral dilemmas Ms. Stern-Barnett posed; and they read Chicago Tribune articles that they then explained to their classmates.
But when it was the turn of the final student, the sixth grader Kendrick Taveras, Mays realized they were one ball short.
Mr. Bassoff said he did not notice immediately, but when he did and asked the other sixth graders where the student went, they told him the boy had gone to eat lunch with other sixth graders.
