He left school after the ninth grade and said he has poor reading skills.
If such a magic program exists, why didn't you start them on it in ninth grade?
He recalled reciting the Pledge of Allegiance as a child, before he left school in the ninth grade.
She had no friends at all in school, and in ninth grade she slept with her history teacher.
Mr. Sen, 23, is a part-time driver who dropped out of school after ninth grade to work at a car-repair shop.
The development history of RSS is complex, but that that Swartz was contributing suggestions and fighting his corner while in ninth grade is remarkable.
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When he began attending Lake Academy in ninth grade, Mr. Lane lost touch with Mr. Szalay's girlfriend and "it all started falling apart for him, " Mr. Szalay said.
Munn's attorneys say she suffered insect bites that led to tick-borne encephalitis in 2007 when she was in the ninth grade, leaving her unable to speak and brain damaged.
The Seattle district requires teachers to give the math and reading Measures of Academic Progress exam, or MAP, to students in first through ninth grade two or three times a year.
When I started BUILD, it was estimated that less than 30% of the kids who started ninth grade in high school who came from East Palo Alto middle school district, graduated high school.
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The recent improvement, he speculates, may be the welcome byproduct of a upturn in math and reading skills, as measured by test scores, among minorities in the years before the students reach ninth grade.
The university operates four charters for (mostly) poor black children up to ninth grade (14-15), and college-acceptance rates for children going through them have been above 98% in each of the past three years.
Senator LINDSEY GRAHAM (Republican, South Carolina): It's what I was told in the ninth grade Congress would be like, where you had members of the Senate with the members of the executive branch, cabinet secretaries, literally writing a bill line by line.
Reynolds indicates the median income of households where the head holds a doctorate degree is about two and a half times as large on average as the median income of households where the head holds only a high school degree, and 5 times as large on average as for households where the head holds less than a ninth grade education.
The average student enters KIPP two years below grade level in fifth grade, and leaves KIPP in eighth grade achieving at a ninth-grade level.
This year, 90 students were accepted for admission to Boston Latin's ninth-grade class (14-15-year-olds).
Though she was a ninth-grade dropout, in 1961 she enrolled in night classes to become a medical assistant.
And when her ninth-grade class visited Washington, Gore arranged a tour of the White House and posed for a group photo.
Those with a ninth-grade literacy level or higher were 4 to 5 times as likely to maintain their mental capacity with age.
Albert is doing ninth-grade work at age 12 and just signed up for his first -- free -- online class on Java programming with CodeWarriorU.com.
The database Transparency Labs, meanwhile, is launching a free web-based service that promises to translate every contract issued by America's largest corporations and financial institutions into readable, ninth-grade-level text.
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But he had a terrible temper, a tendency to escalate rather than to defuse confrontations, and, by the time he was released, just before turning eighteen, he had achieved only a ninth-grade education.
Lehigh University biochemistry professor Michael Behe testified for a third day on behalf of a school board that is defending its decision a year ago, to require students to hear a statement about intelligent design before ninth-grade biology lessons on evolution.
But inside, 20 ninth- and tenth-grade students and seven educators are creating a new educational paradigm.
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