Sentences with phrase «elementary grades receive»

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Sheri Lederman, a fourth grade teacher at a Great Neck elementary school, wants to sue the state education department for personal injury after receiving an «ineffective» job rating due to student test scores.

Of the elementary and middle schools the survey respondents rated, 14 percent received a grade of «A,» 41 percent received a «B» grade, while 36 percent received a «C.» Seven percent were given a «D» and 2 percent an «F.» These subjective ratings were compared with data on actual school quality as measured by the percentage of students in each school who achieved «proficiency» in math and reading on states» accountability exams during the 2007 - 08 school year.

A regular classroom elementary teacher of reading and language arts in grades K - 6 receives a cash award of $ 1,000 through the Regie Routman Teacher Recognition Award.

The students in grades 2 through 6 in the district are predominantly white (73 percent), with a sizable ethnic minority (Latino students compose 21 percent of the elementary population); 48 percent of them receive a free or reduced - price lunch.

Girls in elementary school are still perceived more favorably, disciplined less harshly, and graded more generously than boys, but boys receive more attention, encouragement, and constructive criticism, ac - cording to a new report by the Project on Equal Educational Rights of the National Organization for Women.

One day, I received a message from Dori, a parent of two boys, one still in elementary, the other in fifth grade.

We compared how districts fund schools that are eligible to receive federal Title I dollars with other schools in their grade span — elementary, middle, or high school grades — and found vast disparities throughout the country in how districts spend state and local dollars on Title I schools.

This school received two School Quality Snapshots because it includes grade levels in elementary and / or middle school and high school.

As noted above, LEAs may choose to consider only schools of selected grade levels (e.g., only elementary schools) in determining eligibility for grants, as long as all schools in which 75 percent or more of their students are from low - income families receive grants.

Of the elementary and middle schools our survey respondents rated, 41 percent received a B grade, while 36 percent received a C.

Even after controlling for proficiency rates and other school characteristics, middle schools receive ratings that are, on average, 18 percent of a letter grade lower than comparable elementary schools.

We also adjust for whether the respondent was evaluating an elementary or a middle school to account for the fact that middle schools received systematically lower grades from survey respondents.

Having the necessary stakeholders, or stakeholder representatives, at the table [for a given purpose] is important, and is more important than identifying a specific number of PLC participants that is most effective; e.g., aligning curriculum across an elementary school with a teacher representative for each grade participating in the PLC and then receiving / sharing information back to grade level teachers at their grade team meetings.

In the elementary grades, students receive explicit instruction related to keyboarding, basic computer skills and the utilization of technology in NSCS's elementary computer lab.

TEA announced Feb. 11, 2014, that it had requested and received from the U.S. Dept. of Education permission to change sixth grade from an elementary to a secondary grade - level designation for purposes of determining NCLB highly qualified teacher status, effective immediately.

Since it is known that receiving low grades in elementary school is a predictive factor for dropping out during middle school and that receiving more than one failing grade in a core academic course during ninth grade is a predictive factor for dropping out during high school, tutoring can make a difference.29 Providing access to tutoring to improve students» grades before they are at risk for dropping out could help them to complete further schooling, which, in turn, increases their likelihood of finding employment and earning a family - sustaining salary in adulthood.

When Adamowski added fifth grade back to the elementaries (for no good reason), Windham Center received 17 additional students (a net loss because this is supposed to be 2 fifth grades).

Students were not informed of their intervention condition in the study, and it is unlikely that respondents knew 6 years later whether they received an intervention or control condition during the elementary grades, thus decreasing the likelihood that participants» self - reported outcomes reflected awareness of their condition assignment.

Each year, as the panel moved through the elementary grades, teachers in intervention classrooms received 5 days of in - service training in a package of instructional methods33 with 3 major components: proactive classroom management, 34 interactive teaching, 35 and cooperative learning.36