Sentences with phrase «middle school counterparts»

The goal of Game Change is to implement long - term anti-violence and healthy relationship education in Massachusetts schools, with a focus on developing peer leaders at the high school level who can provide trainings to their middle school counterparts.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, pelinks4u.org, an Internet newsletter specializing in physical education topics, told a story about maturity and selflessness in youth sports in rural Washington state: Michael Denny, the wrestling coach at Housel Middle School in Prosser, Wash., asked his counterpart at Morgan Middle School in Ellensburg, John Graf, if he knew of a Morgan wrestler who would agree to an exhibition match against a Housel wrestler with cognitive and physical disabilities.

A Look Manchester's Other Middle School Bennet Middle School's counterpart in town, Arthur H. Illing Middle School, has a much different campus from Bennet Middle School, but the staff members face many of the same challenges and have many of the same goals for students.

In the specific year when students move to a middle school (or to a junior high), their academic achievement, as measured by standardized tests, falls substantially in both math and English relative to that of their counterparts who continue to attend a K — 8 elementary school.

Even after accounting for a host of other factors that influence student achievement, students who eventually attend middle schools go from scoring better than their counterparts in K — 8 schools in the year prior to transitioning to middle school to scoring below where we would expect if they were not attending a middle school.

Teachers born at the beginning of the century had roughly six or seven more years of schooling than their nonteaching counterparts, but those born in the middle of the century had only two to three years more education than their peers.

And, she adds, by logging on, the two middle schools that are off island feel more connected to their on - island counterparts.

The authors found that in the specific year when students move to a middle school (or to a junior high), their academic achievement, as measured by standardized tests, falls substantially in both math and English relative to that of their counterparts who continue to attend a K — 8 elementary school.

Terry Acena is principal of Seattle's Hamilton International Middle School, which is molding itself into a higher - grades counterpart of the John Stanford International School.

Many middle schools use stronger co-teaching models where the special education counterpart teaches two subject areas or one subject and small groups, but even in those cases, co-teaching in middle school presents challenges.

Of students who entered FTC in elementary or middle school, 45 percent enrolled in college, compared with 39 percent of their non-FTC counterparts.

Elementary and middle charters, on average, did better than their counterpart district schools, while charter high schools did not.

Although middle schools offer far fewer grades than K — 8 schools, Florida middle schools on average enroll 146 more students than their K — 8 counterparts; as a result, typical grade cohorts are almost three times as large.

By comparing the grade 6 cohorts that were not in a separate middle school to those that were, the researchers found some remarkable results: «students who attend middle school in sixth grade are twice as likely to be disciplined relative to their counterparts in elementary school.»

We find that students who will enter a middle school in 6th or 7th grade have positive achievement trajectories in math and reading from 3rd grade to 5th, relative to their counterparts who will never enter a middle school because they attend a school that continues through 8th grade.

Overall, charter high schools, like charter elementary and middle schools serve different populations of students than their public school counterparts (See here).

Heads of schools, historically referred to as headmasters when the positions were held primarily by men, at junior schools (middle schools and elementary schools) tend to make significantly less than their secondary school counterparts, and boarding school heads tend to make the most due to the large amount of responsibility the school has in providing an appropropriate homelife for students from around the world.

We use the Responsive Classroom Model ® and its Middle / High School counterpart, Developmental Designs, which provide an array of strategies designed to foster safe and positive learning communities where students are connected, responsible and engaged in learning.

The Obama Administration's decision to allow states to implement supposedly «ambitious» yet «achievable» proficiency targets — usually with lower proficiency rates for poor and minority kids than for middle - class and white counterparts — allow districts and schools to do little to help those kids succeed.

A North Carolina study found that students who attended sixth grade at a middle school were more likely to be suspended, and later to repeat a grade or drop out of school, compared to counterparts who attended sixth grade in an elementary school.17 A longitudinal study of New York City sixth graders found that attending sixth grade in a middle school, as opposed to a K - 8 school, produced a negative impact on achievement that began in the first year and extended throughout the middle school years.

A school that enrolls a heavily middle - class population faces a far lower hurdle in getting its children to reach high reading levels than does a counterpart school enrolling a heavily low - income population.

The hallmark of no - excuses schools is a frankly paternalistic and unapologetic commitment to acculturating low - income students to the achievement - oriented habits and norms typical of their middle - class and affluent counterparts.

However, controlling for pre-existing differences in student demographics and achievement, APP principals bettered their comparison group counterparts in ELA performance in elementary and middle schools.

Fifty five percent of Latino male middle - schoolers and 45 percent of their black males counterparts had math scores below Levels III and IV of the state's standardized tests.

In fact, there is a clear difference — In English Language Arts, PUC does really well in Elementary school, but in High School and Middle school, they perform about the same as their LAUSD counterschool, but in High School and Middle school, they perform about the same as their LAUSD counterSchool and Middle school, they perform about the same as their LAUSD counterschool, they perform about the same as their LAUSD counterparts.

These intra-district restrictions are matched by the longstanding opposition to the expansion of charter schools and other forms of choice that would avail poor families (as well as middle - class counterparts) of other options.

These are the students, some as young as middle school, who already know that they are education shopping, not hoping to be accepted as much as their lesser - achieving counterparts.

Rather than creating policies with the new white middle and upper - class families in mind, policy and school administrators also need to consider their positions and sentiments, even if they do not have the same social capital or resources as their white counterparts.