Sentences with phrase «middle school figure»

How does Gregory Lawson helps other teachers at Grant Middle School figure out how to address their students» behavior?

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For instance, when researchers tracked American middle and high school studies over 18 months, they found that kids who identified their parents as more authoritarian were more likely to reject their parents as legitimate authority figures.

For lawmakers to truly curb government spending across New York State they need to get public school teacher and administrator salaries, as well as the five - and six - figure payouts many of them receive upon retiring, back into the realm of what's normal for middle - income earners.

Schools chancellor Carmen Fariña's transition from education functionary to out - front political figure hit a particularly rough patch in the middle of last week's snowstorm.

«These results suggest that inflammation in mid-life may be an early contributor to the brain changes that are associated with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia,» said study author Keenan Walker, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md. «Because the processes that lead to brain cell loss begin decades before people start showing any symptoms, it is vital that we figure out how these processes that happen in middle age affect people many years later.»

Now that I have kids approaching middle school age and I've been teaching them, I figured I should share the way that I learned, as well as some tools that make learning easier.

Think back to middle school: remember when Billy grew nine inches that one year and couldn't figure out how to use any of his limbs and he looked like a drunk baby giraffe in gym class?

Since chenille hasn't been in my closet since middle school, I had to figure out how to wash it + care for it.

Because ever since I hit puberty way back in the terrors of middle school, I've always had problems figuring out — and controlling — my skin.

And in middle school, when they are really trying to figure out who they are and where they're going, being able to be a positive contributing member of the community is so important.»

Thirty - three percent of the earliest cohorts of KIPP middle - school students were found to have graduated college within six years, four times the average rate of students from underserved communities and slightly higher than the figure (31 percent) for all U.S. students.

activity sheet challenges your middle - grades and high - school students to use their dictionaries to help them figure out which of nine challenging Word Bank words fits in each of the ten sentences on the Vocab - u-lous!

The achievement gap between middle - school students and K — 8 students is put in stark relief in Figure 1, which displays our estimates of the impact of attending a middle school on student achievement as measured by standardized tests in math and English Language Arts.

For example, Figure 1 shows that 45 percent of students who first participated in FTC in elementary or middle school attended a public college in Florida within two years of expected high school graduation, compared to 39 percent of matched non-FTC students.

In the New York City schools we studied, the average cohort size was 75 students in K — 8 schools, 100 students in K — 5 and K — 6 schools, and over 200 students in middle schools for grades 6 — 8 and 7 — 8 (see Figure 3).

This past year, 92 percent of BVP's 7th graders (at the time the highest grade level enrolled) were proficient in math, a figure that topped every middle school in the state but one, a small suburban charter school (see Figufigure that topped every middle school in the state but one, a small suburban charter school (see FigureFigure 1).

activity sheet challenges your middle - grades and high - school students to use their dictionaries to help them figure out which of nine challenging Word Bank words fits in each of the ten sentences (one word gets used twice) on the Vocab - u-lous!

Unlike the tens of thousands of teachers and students from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama displaced by Hurricane Katrina, he figures he'll resume teaching his own students at Harry M. Hurst Middle School in Destrehan, Louisiana, within a month.

Historical Figure Day, a celebration held at a middle school in Moorpark, California, serves as an alternative to the traditional Halloween hoopla.

During the Halloween season, students and staff at Mesa Verde Middle School in Moorpark, California, dress up as significant figures from the past.

No, I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life in middle school, and I certainly don't have it figured out now.

Consistent with this hypothesis, we find that the effect of competition is more than twice as large for elementary and middle schools as it is for high schools (see Figure 2).

The simple correlation between spending per student and average TIMSS test scores is 0.13 in primary school and 0.16 in middle school, on a scale where 1.0 denotes an absolute positive correlation between the two variables and 0 signals no correlation (see figure 2).

This parent, who has been supportive of Moskowitz and Success Academy, is planning to speak to her child's middle school principal about it — the very outcome Moskowitz says she wants to encourage — but she said she first needs to figure out how to approach it without getting upset.

Over the previous two decades, the middle class had fled Baltimore for the suburbs, and school enrollment had fallen by one - quarter, to about 80,000 from 109,000 in 1997 (Figure 1a).

But with all those numbers, she couldn't figure out how they could inform this dilemma: The math scores at Edgar Allan Poe Middle School had stagnated at 72 percent proficiency for three years.

These disparities extend through primary, middle, and high school, where black students comprise 16 percent of all enrolled students but 34 percent of students suspended once (and 43 percent of students receiving multiple out - of - school suspensions)(see Figure 2).

Figure 3 shows that the charter elementary and middle schools that closed were significantly less effective in math, reading, and science than traditional and charter schools that remained open.

The sample analog of equation (4) for charter applicants» middle school math scores appears in Panel A of Figure III.

These figures plot middle school reduced - form estimates (using ever offer) by cohort and grade.

Figure 3: Student - level correlations between social - emotional skills and English language arts (ELA) test scores in CORE District middle schools, overall and within schools

Interestingly, respondents assigned their local middle schools grades that were, on average, one - quarter of a letter grade lower than the grades they assigned their local elementary schools (see Figure 1).

Figure 2: School - level relationship between combined social - emotional learning (SEL) measure and English language arts (ELA) test scores for CORE Districts middle schools

Houston hires approximately 350 new elementary - and middle - school teachers a year; since TFA began supplying teachers to the district, its proportion of new teachers has ranged between 5 and 10 percent (see Figure 1).

Figure 2 shows the correlations between school - average social - emotional skills and key indicators of academic performance (GPA and state test scores) and student behavior (the percentage of students receiving suspensions and average absence rates) across CORE district middle schools.

Figure 1: School - level correlations of average student social - emotional skills and indicators of academic performance and behavior for CORE district middle schools

This $ 10,667 is an average figure that includes all public elementary, middle and high schools across the country.

In Saving Schools, I bring together insights from the work of a number of talented black scholars, who have tried to figure out why the black - white education gap was not closed by the well - integrated schools of Shaker Heights, Ohio, an upper - middle - class suburb close to CleSchools, I bring together insights from the work of a number of talented black scholars, who have tried to figure out why the black - white education gap was not closed by the well - integrated schools of Shaker Heights, Ohio, an upper - middle - class suburb close to Cleschools of Shaker Heights, Ohio, an upper - middle - class suburb close to Cleveland.

Although the math achievement of students who entered middle school in 7th grade improves by 0.05 standard deviations in 9th grade relative to students who attended K — 8 schools, the same pattern is not evident in reading or in either subject for the much larger group of students who entered middle school in 6th grade (see Figure 2).

In elementary and middle schools, for example, many schools with low academic performance also demonstrate high growth relative to similar schools (Figure 1).

Goodbee and his wife have time to figure out what they will do for Jayden's middle school, but with only one charter middle school in Albany options are limited.

Middle schools with high suspension rates were 50.9 % of the middle school sample in 2013; for high schools, the figure was 4Middle schools with high suspension rates were 50.9 % of the middle school sample in 2013; for high schools, the figure was 4middle school sample in 2013; for high schools, the figure was 41.5 %.

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Over the same period, middle school enrollment grew by just 8 percent, and high school enrollment declined by 3 percent (see Figure 2).

Elementary school students attend in - boundary schools at the highest rates, and middle school students are most likely to attend a public charter school (see Figure 3).

Two middle schools are outliers in terms of boundary participation rates, attended by at least 70 percent of students who live in - boundary, but the other 24 in - boundary middle schools have boundary participation rates of 40 percent or less (see Figure 6).

As confirmation that proximity matters, at least 7 percent of elementary, middle, and high school students across the city attend a public charter school located within their school boundary (see Figure 4).

Middle school science teachers are supported by iQUEST for 2 years, including a 3 - day summer academy and two technology infused collaborative lesson study rotations each school year, and ongoing support through the iQUEST project design elements shown in Figure 1.

A middle school art teacher displays five examples of well - constructed papier - maché sculptures of «figures in action.»

The corresponding figures for elementary and middle schools are 36.7 percent and 37.8 percent, respectively.