Sentences with phrase «middle school and high schools often»

Middle school and high schools often employ a single librarian or a squad of two to maintain the entire collection.

Not exact matches

We want students in middle school and high school to be able to persevere, to be resilient, to be tenacious when faced with obstacles — but we don't often stop to consider the deep roots of those skills, the steps that every child must take, developmentally, to get there.

Though the slices are served with a vegetable (usually baby carrots and ranch or broccoli florets) and are therefore presumably unaffected by this proposed rule, it's still troubling to me that our middle and high schoolers can and often do eat pizza for lunch every single day.

Also the classic novels that are often assigned to middle... MORE school and high school students can be found in used books stores.

I am a former middle and high school teacher who continues to mentor students of those ages and frequent the schools often.

Middle School and Early High School Years Parents are often worried or confused by changes in their teenagers.

An Incomplete Education: Trained for the elementary or high school grades, middle school teachers often lack knowledge about subject matter and young adolescents.

Teens often struggle with the jargon and advanced terminology they encounter as they move into middle and high school, so educators have designed curricula and interventions that explicitly teach these complex words.

Many of the suburban, middle - class Chinese - American parents in her study had the means to buy their children academically enriching afterschool experiences — tutoring, test - preparation courses, or language classes — and to send them to high - performing, often private, schools.

Middle and high school kids in particular often demand to know the purpose of doing an assignment or of learning some seemingly irrelevant skill.

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LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

This raises the possibility that the measured effects of attending a charter high school on educational attainment could simply reflect advantages of grouping middle and high school grades together, thereby creating greater continuity for students and eliminating the disruption often associated with changing schools.

The researchers point out that this raises the possibility that the positive effects of attending a charter high school on educational attainment could simply reflect advantages of grouping middle and high school grades together, thereby creating greater continuity for students and eliminating the disruption often associated with changing schools.

His book Engaging «Tweens and Teens: A Brain - Compatible Approach to Reaching Middle and High School Students aims to show teachers how to cope with the developing — and often baffling — teenage brain.

In many communities, out - of - school youth sports programs are available only for students in elementary and middle school, while high school sports programs are often open only to those who are good enough to «make the team.»

This happens less often in middle and high school, with approximately two in five middle school teachers selecting texts this way.

Affirming Rogers» earlier point, the Globe article noted, «Middle schools were conceived in the 1970s and»80s as a nurturing bridge from early elementary grades to high school, but critics say they now more often resemble a swamp, where urban youth sink into educational failure.»

At the secondary level, this often requires supplanting an elective in a student's schedule to provide explicit reading instruction, which can present a dilemma for middle and high school leaders and teachers.

Much of what many students must read in college is nonfiction — often complex and dense nonfiction — but their reading during their middle and high school years is usually heavily weighted toward fiction, often, as we discussed in chapter 1, insufficiently complex fiction.

By high school, bullies and victims often are pursuing different interests and subjects, so their paths are less likely to cross than they are in middle school.

Based on statewide data, researchers Laura Hill and Margaret Weston concluded that reclassified English learners «not only outperform English learner students, but often do better than English - only students» on state standardized tests, with students reclassified in elementary grades doing better than those reclassified in middle and high school.

We supplement our analysis on math and reading achievement with similar analyses of the effects of entering a middle school on the probability of students» not being enrolled in a Florida public school in 10th grade (a proxy for dropping out of high school by this time) and on being retained in 9th grade (often a strong predictor that a student will leave school prior to graduation).

The study, released Wednesday by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, which has conducted extensive research on charters across the nation, also concludes that significant improvements in charter school performance over time is rare among middle and high schools, though it occurs more often in elementary schools.

Middle level and high school students deserve to have access to the same high quality education that they receive in the early grades, and the failure to meet students» needs in the latter years of their educational experience often translates into lower performance and higher drop - out rates.

Often by middle and especially high school, teachers are passionate about their subject matter.

Middle and high school students with learning disabilities often give up on themselves by the secondary school level.

For good or ill, elementary teachers can have a major effect on individual children, while middle - and high - school teachers see more students less often, affecting four or five times as many students in a less time - intensive, more subject - specific way.

Like the high school teacher who blames the middle - school teacher and the middle - school teacher who blames the elementary school (as a first grade teacher I often wondered what had happened in Kindergarten), our yellow schools should be among our first line of intervention to ensure schools don't eventually become persistently low - performing.

The middle grade years are the last best chance to get students ready for success both in high school and beyond, but these grades are often overlooked in both research and resources

The middle grade years are the last best chance to get students ready for success both in high school and beyond, but these grades are often overlooked in both research and resources The MSM initiative takes on this challenge by turning high - quality research into strategies for districts, schools, and teachers to improve reading, writing, and math instruction.

WASHINGTON — In middle school, Junior Alvarado often struggled with multiplication and earned poor grades in math, so when he started his freshman year at Washington Leadership Academy, a charter high school in the nation's capital, he fretted that he would lag behind.

Although many elementary report cards have areas for assessing life skills and behavior, the opportunity for teachers to address these skill areas drops considerably on middle school and high school report cards — often to perfunctory levels or worse.

Unfortunately, explicit reading instruction often stops at sixth grade, despite the fact that some students still struggle with comprehending text in middle and high school.

It also supported the decision to stock all district schools — elementary, middle, and high — with naloxone, the opioid - overdose reversal drug often referred to by its brand name, Narcan.

Sandhills administrators have built strong relationships with district school counselors in high schools and middle schools, who often invite the college's representatives to speak about the dual - enrollment program at parents» nights.

As a longtime education reporter I have visited many middle and junior high schools — and I often wonder if we are subjecting the kids trapped inside to cruel and unusual punishment.

Newcomer Program A newcomer program addresses the needs of recent immigrant students, most often at the middle and high school level, especially those with limited or interrupted schooling in their home countries.

A new Maine program intends to help students transition smoothly from middle school to high school, a transition that often causes anxiety, poor academic performance, and social difficulties (EdWeek, 2016).

From where they sit, simply requiring kids of different backgrounds to attend the same schools, either by using and zoned schooling rules, or through supposedly more choice - oriented magnet schools (which restrict choice by setting quotas on what kind of kids can attend, often to the advantage of middle class families) Wil lead to higher levels of student achievement and foster greater understanding among each other.

By middle and high school students often don't get the support they did then they were younger.

It's been eye - opening to me, as a parent of a two daughters and a former high school history / geography teacher, how much things change between the elementary grades and the middle and high school grades — there were so many opportunities to come in and help out if my schedule allowed (which it often didn't) and to interact with the teachers when my girls were in grade school, but this was completely cutoff by the time they entered 7th grade.

The Indiana Department of Education has argued that rural schools, which often combine middle and high school buildings, are judged by the same standards to which IPS is held.

A recent study by University of California, Dominguez Hills, of middle school, high school, and university age students, «found that the average student studied for fewer than six minutes before switching tasks, often distracted by technology including social media or texting.»

Not surprisingly, another subgroup that is often subjected to school discipline — students with disabilities — continued to be even under the new CPS system: Out - of - school suspension rates for students with identified disabilities were 24 percent at the high school level and 16 percent in middle grades in the 2013 - 14 school year.

Black and Latino students, on the other hand, have often never heard about the exam or have been told by their middle school guidance counselors that specialized high schools «[aren't] for our kids» (Santos).

While parents of disadvantaged students do attempt to enroll their children in higher - scoring schools (when knowledgeable about the data)(Hastings, Justine, and Weinstein), middle and upper - class parents are often more successful because they are not confined by local governmental laws that block low - income students and their families from living near or attending these schools.

Spring is traditionally the season of beginnings, and for middle and high school students, spring is often the beginning of the testing season.

In the case of university, high school, and middle school students, a coursework is often graded and the scores are combined with exam ones.

As a middle school and high school art teacher, I've met hundreds of parents at open houses, and I am often struck by how many of them fondly remember their own art classes, even decades after graduating from high school.