Sentences with phrase «middle school students find»

With levels of violence and poverty rising around them, San Francisco middle school students find social and emotional healing — and a new readiness to learn — in a bold program of daily meditation.

For example, a study by Helen Ladd and Lucy Sorensen of North Carolina middle school students found that a teacher with midlevel experience of 12 years raised English test scores by.08 standard deviations and math test scores by.18 standard deviations more than a new teacher.33

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Students in schools populated mostly by middle - class - and - above children were about equally likely to find themselves in a classroom with engaged and interesting instruction (47 percent of students) as in one with basic, repetitive instruction (53 percent of stStudents in schools populated mostly by middle - class - and - above children were about equally likely to find themselves in a classroom with engaged and interesting instruction (47 percent of students) as in one with basic, repetitive instruction (53 percent of ststudents) as in one with basic, repetitive instruction (53 percent of studentsstudents).

And while the Science authors found instruction to be basic and repetitive even in American schools with a mostly middle - class or upper - middle - class student population, they found that the situation was considerably worse in schools that enrolled a lot of low - income children.

As a middle school educator, I find myself in conversations with parents who are convinced of the value of play, but are unsure what play might look like for a middle school student.

«In middle school, students try to find where they fit in socially, and academic demands increase,» she says.

As a K - 8 principal, I found the students in my middle school struggling with work overload.

Bullying tends to peak in 6th grade, and many students find that the academic challenges of middle school are far more difficult than in elementary school.

Most middle schools and high schools, attended by children aged about 11 to 17, also do not sell fruits and vegetables outside traditional cafeteria lunch lines so that students can find them at random times, the report showed.

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

Pope, the co-founder of Challenge Success, said that research from that group found that high school students from high - achieving schools average more than three hours of homework each night, and middle school students average about 2.5 hours.

The meeting was scheduled smack in the middle of early decision notification week, when students who have applied exclusively to their first choice school find out if they've been admitted, so there was lots of hand wringing and Monday morning quarterbacking to be done.

He emphasized that he was a public school teacher in the South Bronx teaching bilingual math and science to middle school students and that he founded a community development credit union in Washington Heights.

Further, the authors found that many high school students hold the same misconceptions as students in middle school, making the need for high - quality, diagnostic assessments a top priority for energy education.

They also found that parental involvement in monitoring internet activity is low among this group with about a third of middle school and 17 % of high school students reporting that their parents monitor their internet.

Presenting findings from research conducted through a grant from the National Science Foundation, Herrmann Abell and DeBoer point in their chapter to steady but modest improvement in students» understanding of energy from middle to high school, but they also note that «even after years of instruction, many students have a very limited and unsophisticated understanding of the formal conventions for thinking and talking about energy.»

They used a nationally representative sample of 5,593 middle and high school students between the ages of 12 and 17 years old living in the United States to find out how many youth participated in digital self - harm, as well as their motivations for such behavior.

Based on a study of more than 30,000 elementary, middle, and high school students conducted in winter 2015 - 16, researchers found that elementary and middle school students scored lower on a computer - based test that did not allow them to return to previous items than on two comparable tests — paper - or computer - based — that allowed them to skip, review, and change previous responses.

The findings are described in a paper published last month in the American Educational Research Journal titled «The Influence of Teachers» Knowledge on Student Learning in Middle - School Physical Science Classrooms.»

The study of nearly 40,000 youth around the country also found that e-cigarette use among middle and high school students doubled between 2011 and 2012, from 3.1 percent to 6.5 percent.

In the nine countries that agreed to participate in that third test, students taking the most challenging math and science courses in their senior year were found to have performed progressively worse as they moved from elementary to middle to high school.

The findings involved 1,100 students from eight southern Indiana elementary and middle schools.

«For example, we found that middle school students had less affective engagement or positive emotions — such as interest, happiness and excitement — than elementary school students.

Middle and high school students, regardless of their race and ethnicity, have more favorable perceptions of their Black and Latino teachers than of their White teachers, finds a study by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Develoschool students, regardless of their race and ethnicity, have more favorable perceptions of their Black and Latino teachers than of their White teachers, finds a study by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human DeveloSchool of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Cappella and her colleagues found that attending a middle or junior high school negatively impacted certain measures of beliefs about students» academic abilities.

Furthermore, middle and high school students spend their school day with multiple teachers and adults, making it difficult to find a single adult who can easily track their behavior and report it accurately.

Students who attend a middle school compared to a K - 8 school are likely to have a lower perception of their reading skills, finds a new study by NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Develoschool compared to a K - 8 school are likely to have a lower perception of their reading skills, finds a new study by NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Develoschool are likely to have a lower perception of their reading skills, finds a new study by NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human DeveloSchool of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Studying more than 8,000 Southern California middle school students, researchers found that youth who reported seeing any ads for medical marijuana were twice as likely as peers who reported never seeing an ad to have used marijuana or report higher intentions to use the drug in the future.

«Later start times better for high school students: Poor self - regulation in teens linked to circadian rhythms: Findings support later start times for middle schools and high schools.»

Director Dot Harris, Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the Department of Energy, will be on the line with Dr. Rebecca Spyke - Keiser, Associate Deputy Administrator for Strategy and Policy at NASA; Jill Fuss, Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Stephanie Stilson, Engineer at Kennedy Space Center and NASA Headquarters, and a class at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Titusville, Florida, to discuss ways to find role models for young people in STEM fields and answer questions from students and the general public about STEM careers.

At the grocery store yesterday, I looked up to find one of my former middle school students sacking my groceries.

A new study finds that despite declining rates of teen smoking and widespread bans on smoking in public places, 48 percent of middle - and high school students are exposed to secondhand smoke every year.

The students had just found out that they — like middle and high school students across the country, boosted by fundraising campaigns and the wise support of their principals, teachers, parents, and local community leaders — were taking a school trip to see Black Panther for free.

«Studies found that elementary schools were pretty well taken care of with after - school child care, and high schools had such high - caliber programs as youth - leadership development and arts and theater,» says Salmons, who points out that middle school students, meanwhile, were vastly underserved.

I found myself in an inner - city middle school classroom without a clue as to how to discipline students beyond the escalating volume of my come - to - order voice (I often went home hoarse) or the clacking of a wooden stick that I whacked on my desk for attention.

For example, a recent study conducted in urban middle schools found that there were more similarities than differences in the reading profiles of struggling students from non-English-speaking and English - speaking households, and that low academic vocabulary knowledge, a major component of advanced literacy skills, was a shared source of difficulty.

He founded the News Literacy Project in 2008 with the goal of training middle and high school students in the fine art of navigating the Internet minefield.

Earlier in the year, I had our middle school Parent / Teacher conferences, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that 99 percent of my students (most of whom are Title I) have a computer in the home.

Brian Hendrickson, a sixth - grade social studies teacher at Hillcrest Middle School, in Trumbull, Connecticut, polled his students to find out how they feel their male teachers differed from their female teachers.

This notion of targeted teaching was prompted by the findings of two large - scale projects that revealed a seven to eight year range in mathematics achievement in each year level in the middle years of schooling (Siemon, Virgona & Corneille, 2001) that was explained by student's access to multiplicative thinking (Siemon, Breed, Dole, Izard & Virgona, 2006).

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.

REVIEW: There are many zoos to found on the Internet but this one has uniqueness in that it is an ongoing project created, researched and documented by the 7th grade Life Science students at Pioneer Middle school in Hanford, California.

Among high - risk middle - school students, I find no effect of winning a school - choice lottery on the average number of felony arrests.

In fact, this research, which tested middle school, high school and college level students, found that 80 per cent of participants thought that sponsored articles were actual articles, and had a hard time distinguishing where this information actually came from.

If teachers and students at F. H. Tuttle Middle School in South Burlington, Vermont, want to know the week's lunch menu, activities» schedule, or weather forecast, or if they want to find out how heavy student backpacks should be, all they have to do is tune in to their (very) local news.

The Mathematica study of charter middle schools, just released by the U. S. Department of Education, finds no achievement gains within two years for students who won the charter lottery as compared to those who did not.

We found that the pathway to becoming the leader of a classroom starts in middle and high school, so we ask: How do we engage middle and high school students to think about teaching as a career?

(p. 22) On later earnings they find: «Charter high school attendance is associated with an increase in maximum annual earnings for students between ages 23 and 25 of $ 2,347 — or about 12.7 percent higher earnings than for comparable students who attended a charter middle school but matriculated to a traditional high school.»

A US study titled Schoolwide intervention to reduce chronic tardiness at the middle and high school levels found that «instructional time lost to widespread tardiness is likely to significantly affect the capacity of the entire student population to meet rigorous academic standards».

A Lesson in Proofing Students in middle and high school learn to use Word's Find / Replace feature to check written work, increase accuracy, and improve their grades.