Sentences with phrase «u.s. kids in grades»

Roughly 6 percent of U.S. kids in grades K - 12 are enrolled in a charter school.

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She recently brought my attention to a great opportunity: All 4th - grade students and their families can get in any U.S. national park for free through the Every Kid in a Park initiative.

«In our district, kids learned about U.S. history from the colonial era to the Civil War in sixth grade and Reconstruction to the present in seventh grade,» he sayIn our district, kids learned about U.S. history from the colonial era to the Civil War in sixth grade and Reconstruction to the present in seventh grade,» he sayin sixth grade and Reconstruction to the present in seventh grade,» he sayin seventh grade,» he says.

So every year, at least 800,000 teachers in the U.S. are chronically absent, meaning they miss about 9 million days of school between them, resulting in roughly 1 billion instances in which a kid comes to class to find that his or her time is, more often than not, being wasted (or if you prefer, about a billion hours of wasted class time, since students in the early grades don't have «periods»).

Making STEM a Part of Everyday Life U.S. News & World Report, 5/6/14» «How do we, starting in the middle grades, give kids more exposure to the world on a systematic basis, so that by the time they arrive in high school, they are in a position to know how their interests and strengths align with careers so they can make intelligent choices about their career pathways?»

Ready Kids developed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to help teachers and parents prepare children in grades 4 - 8 for natural disasters and other emergencies

After tracking U.S. undergrads in the Midwest for five years, Laura Hamilton, assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Merced, found when parents funded their children's education, the kids» grades dropped.