Sentences with phrase «younger grade school students»

Younger grade school students across the Dickinson Public School system will this year be utilizing a different math curriculum than in years past.

«Rescue, Nurture, Adopt,» isn't just a slogan to her, it's been a lifestyle since she was a young grade school student growing up in Marietta, Georgia.

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Further, older students are more than twice as likely as younger students to have attended a vocational or technical high school or a two - year or community college, and much less likely to have attended a private, nonreligious grade and high school.

Open to Student - Athletes, 8th grade and incoming freshman, this is for young players with aspirations to play High School baseball.

The International School of Denver 206 Red Cross Way Denver, CO 80230 303-340-3647 www.isdenver.org/admissions The International School of Denver (ISDenver) is a multicultural, multilingual international school, welcoming students as young as three years old and continuing through 8th School of Denver 206 Red Cross Way Denver, CO 80230 303-340-3647 www.isdenver.org/admissions The International School of Denver (ISDenver) is a multicultural, multilingual international school, welcoming students as young as three years old and continuing through 8th School of Denver (ISDenver) is a multicultural, multilingual international school, welcoming students as young as three years old and continuing through 8th school, welcoming students as young as three years old and continuing through 8th grade.

«We do several models of breakfast - in - the - classroom, and in some schools we do «hybrids» where [younger students] do breakfast - in - the - classroom, and older grades come through the line and do traditional breakfast,» explained Pettit.

Thousands of young Buffalo Public Schools students fell further behind in key literacy benchmarks as they progressed through the district's early grades, according to a study from 2006 to 2011 ordered by a former superintendent.

Warrensburg Central School District fifth and sixth grade chorus students will perform as part of American Young Voices at the Times Union Center in Albany on Tuesday, May 30 at 7 p.m. more

Warrensburg Central School District fifth and sixth grade chorus students will perform as part of American Young Voices at the Times Union Center in Albany on Tuesday, May 30 at 7 p.m.

Weprin introduced a bill last week calling for all city public schools to institute required anti-bullying education for students as young as the grade school level, with -LSB-...]

By all accounts, young Charlie wasn't an especially distinguished student; though he was a star on Santa Monica High School's baseball team, he was expelled due to poor attendance and bad grades only a few weeks before his class graduated.

The project has grown substantially to become an «inter-club collaboration» that brings together «moderators and students from grade school clubs, such as the Young Scientists, Social Scientists, Tech Explorers, and SWAT (Students Working with Advanced Tech)students from grade school clubs, such as the Young Scientists, Social Scientists, Tech Explorers, and SWAT (Students Working with Advanced Tech)Students Working with Advanced Tech).»

Researchers Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman of Harvard University and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia University analyzed school - district data from grades 3 — 8 for 2.5 million children, and linked those data to information on student outcomes as young adults.

Perrotti makes the comparison that, years ago, when we first started talking about different configurations of families or students, educators often worried about how to talk to young kids «about sex» when those kinds of discussions in schools didn't happen until at least fifth grade.

The authors surmise that students in grades 6 - 8 who remain in K - 8 schools «may benefit from being among the oldest students in a school setting that includes very young students, perhaps because they have greater opportunity to take on leadership roles.»

They have developed a standards - based report card for the elementary schools to support the paradigm shift, and, as young learners move into the higher grades, administrators hope the students and parents will demand project - based, technology - integrated education from their teachers.

However, according to Loveless, «If tracking and accelerated coursework in eighth grade represent the beginning of a pipeline for promising young stars in mathematics or literature, that opportunity is more open to white and Asian students in suburban schools than to disadvantaged youngsters in schools serving students of color.»

We focus on this three - year window (the exact dates of which vary according to the student's grade when enrolling in the study) because the most recent enrollment data available are for fall 2011 and the youngest cohort was expected to graduate high school in 2009.

For younger students, research has shown that chronic absenteeism in kindergarten is associated with lower achievement in reading and math in later grades, even when controlling for a child's family income, race, disability status, attitudes toward school, socioemotional development, age at kindergarten entry, type of kindergarten program, and preschool experience.

With such concerns in mind, Coleman jumped at the opportunity when the U.S. Department of Education in 1979 asked him to lead another national survey of American students, known as «High School and Beyond,» that would follow young people as they progressed from 10th to 12th grade and on into college.

Her experience teaching elementary school students in New Orleans as a first - grade teacher and then working as a reading immersion specialist had shown Grayson the importance of literacy for young children.

Since 2009, Leavitt has been the middle school academic coordinator at Boston's Young Achiever's Pilot K — 8 School, where she directs an afterschool program for students in grades 6 &mdaschool academic coordinator at Boston's Young Achiever's Pilot K — 8 School, where she directs an afterschool program for students in grades 6 &mdaSchool, where she directs an afterschool program for students in grades 6 — 8.

Inspire younger undocumented students to study, receive the highest grades, and get involved at school.

My students analyzed screencasting tools and made video tutorials for peers, younger grades, or other schools.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

Young adolescents entering high school look forward to having more choices and making new and more friends; however, they also are concerned about being picked on and teased by older students, having harder work, making lower grades, and getting lost in a larger, unfamiliar school (Mizelle, 1995; Phelan, Yu, & Davidson, 1994).

In states that make it a priority to educate our youngest children, like Georgia or Oklahoma, studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, form more stable families of their own.

«These statistics about young adolescents» poor academic performance suggest that many middle - grades schools are failing to enable the majority of their students to achieve at anywhere near adequate levels,» noted the Phi Delta Kappan editors.

This suggests a final potential interpretation of our results that is directly related to the choice of grade configuration: students may benefit from being among the oldest students in a school setting that includes very young students, perhaps because they have greater opportunity to take on leadership roles.

The achievement drops we observe as students move to both middle and high schools suggest that moving from one school to another (or simply being in the youngest grade in a school) adversely affects student performance.

Counselors talk to parents of the transitional kindergarten students who might not think attending school every day is important about research that shows regular attendance in the younger grades increases the likelihood that students will read at grade level and graduate high school on time.

That is why I worked with the General Assembly this year to increase funding for early reading intervention services for young readers who need extra help and to require schools to partner with parents in developing plans to help these students before they are promoted to the fourth grade.»

Eva Moskowitz, founder of the charter school chain, recently appeared on PBS News Hour to defend the practice of suspending students as young as kindergarten and first grade.

The Prichard Committee Student Voice Team is comprised of over 100 self - selected students, fifth grade through college, working to integrate young people as education research, advocacy, and policy partners in efforts to improve Kentucky schools.

The schools and academies most likely to experience the tsunami are inevitably those where there are a larger number of young people with low prior attainment — or those students for which a C grade is truly aspirational.

In order to prepare students to be lifelong learners ready for college, career, and citizenship, the National Forum seeks to make every middle - grade school academically excellent, responsive to the developmental needs and interests of young adolescents, and socially equitable.

For example, we know that young students who get a good start in kindergarten and the early grades have lower rates of involvement with the justice system and higher rates of high school graduation.

Although in - school access is limited for the younger students, the kindergarten, first and second grade students use the program at home for an average of an hour each month.

For younger students — specifically those between kindergarten and third grade — those who miss the most school are less likely to read at grade level, which only sets them further back each year.

(5) The student is beyond the sixth grade and thought to be eligible, the student attends a nonpublic school and is thought to be exceptional or the young child thought to be eligible is not yet of kindergarten age or not enrolled in a public school program.

(a) This section does not apply to students beyond the sixth grade who are thought to be eligible, to students attending nonpublic schools who are thought to be exceptional or to young children not yet of kindergarten age or not enrolled in a public school program.

In order to prepare students to be lifelong learners ready for college, career, and citizenship, the National Forum seeks to make every middle - grades school academically excellent, responsive to the developmental needs and interests of young adolescents, and socially equitable.

The results of this study raise, once again, the question as to why schools both in Australia and the United States so often reserve programs of ability grouping for students in the upper years of primary school, and why teachers are so reluctant to allow young gifted children to grade advance.

Further, to the extent that homework helps young students develop effective study habits, our results suggest that homework in early grades can have a long - term developmental effect that reveals itself as an even stronger relationship between completion rates and grades when the student moves into secondary school.

The improvement network's initial project is focusing on finding better ways to teach 9th - grade Algebra because middle and high school students struggle more with math than younger students, said Leyda Garcia, principal of the UCLA Community School, a district school that operates in partnership with UCLA and is part of the neschool students struggle more with math than younger students, said Leyda Garcia, principal of the UCLA Community School, a district school that operates in partnership with UCLA and is part of the neSchool, a district school that operates in partnership with UCLA and is part of the neschool that operates in partnership with UCLA and is part of the network.

In states that make it a priority to educate our youngest children... studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, form more stable families of their own.

IDEA later even admitted that its students in the Rio Grande Valley wore uniforms which were color - coded, not on the basis of grade or age, but on standardized test - score achievement, thus insuring the humiliation of older siblings by their more test - savvy younger brothers and sisters attending the same school!»

Screening or achievement assessments are very important because they demonstrate how prepared students are for the next level (for younger students, these show how ready they are for upper grades; for high schoolers, these show how prepared they are for college or career).

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Some schools started teaching the standards to the youngest grades first, giving teachers and students time to adjust without the pressure of standardized exams.