Sentences with phrase «about a middle school class»

Assassination Classroom, about a middle school class who have one year to learn how to assassinate their alien teach or he'll annihilate Earth, was the break out hit of 2012 from Shonen Jump - the magazine that brings up Naruto, One Piece and Bleach.

Not exact matches

Ashley, a former middle school teacher, was introduced to Pure Barre by her friends who were always raving about how fun class was and how incredible the results were.

When Shane was speaking of Psalm 139 and the «not so nice» part in the middle, I thought of my friend, M, who last week shared that one thing she doesn't like about church is that she has to go home on Sunday and correct the things her children have been mistaught in Sunday School class.

My gay child has a strong father, a two parent household, a upper middle class income, both college graduates, went to church, had a supportive family life, engaged in sports, school activities and I think someone needs to teach you about what the real Jesus would have done.

When I attend weddings, I'm not provided with the opportunity to talk about the really exciting ways that God's moving and using me — through my Master's degree classes, or the research project I'm wading through writing, or the middle school and high school girls Sunday school class I'm privileged to teach, or the fun trips I'm taking and the new people I'm meeting.

O'Malley has been writing, not about college professors or committed adult Christians (or about those, like myself, who are faithful readers of First Things), but about teenagers» American high school students, primarily those from middle «class and affluent families, who are the objects of Catholic «catechesis.»

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 students).

I think it is important to point out that this isn't just an issue for middle class families who care deeply about their child's diet and are able to provide abundant healthy food choices but school menus have great impact on many, many poor children who, through no fault of their own and often with no agency to change the situation, end up being pawns in the lunch tray wars.

(or a class of «behavior challenged» Middle Schoolers who could care less about taking a test) Sad that this is what education has come to in an effort to make sure that no child is «left behind»... This is the underlying issue right here ~ too much emphasis on penciling in the correct letter circle and not enough student driven cirriculum.

Similarly, in prior TLT posts you can read all about how my daughter, now in middle school, was last year regularly handed 12 oz cans of Coke and full - sized packages of gummi bears for good performance in a language class, and how my son was given a jumbo sized Hershey bar for winning a school lottery.

Ehh this district will be won in the middle class and working class areas who care about taxes and school aid.

It's that time of year again, when upper - middle class white parents get worked up about tests in school.

A North Carolina State University study of middle school science classes explored whether teachers» beliefs about climate change influenced students» perceptions.

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.

Between chasing after the middle schoolers in my class and running three times a week, I was so active that I didn't have to worry about my weight.

The last time I used a sewing machine was in home ec (onomics) class in middle school, so when I walked in I remembered nearly nothing about a sewing machine.

Lowell, MA About Blog Finally documenting my journey on trying to engage every middle schooler in my class....

Melissa McCarthy gives college another shot in «Life of the Party,» a middling back - to - school comedy that's about as funny as enrolling in summer classes.

The performances range from terrible - on - purpose (Fiennes, Close, and Jason Isaacs, whose first line as Pucci's father --»... You let your grades go now, maybe you don't get into a top - tier school» — hastily but explicitly lampoons the genre's default father - son conflict, thus throwing The Chumscrubber's true target of ridicule (movies about the middle - class rather than the middle - class itself) into sharp relief) to oblivious (Camilla Belle).

«Black - ish» is about an upper - middle class black man struggling to raise his children with some sense of cultural identity despite constant contradictions and obstacles coming from his liberal wife, old - school father and his own assimilated, color - blind kids.

Cameron Diaz (The Green Hornet, Knight and Day) is the «bad teacher», Elizabeth Halsey, who binge drinks, smokes pot (at school), tosses out profanity liberally, and could not care less about the well - being of the 7th - graders she is in charge of at the middle school she conducts class at in suburban Illinois.

Bigger Than Life (Criterion) Ostensibly a drama about prescription drug misuse and abuse and drawn from an article in The New Yorker, this portrait of a grade - school teacher and middle class father (played by James Mason, who also produced and helped develop the project) is as much about adult male masculinity and responsibility as a husband and father, and the pressure on him to live up to the ideal, as Rebel Without a Cause is about the emotional realities of being an American teenager.

My Friend Victoria (Unrated) Baby - daddy drama, set in Paris, about a poor, black single - mom (Guslagie Malanga) who waits seven years before finally introducing her daughter (Maylina Diagne) to the middle - class white guy (Pierre Andrau) she shared a summer romance back in high school.

Last year for National Poetry Month, I wrote a blog post about integrating a poem into the opening routine of my English class at Holicong Middle School, in Pennsylvania.

Learn more about San Francisco's Roosevelt Middle School and the volunteers and organizations who participated in the Remake Your Class project.

This past school year, students from four Oakland middle schools had an opportunity to learn more about the their neighborhood as part of our community action class — a class that was designed to engage our students with the community in a meaningful way.

Joan Wilson, a sixth grade teacher whose class was filmed for the movie, said that as a former fifth grade teacher she realized some students» anxieties about the middle - school transition ran deep.

Union opposition was a constant, but when middle - class parents became upset about having to share facilities with charter schools, the old coalition became much stronger.

Poor parents often have less information about school choice programs and school quality than do middle - class parents.

She has more than 20 years experience starting up new schools and was also instrumental in setting up the Boston's first performing arts middle school — an experience she shares in her class, which is for students thinking about becoming educational entrepreneurs.

Students at King Middle School in Portland, Maine are Skyping with authors of the books they read in English or history classes, and students in the technology education class learn about the design process through a YouTube video of engineers from IDEO who spent a week redesigning a shopping cart.

After interviewing more than 50 of these gentrifiers about their school - choice process, I concluded that it is the substantive differences in parenting styles between the white, upper - middle - class parents and the nonwhite, less - affluent parents that are hindering school integration, as these parenting styles directly affect school culture and expectations.

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).

There's a reason Dale Russakoff's book about Newark school politics was named The Prize — «the prize» was the jobs generated by Newark schools, the jobs that kept so many in the middle class.

This finding has led some to dream about economically integrating every urban public school with «a strong core of middle - class students,» as Kahlenberg puts it.

Sixth - grade teacher Diane Gilbert was curious about introducing Shakespeare to her gifted and talented class at Kelly Mill Middle School in Blythewood, South Carolina.

When I was in middle school, I had a U.S. history class that I can remember almost nothing about.

The Class Size Matters advocacy group has also compiled data showing that about 40 percent of elementary and middle schools in the Renewal program — and nearly all of the high schools — have some classes with 30 or more students in them.

I don't know enough about individual school performance to know if what's happening in California with middle class families equates to education malfeasance, but I'm a bit skeptical.

This math lesson for middle schoolers requires a math teacher to «engage students in a class discussion about whether or not they feel the results of» the 2000 presidential election were ««fair.»»

And with regards to closure, while I surely disagree with middle class Californians on many policy issues, I'm not sure that I think I know enough about their children to close schools that have modest negative test impacts but high enrollment demand.

Doing so can help address a common concern, which is that middle - class and affluent communities often feel like school reform isn't about them and their kids.

But expanding school choice into suburbia isn't just about the middle class who populate the well - manicured subdivisions.

All I know is that the primary schools where I live are now more like sweat shops and crammers while middle class parents are saddened to see less smiles on the faces of their children and see a weary resigntaion about school

Given what we know about the cost of private schools and the demographics of Chicago's public schools (87 percent of students come from households below the poverty threshold), it's safe to say that the school reform movement hasn't converted many outside the upper middle class.

They wring their hands about having some of the most segregated public schools in the country — both by race and income — then keep quiet about neighborhood unzoned schools, where middle - class parents send their children in order to avoid failing public schools.

A middle school finds that lunch clubs, tolerance exercises, and class discussions about diversity build a healthier school culture.

Peggy Coyne, a Black Hawk Middle School reading specialist and president - elect of Madison Teachers Inc., said she plans to ask students to write journal entries Tuesday about what they did while classes were canceled the last four days.

What was surprising about the results at Jane Doe was that (1) students were predominantly white and middle class and (2) the school's test scores did not reflect the quality and quantity of the learning going on there.

Specifically addressing problems at Lakewood Middle School, which has 1,207 students grades 6 - 8 who are 87 percent Latino and 9 percent Black (77 percent are economically - disadvantaged and about the same percentage speak Spanish at home), Ms. Morales detailed her child's struggle in a math class that had no teacher for a month.