Sentences with phrase «about an eighth grade»

Today's New York Post has a story (in which I'm quoted) about eighth grade students in Queens who, due to school cafeteria overcrowding, will be required to eat their «lunch» this year at 9:45 am.

We are excited about his eighth grade year and we hope it will be as fun as his 7th.

Not exact matches

The company name was taken from the family of Hannibal Barca of Carthage, about whom he first learned in his eighth grade ancient history class.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

The other day a colleague of mine, who came to America from Russia via Israel, told me a story about her son who is in the eighth grade in a renowned progressive school in Cambridge, Massachusetts (than which no community could be more progressive).

That's why we don't talk about Blair Mountain in the eighth grade.

During my six weeks in the hospital and another six weeks in a cast, all I could think about was my eighth - grade football season coming up in August.

«If you think about it, this is a kid who basically went from eighth - grade football straight to varsity,» Murphy said.

«The worst thing [about playing] was missing my daughter's eighth - grade graduation,» says Griffith, 35, the MVP of the WNBA in 1999 and a two - time Olympic gold medalist.

He had heard about this kid who was an eighth - grade sensation, running around and through everybody on the peewee level.

Lyncourt school district pre-kindergarten through eighth grade school district with about 350 students.

About 38,000 teachers, or 20 percent, had one - fifth of their evaluations based on their students» scores in the fourth - through eighth - grade English and math tests.

It led to a boycott movement for the third - through eighth - grade standardized tests that resulted in about one - fifth of students opting out last year.

At a ceremony that included a saxophone performance and was attended by the Friends of the East Elmhurst Library as well as by about 30 fifth - and eighth - grade students from East Elmhurst's PS 127, the East Elmhurst Library's Community Library Manager Johnnie Dent and Queens Library Chief Executive Officer Tom Galante thanked Peralta for his donation.

Only about a third of New York state's third through eighth grade students met the new tougher standards from April's round of state mandated English and math tests.

Utah parents seek criminal penalties against teacher who they say went too far in sex ed class: «The Jordan School District is investigating allegations that a seventh - and eighth - grade health teacher violated the sex education statute by responding to questions from students about topics beyond the core curriculum, including homosexual sex, oral sex and masturbation.»

A data breach at the company that develops New York State's third - through - eighth grade reading and math tests allowed an unauthorized user to access information about 52 students who took the tests by computer last spring, the state's Education Department said on Thursday.

Vargas will also use the award to provide eighth grade students — who are usually learning about the carbon cycle through their class curriculum — a chance to get a hands - on learning experience related to carbon.

The researchers queried 785 adolescents three times over four years: in seventh grade, about their social autonomy and parental relationships; in eighth grade, about peer influences; and in 11th grade, about problem behaviors such as drinking and aggression.

From its inception, Citizen Schools has focused on kids in sixth, seventh, and particularly eighth grade because, as Schwarz suggests about middle school's «capstone year,» intervention at this point is most likely «to prevent kids from voting with their feet and dropping out later on.»

The assembly will be held twice, and the six students panelists, who are in fifth through eighth grades, will talk about their experiences of being teased or of witnessing teasing.

We can say everything we want about how much [credibility] we should invest in a one - time test, but some of the most poignant discussions I've had are with parents who didn't find out until their child was in the seventh or eighth grade that she or he was way behind — not reading up to par, not doing math up to par, and not prepared to take on high - school - level work.

I was already experimenting with flexible seating in my eighth - grade English classroom when I saw a video about combating writer's block by working in a box castle.

Eighth - grade groups created mini-documentaries about their interpretation of a time period in the 1800s, using state standards as the content guide and presenting their completed work in a public event.

«One thing we know about kids between the eighth and tenth grades is that they really want to help their friends, and this program shows them how best to do it,» says O'Halloran.

For script material, eighth grade students who were peer leaders met and reminisced about the fears they had before entering middle school.

The event is organized by the school's eighth - grade history teachers and draws about 250 people.

We should not leave it up to the students to accidentally stumble upon connections across disciplines, as my eighth - grade history student did when she realized that two of her teachers were independently teaching her about the Mayan civilization.

In response to administrators» and teachers» worries about the vocabulary skills of Boston Public School students, a group of researchers and educators — assembled by the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP) in collaboration with the Boston Public Schools, and directed by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Catherine Snow — designed a curriculum supplement called Word Generation, for sixth - to eighth - grade classrooms.

◦ Trend: Nearly four out of five respondents favor the federal requirement that all students be tested in math and reading in each grade from third through eighth and at least once in high school, about the same as in the past.

But it did in 2011, with Finland and the U.S. scoring about the same in eighth grade math.

William Scott's eighth - grade students, for example, recorded oral histories about violence and subsequently created a play based on them.

In the early 1970s, when Strom was teaching eighth - grade language arts and social studies in Brookline, Massachusetts, community residents approached school administrators, asking if the district taught students about the Holocaust.

When Sandi Roberts and David Smith began teaching their eighth - grade students at rural Whitwell (Tennessee) Middle School about the Holocaust, they realized how difficult it was for students to grasp the enormity of human loss.

In eighth grade, it's about the same story: 10 cities are below 20 percent proficiency.

In fourth - grade reading, eighth - grade reading, and eighth - grade math, about one out of every four students reaches proficiency in the average large city.

Brendan Dotson learned about Urban Scholars Program while teach eighth - grade language arts and reading in SeaTac, Wash. «I was interested in the opportunity to spend time with educators who had been doing amazing work in urban schools all over the country,» he says.

As Winters, who teaches eighth - grade history, explains: «We hope that by participating in past events, students will learn not only about their historical figures» lives and achievements but also about the times when those people lived.

Everything I know about the slow growing, cumulative nature of language proficiency suggests it is all but impossible to test prep your way to a high score on a third to eighth grade reading test, especially the more challenging Common Core tests.

What about Bill Evers's push in California to mandate rigorous math instruction — including Algebra in eighth grade?

«Third - grade teachers aren't worried about reading, it's the sixth -, seventh -, and eighth -[grade teachers] who are worried.»

«At any given time, we have about 25 to 45 students in seventh and eighth grades,» Cox said.

As Winters, who teaches eighth - grade history, explains: «We hope students will learn not only about their historical figures» lives and achievements but also about the times when those people lived.

«I think there is some sort of age - old comfort in «story time,» something about the teacher reading a story,» eighth - grade teacher Holly Sessions told Education World.

First segment of a six - episode series about a workshop where eighth - grade students in New York City are asked to dream up the basic elements of the classroom of the future using design thinking.

Ask Dr. Shore About... A Student Who Stutters I teach eighth - grade English and a boy in my class has a pronounced stutter.

These small numbers continued through World War I, when only about 5 percent of American children went to high school and eighth grade was the culmination, says education historian and former dean Patricia Albjerg Graham.

The researchers found that in 1998, about 38 percent of the eighth graders sent to the district's Transition Centers — alternative schools for students who turn 15 before graduating from eighth grade — were still unable to raise their scores to meet the promotion cutoff after being retained and attending summer school again this August.

An educational support team (EST) comprised of counselors, the school nurse, educators and administrators meets every other week in seventh and eighth grade teams to share information about students who may need some additional help or support.

All 50 states have defined what education should be — what a child in the third grade should know about math, what a child in the eighth grade should know about algebra... Those are standards and the standards then give us a foundation to build education on.