Sentences with phrase «after eighth grade»

The program concludes with a six - week summer program after eighth grade.

After eighth grade, the parents continued to seek out and choose options that fit their desire to see their children graduate high school and attend college.

Manuel was really clear on one belief: His fate would have been different if, after eighth grade, he not had to leave ASCEND — the one place where he felt safe and cared for and where he thrived academically.

I should have done it when he got two holes in one in thesummer after eighth grade.»

I should have sent in something when he got two holes in one in thesummer after eighth grade.

More alarming, the percentage skyrockets for teenage boys after eighth grade.

Not exact matches

Some years ago I was supposed to teach an eighth - grade Bible school class what a dysfunctional group is and why it is spelled with a «y.» I'm not sure if it was before that explanation or after that we were supposed to make pizza together, but what we had while we were working through the etymology of «dys» was not exactly group enthusiasm.

Four years after gracing our cover as an eighth - grade slugger, Vincent Byrd II is still swinging away

But as she got older, she realized she needed to get out on the perimeter, and after her eighth - grade year, she started moving to the outside.

I got story after story of adults who were still hurt by that grade (or sixth or eighth).

The day after the treatment and control exercises were administered, the primary dependent variable was measured: students» food and drink choices for a «snack pack,» announced by the principal as a reward to the entire eighth grade class for their hard work during the state testing period that had just ended.

«We are also considering whether the book should be included, after appropriate teacher training, in the curriculum of eighth through tenth grades.

In 2011 she retired after decades of serving on the faculty of Green Meadow Waldorf School where she took several classes from first through eighth grades and taught high school chemistry.

Rates of cyberbullying among kids increases after fifth grade and reaches a peak during eighth grade (Hinduja & Patchin, 2008).

The principal of P.S. 18 in Inwood fired teacher Madeline Luciano after she let a student write on a chalkboard the reasons why eighth - grade students didn't like a particular classmate.

A teacher at Cambridge Central Schools is on leave after seventh and eighth grade students were given a handout on transgender education this week that angered many parents in the district.

Every year after that I did a science project, and in the eighth grade, Barbara O'Donnell, my neighbor, became my science teacher.

At KIPP Ascend, where many fifth - graders start one or two grades behind in reading and math, after four years at the school, 100 percent of eighth - graders passed math and 94 percent passed reading on the Illinois Standards Achievement Test.

Eighth graders have a graduation that is combined with seventh grades recognitions; but the eighth graders stay on after the ceremony to share refreshments with their paEighth graders have a graduation that is combined with seventh grades recognitions; but the eighth graders stay on after the ceremony to share refreshments with their paeighth graders stay on after the ceremony to share refreshments with their parents.

Consider these facts: After a decade of progress, in Atlanta, eighth - grade reading proficiency is still only 22 percent.

After computer teacher Victoria Kozlek had her eighth - grade students at Southern Columbia Middle School, in Catawissa, Pennsylvania, write fundraising letters to local businesses, Digital Wish let her choose from dozens of software programs donated by its partner vendors.

After the program was established in kindergarten through fourth grade, it was expanded to fifth through eighth grades in a program called Smart Step.

After graduating from Lesley University in Cambridge (where he earned another master's), but before heading to Harvard, Yung taught eighth - grade U.S. history for six years in Milton, Mass..

After graduating from Excellence at the end of eighth grade, Jamal went on to be an honor student at Bishop Loughlin, one of the best Catholic schools in New York.

In the after school space, I help run a program called Girl Talk, which is aimed to be a safe space for young girls (sixth through eighth grade) to discuss the obstacles they face in school and in society.

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.

After fifth grade, McNeely recalls sailing free until she hit eighth grade, and Mr. Robinson became assistant principal of the K - 12 school she attended.

After being ranked first in the nation for education for more than a decade, Maryland is seeing its scores in a key national test drop for fourth - and eighth - grade reading and math.

The Globe reports that two hundred eighth - grade students will take part in the program — which will be housed in an old school building — beginning either next year or the year after.

«It won't be Hawthorne anymore,» says Grace Sergio, a Hawthorne parent association leader whose eighth - grade son plays basketball and often stays at school till well after six.

Kindergarten through fifth - grade students will have access to after - school, intervention and enrichment programs; sixth - through eighth - grade students will have access to electives at Baechtel Grove Middle School.

In 1973 I returned to California after successfully interviewing for an eighth grade math position with the Franklin - McKinley School District in San Jose.

After teaching sixth grade, Ms. Price is thrilled to once again teach eighth grade math and science this year.

At the eighth - grade level, a 21 point lead, roughly the equivalent of two grade levels, disappeared after adjusting for differences in student backgrounds.

By eighth grade, after the cumulative benefits of a more coherent curriculum and more productive tests, students would begin to score much better on all reading exams, including those that aren't based on a school curriculum.

For 70 years, GSL's excellent college preparatory program has produced excellent outcomes — eighth grade students who are confident and ready to succeed in whichever private or public high school they choose to attend after GSL.

Farragut Middle School eighth grade science teacher Mark Taylor believes he was unfairly denied a bonus after his value - added estimate was based on the standardized test scores of 22 of his 142 students.

Tennessee Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman, whose state's performance on NAEP this year was questioned by this publication after revelations of high exclusion levels (including a 27 percent exclusion rate for eighth - graders in special ed on NAEP's reading exam, and an 18 percent exclusion rate of 14 percent of eighth - grade special ed kids from NAEP's math exam):

This year's release generated even more anticipation and discussion than usual: It was the first National Assessment of Educational Progress administration after states began implementing the Common Core State Standards, and national scores dropped in fourth - and eighth - grade math for the first time ever.

«I could never go back to the old model,» says Ms. Mattivi, whose eighth - grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels.

In our study, 84 percent of CSFB alumni were enrolled in some type of college five to 10 years after completing eighth grade, 2 percent were still in high school, 1 percent entered the military, and 14 percent did not attend college immediately after graduation.

After 25 years in the field of education, serving in independent, public, charter, and parochial schools, teaching at every grade level Pre-K through eighth, Linda has found a home at Helios.

New York city schools began using value - added analysis in 2008 after reaching an agreement with the United Federation of Teachers to assess instructors who taught fourth through eighth grade.

Zandra Grady, an eighth grade teacher at Leesville Junior High School, echoed Hagan's excitement after completing a June literacy training with CEL.

After just one year of using the Renaissance practice and assessment solutions, eighth - grade students» math scores on state testing quadrupled, and over a three - year period, school reading levels doubled.

«I think it will be wonderful for Audubon to have a high school option for our families,» said King, mother of a fifth - and an eighth - grade student in the Montessori program, after the meeting.

After the charter takeover of NOLA public schools post Katrina, the state began issuing letter grades for all schools in 2011, and 79 percent of charter schools in the New Orleans district received a «D» or «F.» In 2014, RSD - New Orleans schools are still performing below the vast majority of the state's other districts at the fourth and eighth grades in subjects tested by the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, including English language arts, math and science.

By contrast, 36 percent of KIPP students have completed a four - year college after finishing eighth grade at a KIPP middle school ten or more years ago.

«Aha Pūnana Leo assists Kula Kaiapuni Hawai`i families of Hilo children in the sixth through eighth grades with renting a building to provide classroom space for an intermediate / high school program to be named after the noted Hawaiian scholar and politician, Joseph Nāwahīokalani «ōpu`u.

NAEP SCORES SLIP AND SPIN ENSUES: Fourth and eighth grade student scores on the Nation's Report Card took an «unexpected downturn» this year after more than two dozen years of small and steady gains, prompting immediate recriminations over the Common Core, testing and the Obama administration's education policies.