Sentences with phrase «after fifth grade»

Students were leaving after the fifth grade to attend schools that continued through grade 12, she said, and that was having a negative impact on the school.

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.

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

It was the summer after fifth grade and it was the first summer we spent with my dad and stepmom.

I dropped out after the fifth grade, but I did use some of the material!

Dale Stephens, 19 Hendrix College Project: UnCollege.org Dale Stephens left school after fifth grade to be «unschooled,» a form of homeschooling that included interning at businesses.

The second of five children, Apostolopoulos left school after fifth grade, and later trained to become an electrician.

Not exact matches

Tracey Gordon, who taught Tsarnaev in fifth and sixth grade at a Cambridge school, described him as an exceptionally intelligent child who easily mastered English after arriving in the United States from Russia and «was eager to learn whatever school had to offer.»

I am (a) a delusional schizophrenic; (b) a naïve child, too young to know that that is silly (c) an ignorant farmer from Sudan who never had the benefit of even a fifth grade education; or (d) your average Christian Millions and millions of Catholics believe that bread and wine turns into the actual flesh and blood of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because: (a) there are obvious visible changes in the condiments after the Catholic priest does his hocus pocus; (b) tests have confirmed a divine presence in the bread and wine; (c) now and then their god shows up and confirms this story; or (d) their religious convictions tell them to blindly accept this completely fvcking absurd nonsense.

After 35 years of teaching fifth grade, she'd never seen a kid plow through a salad like I did.

The program known as Children at Play, or C.A.P., was designed to assist the working parent, providing recreational activities before and after school for children in kindergarten through fifth grade.

Chook said the students meeting less stringent criteria might go to the school after fifth - grade simply because it's an option — not because they or their parents particularly care about the school.

The problems really start when he enters mainstream school for the first time, after his mother homeschooled him up until fifth grade.

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.

Not long after Hurricane Katrina, Steve was having a conversation with his fifth grade math class about emergency shelters.

«Things were different right after the shooting — parents were at school a lot more,» said Jeanne Shirley, who teaches fifth grade at one of the county's 92 elementary schools.

After twenty years in journalism, including senior positions at TIME and BusinessWeek, Robert became a fifth - grade teacher at a struggling South Bronx public school in 2002.

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

Children were pointed down a particular track after taking the «eleven - plus» exam (around fifth grade).

After analyzing the content of samples from local wells for a project about the quality of drinking water, fifth - and sixth - grade students at Shutesbury Elementary School display their information on a large map of the town and look for patterns in the data.

Ask Dr. ShoreAbout a Latchkey Child My fifth - grade daughter is usually home alone after school because of my work schedule.

Unfortunately, he says, this approach typically stops after fourth or fifth grade.

In 1998, Claudia Mueller and Carol Dweck found that after receiving praise for being smart, fifth - grade students exaggerated how well they had performed.

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When she took leave from her position as a fifth - grade teacher at Joseph P. Manning Elementary School in Boston, Audrey Jackson never had a doubt that she would return after her year at the Ed School.

After reading an article about the extinction of honeybees in their science literacy class, fifth - and sixth - grade students said they wanted to do something to help.

Connie Byrnes, a mother from Dana Park, Calif., noticed her highly - gifted son Riley disengaging shortly after joining a mainstream fifth - grade classroom.

Yet year after year, one fifth - grade class learns far more than the other down the hall.

In order to be included in our analysis, several criteria must be met: we must have school characteristics and outcome data available from the school before and after the adoption, the textbook must be identifiable from the SARC, the adoption must be on - cycle (2008 or 2009), the school must be a uniform adopter in the elementary grades under study (1 - 3 for the main analysis, 1 - 5 for the analysis up through fifth grade), and the school must not be in a district that is so large that finding appropriate comparison schools is impossible.

Last fall, his organization started a new program in four Harlem public schools called the Fifth Grade Institute, an after - school program for 160 fifth - grade students designed to begin catching them up to grade level before the charter school opens in SepteFifth Grade Institute, an after - school program for 160 fifth - grade students designed to begin catching them up to grade level before the charter school opens in Septefifth - grade students designed to begin catching them up to grade level before the charter school opens in September.

KIPP began in 1994 when two teachers, Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, launched a fifth - grade public school program in inner - city Houston, TX, after completing their commitment to Teach For America.

As for Nicholas, he will be enrolled in Heketi through fifth grade and after that, Sepulveda will find a charter middle school for her son.

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.

Ms. Cardoso is returning for her twelfth year at Brooke, and after five years as a second grade teacher, Ms. Cardoso will teach third grade — having worked for the five years as a fifth grade teacher and reading specialist.

Ms. Blair joined the Brooke Mattapan campus in 2011 as a fifth grade math and science teacher after teaching fourth grade for two years in Atlanta, GA..

Dijonna Coleman started fifth grade at KIPP Sankofa this summer after transferring from another charter school, and said she's enjoying summer classes.

Jessica Allen, who began teaching at Quitman last fall after moving from Virginia, has distinguished herself with long hours, fun activities and a determination to raise her fifth - grade students» test scores.

Ms. Kirby joined the Brooke East Boston team in 2012 as a founding fifth grade teacher after teaching for three years at Brooke Roslindale.

After teaching fourth and fifth grade, Ms. Murphy will serve as the ELL Coordinator at Brooke Roslindale in 2017 - 2018.

This study measured the growth of reading comprehension skills of 51 remedial fifth - grade students after exposure to a treatment of creative drama integrated with children's literature reading material over a six - week period.

And it told us that except for the rare bright spot — like a principal dedicated to academic growth for all learners, but who went on sabbatical a year after we changed to her school, and a teacher who volunteered to teach sixth - grade math in a fifth - grade classroom — we would not be getting the services needed for our children.

BPS and Boston After School & Beyond will share the four - year grant to help children in kindergarten through fifth grade at seven schools in the district.

After the intermediate school was renovated into the new PK - five elementary, the PK - three students and the remaining fourth - and fifth - grade students moved in.

In addition, studies show that a student's ability to understand fractions in fifth grade is also a predictor of long - term math achievement in high school, even after controlling for IQ, reading ability, and other variables.

Alex and Dennis, fifth grade students from Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School, conduct interviews in Dupont Circle after visiting the Pulitzer Center office to learn reporting and photography skills from Allison Shelley.

She enrolled her oldest son in an online school after he finished fifth grade.

After visiting Rocketship Southside Community Prep, as Milwaukee's K4 through fifth - grade school is formally known, I could see why some people might react positively.

KIPP, which stands for Knowledge is Power Program, began in 1994 when two teachers, Dave Levin and Mike Feinberg, launched a fifth - grade public school program in inner - city Houston, Texas, after completing their commitment to Teach For America.

As my fifth grade art teacher, she taught me lessons about self - direction and creativity that have endured long after I left her classroom.

«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.