Sentences with phrase «age as high school students»

Although these students are the same age as high school students, their educational experience makes them face a more complicated situation.

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On Wednesday, as high school students from DC, Maryland, and Virginia protested in front of the US Capitol and the White House, Sen. Jeff Flake (R - AZ) announced he and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) were working on a bill that would raise the minimum age to buy an AR - 15 rifle to 21 for buyers who aren't in the military (an initiative opposed by the National Rifle Association).

And yet, as I progressed through high school and college, got a job in full - time student ministry, and even traveled through Europe for a few weeks, checking each of these dreams off my list (sans Aussie heartthrob), I found myself at age twenty - four absorbed in feelings that I didn't expect to come for at least another fifteen years, if ever.

Kathryn facilitated hundreds of workshops to preschool through high school aged students, teachers, and parents around the topics of sexual assault prevention, bullying, and stranger awareness, and became certified as a National Trainer for the Child Assault Prevention Program.

Addressing a group of students at Bedford - Stuyvesant's Boys and Girls High School on Thursday evening, Adams discussed a new state law permitting up to two teens over the age of 16 to participate as members in each of the city's 59 CBs.

They used a nationally representative sample of 5,593 middle and high school students between the ages of 12 and 17 years old living in the United States to find out how many youth participated in digital self - harm, as well as their motivations for such behavior.

«We had high - school and college - age students with grad students and postdocs in the lab, and they were each sharing experiences, educating each other as to how to go from that specific part of their lives and move on to the challenges of the next phase, both scientifically and personally,» she says.

Harrison said that future research will look at how other age groups — such as high school students — handle the temptation to text when it is inappropriate.

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) will once again offer a wide variety of cutting - edge science talks as it kicks off its popular Ronald E. Hatcher Science on Saturday Lecture Series for high school students and science lovers of all ages on Saturday, Jan. 14, at 9:30 a.m. at the Laboratory, 100 Stellarator Road, Princeton, New Jersey.

They are assigned high - school detail to search for a new drug, and the sheer idiocy of this is never ignored, as students continuously comment on their obvious age — a comic tactic employed by this tongue - in - cheek movie as it takes itself not one - ounce seriously.

31 years old during filming, Turner isn't convincing as either a middle - aged mother or a high school student.

The Fordham Institute's new report, High Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all studeHigh Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all studeHigh Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all studehigh - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all students.

Travelling from schools right across the UK, the teams of students aged 10 to 18 will come together in London to pitch in front of a panel of judges comprised of industry leaders and high profile figures, such as digital entrepreneur Baroness Martha Lane Fox, Tech City CEO Gerard Grech and TV presenter Davina McCall.

Parthenon began gathering data on every student who entered New York City's high schools in 1999, nearly a quarter million of them, and by 2005, as education journalist Sarah Garland reported in a 2010 Washington Monthly story, had accumulated data that were «shocking»: «Nearly 140,000 high - school - age youth in the city were at least two years behind where they needed to be to graduate on time.

The stimulation during the ages of their rapid development strongly influences social - emotional control and the highest thinking skill sets that today's students will carry with them as they leave school and become adults.

Reformers thus embraced the junior high school movement, knowing that the purpose of these institutions was to encourage students to make vocational choices as early as age 12 or 13.

The stimulation of these networks during the ages of their rapid development strongly influences the development of the executive functions — the social - emotional control and the highest thinking skillsets that today's students will carry with them as they leave school and become adults.

These sheets were developed as part of a science unit on air pollution for a high - school age special education student but may be useful for other grade levels and typical students.

At some point, every parent wishes their high school aged student would go to bed earlier as well as find time to pursue their own passions — or maybe even choose to relax.

As educators grapple with how best to combat plagiarism in the Internet age, several high school students are suing a company that many districts and schools have hired to help them reduce such cheating.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

Gain scores from pretest to posttest indicated that middle school students retained important information by interacting with the online material for as little as 30 minutes per adventure; however, gains for high school students were less persuasive, perhaps indicating a different learning tool or content is required for this age audience.

By the time they reach high school, students should be well on their way to becoming independent learners, so homework does provide a boost to learning at this age, as long as it isn't overwhelming (Cooper et al., 2006; Marzano & Pickering, 2007).

Standing in the Clover Hill High School library one recent Thursday afternoon, Democratic congressional candidate Warren A. Stewart did his best to respond as students peppered him with questions on everything from school vouchers, gun control, and abortion to why a working citizen under age 18 must pay taxes but is not permitted toSchool library one recent Thursday afternoon, Democratic congressional candidate Warren A. Stewart did his best to respond as students peppered him with questions on everything from school vouchers, gun control, and abortion to why a working citizen under age 18 must pay taxes but is not permitted toschool vouchers, gun control, and abortion to why a working citizen under age 18 must pay taxes but is not permitted to vote.

But that number is still less than 20 percent of high school graduates and only about 15 percent of all those in the age cohort (as only about 75 percent of high school students graduate within four years).

Special education services are available to eligible students from birth through high school graduation or age 26, as appropriate.

As in all Opportunity Culture schools, a Wells team of teachers and administrators chose among models that use job redesign and age - appropriate technology to reach more students with personalized, high - standards instruction — one hallmark of great teachers.

A study that assessed the enduring effects of the Seattle Social Development Project — another elementary school program — on former participants at age 18 found lower rates of violent behavior, heavy drinking, and sexual activity, as well as higher academic motivation and achievement, for program participants relative to comparison group students (Hawkins, Catalano, Kosterman, Abbot, & Hill, 1999).

First, acknowledging that middle level students (age 10 - 14) learn differently than their elementary and high school friends and siblings, they began by reviewing the developmental research on young adolescents and taking those unique learning needs as a starting point for planning changes in classroom instruction, increasing electives, providing intervention, reviewing their discipline procedures, and attending to the social and emotional needs, a key to success with middle level student success.

The high school study defined vulnerable students as those who are more than two years above grade - level age in ninth grade, who failed an eighth - grade assessment test, who qualify for free or reduced - price lunches or who are eligible for special education services.

As a high school librarian, I had a few of those moments, where a student became an avid reader at that age for the first time.

A preschool - aged child can find success creating, while a high school student can find just as much success, if not more using this power packed app.

Offering coverage for Florida's minimum requirements and beyond, State Farm discounts rates for quality of driving, number of policies, good grades as a high school or college student up to age 25 and defensive driving courses.

Good Student Discount: To qualify for the good student discount, the driver must be 16 to 24 years of age and either a full - time high school student or enrolled as a full - time college or university sStudent Discount: To qualify for the good student discount, the driver must be 16 to 24 years of age and either a full - time high school student or enrolled as a full - time college or university sstudent discount, the driver must be 16 to 24 years of age and either a full - time high school student or enrolled as a full - time college or university sstudent or enrolled as a full - time college or university studentstudent.

Presently we are contracted with two high schools Whatever the age, Saylor's is dedicated to helping our students learn how to be as safe as possible in a very unsafe environment.

Even if you're not interested in becoming a library page, this resume format and its content would help you find a job in any industry such as sales, retail, food service, child care, cashiering, construction, lifeguarding, or any other employment opportunities commonly given to high school age students.

They accept students of all ages as long as they have a high school diploma or GED.

Results at the one - year follow - up reported that students who participated in the program, as compared with a control group, showed greater family cohesion, less family fighting, greater school attachment, higher self - esteem, and a belief that alcohol should not be consumed until an older age.

Incorporating college aged instructors to teach the high school students the PICK program as part of a college / university course practicum experience or in conjunction with a grant - funded coalition would bridge the gap between high school students and college aged young adults, therefore providing role models and broadening the impact of the PICK program and the important lessons in relationship education for young adults.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

The procedure of our second hierarchical analysis was identical, but instead of gender, age was integrated as a dummy variable (0 = middle school students, 1 = senior high school students) in order to investigate the influences of peer - victimization and protective factors in the context of different age groups.