Sentences with phrase «allow middle school kids»

I think having separation between older titles in paperback form and now hardcovers will allow middle school kids and young adults to discover new authors.

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Well somebody didn't read their Harry Potter, because an Ohio middle school is actually allowing some parents to opt their children out of part of the state social studies curriculum on the grounds that they don't want their kids learning about Muslims.

If you choose to allow your child to stay home alone, experts recommend that kids entering middle school can most likely handle the responsibility effectively.

If the climate allows, consider letting kids in mobile classrooms eat outdoors for lunch, either at cafe or picnic tables (following the example of Loggers» Run Middle School, mentioned above) or on blankets.

For many middle and high school educators, bringing music into the classroom means lugging that old boom box out of storage and allowing kids to listen to some school - appropriate music, which can be quite challenging to find, while working on an art project.

The Obama Administration's decision to allow states to implement supposedly «ambitious» yet «achievable» proficiency targets — usually with lower proficiency rates for poor and minority kids than for middle - class and white counterparts — allow districts and schools to do little to help those kids succeed.

«They've still maintained the federal foot on the testing accelerator by requiring every kid to be tested every year in elementary and middle school in reading and math and by not allowing an opt - out provision.»

It would let middle school kids in the Basin and in Park City proper to attend schools near their homes, while still allowing the district to move ninth - graders into Park City High Sschool kids in the Basin and in Park City proper to attend schools near their homes, while still allowing the district to move ninth - graders into Park City High SchoolSchool.

In 2011, Indiana passed a school choice bill which currently allows 9,300 kids from low and middle income families with household income below 150 percent of school lunch eligibility to receive vouchers equal to between 50 and 90 percent of state per - pupil education funding to use at any of 289 schools — some of which provide religious education — that participate in the Choice Scholarship Program.

Making the case that choice allows for all families, poor or middle class, to meet the particular needs of their children can win support, especially from white middle class families who realize that how they are hurt by school zones and other Zip Code Education policies (and are also condescended by teachers and school leaders when they want more for their kids), but don't see any other way to avoid those problems beyond paying for private schools out their own pockets.

«I didn't buy it until I knew that the teachers in middle school were allowing kids to read their books on their e-readers,» said Amy Mauer - Litos, Eliana's mother, adding, «I don't know whether it's the device itself that is appealing, or the easy access to the books, but I will tell you, we've had a lot of snow days lately, and 9 times out of 10, she's in the family room reading her Nook.»