The findings from the survey we conducted
among middle grade students support the concept that educators can influence the social and emotional climate of schools.
Not exact matches
In fact, compared with elementary schools,
middle grade schools often have more
students per
grade, lower levels of
student autonomy, less positive teacher -
student relationships, and more competition and less cooperation
among students.
Among entering
students, about 15 to 20 percent perform above
grade level, about 15 to 20 percent below; the rest are in the
middle, said Grover.
Researchers have likewise reported a negative correlation between self - reported hours of sleep and school
grades among both
middle - and high - school
students.
A survey of 725
middle and high school teachers, and 600 parents of
students in those
grades, found high levels of frustration
among teachers regarding discipline issues.
The effects of service learning on social responsibility and academic success were investigated
among a large, racially and socioeconomically diverse sample of
students in
grades 6 - 8 in three
middle schools.
Another educator, language arts / humanities teacher Nancy Slentz of Meridian
Middle School in Lynden, Washington, was searching for a way to boost the homework completion rate
among her eighth graders, so she developed a system that allows
students to record their own
grades.
Among Florida ELL eighth - graders at
middle schools that do not have a sufficient number of white eighth -
grade students, only about 10 % scored at or above the proficient level in math.
For example,
among eighth -
grade ELL
students in Florida, about 30 % score at or above the proficient level in math if they attend a
middle school that has a minimum threshold number of white
students.
In 2015, for instance, the Skills for Success grant program supported local educational agencies and their partners in developing programs and practices that promoted positive learning mindsets
among middle -
grade students.37 The winning entities included Chicago Public Schools, KIPP, Long Beach Unified School District, and Los Angeles Unified School District.38
In a survey of
middle -
grades students in three diverse schools, the authors found variations
among the schools with regard to the extent to which
students felt safe in school, the locations where bullying most often took place, the types of bullying that occurred, and the primary reasons
students became targets of bullying.
«We have a lot of big problems,» Pinkston understands, citing
among them a challenging growth in the percentage of
students who are not native English speakers and high
student attrition in the
middle grades.
This project draws on two data sources — large - scale administrative data from
middle and high school
students in five large California school districts and a new nationally representative experimental test of a mindset intervention
among 9th
grade students — to analyze heterogeneity in the effect of a growth mindset on academic outcomes across different structural positions.
LAWRENCE, Kan. — The Achievement and Assessment Institute (AAI) at the University of Kansas has received a $ 212,000 award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a prototype web interface that would allow
students, parents, teachers and researchers to understand the relationships
among mathematics topics by exploring the KU - developed Dynamic Learning Maps ™ (DLM ®) tool for mathematics taught in
middle - and high - school
grades.
Among students who regularly attended OST programs, they had higher promotion rates than their peers, entered 6th and 9th
grade with higher school attendance (important transition
grades to
middle and high school), and were significantly less likely to be chronically absent.
A consortium report from December found that after
grades, attendance habits
among Chicago
middle school
students provided the best indicator of later academic performance on a range of measures.
The effects of service learning on social responsibility and academic success were investigated
among a large, racially and socioeconomically diverse sample of
students in
grades 6 - 8 in three
middle schools.
Our program will: increase mental health literacy
among the Natick
Middle School community; offer screening to all 7th and 8th
grade students, make referrals as needed; and communicate with Natick
Middle School parents / guardians about their teens, youth depression, and possible interventions.