Sentences with phrase «among older students»

Significant relationships between students» democratic experiences and teachers» perceptions of the prevailing social - emotional climate, however, were only found among older students.

The receiving classroom teacher in an accelerated setting can help the younger student find a niche among the older students.

Four levels for decoding plus four for comprehension address the varied reading deficits and skill levels found among older students.

The pressure to do well in school that often gives rise to cheating among older students also can affect younger children.

The authors surmise that students in grades 6 - 8 who remain in K - 8 schools «may benefit from being among the oldest students in a school setting that includes very young students, perhaps because they have greater opportunity to take on leadership roles.»

Though it is difficult to isolate the effects of redshirting from those of other characteristics, such as family background, two recent studies that take advantage of either variation in state birthday cut - off dates or the random assignment of students to kindergarten classrooms have enabled researchers to measure the impact of being among the oldest students in a class.

This suggests a final potential interpretation of our results that is directly related to the choice of grade configuration: students may benefit from being among the oldest students in a school setting that includes very young students, perhaps because they have greater opportunity to take on leadership roles.

Not exact matches

They're also utterly clobbered with student debt: the median among today's 25 - year - olds is about $ 20,000; double what it was for people the same age in 2000.

Lori Alhadeff's 14 - year - old daughter, Alyssa, was among the 17 shot dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High by a former student on Valentine's...

And yet what is lacking among most students is any deep - seated, long - nurtured, instinctive, prerational commitment to the Old Testament in its present form.

As a professor old enough to have been a student in the»30s, I find it useful and indeed instructive to compare my own student generation's attitude toward sports with that which I see among the bushy - haired young men I teach today.

The crowd that had gathered for The Relay — word of which had filtered through the school's 1,150 students and among the old swimmers» kinfolk — included enough longhairs and graybeards to belie the generation gap.

For Caryn Tatelli, whose 6 - year - old daughter, Susan, is among the Oak Terrace students coping with peanut allergies, the pilot program has proved its worth.

Two of London's local authorities rank in some of the lowest concentrations of home educated students in the country, among them are Westminster and Lambeth where only 0.14 % and 0.12 % of 5 - 16 year olds study at home.

In the northwest suburbs, at Buffalo Grove High School, 15 - year - old Wes Duvall, a quiet student with an air of concern, said a fascination with guns and violence prevails among his classmates, and even he is enamored of some of the hardware he sees.

An 88 - year - old NYU psychology professor is under fire for, among other things, not using the preferred pronouns in referring to transgender students.

While old - fashioned cigarette smoking among high school students dropped from 27.1 percent in 2011 to just 4.3 percent in 2016, a troubling 20.6 percent reported using e-cigarettes in 2016.

Talia Rumsky, a 16 - year - old Stoneman Douglas High student who was at school during the shooting, was among those who traveled to Tallahassee Wednesday to lobby lawmakers about gun control.

Also prominent among the new crop of female MPs is 20 - year - old Mhairi Black, a SNP Glasgow University student who won Paisley and Renfrewshire South from the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander and becomes the youngest MP since 1667.

Among the old - for - grade students, the likelihood of dropping out and being convicted of a serious crime is 3.4 times greater for those born to an unwed mother and 2.7 times greater for those whose mothers were high school dropouts.

A mentor is supposed to be not just a teacher but also an older guide to career, life, and whatever,» says Thomas von Foerster, a retired science publisher who is one among the many mentors at the Point Foundation, a national nonprofit organization that provides mentoring, scholarships, and leadership training for LGBT students in the humanities and sciences.

This is an old problem in the United States, where the ill - advised prognostications of the National Science Foundation in the early 1990s were followed by intense congressional criticism and widespread outrage among graduate students and postdocs.

This is the first study to show that sleep duration has increased among broad segments of the United States population (students 15 and older, people who are employed, and retirees) over this period.

Galen Panger, a Ph.D. student at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, School of Information, was part of the team that revamped the university's decade - old survey of mental health concerns among grad students.

To determine the prevalence of texting while driving among youths, Bailin and her colleagues analyzed data from the 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 7,833 high school students who were old enough to get a driver's license in their state.

The 31 - year old doctoral student is among a team of seven researchers in the «Smart Nanoplasmonics» research group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart.

However, 21 % of 18 to 24 year - olds said they would rather go on a group date, which seems to be more typical among college students.

His George, a reticient but unexpectedly passionate Englishman lost among brash Southern Californians, contends with a student (Nicholas Hoult) who's making advances and might portend a new beginning for the disconsolate professor, and an old friend (Julianne Moore) who may not be as fully sympathetic to his pain as she appears at first.

His George, a reticient but unexpectedly passionate Englishman lost among brash Southern Californians, contends with a student (Nicholas Hoult: Skins, Kidulthood) who's making advances and might portend a new beginning for the disconsolate professor, and an old friend (Julianne Moore: Eagle Eye, Blindness) who may not be as fully sympathetic to his pain as she appears at first.

A Chicago native and perpetual graduate student — he holds degrees in law and business, among others — Kelley got the inspiration for Arete while volunteering to help the rowing team train at his old high school.

The district's 10 - year - old student - publications policy is considered to be among the most liberal in the nation in recognizing the rights and responsibilities of students to control school newspapers and other publications.

Among the school's 10 core values, a central theme is the importance of mutual trust and respect — between teachers and students, between peers, and between young students and the older students who act as mentors.

In my twin boys» randomly assigned kindergarten classroom, some students entered school reading Magic Tree House chapter books, while other students were just learning their letter sounds, a four - grade - level spread among five - year - olds (pre-K to 2nd grade).

Inside Out and Back Again A favorite among teachers and students, this poignant 2013 coming - of - age novel in verse centers on 10 - year - old Hà, who loses her father and must flee her home in Vietnam when Saigon falls, in 1975.

Snow envisions this talk focused on changing the old ideas around literacy such as learning first over reading first, literacy as a tool, teaching content, and deep, disciplinary knowledge among students.

Among the students at school that day was an 11 - year - old violin and piano prodigy and YouTube sensation, who otherwise commutes to Los Angeles for music lessons.

American 15 - year - olds, according to the report, ranked 24th in math among the students from 29 industrialized countries who were given the tests.

A nineteen - year - old among fifteen - year - olds might decide he or she does not fit, or the factors that prompted a student to drop out may still be obstacles.

Among the state - funded pre-K classrooms in the NCEDL study, we found that only about 25 percent of classrooms serving 4 - year - olds provided students with the high levels of emotional and instructional support that are needed.

As schools chief in Chicago from 2001 to 2008, he was affected by the gun deaths of a 10 - year - old on the eve of her first day of 4th grade, a 16 - year - old boy shot in a city bus on his way home from school, and an 18 - year - old honor student killed outside his high school, among others.

Students can demonstrate this lack of engagement by withholding effort and by «voting with their feet» through rising chronic absenteeism as they get older (PDF, 1.4 MB), and chronic absenteeism is among the highest predictors of dropping out of school.

Some 3,738 students won scholarships during the trial period, and the older students among them have graduated from high school at a higher rate than their peers who lost the lottery.

There was generally improvement in reading and math by a significant rate of one to two grade levels among 9 - and 13 - year - old African American and Hispanic students during this decade.

«Darling - Hammond reveals the successful educational strategies around the world that are toppling the old educational guard, including a high degree of personalization that allows stronger, closer relationships among students, faculty, staff, and parents... Scholarly and factual, well - researched and packed with astounding examples of the current climate of American education, this text should prove highly informative for educators, educational administrators, and involved parents throughout the U.S.» — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The old tradition of sitting among other students in the impersonal setting of a classroom, coupled by the leer of a professor as students rush to copy down text - heavy slides is quickly becoming an obsolete form of learning.

Among those looking for more charter schools in the state's worst - performing districts was 18 - year - old Eddie McGuire, a senior at Boston Collegiate Charter School in Dorchester, who believes more students should have the same kinds of opportunities he has had.

At least among 15 - year - olds tested on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), the U.S. didn't improve in the most recent 2012 tests.

Of course, much more goes into reading at age 17 than early childhood education, and there has been some recent improvement among 9 - year - olds in reading, especially among our lowest - performing students.

The result is old schools and student performance that ranks among the worst in the state, with 27 out of 42 schools labeled low - performing.

While references to technical problems were relatively common, we suspect that they were more prevalent among people who self - identified as nontraditional, older students, due to statements such as the following: «I was frustrated in trying to use it because all the «younger» students knew how to manipulate it, but it took my [sic] longer because I was not familiar.»