Sentences with phrase «as eighth graders»

Now, we could wait four years and compare how students scored when they were fourth graders and how they scored later as eighth graders.

* Kress's Daily News op - ed inadvertently had this as eighth graders.

[1] It shows, for example, that students who rated themselves in the bottom quartile with respect to self - control were absent 2.9 more days than students in the top quartile, and were nearly three times as likely to have been suspended as eighth graders; similar differences in absences and suspension rates are evident for conscientiousness and grit.

NICOLE MAY Foothill - Pleasanton — Softball — Freshman She received and accepted an offer to Oklahoma as an eighth grader, so her first season with the Falcons wasn't too surprising.

In the meantime, says his volleyball coach Lou Panzella, Marcus will be the same friendly kid he first saw play as an eighth grader at Black Diamond middle school.

The son of UD alums, Sweeney first visited the Delaware Biotechnology Institute as an eighth grader, for a boot camp on basic laboratory procedures, which sparked his interest in research.

«I had this delusion that, as an eighth grader, I could solve climate change,» she recalls.

It was at Lakeside, notes Gladwell on page 51, that «Bill Gates got to do real - time programming as an eighth grader in 1968.

Marielle Howard's son Hunter wanted to give public school a try, enrolling at Dutchtown Middle School as an eighth grader.

Not exact matches

At the suggestion of her principal, Corinne skipped fourth grade and took eighth grade math as a seventh grader.

As soon as I turned 13, she presented me with my first tube of cherry - red lipstick and my first pair of high heels — three - inch heels they were in those days, and I thought them not only uncomfortable but incredibly hideous — and from then on made me go to church thus shod and painted, indistinguishable from the other eighth - graders whose arms hadn't had to be twisteAs soon as I turned 13, she presented me with my first tube of cherry - red lipstick and my first pair of high heels — three - inch heels they were in those days, and I thought them not only uncomfortable but incredibly hideous — and from then on made me go to church thus shod and painted, indistinguishable from the other eighth - graders whose arms hadn't had to be twisteas I turned 13, she presented me with my first tube of cherry - red lipstick and my first pair of high heels — three - inch heels they were in those days, and I thought them not only uncomfortable but incredibly hideous — and from then on made me go to church thus shod and painted, indistinguishable from the other eighth - graders whose arms hadn't had to be twisted.

«Fewer than one in five African - American fourth graders is proficient in reading and Latino eighth graders are less than half as likely to be proficient in math as their white peers.»

I tried to think back to the hours I spent as an angsty eighth grader staring at my ceiling until an idea for a drawing came to me, doing nothing but listening to music and painting candle holders, drawing until I was so bored I actually wanted to practice violin.

«The summer before he enrolled at Chino Hills as a freshman, they brought in all the eighth graders to a summer league and they were grooming him to play freshmen basketball because they had two other freshmen pegged to play varsity,» Lafayette remembers.

He remembers seeing Porter as a 6» 5 eighth grader whose jumper seemed like the only part of his game he was interested in developing.

«So there I was, the new coach with a 142 - pound eighth - grader named Buck Belue as my quarterback,» says Hyder.

She made the squad as an eighth - grader.

As an eighth - grader he started on the high school varsity baseball team.

Georgia recruited him as an eighth - grader.

As an eighth - grader, Woodward attended the CIF State Championships to watch Vacaville hurdlers Daria Cook and Pattriana Perry.

Volunteer and charitable endeavours are particularly important for eighth graders as their awareness of the world expands ever wider.

They also pointed out how the education department has made recent adjustments to standardized testing, such as reducing the number of questions and testing time on state assessments for students in grades 3 through 8 this school year, and receiving a federal waiver to stop «double testing» in math for seventh and eighth graders through a combination of state and federal testing.

This year's state exams, which third through eighth graders will begin taking this week, immediately follow a bitter battle between Cuomo and teachers» unions over evaluations as well as tenure, merit pay and turnaround strategies for chronically underperforming schools.

There is more urgency to make changes that would affect students, as third through eighth graders begin taking a second round of Common Core - aligned exams on April 1.

This summer, state education officials released statewide test results that showed a drop in the math and English scores for third through eighth graders as the new Common Core standards take hold.

As city of Buffalo's eighth graders are trying to decide where they will go to high school, the Buffalo Public School District will be show - casing five new choices Saturday morning in Bennett High School.

I took to middle school wrestling as a rather scrawny 80 - pound eighth grader, and in so doing, ironically became all too conscious of my homosexual orientation.

Eighth graders at Pennsauken Phifer Middle School in New Jersey will examine the growth rate in microgravity of penicillium, which future astronauts could grow as an antibiotic to treat infections.

In the 2011 test, 40 percent of fourth - graders were assessed as proficient or better in math; among eighth - graders only 35 percent qualified as proficient.

And nationwide scores for students classified as Hispanic rose in both grade levels; the score gap between white and Hispanic eighth - graders shrunk by three points between 2009 and 2011.

International statistics on seventh - and eighth - graders are just as variable as the U.S. data.

Smoking peaked in 1996 with 21 % of eighth graders saying they had used cigarettes (defined as having smoked in the previous 30 - day period) and dropped to 7.1 % in 2007, the study showed.

The film which stars newcomer Elsie Fisher focuses on eighth - grader Kayla as she makes her way through the last week of middle school.

Contest officials, outraged parents and overly ambitious eighth graders are no match for Guy, as he ruthlessly crushes their dreams of victory and fame.

Three celestial guides, Mrs. Which (two - time Academy Award ® nominee Oprah Winfrey), Mrs. Whatsit (Oscar ®, Golden Globe ® and Emmy ® winner Reese Witherspoon) and Mrs.. Who (Emmy nominee Mindy Kaling), come to Earth to share their wisdom and love with struggling eighth - grader Meg Murry (Storm Reid) as she journeys across dimensions with classmate Calvin (Levi Miller) and younger brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe) in search of her father (Chris Pine), a world - renowned physicist who mysteriously disappeared four years ago.

As he shamelessly competes against eighth - graders, Guy fends off queries from all corners, including those of his journalistic sponsor: Jenny Widgeon (Kathryn Hahn) of the blog «The Click and Scroll.»

I decided to concentrate on website evaluation in general,» such as teaching eighth - graders how to validate sources.

Either way, the gains for eighth graders were only half as large, and they all but evaporated by twelfth grade.

With nearly 6.3 million students, California is still far from being able to provide a laptop for everyone, as the state of Maine, with its total number of 189,000 students, was able to do for its seventh and eighth graders (as of fall 2009, about half of Maine's high schools had laptops for each student).

Two eighth graders who appeared in the film as sixth graders said facing bullies and getting lost were among their top concerns about middle school.

They are currently training other seventh and eighth graders to join them in their role as «Character Captains.»

My eighth graders begin the year creating science fiction based origin stories for original superhero characters as an introduction to a greater advocacy unit.

When Astalos started teaching there in 2003, as few as 20 percent of the students met state benchmarks in math; now that's increased to 40 percent of eighth graders.

Among black and Hispanic eighth graders, Texas students started at about the same place as their national peers in 1990.

It turned out that some of the highest - confidence eighth - graders were some of the worst performers, and the contrary case held as well.

It began as a program exclusively for eighth graders and has grown into a school - wide initiative in which members of every grade - level team — from the sixth - grade «Navajo Team» to the eighth - grade «Sioux Team» — read one book from the spring book fair.

Had Finland's eighth graders taken NAEP in 2011, it's a good bet that the proportion scoring below NAEP proficient would have been similar to that in the U.S. And yet articles such as «Why Finland Has the Best Schools,» appear regularly in the U.S. press.

Besides incorporating such subjects as art, science, and language arts, the projects include well - considered use of computer technology, which has been enhanced by the decision of the state to provide all Maine seventh and eighth graders with iBook laptop computers.

«She opened up the school by making the morning announcements, visited classrooms and teachers, and also met with a group of eighth graders to discuss social issues, current events (such as Kosovo and Littleton, Colorado), and the challenges of being teenagers in this day and age.

African - American fourth and eighth graders also placed first on the reading exam, as did Hispanic fourth graders; Hispanic eighth graders ranked second.