Sentences with phrase «as ninth graders»

Of 166 students who entered as ninth graders, only 107 graduated.

According to data compiled by the Texas Education Agency, 348,903 students were enrolled as ninth graders in Texas high schools in 1997.

Suppose a student entered «Lincoln High School» as a ninth grader in, say, fall of 2012.

When Billy Gibson started at Jemicy as a ninth grader, he wasn't sure he would finish high school.

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He was just a teenage boy, a ninth - grader new to basketball but already taller than most men, with hands as soft as flannel.

A study performed at the Department of Psychiatry in Taipei, Taiwan, polled the parents of 2643 first to ninth graders and discovered that dyssomnia (sleep - disordered breathing problems and daytime inadvertent napping) were related to ADHD symptoms as reported by mothers and teachers.

And the writing task improved the scores of highly anxious ninth graders so much that they performed as well as students with low anxiety on a biology final exam.

As storytelling, its simplistic characters and ludicrous situations would embarrass a ninth - grader shooting a short film on a digital phone.

«This means every ninth - grader has a big sister or big brother in each of the other classes.This vertical integration, as opposed to horizontal integration of grouping students in grade levels by age, fosters deep friendships across grades and promotes a feeling of family in our school community.

Knowing that their work would be viewed by people who were interested purely in its merit and content — and not simply as an entity to be graded — brought about a level of professionalism I didn't think lived in ninth graders.

Some ENLACE programs provide ninth graders with mentors — upperclassmen or college students — to help with the transition and act as role models.

Along with teaching, Milner directed various summer programs such as STEP, JumpStart, and Rise Up, which work to support at - risk ninth graders.

As I contemplated the writing assignment for our required reading of The Odyssey, I was filled with dread at the thought of reading 120 uninspired essays in which my ninth graders would dutifully recount details from the epic.

As described in the post, Gehlbach and his research team surveyed 315 ninth graders and 25 of their teachers with questions on ``...

Studies find that as many as 60 percent of students who drop out within six years of starting high school didn't earn a full year's worth of credits as ninth - graders.

While teachers are the ones handing out homework assignments and giving lectures, decorum was set aside as their athleticism came out, including assistant principal Stacy Miller's mean overhand serve in the volleyball games with the ninth - graders grappling to get the ball back over the net.

The North STEM Academy offers incoming ninth graders a project - based learning approach as a means to studying Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.

«Everyone really struggled with the model,» she said, noting that as a nonselective school, she has some ninth - graders coming in at a kindergarten reading level.

In years past, K - 12 accountability measures focused on data points such as third - grade reading scores, the number of ninth - graders taking algebra, or setting new records for the most number of AP tests taken and passed.

For example, Connecticut's «on track to graduate» indicator measures the percentage of ninth - graders earning at least five full - year credits.9 Massachusetts, on the other hand, measures the percentage of students who fail a ninth - grade course.10 Illinois uses a hybrid approach, counting students as on track if they earn at least five full - year course credits in ninth grade and no more than one semester F in a core course their first year of high school.11

As with many ninth graders, the future seems far from definite.

After serving for five years as academic dean, Dr. Avilés was tapped by the district to open and lead the Above and Beyond Ninth Grade High School Initiative to serve students who were considered at - risk of dropping out of school, where, as a result, 114 of 118 students moved to the 10th grade, compared to 40 percent retention rates for ninth graders in the district and state.

Humanities teacher Sydney Chaffee listens as Codman Academy ninth - grader Katia Antunes recites her poem.

In the redesigned choice system, all rising ninth graders apply in December of their eighth - grade year by completing the Department of Education's High School Admissions Application form which asks for basic information such as gender, school information, final report card grades, and attendance record.

Besides teaching earth science to ninth graders and advanced chemistry to twelfth graders, Manning serves as the president of the National Earth Science Teachers Association, a group of about 1,000 teachers in the US.

These 11 lessons scaffold seamlessly from the knowledge gained in the middle school curriculum, yet the high school curriculum can also stand on its own, as a comprehensive sexuality education curriculum for ninth or tenth graders.