Sentences with phrase «at later grades»

This is exhibited by an especially large increase in enrollments for younger students, which has not yet translated into similar growth at later grades.

Immersion programs are effective and, in fact, generate equivalent learning in less time if started at later grades.

Not exact matches

The latest channel sampling results continue to confirm the high - grade silver potential and continuity of mineralization within a low - to - intermediate - sulphidation epithermal vein system at Las Chispas, and suggest a similar geochemical signature to the Santa Elena deposit.

In late October, Dominion Bond Rating Service (DBRS) decided to keep Portugal's sovereign rating at investment grade, maintaining the country's BBB (low) rating with a «stable» outlook on the back of its progress in reducing the fiscal deficit and proactive measures to strengthen the banking sector.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Two days later a half kilo of extract grade Madagascar Bourbon vanilla beans arrives at my door.

Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard are the latest to make the grade after coming through as homegrown talents, while Paul Pogba also spent time with the Reds at youth level before leaving for Juventus and then re-joining last summer.

Six years later, his weight has ballooned, injuries have mounted, and the only thing that remains is the raw power which doesn't play at all because he's rocking about a 30 - grade hit tool.

We take a look at the latest transfer rumors surrounding the Rossoneri and grade their likelihood

Take my teen's cell phone: He received it in 6th grade, which may be early or late depending on your beliefs / community / needs, but he was going out of state with a friend's family and I wanted him to be able to contact me (and me him) at any time.

There's James Heckman, a Nobel Prize - winning economist at the University of Chicago, who found in the late 1990s that students who earned high school diplomas through the General Educational Development program, widely known as the GED, had the same future prospects as high school dropouts, a discovery that led him to conclude that there were qualities beyond courses and grades that made a big difference in students» success.

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Barilla, who works as a first grade teacher at Pittsburgh Public Schools, believes her work hours will change — no more late nights of lesson planning at school.

In late 2015, the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative journalism outlet, gave New York a D - grade at the conclusion of what it called «a comprehensive assessment of state government accountability and transparency.»

In math, students will be introduced to some of the higher mathematical concepts at an earlier grade level, though they will not be expected to fully master them until later on.

According to the latest YouGov poll, the Conservative lead over Labour is at 5 points among those from social grades A, B and C1, and -11 for those in C2, D and E groups.

Marshall, son of the late actor E. G. Marshall, is changing that — and at the same time, he hopes, the tarantula's image as the bloodthirsty villain of grade B horror films.

At Baltimore's Thomas Jefferson Elementary Middle, third - grade students who were given male and female zebrafish one day this fall were amazed, just 24 hours later, to see embryos form, and thrilled to observe the growing life forms under a microscope.

We live in a society where childhood obesity is at an all - time high and studies suggest too much television time may contribute to behavior problems, poor grades, and even depression later in life.

I am happy to be an example of a mom who, at her worst, had a grade three prolapse, had 3 vaginal deliveries, and now 9 years later is still running, boarding, hiking, and playing without limitations with her kids.

Being able to state that you lost exactly 10.5 pounds of fat and gained 2.5 pounds of lean mass in a given time frame might be great for supplement ads or to promote the latest weight loss fad, but numbers that precise aren't realistic without expensive, laboratory - grade equipment, or at least a very skilled professional.

Baby steps, a little at a time, one puzzle piece at a time, one email at a time, one load of laundry at a time, one paper graded at a time, and sooner or later I'll make progress.

Every day at recess (yes, we had recess at my high school), a good chunk of my grade could be found in the computer room, logging on to Olsen Twins (or, as we fondly called them, M.K.A) fan Livejournals to peep the latest snaps of the twins bopping around Manhattan in oversized sunglasses, clutching Tasti D - Lite cups.

Combine that with Harry's 4th grade grammar, spelling, and testosterone - fueled drooling over the latest movie vixen, and you ain't at Masterpiece Theater.

Why did Linklater's experimental film, which follows Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from first grade to the moment he arrives at college, connect with audiences now and not decades later?

Later, for the short - lived Cinema Magazine, he wrote at length about Boetticher and Rossellini, two filmmakers who almost made the grade (alongside the holy trinity of Ozu, Bresson, and Dreyer) in Schrader's 1972 book Transcendental Style in Film.

«Beverly Hills Cop III» — arriving seven years later, at a time when there was little public enthusiasm for either the Axel Foley character or Murphy himself — also struggles to make the grade.

From its inception, Citizen Schools has focused on kids in sixth, seventh, and particularly eighth grade because, as Schwarz suggests about middle school's «capstone year,» intervention at this point is most likely «to prevent kids from voting with their feet and dropping out later on.»

When Michelle Moyle was sick in bed, her fourth - grade teacher, Liz Thomas, arrived at her house with a stack of books to cheer her up — a gesture Michelle remembers some 38 years later.

Later, she dove into the deep end at Tennenbaum, instituting blended learning across all subjects and grades.

Because so many of the students who enroll in online schools show up late and are behind in their studies, it's not surprising that many don't achieve grade - level proficiency at the end of the year.

Conversely, late entrants at district schools had dramatically lower average 4th - grade test scores than on - time enrollees: 0.30 and 0.32 standard deviations lower in reading and math, respectively (in both cases, 0.29 standard deviations below the district average).

Both KIPP and comparison middle schools admit late entrants, but at KIPP they are concentrated in earlier grades.

Within KIPP schools, students in early grades have lower entering achievement levels, on average, than those in later grades, a pattern that is not evident at district schools.

Every school had to report to the public the percentage of students at each grade level who performed at «proficient» or above in reading, math, and, later, science.

Under NCLB, every school had to report to the public the percentage of students at each grade level who performed at «proficient» or above in reading, math, and, later, science.

He recently offered an analysis that shows the average number of proficient students increasing at Democracy Prep and declining at Success in later grades.

In fact, attrition rates at Success are lower in early grades than in later grades.

For younger students, research has shown that chronic absenteeism in kindergarten is associated with lower achievement in reading and math in later grades, even when controlling for a child's family income, race, disability status, attitudes toward school, socioemotional development, age at kindergarten entry, type of kindergarten program, and preschool experience.

* This lack of synchrony leads to bizarre situations, such as an arts - keen kid finding a program that's right for him at one level but only in science, or maybe nothing, at the next level and youngsters welcomed into «gifted» program as late as ninth grade who find no openings in suitable high schools starting in tenth.

While administering the test later in the year has potential benefits in measured performance, grading the tests over a shorter time frame costs more, estimated at some $ 3.9 million annually in Colorado.

«If you look at international comparisons, kids in the United States perform better at elementary school than the later grades... so it made sense to look at whether grade configuration influenced this.»

1987 I began grade seven at the University of Toronto Schools, a lab school of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, where I would later do my postdoc.

Later on, I visited the fourth - grade math class of Tarik Walmsley, a lanky University of Washington graduate who was homeschooled at his students» age.

Public school districts may commence language other than English instruction at any grade level prior to grade eight but shall do so no later than the beginning of grade eight so that students are provided the required two units of study by the end of grade nine.

In a study tracking children from age 3 through middle school, David Dickinson, now a professor of education at Vanderbilt University, and Catherine Snow, an education professor at Harvard University, found that a child's score on a vocabulary test in kindergarten could predict reading comprehension scores in later grades.

It also delays the point at which Bay State students reach Algebra I — the gateway to higher math study — from eighth to ninth grade or later.

Still, she said she was shocked when the principal called a few days later to say Lucas could not enroll because staff had determined that he wasn't academically or developmentally ready for third - grade - even though he was enrolled in the third grade at his local public school, where he remains.

Still, Mr. West noted that it's not certain whether the false positives come from mistakes that make sense in context — for example, a high - performing student who gets chicken pox and misses two weeks of school — or the effect of interventions to help at - risk students in later grades.

When the latest scores of our country's national reading test arrived this spring, they were as depressing as usual: Two - thirds of American fourth - graders, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, can not read at grade level.