Sentences with phrase «bad grades in school»

Those two little guys are responsible for many divorces, unhappy parents, bad grades in school, Persian gulf war (heh, just kidding)... One of the most famous platforms ever.

«When I was younger,» she says, «I had always bad grades in school because I was more passionate about watching animals outside than doing homework.»

«You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them.

He responded by asking if it would also make sense to change the names of your children if they got bad grades in school.

Not exact matches

When the team looked at these numbers — average rate of improvement between third and eighth grade in math and reading — many schools that are traditionally thought of as «bad» suddenly seemed good.

Here's what I mean: The worst grade I ever got in high school was in driver's ed.

She had to wear long winter underwear and heavy overshoes in bad weather; she remembers vividly how in grade school her teachers would let her start getting ready to go home five minutes earlier than the rest of the class because of all the layers she had to put on.

This is probably a bad analogy, but one of the things I always hated in grade school was picking teams.

Many studies show kids who are struggling academically actually do worse when their peers move up a grade and they are left behind and can even lead to a school dropout in the future.

Education advocacy groups are giving Gov. Andrew Cuomo bad grades when it comes to spending on education in his proposed 2014 budget, as Syracuse parents and community members believe the state needs to come through with substantially more money for schools in the spending plan.

«I've been out on the lake since I was in grade school, and I have never seen anything close to this bad,» Driscoll said.

«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for high school graduation than their peers in traditional charter and traditional public schools,» said McEachin.

Bad food and poor nutrition, environmental pollutants and limited play are now the norm for pre-school and grade school children in America.

Earl gets his first bad grade ever, he withdraws from family, friends and classroom to his secret hideaway in the school boiler room, taking on the persona for the «Phantom of the Auditorium.»

According to results from the 2010 EdNext - PEPG Survey released in this issue («Meeting of the Minds»), only 18 percent think the schools deserve an «A» or a «B,» while 25 percent assign them either a «D» or an «F.» These are the worst grades the U. S. public has given its schools since it was first asked to grade them back in 1981.

As researchers long focused on social studies and informational reading and writing education in the early elementary grades, we were frustrated by this pattern of neglect, and troubled that it is even worse in high - poverty school settings.

If you're going to turn around the kids who are new to this country or have been in bad school systems, the fastest way is to get the family to buy in, too, and not stigmatize the family just because they maybe didn't get out of the eighth grade.

Dweck: Yes, boys have a much worse time than girls in grade school, but ironically, this may result in their learning some valuable lessons.

New York grades schools on a four - point scale, which, if not as good as the traditional grading system, would be satisfactory were it not for the fact that, in New York, 4 is good, 1 is bad.

In most high schools, regardless of the subject, the day's first classes have the worst average grade.

When Jack started at Amherst, he was lucky enough to know what office hours were because, although he had attended public schools in Miami through 11th grade, he transferred his senior year to a nearby private school, Gulliver Prep, after a bad experience with a football coach who didn't value his academic skills.

New Jersey's is a complex and troubled public school system: although the state ranks in the top 5 on most nationally normed tests (NAEP, SAT, ACT), it has one of the worst achievement gaps in the country — 50th out of 51 in 8th - grade reading, for example.

High school students in a half - dozen states are scoring much worse in reading on one version of the Stanford Achievement Test - 9th Edition than students in earlier grades.

A school's grade is lowered a level if less than half of its worst students (those in the bottom 25 percent at the school) make a year's worth of learning gains.

In the fall, 870 students in kindergarten through 3rd grade whose families earned less than two and a half times the federal poverty level and who would otherwise attend some of the worst schools in the city received vouchers worth up to $ 6,000 to attend private schools of their choicIn the fall, 870 students in kindergarten through 3rd grade whose families earned less than two and a half times the federal poverty level and who would otherwise attend some of the worst schools in the city received vouchers worth up to $ 6,000 to attend private schools of their choicin kindergarten through 3rd grade whose families earned less than two and a half times the federal poverty level and who would otherwise attend some of the worst schools in the city received vouchers worth up to $ 6,000 to attend private schools of their choicin the city received vouchers worth up to $ 6,000 to attend private schools of their choice.

But the Rochester City Schools had the worst results among the «Big 5 School Districts,» with just 7.6 percent of the students in grades 3 - 8 proficient in English Language Arts and 7.9 percent proficient in math.

Compared to secondary school children in the South, those in the North and Midlands on average make less progress in English and maths, perform worse at GCSE and attain fewer top grades at A-level.

BELLE CHASSE, La. — In the early elementary school grades, Zachary Davis and his classmates at Belle Chasse Primary School in suburban New Orleans wrote almost entirely from personal experience: describing their ideal vacation, trying to convince readers that a longer school year would be a good (or bad) idea, penning a letter about their adventures during summer breaIn the early elementary school grades, Zachary Davis and his classmates at Belle Chasse Primary School in suburban New Orleans wrote almost entirely from personal experience: describing their ideal vacation, trying to convince readers that a longer school year would be a good (or bad) idea, penning a letter about their adventures during summer school grades, Zachary Davis and his classmates at Belle Chasse Primary School in suburban New Orleans wrote almost entirely from personal experience: describing their ideal vacation, trying to convince readers that a longer school year would be a good (or bad) idea, penning a letter about their adventures during summer School in suburban New Orleans wrote almost entirely from personal experience: describing their ideal vacation, trying to convince readers that a longer school year would be a good (or bad) idea, penning a letter about their adventures during summer breain suburban New Orleans wrote almost entirely from personal experience: describing their ideal vacation, trying to convince readers that a longer school year would be a good (or bad) idea, penning a letter about their adventures during summer school year would be a good (or bad) idea, penning a letter about their adventures during summer break.

«To issue a report that grades the best performing secondary state - funded school in Sunderland (latest published GCSE results) as the worst defies all common sense and logic.

While proficiency rates on grade - level math and reading tests hovered in the 30s, performance at surrounding traditional schools was worse.

Its students, which the school says come from some of the worst neighborhoods in New Haven, arrive there lagging two years behind their grade level.

Charter schools, however, have fared disproportionally worse in Florida's school grading system.

It is bad for teachers to use group grades in elementary schools and in middle schools for more than 30 % of the time.

But in spite of their progress, East Garner received a low C by the state of North Carolina last week, when A-F letter grades were handed out to every school in an effort to show parents, students and community members just how good — or bad — a job schools are doing at educating children.

That isn't necessarily bad for the students: A review by the State University of New York Charter Institute, which sponsored the UFT's charter application, found that the school had «poor» educational outcomes in the middle school grades.

«And we're doing it in a way that isn't necessarily at the expense of other educational cuts,» Tillis said, emphasizing that the House doesn't include severe cuts included in the Senate's plan, which would offer teachers an eleven percent raise but would also eliminate second and third grade teacher assistants from the classroom, cut the Department of Public Instruction by 30 percent, and reduce the number of badly needed school nurses around the state, among other cuts.

But the majority of charter districts statewide perform even worse than the city school district for African - American students in eighth - grade math, the report noted.

The middle school, which serves students in grades 6 — 8, had low scores on standardized achievement tests, an alarming level of bad behavior, and dwindling enrollment.

SALT LAKE CITY — Despite modest improvements in SAGE scores last year, schools in Utah appeared to get worse grades from the Utah State Board of Education based on school rating data released Thursday.

Few people will give their own school a low grade because that would mean the same thing as saying they live in a bad neighborhood.

Principal Ruth Robinson said the school had been «one of the worst in the country» as recently as 2009, when just 9 per cent of learners achieved five GCSE A * to C grades, including English and maths, but said its reputation was «lagging behind the reality» of recent improvement.

How do we know that those students who tested in our tenth grade this year would not have done worse than they would have had they not attended our school?

The state received a C - in Education Week's 2017 report card on school quality, and it got one of the worst grades in the nation in the analysis's «chance for success» category, which uses various metrics to «look at the role of education in promoting an individual's chance for success over the course of a lifetime.»

In 2015, Utah lawmakers approved the School Turnaround Program, which set aside $ 8 million dollars for the worst - performing three percent of public schools based on school grSchool Turnaround Program, which set aside $ 8 million dollars for the worst - performing three percent of public schools based on school grschool grading.

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Grade - level shortages: Shortages occur at all grade levels, but the problem is worse in upper grades, with 60 % of middle school districts reporting shortages and 62 % of high school districts reporting the same.

Myra Bridgers, an eighth grade language arts teacher who has been teaching for more than 20 years in Franklin County schools, said the past few years have been the worst she's seen in terms of budget cuts.

How can Mayor de Blasio say these aren't bad schools when they've failed to educate almost every single one of their students for over 40 years — since the Mayor himself was in grade school!

Students in the worst performing schools are far less likely to achieve at grade level.

In DeVos» native Michigan, for example, children in the fourth and eighth grades in the state's charter schools did worse on a national reading and math test than those in traditional public schoolIn DeVos» native Michigan, for example, children in the fourth and eighth grades in the state's charter schools did worse on a national reading and math test than those in traditional public schoolin the fourth and eighth grades in the state's charter schools did worse on a national reading and math test than those in traditional public schoolin the state's charter schools did worse on a national reading and math test than those in traditional public schoolin traditional public schools.