Sentences with phrase «balanced middle grades students»

We may find ourselves so standards - and test - driven that all the activities we use to develop healthy, balanced middle grades students are eliminated.

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In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

The district is considering a plan to delay the 7:35 a.m. middle (grades 5 - 8) and high school start time to 8:15 a.m. Oyster River has spent two years considering options for later start times, aiming to balance sleep needs with busing schedules, after - school care, student jobs and extracurricular activities.

Staffing Decisions in the Middle Grades: Balancing Quality Instruction and Teacher / Student Relations.