Sentences with phrase «better than middle school»

Anything would be better than middle school, right?

Today, those systems can not even sustain their own gains, which is why American 4th graders tend to have stronger results than 8th graders, and high school students do less well than middle schoolers.

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Policy makers favor the manufacturing sector because it has historically provided good paying jobs for middle - skill workers, or those folks who have more than a high school education but not a four - year college degree.

There was no better way to become a popular kid in school or to accomplish middle - class family peace and happiness than an afternoon at McDonald's.

It has been estimated that toward the close of the Middle Ages, England and Wales, with a population of about two and a half million, had 400 grammar schools - a rather better provision than in Victorian England.

She believes many schools have become a mere diversion from the academic agenda of middle - class parents — who want their children trained OUTSIDE the classroom by people better than «just teachers.»

We're cutting taxes for the middle class, making record investments in education with $ 1.4 billion in new funding, turning failing schools into community schools, and ending the GEA in New York once and for all because we believe that our tomorrows can be better than our yesterdays.

The governor says the money is needed to pay for a middle class tax cut, agreed to last year and which is scheduled to begin phasing in later this year, as well as a plan to provide free tuition at public colleges for New Yorkers earning less than $ 125,000 a year and to spend more on public schools.

Birth weight makes a difference to a child's future academic performance, according to new Northwestern University research that found heavier newborns do better in elementary and middle school than infants with lower birth weights.

For starters, there's the fact that 70 % of middle school students possess no more than a «basic» understanding of what they need to know to do well in the subject, and only 2 % perform at an «advanced» level.

Americans tend to think their local elementary and middle schools are much better than those of the nation as a whole.

«For example, students» perceptions of their own school success declines over the middle years — with Year 8 students reporting that they are doing less well in school compared to their peers, than those in Years 4 and 6.»

True, middle and upper income schools in the US do significantly better than low income schools, but even the average suburben upper income school has still a long way to go to catch up with the average school of the world's best performing education systems.

Both student and teacher attendance is higher than at other local schools, with the student attendance rate surpassing that of every other middle school in the district (and significantly better than the citywide average).

1) Entry Grade Level: Charters that enroll at the K - 1 level did dramatically better than those (like Democracy Prep) who enroll in the middle school grades.

How to Raise More Grateful Children (Wall Street Journal) «In some communities, specifically among the white middle and upper - middle class, there's good reason to believe that kids are less grateful than in the past,» says psychologist Richard Weissbourd, faculty director of the Making Caring Common initiative at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

«Some parents are better than others at helping their children make the connection between middle school achievement and post-high school plans,» Hill says.

Even after accounting for a host of other factors that influence student achievement, students who eventually attend middle schools go from scoring better than their counterparts in K — 8 schools in the year prior to transitioning to middle school to scoring below where we would expect if they were not attending a middle school.

Because we could follow the same children over a period of time, we could do a better job of ruling out the role of influences other than middle - school attendance on educational outcomes.

In a 2002 pilot study involving three middle school classrooms in Boston, Dede found that students who played his game River City surpassed the test group in three areas: They were more motivated to do the work, performed better on postlesson tests, and tended to look to their teachers to facilitate rather than give direction.

In Arizona, a state that has always had charter schools that draw middle - class students, there is evidence that, on average at least, charters are not doing any better at raising student achievement than district schools; outside of urban areas, they appear to do a bit worse.

But this claim needs to be tested, for there is clearly a plausible alternative: that teachers are not only better educated and more middle class than the average citizen, but also more public spirited, more committed to public education, and thus more likely to vote in school - board elections regardless of their personal stakes.

A student in the middle grades may now have as many as five teachers, none of which know her well — one of the reasons big schools, other things being equal, tend to perform less well than others.

Are the charter schools pulling in middle - class parents any better than the schools those children left?

On - line resources can help elementary and middle school students produce better work than that of students who have access only to computers, a study released last week concludes.

Elementary and middle school students in LASER performed significantly better than nonparticipating students on the Partnership for the Assessment of Standards - Based Science in hands - on science tasks.

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A brand new middle school, Excel Public Charter School, was hiring for a position that sounded better than any I could have dreamed up - a «Computational Thinking Program Manager.&school, Excel Public Charter School, was hiring for a position that sounded better than any I could have dreamed up - a «Computational Thinking Program Manager.&School, was hiring for a position that sounded better than any I could have dreamed up - a «Computational Thinking Program Manager.»

Economists from Harvard and Columbia studied 2.5 million people for over 20 years and concluded that those who had good teachers in elementary and middle school earned more money as adults than peers who did not.

Elementary and middle charters, on average, did better than their counterpart district schools, while charter high schools did not.

Based on statewide data, researchers Laura Hill and Margaret Weston concluded that reclassified English learners «not only outperform English learner students, but often do better than English - only students» on state standardized tests, with students reclassified in elementary grades doing better than those reclassified in middle and high school.

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At the secondary level, high schools show a higher «leadership deficit» than middle schools, as well as lower ratings on climate, openness to parents, and district support.

A given student who enrolls at an average elementary school or middle school in Minnesota may well be learning less than he or she would be at an average school in Texas.

For example, in «The Forgotten Middle,» ACT researchers conclude that the academic achievement of eighth - graders is a better predictor of college and career readiness than students» academic performance in high school.

Such an approach would be far better tooled to meet the multifaceted needs of school children than my one - size - fits - all middle school.

The improvement network's initial project is focusing on finding better ways to teach 9th - grade Algebra because middle and high school students struggle more with math than younger students, said Leyda Garcia, principal of the UCLA Community School, a district school that operates in partnership with UCLA and is part of the neschool students struggle more with math than younger students, said Leyda Garcia, principal of the UCLA Community School, a district school that operates in partnership with UCLA and is part of the neSchool, a district school that operates in partnership with UCLA and is part of the neschool that operates in partnership with UCLA and is part of the network.

Boys did better than girls in math in third, fourth and fifth grade, but girls topped boys in math on middle school exams.

Graham is the author of Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High School, Handbook of Writing Research, Handbook of Learning Disabilities, Writing Better, Making the Writing Process Work, Best Practices in Writing Instruction, and more than 135 articles.

On the 2016 - 2017 Georgia Milestones End - of - Course Physical Science Test, more than 90 percent of Amana Academy middle school students scored proficient or better.

Members include elementary, middle, and high school visual arts educators; college and university professors; university students preparing to become art educators; researchers and scholars; teaching artists; administrators and supervisors; and art museum educators — as well as more than 54,000 students who are members of the National Art Honor Society.

Richard Kahan, founder and chief executive officer of the Urban Assembly, a network of 20 small high schools and middle schools in the city, said he knew that students were doing better in small schools than large schools, but was still surprised by how positive the results were in the study.

Students generally perform significantly better in schools with strong middle - class populations than they do in high - poverty schools.

So I have a simple question — do the elementary schools do a better job with 6th grade than middle schools?

The main reason: data — the elementary schools had better scores than the middle schools.

As I have written (http://bit.ly/1blEzTj), children who learn to read at age seven, having engaged in play - based learning before, have better comprehension in middle school than those who learned to read at five.

«A lot of people think performance is all about tested skills and so there's been a lot of money put into programs aimed at improving student test scores — but what we find is that improvements in attendance in the middle grades are associated with better high school outcomes than improving test scores,» said Allensworth.

Test scores at the zone's highest - performing middle school are in the bottom 9th percentile statewide, meaning more than 90 percent of other similar schools scored better.

One charter school operator, Achievement First, which has come under state scrutiny in the past year for its disciplinary practices, once again topped the charts with a rate of close to 50 percent for its middle school students in Hartford and a rate of better than 40 percent at its high schools in Bridgeport and New Haven.

For evidence that basic skills tests for teachers assess no more than middle school level skills, see «Not Good Enough: A Content Analysis of Teacher Licensing Examinations.»