Sentences with phrase «by ninth graders»

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Warmack was a 300 - pound ninth - grader who «skyrocketed» — his word — to 345 by his senior season at Westlake (Ga.) High.

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.

Congratulations to ninth - graders Dorothy Condon and Christina Tomao, who were selected for the New York State School Boards Association exhibit, sponsored by the New York State Art Teachers Association.

However, she says a 2004 study by Robert Balfanz and Nettie Legters at Johns Hopkins University also found that many ninth - graders who fail algebra and are held back from entering tenth grade end up dropping out.

«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.

The researchers, led by developmental psychologist Nancy Hill, surveyed 624 ninth, 10th, and 11th graders in an economically and racially diverse public high school.

An estimated 18 percent of ninth - graders in the district go on to earn a bachelor's degree within 10 years of starting high school, according to a recent study by the University of Chicago's Consortium on School Research.

Percentage distribution of postsecondary education and work plans or status of fall 2009 ninth - graders in 2013, by student and family characteristics.

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

A study by the Center for Social Organization of Schools (CSOS) followed Baltimore's public school ninth graders and found that an average of 32 percent of the two ninth - grade classes (classes of 2009 and 2010) had enrolled in college within five years after ninth grade.

The Bronzeville Scholastic Institute ninth - graders were working on writing assignments in the school's homework lab, whose 24 computers are shared by nearly a thousand students from the three schools that occupy DuSable High School's campus on the South Side.

In fact, a majority of school districts with ninth - graders in the two counties appear to rely on at least some subjective placement, according to the study issued by the Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, which compiled previous studies and district data.

The plan is for all grade levels to expand by 20 new student slots in fall 2015 and eighth graders will roll up to a new ninth grade.

Incoming ninth graders who are unprepared for high school coursework are more likely to drop out of high school, and this trajectory starts in middle school: Each course failed in eighth grade increases the odds of non-promotion from ninth to tenth grade by 16 %.

In Ohio, where the Ohio Virtual Academy has been run by K12 since 2002, only 30 percent of the school's ninth graders graduate within four years, according to the school ’s

In Ohio, where the Ohio Virtual Academy has been run by K12 since 2002, only 30 percent of the school's ninth graders graduate within four years, according to the school's 2010 - 11 cohort graduation rate, which is adjusted to account for students that leave to attend other schools.

The new working paper — published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and authored by Abdulkadiroğlu, Pathak, Jonathan Schellenberg, and Christopher Walters — discusses data from the New York City Department of Education, which enrolls around 90,000 ninth - graders every year at more than 400 high schools.

ERASE STEREOTYPES: Every September, each ninth - grader in the school participates in «Challenge Day,» a program hosted by the non-profit Be The Change Movement, which takes the kids through team - building, stereotype - challenging activities.

During a lesson, my smart, sweet ninth graders were distracted by a roach striding across the floor, victoriously waving a cookie crumb in the air with its pincers.

According to figures released yesterday by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, the LA Unified fifth -, seventh - and ninth - graders who participated in the six - part test during the 2013 - 14 school year are significantly...

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.

Dakota Kilburn, a ninth - grader at Syracuse Junior High School, was hit by two vehicles while using the crosswalk near his school April 17.

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.

Make them simple enough to be understood by ninth - graders.

About every month or so, I like to do some market analysis of my own by reviewing other resume writing services, especially after hearing from a potential client who just spent over $ 1,500 for a resume that looked like it was written by a ninth - grader.

Evidence regarding the mediating role of academic self - efficacy among Asian American students is scarce, but a study by Eaton and Dembo (1997) found that, on average, Asian American ninth graders had lower academic self - efficacy beliefs but higher achievement behaviors compared to non-Asian American students, suggesting that academic self - efficacy may not be responsible for the high achievement of this group.