Sentences with phrase «children in the second grade»

Senate Education Chairman John Flanagan has proposed several bills, including a ban on testing children in the second grade and younger, and a reduction of testing used to evaluate teachers.

[i] Research shows that after two years in reduced size classes, children in a second grade classroom scored higher on reading skills than those who educated in a regular class size.

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A number of parents threatened the school with legal action over the summer after their children were prevented from beginning their second year of A-levels because they didn't achieve at least three B - grades in their first year tests.

In New York City, it is generously estimated that one out of ten poor children beginning first grade will graduate from high school prepared for a real college education --» real» meaning not majoring in «black studies» or some other pseudo-discipline, and not dropping out in the first or second yeaIn New York City, it is generously estimated that one out of ten poor children beginning first grade will graduate from high school prepared for a real college education --» real» meaning not majoring in «black studies» or some other pseudo-discipline, and not dropping out in the first or second yeain «black studies» or some other pseudo-discipline, and not dropping out in the first or second yeain the first or second year.

My oldest child is just finishing second grade, and I'll still shocked by the state of food in our school.

«While many children do fine in kindergarten and first grade, by the time they reach second grade, «they can't hold it together — they fall apart and really struggle.

In second and third grades, the children are encouraged to bring a story to life by moving as their particular character would move.

If you have two or more children in the Kindergarten or grades, we offer a generous sibling discount: 20 % for second child and 35 % for the third child or additional children.

Solution: If our child seems stressed about homework and is spending hours in first or second grade doing his assignments, talk with your child's teacher about what you can do to help.

«We found that children in the first, second and third grades who sing these songs demonstrate skills absent in children who don't take part in similar activities,» explains Dr. Idit Sulkin a member of BGU's Music Science Lab in the Department of the Arts.

That piqued my curiosity, so for those of you with children currently in public school in grades K - 12, I'd be so grateful if you'd share more details via this second survey, which focuses exclusively on your children's school food environment: the food offered in the cafeteria, classrooms and campus fundraisers.

It's best if you can hold off as long as possible before your child becomes immersed in an online (and sedentary) world, but by second grade more and more kids are getting involved.

The district has a policy that recommends an hour of homework or less for younger children: 30 minutes in kindergarten and first grade, 45 minutes in second and third grade, and 60 minutes for fourth - and fifth - graders.

In the first and second grades children sing and learn to play the pentatonic flute.

Suspensions of children in kindergarten through second grade have dropped in New York City public schools after City Hall's push to keep the littlest learners in their classrooms.

New York City education officials said suspensions would be significantly reduced, but not eliminated as an option, for children in kindergarten through second grade under new draft rules released Friday.

She teaches second graders with special needs, who are often behind the level of other children in their grade.

The average dyslexic child isn't diagnosed — and so doesn't begin to receive intensive reading help — until she is in the second or third grade.

His second - grade teacher in California convinced his parents to set down roots for the sake of the children's educations.

In comparison, children born at the expected weight had an obesity rate of only 14.2 percent by second grade.

However, this pattern of adaptive stress response development was significantly less pronounced when children experienced relatively high levels of peer victimization in the second grade.

The second study, which looked at second - to sixth - grade students in the United States, found that being victimized by peers alters the development of children's stress responses.

In a second study, described online Oct. 14 in Modern Pathology, the Johns Hopkins investigators sought a genetic source that could accurately identify subsets of low - grade pediatric gliomas, the most frequent tumors of the central nervous system in childreIn a second study, described online Oct. 14 in Modern Pathology, the Johns Hopkins investigators sought a genetic source that could accurately identify subsets of low - grade pediatric gliomas, the most frequent tumors of the central nervous system in childrein Modern Pathology, the Johns Hopkins investigators sought a genetic source that could accurately identify subsets of low - grade pediatric gliomas, the most frequent tumors of the central nervous system in childrein children.

By contrast, children who developed attention problems starting in second grade performed as well as their peers in later years.

In southern Virginia, 8 to 10 percent of children in the second through fifth grades received stimulant treatment compared with the 5 percent of children in that region who would be expected to meet criteria for ADHIn southern Virginia, 8 to 10 percent of children in the second through fifth grades received stimulant treatment compared with the 5 percent of children in that region who would be expected to meet criteria for ADHin the second through fifth grades received stimulant treatment compared with the 5 percent of children in that region who would be expected to meet criteria for ADHin that region who would be expected to meet criteria for ADHD.

Four children had grade 1 low hemoglobin levels measured at limited time points, one in the 10 µg group a week after the second immunization; and 3 in the 25 µg group occurring on the days of the first and second immunizations and a month after the third immunization, respectively.

As a child, Peter Wright was labeled disruptive and disturbed in school and by second grade had mastered no basic skills.

Most children in the United States do not get diagnosed with dyslexia until the end of second grade or, more likely, the beginning of third.

So we wanted to see if playfulness in Kindergarten had any predictive ability to talk about how the children would be in First, Second and Third Grades, both in terms of teacher's perspectives and in terms of their classmates» perspectives.

At the end of the second (or third) year in the pattern, the children move on to a new teacher while the looping teacher receives a new group of students at the lower grade level.

So there was this jump with the children themselves, both in terms of rating themselves and rating the other kids in their classroom, everything was going along fine in First and Second Grade, and then the jump from Second to Third grade produced some staggering results that changed direction fairly precipitously.

Second grade students at Conservatory Lab Charter School in Boston created a professional quality children's book as part of their investigation of snakes.

Second Step - Program created by the Committee for Children to teach social skills to students in early childhood through grade 8

3 — Violence prevention: «Second Step Teacher Training,» workshop, sponsored by the Committee for Children, for teachers of grades 6 - 8, to be held in Seattle, Wash..

8 - 10 — Violence prevention: «Second Step Teacher Training,» workshop, sponsored by the Committee for Children, for teachers of preschool through grade 8, to be held in Toronto, Ontario.

In the second year of the program, all children not repeating the grade remained assigned to the same group of peers and the same teacher.

Fifteen elementary schools and more than 1200 children in second and fourth grades in urban and suburban districts in Washington were assigned to participate in the Second Step program, versus as control, using a quasi-experimental dsecond and fourth grades in urban and suburban districts in Washington were assigned to participate in the Second Step program, versus as control, using a quasi-experimental dSecond Step program, versus as control, using a quasi-experimental design.

They also found that about 20 percent of children held back in the first and second grades are held back again in the third grade.

The number of children being retained in kindergarten through second grade began to increase in 1996 and has continued to do so.

These early differences have longlasting ramifications as research shows that the SES gap in second, third, and fourth grade reading and mathematics skills, can be explained by the oral language abilities children bring with them to kindergarten (Durham et.

District staff members started the process by measuring the body mass index (BMI) for all students in kindergarten through eighth grade, a total of 17,000 children, except for second graders, between September and November of 2004.

Second, it discusses how research and development efforts informed the key components of Project READS (Reading Enhances Achievement During Summer), a scaffolded voluntary summer reading intervention for children in grades 3 to 5.

In a study involving 120 children in kindergarten and the second and fourth grades, Marsha B. Liss, a researcher at California State College in San Bernardino, tried to assess the effects of «Saturday - morning programs with aggression and a moral message.&raquIn a study involving 120 children in kindergarten and the second and fourth grades, Marsha B. Liss, a researcher at California State College in San Bernardino, tried to assess the effects of «Saturday - morning programs with aggression and a moral message.&raquin kindergarten and the second and fourth grades, Marsha B. Liss, a researcher at California State College in San Bernardino, tried to assess the effects of «Saturday - morning programs with aggression and a moral message.&raquin San Bernardino, tried to assess the effects of «Saturday - morning programs with aggression and a moral message.»

Ferede, a former fourth - grade teacher for first and second - generation immigrant and refugee children in a high - needs area in Toronto often saw a disparity between her students» community and the education system.

The study, which tracked nearly 1,000 native English - and ESL - speaking children immersed in mainstream English classrooms in Canada from kindergarten to second grade, found that by the end of second grade, the ESL children had attained reading skills that were similar to, and in some cases better than, their native English - speaking peers.

Follow - up pairwise contrasts indicated that children's reading achievement in every classroom was significantly different from that in every other classroom: On average, children in classroom 1 were reading at a primer level; children in classroom 2 were reading at an end - of - first grade level; children in classroom 3 were reading on a mid second - grade level; and children in classroom 4 were reading on a late second - grade level.

Second grade teacher Daniel Kurzynski, who teaches at Jefferson Elementary School in Stevens Point, makes reading special for children in the school by including her one - year - old Great Pyrenees, Chopin.

They want their children to start learning English in first rather than second grade.

As Eva Moskowitz puts it: «If (we) backfilled older grades... the incoming students» lower relative academic preparation would adversely affect the schools» other students... We have an obligation to the parents in middle and high school, and the kids in middle and high school, that until the district schools are able to do a better job, it's not really fair for the seventh - grader or high school student to have to be educated with a child who's reading at a second - or third - grade level.»

Every state has to annually test students in grades 3 - 8 with a standardized test; that's a key part of the federal law called the Every Child Succeeds Act, approved at the end of President Obama's second term.