Sentences with phrase «community about the eighth»

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The other day a colleague of mine, who came to America from Russia via Israel, told me a story about her son who is in the eighth grade in a renowned progressive school in Cambridge, Massachusetts (than which no community could be more progressive).

At a ceremony that included a saxophone performance and was attended by the Friends of the East Elmhurst Library as well as by about 30 fifth - and eighth - grade students from East Elmhurst's PS 127, the East Elmhurst Library's Community Library Manager Johnnie Dent and Queens Library Chief Executive Officer Tom Galante thanked Peralta for his donation.

As the Environmental Protection Agency's oversight of the cleanup of this neighborhood stretches into its eighth year, new research has linked PCBs exposure to a high rate of diabetes in this community of about 4,000 people, nearly all African American and half living in poverty.

In the early 1970s, when Strom was teaching eighth - grade language arts and social studies in Brookline, Massachusetts, community residents approached school administrators, asking if the district taught students about the Holocaust.

Given that only about one - third of eighth graders in the US are proficient in math, and that over 60 % of community college students are required to enroll in developmental math courses, it seems clear that our current practices are not improving student thinking and problem - solving ability in mathematics.

But for her own son, who has attended Capital Prep since eighth grade, «he feels like he has a community of people who care about him.»

A study released this year by the World Resources Institute and the Rights and Resources Initiative found that rates of deforestation are, on average, 11 times lower in community forests with strong legal recognition, and indigenous people have official rights to about an eighth of the world's forest area.

According to the report, there are 513 million hectares of legally recognized community forests, which account for about an eighth of the world's forests.