Sentences with phrase «eighth grade graduating»

Eighth graders leave our team with a sterling silver pin of a swift in flight, designed and created by the parent of a member of our first eighth grade graduating class in 1993.

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In May of 2013, Mr. Bucher graduated Woodland Star's eighth grade class which he began teaching when they were in grade 5.

Our first eighth grade class graduated in 1987.

A member of the Ashwood faculty since 2006, Jeremy graduated his eighth grade class there in 2011; previously, he worked at Lake Champlain Waldorf School.

Born to a teen mom, I was adopted at birth by my maternal grandmother, a high school graduate, and her second husband, an eighth - grade dropout who die d of alcohol - induced cirrhosis when I was a year old.

In an article recently published in the journal Body Image, Hillard and her colleagues, fellow Notre Dame psychology graduate student Rebecca A. Morrissey, and Notre Dame faculty members Dawn M. Gondoli, associate professor of psychology, and Alexandra F. Corning, research associate professor of psychology, reported on results from their study of a representative group of sixth - through eighth - grade girls and their mothers.

My twin daughters will be graduating eighth grade this month.

Guy never graduated from the eighth grade and uses that as he way into competing in national children's spelling bees.

The actor stars as Guy Trilby, a middle - aged loser who discovers a loophole in the spelling bee bylaws permitting anyone who hasn't graduated past the eighth grade to participate.

Teachers rely heavily on the bond that evolves between them and their students as they move together from the first grade until the students graduate from eighth grade.

Eleven students, including four who had just graduated eighth grade, would spend the weekend explaining how design thinking drove our program's work and their learning.

Graham revealed that this boy was her father, and that he graduated school by the eighth grade having learned English, some numbers, penmanship, patriotic lure, and some Longfellow.

In response to administrators» and teachers» worries about the vocabulary skills of Boston Public School students, a group of researchers and educators — assembled by the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP) in collaboration with the Boston Public Schools, and directed by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Catherine Snow — designed a curriculum supplement called Word Generation, for sixth - to eighth - grade classrooms.

But in our data set it was the graduates of Florida Atlantic who were significantly less effective at teaching reading to students in sixth through eighth grades.

In math the graduates of the University of Florida, the state's premier university, outperformed the other institutions at teaching students in fourth to eighth grade by as much as 10 percent of a standard deviation, even though NCTQ gave it no better rating than Florida State or Florida Atlantic.

The National Center for Education Statistics created the measure, which compares the number of graduates in a year to an average of student enrollment in eighth, ninth, and tenth grades four years earlier.

Icahn's eighth - grade graduates go on to apply to and attend selective New York City high schools, but network superintendent Jeff Litt notes that the ultimate goal is «putting kids on the path to fulfilling, product lives.»

Should middle school teachers let a failing eighth - grade student graduate, knowing that if she's held back, she'll likely drop out?

After graduating from Lesley University in Cambridge (where he earned another master's), but before heading to Harvard, Yung taught eighth - grade U.S. history for six years in Milton, Mass..

After graduating from Excellence at the end of eighth grade, Jamal went on to be an honor student at Bishop Loughlin, one of the best Catholic schools in New York.

«Experiencing two retentions by third grade means that these students, by definition, will be unable to graduate from eighth grade because they will turn 15 in the seventh grade and will have to go to Transition Centers [per Chicago policy],» the report stated.

The researchers found that in 1998, about 38 percent of the eighth graders sent to the district's Transition Centers — alternative schools for students who turn 15 before graduating from eighth grade — were still unable to raise their scores to meet the promotion cutoff after being retained and attending summer school again this August.

Under the Pathways program, students who wish to graduate early would begin taking high school courses in eighth grade.

On the other hand, more advanced students would be given the chance in seventh and eighth grades and during the summers to take extra courses so they could graduate in three years.

Readers should keep in mind that not all students in the US complete Algebra I in eighth - grade, but most students do complete it by the time they graduate high school.

Among the graduating eighth graders, however, only 5 percent began the year at or above grade level in both subjects.

Unfortunately, CPS still has a promotion policy that requires students to «pass» both the state reading and the state math test in order to graduate from eighth grade or be promoted from third of sixth grade without having to go to summer school.

He enrolled at ASA in eighth - grade and graduated in 2000 at which time he joined American Ballet Studio's Company.

Six years earlier, in 1999, the first group of students to enter KIPP Academy middle school, which Levin founded and ran in the South Bronx, triumphed on the eighth - grade citywide achievement test, graduating with the highest scores in the Bronx and the fifth - highest in all of New York City.

KIPP's eighth - grade graduates go to college at twice the national rate for low - income students, according to its own tracking.

After eighth grade, the parents continued to seek out and choose options that fit their desire to see their children graduate high school and attend college.

On Track to Graduate: Includes two components, graduation rates for high schools or attendance rate for other schools, and a set of measures including third - grade reading scores, eighth - grade math scores and ACT participation and performance, as applicable to the school.

Neither has it attempted to answer the single most important question in terms of whether KIPP can take over an entire neighborhood school: How many students from the neighborhood school that co-locates with KIPP — Moon Elementary School — are accepted, retained and graduated from their «No Excuses» charter school in eighth grade?

For students who attend KIPP middle schools, KIPP tracks them when they graduate from eighth grade to ensure they are kept track of, regardless of whether they go to a KIPP high school.

But ensuring that kids can read at an eighth - grade level and graduate from high school is not enough.

Test results from a partner school district of third - through eighth - grade students of first - year teachers demonstrate that those taught by Teachers College graduates scored significantly higher in reading and math than students of other teachers.

The investment appears to pay off: Students at the school learn faster than their peers nationwide, and 98 percent who finish eighth grade go on to graduate from high school, according to school officials.

But in my experience, a modicum of education is possible in almost any situation, and surely we could be providing a much higher quality of education than only 1 in 10 low - income kids graduating from college, and most kids in high poverty schools graduating high school reading on an eighth grade level.

But Pell grants, which now are a maximum of $ 5,815 annually, are just too low, said Harold Levy, executive director of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which offers scholarships, counseling and support services to outstanding low - income students from eighth grade through graduate school.

Thirteen - year - old Jeffrey must figure out how to live as a cancer survivor, get the girl, and graduate eighth grade.

Dallas County residents face other challenges: only 16.5 percent of people who were in eighth grade in 2006 had graduated with a degree from a Texas higher education institution by 2017.

In thirty years of educational service, I have taught at all levels from eighth grade through graduate seminars.