Sentences with phrase «eighth grade student»

We recently received an inspirational email from an eighth grade student in Washington State.

We recently received an inspirational email from an eighth grade student in Washington State.

Every seventh and eighth grade student participates in a weekly class that covers topics directly related to the skills needed for high school success.

NAEP SCORES SLIP AND SPIN ENSUES: Fourth and eighth grade student scores on the Nation's Report Card took an «unexpected downturn» this year after more than two dozen years of small and steady gains, prompting immediate recriminations over the Common Core, testing and the Obama administration's education policies.

And it shows — one eighth grade student noted how much STEM coursework was available, including courses not typically seen in middle schools.

Congratulations to Indian Creek eighth grade student Eli Fortier who won third place at the County Spelling Bee held at the Anne Arundel County Board of Education last Saturday, February 24.

RACINE COUNTY — A former Waterford teacher is accused of having inappropriate contact with an eighth grade student.

One was a fourth grade student at West Road Intermediate School, the other an eighth grade student at LaGrange Middle School.

Saugerties High School senior Austin Beaudette and Saugerties Junior High School eighth grade student Kira Daniels were selected as Mid - Hudson / Westchester region honorees by the New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers (NYSAFLT) earlier this spring.

It was taking seventh and eighth grade students 4 - 5 hours a night to complete homework assignments.

Today's New York Post has a story (in which I'm quoted) about eighth grade students in Queens who, due to school cafeteria overcrowding, will be required to eat their «lunch» this year at 9:45 am.

Castorina has never run for public office before, but is well known among the Island's elected officials for his pro bono lawsuit filed against the city in 2010 to restore school buses for seventh and eighth grade students.

A teacher at Cambridge Central Schools is on leave after seventh and eighth grade students were given a handout on transgender education this week that angered many parents in the district.

Only about a third of New York state's third through eighth grade students met the new tougher standards from April's round of state mandated English and math tests.

Vargas will also use the award to provide eighth grade students — who are usually learning about the carbon cycle through their class curriculum — a chance to get a hands - on learning experience related to carbon.

I had never organized a field trip, and with close to 400 eighth grade students, the first step was to work through the logistics:

For script material, eighth grade students who were peer leaders met and reminisced about the fears they had before entering middle school.

Originally conceived as an approach for kindergarten through eighth grade students, limited resources and the logistical problems of implementing Responsive Classroom practices with multiple teachers, prompted the NEFC to narrow its focus primarily to elementary schools.

The rockets will contain a mini-Arduino that the seventh and eighth grade students will learn to program for recording the rockets» maximum altitude.

As a social studies teacher, he had seventh and eighth grade students in a «looped» class in which he taught the same students for both years.

In this respect, I am reminded of the belief of many of my former eighth grade students that «not having to sit at the back of the bus» is the accomplishment worth celebrating.

The performance of U.S. fourth graders was stagnant, but eighth grade students showed some improvement in math and science over the past four years, Emma Brown reports in the Washington Post.

Art, history, engineering, language arts, and technology, both old and new, come together for eighth grade students in this rich project learning expedition at King Middle School in Portland, Maine.

When Heather Wolpert - Gawron asked her eighth grade students what engaged them most, it was no surprise that «working with their peers» was first on their list.

Heather Wolpert - Gawron Student Engagement Blogger and English teacher Heather Wolpert - Gawron asked her eighth grade students what they find most engaging in the classroom

A 2009 study of seventh and eighth grade students at 10 Boys & Girls Clubs across the country found that those attending afterschool programs skipped school fewer times, increased school effort, and gained academic confidence; moreover, the first two outcomes cited above increased as the number of days attending afterschool programs increased (Arbreton, Bradshaw, Sheldon, & Pepper, 2009).

As many as 7 percent of eighth grade students in the United States stay home at least once a month because of bullies.

The Rhodes School opened its doors in 2007 to educate pre-K through eighth grade students in Houston, Texas.

Eighth grade students use artifacts from their permanent files to demonstrate their growth through the creation and presentation of an exit portfolio.

In 2011 Baltimore City Schools submitted a successful proposal for an Investing in Innovations (i3) grant to offer a three year (2012 - 2014) summer program designed to expose rising sixth through eighth grade students to VEX robotics.1 The i3 - funded Middle School Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Summer Learning Program was part of a larger Baltimore City STEM summer learning program entitled «Create the Solution» in 2012 and «22nd Century Pioneers» in 2013 and 2014.

In 2011 Baltimore City Schools submitted a successful proposal for an Investing in Innovations (i3) grant to offer a three year (2012 - 2014) summer program designed to expose rising sixth through eighth grade students to VEX robotics.1 The i3 - funded Middle School Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Summer Learning Program was part of a larger Baltimore -LSB-...]

Seventh and eighth grade students who score at the 95th (or 97th) percentile in mathematics and reading in grade - level assessments take the SAT or ACT as an above - level test.

Utah fourth and eighth grade students held steady in their performance on National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests in mathematics and reading in 2017

If your highest priority is to prepare all eighth grade students for high school, make sure that new technology is piloted in all eighth grade student populations.

For 70 years, GSL's excellent college preparatory program has produced excellent outcomes — eighth grade students who are confident and ready to succeed in whichever private or public high school they choose to attend after GSL.

Artwork created by fifth and eighth grade students who belong to art clubs in the Syracuse City School District was on display as part of the CNY Fiber Artists and Producers presentation in Bouckville.

I don't know what to make of a long - awaited report issued Oct. 24, 2013 by the National Center of Education Statistics showing that most U.S. eighth grade students are not at the bottom of the global barrel when it comes to math and science.

The fifth grade students at Ed Smith School worked with felt and the eighth grade students knit squares and when the pieces were sewn together the fabric covered «yarn splashed» animals.

While up from the stagnant eight percentage points from the previous two academic years, 12 percent of black sixth to eighth grade students were considered proficient in math in 2015 - 16 compared to 68 percent of white students and 24 percent of Hispanic students.

In order to monitor Arizona's progress towards the Governor's goals, we should encourage any programs or initiatives that not only address early identification and interventions for students struggling in math, but also measure and report the math performance of all eighth grade students, no matter the test they take.

Eighth grade students whose teachers had received professional development in how to teach different groups of students substantially outperformed other students.

Nearly 600 sixth - through eighth grade students on 28 Baltimore City public school teams compete bi-weekly in an...

Nationally, only 33 percent of eighth grade students were deemed at or above proficient in science, NAEP noted.

Our eighth grade students pass the Regents in Algebra, Living Systems and Greek and continue their education in a variety of high schools, including specialized, independent, Catholic and public.

When the eighth grade students who scored well on the state test took the admissions test for the specialized high schools like Stuyvesant and Bronx Science, not one of them passed the test.

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, MPS fourth and eighth grade students overall, test well below average in reading.

Nationally, performance on the bi-annual assessment of fourth and eighth grade students remained more - or-less unchanged from the previous administration of NAEP in 2015, although the average score on the -LSB-...] More

Both third grade and eighth grade students had to hit minimum test scores to avoid repeating a school year.

Also included in the program were eighth grade students from Lauderdale Lakes Middle School.

«As far as working with teachers and students, we did a couple of core content STAAR camps — we called them «Comic - Cons» — with strategies that helped our eighth grade students move on to the next grade level.