Sentences with phrase «eighth grade students»

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

During the third year of his administration, the state's fourth and eighth grade students ranked first in the nation in both reading and math — a major achievement.

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

At the end of the last school year, seventh and eighth grade students got to take home a paperback version of their choice for summer reading.

It is currently home to 500 Kindergarten through eighth grade students who come to the school from all over the city of Chicago.

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

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.

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

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.

The SAGE program serves academically gifted Kindergarten through eighth grade students at the SAGE Center on the Northland Innovation Campus.

Dawn Darche (second from right), Sterling Education Association president, and Vince Agostine, principal, with eighth grade students from Sterling Community School.

Teachers have the task of instructing eighth grade students on how to become self - sufficient learners.

We've tripled the number of eighth grade students achieving advanced levels in mathematics — but only from one percent to three percent.

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.

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

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

VocabularySpellingCity's learning games, like MatchIt Sentences, help eighth grade students practice context clues skills to identify the appropriate word meaning.

Open School in Cambridge, has taught integrated social studies and English language arts courses to seventh and eighth grade students since 1996.

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.

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.

The five - unit curriculum begins with two units to help sixth grade through eighth grade students understand energy: What is it, where does it come from, how do we use it and why, and what kinds of costs and consequences are associated with our energy use?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

All NAEP Scores for Alabama eighth grade students fell since the implementation of Common Core with the exception of eighth grade ELA.

Science scores for eighth grade students also increased significantly over the same time period.

Together, three eighth grade students created the hashtag #Our17, encouraging students to show love and compassion to fellow students over the next 17 days, recognizing that they themselves are responsible for making positive changes in their school.

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

Planet Health is an interdisciplinary curriculum focused on improving the health and well - being of sixth through eighth grade students while building and reinforcing skills in language arts, math, science, social studies, and physical education.

The Spencer Foundation awarded RFA a planning grant to examine eighth grade students» school experiences and achievement as they encountered higher level mathematics courses, increased course requirements, and a newly mandated independent learning project.

This Learning Journey is provided free to all MPS eighth grade students.

Only one - third of America's fourth and eighth grade students read at grade - level.

Eighth grade students need to have a working knowledge of 8th grade math terms before they can apply them to math principles.

In 2017, 83 % of eighth grade students performed at Basic or Above in ELA and nearly 70 % of the same eighth graders enrolled in high - performing high schools.

Eighth grade students study United States history during the 1800's.

Eighth grade students Selin Altintas, Nurbanu Simsek, and Madina Khurishanova from Oakton, Virginia's Pinnacle Academy represented Washington D.C. at the 2010 Future City Competition National Finals.

A total of 213 Hispanic eighth grade students with a history of externalizing behavior problems and their primary caregivers were recruited from the public school system.

There is also a Freshman Summer Round admissions process or eighth grade students who move to a participating school division after September 30.

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

Sixth, seventh and eighth grade students achieved gains of 5.1 points, 5.0 points and 4.4 points respectively, while ninth and tenth grade students showed gains of 2.2 points and 2.9 points respectively.

All Milwaukee Public Schools eighth grade students will visit Junior Achievement's Finance Park at the JA of Wisconsin Kohl's Education Center.

Eighth grade students whose teachers frequently ask them to use computers to draft and revise their writing scored higher than their peers.

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 eighth grade reading exam did see a slight uptick.

-- Anatomy of a Project: «Kinetic Conundrum» — 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.

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