Sentences with phrase «eighth grader from»

Kurt Kinsey, one of the longtime trainers at First People's, likes to show a video of his interview with an eighth grader from a middle school in Sheridan, one of the highest scoring school district in the state.

Before J.Law was an Oscar winner, she was a sweet little eighth grader from Louisville, Ky., who loved statement earrings.

Made up of scores from 550,000 fourth and eighth graders from more than 40 countries, the assessment shows a handful of East Asian countries scored among the highest, whereas U.S. students wound up in the middle of the pack.

Eighth graders from the school are scheduled to take part in the opening ceremonies of the 20th anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., November 7.

Approximately 3,000 fourth - grade students from 130 elementary schools and 2,800 eighth graders from 108 middle schools were included in the Virginia sample.

The amazing journey of Ridgewood Middle School, a school of 500 seventh and eighth graders from low socio - economic families on the outskirts of St. Louis presents a real life example that showcases the transformative power of effective character education.

The 2009 NAEP sample of Virginia students for mathematics included approximately 2,901 fourth - grade students from 130 elementary schools and 2,804 eighth graders from 108 middle schools.

In the MSOSW project, approximately 600 sixth, seventh, and eighth graders from middle schools in Louisiana, Hawaii, Maine, Texas, and Vermont are participating to provide home energy use data under supervision of their teachers.

The 2011 NAEP sampling of Virginia students included approximately 7,600 fourth - grade students from 120 elementary schools and 5,500 eighth graders from 100 middle schools.

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In our study, we analyzed data from a nationally representative survey of eighth -, 10th -, and 12th - graders that's been conducted annually since 1991.

As soon as I turned 13, she presented me with my first tube of cherry - red lipstick and my first pair of high heels — three - inch heels they were in those days, and I thought them not only uncomfortable but incredibly hideous — and from then on made me go to church thus shod and painted, indistinguishable from the other eighth - graders whose arms hadn't had to be twisted.

On the day SportStars visited The Range, Birse's session was followed by an eighth - grader that had flown in with his father from Alaska.

Linda has shepherded one Steiner School class from first through eighth grades, taken another from sixth through eighth, and is currently happily engaged in teaching a lively band of third graders.

It examined about 1,400 eighth graders, from Boston's public and charter schools.

Sixth -, seventh - and eighth - graders at the Oswego school were busy polishing off selections from a multiple - choice menu that included tacos, salads and chicken patties, and even a serving of turkey.

The state began testing third through eighth graders on the more difficult material last April, despite protests from unions and teachers that schools did not have the resources or time to prepare.

Because many eighth graders assumed the schools would be closed and the Education Department discouraged them from attending the schools, few applied.

The occasion for my visit was a reunion of Global Tech's first class of eighth - graders, who were now, four years after their middle - school commencement, graduating from high school.

An ongoing lawsuit over the closing of nineteen public schools has delayed notification for 80,000 of the city's eighth - graders waiting to hear from the Department of Education about where they'll be going to high school, and parents are steaming mad.

Some 209,000 fourth - graders from 8,500 schools and 175,200 eighth - graders from 7,610 schools participated in the 2011 test.

To test this, the researchers recruited a diverse group of 171 seventh - and eighth - graders and followed them from ages 13 through 27 years old.

There was a significant drop in past year use among eighth graders, from 2.7 percent in 2016 to 2 percent this year.

These findings come from the 2017 Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey of eighth, 10th and 12th graders in schools nationwide, reported today by the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, along with scientists from the University of Michigan, who conduct the annual research.

There was a significant decline this year among eighth graders» past year misuse, reported at 0.4 percent in 2017, down from 0.8 percent last year, and significantly down from 2.9 in 2001.

Fifty seventh - and eighth - graders from John Witherspoon Middle School in Princeton came to PPPL for a half day on March 4 to become scientists — doing a variety of hands - on science activities, from building a motor to sampling ice cream frozen with liquid nitrogen in a cryogenics demonstration, to watching cool plasma demonstrations of lightning, static electricity and stars.

Fifty seventh - and eighth - graders from John Witherspoon Middle School in Princeton came to PPPL for a half day on March 4 to become scientists — doing a variety of hands - on science activities, from building a motor to

An eighth - grader in Toronto was sent to the principal after a teacher called her natural hair «too poofy» and «unprofessional,» and said that «no one would hire her with hair like that» and if «she were working in a store, no one would buy anything from her.»

As he shamelessly competes against eighth - graders, Guy fends off queries from all corners, including those of his journalistic sponsor: Jenny Widgeon (Kathryn Hahn) of the blog «The Click and Scroll.»

Black eighth graders gained twenty - three points from 1990 to 2015, Hispanic students gained twenty - four, and white students gained twenty - two.

The way I talked with my older son (third grade) is different from how I'll talk to eighth graders.

With nearly 6.3 million students, California is still far from being able to provide a laptop for everyone, as the state of Maine, with its total number of 189,000 students, was able to do for its seventh and eighth graders (as of fall 2009, about half of Maine's high schools had laptops for each student).

Eighth grader Jordan, who transferred from a school where racial prejudice was a problem she ran into, says she was «shocked when I came here» to see the students working together.

Eighth graders saw a five - point gain from 2000 to 2003, but only a three - point gain from 2003 to 2007.

Eighth graders at Fairbanks Middle School in Milford Center, Ohio, for example, spent most of last year contacting and interviewing World War II veterans from Union County, Ohio.

It began as a program exclusively for eighth graders and has grown into a school - wide initiative in which members of every grade - level team — from the sixth - grade «Navajo Team» to the eighth - grade «Sioux Team» — read one book from the spring book fair.

We already know from national assessment data that about half of eighth graders with college - educated parents fail to clear the «proficient» bar on NAEP.

In Delaware, the math proficiency rate for eighth graders has gone from over 60 percent to below 40 percent.

Word has traveled from last year's class, and already, Schwartz says, the new class is anticipating Private Watkins's arrival: «The new eighth graders ask, «Is that guy gonna come and shoot the gun?»

Researchers from RAND studying the first year of Vermont's implementation of portfolio assessments for fourth and eighth graders found that the development of portfolios (work was selected by students with input from classroom teachers) had several positive educational outcomes: Students and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on student work.

The study found that after multimedia technology was used to support project - based learning, eighth graders in Union City, New Jersey, scored 27 percentage points higher than students from other urban and special needs school districts on statewide tests in reading, math, and writing achievement.

Researchers from Santa Clara University and the University of Maryland compared learning outcomes for eighth graders who completed a six - week unit on early 19th - century U.S. history using traditional instructional methods versus project - based learning.

Data were drawn from the samples of 6,227 fourth graders and 7,146 eighth graders.

Another district, Cambridge (Mass.) Public Schools, is trying an entirely new model: This fall it moved away from its long - held K — 8 configuration with the creation of a lower school and an upper school, with sixth - through eighth - graders in the upper school still housed within four of the city's elementary buildings.

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.

Dressed in jeans (he'd come that morning from New York, and said he hadn't been willing to risk waking up his two - year - old daughter to grab his suit from her room), walking casually around the stage throughout the lecture, Fryer showed some 2011 data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress of eighth - graders in reading and math.

The results from the 2017 National Assessment of Education Progress, also called NAEP or The Nation's Report Card, have been released, and they show that fourth - and eighth - graders have made little to no gains in math and reading since 2015.

An eighth grader shares what she has gained from a long - term social and emotional learning program.

Federal law requires 95 percent participation in the annual assessment of third through eighth graders, and districts that fall below that threshold can face sanctions from their state and the federal Education Department.

This year, state officials reported an exclusion rate of 3.6 percent in fourth - grade reading compared with 12.6 percent in 2013; and only 4.7 percent of eighth graders were excluded, down from 9.2 percent in 2013.

The State Board of Education ended a decade - long controversial policy of pushing eighth graders to take Algebra I when members voted unanimously Wednesday to strip California's Algebra I standards from the state's eighth grade math standards.