Sentences with phrase «eighth graders asks»

An trio of eighth graders asks when there will be speed cameras in front of every city school after their school lost three students to hit - and - runs.
An eighth grader asks how to make the high school admissions process simpler.
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?»

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An eighth - grader emailed President Donald Trump asking for gun control — and he got a surprising response:
When Consolato Errico was an eighth - grader in Brooklyn, N.Y., his teacher asked him what he'd like to be when he grew up.
A parents organization in the Westhill School District in Onondaga County is asking families to consider having their third through eighth graders refuse to take the next round of state english and math tests.
When Jennifer, another eighth grader, is asked what she would be doing if she wasn't at school, she answers matter - of - factly, «I'd be cleaning and taking care of my brothers and sisters.»
I was reading children's books to my eighth graders, using the stories to reinforce literary elements, when a student asked if she could sit on the floor at my feet.
In particular, parents need to be actively involved in the decisions their eighth - graders are asked to make about classes they will take in ninth grade and understand the long - term effects of the course decisions (Paulson, 1994).
American eighth graders continue to demonstrate lackluster knowledge and skills when asked basic questions about U.S. history, geography, and civics, with between 18 and 27 percent of students scoring proficient or higher, new data show.
At one of the schools studied, San Francisco's KIPP Bay Academy, a visitor recently asked eighth - grader Jessica Hart why the corridors were so quiet though students were changing classrooms.
Saying that he teaches the concepts of reliability and validity to his eighth graders, Goerner asked, «How can you control for all of the variables that exist when some students are taking the exam on Chromebooks while others have access to desktops with large screens and full keyboards?»
On the most recent nationwide U.S. math test, known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, an eighth grader might have been asked a question about stem - and - leaf plots (see the sample question in the graphic on this page or here).
In my first meeting as a personal learning coordinator at a small, rural school in Vermont, I asked a group of eighth graders what they wanted to do when they grew up.
After the 2014 National Assessment of Educational Progress geography results showed abysmal proficiency rates among eighth graders — 27 % of all students, 11 % of those eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, and 7 % of Black students — the Senate asked GAO to report on the challenges of geography education in K — 12.
An eighth - grader emailed President Donald Trump asking for gun control — and he got a surprising response:
In the redesigned choice system, all rising ninth graders apply in December of their eighth - grade year by completing the Department of Education's High School Admissions Application form which asks for basic information such as gender, school information, final report card grades, and attendance record.
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