Sentences with phrase «eighth graders who»

The state may also decide if it will exempt eighth graders who take advanced mathematics in middle school from the regular state mathematics assessment.

Less than 10 percent of eighth graders who receive special education services scored proficient in reading in the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests.

Eighth graders who were 15 or over were placed in district transition schools.

For my eighth graders who experienced this as a part of their curriculum, it became a way of handling future conflicts, an understanding of the process to make a change, and an increased awareness of an often hard - to - see problem.

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.

Two eighth graders who appeared in the film as sixth graders said facing bullies and getting lost were among their top concerns about middle school.

At the same time, there was a corresponding decrease among eighth graders who smoked.

«I heard the teachers were meaner and the eighth graders were mean,» said Vincent, an eighth grader who did the voice - overs for the film.

One eighth grader who attended the Summit wrote to me, and I want to share her moving words:

Hi, I'm an eighth grader who wants to start my resume for college... and I'm not sure which template would be best for that.

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By then an eighth - grader who stood 6» 7», Greg was enrolled at Craig Middle School and joined a school team that included Mike Conley Jr. at point guard.

State Education officials say there's some improvement in the Common Core related Math and English tests taken by third through eighth graders this year, but admit that two thirds of the students who took the test are still, essentially, failing the exams.

Educators who teach English and math to third through eighth graders will be evaluated based partially on the federally required state tests in those grades and subjects.

Test scores for third through eighth graders were released Wednesday and they show a dramatic drop in the number of New York state students who are considered proficient in math and English.

New York State Education officials say there's some improvement in the Common Core aligned math and English tests taken by third through eighth graders this year, but admit that two - thirds of the students who took the test are still, essentially, failing the exams.

The eighth grader is one of 25 Northern Adirondack Central School students who dedicate their time to community service projects with the school's Builder's Club, a youth program sponsored by the Rouses Point - Champlain Kiwanis Club.

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.

A study of sixth through eighth graders displaced by Katrina revealed that the children who used the workbooks for 30 minutes every week experienced a nearly 20 percent reduction in PTSD symptoms.

He especially liked working with eighth - graders, who, he says, are at the age when it is «still cool to be curious.»

They also found that eighth and ninth graders who played violent games more frequently displayed greater «hostile attribution bias» (being vigilant for enemies) and got into more arguments with teachers.

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.

The day will culminate in a presentation by the impassioned activist who made it all happen — an eighth grader named Hannah Testa.

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

This one broke our hearts at Sundance: It stars a real eighth - grader, Elsie Fisher, who portrays that age's anxiety beautifully, blooming over the course of the film.

Three celestial guides, Mrs. Which (two - time Academy Award ® nominee Oprah Winfrey), Mrs. Whatsit (Oscar ®, Golden Globe ® and Emmy ® winner Reese Witherspoon) and Mrs.. Who (Emmy nominee Mindy Kaling), come to Earth to share their wisdom and love with struggling eighth - grader Meg Murry (Storm Reid) as she journeys across dimensions with classmate Calvin (Levi Miller) and younger brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe) in search of her father (Chris Pine), a world - renowned physicist who mysteriously disappeared four years aWho (Emmy nominee Mindy Kaling), come to Earth to share their wisdom and love with struggling eighth - grader Meg Murry (Storm Reid) as she journeys across dimensions with classmate Calvin (Levi Miller) and younger brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe) in search of her father (Chris Pine), a world - renowned physicist who mysteriously disappeared four years awho mysteriously disappeared four years ago.

I even had one student that Skyped with an author who was then in Hawaii doing research but happy to talk with an eighth grader.

Evan played a sixth grader in the film who imagines the worst will happen when he bumps into two eighth graders in the hall and drops his lunch.

[1] It shows, for example, that students who rated themselves in the bottom quartile with respect to self - control were absent 2.9 more days than students in the top quartile, and were nearly three times as likely to have been suspended as eighth graders; similar differences in absences and suspension rates are evident for conscientiousness and grit.

Such is the case with sixth - graders, who are usually nervous about starting middle school and are sometimes much smaller than the eighth - graders, said Judy Klinek, principal of Florida's Loggers» Run Middle School, which has 56 portables on its campus this year.

That is so motivating to me, to see 130 eighth graders preparing to go into high school, where they'll take African American history and then other history classes and have a sense of who they are and what they stand for.

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 grader Alan was to play the lead of Charlie Gordon in our middle school production of «Flowers for Algernon,» that remarkable tale of a man who is mentally retarded yet, through surgery perfected on a mouse named Algernon, acquires an IQ of 200 - plus, only to regress to his...

«It's better than reading a book,» says Charlotte, another Skowhegan eighth grader, a former «B» student in social studies who is now getting «A's,» in part because of her enthusiasm for researching and reading on the Internet.

For the last several years, seventh grader Manuel and eighth grader Kris — who both struggled at Redwood City's tougher schools — have participated in McKinley's Citizen Schools after - school program.

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.

If we don't get it, they go over it; if we still don't get it, we do work sheets or go to after - school help,» said Leona, 13, an eighth grader at Indian Island School, who is taking an algebra course.

I think of Dr. Robin Ellwood and her eighth graders, who created a submersible that was going to explore Antarctica.

In 2014, BGCA members who participated in Summer Brain Gain's project - based learning practices showed significant improvements in reading (fifth - and eighth - graders) and math skills (fourth -, fifth -, and sixth - graders).

Fewer than 21 percent of Nevada's fourth - graders and eighth - graders who qualified for free or reduced price lunch were at or above grade level.

Nationally, about 6 percent of seventh graders take algebra I. Students who take and pass algebra I typically then take geometry or algebra II in eighth grade because, presumably, they are prepared for it.

(A student who was a first grader when the Kansas suit was filed in 2010 would now be in their last semester of eighth grade.)

Eighth - graders in a Queens, N.Y., public elementary school recently organized a «fight club» for first - graders, beating up those who wouldn't participate.

Kemple followed a matched group of eighth - graders who, based on their middle schools and their neighborhoods, would have been expected to attend one of the closed schools.

At East Middle School, the elixir is Kristen Walsh, who teaches math to sixth, seventh and eighth graders with so - called special needs, a potpourri of learning disabilities that include dyslexia and autism.

Some specific ways your donation contributes to closing the achievement gap include: ensuring that all Brooke eighth graders participate in an annual experiential learning experience in Washington, D.C., purchasing books for every middle school student who participates in Brooke Book Club with Boston professionals, support for Brooke High's Debate Team, assistance with the costs of college text - books for our alumni, and much more!

We are already getting calls and e-mails from parents who are getting those unwelcome letters from Chicago Public Schools telling them that their children will not be able to participate in eighth grade graduation, and, along with some third and sixth graders, will have to go to summer school in order to be promoted.

The conservatives who control the board have neutered the teachers union, prodded neighborhood elementary schools to compete with one another for market share, directed tax money to pay for religious education and imposed a novel pay scale that values teachers by their subjects, so a young man teaching algebra to eighth graders can make $ 20,000 a year more than a colleague teaching world history down the hall.

At the same time, 35.1 percent of eighth - graders who are white and poor are proficient or better in math.

This year, all the eighth graders at the school who took the algebra Regents exam and 85 percent of those who took the earth science exam were marked proficient.

It found that, among black eighth - graders, those who attended schools that were more than 60 percent black scored notably lower on a national math test.