Sentences with phrase «elementary school studies»

Writing is a skill that every person needs in life, and developing that skill among children is an important part of elementary school studies.

Insight in Action Teachers within an elementary school studied the [state] standards for mathematics in order to move toward standards - based instruction.

When the Hills» bronze collection was featured in an exhibition at the Frick Collection in 2014, for example, students at an East Harlem elementary school studied the labors of Hercules for a week before seeing the bronze depictions of him by artists like Giuseppe Piamontini and Antonio Susini in the show.

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She recalled how her father gave her coffee in elementary school to help her stay up and study.

A classic psychology paper, Pygmalion in the Classroom, describes a study in which elementary - school students were given a test to identify the most able.

One study found that while 60 % of elementary school girls say they are «happy the way I am,» only 29 % of high school girls agree with that statement.

An eligible program is one that is eligible for the TEACH Grant or a program of study that has been determined by a state to satisfy the requirements for certification or licensure to teach in the state's elementary or secondary schools.

I don't keep up with the studies that indicate that some people are born gay... or at least born with the propensity to become gay, but I don't know how else to explain why some adult males will say that they knew they were attracted to the same sex when they were in elementary school.

Of the converts to Catholicism studied by Dean Hoge, «85 % said they received religious training as children, and 83 % said they attended Sunday school or church two or three times a month or more when they were in elementary school.

After completing her studies, Carolyn moved to Los Angeles where she served as the head of Adat Ari El Day School in Valley Village and as a consultant on issues of learning and instruction to Jewish day schools across the Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Spectrum, as well as to elementary and secondary schools of all types.

A 2015 study in Italy involving 147 elementary school kids concluded that normal - weight and overweight children were far less likely to be bullied than their obese or severely obese counterparts.

This pilot study took place in eleven elementary schools within a single Oregon school district.

In a before - after study in 11 Oregon elementary schools, flavored milk — which will be referred to as chocolate milk — was banned from the cafeteria.

The study, titled «Chocolate Milk Consequences: A Pilot Study Evaluating the Consequences of Banning Chocolate Milk in School Cafeterias,» examined what happened when chocolate and other flavored milks were removed from the cafeterias at 11 Oregon elementary schstudy, titled «Chocolate Milk Consequences: A Pilot Study Evaluating the Consequences of Banning Chocolate Milk in School Cafeterias,» examined what happened when chocolate and other flavored milks were removed from the cafeterias at 11 Oregon elementary schStudy Evaluating the Consequences of Banning Chocolate Milk in School Cafeterias,» examined what happened when chocolate and other flavored milks were removed from the cafeterias at 11 Oregon elementary schools.

«At the elementary school level we are doing some plate waste study to see what the children actually are eating, and in one school we are trying a nutrition program in grades K through 3 that uses colors to help children add nutritious foods of differrent food groups to their trays.»

Linda began her career in Waldorf teaching after entering the Steiner school as a parent; after several years of parent volunteering and anthroposophical studies, she enrolled in the full - time elementary teacher education program of Sunbridge College, where she earned her teaching certificate.

As summarized by Reuters, the study's researchers peered into the lunch boxes of 626 third and fourth graders from 12 public elementary schools in Eastern Massachusetts, and found that only 34 % of lunches contained fruit, only 11 % contained vegetables, 42 % contained snacks and 28 % included dessert.

Last Friday, I told you about a new study which gathered data in two Vermont elementary schools and concluded that kids» fruit and vegetable consumption is down and food waste is up since the implementation of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids... [Continue reading]

The study authors concluded that «adding puréed vegetables to lunch entrées may be an effective strategy to increase vegetable consumption and reduce energy intake of elementary school children.

For instance, some studies show that time spent on homework for elementary school students has increased slightly since the 1980s and decreased for older students, she said.

Based on studies made by the Senior Citizens Commission, the Village leased a closed elementary school and remodeled it into Park Place.

That study, from researchers at the University of California, Riverside, the Oregon Research Institute and the University of Oregon, used personality ratings from elementary school teachers in an ethnically diverse group of children in Hawaii back in the 1960s, comparing those personality ratings to videotaped interviews of 144 of those people 40 years later.

Once personality emerges, it doesn't shift much: a 2010 study found that personality traits first observed by elementary school teachers could predict adult behavior.

«Some 4 - year - olds also have a best friend, but the meaning is definitely different than in elementary school,» says Dr. Kirsten Cullen Sharma, Psy.D., clinical assistant professor at NYU Langone's Child Study Center.

But while studies suggest that salad bars can help boost children's consumption of fruits and vegetables, some school districts decline to install salad bars claiming they are unsanitary, especially for small elementary school students with active hands and faces that often come up short of the barriers that are meant to keep coughs and sneezes out of food.

Experience the distinct teaching methods used by our dedicated faculty to bring challenging subject matters, such as nature studies in elementary school and platonic solids in middle school, to life.

The randomized study, working with 1,345 third to fifth graders (8 - 11 year olds) in nine US elementary schools, assessed the efficacy of a three - year programme.

A «study» commissioned last year by the dairy industry, and performed by a company that conducts marketing research for corporate food clients, suggested that 35 percent fewer elementary school students drank milk when flavored milk was removed from the cafeteria.

I am majoring in Liberal Studies to become an elementary school teacher.

Because the UVM study is small in scope (involving only two elementary schools in Vermont) and conducted only in the semester before (spring 2012) and the first year after implementation of the new nutrition rules (spring 2013), this study is an inaccurate representation of the school meals environment and behaviors of students in the lunchroom.

Last Friday, I told you about a new study which gathered data in two Vermont elementary schools and concluded that kids» fruit and vegetable consumption is down and food waste is up since the implementation of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA).

A recent study which looked at 58 elementary and secondary schools found that on days when only white milk was offered in cafeterias, milk consumption dropped an average of 35 percent.

Recent studies have shown that children are not only more obese than they should be, but even in elementary school the cholesterol counts of many are greater than 180, well above the 170 - or-less guidelines established by the National Cholesterol Education Program, a countrywide consortium of physicians and scientists.

A 2007 study by the Virginia - based School Nutrition Association suggests a fifth of elementary and 16 percent of high school schools start lunch at 10:30 a.m.; an additional 8 percent of high schools start even eaSchool Nutrition Association suggests a fifth of elementary and 16 percent of high school schools start lunch at 10:30 a.m.; an additional 8 percent of high schools start even easchool schools start lunch at 10:30 a.m.; an additional 8 percent of high schools start even earlier.

The authors thank Cornell Cooperative Extension of Wayne County and the 16 elementary and middle schools in Wayne County NY who participated in the research for help with study implementation and data collection.

I agree — there are lots of ways to influence your child's behavior in elementary school, but based on this study, breastfeeding is unlikely to help much.

A team of researchers from Saint Louis University collected and analyzed survey responses from 133 nurses serving elementary, middle, and high schools in Missouri to determine whether schools were any more prepared for another pandemic than they were based on a similar study conducted in 2011.

A total of 120 kindergarten and first - grade classrooms across 22 urban, low - income elementary schools were included in the study.

The new Cornell Food and Brand Lab study by Andrew Hanks, David Just, and Brian Wansink, found that eliminating chocolate milk from the elementary schools decreased total milk sales by 10 %, indicating that many students substituted white for chocolate milk.

The quality of the neighborhood where a child grows up has a significant impact on the number of problem behaviors they display during elementary and teenage years, a study led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers suggests.

The more sugary beverages a mom drank during mid-pregnancy, the heavier her kids were in elementary school compared with kids whose mothers consumed less of the drinks, a new study finds.

Based on a study of more than 30,000 elementary, middle, and high school students conducted in winter 2015 - 16, researchers found that elementary and middle school students scored lower on a computer - based test that did not allow them to return to previous items than on two comparable tests — paper - or computer - based — that allowed them to skip, review, and change previous responses.

The researchers note that additional study of CBT answer - choice selection and test navigation features and how they influence elementary and middle school students» test performance is warranted.

«The results strongly point to the notion that the effects of poor neonatal health on adult outcomes are largely determined early — in early childhood and the first years of elementary school,» the researchers wrote in the study.

Four elementary schools in two California school districts participated in the study.

In a study of 92 primary / elementary school aged children, Mr Coussens measured more than 30 different sleep parameters, such as muscle movements, breathing, eye activity and changes in the brain's processing.

Three elementary and middle schools in the eastern Massachusetts city of Revere have implemented the BOKS program for the current school year as part of a new study, led by Whooten, that is now underway.

In 24 elementary and middle schools in three eastern Massachusetts communities during the 2015 - 16 school year, the parents of all students in grades K - 8 were invited to enroll their children in the BOKS program and the study.

An initiative of the Reebok Foundation, which was a co-sponsor of the current study, the BOKS Program is currently available in more than 3,000 elementary and middle schools in the U.S. and other countries.

Higher education has already opened the door to equal opportunities for women and minorities in the U.S. — so is it possible that elementary school, as a new Tel Aviv University study suggests, is the critical juncture at which girls are discouraged from pursuing science and mathematics?