Sentences with phrase «enough grades in school»

I had always wanted to be a veterinarian when I was a kid, but academically I just didn't have good enough grades in school.

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But most of the traditional songs are traditional for a reason: they're sturdy enough to stand up to almost anything the Yuletide pits against them — Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, or a grade - school Christmas recital, or even my own adventures in shower - singing.

Furthermore, the schools (in general) do not provide teachers with the adequate resources to perform their jobs effectively, such as teacher - requested books for their students; presentation items such as chalk, whiteboard markers, or projectors; basic classroom organizational needs such as storage bins, filing cabinets with adequate files, and functional modern computers with adequate software to make results tabulating more efficient; or motivational equipment designed to reward students for good behavior, scores, or attitudes (grades simply are not enough of a motivational tool).

One was in preschool while the other was starting first grade — young enough to look forward to the first day of school.

I am fortunate enough to have a wonderful public school system for my children, but it just makes me laugh when I see so many parents continue to get caught up in always wanting «the best»: the best 2nd grade teacher, the best soccer coach, the best swim program.

In grade school I lived close enough to school, and we had a long enough lunch period, that I walked home and back every day for lunch (late 60's, early 70's).

That's scarcely enough to provide middle and high school seats for charter children now in grades K - 4 — let alone provide for even a minimal expansion of the program.

College officials say there wasn't enough interest in the Marlborough area to justify establishing a small satellite at a former grade school.

The school is eligible to receive millions of dollars in federal money to improve its performance, but Dr. Tisch said its problems ran so deep — students read far below grade level, and there was little instruction taking place — that money alone might not be enough to solve them.

ALBANY — Some lawmakers and advocates are questioning whether Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposal of $ 1.5 billion over five years is enough to fund full - day pre-kindergarten statewide, or whether it's a wise expenditure when schools are struggling to educate students in mandatory grades.

However, most of us still lose that ability, so by the time we are in grade school, we lack enough of the lactase enzyme to properly digest lactose.

So as you can imagine even my grades dropped and funny enough i was willing to do anything including failing in school in order to spend more time with him.

Unfortunately, if there is any interest in Madagascar, it will probably come mostly from very young viewers, as the comedy and events that transpire are lively and colorful enough for toddlers and those just entering grade school, but there's little in substance for most everyone else.

I received the notice via snail mail, interestingly enough, that my 9th - grade summer school students would each arrive with an Apple iBook in tow.

And schools enrolled enough pupils to form age - based grades, which could offer focused instruction in specific subjects and prepare students for high school.

But while the latest report confirms performance increases found in the first - year study, it also shows that the gains were not strong enough to get students up to grade level by the end of the school year.

«Folks that were using it told us they felt giving just the one - time snapshot of the incoming grade - nine students wasn't enough,» says Jenny Curtin, coordinator for high school graduation initiatives in the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

In order to provide authentic bilingual education, schools must have teachers who are fluent in the language and enough English Learners from the same language group to fill a classroom without combining students from more than two grade levels in one classrooIn order to provide authentic bilingual education, schools must have teachers who are fluent in the language and enough English Learners from the same language group to fill a classroom without combining students from more than two grade levels in one classrooin the language and enough English Learners from the same language group to fill a classroom without combining students from more than two grade levels in one classrooin one classroom.

Or maybe you're worried that your kid's summer doesn't look enough like that — and that you're putting her at a disadvantage that colleges will surely notice (even if she's still in grade school).

When Jack started at Amherst, he was lucky enough to know what office hours were because, although he had attended public schools in Miami through 11th grade, he transferred his senior year to a nearby private school, Gulliver Prep, after a bad experience with a football coach who didn't value his academic skills.

To qualify for a scholarship, children had to be entering grades 1 through 4, live in New York City, attend a public school at the time of application, and come from families with incomes low enough to qualify for the U.S. government's free or reduced - price school - lunch program.

«In most countries, the standard for 16 - year - olds is higher than what we expect from an 18 - year - old graduating high school in America,» Payzant says, explaining that a board exam taken during the tenth grade would determine whether students were prepared and had learned enough to enter the next stage of their educatioIn most countries, the standard for 16 - year - olds is higher than what we expect from an 18 - year - old graduating high school in America,» Payzant says, explaining that a board exam taken during the tenth grade would determine whether students were prepared and had learned enough to enter the next stage of their educatioin America,» Payzant says, explaining that a board exam taken during the tenth grade would determine whether students were prepared and had learned enough to enter the next stage of their education.

The MindUP ™ Framework is versatile enough to work in any Pre-K-8th grade school setting, or to complement a therapeutic practice or after - school program.

That is why many schools give extra weight to AP grades in calculating GPAs and why many college admission officers see AP course taking as a sign that applicants were ambitious enough to take the most rigorous courses available in their schools.

First, high school scores might appear to be stagnant because not enough time has passed for the gains from earlier grades to show up in the test scores of students in later grades.

I was lucky enough to attend New Beginnings Family Academy (NBFA), a public charter school located in Bridgeport, CT from third grade through eighth grade.

And yet the «coasting» measure adopted by the government will not identify the schools in greatest danger of coasting — those with socially advantaged pupil intakes who achieve outwardly good GCSE and A level grades, but not anything like good enough when the quality of their intake is taken into account.

Today, it is no longer enough to simply stay in school and graduate 12th grade.

The most rigorous and comprehensive research on vouchers finds that they negatively affect student achievement, but the impact of a nationwide voucher initiative would be particularly devastating in rural communities and small towns where there are not enough students to sustain multiple schools at each grade span.

That means enough school nurses, counselors, and teacher assistants in the early grades.

And while Florida's current A-F school grading system tries to adjust for the fact that schools in high poverty areas face challenges that make it very hard for their students to perform well on standardized tests, it's not enough, says Alan Ehrenhalt for Governing Magazine.

These children especially have a higher dropout rate with the equivalency in reading level of an elementary school child, and that has more to do with having a grading system that moves children up grade levels without warrant and those students not getting enough attention with giant class sizes.

The school, which had been kindergarten through eighth grade, added grades nine and 10 in 2012, and test scores from the new students were low enough to pull down the school's rating from an A to a C on an A-to-F scale.

Those researchers found that students who received a passing grade on the state eighth - grade math exam, for example, had a one - in - three chance of scoring highly enough on the math Regents test in high school to be considered prepared for college math.

To get a sense of how many students could become newly «invisible,» consider public elementary schools in Washington, D.C. Applying the same minimum group size currently used for entire schools to the fifth grade only, about half of the city's 119 elementary schools with fifth graders taking math tests would not be held accountable for the progress of low - income or African - American students, because there aren't enough of them in that grade to constitute a reliable sample size.

A school with 10 Hispanic students in each grade would no longer be held accountable for whether those students were making sufficient progress, because the 10 fifth graders wouldn't be enough to count as a meaningful population size.

But the lower levels of eighth - grade achievement serves as evidence of a point Dropout Nation has made over the past few years: That the generation of reforms that culminated with the passage of No Child aren't enough to help children master the knowledge they need — from algebra and statistics, to mastering the lessons from the Wealth of Nations and other great texts — for success in higher education and in life outside of school.

For example, although it retains NCLB's requirement that all public schools conduct mandatory annual reading and math assessments for students in grades 3 - 8, ESSA gives states much greater abilities to establish their own interpretation of how good is good enough, and which schools should be called out as deficient and required to improve.

And even though research has definitively shown that middle grades experiences have substantial impact on high school graduation and success in college, not enough attention has been paid to these formative years.

«Overall, the math and reading scores in grade 3 - 8 and high school did go up, but the concerns we have is that they did not go up fast enough,» Holliday said at a September press conference announcing the new results.

The twenty plus school sites that I have visited this spring are at risk of not having enough paper, in danger of needing to cancel 5th and 8th grade promotion celebrations, and worried they may need to cancel overtime for teachers tutoring students.

In the data - driven accountability that now rules in public schools, principals are responsible for grades, plus they are expected to have enough tricks up their sleeves to help every teacher improvIn the data - driven accountability that now rules in public schools, principals are responsible for grades, plus they are expected to have enough tricks up their sleeves to help every teacher improvin public schools, principals are responsible for grades, plus they are expected to have enough tricks up their sleeves to help every teacher improve.

When we include all schools with enough tested ELs (10 or more) to have their scores reported by CDE, we find that in 740 out of 3,464 schools (21 %), no 4th - grade ELs who met the state ELA standard; in 748 of these schools, no ELs met the math standard.

In Green Dot schools, where students typically enter in the lowest 10 % of academic proficiency, advancing a student a single grade level per year isn't enough to ensure timely graduatioIn Green Dot schools, where students typically enter in the lowest 10 % of academic proficiency, advancing a student a single grade level per year isn't enough to ensure timely graduatioin the lowest 10 % of academic proficiency, advancing a student a single grade level per year isn't enough to ensure timely graduation.

The town isn't large enough to sustain its own K - 12 district school, so it contracts with a neighboring town to educate most of its residents» children starting in 5th grade.

One of my kids (now 29 years of age and very accomplished - ok I am his dad), was struggling in the 9th grade and the public high school was not responsive to his needs, and my wife and I — because we are lucky enough to be able to do so — took him out the public schools and sent him to a local private school.

However last week, the Hartford's School Board, the same ones who have been so outspoken about the fact that the City of Hartford doesn't have enough money to run its present schools, voted to allow Achievement First to expand their Hartford Academy program to the ninth grade in the fall of 2012 and then add the remaining three grades in subsequent school School Board, the same ones who have been so outspoken about the fact that the City of Hartford doesn't have enough money to run its present schools, voted to allow Achievement First to expand their Hartford Academy program to the ninth grade in the fall of 2012 and then add the remaining three grades in subsequent school school years.

Clay County priorities: The Clay County School Board's legislative priorities are to revise the third - grade retention criteria and process, restore the board's ability to levy up to 2 mills for capital spending, and to provide enough money to put Florida in the top 25 percent of states.

I'm also fortunate enough to work in a school that gets it on a larger level, a level geared towards teachers being given the opportunity to apply their professional discretion at the last minute when it comes to turning grades into the school's senior grading system at year's end.

Ironically enough, Butler University's traditional certification program requires the most student teaching time of any program in the state: 900 hours (a full school year in grades K - 6).