Sentences with phrase «even middle school levels»

As a side note, more and more U.S. colleges and universities are providing training for students about how to responsibly use social media, and it seems as if this is also necessary on the high school, and perhaps even middle school levels, as well.

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I find myself sharing messages of hope and faith in front of a wide range of young audiences — from middle and high school classrooms and graduations to mentorship programs for boys and girls, church youth groups, Boys and Girls Clubs, even college - level classes.

While the media has in recent years been focusing on sexual assaults at college, Finn says that middle and high school children — even elementary school children — are increasingly experiencing or witnessing high levels of violence and sexual assault and harassment.

«We've gotten to the point where, in many cases, science isn't even being taught, especially in the elementaryschool and middle school levels, because ofthe pressure to increase performance on subjects thatare tested,» says Shirley Malcolm, director of educationand human resources at the American Associationfor the Advancement of Science.

Even middle class Black students are denied a meaningful education in the state's urban schools: Just 12 percent of them are taught to read at grade level in eighth grade.

10: There is significant discussion of the Big Bang, of stellar evolution, of the Hertzsprung - Russell diagram, and perhaps of quasars, neutron stars, black holes, and other cosmologically significant objects, usually beginning at the middle - school or even the primary level

At each grade level, the variety of life science words, for which definitions and contextual sentences are provided, mirror elementary and middle school science curricula so as to engage all learners and challenge even the most gifted science students.

Even within districts, there are massive differences in how grade level (elementary, middle, high school) teachers are evaluated.

Those same values that drove your elementary school work — the fact that involvement is proven to improve schools and that a community of connected parents has great value for our kids — still exist at the middle school level, with even more urgency.

Even more notably, more than twice as many of the Intensified Algebra I middle school students performed at the commended level as compared to the high school Algebra I students.

She even suggested pushing job preparation down to the middle school level — like 12 year olds should be ready to commit to a vocation.

Research shows, however, that even at middle school and high school grade levels, keeping parents in the loop is critical to each student's academic success.

That conclusion is backed up by a National Academy of Sciences study that found «district - level support of high school reform even more critical than that of elementary or middle school reform.»

The third teacher, a middle - school teacher, scored 23 out of 70 «value - added» points, even though he switched from teaching language arts to teaching social studies at the middle - school level.

High - quality tutoring can meet each student at his or her individual level, 22 a level of differentiation that is impossible for even the most dedicated of teachers to provide.23 Essentially, every student with an educated, engaged parent has access to one - on - one tutoring at home, which is perhaps one of the reasons why homework compounds the advantages enjoyed by middle - class children.24 For students who, for a variety of reasons, may not have access to that kind of academic assistance at home, receiving more tailored instruction from their schools can help to level the playing field and close achievement gaps.25

Even at a district where one middle school feeds into one high school, students enter 9th grade performing at various levels.

Elementary school standards - based report cards often look very different from middle or even high school standards - based report cards; that's not a bad thing as the application of standards - based reporting at each level needs to be suitable for that level.

Not surprisingly, another subgroup that is often subjected to school discipline — students with disabilities — continued to be even under the new CPS system: Out - of - school suspension rates for students with identified disabilities were 24 percent at the high school level and 16 percent in middle grades in the 2013 - 14 school year.

Our oldest was an art major and works as a web designer / publisher, our middle one majored in religion and anthropology and even if she hadn't decided on law school I'm pretty convinced that she would have been able to find a decent entry level job on the strength of her contacts and the network of her school.

You can even mention whether you would like to teach for middle or high school level.

For example, a 2013 study demonstrated that even students with low blood lead levels — below the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for «blood lead level of concern» — during early childhood were less likely than students with no discernable blood level levels (BLL) to reach proficiency in standardized tests in elementary and middle school.