Sentences with phrase «failing grades in school»

Note that a caring mother does not tell her child «don't worry about it» if she's making failing grades in school.

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Lawyers claimed the pupils were initially barred from the school after failing to achieve B grades in exams during their first year of sixth form.

Research has shown that the kind of stretching routine most of us have been doing since we were in grade school (holding a stretch for 20 or 30 seconds, supposedly to prepare muscles for exercise, or static stretching) not only fails to do what it is supposed to do but may actually weaken muscles and hurt athletic performance.

A study of 20,000 children found that when fathers are involved with their kids» schools the children were more likely to receive A's, participate in extracurricular activities and less likely to fail a grade.

Most children in our local school fail these tests, read below grade average, and are performing math far below grade average.

A student struggling with algebra in high school or middle school needs some gentle guidance in the right direction to avoid failing the class, bring up their grade, and maybe even actually enjoy math.

Students at the Henry S. West Laboratory School, a public K - 8 in Coral Gables, will no longer be graded on homework or penalized for failing to finish it.

A new analysis from StudentsFirstNY found that at 75 city schools this year, all the students in at least one grade failed the state math or reading test.

At 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty line.

When public schools receive failing grades, turnout increases in local school board elections, according to research from Duke University's Sanford School of Public Pschool board elections, according to research from Duke University's Sanford School of Public PSchool of Public Policy.

To avoid a failing grade in high school, the former students said they were given more time to finish assignments, extra credit projects and were allowed many opportunities to retake assignments, exams and quizzes.

Loss of creativity, poor memory, failing or poor grades in school often accompany IR, as do various forms of «learning disabilities.»

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.

For example, in the Athens Area School District, student gains topped 87 percent, and of the eighty - nine Quakertown students who failed tenth - grade math, 72 percent are now getting A's, B's, or C's in their junior year.

So far, only two schools in the state, both located in Escambia County, have received two failing grades, the second coming during the 1999 round of testing in both cases.

A new poll has revealed that high school students with a desk in their bedroom get better grades in exams, as 51 % of parents with children that achieved five or more A * to C graded confirmed that their child's bedrooms were equipped with desks or dedicated study areas; compared to just 18 % of those who failed their GCSE's having a desk.

Several studies (download) have found that more high school students fail ninth grade than any other grade; in low - income high schools, 40 percent of all dropouts (download) leave after ninth grade.

In 2001, the California Board of Education set standards at each grade level for what students should know and be able to do in music, visual arts, theater, and dance, but a statewide study in 2006, by SRI International, found that 89 percent of K - 12 schools failed to offer a standards - based course of study in all four disciplineIn 2001, the California Board of Education set standards at each grade level for what students should know and be able to do in music, visual arts, theater, and dance, but a statewide study in 2006, by SRI International, found that 89 percent of K - 12 schools failed to offer a standards - based course of study in all four disciplinein music, visual arts, theater, and dance, but a statewide study in 2006, by SRI International, found that 89 percent of K - 12 schools failed to offer a standards - based course of study in all four disciplinein 2006, by SRI International, found that 89 percent of K - 12 schools failed to offer a standards - based course of study in all four disciplinein all four disciplines.

I uncover no support for the hypothesis that school districts failing to supplement the state grants placed African American students in lower - quality programs, either in kindergarten or in later grades.

The designation of low - scoring students as eligible for special education was more common in schools where a small number of students had failed the 8th - grade exam, making it easier for educators to target specific students.

During her Planning for Education Progress (PEP) meeting — a student - led meeting for all 11th - grade students to prepare for college and life after high school — she expressed concern that she wouldn't succeed in college because she'd failed the class.

They had failed one or more grades in elementary or middle school and were way behind in accumulating the 44 high school credits they needed to graduate.»

Schools in danger of receiving a «Low - Performing» rating were likely to mitigate their risk both through an increase in the number of math courses for students who previously failed the 8th - grade exam and other increased staffing and instructional time.

Under a state plan to turn around James Lick High School, a persistently failing school in San Jose, low - performing students in those grades will be put in intensive skills classes, leaving some of them little time to pursue science, social studies, physical educatiSchool, a persistently failing school in San Jose, low - performing students in those grades will be put in intensive skills classes, leaving some of them little time to pursue science, social studies, physical educatischool in San Jose, low - performing students in those grades will be put in intensive skills classes, leaving some of them little time to pursue science, social studies, physical education,...

Teachers wrote about parents who failed to return repeated phone calls; who never showed up for conferences or school events; who appeared uninterested in their childrens educational progress; who did nt notify them when difficult family situations threatened a childs behavior or grades.

«As a young girl, Denisha struggled in school and failed third grade twice.

A student who fails to read adequately in first grade has a 90 percent probability of reading poorly in fourth grade, and a 75 percent probability of reading poorly in high school.

Grading reforms like those profiled in the Washington Post's article will mean little if schools fail to adopt competency - based structures to provide just - in - time supports for students who might otherwise languish on the brink of failing.

The organization maintains that students who pass to the next grade without learning are more likely to fail later in school.

A student who fails to read in first grade has a 90 percent probability of reading poorly in fourth grade and a 75 percent probability of reading poorly in high school, with implications for success later in life.

I have seen apathetic students change to students who are excited, enthusiastic learners; students who were failing every subject become engaged in learning and making better grades; students who, in the past, avoided talking with me about their grades, come... waving their report cards in their hands to show me their improvement; students who thought of themselves as incapable begin to think of themselves as capable learners; and students who thought that dreams were for others, begin to dare to dream about the world outside their school and community and how they can contribute.

Staffers also conduct summer, fall, and spring home visits between and during the sophomore and junior years to students who are at risk of not graduating because of deficiencies in course credits, the possibility of failing the state high school exit exam (a condition of graduation), or poor grades.

This line of attack closely resembles the talking points of Eva Moskowitz and Jeremiah Kittridge of Families for Excellent Schools, who both promote the notion that in New York, «800,000 kids can't read or do math at grade level» and «143,000 kids are trapped in persistently failing schools.Schools, who both promote the notion that in New York, «800,000 kids can't read or do math at grade level» and «143,000 kids are trapped in persistently failing schools.schools.»

The act burdens the states as well as local districts, imposing obligations to develop academic standards, test all students annually in grades 3 through 8, hire «highly qualified» teachers in core subjects, and reconstitute persistently failing schools in order to remain eligible for federal aid.

However, far from a «Wild West» approach to charter oversight, his organization instead advocated for, and got, important accountability measures included in the law: mandatory closure for persistently low - performing charter schools, A — F grading of schools (both charter and public), and an end to so - called «authorizer shopping,» in which failing schools move to a new authorizer after their existing one withdraws its support.

Indifference to the assignment and to the possibility of receiving a failing grade, lack of help at home, apathy toward completing assignments, and laziness — those are just some of the problems eighth - grade teacher Cindy Shields deals with at Jefferson Middle School, in Columbia, Missouri.

Her Northwestern High School class in Rock Hill, South Carolina, is part of a remedial program for students in grades 9 through 12 designed to improve the test scores of students who fail the school's «exit exam.&School class in Rock Hill, South Carolina, is part of a remedial program for students in grades 9 through 12 designed to improve the test scores of students who fail the school's «exit exam.&school's «exit exam.»

When absenteeism increased last year in the Dallas Independent School District, resulting in the loss of more than $ 1 million in state aid, school officials drafted a new policy requiring that any student who misses more than 10 classes during the school year automatically receive a failing School District, resulting in the loss of more than $ 1 million in state aid, school officials drafted a new policy requiring that any student who misses more than 10 classes during the school year automatically receive a failing school officials drafted a new policy requiring that any student who misses more than 10 classes during the school year automatically receive a failing school year automatically receive a failing grade.

Should a school participate in grade inflation because it will help their students get into college, even if it fails to give them an accurate measure of their strengths and weaknesses?

Experiments in schools have found that sessions designed to promote a growth mindset [4] benefit academic achievement of students, especially those with initially low grades or in higher risk of failing.

As he finished eighth grade, Manuel begged me to fail him, to retain him in middle school.

Each with approximately 100 students per grade in grades 9 through 12, these schools were created to serve some of the district's most disadvantaged students and are located mainly in neighborhoods where large failing high schools had been closed.

The California legislature closed its 1997 session by approving a new basic - skills test for students in grades 2 through 11 to be given next spring, but it failed to change bilingual education laws or back a statewide school construction bond.

Schools can take themselves off the chronically failing list by earning higher grades in future years.

I learned recently that when the top - flight principal left my childhood elementary school within 2 years all the good teachers quit, turning the school from excellent when my parents bought their house to failing by the time I was in second grade.

One in six children who are not reading proficiently in third grade fail to graduate from high school on time, four times the rate for children with proficient third - grade reading skills.

Colleen Fail, a third - grade teacher at Crystal River Primary School in Florida, loves that the app «goes beyond flash cards, using the distributive property to help with fluency, efficiency, and understanding.»

An Orange County charter school that earned two Fs in a row on Florida's school report card has shut down because of a state law that makes closure all but automatic after double failing grades.

Among 11,000 ninth grade students who would have enrolled in the large schools but enrolled elsewhere because the schools had been replaced, the graduation rate was 15 percentage points higher than it would have been had the large, failing schools remained in operation.

Private schools fared better, with only one third (33 per cent) of schools failing to achieve a good grade in their inspection, but this is still higher than generally across the country.