Sentences with phrase «few social studies students»

In this class, there were a few social studies students who were also broadcasting majors and could play both roles.

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One of the few large - scale national studies of magnet schools found that magnet schools were more effective than traditional public schools, Catholic schools, and secular private schools at raising student achievement in reading and social studies.

During middle school, for example, students from elementary schools that had implemented the Developmental Studies Center's Child Development Project — a program that emphasizes community building — were found to outperform middle school students from comparison elementary schools on academic outcomes (higher grade - point averages and achievement test scores), teacher ratings of behavior (better academic engagement, respectful behavior, and social skills), and self - reported misbehavior (less misconduct in school and fewer delinquent acts)(Battistich, 2001).

Students in fourth, eighth and 10th grades will continue to take the WKCE for science and social studies until new standards in those subjects are adopted and new tests are developed, which could be a few years away, according to Department of Public Instruction spokesman John Johnson.

Studies of students who attend high - quality programs for a significant period of time show improvements in academic performance and social competence, including better grades, improved homework completion, higher scores on achievement tests, lower levels of grade retention, improved behavior in school, increased competence and sense of self as a learner, better work habits, fewer absences from school, better emotional adjustment and relationships with parents, and a greater sense of belonging in the community.

A few minutes later, 10th - grade social studies teacher Kevin Cordeiro gathers seven students into a nearby classroom for a workshop on American colonial history.

If our goal is to ensure that every student has the opportunity to choose his or her own direction after high school, we must provide them with all the opportunities we can, including the arts, career - technical education, science and social studies, just to name a few.

And across Louisiana, many of the most popular private schools for voucher students posted miserable scores in math, reading, science and social studies this spring, with fewer than half their voucher students achieving even basic proficiency and fewer than 2 percent demonstrating mastery.

A recent study by University of California, Dominguez Hills, of middle school, high school, and university age students, «found that the average student studied for fewer than six minutes before switching tasks, often distracted by technology including social media or texting.»

In Louisiana, private schools with fewer than 40 voucher students don't have to show basic competency among students in math, reading, social studies, and science.

This was the conclusion reached in an oft - cited study at Columbia University, where researchers counted the number of verbal fillers used by professors during lectures given to undergraduate students in three separate academic divisions: the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities.27 The natural - sciences professors used the fewest verbal fillers, with a mean rate of 1.39 uhs per minute.28 The social - science professors had a mean rate of 3.84 uhs per minute, and the rate for humanities professors was 6.46 uhs per minute.

In schools throughout the country where The RULER Approach has been implemented, outcomes have been stunning: After one year of implementing The RULER Approach, students in RULER classrooms (compared to those who were not) had measurably higher end of year grades, better study skills, social skills, and fewer attention and learning problems.