Sentences with phrase «few students from each grade»

The kindergarten classes are «supervised» by a few students from grade 4 & 5.

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Through the years, the Kelley School has fashioned a reputation as a true MBA innovator, from being one of the few programs that give a single grade for the entire core curriculum to having a series of first - year academies that provide experiential learning, consulting projects and coaching to students interested in six core areas that range from capital markets and strategic finance to consulting and supply chain management.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

According to numbers she compiled while assigned to the cafeteria, somewhat fewer than half the 170 students in seventh grade bring lunch from home.

And no force on Earth will keep a few students from cheating, skipping almost every lecture, complaining endlessly about grades that were generous in the first place, or generally doing whatever they can to make their professors» lives miserable.

In both cities (especially in Denver), the special education gap grows as students proceed from kindergarten through the 5th grade, and charters classify fewer students as SLD than do district schools.

For example, there were few differences by age (over or under 30), highest degree attained, the length of time a teacher had student - taught, the number of teaching methods courses taken, grade level taught, community type, and whether a teacher had ongoing guidance from a mentor.

Approximately 50 students from the second - grade classes of Novy and Laura Revenew, and a few parent chaperones, loaded onto a bus one morning for a trip to the restaurant.

The reading skills of 12th graders declined slightly from 1992 to 1994, according to a federal report released last week, which warned that far too few students at any grade are reading at a proficient level.

A few years ago my colleagues published a report that tracked every student in the Chicago Public Schools from 9th grade, through college.

The data also indicate that patterns of student attrition at KIPP schools are typically no different from other local schools except that KIPP schools replace vacancies with fewer students in the last two years of middle school, and those late - arriving students are somewhat higher - achieving than students entering KIPP schools in 5th and 6th grades.

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).

Today's enthusiastic embrace of data has waltzed us directly from a petulant resistance to performance measures to a reflexive and unsophisticated reliance on a few simple metrics — namely graduation rates, expenditures, and the reading and math test scores of students in grades 3 through 8.

In some grades and subjects, Bay - Brook went from having few or none of its students meeting or exceeding standards to nearly half of them making the grade just the following year.

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.

During a visit to Raisbeck Aviation High School on Thursday, Randy Dorn, the state's top schools official, asked a few students their names, grade levels and where they were from.

These students perform better in third grade reading and math tests, have larger test score gains over time, have fewer absences and disciplinary incidents, are less likely to repeat grades, and are more likely to graduate from high school in four years.

But because the focus of education reform has shifted away from the elementary grades toward older students, few Americans know about this crisis in early literacy.

Mirroring a slight decrease in student scores from the Student Assessment of Growth and Excellence (SAGE) tests in language arts, mathematics and science released earlier this month, fewer Utah elementary schools earned grades of A or B thistudent scores from the Student Assessment of Growth and Excellence (SAGE) tests in language arts, mathematics and science released earlier this month, fewer Utah elementary schools earned grades of A or B thiStudent Assessment of Growth and Excellence (SAGE) tests in language arts, mathematics and science released earlier this month, fewer Utah elementary schools earned grades of A or B this year.

For the past few years, in our work with the University of Michigan School of Information's Michigan Makers project, we've watched students from kindergarten to grade 12 engage with maker tools, and we've come to believe that it is mind - set, above all, that sets the tone for maker culture in schools.

The student cards from Discover also provide a few additional perks, including the Good Grades Rewards program that grants you bonus cash back rewards each year you maintain a GPA of 3.0 or better.