Sentences with phrase «from small elementary schools»

In part, the rise of cliques in the organizational structure of peer groups reflects the structure of American schools, which typically transition from small elementary schools to large middle schools or junior high schools around sixth or seventh grade.

Participants bring their experiences, and whether you're from a small elementary school in Texas or a large inner city high school in New York City, the synergy, the way people come together, is really important.

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Apart from the handful who were born in Ashland, they'd moved from Homer or Chicago or Coronado Island, in the first or third or ninth grade, reared in trailers or at friends» houses or in homes with hot tubs, the sons of teachers and attorneys and single mothers who had chosen to go back - to - the - land in a small town: population 15,000, liberal and rural, five crowded elementary schools.

Thomas Cook, writing in 1984, concludes that meta - analyses of results from all the studies, taken together, support the view that the effects on the mathematics and reading achievement in elementary school are quite small or even zero.

The first BVP elementary and middle schools are among a small number (less than 10 percent) of public schools to receive the highest «Commended» designation from Rhode Island's commissioner of education.

For this portion of the study, we compare KIPP students with two groups of district school students: all those attending non-KIPP middle schools in the same district, and a smaller comparison group of students attending middle schools that accepted an above - average number of students from the feeder elementary schools.

On September 1, I will be a literacy specialist for a small, public elementary school in Newton, Massachusetts, at a school with students almost entirely from the very nearby community (the principal says nearly all of them walk to school).

EW: Although the trend has been to build bigger schools over the past 70 years to keep costs down, do you think evidence from recent studies strongly favors the construction of smaller schools, including middle schools similar to the size of elementary schools?

Studies of modern, scaled - up programs that intend to impact long - term child development find, unlike the studies of small hothouse programs from the last century, that improvements in children's measurable skills and dispositions found at the end of participation in such programs usually fade away entirely by the time children are in the first few grades of elementary school.

The school was so small I was really able to get everybody's name and learn where they came from, versus elementary school where I have my group of friends and that's it,» Dzul said.

«On average, summer vacation creates a three - month gap in reading achievement between students from low - and middle - income families... even small differences in summer learning can accumulate across the elementary years, resulting in a large achievement gap by the time students enter high school.»

Tools and processes that pass the tests of reliability and validity, and that are flexible enough to take different school contexts into account (leading a large suburban high school, for example, is different from leading a small rural elementary school).

And there's the difficulty of drawing the right conclusions about teacher performance from very small numbers of student test scores, an especially tough challenge in elementary schools, where teachers typically work with a single classroom of students every day.

This could be because middle and high school boundary neighborhoods are much larger and less different from each other than elementary school neighborhoods, which are smaller and more differentiated.

They are moving from the small, self - contained world of elementary school into a building where they change classes and can even start choosing which ones they want to take.

(Calif.) In a clear sign that California's economic recovery hasn't reached all communities, a small elementary school district deep in the Central Valley has requested a waiver from the education code restricting borrowing.

The program was launched after parents expressed concern about their kids moving from the smaller, safer elementary school to the much larger middle school.

The investigation reporting the outlier prevalence rate of 26 % examined the smallest sample of children, and all children in that investigation were from a single, inner - city elementary school.11 These methodological limitations may have contributed to a spuriously inflated estimate for the prevalence of ADHD in the general population.

My family immigrated to Bozeman from a small town in Turkey when I was in elementary school.

My biggest complaint is that the facility is far too small for upper elementary - age students (and old which stinks even worse since they come from a brand new fancy elementary school for grades K - 2).

Unfortunately, I waited until the last minute to write this post as I was waiting for the words to come to me and then this afternoon, just thirty minutes from our small town, in the county where we live, there was a shooter that entered the playground of an elementary school.