Sentences with phrase «get grade school students»

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With a 1.7 high school grade point average and unable to get admitted to any degree - granting institution, Kalin faked an MIT student ID and then used a letter of recommendation from a professor he met there to get himself admitted to NYU.

As a parent of a grade - school student, I had a difficult time getting into that mind - set.

Education is essentially competitive, not cooperative, as illustrated by the common practice of grading on a curve, or the fact that students getting together to cooperate on their work are said to be «cheating» — so highly are the communal virtues regarded in our schools.

She started with some universally acknowledged positive academic outcomes for students: getting good grades, graduating from high school, and earning a college degree.

In an experiment in the Minneapolis area, when schools started later, students felt less sleepy, got higher grades, had fewer depressive feelings, fewer conflicts, and less bullying — and SAT scores went up.

At one school site, we have six locations, and each student knows where they go based on grade level; everyone reports to their respective quad area, get their breakfast, and go to class.

Studies suggest that hunger is directly related to the ability to learn — and we wonder why our schools are getting low marks and our students lower grades?

Both French and German are taught from 1st grade on to all students, so by the time you get to high school, you are proficient in both, and can then go on to further study in either Spanish or Mandarin.

I'm sick of a lot of my COLLEGE professors sort of awkwardly shrugging their shoulders when «difficult» topics are brought up because they really, really do not want to get into complicated talks with their students and I just remember how much more so my grade - school teachers did that.

These drinks seemed like a good compromise at the time, given that we were dealing with a student population who had believed since 6th grade that getting soda at school was their «right.»

* What happens to some students with the grades to now get into a SUNY college as they face stiffer competition for admission even to so - called «safety schools» by students who now might choose to go to a private college?

Meanwhile, SUNY - authorized charter schools get 70 percent, 80 percent and even 90 percent of students up to grade level.»

In the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets in.

Those policies include a ten - year plan, $ 81 million to make computer science a requirement in city schools, and a $ 75 million annual commitment to hire reaching specialists to get all students up to reading on their grade level by the end of second grade.

Meanwhile, SUNY authorized charter schools get 70, 80, and even 90 percent of students up to grade level.»

Being a responsible student, maintaining an interest in school and having good reading and writing skills will not only help a teenager get good grades in high school but could also be predictors of educational and occupational success decades later, regardless of IQ, parental socioeconomic status or other personality factors, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

School teachers from elementary through high - school grades have used GIMPS to get their students excited about mathemSchool teachers from elementary through high - school grades have used GIMPS to get their students excited about mathemschool grades have used GIMPS to get their students excited about mathematics.

As the 2005 school year got underway, a new requirement in a Pennsylvania public school district mandated that all 9th - grade biology students listen to a statement questioning the validity of evolutionary theory and promoting intelligent design.

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.

In the state of Oklahoma, low - income high school students who agree to make good grades in a prescribed curriculum, attend school, and stay out of trouble can get free tuition at public and private colleges in the state.

McComb agreed as well, stating that, if we do the math based on the number of students he has compared to the time he gets in school to grade, he has about 20 seconds per student to grade their papers and give feedback.

Nor should we forget grade inflation, in both high school and college, whereby the kind of student work that once earned a «C» now gets at least a «B +.»

And now, increasingly, we are getting high school students to come back and help, and those students will tell you all about their experience way back when they were in sixth grade.

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.

Data averaging pools students across grade levels at the school - year level, and / or across years at the school - grade level, increasing the number of observations and, consequently, the chance of getting to the minimum n - size.

A school would get an F grade on the relevant indicator for all student groups not reaching 95 percent participation

P21's Learning Targets and Student - Led Conferences: Fourth - grade educators Doris Malmin and Kevin Armstrong explain how their school got started with student - led conferences, share the sample script they developed, and describe some of their lessons lStudent - Led Conferences: Fourth - grade educators Doris Malmin and Kevin Armstrong explain how their school got started with student - led conferences, share the sample script they developed, and describe some of their lessons lstudent - led conferences, share the sample script they developed, and describe some of their lessons learned.

The author adds, «School practices to encourage parents to participate in their children's education are more important than family characteristics like parental education, family size, marital status, socioeconomic level, or student grade level in determining whether parents get involved.»

I can also be precise about what I mean by acting white: a set of social interactions in which minority adolescents who get good grades in school enjoy less social popularity than white students who do well academically.

Good grades, good character, and community and school service can get their photo and statistics on a trading card — which are given as rewards to elementary and middle school students.

With the addition of the new students and new grade levels, the school needed an event that would bring in parents and get them involved in school activities.

Not only did the district, the largest in the country, take on a student population that had come to symbolize the impossibility of educating a certain kind of child — the urban poor who entered high school two and three grades behind — but it succeeded in getting those students to graduation.

These stories illustrate the argument in favor of creating smaller schools: students get personal attention, individualized learning plans, and grades based on long - term projects and performance - based graduation requirements.

But while the latest report confirms performance increases found in the first - year study, it also shows that the gains were not strong enough to get students up to grade level by the end of the school year.

Gov. George W. Bush of Texas has launched his 1998 re-election bid with a get - tough pledge to make it harder for public school students to advance to the next grade before mastering basic academic skills.

Some people who get high grades will make a big effort and move up through the pack and we need to acknowledge that, but we also know that there are students in our schools who can do quite well without stretching themselves — they coast in some cases.

activity sheet challenges your middle - grades and high - school students to use their dictionaries to help them figure out which of nine challenging Word Bank words fits in each of the ten sentences (one word gets used twice) on the Vocab - u-lous!

Linda Howard, for example, a sixth - grade English teacher at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass., describes her experience teaching in a model in which students rotate between working online and face - to - face: «I get to work with small groups a lot more.

A student of average motivation (he understands the importance of academic performance and wants to do well in school) has set a goal to get a good grade on an upcoming test.

The assessment itself was first given in 1969, but the underlying political compromises meant that (a) students were tested by age, not grade level; (b) results were reported either as percentages of test takers getting individual questions right or (starting in 1984) on a psychometric scale that included no benchmarks, standards, or «cut points»; and (c) the «units of analysis» were the entire country and four big regions but not individual states, let alone districts or schools.

By 2014 it requires all students in every grade level to get to proficiency in every year — even 3rd graders who are born into poverty, or high - school students who moved to the United States two years prior.

For example, the SAT and the ACT are used to predict the grades that high school students will earn when they get to college.

Should our focus be getting all students to proficiency by the time they graduate high school rather than by the end of each grade or by 2014?

But most American high school students, to get a diploma, only have to earn barely passing grades until they finish their 12th year.

Participating schools in Indiana get letter grades from the state's accountability system and are prohibited from taking in new program students if they receive a D or F.

'' (Students) get more individual attention so they feel like they're truly important and what they do is important,» Loretta Poland, a second - grade teacher at the district's Northridge Elementary School, told the Bee.

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?

Sen. Kate Witek last month got 29 letters from students in two 4th - grade classes at Aldrich Elementary School in suburban Omaha, opposing the tax bills.

A few weeks ago, I bemoaned an Education Trust report positing that schools shouldn't get A grades if they have significant achievement gaps, even if their students are making lots of progress.

Information is a critical first step to increasing parental involvement, and technology provides schools with fast and reliable ways to get important information out to parents — whether it's a student's grade on the latest test or news about an upcoming parent meeting.