Sentences with phrase «grade the author of»

Some of the middle grade authors of today that are hugely successful write in all lengths.

Stay Where You Are and Then Leave by John Boyne March 2014 Holt Middle grade The author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas once again offers a child's view of war.

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Grading the Financial Reports of Canada's Cities,» authors Benjamin Dachis, William B.P. Robson, and Jennifer Y. Tsao grade the financial presentations of major Canadian cities in their most recent budgets and financial reports.

You're just parroting the kind of standard eighth grade atheist questions that are answered by reading any number of excellent authors.

The author is saying that her life was basically good with the exception of an incident in grade 5 (when she was scared but otherwise unharmed) and that led her to God?

First, I want to talk about its author, my 9th grade English teacher and debate coach Robert Pacilio, the adult who was perhaps the most formative influence upon me outside of my parents and perhaps a couple Sunday school teachers.

Among the references to contemporary scientific literature the authors note common failures of research design and provide «grades» to direct the interested reader towards published works that provide the best evidence linking health to religion.

Miller turned in a paper on author Toni Morrison and received a grade of 68, two points short of passing.

He is co-author of Sensible Physics Teaching, a guide for teaching physics in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades, and author of two other books, Embracing Materialism and Letting IT Go, and What is Being Asked of You.

Free Range Kids is a website created by Lenore Skenazy, an American columnist, author and reality show host, out of the desire to fight the belief that our children are in constant danger from creeps, kidnapping, germs, grades, flashers, frustration, failure, baby snatchers, bugs, bullies, men, sleepovers and the perils of a non-organic grape.

Michael Pewtherer, grade 8 class teacher at Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School, is Director at Woodland Ways, a Wilderness First Responder, and author of Wilderness Survival Handbook: Primitive Skills for Short - Term Survival and Long - Term Comfort.

I recently read the book «Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, «A's, Praise, and Other Bribes» by Alfie Kohn, a noted author and outspoken critic of traditional education, including grades, test scores, and homework.

Author Gemma Elwin Harris has lovingly compiled weighty questions from precocious grade school children — queries that have long dumbfounded even intelligent adults — and she's gathered together a notable team of scientists, specialists, philosophers, and writers to find enlightening answers.

The authors found that an investment of $ 1,110 per child in the More at Four preschool program (now called NC Pre-K)-- the funding level in 2009 — reduced the likelihood of third - grade special education placements by 32 percent.

Among the Vanderbilt sample, GRE scores turned out to be only «moderate predictors of first semester grades» and «weak to moderate predictors of graduate GPA,» the authors report.

The authors conclude: «The findings from this large prospective study show that the association between body size and prostate cancer is complex and varies by disease aggressiveness; men who have greater adiposity have an elevated risk of high grade prostate cancer and prostate cancer death.»

In this study, the authors investigated the associations between various body measurements at baseline, mainly BMI and waist circumference, and the risk of prostate cancer incidence, with a focus on tumour stage and grade, and on mortality from prostate cancer.

«The results demonstrate that part of teacher improvement is due to specific knowledge and skills regarding a particular grade,» says study author Ben Ost, UIC assistant professor of economics.

According to behavioral studies, even in kindergarten and first grade, girls are more articulate than boys, their handwriting is more legible, and they're quicker at answering questions, says Louann Brizendine, a neuropsychiatrist at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and author of The Female Brain.

This age is a critical juncture in a child's life, as kids typically decrease their activity levels by 50 percent between fifth and sixth grades, said Rod Dishman, the study's lead author and a professor of kinesiology in the UGA College of Education.

In the first screening round of the trial, the authors assessed the rates of women being referred for further testing and of detection of CIN2 + (high - grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia) precancerous lesions.

Overall, the authors found that the rates of low Apgar scores increased with maternal Body Mass Index (BMI): overweight (BMI 25.0 - 29.9) was associated with a 55 % increased risk of low Apgar scores at 5 minutes; obesity grade I (BMI 30 - 34.9) and grade II (BMI 35.0 - 39.9) was associated with a 2-fold increased risk; and obesity grade ΙII (BMI ≥ 40.0) was associated with a more than 3-fold increase in risk.

However, we controlled for this in our study by including the students» incoming grade point averages in our analysis,» said Christian Wright, co-first author of the study and instructional professional with ASU School of Life Sciences.

Dr Lucy Clark, lead author, Queen Mary University of London, UK, said: «We found that a self - help approach to a graded exercise program, guided by a therapist, was safe and also helped to reduce fatigue for some people with chronic fatigue syndrome, suggesting that GES might be useful as an initial treatment for patients to help manage symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome.

Erich Battistin, Professor of Economics at QMUL and lead author of the study says the period provides a «perfect test environment» to interrogate an important policy question: can grade inflation change the composition of neighbourhoods?

The authors of the present study sought to investigate the association between fitness and waist circumference as well as the association between fitness and low - grade inflammation, and whether there was a correlation with Body Mass Index (BMI).

«This is exciting because it's the first animal model of pediatric high - grade gliomas, or malignant brain tumors,» says Maria Castro, Ph.D., senior author of the paper and a professor in the departments of Neurosurgery and Cell and Developmental Biology at U-M.

These findings are in agreement with other studies on cell morphology [3, 4] and senescence [5], and the authors hope to advance these studies by separately analyzing subpopulations derived from the same bone marrow sample, and also surveying the grade of cell maturity (surface receptor analysis) and cytoskeleton composition of the cells during cell tracking.

Unfortunately, the standard tools for assessing risk of metastasis — such as the size of the tumor, its grade, the presence of estrogen receptors and the proportion of dividing cells — are «insufficient,» note the authors, «for clinical decision making.»

About Site - Hadar is a kindergarten teacher and author of Miss Kindergarten blog.She taught kindergarten, 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade students.

De Palma, producer Martin Bregman, and actors Steven Bauer, Robert Loggia, and Angel Salazar all participate, as do Julie Salamon (author of The Devil's Candy, the book - length making - of devoted to De Palma's ill - fated The Bonfire of the Vanities), Ken Tucker, Keith Gordon (star of De Palma's Dressed to Kill), Antoine Fuqua, and Eli Roth, who surprises no one with his claim that he saw Scarface 56 times in seventh grade.

According to the authors, minority students, with the exception of Asian students, fare worse on the eighth - grade MCAS than their white counterparts.

The analysts and authors of QC keep fussing with the variables, metrics and weightings by which they grade state performance.

Instead, the author of Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family / School Partnerships, says open houses should be opportunities to share with families specific grade - level learning goals that have been identified for students.

Examining longer - term effects, however, the study's authors found that double - dosed students» scores on the math portion of the ACT (taken in the spring of 11th grade) were 0.15 standard deviations higher, the equivalent of closing roughly 15 % of the black - white achievement gap.

The authors wrote that, overall, the results of 46 articles published between 1985 and October 2008 found that «there is substantial evidence that physical activity can help improve academic achievement, including grades and standardized test scores.

To measure the effect of being in the top 10 percent, the authors compared the grade point averages of students whose class rank was just above or just below the cutoff.

This report reviews 16 studies conducted in seven states; 103 of 112 comparisons show positive results in writing achievement favoring students in classrooms of NWP participants, based on grading by «blind» coders who did not know whether the author received NWP teaching.

The article reported results from a large (nearly 16,000 respondents) representative sample of students in grades 6 through 10; the authors were associated with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (which supported the survey).

While they also rate schools with fewer poor students more highly, we found no signs that the grades parents gave their school is influenced by its racial or ethnic composition,» observed Martin West, one of the study's authors.

The authors use data from state tests and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to estimate changes to each state's proficiency standards in reading and math in grades 4 and 8 by identifying the difference between the percentages of students the state identifies as proficient and the percentages of students identified as proficient by NAEP, an internationally benchmarked proficiency standard.

To my twelfth - grade composition teacher, Mr. McCatty, in whose class I first experienced the power of sharing one's own writing in an author's chair.

One good backgrounder, appropriate across the elementary grades, is Langston Hughes: American Poet by Alice Walker (author of The Color Purple).

Author and global ed adviser Homa Tavangar reflects on 4th grade teacher John Hunter's new book about his 30 years of teaching the World Peace Game.

All of that changed when I spoke with Rick Wormeli, a celebrated teacher and author of one of my favorite books, Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessing & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom.

The experiences of educators such as Rabe, and many others who put Turning Points into practice, provide what authors Jackson and Davis call the «muscle, heart, and soul» to the renewed push for middle grades reform.

I'm your host Matt Weber and today we're here with third grade teacher from Denver and author of the book, I Wish My Teacher Knew, How One Question Can Change Everything For Our Kids, Kyle Schwartz.

[Matt Weber] Kyle Schwartz, third grade teacher in Denver, Colorado and author of the book I Wish My Teacher Knew, How One Question Can Change Everything For Our Kids.

In his book, «Dumbing Down America: The War on our Nation's Brightest Young Minds (And What We Can Do To Fight Back),» author James R. Delisle waxes poetic about a «gifted» student from Romania capable of learning algebra in the 4th grade.

Analyzing a sample of 58,000 11th - grade Hispanic PSAT / NMSQT takers from the graduating high school classes of 2004 to 2010, the authors find that the NHRP dramatically alters college attendance patterns.