Sentences with phrase «grade boy at»

Lerina Cordero, mother of a first grade boy at West Athens Elementary in south Los Angeles, says parents there had been trying for years to get the school's leadership to stop rampant bullying and...

Lakeland Elementary / Middle School teacher Delilah Moss was shocked when a sixth - grade boy at the top of his class didn't pass the math portion of the annual standardized test two years ago.

«Before, the district wasn't involved,» said Esmeralda Chacon, parent of a third - grade boy at the school.

But I agree — it's a huge challenge to accomodate the needs of the Kindergartener and the growing 5th grade boy at the same time.

Not exact matches

She taught third grade before becoming a busy stay - at - home mom of four boys.

Children of parents with less education watch more, and, at the fourth - grade level, boys watch more TV than girls.

Shero, the boy's sixth grade teacher at St. Jerome School, is accused of allegedly orally and anally sodomizing the then 11 - year - old in the back of his car, Williams said.

I ended up coaching 8th - grade boys and girls basketball at local middle schools in San Diego.

Summer Schedule June 13 - 16: 9th - 12th grade Team Camp, 9am - 3 pm, at Branson June 20 - 23: 9th grade Boys & Girls Team Camp, 9am - 3 pm, at Branson June 20 - July19: Practice Tuesday - Thursday (Time TBA) July 8 - 10: Novato Tournament (6 games) July 16 - 19: Overnight Team Retreat & Tourney

At a local legislative meeting, where preserving farm - to - school funding was on the agenda, Alexander brought a seventh grade boy who had graduated from a local elementary school's farm - to - school curriculum.

When she is not at work or chasing her two boys (in K and 1st grade at BRS), Amanda enjoys exercising, hiking and assisting recent refugees to resettle in the greater bay area.

At a local legislative meeting, where preserving farm to school funding was on the agenda, Alexander brought a seventh grade boy who had graduated from a local elementary school's farm to school curriculum.

It was announced on Wednesday that Felder secured some $ 200,000 in discretionary funds for «education access» programs for Agudath Israel, the lobbying force that helped fight state efforts to impose instructional standards on yeshivas... What secular education young boys receive typically ends at the equivalent of about seventh grade, with only minimal English and reading studied after that.

However, the continuing decline of modern foreign languages and the growing divide in performance between boys and girls at the top grades are worrying trends.»

And at the higher grades they are increasing their lead — a different pattern to A-levels in which boys are closing the achievement gap in the sciences.

When looking at all GCSE subjects together, the gap between boys and girls at A * - A is at its widest at 6.7 percentage points (26.5 % of girls achieving A * - A compared to 19.8 % of boys) since the top grade was introduced in 1994.

Meanwhile, just 28 % of white working class boys who receive free school meals achieve five GCSEs at grade C or above.

But at Success Academy Harlem 4, one boy's struggles were there for all to see: On two colored charts in the hallway, where the students» performance on weekly spelling and math quizzes was tracked, his name was at the bottom, in a red zone denoting that he was below grade level.

In any event, I distinctly recall being with the girls on the monkey bars during recess in second grade while the boys were in the field playing football and looking over at them, thinking to myself how that was rather strange.

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.

Last year, nearly 46 per cent of girls gained five or more passes at the top grades (A to C) in the GCSE examinations taken at 16, while fewer than 37 per cent of boys reached the same standard.

In sixth grade, girls in both the European French and North African French groups reported lower levels of gender typicality and felt pressure than boys; contrary to expectations, the two ethnic groups did not differ in this respect at the beginning of middle school.

i work at a school as a pe teacher for grade r to grade 3 boys.

Hirozaku Kore - eda's I Wish concerns two grade - school - aged brothers separated by their parents» divorce, but also weaves in the story of the boys» family and friends, pondering what people really want out of life, and at what age they make that decision.

Boyhood was shot over twelve years, typically one weekend per year, following the life of one boy and his family from first grade through his arrival at college.

Jaleel White, Tony Hale and Thomas Lennon — best known for comedies — have very limited roles as prominent figures at the boys» grade school.

At the point in which we catch up with his story, the boy is entering fifth grade and has had multiple surgeries over his life to correct his condition.

Bangladeshi, Indian, black African and Pakistani pupils from poorer homes were also found to perform «well above» the national average, while white working class boys achieve the lowest grades at GCSE of any main ethnic group.

«At Codman our «crews» are composed of all girls or all boys, in grades 9 — 12,» she says.

If you look at most relevant data on gender differentials — grades, college attendance, engagement with school, self - destructive behavior, etc. — boys show up as the «gender at risk.»

The gender gap also narrowed slightly with 73.1 per cent of girls achieving at least a C grade, compared to 64.7 per cent of boys.

Two of its Brooklyn schools have posted math scores that were the best in the state, Excellence Boys Charter School (6th grade) and Kings Collegiate Charter School (7th grade); ELA test scores of 8th graders at True North Rochester Preparatory Charter School in Rochester placed that school at number 6 out of 1,450 schools tested.

Assistant Professor Martin West remembers the «shock» of the new environment he encountered at the larger, all - boys school when he entered the seventh grade.

Written at about a fourth - grade level, the book tells the story of a boy who decides to solve the mystery of photosynthesis for a school science project.

Recent data from a study we are doing here at Wellesley Centers for Women with a large, racially diverse sample of low - income students in a large urban school district found that 95 percent of students, both boys and girls, aspired to attend college when asked in 9th and 10th grade.

More than one quarter of candidates achieved at least eight A * grades, and 11 boys were awarded straight A * grades.

A 2009 study of seventh and eighth grade students at 10 Boys & Girls Clubs across the country found that those attending afterschool programs skipped school fewer times, increased school effort, and gained academic confidence; moreover, the first two outcomes cited above increased as the number of days attending afterschool programs increased (Arbreton, Bradshaw, Sheldon, & Pepper, 2009).

White working class pupils achieve the lowest grades at GCSE of any main ethnic group, with just a quarter of boys and a third of girls achieving 5 good GCSEs.

Before moving to Boston, she taught first grade at Excellence Boys Charter School in Brooklyn, NY for three years.

Despite little or no difference in performance at the elementary - school level, girls assume that math is for boys as early as second grade.

At every grade level, English Language Arts results are stronger for girls than for boys.

Boys and girls can enrol in the primary grades at Al Mamoura School, but it will be girls - only for year seven and above.

Jarell taught 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade at the Excellence Boys Charter School in Bedford - Stuyvesant New York.

SANGER, California — At a table strewn with papers, four eighth - grade boys with gelled hair and flashy sneakers comb through lyrics, discussing everything from girls to grammar.

The paper from the University of Maryland's Melissa Kearney and Wellesley College's Phillip Levine finds that the show has left children more likely to stay at the appropriate grade level for their age, an effect that is particularly pronounced among boys, African Americans and children who grow up in disadvantaged areas.

She found out that to remain at grade level, her boy would need to know nearly three times as many words by the end of the year.

In terms of grade level, bullying was more common for 7th graders than for 8th graders at the three schools we surveyed, with two notable exceptions: Verbal bullying affected 8th grade girls more than any other subgroup at Small City School, and physical violence affected 8th grade boys and girls more than 7th graders at Big City School.

Five second - grade boys climb into a semi-circle of chairs organized around a table nearly as tall as they are in a hallway at Gompers Elementary.

His principal will likely assign him most of the unruly boys at his grade level.

The performance gap between boys and girls has now reached its the widest ever - 6.7 percentage points - at the top grades of A * and A.