Sentences with phrase «grade led students»

Being retained in third grade led students to take fewer remedial courses in high school and improved their grade point averages.

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There's James Heckman, a Nobel Prize - winning economist at the University of Chicago, who found in the late 1990s that students who earned high school diplomas through the General Educational Development program, widely known as the GED, had the same future prospects as high school dropouts, a discovery that led him to conclude that there were qualities beyond courses and grades that made a big difference in students» success.

This need of authority leads to one of the most distinctive features of Waldorf education, the class teacher who ideally advances with the students from first through eighth grade.

That rule would lead to an eighth - grade student doing 1 hour and 20 minutes of homework each night.

That's why she loves homeschooling her kids, leading Sunday school for two and three year olds and teaching at the local homeschool group's coop for students from grades kindergarten through high school.

«From our studies and all the research leading up to the program, the students «grades improve, their attention span is longer when they have breakfast.

Involvement has been shown to increase grades, leads to more consistent homework completion, improve student behavior at school, increase high school graduation rates, reduce school drop - out rates, increase college attendance, and lower rates of experimentation with tobacco, alcohol, and recreational drugs.

Dissatisfaction with Common Core and its related tests has led to one fifth of students boycotting the third through eighth grade math and English exams last spring.

Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia is hoping to contain a movement that led 20 % of students to boycott the third through eighth grade standardized tests last spring.

Opposition to the new standards — which establish guidelines for what students should learn in math and English in each grade — has been led nationally by both conservative Republicans and tea party leaders and by teachers unions, which tend to lean left.

It's unknown whether the retreat from the most controversial effects of the Common Core standards will quell a boycott movement that led to one fifth of students skipping the third through eighth grade standardized tests earlier this year.

But a boycott led by parents and unions prompted 200,000 students in grades three through eight to opt out of taking state math and English exams this year.

Dissatisfaction with Common Core and its related tests has led to one - fifth of students boycotting the third through eighth grade math and English exams last spring.

Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia is hoping to contain a movement that led 20 percent of students to boycott the third - eighth grade standardized tests last spring.

It led to a boycott movement for the third - through eighth - grade standardized tests that resulted in about one - fifth of students opting out last year.

City Health Department officials said they didn't like the idea of grading school cafeterias because it could actually lead students to skip meals.

The two - volume Atlas presents a collection of nearly 100 conceptual strand maps that show how students» understanding of the ideas and skills that lead to literacy in science, mathematics, and technology might develop from kindergarten through 12th grade.

A classroom program that helps teachers adapt their interactions with students based on individuals» temperaments may lead to more student engagement in kindergarten, more teacher emotional support to kindergarten and first grade students, and better classroom organization and less off - task behavior in first - grade classes, according to research by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

And more reflection seemed to lead to better performance: Students who received the intervention prompt twice had higher final course grades than those who only received the prompt once.

With faculty supervision, the students also are distributing and archiving data from the instrument and lead a comprehensive education and outreach effort to bring their results and experiences to classrooms of all grades over the next decade.

The improved scores were impressive enough to lead several states and other major school districts, including New York, to adopt elements of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) policy — making student progress toward the next grade dependent on demonstrated achievement on standardized tests.

Now, results from the tests students took last spring won't be available until at least February after the state school board discovered a problem that led to incorrect scores on the science portion of the 11th grade test, graded by San Antonio - based Harcourt Assessment.

And so, for example, one year when I was teaching second grade, an English lesson on telephone etiquette triggered some questions from my students about how telephones work, which led us to learn how we communicate via satellite systems.

In a quasi-experimental study in nine Title I schools, principals and teacher leaders used explicit protocols for leading grade - level learning teams, resulting in students outperforming their peers in six matched schools on standardized achievement tests (Gallimore, Ermeling, Saunders, and Goldenberg, 2009).

Teaching at Innovations can be labor - intensive, she said, especially among 9th - grade students, who come in expecting to be «led from one class to another» and earn credit by sitting quietly.

Our analysis reveals that pressure on schools to avoid a low performance rating led low - scoring students to score significantly higher on a high - stakes math exam in 10th grade.

Our first grade students led a schoolwide campaign to collect plastic bags to help raise awareness of the impact that plastics have on our environment.

To better visualize what these meetings might look like in various grade levels, watch these video highlights from Expeditionary Learning featuring a student - led kindergarten meeting at Delaware Ridge Elementary School in Kansas City, Kansas, and a student - led middle school meeting and student - led high school meeting at Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School (WHEELS) in New York City.

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Some of our practices don't necessarily lead to any student growth along any grade - level standard at any time on any planet.

Fourth grade teacher Melissa Rhone leads students in a grammar lesson.

We've worked one - on - one with hundreds of students over the last decade, and while they always start from «my teacher hates me» or «I'm just bad at this subject,» a change in their own behaviors and beliefs consistently leads to a turnaround in grades.

During her Planning for Education Progress (PEP) meeting — a student - led meeting for all 11th - grade students to prepare for college and life after high school — she expressed concern that she wouldn't succeed in college because she'd failed the class.

32 Vigorous exercise can lead to academic gains; many kids drinking alcohol by sixth grade, study shows; students read about bays and keep track of miles as they run across America.»

Through student empathy surveys, parent surveys, and student - led conversations, the results of Project Au - Some were clear: 16 out of 21 fifth - grade students increased their scores on the empathy survey given at the beginning and end of the school year.

Often, the temptation is to reward students when their curiosity leads to a desired outcome or good grade.

Fifth - grade lead teacher Joshua White looks at student performance on each «strand» of standards in reading, writing, and math, both within his own class and across the grade.

More - demanding grading standards at some institutions, for example, could lead to lower overall grades among those schools» students, irrespective of the students» general college preparedness.

Avis Breding, who teaches sixth grade at Jeannette Myhre School in Bismarck, North Dakota, has been involved with student - led conferences for four years.

«Student - led conferencing has been used successfully beginning in the kindergarten grade,» he said.

Hackmann says student - led conferencing is successful at any grade level.

When it comes to math, the problem may be worse — many students experience math anxiety, low self - confidence, or overwhelming amounts of academic pressure, which can disrupt learning, leading to lower grades and test scores.

Thirty Chicago public schools agreed to hand out the parent report cards along with student grades last week, in an effort led by United Neighborhood Organizations of Chicago.

In the experimental evaluation of the initial DC Opportunity Scholarship Program that I led from 2004 to 2011, the number of students in testing grades dropped substantially from year 3 to year 4, leading to a much noisier estimate of the reading impacts of the program, which were positive but just missed being statistically significant with 95 % confidence.

The honored tradition of the oral report is the leading cause of stress among secondary - school students — so much so that many would prefer to take a failing grade, suggests a study by an Ohio State University researcher.

The school uses two student - led conferences in place of report cards, said Teresa Glenn, an eighth grade humanities / reading - writing workshop teacher.

«I began student - led conferences to involve the students in their learning and to give them ownership of it,» said Sherri Clifford, a second grade teacher at Hagemann Elementary School in St. Louis, Missouri.

One stated objective was to address the «disparate impact» of policies that might lead to racial minorities taking fewer challenging classes than their peers, totally ignoring the obvious fact that African American and Hispanic students are, on average, much less prepared for AP courses by the time they reach 11th and 12th grade.

Although the subjects vary considerably from one grade to the next (from the life cycle of frogs to the role of change makers in society to the study of the causes and consequences of war), every expedition shares some common characteristics: an emphasis on student - led inquiry, connections to the community (through interactions with local experts and service - learning projects, for example), and an integrated curriculum with a strong emphasis on the visual and performing arts.