Sentences with phrase «grade than boys»

Boys who completed the Get Real take - home activities in 6th grade were more likely to delay sex in the 8th grade than boys who did not complete these activities, highlighting the importance of parents and sons talking earlier and more frequently about sex.

We also found that boys who completed Get Real family activities in 6th grade were more likely to delay sex in 8th grade than boys who did not complete them.

For boys, family involvement showed an additional effect, with boys who completed Family Activities in sixth grade being less likely to report having had sex in eighth grade than boys who did not complete these activities.

Once again this spring, boys outnumber girls as National Merit Semifinalists, even though girls typically earn higher grades than boys in both high school and college, the National Center for Fair & Open Testing has charged.

Not exact matches

Today, Milton Hershey School, the institution he and his wife founded, nurtures more than 2,000 financially needy boys and girls in grades K - 12.

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

While working with Kohlberg in the early Seventies on this ground - breaking study of moral development, she noted that girls and women were consistently graded as less moral than boys and men.

«This is their way of saying that boys younger than ninth grade should not play contact football, and they're correct about that,» said Terry O'Neil, who runs Practice Like the Pros, which advocates safer training techniques.

Babies and toddlers shouldn't watch TV, an hour a day of television is a reasonable amount of time for children, aggressive boys are made more aggressive by violent video games, heavy media users get lower grades than kids who are light users and also report being less happy.

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.

Girls are more willing to sing songs and play make - believe in the older grade school years than boys are.

Rory was older than me by a few years — just old enough that every move she made was aspirational: her expansive reading list (which I actually saved on my computer and tried to follow), her perfectly worded banter, her sublime grades, and — let's be real — the fact that every boy she came across seemed to fall madly in love with her.

I was never artistic or creative, I still have handwriting like a 3rd grade boy (better than my sisters, however) and my powderpuff shirts always came out looking like I was just in a street fight.

While girls do as well as or better than boys when teachers assign grades in all three subjects, they score significantly lower on both the math and

A hard - working second - grade boy named Jaylen Bocage made the rounds too — but was too busy cleaning the greenhouse shelves to offer more than a friendly grin in response to a grown - up's questions.

Dweck: Yes, boys have a much worse time than girls in grade school, but ironically, this may result in their learning some valuable lessons.

And girls benefited more than boys: The new bathrooms increased enrollment for girls in primary schools by 11.1 percent, compared to 9.7 percent for boys, and in the upper grades by 7.1 percent, compared to 4.7 percent for boys.

Girls in elementary school are still perceived more favorably, disciplined less harshly, and graded more generously than boys, but boys receive more attention, encouragement, and constructive criticism, ac - cording to a new report by the Project on Equal Educational Rights of the National Organization for Women.

In 9th grade, where poorly prepared boys first encounter the full force of the college - readiness curriculum, you can see a pileup, or bulge, as 9th - grade classes are far larger than 8th - grade classes, the result of students being retained before entering 10th grade.

RW: When you examine state tests, which are far better than NAEP for measuring gender gaps because they test every student every year in most grades, you see that girls have pulled even with boys in math and science.

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

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

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.

Boys did better than girls in math in third, fourth and fifth grade, but girls topped boys in math on middle school exBoys did better than girls in math in third, fourth and fifth grade, but girls topped boys in math on middle school exboys in math on middle school exams.

Findings show that, generally, girls self - report as being more engaged than boys, White students and Asian American students are more engaged than other races across all three dimensions, students in advanced classes are more engaged, non-low-income students report more engagement, and students who begin and stay at their high school starting in the ninth grade are higher across the dimensions of engagement.

(N.C.) When a second grade teacher in Oregon noticed one of her students was far more distractible than the average 7 - year - old and often appeared to be daydreaming, she was sure the boy had attention deficit disorder.

And so what we found in that was even though girls had comparable test scores to boys and had actually higher grades, as was mentioned earlier, higher grades in math and science than boys, that teachers were more likely to rate the class as easy for the boys and as more difficult for the girls.

On average, boys in the program increased their grade point average to 2.12 in 2014, substantially higher than the 1.7 grade point average among black boys not participating in the program.

From as early as preschool, boys are expelled almost five times as often as girls; for all grade levels, African American students are suspended or expelled at rates several times higher than any other group; and nonheterosexual youth experience school sanctions up to three times more often than heterosexual youth.

Already, 71 % of Canadian women ages 25 to 34 have post-secondary degrees or diplomas, compared to just 62 % of men, a trend that looks likely to continue, because girls are currently getting better grades in school than boys.

Those bad boys back in grade school now seem more an annoyance than a tragedy, even if a playground fight for Hank Willis Thomas can end in death.

Not only that, but also, boys do far worse in early French Immersion than girls do — almost all boys put into early French Immersion can be counted on to be designated «gifted learning - disabled» by grade 3 and returned to the regular classroom bearing that label, leaving mostly girls in French Immersion.

«A study of 47 first grade boys and their married parents found that fathers who participated important childhood more in childcare had sons who were more empathetic than sons whose fathers did not participate often in childcare.