Sentences with phrase «grade than elementary school»

They also tend to be larger and have many more students per grade than elementary school (see «The Middle School Mess,» features).

Not exact matches

If your child is doing more than 10 minutes or so per grade of homework in elementary school, an hour or so in middle school and 2 - 2 1/2 hours in high school then they are working past the point of homework providing any advantage.

In addition, the early middle school grades typically provide less independence to students than do the upper levels of elementary schools.

Bullying tends to peak in 6th grade, and many students find that the academic challenges of middle school are far more difficult than in elementary school.

Currently, Project BOOST operates in 60 elementary and middle schools, serving more than 700 students in grades four through eight across New York City.

Currently, Project BOOST includes 60 elementary and middle schools, serving more than 700 students in grades four through eight throughout New York City.

Current state frameworks for teaching mathematics to children in elementary and middle school (kindergarten through grade 8) can include more than 100 objectives for a particular grade, says Francis «Skip» Fennell, NCTM president.

It grows in part because students enrolled in district schools are considerably more likely to be classified as having a specific learning disability in early elementary grades than are students enrolled in charter schools, and also because students without disabilities are more likely to enter charters in non-gateway grades than are students with disabilities.

Since students in the early grades generally have a limited attention span and suffer from learning fatigue in a more demonstrative way than older students, elementary school teachers are constantly forced to manage the learning state more acutely than teachers of middle school and high school.

In addition, a survey of English language arts classrooms published by the Fordham Institute found that most elementary - school teachers, at least in the early stages of common core implementation, assigned books based on students» abilities, rather than grade - level complexity, as the standards state.

K12 students are disproportionately enrolled in the middle grades rather than in the elementary or high - school grades.

Even though elementary schools are the most universally attended educational institutions — between prekindergarten and 8th grade, a child attends school for more than 9,000 hours, more than twice the time spent in high school — the attention to, and regard for, elementary education is inversely proportionate.

At some D.C. elementary schools, rather than settling into a healthy racial and socioeconomic balance, student populations are flipping from one extreme to the other, with fourth - grade classes dominated by minorities and preschool classes that are mostly white.

The increase in peer prior achievement from 5th to 8th grade at KIPP schools was 0.15 standard deviations greater in reading and 0.19 standard deviations greater in math than for students who attended feeder elementary schools (see Figure 4).

In fact, more students with previously identified disabilities enter charter schools than exit them as they progress through elementary grade levels...

And, of course, it's also possible that schools that serve one group better than another in the early elementary grades also serve the same group better than the other in the later elementary grades.

No less than 65 percent of those surveyed are willing to give the school they identified as their local elementary school one of the two highest grades, and 55 percent are willing to give one of those grades to their local middle school.

First, elementary and middle schools may have more of an incentive to respond to competitive pressure than high schools because the scholarships cover a greater share of private school tuition and fees in the early grades than they do in the high school years.

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.

«If you look at international comparisons, kids in the United States perform better at elementary school than the later grades... so it made sense to look at whether grade configuration influenced this.»

Fifteen elementary schools and more than 1200 children in second and fourth grades in urban and suburban districts in Washington were assigned to participate in the Second Step program, versus as control, using a quasi-experimental design.

Their analysis of student achievement in New York City middle schools confirms parents» conclusion that children learn more if they stay in an elementary - school setting through grade 8 than if they move to a stand - alone middle school.

For instance, the standards are clear that elementary - school teachers should assign texts that match a student's grade level, rather than their current reading level.

Interestingly, respondents assigned their local middle schools grades that were, on average, one - quarter of a letter grade lower than the grades they assigned their local elementary schools (see Figure 1).

However, parents do appear to be somewhat more responsive than other citizens to school poverty rates and take an especially dim view of middle schools, assigning them grades that are 39 percent of a letter grade lower than otherwise similar elementary schools.

Even after controlling for proficiency rates and other school characteristics, middle schools receive ratings that are, on average, 18 percent of a letter grade lower than comparable elementary schools.

Based on statewide data, researchers Laura Hill and Margaret Weston concluded that reclassified English learners «not only outperform English learner students, but often do better than English - only students» on state standardized tests, with students reclassified in elementary grades doing better than those reclassified in middle and high school.

Students in elementary schools perform better on state tests than students in upper grades.

It turns out that reported levels of school cohesion vary by grade levels: elementary teachers see their campuses as more coherent, working in professional harmony with peers, than do high school teachers.

In their special strategies study, Stringfield et al. (1997) found that reform programs that focused on the primary grades had larger achievement gains in reading than schools that spread their efforts out across the elementary grades or into the secondary grades.

If states or districts tested math or literacy proficiency in more than one grade in elementary or in secondary schools, we averaged the percentages across the grades within the building level, resulting in a single achievement score for each school.

In districts like Brownsville, a historically Black community in Brooklyn, there is not a single district elementary school that has educated more than 20 % of its kids to read at grade level.

And the effective distance between grade levels is smaller in middle and high school than it is in elementary school.

Such bills would cut funding for charters serving elementary - and middle - school grades, or subject charters to onerous state - approval processes for facilities, or eliminate the charter - friendly State University as a chartering entity - or set artificial caps on charter enrollment in areas such as Albany, where parental interest in charters is far higher than the union likes.

In America, no educational issue is of greater national significance than ensuring that all children learn to read — fluently and with comprehension — in the primary grades of elementary school.

In addition, entering fourth - grade teachers are less likely to be inexperienced teachers than those moving into other elementary school grades.

School size is correlated with grade levels — middle and high schools are typically larger than elementary schools.

It is bad for teachers to use group grades in elementary schools and in middle schools for more than 30 % of the time.

The federal government and more than 20 states have launched class - size reduction initiatives that seek to lower the average class size in the early elementary grades of U.S. schools to 15 — 18 students.

State Department of Education data shows that more than 80 percent of third - graders and 71 percent of fifth - graders can't read at grade level, and the school's 8 percent suspension rate is the second highest out of all elementary schools in the LAUSD.

The state currently employs 7,000 fewer TAs in grades K - 3 than it did in 2008, and is proposing to cut an additional 8,500 + TAs from elementary schools over the next two years.

More than half of all U.S. public school teachers, including those who teach in the arts, physical education, and early elementary grades, are not covered by a standardized test.

The six reconfigured schools — Blackshear, Highland Heights, Hilliard and Wesley elementary schools, Cullen Middle School and Woodson PK - 8 — would serve fewer grade levels in 2018 - 19 than they do now.

Having the necessary stakeholders, or stakeholder representatives, at the table [for a given purpose] is important, and is more important than identifying a specific number of PLC participants that is most effective; e.g., aligning curriculum across an elementary school with a teacher representative for each grade participating in the PLC and then receiving / sharing information back to grade level teachers at their grade team meetings.

Research finds that if young children are chronically absent for more than one year, they are less likely to read proficiently by the end of third grade, and more likely to be retained in elementary school.

Bennett says the changes to the accountability system had no motive other than fairness for «combined» schools that both elementary and secondary grades.

In Weld RE-4, south of Greeley, some elementary classes have more than 27 students — you want to typically keep those numbers much lower in the primary grades; in high school they have classes of 32 and 34 students.

Though charters last year enrolled about the same percentage of at - risk students as DCPS (44 percent), most charters (47 out of 53 elementary and elementary / middle schools) have lower concentrations of at - risk students than nearby DCPS schools serving similar grades — and by nearby, we mean within the same DCPS elementary zone.

At the elementary - school level, less than 40 percent of fourth - grade teachers say they regularly emphasize topics related to civics education.

Students who read above grade level in elementary school graduate and enroll in college at higher rates than their peers.