Sentences with phrase «grades than kids»

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.

The new transcripts «get kids focused on doing their personal best on meeting or exceeding standards rather than getting a better grade than the kid next to them,» said Pierce.

An earlier report showed children from the Abbott preschools performed better in kindergarten and second grade than kids from Abbott districts who did not attend preschool.

Not exact matches

It's so much easier to administer and grade a useless multiple choice test and to inflate every kids» grades for their college applications than it is to create challenging course work that excites, engages, and challenges them.

It's like watching a 1st grade playground, at first it's cute watching the kids play together than it eventually comes to «my dad can beat up your dad.»

Sometimes kids from worse backgrounds, with worse high school grades, did better than kids from decent homes, with decent grades.

We argue with the teacher about our kids» less than perfect grades in middle and high school, as if the teacher has made a mistake instead of our perfect kid.

For some reason, grade schools tend to make kids feel like they can't be friends with other kids who are older or younger than them.

A January 2015 study of more than 2,000 kids in 4th to 7th grade published in Pediatrics found that children who sleep near a smartphone or another small - screen device get less sleep than kids who are not allowed to have these types of devices in their bedrooms.

For instance, kids in first grade are usually not expected to spend more than a half hour on homework each day; if your child is having difficulty with the workload, find out what the problem may be and schedule some time to meet with your child's teacher.

For kids, having friends is more important than grades.

But if you are at the receiving end of this inappropriate question, respond with an upbeat informative answer like, «Before I had kids I was a [NASA engineer, defense attorney, 3rd grade teacher] and I have to tell you, it was a lot easier than the job I do now!»

This pack of Easter printables contains more than 30 pages of fun for kids in grades PreK - 1!

Being one of those women with physical limitations, my formula fed child is at the top of her first grade class and healthier than any of the other kids in her class.

No kid should be going to a fourth grade class where there are more than twenty kids in that class.

Disappointing new research finds that starting in first grade — we're talking about 6 - year - olds — obese children are teased and bullied more often than kids of normal weight.

Fourth graders who showed signs of depression were more likely than their classmates to be victimized as fifth graders, and kids who were picked on in fifth grade tended to be less accepted by their peers in sixth grade.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules - A bit better than its predecessor, this grade school comedy captures childhood experiences authentically and amusingly.

Ringling Bros. has invested more than $ 400,000 in CircusFit, which aims to draw on the wacky and whimsical appeal of the circus to inspire kids in grades 2 - 5 to lead active lives as modeled by remarkable circus performers.

But kids, especially in kindergarten and first grade, really need to play, so every once in a while, I'd pick up a puppet just to make things more interesting than the kids just listening to me all day.»

(At Siragusa, where more than half of the 430 students are Spanish speakers, all kids in grades 2 - 5 take Italian.)

So every year, at least 800,000 teachers in the U.S. are chronically absent, meaning they miss about 9 million days of school between them, resulting in roughly 1 billion instances in which a kid comes to class to find that his or her time is, more often than not, being wasted (or if you prefer, about a billion hours of wasted class time, since students in the early grades don't have «periods»).

Kids do in fact learn how to read, and first grade, more than any other grade, is where that wonderful accomplishment can be observed while it happens.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

Georgia's fourth - grade reading proficiency rate dropped from close to 100 percent in 2013 to less than 40 percent in 2015 — not because the kids were doing worse, but because the state's measure of how they were doing was getting closer to the truth.

«By sixth grade, middle - class kids have spent 6,000 more hours in extracurricular learning programs than poor students, according to The After - School Corporation.»

More than 4,200 kids who were in 8th grade or lower took the College Board's Advanced Placement (AP) exams in 2010; 22 percent of them scored a five, the highest possible score.

Among Hirsch's insights is that disadvantaged kids quickly fall behind in reading because of inadequate background knowledge; therefore, imparting such knowledge in the early grades is even more important than conveying basic reading skills.

As for joy of learning, there is a mountain of evidence that American kids enjoy learning math more than Japanese kids, evidence collected from large, random samples of students of different ages and grades.

«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.»

In Montana, among kids in grade 8 in larger districts, the power of poverty over achievement was 2.5 times greater than in smaller districts overall and three times greater in elementary - only districts.

So much better to have the first - grade kid or kindergarten kid doing engineering and leave it to the older ones to do pure mathematics than to do it the other way around.»

Despite progress, two - thirds of Springfield kids still can't read or do math at grade level - almost thirty percent fewer than the state average.

«The type of child now coming to an online school, 75 percent of those kids coming in are behind more than one grade level,» Mr. Packard said.

Want the secret to engaging every kid in the room in less than a tweet, because you've got a stack of papers to grade, dinner to cook, and the need for more than six hours of sleep?

Near the end of his presidency, George W. Bush bragged that NCLB «focused the country's attention on the fact that we had an achievement gap that — you know, white kids were reading better in the 4th grade than Latinos or African - American kids.

I know without a shadow of a doubt, now that the shoe is on the other foot and I am the teacher, that without the gentle love of Ms. Woods and Mrs. Furlong, both of my kids» third - grade teacher; the patient understanding of Mrs. Keane, their fourth - grade teacher; and the stern nurturing of Ms. Bergeron, both my kids» fifth - grade teacher (just to name a few), we would have struggled a lot more than we did to overcome the obstacles that are inherent in single - parent households.

Kids will be in a higher grade than last year, and they are speculating...

Kids are more likely to respond to feedback than grades.

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.

Then there is North Carolina, which expects that its districts will get only 61.7 percent of black students in grades three - through eight toward reading proficiency in 2012 - 2013, while expecting only 64.7 percent of Latino and 65.2 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native kids to become proficient in reading; by 2014 - 2015, far lower than the proficiency rates for white and Asian peers; Tar Heel State leaders expect districts bring black, Latino, and Native students to proficiency levels of 69.3 percent, 71.7 percent, and 72.2 percent, respectively, by 2015.

So, if I had my druthers, I'd focus on end - of - course tests for (say) Algebra and Biology and Am History / World History with aggregate data over several years by grade 12 to test the kids when they take the course, rather than a cross-sectional test for any given grade level.

For example, kids who are extremely discrepant from grade level expectations need an intervention that is more intensive, likely requiring more resources like time or materials, than kids who are less discrepant.

For example, Keith Lance reports in the 2000 Colorado study, How School Librarians Help Kids Achieve Standards: «Schools with well - developed library media programs average 10 % to 15 % higher on fourth grade reading scores and 18 % higher on seventh grade reading scores than schools where libraries are less developed.

And that they're — what the studies showed is what you really need to do is find ways to get the kids to read more challenging texts at their grade level, which means at first — and the teachers today helped explain this so, so much better than I could — that the teachers start by reading it aloud, having the kids follow along.

As a kid, I saw my fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Bishop, for more hours a day than my own mother.

With the increasing accountability we're seeing, they're going to be very careful about deflecting time and energy to that science curriculum committee rather than to getting their kids up to grade level in reading.

Action must be taken when more more than 7,400 Louisiana children from kindergarten to third grade are suspended for loose charges like «willful disobedience» (aka being a kid).

It automatically checks for spelling and grammar and that kind of stuff, which is nice because it actually allows me to talk about the writing rather than these minutiae of mechanics that, to me, aren't really the focus of tenth grade English... [But] it's sometimes hard... a kid quoted a bible [sic] verse... and his was a mess because it came up with so much because it was like «chapter 1.»

But too much hovering, scaffolding and doing something merely for a grade, rather than a tangible outcome, pushes middle grades kids to act more like children, just when they want most to try out their adult skills and options.