Sentences with phrase «high school freshman»

This data is a longitudinal national survey that follows individual high school freshman through school and on to further educational pursuits and / or the work force.

Walk a few steps in the shoes of one at - risk high school freshman, and try to find the path through to a diploma.

The College Board reports declining representation of undergraduate Pell - Grant recipients in college since the 2011 - 12 term (Pell grants are intended to assist low - income students pay for college).5 Based on work by Ikoma & Broer (2015), who analyzed data on students from the High School Longitudinal Survey (HLS), more than 95 % of high school freshmen from the lowest socioeconomic quartile (SEQ) in 2009 looked to eventually earn a bachelor's degree.

It was a precocious high school freshman who introduced me to the adorable boxed set of flash fiction published by McSweeney's, One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, and Minor Robberies.

Their rise to the highest level of their sport is impressive, considering they only began rowing as high school freshmen.

The finding, for instance, that grades and attendance were the two best predictors of how middle school students would perform in high school was based on the cohort of incoming high school freshmen in the fall of 2009 — about 20,000 students.

Sandra Walle remembers walking wide - eyed into the array of possible clubs and organizations at high school freshman orientation.

She has also organized Harvest of the Month lessons and samples for elementary students, Chopped Challenge contests for middle and high school students and barbeques for elementary Back to School night, incoming high school freshmen and their families.

It was a precocious high school freshman who introduced me to the adorable boxed set of flash fiction published by McSweeney's, One...

Kindergarteners who caught the original Santa Clause in theaters would be high school freshmen by the time The Santa Clause 2 opened.

One afternoon when I was testing this easy flourless pancakes recipe my older son brought home most of the Boulder High School freshman baseball team.

They were devoured by the Boulder High School freshman baseball team, a group of teenagers who seems to have turned my living room into their clubhouse.

Here's young Emmitt, a 5» 8», 175 - pound high school freshman, about to strap on his helmet and step into murderous competition in the Florida Panhandle — one of the SEC's most fertile recruiting grounds — and his coach, Dwight Thomas, hands him the ball and says, «Kid, I want you to gain five miles for me.»

I'd hated running since high school freshman gym class when — at the end of the semester — we had to run «the mile.»

State Senator James Seward recently welcomed Homer High School senior Emma Murphy, Dryden High School junior Laurel Deacon, and Cortland High School freshman Abigail Bowker to Albany for the 17th annual Students Inside Albany conference sponsored by the League of Women Voters of New York State Education Foundation.

Senator James Seward welcomes (l - r) Homer Senior High School senior Emma Murphy, Dryden High School junior Laurel Deacon, and Cortland High School freshman Abigail Bowker to the New York State Senate chamber.

The second redesign of the SAT in this century announced Wednesday and scheduled to go into effect when todays high school freshmen take it in 2016 aims to strip many of the tricks out of a test currently administered to more than 1.5 million students in every high school graduating class.

The second redesign of the SAT in this century announced Wednesday and scheduled to go into effect when todays high school freshmen take it in 2016...

The present study aimed to compare emotional creativity and social adjustment of gifted and normal high school freshman students (first period) in Khash.

Last year, 57 percent of those taking biology — mostly high school freshmen passed the state's exam, more than double the 23 percent who passed two years ago.

Ryan's path to success was anything but ordinary — he grew up in an LA gang, lived with a meth addicted father, landed in jail numerous times, and dropped out of high school his freshman year, yet still managed to transform his life from that of a criminal to a professional.

The students at the Pocket area school are among the first high school freshmen in the Sacramento City Unified School District to participate in an expanding program on social and emotional learning — or SEL.

What percentage of high school freshmen never make it to graduation?

The study also showed that while 70 percent of high school freshmen attended at least one — generally required — PE class a week, that number dropped to 40 percent by senior year.

From Digital Book World: Self - published e-book anthology by High school freshman number one at iBooks.

A bunch high school freshman boys would be required to play UP against junior or senior age girls.

When Johnnie was a nervous high school freshman approaching his first varsity game, Jessie Mae asked him this question: «If you did not show anyone you were a freshman, how would they know?

While many Chicagoans are still thinking about waffles and eggs, high school freshman Yanira Gomez digs into lunch: pizza and fries, dished out at 9:06 a.m.

Cabrillo High School freshman Andrew Collins, 15, enjoys the roasted turkey meal sold in the cafeteria on Fridays.

The former MacArthur High School freshman was accused of bringing an item that looked like a bomb to school.

According to a 2011 survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly one in four high school freshmen reported that they had had sex — 19.3 percent of all females.

Speaking at the corner where the Campus Magnet High School freshman was shot last Thursday, the senator announced he would honor the -LSB-...]

«The recent death of Williamsville North High School freshman Jamey Rodemeyer displays the need for tougher penalties to curtail harassment.

Kraus and colleagues recruited 40 Chicago - area high school freshmen in a study that began shortly before school started.

Last week I went with a group of postdocs and grad students to teach a lesson on Phylogenetics to local high school freshman.

Slash follows an awkward high school freshman that writes erotic fan fiction.

A poster and trailer have arrived online for writer - director Clay Liford's upcoming comedy Slash which stars Michael Johnston, Hannah Marks and Michael Ian Black; check them out below... Neil is a questioning high school freshman whose main social outlet is the steamy erotic fan fiction he writes about Vanguard, the brawny, galaxy - hopping hero of a -LSB-...]

The plot centers around the life and phone of high school freshman Alex. The emojis inside his phone live in the community of Textopolis.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky's epistolary, coming - of - age novel about an introverted, emotionally scarred high school freshman named Charlie.

Spunky high school freshman Devin Perry has a goal of being the first in her family to attend college.

High school freshman Kaia Range recalls making connections with native speakers on the train.

They chose Northwestern because it's nearby, and also because Urban Prep alumni were enrolled there and eager to show high school freshmen that college life is possible.

Consortium research showed that while elementary school students with low test scores and other problems stood a good chance of improving later on, troubled high school freshmen almost never did so.

After class, Healy notes that the Adventure Curriculum, a requirement for San Rafael High School freshmen since 2006, has become a favorite of teachers as well as students.