Sentences with phrase «in eighth grade by»

I was awarded the Leadership Award for basketball in eighth grade by my coaches.

The city will dedicate $ 19 million annually by 2022 to pay for new algebra prep programs and courses, and all students are expected to have access to algebra in eighth grade by then.

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By 1919, the self - taught pioneer with an eighth - grade education was producing more than half the cars in the U.S.. By lowering the cost of the automobile — eventually to $ 350 — he made cars part of the fabric of middle class America.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she liveIn preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she livein her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she livein positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she livein a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

He began to train her through a summer track club and, by her eighth - grade year, Price was 10th in the Junior Olympic nationals.

In eighth grade he was stalked by a pair of bullies.

Once got his foot stepped on by Vin Scully in the Candlestick Park press elevator... sat next to Teri Hatcher in eighth grade algebra class... Once went to a school called «Mango».

(In 2009, they won in the sixth - and seventh - grade divisions but lost the eighth - grade trophy by half a pointIn 2009, they won in the sixth - and seventh - grade divisions but lost the eighth - grade trophy by half a pointin the sixth - and seventh - grade divisions but lost the eighth - grade trophy by half a point.)

Our dual - language program of both Mandarin and Spanish from first through fourth grades, followed by intensive study of Spanish from fifth through eighth grades, provides both an intellectual boost as well as a window into the cultural practices of the wider world — in Nashville and beyond.

From discovering the alphabet in the first grade to discovering anatomy, algebra, and U.S. history in the eighth grade, and all the way up through their high school studies, Waldorf students take part in the learning process by creating their own textbooks — beautifully - drawn journals containing stories, essays, poems, maps, illustrations, lab descriptions, and math equations.

Over the course of their eight years in the grades, children are immersed in a handwork curriculum that includes knitting (beginning with a kitten in the first grade), purling, crocheting, spinning, simple weaving, cross-stitch, four - needle knitting, hand - sewing, felting, needle - felting, doll - making, and culminating with machine sewing, in which eighth graders cap off their eight years by sewing their own pajamas.

Generally, by the end of the eighth - grade parents can begin to taper off from daily questioning to checking in every few days.

Those kids who were already obese in fifth grade were also more likely to have reached a healthy weight by eighth grade, if they lived in a state with strict laws.

Overall, 27 percent of kids in the study were overweight or obese when they started school and that ratio increased to 38 percent by eighth grade.

It follows the boycott by tens of thousands of students of the third through eighth grade English tests earlier in April.

An analysis of local news reports and school district data by The New York Times found that at least one out of every six students eligible to take the third - through eighth - grade tests in New York State sat at least one of them out this past school year, part of the so - called opt out movement.

Utah parents seek criminal penalties against teacher who they say went too far in sex ed class: «The Jordan School District is investigating allegations that a seventh - and eighth - grade health teacher violated the sex education statute by responding to questions from students about topics beyond the core curriculum, including homosexual sex, oral sex and masturbation.»

The research focused on seventh - and eighth - grade students participating in the Camden Youth Development Study, an initiative funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health.

And nationwide scores for students classified as Hispanic rose in both grade levels; the score gap between white and Hispanic eighth - graders shrunk by three points between 2009 and 2011.

Purdue University Science Sampler: Node graph visualizations for eighth - grade mathematics students using a virus transmission simulation, by a Purdue teacher - fellow team in the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Science Scope, July 2008.

He hasn't spoken with his ex-wife (Elizabeth Wilson) in years, he lives in a rooming house owned by his eighth - grade teacher Mrs. Beryl (Jessica Tandy), his best friend is a mildly retarded handyman, Rub (Pruitt Taylor Vince), and he has a crush on Toby (Melanie Griffith), who is half his age and married to Carl (Bruce Willis), who sometimes gives him work.

Inspired by a letter he received from an eighth grade class, Coppola turned The Outsiders into a devouring CinemaScope fever dream: an homage to Robert Wise and Nicholas Ray that took its chief inspiration from the timeless backlit twilights of Gone with the Wind, which the boys read to pass their time in self - imposed exile.

FAST COLOR, with Gugu Mbatha - Raw and Jordan Horowitz in attendance, to open 6th annual festival presented by Chicago Film Critics Association; EIGHTH GRADE, with filmmaker Bo Burnham in attendance, to close

Release: Saturday, May 14, 2016 [Netflix] Directed by: Andy Billman Imagine growing up in a city where you're taught, almost assuredly from at least the eighth grade onward, that losing is a reality you must accept, simply based on some silly geographic lottery that you were thrust into at birth.

For a long time, I've dreamed of creating something different within our publicly funded school system, and I've recently been given the opportunity to realize these dreams by designing a new arts - based initiative for seventh - and eighth - grade students in an elementary school near Toronto.

Until recently, that is, when, along with my eighth - grade students, I participated in the annual career - interest survey provided by the local secondary school guidance department.

I was already experimenting with flexible seating in my eighth - grade English classroom when I saw a video about combating writer's block by working in a box castle.

This K - 8 school, one of the first public schools inspired by Waldorf methods, infuses music, art, and movement into lessons and offers student - directed learning and what public schools refer to as looping, a process in which a teacher follows her class, ideally, from first grade through eighth grade.

In her assessment of four California public schools that use Waldorf methods, Oberman found that students tested below peers in language arts and math in the second grade, but they matched or tested above their peers in the same subjects by eighth gradIn her assessment of four California public schools that use Waldorf methods, Oberman found that students tested below peers in language arts and math in the second grade, but they matched or tested above their peers in the same subjects by eighth gradin language arts and math in the second grade, but they matched or tested above their peers in the same subjects by eighth gradin the second grade, but they matched or tested above their peers in the same subjects by eighth gradin the same subjects by eighth grade.

«The Pekin Public School's Technology page is just a small branch of a fantastic Web site maintained by two young men who started out working on the site when they were in eighth grade.

In response to administrators» and teachers» worries about the vocabulary skills of Boston Public School students, a group of researchers and educators — assembled by the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP) in collaboration with the Boston Public Schools, and directed by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Catherine Snow — designed a curriculum supplement called Word Generation, for sixth - to eighth - grade classroomIn response to administrators» and teachers» worries about the vocabulary skills of Boston Public School students, a group of researchers and educators — assembled by the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP) in collaboration with the Boston Public Schools, and directed by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Catherine Snow — designed a curriculum supplement called Word Generation, for sixth - to eighth - grade classroomin collaboration with the Boston Public Schools, and directed by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Catherine Snow — designed a curriculum supplement called Word Generation, for sixth - to eighth - grade classrooms.

In math the graduates of the University of Florida, the state's premier university, outperformed the other institutions at teaching students in fourth to eighth grade by as much as 10 percent of a standard deviation, even though NCTQ gave it no better rating than Florida State or Florida AtlantiIn math the graduates of the University of Florida, the state's premier university, outperformed the other institutions at teaching students in fourth to eighth grade by as much as 10 percent of a standard deviation, even though NCTQ gave it no better rating than Florida State or Florida Atlantiin fourth to eighth grade by as much as 10 percent of a standard deviation, even though NCTQ gave it no better rating than Florida State or Florida Atlantic.

And more good news: the most recent sixth - grade proficiency scores surpassed AYP targets» for language and eighth graders met AYP language targets, missing AYP in math by one point.

In eighth grade, for example, in both reading and math, as recently as 2015, pupils in Catholic schools outperformed their public - school peers by a solid margin — more so in reading than in matIn eighth grade, for example, in both reading and math, as recently as 2015, pupils in Catholic schools outperformed their public - school peers by a solid margin — more so in reading than in matin both reading and math, as recently as 2015, pupils in Catholic schools outperformed their public - school peers by a solid margin — more so in reading than in matin Catholic schools outperformed their public - school peers by a solid margin — more so in reading than in matin reading than in matin math.

The first NAEP eighth - grade math assessment was in 1990, at which time Texas eighth graders lagged the nation by 5 points.

Despite widening gaps between highest - and lowest - scoring students, average scores in reading and mathematics were essentially flat from 2015 to 2017, with the exception of eighth - grade reading scores, where the percentage of proficient students increased by two percentage points.

In fact, even this year, our percent of «1's» goes dramatically down in grade seven while our «2's» go up, and by eighth grade we've dramatically reduced «1's» and substantially increased «3's and 4's.&raquIn fact, even this year, our percent of «1's» goes dramatically down in grade seven while our «2's» go up, and by eighth grade we've dramatically reduced «1's» and substantially increased «3's and 4's.&raquin grade seven while our «2's» go up, and by eighth grade we've dramatically reduced «1's» and substantially increased «3's and 4's.»

After computer teacher Victoria Kozlek had her eighth - grade students at Southern Columbia Middle School, in Catawissa, Pennsylvania, write fundraising letters to local businesses, Digital Wish let her choose from dozens of software programs donated by its partner vendors.

As Winters, who teaches eighth - grade history, explains: «We hope that by participating in past events, students will learn not only about their historical figures» lives and achievements but also about the times when those people lived.

By 1996, for example, forty - seven states and territories took part in the fourth grade math assessment and forty - four opted into eighth grade math.

In addition, the LAUSD average 59 percent four - year graduation rate was found to range widely by individual high school and by ethnicity, even when comparing students of similar eighth - grade English performance.

Clinton notes that what the top 20 percent of our students typically learn in math in the eighth grade is learned by most students in Japan in the seventh grade.

Marcia Corby, an eighth - grade math teacher in Phoenix, keeps her students» minds sharp by making sure they are on their feet as much as possible during her forty - five - minute class periods.

«Experiencing two retentions by third grade means that these students, by definition, will be unable to graduate from eighth grade because they will turn 15 in the seventh grade and will have to go to Transition Centers [per Chicago policy],» the report stated.

Looking at data from students who lived in the HCZ neighborhood and attended a Promise Academy charter school there, and others who only attended Promise, Fryer and Dobbie found that by eighth grade, both groups had closed the achievement gap in math.

In eighth grade, I had the good fortune of being taught history by Paul Murray, who was not only gifted at making the learning interesting, but also showed how much he cared about me — far beyond my performance in his clasIn eighth grade, I had the good fortune of being taught history by Paul Murray, who was not only gifted at making the learning interesting, but also showed how much he cared about me — far beyond my performance in his clasin his class.

District staff members started the process by measuring the body mass index (BMI) for all students in kindergarten through eighth grade, a total of 17,000 children, except for second graders, between September and November of 2004.

More than half of American teachers say they use digital games in their classrooms, according to a national survey of 500 kindergarten through eighth - grade teachers conducted by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop.

By the time students are in eighth grade, each class has a full stock portfolio and students are able to create a small - business plan.

Top Teacher Ties History to Current Events By tying the lessons of history to the issues of the day, Deirdra Grode, a seventh - and eighth - grade social studies and language arts teacher at Hoboken Charter School in Hoboken, New Jersey, is teaching her students to be analytical and socially aware.