Sentences with phrase «in middle school age»

His YA Fantasy Sci - Fi series The Hidden City of Chelldrah - ham received a gold award for Best Series for High School Age, and the first book in the series, Stig's Flight of Encounters, awarded gold in the Middle School Age category.

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At a young age, Gates showed an avid interest in computers, spending as much time as possible in his middle school's computer lab.

Though the pair were close in age and geography — they went to the same elementary and middle schools — they had never met before collaborating on this semi-biographical piece of work that has so resonated with audiences.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

They're the same veggies that were slopped onto your tray in middle school, and the taste hasn't improved with age.

There are more than 20 elementary and middle schools in the city, which serve almost 20,000 school - aged children and their families.

There's also a historical precedent for Christian involvement in education, whether you look at the monastic schools of the middle ages or the wealthy benefactors providing education for the 19thcentury poor.

In the 2002 film, «The Rookie,» actor Dennis Quaid plays a middle - aged high school baseball coach who tries out for a major league baseball team.

Every person my age remembers the pictures of black lungs displayed at admonitory lectures we attended in elementary and middle school.

Youths would not have been able to get close to the cage without someone making a fuss; you're probably looking for someone who's there often enough not to draw notice; perhaps a volunteer there, or a regular attendee, with recent financial woes; someone adult to middle age, likely male, likely in the trades or the military; not overly well - educated; maybe high school.

At ages 12 and 13, children in the South Bronx are being pushed to choose a middle or junior high school corresponding to the career that they intend to enter.

In the middle of all of this — a grueling nonstop regimen of speaking dates and meetings — Schlafly put herself through law school, graduating from Washington University in 1978 at age fifty - fouIn the middle of all of this — a grueling nonstop regimen of speaking dates and meetings — Schlafly put herself through law school, graduating from Washington University in 1978 at age fifty - fouin 1978 at age fifty - four.

But they wore their youth and bright future so carelessly, and I found myself applauding until my palms tingled for the men and women like my brother - in - law who had to battle through school with so many other demands on their attention, for the women older than my mother who have finally finished their degree long after their nests emptied, the middle - aged men with a circle of whiskers on their shining bald heads.

Secondly, while attention has been understandably focused on the result that the greatest increase in overall mortality occurred among white Americans with a high school degree or less, Case and Deaton's results show that death from suicide and drug poisoning for white Americans with BA degrees or some college also increased for the middle - aged, 45 - 54 category.

Isabella, a seventh - grader at Conackamack Middle School and a second - degree black belt, won six individual titles competing in the girls» ages 9 — 11, second - and third - degree black - belt level at the American Taekwondo Association's world championships in Little Rock.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: This program is designed for beginning to intermediate players middle school age players in 6th -8 th grade to learn and advance their individual volleyball skills.

While I am not prone to writing in the somewhat snarky and definitly sarcastic tone Wise employed in his Tuesday column, and although he seemed to mostly align himself with the group at Aspen - led by Dr. Bob Cantu - that views football as too dangerous to be played before the age of 14 (a position with which I respectfully disagree), I did find myself agreeing with what seemed to be his main point: that whatever measures are instituted to protect player safety will get us nowhere if the culture on NFL fields (and by extension, the high school, middle school, and youth gridiron) doesn't change.

There's so little fiction for this age group (9 to 12) I'm proud to be providing a story for young people who might be having a tough time in middle school.

Established in 1996, Richmond Waldorf School is a not - for - profit, independent school offering a parent / toddler program (18 months to 3 years old), mixed - age kindergarten (2 1/2 to 6 years old), elementary school (grades 1 - 5), and middle school (grades 6School is a not - for - profit, independent school offering a parent / toddler program (18 months to 3 years old), mixed - age kindergarten (2 1/2 to 6 years old), elementary school (grades 1 - 5), and middle school (grades 6school offering a parent / toddler program (18 months to 3 years old), mixed - age kindergarten (2 1/2 to 6 years old), elementary school (grades 1 - 5), and middle school (grades 6school (grades 1 - 5), and middle school (grades 6school (grades 6 - 8).

The American Pediatrics Association recommends just one hour per day outside of school time for elementary - age students and two hours for kids in middle school through high school.

Activities in Waldorf early childhood education take into consideration the age - specific developmental needs of young children, from a focus on will - oriented physical activity in the first three years, then on imaginative play in the middle years of early childhood, and later a more cognitive approach to learning after the child enters school.

The middle to late school age years are a time of great change in your child.

Between the ages of 9 and 13 the typical tween has to face increasing homework, changing relationships, middle school, and a whole lot of peer pressure to succeed, rebel, fit in, and conform.

When Jon and I lived in Canada, we went to a dinner gathering where sipping came up with the two daughters (elementary / middle school aged).

While some are young people in long - distance relation - ships because of schooling or careers, or couples who want to live together but can't for various reasons (such as military families), many include women like me — divorced, middle - aged empty - nesters who want nothing that resembles the married life we knew.

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Among middle - school aged children who have four hours or more of screen time a day, only 1 % earn A's in math and language arts.

► When parents were asked about the benefits that their middle school or high school aged child gets from playing sports, more than eight in ten say their child benefits a great deal or quite a bit in the following ways: physical health (88 %), it gives him / her something to do (83 %), or it helps him / her learn about discipline or dedication (81 %).

And, because we know middle school isn't the only time for parents to have ongoing conversations with youth about sexuality topics, we offer age - appropriate workshops for parents of children in early childhood, elementary and high school.

While some are young people in long - distance relationships because of schooling or careers, or couples who want to live together but can't for various reasons (military families are a good example), many include women like me — divorced, middle - aged empty - nesters who want nothing that resembles the married life we knew.

While some are young people in long - distance relation - ships because of schooling or careers, or couples who want to live together but can't for various reasons (such as military families), many include middle - aged empty - nester divorcees who want nothing that resembles the married life we knew.

I will start by saying that when teaching middle school, long before my own children got to be that age, my standard message was that there isn't anything you might think to do in middle school that couldn't wait until high school.

73 % of low - income teens have little or no exposure to pathways to careers in science, and UL Xplorlabs does a great job of introducing middle school aged kids to a career as a fire investigator.

In fact, school - related anxiety affects 2 to 5 percent of school - age children, but it's much more common in times of transition: when a child starts kindergarten, middle school or high school, according to the Anxiety Disorders Association of AmericIn fact, school - related anxiety affects 2 to 5 percent of school - age children, but it's much more common in times of transition: when a child starts kindergarten, middle school or high school, according to the Anxiety Disorders Association of Americin times of transition: when a child starts kindergarten, middle school or high school, according to the Anxiety Disorders Association of America.

«In those middle ages which our school - books still speak of as days of darkness and ignorance, the great body of Englishmen were far better off in every way that they are now»In those middle ages which our school - books still speak of as days of darkness and ignorance, the great body of Englishmen were far better off in every way that they are now»in every way that they are now».

Cable said he wanted to see renewed investment in adult education, speaking of both his parents» education at night schools during his childhood, but said new technical training courses were needed to retrain middle - aged workers whose jobs were coming under threat from automation.

For all New Yorkers, the result will be a Legislature with fewer middle - aged lawmakers still trying to balance family budgets and dealing with emerging issues seen firsthand by having children in school.

One of the latest and most ambitious studies on bullying and cyberbullying in middle and high school students begs to differ with the age - old adage, «sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can't hurt me.»

They used a nationally representative sample of 5,593 middle and high school students between the ages of 12 and 17 years old living in the United States to find out how many youth participated in digital self - harm, as well as their motivations for such behavior.

«We knew we had to study this empirically, and I was stunned to discover that about 1 in 20 middle - and high - school - age students have bullied themselves online.

Research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Radboud University Medical Centre in the Netherlands, and Stanford University shows that disrupting just one night of sleep in healthy, middle - aged adults causes an increase in a brain protein associated with Alzheimer's disease.

Researchers from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine compared symptoms associated with concussion in middle / high school - age athletes with those in college - age athletes to determine whether age - related differences School of Medicine compared symptoms associated with concussion in middle / high school - age athletes with those in college - age athletes to determine whether age - related differences school - age athletes with those in college - age athletes to determine whether age - related differences exist.

The study analysed data from four large - scale longitudinal studies and found that the poorer reading and maths skills of children born prematurely were associated with lower educational qualifications on leaving school and lower income in middle age.

Although the number of playground injuries is decreasingfrom 187,000 in 1992 to 98,000 in 1997Phelan hopes that prevention efforts aimed at middle - school - age children can reduce the number even further.

Researchers from the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, along with colleagues from other institutions, assessed the presence of heart disease in 562 middle - aged twins (340 identical and 222 fraternal) from the Vietnam Era Twin Registry.

A passenger pigeon that hits that forest again is going to be like a middle - aged guy who really wants to go back to high school and then he gets back there and he's like, «Whoa I don't fit in anymore.

The fair will accept submissions from students around the world in three age categories, covering kids from middle through high school.

«Our findings offer new evidence for a potentially important social determinant of health that so far has not been recognized: sudden loss of wealth in late middle or older age,» said senior author Carlos Mendes de Leon, professor of epidemiology and global public health at University of Michigan's School of Public Health.

«These results suggest that inflammation in mid-life may be an early contributor to the brain changes that are associated with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia,» said study author Keenan Walker, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md. «Because the processes that lead to brain cell loss begin decades before people start showing any symptoms, it is vital that we figure out how these processes that happen in middle age affect people many years later.»

Family Science Night (FSN) is a curriculum in which middle - school - aged children and their families explore the importance of STEM in our daily lives by engaging in activities that make these concepts more practical and approachable.