Sentences with phrase «kids as high school students»

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But that all changed when he started attending the Bronx High School of Science, where kids spoke in «hushed tones in the hallways about the real heroes» — students who had won what was then known as the Westinghouse Science Talent Search.

Bill Gates was the most public face of Microsoft, but of course the company started as a partnership with the kid Gates met one day in a group of students crowded around a teletype machine in a Seattle high school.

If we do eliminate the a la carte options that kids so love and introduced a single, healthful menu for all students, I wonder whether students on open campuses (i.e., most high schools) who previously had the money to buy those foods would simply leave the program altogether and go elsewhere for their pizza and fries (as many already do).

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, up for a vote as early as today, would attempt to fix some of these problems through a variety of means, including allowing schools in high - poverty areas to offer free meals to all students without any paperwork, making foster children automatically eligible for free meals, and giving incentives to states that improve their certification rates.

The gunman accused of killing 17 people at a Florida high school Wednesday had previously attended the school, where he was known as a «weird kid» and «loner» who was expelled for getting into a fight with his ex-girlfriend's new beau, a current student said.

(A parental dispensation only possible for kids who haven't entered the high - school pressure cooker where — as with Sara Notte — summer homework is graded and can directly affect a student's chances to enter a top - tier university.)

In a study of Turkish high school students, kids from authoritarian families were rated as less resourceful than kids from authoritarian or permissive parents (Turkel and Tzer 2008).

Look for people with a medical background, or those with youngish kids in the public schools, or those who have fought similar battles in the past, especially battles based on the idea of social justice, that low income students deserve the same respect and services as higher income students.

Among those already using the program with his students is Gerald Smith, who teaches conceptual physics and advanced chemistry at Bishop McNamara High School in Washington and plans to attend the march.Students who completed the print - out activity sheet illustrated how headphones work through physics — among the examples Smith intends to post to Twitter after spring break, the week after the March for Science «The kids definitely like to probe their brains a lot in terms of seeing science in real life, not just something far - reaching for geniuses to dobut as something that we exist in every day,» said Smith.

These included lorry drivers, migrant workers living in hostels, social workers and high - school students, as well as homosexual and bisexual men, prostitutes and street kids — groups that are hard to reach with information.

As the high - school student returns from a day of classes, he finds his uncharacteristically youthful Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) chatting with billionaire playboy Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) in the kid's Queens apartment.

Speaking about role as a high school student in «Lady Bird,» Ronan said, «Young kids need to know from all of us that it's all right to not feel really confident all the time.

Local high school students designed science lessons — connected to the district's science curriculum — to teach elementary kids about photosynthesis and plant anatomy as they garden.

I've done this project with college kids, as well as with high school, middle - school, and upper - elementary students.

Below is a collection of catchy sayings that work as cues to be quiet, the first ones appropriate for early and middle grade students, and the later ones field tested to work with high school kids.

Insofar as students benefit from peer effects in classrooms, corridors, and clubs, and insofar as being surrounded by other smart kids challenges these students (and wards off allegations of «nerdiness»), schools with overall cultures of high academic attainment are apt to yield more such benefits.

The numbers edge higher as kids get older, too: Almost 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent, compared to 12 percent of middle - schoolers and 10 percent of elementary - school students.

In Winnetka, about half the junior high students at Carleton Washburne School skipped the two exams, with most kids refusing to test rather than be listed as absent, according to the data.

• Encouraging schools to focus their attention on students close to the proficiency cut (the «bubble kids») as opposed to all students, including high - and low - achievers.

At least as important, as The Washington Post noted, «one very pernicious effect» of this plan is that it «would probably help mediocre (generally rich) prep school kids and hurt high - achieving (generally less well - off) public school students.»

And we learned that, despite their reputations as havens for rich kids, their students are almost as poor as the general public high school population.

There is always a big hullabaloo when American students score average on international tests, but the fact is that American kids in very low - poverty schools score as high or higher than anybody else on the planet.

As Eva Moskowitz puts it: «If (we) backfilled older grades... the incoming students» lower relative academic preparation would adversely affect the schools» other students... We have an obligation to the parents in middle and high school, and the kids in middle and high school, that until the district schools are able to do a better job, it's not really fair for the seventh - grader or high school student to have to be educated with a child who's reading at a second - or third - grade level.»

According to Every Student, Every Day: A National Initiative to Address and Eliminate Chronic Absenteeism, the problem is «typically defined as missing at least 10 % or more of school days in a year for any reason, excused or unexcused, chronic absenteeism affects as many as 7.5 million kids a year and is a strong predictor of low academic achievement and high school dropout.»

They never get around to explaining why, in California, 52 percent of students attending charters that serve a majority of high poverty kids are in the top quartile of all public schools statewide as opposed to just 26 percent of similar students attending traditional public schools.

Even if the curricula is aligned with the standards, the curricula won't work if teachers are not capable of improving student achievement, if school cultures damn some kids (notably those from poor and minority backgrounds) to low expectations, and if school operators aren't held to high expectations (as well as rewarded and punished accordingly).

It supports my school's focus on student engagement as experienced through high - level discourse between kids.

While Burk's school and Milwaukee still have a very long way to go to provide its students, particularly poor black and brown kids, a high quality education, I left the city feeling inspired that a community as large and diverse as Milwaukee is trying to band together and look out for what's best for all children.

In 2000, Oil City Elementary School faced collapsing enrollment, a high - risk student population, and a reputation as the place for kids who were not smart enough to attend the nearby academic magnet.

Moffit would also like to see more programs and services for kids who want to focus on career and technical education after high school and give students an opportunity to explore those fields as early as middle school.

Another result of his fairness campaign: Compared with DCPS schools, the charters here serve a higher percentage of poor kids, higher percentage of African American students and nearly as many special - education students.

It should not make a difference whether they are in high - needs schools or full of gifted kids admitted by competitive exam as are 1/3 of the students at the school at which I teach.

As districts strive to make every student college and career ready after high school, all avenues to keep kids in school and engaged is vitally important.

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There's Dr. T — a tough if flawed leader who sometimes lets his temper and his need for respect from students get the best of him — in place of Zeus Cubias, the Locke High School administrator who's great with kids but sometimes loses track of his role as instructional leader (and has since departed from Locke).

We would hope more kids would have this opportunity during the school day as our research shows that lower income students are more likely to rely on in - school independent reading time than their higher income peers.

The 30 students who enrolled into the two - and three - year programe this year share the same compound as high school kids.

In school transportation vehicles (buses and vans, not kids being taken to and from school in their family vehicle), around 16 kids 5 to 18 years old are killed per year, and 14 high school students die directly or indirectly as a result of football.

Students and teachers at Douglas school remain barricaded inside the high school as kids are taking photos hiding under their desks.

Rolling in: The kids arrived at Leon High School about 10 p.m. last night, greeted by hundreds of Leon High students who cheered them on as they got off their buses.

For many years, I worked on essay writing with students (I taught high school & college history) and now as a homeschooler, I'm working on essay writing skills with my own kids.

In a study of Turkish high school students, kids from authoritarian families were rated as less resourceful than kids from authoritarian or permissive parents (Turkel and Tzer 2008).

As we write this «farewell,» in February 2018, national commentary on «why kids make great activists» fill the media in the wake of the shooting at the Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which killed fourteen students and three staff members and wounded many others.

Because laptop computers are a school item for many college students — and even some high - schoolers — good deals abound as the kids gear up to head back to school.