Sentences with phrase «kindergarten class showed»

When the researchers followed up with the students in first grade, those from the Tools of the Mind kindergarten class showed higher academic ability.

Preliminary enrollment figures for P.S. 257's incoming kindergarten class show that out of nearly 100 children, 4 are white, 3 are Asian, and 16 are black — all coming from outside the attendance zone.

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Yes, it comes from the game you might remember from Kindergarten where kids bring in an item from home and show it to the class, and yes it works with people in upper management.

«There has been so much research in recent years showing that class size is one of the most important determinants of a kid's success later in life, especially in kindergarten,» added Leonie Haimson of the group Class Size Matclass size is one of the most important determinants of a kid's success later in life, especially in kindergarten,» added Leonie Haimson of the group Class Size MatClass Size Matters.

Like the Staten Island educator at the center of this film, The Kindergarten Teacher pushes boundaries and crosses lines as it navigates its way through a tricky story of a five - year - old boy (newcomer Parker Sevak), who shows an unreal gift for poetry, and his teacher, Lisa (a career - best performance by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also one of the film's producers), who struggles in her adult - education class to be a poet as well, if only to add a bit of culture to a home life that offers her little by way of intellectual stimulation.

My own and other studies show that children from low - income families enter kindergarten a year to a year and a half, on average, behind middle - class children in their language and many other cognitive skills.This is a gigantic lag considering that they are only five to six years old.

Hanushek also claims that the class - size results show that reducing class sizes only in kindergarten can raise student achievement.

Data from 22,000 children involved in this study of the kindergarten class of 1998 — 99 show that, after controlling for family income, children who attended more academically oriented preschools had significantly higher scores in reading, math, and general knowledge when tested in the fall of their kindergarten year than children in preschool settings without academic content.

Third - graders, the first class taught according to Common Core standards since kindergarten, show the biggest gains.

In essence, the Tennessee study shows that students in substantially smaller classes in their first year of schooling (whether kindergarten or 1st grade) perform better than those remaining in classes of larger size.

The above example shows part of a Kindergarten class performance on Numeral Identification.

As Premier Kathleen Wynne's government rolls out full - day kindergarten to all schools this fall, documents obtained by The Globe and Mail through freedom - of - information legislation show the Ministry of Education has been inundated with complaints from parents and educators about large classes impeding learning.