Sentences with phrase «least by high school students»

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Approximately three months later, on February 14th, 2018, at least 17 students were killed by a mass shooter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

For her, at least for high school students, it's all about long - range planning and goal setting, such as joining a club by homecoming or completing SAT prep by winter break.

So why do some books that aren't) of obvious (at least to me) interest to most high school students placed on reading lists, and why are others of much greater interest (as judged by sales and / or library borrowings) ignored?

Aside from lowering the voting age by a year, the bill would also require all pupils in the ninth grade or higher to receive at least eight full class periods of civics education and mandate that every New York high school provide each student with a voter registration form the year they turn 17.

Parents worry about funding and standards for their public school students and remain least concerned about the amount of testing in classrooms, a survey released by High Achievement New York and Achieve found.

We'll look at an effort underway to ensure city high schools graduate at least 90 % of students by 2020 and a roller skating rink is finding ways to give back to the community.

Through AP for All, the city is aiming for 75 percent of high school students to have access to at least five AP classes by fall 2018 and all high school students access by fall 2021.

While indoor tanning has decreased among high school students, about 20 percent of females engaged in indoor tanning at least once during 2013 and about 10 percent of girls frequently engaged in the practice by using an indoor tanning device 10 or more times during the year, according to a research letter published online by JAMA Dermatology.

For instance, research by Columbia University scientist Margo Gardner examined the issue, using «propensity scoring,» and found that the odds of attending college were almost twice as high for students who participated in school - related activities for at least two years; such students were also dramatically more likely to complete college and significantly more likely to vote as adults.

Low - income black and Hispanic students are by far the least likely U.S. students to graduate from high school and attend a four - year college.

Parthenon began gathering data on every student who entered New York City's high schools in 1999, nearly a quarter million of them, and by 2005, as education journalist Sarah Garland reported in a 2010 Washington Monthly story, had accumulated data that were «shocking»: «Nearly 140,000 high - school - age youth in the city were at least two years behind where they needed to be to graduate on time.

The existence of an orderly learning environment throughout the school — established through positive rather than negative means, whereby there are high levels of teacher consistency about how it is «enforced» and structures in place to ensure that all students are known well by at least one adult in the school — is a fundamental precondition for improved teaching and learning to occur on which the subsequent improvement in student learning outcomes can be based.

By 2015, all Florida high - school students will have to complete at least one online course for graduation.

Health - care costs are highest for those with the least education, so the brief calculated savings by looking at lifetime Medicaid costs and health expenditures for those without insurance and the number of students who drop out of high school.

A study released earlier this month by Mathematica finds that students attending charter high schools in Florida scored lower on achievement tests than students in traditional public schools, but years later, the charter students were more likely to have attended at least two years of college and also had higher earnings.

KH: Over the past 10 years, the total number of students attending schools run by high - performing CMOs increased at least tenfold, from approximately 10,000 students in 2000 to more than 100,000 students today.

Our findings, however, suggest that high school closures in New York City during this particular period produced meaningful benefits for future students while not harming, at least academically, the students most immediately affected by them.

With 97 percent of students completing at least one CTE course by the time they graduate from high school, CTE programs are naturally positioned to help students build literacy skills in preparation for future success in college, careers, and life.

Rigorous studies consistently show that the impact of a more - effective teacher is substantial A high - performing teacher, one at the 84th percentile of all teachers, when compared with just an average teacher, produces students whose level of achievement is at least 0.2 standard deviations higher by the end of the school year.

Students need at least one year of post — high school study to survive in today's marketplace, the goal wisely set this year by President Obama.

By the 2011 — 12 school year, 70 percent of all public high - school students had to pass at least one exit examination to obtain a high school diploma, a hurdle that may certainly have precluded some students from graduating.

Annually measures, for all students and separately for each subgroup of students, the following indicators: Academic achievement (which, for high schools, may include a measure of student growth, at the State's discretion); for elementary and middle schools, a measure of student growth, if determined appropriate by the State, or another valid and reliable statewide academic indicator; for high schools, the four - year adjusted cohort graduation rate and, at the State's discretion, the extended - year adjusted cohort graduation rate; progress in achieving English language proficiency for English learners; and at least one valid, reliable, comparable, statewide indicator of school quality or student success; and

The bill replaces AYP standards with a requirement for states to annually measure all students and individual subgroups by: (1) academic achievement as measured by state assessments; (2) for high schools, graduation rates; (3) for schools that are not high schools, a measure of student growth or another valid and reliable statewide indicator; (4) if applicable, progress in achieving English proficiency by English learners; and (5) at least one additional valid and reliable statewide indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.

Specifically, a state shall identify: (1) the lowest - performing 5 % of schools receiving title I - A funds; (2) high schools failing to graduate at least one third of students; (3) schools that have been required to implement additional targeted support but have not improved within a specified timeframe, as determined by the state; and (4) additional statewide categories, at the state's discretion.

For high school students, participation rate means the percentage of designated students in at least their fourth year of high school, as designated by the commissioner, who received a valid score on the required assessments for high schools, as set forth in subparagraph (v) of this paragraph.

At least 200 students were in the gym of the 1,100 - student John McDonogh High School shortly after 10:30 a.m. on April 14, local police said, when four young men armed with an AK - 47 semiautomatic rifle and two handguns unleashed a hail of bullets at 15 - year - old Jonathan A. Williams, who was sitting on the bleachers surrounded by other students.

The latter part, called the quality - adjusted AP participation rate, is the number of 12th - grade students in the 2014 - 2015 academic year who took and passed — received an AP score of 3 or higher — at least one AP test before or during their senior year, divided by the number of 12th - graders at that school.

«The elimination of state requirements specific to class size will best ensure that each student with disabilities is placed in the least restrictive environment (LRE), as directed by his or her Individualized Education Program (IEP), and has access to the broad array of coursework available to his or her nondisabled peers, particularly in the middle grades and high school.»

For the first time, the law required schools to test all children annually in grades 3 through 8 and at least once in high school and report results by subgroups — including race, English learners and students with disabilities — so it was clear how every student was faring.

McEwen is working with Oregon's Chief Education Officer Dr. Rudy Crew to restructure education so that by 2025 all Oregon students graduate from high school and at least 80 percent enter college or other postsecondary studies.

The report paints a similarly discouraging picture in terms of reading proficiency — just 17.4 % of 3rd graders, 10.1 % of 8th graders, and 14.4 % of high school students with disabilities were able to meet the proficiency mark (all down by at least 25 percentage points from 2011 - 12).

Because reading is key to success in school, poor readers face a trajectory of failure and decreasing motivation: Students who are not at least moderately fluent in reading by 3rd grade are unlikely to graduate from high school (Slavin, Karweit, Wasik, Madden, & Dolan, 1994).

Each year, the Colorado Department of Education recognizes public schools as Centers of Excellence in the state that enroll a student population of which at least 75 percent are at - risk pupils and that demonstrate the highest rates of student longitudinal growth, as measured by the Colorado Growth Model.

Principal Rainey also highlighted several aspects about the school: - 2015 National Excellence in Urban Education Award by the National Center for Urban School Transformation - 100 % of the students receive free and reduced lunch - 99 % minority - 75 % of seniors took at least one AP course during high school - 2nd charter school in the country to be named an AVID National Demonstration School - 1st charter school in the country to be fully funded by bondschool: - 2015 National Excellence in Urban Education Award by the National Center for Urban School Transformation - 100 % of the students receive free and reduced lunch - 99 % minority - 75 % of seniors took at least one AP course during high school - 2nd charter school in the country to be named an AVID National Demonstration School - 1st charter school in the country to be fully funded by bondSchool Transformation - 100 % of the students receive free and reduced lunch - 99 % minority - 75 % of seniors took at least one AP course during high school - 2nd charter school in the country to be named an AVID National Demonstration School - 1st charter school in the country to be fully funded by bondschool - 2nd charter school in the country to be named an AVID National Demonstration School - 1st charter school in the country to be fully funded by bondschool in the country to be named an AVID National Demonstration School - 1st charter school in the country to be fully funded by bondSchool - 1st charter school in the country to be fully funded by bondschool in the country to be fully funded by bond money

Some states, such as Michigan, Alabama, New Mexico, and Idaho, have passed legislative measures requiring K - 12 students to complete at least one online learning experience by the time they graduate high school.

When states required all high school students, specifically those in schools mostly attended by African - American students, to take at least three math courses, black students were able to qualify for better paying jobs alongside their white counterparts.

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

On top of the flexibility created by last year's alternative certification law, CSP's bill would give charters where at least half of students are impoverished the ability to hire teachers who are licensed in other states and those who have completed alternative licensure programs in other states and taught for at least two years in high - poverty schools.

The proposed unified English standards range from such basics as expecting kindergarteners to read at least 25 words such as «the» and «of» and «to» by sight to requiring high school students to compare and contrast multiple interpretations of a single theme.

If we note that students increased their scores by an average of 20 words correct per minute per year (see Table 7) and that school scores on the collaborative leadership scale ranged from 1.1 to 1.9 with a mean of 1.7 (out of a high score of 3), then we can surmise that, at least in principle, a school gaining one additional point on the collaborative leadership scale could make up a year's worth of fluency performance.

Missing at least 10 percent of the school year, particularly in early grades, studies show, reduces the likelihood that students will read proficiently by 3rd grade, increases the chances of poor academic performance in middle school and increases the likelihood that students will drop out in high school.

Administer to scholarship recipients in high school: the ACT suite of assessments; and beginning in the 2016 - 17 school year, a civics test comprised of the same 100 questions that may be asked of an individual during the process of applying for US citizenship by the Unite States Citizenship and Immigration Services (scholarship students must correctly answer at least 60 of those questions to receive a high school diploma)

By sixth grade, chronic absence predicts the likelihood of a student dropping out of high school.84 In the 2013 - 14 school year, 14 percent of students in the United States — or 1 in 7 students — were chronically absent, having missed at least 15 days of school.85 Chronic absences were particularly prevalent among students from low - income families, students of color, and students with disabilities.86 As a result, consistently missing school compounds the challenges that disadvantaged students already face.

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LAB is designed to educate high - need urban students, particularly those who are least well served by traditional public schools.

Between 2002 and 2011, the percentage of high school seniors graduating after having taken at least one Advanced Placement exam increased by a two-fold; this includes a three-fold increase in the number of black high school seniors taking at least one A.P. exam, and a two-fold jump in Latino students taking A.P. exams.

«Reduce uneven incentives and avoid «incentive cliffs» by increasing [school performance score] points more gradually as students move to higher performance levels,» notwithstanding the fact that no research to date has evidenced that such incentives incentivize much of anything intended, at least in education.

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By signing the ATS, you agree to teach (1) full - time, (2) in a high - need field, (3) at an elementary school, secondary school, or educational service agency that serves low - income students, and (4) for at least four complete academic years within eight years after you complete (or cease to be enrolled in) the course of study for which you received the grant.