Sentences with phrase «longer than grade»

A 2004 study found that the consequences of childhood sleep deprivation last far longer than grade school and that «[p] ersistent sleep problems in childhood may be an early risk indicator of anxiety in adulthood.»

found that the consequences of childhood sleep deprivation last far longer than grade school and that «[p] ersistent sleep problems in childhood may be an early risk indicator of anxiety in adulthood.»

Not exact matches

Women are also taking longer to pay off student debt, according to a report completed this year by the American Association of University Women, despite being more likely to enroll and earning higher grades than most of their male peers.

Restaurant shops usually take a little longer than others because usually you are grading every little detail.

Investment - grade bonds have historically tended to suffer smaller losses than stocks, and they very rarely post losses over longer time periods.

She had to wear long winter underwear and heavy overshoes in bad weather; she remembers vividly how in grade school her teachers would let her start getting ready to go home five minutes earlier than the rest of the class because of all the layers she had to put on.

Second, empirical data show that, generally, the larger an event, the longer its duration.7 Given that higher grade occasions are larger than lower grade occasions, it follows that their durations should be longer.

Others don't think they are sinners, or if they do, they think God grades on the curve, and as long as they are better than someone else, they'll get in.

That's a final paper that's a paragraph long, is riddled with spelling / grammatical mistakes, and doesn't say anything insightful... and got a grade higher than pretty much anything I submitted in four years of college.

Trouble is that, even under the three concussion grading systems in most common use in the 1990's and early 2000's (Dr. Bob Cantu's 2001 so - called «evidence - based» guidelines, 1 the 1991 Colorado Medical Society (CMS) guidleines, 2 and the 1997 American Academy of Neurology (AAN) 3 guidelines)- all of which have long since gone the way of the dodo, by the way - and even if Smith's blurred vision had cleared up in less than 15 minutes, which, as it turned out, it didn't, he still would have been considered to have sustained a Grade 1 or mild concussion.

Both of mine have spent more time in my lap — with their long legs flapping out to the sides — in seventh grade than in second through sixth grades combined.

Rather than giving your child a boost, you are demonstrating that you can complete a project at a grade level you probably completed long ago.

Either way, you want to make sure that you have a pump that is efficient and effective, and anything less than a hospital - grade pump probably won't get the job done if you intend to pump long term.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew urged New York City to embark next September on a long - term initiative that will lower class size in the public schools to no more than 15 students in kindergarten through third grade.

Budimirovic says the current study updated the 2013 recommendations by using a more systematic approach that classified existing outcome measures as either being able to detect shorter - term changes (measures in FXS placebo - controlled trials lasting less than 12 months) or longer - term changes (lasting longer than 12 months) changes and by grading the measures» quantitative properties using the COnsensus - based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) system, an initiative that aims to improve how health measurement tools are selected.

The fossils form such a neatly graded series, getting less and less ape - like and more and more human as they get closer in time to the present, that the most earnest creationist can do little more than muddy the waters by inflating and distorting the existence of points of disagreement between specialists, or trying to revive long since discredited Homo sapiens specimens once claimed to have been from extremely ancient deposits.

We looked long and hard for the best supplements on the market and chose USANA Health Sciences because of their pharmaceutical - grade manufacturing practices, which is a higher standard than organic.

We forget that we have two left feet, that our childhood dedication lasts no longer than a twenty - three minute cartoon, and that ballet class gets tough after the first grade.

It is required to report whatever metrics its state chooses not only for all its tested grades (3 - 5), but also for a number of distinct «subgroups» including those defined by race / ethnicity, as long as there are more students in each subgroup than the minimum n - size the state has chosen.

Upstairs in the classroom where Banks, 13, attends seventh grade, a window looks onto the Grand River, whose rushing waters are home to adult sturgeon more than 7 feet long.

Although African Americans with GPAs as high as 3.5 continue to have more friends than those with lower grades, the rate of increase is no longer as great as among white students.

Studies have shown that sleep - deprived students are more likely to get poorer grades than students who sleep longer, and are more likely to get depressed.

All - school residencies take longer than those with a single grade level.

A Department of Education 2008 report determined that students who seek to master an academic topic with mastery - oriented goals show better long - term academic development than do their peers whose main goals are to get good grades or outperform others, thus the value of including feedback other than formal grades and of metacognition.

SO much more fun than grading those old grammar tests I used to give so very long ago.

Rather than judging and grading all students on how well they have learnt what they have just been taught, assessment becomes a process of establishing and understanding where individuals are in their long - term progress.

Even in the early grades most American schools have been coerced into using curriculum - driven instructional systems in which teachers are expected to «cover» long lists of content expectations, far more in a year than any of the high performing school systems around the world.

The lack of progress in the younger grades trickles up: More than half of English learners now in California high schools are «long - term English learners,» meaning they have been in public schools for six years without learning English, according to a 2010 report by Californians Together, a nonprofit advocacy group.

While the tensions between our two overarching perspectives are more complex than what we have described, long discussions related to that conflict caused us to work together to examine how a veteran social studies teacher and his student teacher in a local middle grades school perceived and implemented technology in their classroom.

Students with longer sleep times report significantly higher grades than students with poor sleeping schedules, according to one recent paper.

Scholars at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the teaching fellows program and found positive results, including a) graduates teach in schools and classrooms with greater concentrations of higher performing and lower poverty students; b) graduates produce larger increases in student test scores in all high school exams and in 3rd - 8th grade mathematics exams; and c) teaching fellows remain in North Carolina public schools longer than other teachers.

«I have learned more about students in poverty from being a part of this virtual learning community than I did in a semester - long class about urban education,» said Karen Vogelsang, a second - grade teacher at Keystone Elementary in Memphis, Tennessee, and a virtual coach for the «Supporting Students in Poverty» VLC.

The statewide ban is similar but less comprehensive than those enacted in some of the local jurisdictions: California public - school students can no longer be expelled for willful defiance and children in grades K - 3 can no longer be suspended.

With homework no longer «cushioning» a student's grade, she had to be more intentional than ever in assigning only those homework tasks that could legitimately support a student's learning.

New Haven, Conn. — Connecticut's fourth - and eighth - grade students continue to score higher than their national peers in reading, and have made modest long - term gains in math based on 2017 results from the Nation's Report Card — but our current rate of progress means The Constitution State would need a century to close the achievement gap.

This year, math scores reversed a long, upward trend with both grades testing lower than they did in 2013.

A. Positive homework policy: As stated in the research done by the National Education Association (NEA), the amount of time spent at home on a task for review should be no longer than 5 - 10 minutes total per grade level.

While it appears that some seventh - grade teachers are covering Islam longer than Christianity, it's important to note, that the last chapter of the sixth - grade textbook covers the rise of Christianity extensively.

In other words, I think there is a lot of water to flow before the grade 11 tests are ready to take final shape, and one way to interpret the MA's SSPI remarks is a view that the grade 11 tests may take longer to develop than the grades 3 - 8 consortia tests.

At KIPP, teachers make about $ 10,000 a year more than their regular public school counterparts, but they put in longer days, Saturday classes and summer school - all extra time and extra resources to lift students who begin KIPP below grade level.

We currently have over 100 educators, with more than 1,000 years of combined experience in the classroom, working collaboratively in teams to review year - long instructional materials in math (grades K - 12) and English language arts (grades 3 - 8).

Over the longer term, more states show continual improvement in grade 4 than in grade 8, with fourth - grade math showing the most continued progress.

Over the last few years, students» scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System have shown steady upward progress, but the school still has a long way to travel to achieve universal proficiency: In 2006, fewer than 50 percent of students in any grade reached proficiency in any tested subject.

Because the PARCC tests, administered in grades 3 - 11, are longer than their predecessors they allow the state to reliably test a full range of skills each year, something NJ ASK and HSPA did only partially, Erlichson said.

However, OSSE finds that the number of instructional days suspended students miss increases steadily by grade: more than half of suspensions for students below fifth grade are for less than two days, but most suspensions given to students in older grades are typically between two and five days, with an increasing proportion of longer suspensions (six to ten days) through the end of high school.

Incline grades of well more than 30 degrees were common, and the Trailhawk handled them just fine as long as I exhibited deft control of the accelerator.

Critical Knowledge: All - new, fifth - generation 2010 Toyota 4Runner retains body - on - frame, truck - based designShares platform with the Toyota FJ CruiserTaller, wider and longer than the previous 4RunnerNew bumpers, grille, head and tail lampsLarge diameter wheels and tiresCompletely redesigned, larger interior featuring unique cargo areaAvailable in three grades: SR5, Limited and TrailNew Trail model is designed to maximize off - road performance, features high ground clearance, a hood scoop, unique 17 - inch wheels, black outer mirrors, front and rear bumper guards and dark smoke treatment on the head and tail

At the rear is a pair of 3 - inch (76 mm) chrome exhaust outlets, which caps a performance dual - exhaust system made of high - grade stainless steel that will maintain a lustrous appearance longer than ordinary stainless.

The 2014 Nissan Titan's engine isn't the most powerful V8 in its class, but it's far from tepid, with good punch off the line punch and more than enough muscle to get the job done, whether that's passing slower traffic or hauling a heavy trailer (9,500 pounds is the max towing capacity) up a long grade.

A lower gear is held for a longer - than - normal period to provide better climbing ability on hills and more engine braking on downhill grades.