Sentences with phrase «looked at elementary schools»

Researchers David N. Figlio and Joshua Winicki took a look at elementary school lunch menus in 23 randomly chosen districts across Virginia, where schools face penalties if most of their students continue to fail state Standards of Learning tests.

SEATTLE — When Principal Levaun Dennett looked at her elementary school's test scores in the spring of 1985, they showed a bleak but familiar pattern.

One reviewer looked at an elementary school report card for each state while another reviewer looked at a high school report card for each state.

I'll look at elementary schools, but that's not really for rental market but to understand the population.

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Look at the lunch tables at an elementary or secondary school, or at the extracurricular clubs and societies in universities.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

I felt a wind sweeping through me and I was crying and then I was climbing the make - shift stairs, looking out at the elementary school gym, perched on a stool like an inelegant fool, and the words came and God was honoured.

Some childhood foods can be totally traumatic, I still can't even look at anything, what was served in the canteen in my elementary school....

Looking for something that would allow her to spend nights, weekends, and holidays with her young daughter, Wells applied for a cashier position at her local elementary school, but it wasn't long — just a couple of weeks — before she found herself in the position of cafeteria manager.

But, we are back and looking again at what elementary kids eat for school lunch in France vs. America.

We spent the first 23 school days, quite a lot of time in fact, in Toms River, New Jersey and Pau, France; but we also looked at elementary lunch menus in various other big cities in different regions in France and America.

So, I've decided to look at lunches from these two elementary school programs, Toms River, NJ and Pau, France.

With the insights of anthroposophy, gleaned through a daily look at child development focusing on your class's age group, you will get to know the first grader as he or she crosses the bridge into elementary school.

I will be looking into alternatives in future pregnancies, especially if I'm due during the flu season again because it wasn't worth the stress with a newborn at home and sending our kindergartner to the germ pool, a.k.a. elementary school.

The majority of elementary schools in Austin are now serving themed entree salads twice a week that look more like what you'd order at a restaurant than what you'd assemble from an all - you - can - eat salad bar.

After a Wednesday day off in French elementary schools, here we are back again looking at what American and French kids are eating in the school cafeteria.

A recent study which looked at 58 elementary and secondary schools found that on days when only white milk was offered in cafeterias, milk consumption dropped an average of 35 percent.

Last year, the program was instituted in middle schools, where all students are now provided lunch at no charge, but the mayor said that the results of the program were underwhelming and that instead of expanding it to elementary and / or high schools, the city would first look to do more outreach around the middle school offering and see if there is a noted improvement in year two.

Stephanie Anzman - Frasca, Ph.D., of ChildObesity180, Tufts University, Boston, and co-authors used data from 446 public elementary schools in a large, urban school district in the United States to look at the impact of BIC on participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achievschool district in the United States to look at the impact of BIC on participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achievSchool Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achievschool attendance and academic achievement.

Her father owns a factory and her mother, played with cutting hauteur by Emily Watson, looks down her nose at Edward, whose father is master at an elementary school.

For example, elementary school students can look at a site that they may already be using, like Coolmath.com, and identify the ads as distinct from the content.

Winters looks at data on all elementary - school students in certain years from New York City's and Denver's charter and district schools.

Most of the teachers at the institute were middle and high school teachers, but several elementary school art teachers who attended were looking forward to using the material.

We look at level of school (high school, middle school, or elementary school), total enrollment, percentage of the student body that is white, average experience of teachers, and school performance, as measured by the school's academic rank within the state.

Looking at these data across all the elementary and middle schools that had test results for at least one grade in 2007, one finds a fairly consistent pattern of improvement.

Let's look at an example: Imagine that an elementary - school faculty is choosing a retirement gift for its outgoing principal.

Review: A quick look at the packet covering Azetc culture for late elementary school - aged students reveals 28 pages of lessons and activities.

Perhaps, instead of looking forward to high school, it is time for middle school educators to look back at what elementary school is doing.

It was back - to - school night last week at my son's elementary school in Montgomery County, Maryland, which meant that we moms and dads got a first look at «Learning for the Future: A Parent's Guide to Grade 1 Curriculum 2.0.»

Here is an example and video of how this type of instruction may look at the early elementary level and here is an explanation at the late elementary / middle school level.

«There isn't a statewide curriculum for elementary school engineering design,» explains Bryant, «but looking at the standards for where they need to be in middle school and in high school, I'm able to backward design for what should be happening at the elementary level.»

If one looks at the data for elementary and middle schools separately, however, it appears that in the higher grades, charters have a positive impact in reading on higher - income students relative to the district schools.

The No Child Left Behind act is forcing school systems to take a closer look at the academic achievement of their elementary and middle school students.

Education Next Fall 2010 In an article that appeared in Sunday's New York Times, Liz Robbins looks at what's happening in four Brooklyn elementary schools that won a federal -LSB-...]

Weckert says although the elementary school program is an initial three - year plan, the leadership team is taking a longer term view, adding that all the while staff «absolutely have to keep looking at the data» to continually monitor and assess the impact.

We are looking at important factors that influence the happiness and social and emotional learning of elementary school age children, helping students learn life skills, manage emotions, and increase empathy.

«If you look at international comparisons, kids in the United States perform better at elementary school than the later grades... so it made sense to look at whether grade configuration influenced this.»

In this nine - part series, we will look at important factors that influence the happiness and social and emotional learning of elementary school age children.

If there is still much to be done at Sherman, the hay bales are already a favorite spot for students looking for some respite from the din of a hundred elementary school kids playing kickball on the asphalt playground that will remain in place on the school's west side.

In their 1999 book, The Teaching Gap, James Stigler and James Hiebert look at lesson study in a Japan elementary school.

Our lottery - based analysis of pilot effects looks at elementary - grade outcomes as well as test scores from middle and high school.

The observational analysis looks at middle and high schools only because there are no baseline score data for elementary school students.

We believe in rethinking elementary school from the ground up, but we also believe that we have a responsibility to look at the data, and to take a holistic look at students and their overall educational experience.

In the first we looked only at the association of the Positive State Policy Index and teachers «ratings of the principal «s instructional leadership, controlling for two key school characteristics (building level, coded as elementary or secondary; and the percentage of students in poverty, or eligible for free and reduced - price lunch).

This is the third in a series looking at how the Common Core standards are shaping teaching and learning at one Louisiana elementary school.

A waggish high - school administrator in New York City looked at Figure 1 and said, «It's all the elementary teachers» fault!»

Anthony Pirro has a vision for what discipline could look like at P.S. 54, the elementary school he runs in Bedford - Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

Because the district utilizes a three - tiered busing system, committee member Todd Hauber, who also serves as the district's business administrator, indicated the committee is looking at starting either the elementary schools or Ecker Hill Middle School before the high sSchool before the high schoolschool.

In this series, we look at elementary and secondary schools that are not only meeting the needs of impoverished students but pushing them to high achievement.

Featuring special education expert Lee Ann Jung, this channel offers an inside look at inclusive excellence in a variety of elementary and high school classrooms.