Sentences with phrase «many ninth graders»

«I think that we've all suffered enough, more than any kid should have to this year, and I think that having to study for a test that either lets you graduate high school or not is very unfair,» said Alexa Kitaygorodsky, a ninth grader who was in the freshman building when the shooting happened.

This statement comes from one of my ninth graders in response to yet another lecture of mine on how important it is for students to bring their literature books to class — a particular hurdle in my case because I teach at a military school....

Always praying for the day when you will be a ninth grader and get to make other people nervous.

There's a joke going around among American ninth graders: Want to scare your parents?

Added Lum: «She's growing; she's only a ninth grader.

A study performed at the Department of Psychiatry in Taipei, Taiwan, polled the parents of 2643 first to ninth graders and discovered that dyssomnia (sleep - disordered breathing problems and daytime inadvertent napping) were related to ADHD symptoms as reported by mothers and teachers.

Here's one quote, from a ninth grader who's part of the organization:

Town and State Police responded to a report that a ninth grader at Cairo - Durham High School said he had a bullet and other students could be in danger.

«We may see a slight incline in the graduation rate but I'm questioning whether or not we are ignoring the fact that we are losing so many ninth graders,» she said.

The program focused on third, seventh, and ninth graders in the Rochester City School District.

Dr. Kriner Cash told the school board that in Buffalo for every 100 ninth graders, only 50 end up graduating.

Tisch says that only slightly more than one third, or 37.2 percent, of today's ninth graders will graduate high school college or career ready, and most of those who attend higher education institutions will have to take costly remedial classes.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says about 20 - ninth graders joined the program this fall at McKinley High School.

And the writing task improved the scores of highly anxious ninth graders so much that they performed as well as students with low anxiety on a biology final exam.

They also found that eighth and ninth graders who played violent games more frequently displayed greater «hostile attribution bias» (being vigilant for enemies) and got into more arguments with teachers.

Miller still works in the area's school district, teaching honors biology to ninth graders and anatomy and physiology to 10th through 12th graders at Dover Area Senior High School.

While at NYU, Brennan has been actively involved in youth development through Arts in the Community, which attempts to bring college students together with local NYC arts education nonprofits, and through Peer Health Exchange, which focuses on teaching health to ninth graders around NYC.

A ninth grader selected at random and told to write a movie about poker would come up with a script very similar to this film.

So, is this the start of a long career for the now -14-year-old ninth grader?

Suzie Boss tells the story of a group of ninth graders, a topic that interested them, and the teacher who made it all happen.

Can you imagine if every ninth grader got a visit from his or her advisor, and if each family felt personally welcomed to the school?

One of the ninth graders elbowed his friend and boasted, «I'm kicking your butt.»

My ninth graders write about failing math tests, getting cut from the soccer team, and auditioning for the lead in the musical only to be cast in the ensemble.

Knowing that their work would be viewed by people who were interested purely in its merit and content — and not simply as an entity to be graded — brought about a level of professionalism I didn't think lived in ninth graders.

But I'm thinking back to my kids — the third grader who hadn't learned to grasp a pencil and the outwardly confident ninth grader who was hesitant to expose his difficulty reading aloud.

Right now, my ninth graders are participating in the H&R Block Budget Challenge.

To enhance student - level differentiation, we supplied all sixth and ninth graders with a math tutor in a two - on - one setting and provided an extra dose of reading or math instruction to students in other grades who had previously performed below grade level.

Some ENLACE programs provide ninth graders with mentors — upperclassmen or college students — to help with the transition and act as role models.

Greg Toppo, a reporter at USA Today, profiles a social studies teacher in Minnesota who can't get his «zombified ninth graders» to care about geopolitics until he invents Fantasy Geopolitics, a version of fantasy football that substitutes countries for gridiron stars.

Suppose a student entered «Lincoln High School» as a ninth grader in, say, fall of 2012.

My students (very jaded ninth graders) are impressed, and that's saying a lot.»

I played music with positive subliminal messages to ninth graders until they complained that it gave them headaches.

Included: Descriptions of how the two ninth graders manage content on their Web site for teachers.

Corey Trevena, a ninth grader at Lodi High School, says he first watched his dad explore Second Life and eventually taught himself how to script — a means of adding attributes and behaviors to the digital objects in the virtual world.

Along with teaching, Milner directed various summer programs such as STEP, JumpStart, and Rise Up, which work to support at - risk ninth graders.

My name is Anna and I am a ninth grader at School Without Walls in Washington DC.

As I contemplated the writing assignment for our required reading of The Odyssey, I was filled with dread at the thought of reading 120 uninspired essays in which my ninth graders would dutifully recount details from the epic.

But Dunbar says that when you get down to measuring the ability of students at Dallas's Woodrow Wilson High School, for example, where you're comparing this year's ninth graders to last year's, accountability test scores are not very useful.

Only approximately two - thirds of incoming ninth graders will graduate from high school on time.

With my ninth graders, I use a centuries - old resource to discuss moral quandaries: the play Macbeth.

As described in the post, Gehlbach and his research team surveyed 315 ninth graders and 25 of their teachers with questions on ``...

In a study published in the Journal of Educational Research (Jan - Feb 1991), Summer Birth Date Children: Kindergarten Entrance Age and Academic Achievement (ERIC Document EJ426449), Sandra L. Crosser compared academic achievement indices of seventh through ninth graders (n = 45) who entered kindergarten at age five with indices of similar children who entered at age six (n = 45).

Ijtihad, a ninth grader at Jenkins High School, says the confidence he's gained from performing in the play spills over into all areas of his life.

An Opening to Conversation: My ninth graders are terribly self - conscious, desperately afraid of sharing an unpopular opinion — or worse, an incorrect answer.

Wall - to - wall career academies and a transition program for ninth graders have helped create an environment at this Texas high school in which rigorous, relevant education — inside and outside of the classroom — is the norm for all students.

When you see a tenth grader try to «clone a carnivorous plant,» or a ninth grader learn sign language to communicate with her deaf younger cousin, or a fourth grader produce his own movie, then you'll know why 20 % rocks.

In the Los Angeles Unified School District alone, 44 percent of ninth graders enrolled in beginning algebra during the fall 2004 semester failed.

The inaugural class of 110 ninth graders, admitted on the basis of grades, recommendations, interviews, and test scores, takes lab courses in biochemistry and engineering.

All ninth graders took Private Pilot Ground School last year, which we've come to see is probably better done in sophomore or junior year.

The AGI will release a report this spring on how teaching affects opportunities and outcomes for sixth - to - ninth graders across 14,000 classrooms from the 2013 — 14 school year.