Sentences with phrase «middle class students out»

Contrast this with the local school where class sizes are notoriously large and there has been a «white flight» of middle class students out of this school to private schools in the last few years.

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Freedom to pray does not mean that a student can demand a 10 - minute out - loud prayer in the middle of class, which somehow translates in the minds of those who choose not to think to «prayer is illegal!

The researchers set out to look at the relationship between homework load and student well - being in the upper middle class advantaged communities (where median household income is more than $ 90,000, and 93 percent of students go to college) because it is there that homework is largely accepted as having value.

At a state Assembly hearing on receivership, held, ironically, just after my visit, experienced educators and sociologists also testified that it takes more than a year or two to break the cycle of poverty and truly help students climb the ladder of success out of poverty and into the middle class.

The Excelsior Scholarship, rolled out by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo last year, offers free tuition to middle - class students at the State University of New York and the City University of New York.

New Paltz, NY — Hudson Valley college, high school, and middle school students were among the thousands nationwide to walk out of class in protest of a war against Iraq.

New York will be the first state in the nation to offer free college tuition to middle - class students under the new state budget deal worked out by Governor Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers.

Then the unions fed the paranoid «opt out» movement, with hundreds of thousands of parents (mostly middle - class Long Islanders) refusing to let their kids take the state exams that measure student achievement — and Cuomo waved the white flag on using exams as part of teacher evaluations.

«Like most New Yorkers, he doesn't believe taxpayers should cover the cost of free college tuition for illegal immigrants while hardworking, middle - class families here legally take out student loans that will take them years to repay,» a spokesman for Mr. Skelos, Scott Reif, said.

In one of many gleefully nonsensical plot twists, Beanie decides that the best way to prevent Mitch from having to move is to establish a fraternity based out of the house, and he promptly courts a pledge class comprised of a motley crew of anonymous students and out - of - place adults that include a middle - aged Asian businessman and an eager geezer named Blue (Patrick Cranshaw).

LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

The contract for the Gen www.Y students at Washington Middle School who work with the student teachers, on the other hand, lays out their responsibilities, including spending 10 - 15 hours of class time with an assigned Evergreen MIT student, participating in an interview, reviewing the MIT student's Web page to make it more «student friendly,» and providing advice on infusing technology.

At the tracking schools, the test scores of students who started out in the middle of their class do not seem to be affected by which section (top or bottom) the students were later assigned to.

«The income - integration model,» she writes, «has significant practical shortcomings, the most important of which is demography... The obstacles to shifting students out of low - income schools to more middle - class settings are formidable.»

Teachers and academy students will spend an entire day at a middle school, handing out brochures and giving presentations to every eighth - grade class.

Researchers Martin West and Ludger Woessmann have pointed out that several nations that perform impressively on international assessments, including South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan, boast average middle - school class sizes of more than 35 students per teacher.

Developed by GradNation, this tool provides a sample survey that could be used with middle or high school students to find out why they are not coming to school, cutting one class, or are simply tardy.

We are being told that our evaluation system will require our full comprehension and maintenance of: measures of teacher practice observation option selection forms, evaluator forms, consistent update of class lists / rosters, observation options A, B, C, D, the Matrix, and MOSL options (project based learning assessments, student learning inventories, performance based assessments, and progress monitoring assessments), not to mention how this plays out for what people teach (elementary / middle / high school, alternative assessment, English as a New Language, content areas, etc).

These students are different from the ones who have historically made up the bulk of the student body: white, middle class, born of educated parents and generally free of the kinds of out - of - school challenges that can impede learning.

Opting out of state tests has made waves for the last couple of years as mostly White parents in mostly upper - middle class neighborhoods rallied students to opt - out of state tests.

While only some of Meredith's students want to join the academy debate team — which Meredith and Cammon principal Tamika Green proudly boast beat out several all - gifted debate teams from the district's more affluent middle schools — all of her students seemed excited about the class's projects.

In looking out for what is best for low - income and minority students, Brill contends, Wall Street hedge fund managers are a much more reliable ally than the middle - class teachers who educate schoolchildren every day.

This particular example of unwillingness to adapt to the modern world is a reason why just one out of every five middle - school students in seven states — California, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington State — was provided Algebra 1 courses during the 2009 - 2010 school year, as well as why 300,000 students in the nation's Class of 2012 have never taken an Advanced Placement course even though they have demonstrated their aptitude for doing so, according to the College Board.

Creating magnet schools that appeal to middle - class parents, working with health and social service agencies, and reaching out to parents in culturally appropriate ways can make a significant difference for many Latino students.

To diversify their campuses, these colleges eagerly seek out well - prepared minority students (not just minority students from the middle and upper - middle class who went to suburban or private schools, but urban minority students truly in need of a boost) and are willing to take dramatic steps to ensure their success on their campuses.

The study also found that segregation plays out across both race and class lines, with white and Asian students primarily attending middle - class schools, while black and Latino students are relegated to poor schools.

Middle School students speak at Lower School assemblies, hand out the certificates of character achievement to Lower School students, peer mentor fifth graders, and sign up to be once - a-week class aides for Lower School teachers.

Writes Gary Howard (2002), «Whether the measure is grades, test scores, attendance, discipline referrals, drop - out or graduation rates, those students who differ most from mainstream White, middle / upper class, English speaking America, are also most vulnerable to being mis - served by our nation's schools.»

For middle school students, seeing high school students take on leadership roles brings the context of the class out of the typical model where it is an adult «leading» kids.

As a former eighth grade English teacher, he saw first - hand that many gifted students who hadn't been reclassified as proficient English speakers before middle school were sidetracked into remedial classes where they soon became bored, frustrated, and at higher risk of dropping out.

One out of every five suburban fourth grade young men from middle - class backgrounds were reading Below Basic in 2011, according to Dropout Nation «s analysis of NAEP data, just three points better than levels of illiteracy four years earlier; big - city districts brought down the levels of illiteracy for their middle class students by four percentage points in that same period, with nearly as many students from those backgrounds struggling with reading.

For parents — especially black, Latino, and Asian families who are joining the middle class for the first time and moving into suburbia — the importance of knowing how schools actually handle students worst - served by American public education (including low expectations) is critical to doing all they can to keep their youngsters out of the economic and social abyss.

The highest - scoring schools are more middle - class schools, and schools like those in the Noble network, whose discipline policy is perfectly designed to weed out less «wanted» students.

Jason Houle of Dartmouth College found in his research that by virtue of being middle class, many students do not meet the income requirements to receive financial aid and must take out hefty student loans to fund their higher education.

Some students just couldn't make it work (usually the mistakes were to be expected of middle - class middle - schoolers, like finding a job babysitting and stretching that out full - time, only working one job, buying everything new from clothes to furniture, thinking you absolutely need convenience items you can do without, and / or trying to buy the same upscale car your dad takes to work), though most students were able to provide at least a plausible before - tax budget.

The Excelsior Scholarship, rolled out by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo last year, offers free tuition to middle - class students at the State University of New York and the City University of New York.

Google's Project Loon, which seems straight out of a steampunk aficionado's fever dream by wanting to provide wi - fi via balloon, seems less crazy than having to park a school bus in the middle of a neighborhood overnight because that's the only way students can turn in class projects.

The 13 - year - old student stood up in the middle of a class and said «I am going to bring out my Glock and shoot everyone,» sheriff's spokesman Andrew Gant said.