Sentences with phrase «middle of an academic year»

Trump spokesman Jason Miller told reporters on Sunday that there is «obviously a sensitivity» about pulling 10 - year - old Barron from school in the middle of the academic year.

Schools can adapt over time to changes in funding levels, but they can not be effective if they must hire new staff or change their program in the middle of an academic year.

Apparently, it was never intended to be part of the complimentary subscription for Law Schools, but it is particularly disappointing that they chose to flick the switch in the middle of the academic year.

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Be sure your middle schooler establishes a strong academic footing and be sure to spend some time during middle school to talk about high school and to prepare your child for the final years of his or her education.

According to their framework, high - level «non-cognitive» skills like resilience, curiosity, and academic tenacity that are essential to success in middle and high school are impossible for a child to obtain without first developing, in the early years of formal education, executive function, a capacity for self - awareness, and relationship skills.

The panel's agenda also included the truncation of Bedford - Stuyvesant's P.S. 262 El Hajj Malik El Shabazz School, which will lose its middle school grades in the upcoming academic year.

Last year's judges — a group of journalists, computer scientists, philosophy professors, and other academics — each sat at a computer screen split down the middle, with one chat on each side.

Currently I am a Principal Investigator of Project ESCOLAR (Etext Supports for Collaborative Online Learning and Academic Reading) a five year grant funded by the Office of Special education Programs (OSEP) to develop, test, evaluate, refine, and disseminate Collaborative Online Projects designed to support academic reading of science content for middle school students with learning disabAcademic Reading) a five year grant funded by the Office of Special education Programs (OSEP) to develop, test, evaluate, refine, and disseminate Collaborative Online Projects designed to support academic reading of science content for middle school students with learning disabacademic reading of science content for middle school students with learning disabilities.

In the specific year when students move to a middle school (or to a junior high), their academic achievement, as measured by standardized tests, falls substantially in both math and English relative to that of their counterparts who continue to attend a K — 8 elementary school.

Kids in After - School Programs Make Academic Gains After only two years of funding after - school programs, mostly for elementary and middle school students, California has seen improvement in attendance and behavior at school and in the academic skills of children in the pAcademic Gains After only two years of funding after - school programs, mostly for elementary and middle school students, California has seen improvement in attendance and behavior at school and in the academic skills of children in the pacademic skills of children in the programs.

According to the three - year study, which is being conducted by the Santa Monica, Calif. - based RAND Corp., majorities of elementary and middle school science and math teachers in all three states report in surveys that they are making positive changes in the classroom by focusing on their states» academic standards or searching for better teaching methods.

While some earlier studies questioned the role of grade configuration in school success and student achievement, including the 2008 National Forum «Policy Statement on Grade Configuration» and a 2010 study by EdSource, «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better» in California, «the evidence on academic benefits has become much stronger in the past two years,» West says.

The authors found that in the specific year when students move to a middle school (or to a junior high), their academic achievement, as measured by standardized tests, falls substantially in both math and English relative to that of their counterparts who continue to attend a K — 8 elementary school.

Superintendent Jeffrey Young, Ed.D.» 88, says he proposed the move in December 2010 to level the academic and socioeconomic field of Cambridge students as they enter the middle and high school years.

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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 succAcademic 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 succacademic 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

Prior to joining the team, Dan worked in district and charter schools for 17 years, first as a high school English teacher and later as a Director of Academics in middle and elementary schools.

We are Science and Religious Education specialist with with a combined 30 years of experience as middle managers both academic and pastoral.

They found that the behavioral problems of these middle - school 6th graders «persist beyond the sixth grade year» and that «exposing sixth graders to older peers has persistent negative consequences on their academic trajectories.»

Gov. Gray Davis of California called last week for adding six weeks to the school year for middle school students, saying the extra time for academics would help students more successfully bridge the years between elementary and high school.

Jim O'Connor, principal of the KIPP Ascend middle school in Chicago, told me this month that five students from his last year's eighth grade who are in regular public high schools are having the most difficult time, because their schools lack the focus on strong academic results they found at KIPP.

Seven - week programs this year included SummerQuest, giving 2,000 - plus elementary school students hands - on activities in science, engineering and technology; Summer of Service, with a range of activities for 900 middle school students; and an orientation, incorporating social media, academics and bonding activities for 700 incoming 9th graders.

In each of their four years of middle school, KIPP schools produced positive academic impacts on state standardized tests.

Mewborn challenged the faculty and students last spring with a promise: If all students met their year - end academic goals, he would ride from North Hart across more than 20 miles of rural landscape to the middle school... on his bicycle.

The middle school years set the stage for students to take ownership of their learning and academic futures.

In her definitive and classic study, «Summer Learning and the Effects of Schooling» (Academic Press, 1978), Barbara Heyns followed middle school students in the Atlanta public schools through two school years and the intervening summer.

Candidates must hold an Administrator II certification and a minimum of three years experience as a principal or compatible position in a middle or high school with documented evidence of academic accomplishment.

Chaminade prepares college - bound students throughout their middle and high school years in a rigorous program of academic excellence.

However, West cautioned that unlike academic skills, in which students typically grow by a steady amount each year, he found the social - emotional skills all showed a sharp decline for students at the beginning of middle school, followed by partial recovery by the middle of high school.

While Alliance has seen great academic success from its students, it hasn't been all wins, as two of its middle schools and two of its high schools performed below the API average of LAUSD schools during the 2012 - 13 school year.

The Middle Years Programme (MYP) is a school wide instructional model that provides an international instructional focus, a variety of skills needed for academic success and opportunities for a well - rounded education.

The City has implemented a number of initiatives in the past three years to improve middle school students» academic performance, including expanded after - school programs, the School Renewal Program (providing the most challenged schools with additional funding), instructional resources and experienced leadership, and the Community School expansion.

In a 6 - year study of middle school age gifted learners taking biology, chemistry, or physics in a 3 - week summer program, these younger learners outperformed high school students taking these courses for a full academic year (Lynch, 1992).

Clinton Middle School uses 20 - day challenge to encourage attendance ABC 8 Tulsa, August 29, 2016 Monday marks the start of week two of the academic year for Tulsa Public Schools, and Clinton Middle School is working to be an example in the district by making sure all of its students are going to class... read more.

In the 2013 — 14 school year, four New York City middle schools and six New York City high schools took part in the project and were asked to modify the way in which they gave feedback to students toward the development of growth mindsets and promotion of academic persistence.

Mater Lakes Academy has been open since the 2006 - 2007 academic school year, and is currently in its 12th year under the direction of Principal Rene F. Rovirosa, and is an A school for both the middle school and the high school.

The results for elementary and middle schools are based on students» performance on the Measures of Academic Progress tests that are given to students in third through eighth grade, and administered in the fall and spring of each school year to measure a student's growth during the year.

ASU pioneered the iTeachAZ program, which the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Innovation and Improvement recognized as a model program in 2014.42 The program partners with local schools to utilize school sites for its undergraduate classes, where clinical faculty are based, and encourage practical applications of more theoretical pedagogy.43 The program places student teachers in local elementary and middle schools for an academic year, and partners students with mentor teachers to facilitate learning and provide guidance.

Windham Superintendent Ana Ortiz said her district already implemented a gifted school in one section of Windham Middle School this academic year, devoting four teachers to work with 127 students in grades 3 to 8 who scored well on standardized tests.

Elementary and middle - school charters had to show a score of at least 700 — 650 if it had been open three years or less — on the state academic performance index scale of 200 to 1000.

In academic year 2016/17, heads of English and heads of primary in National Institute schools will be supported through our middle leadership development programme to improve their leadership skills.

The agreement, the first of its kind in the nation, will be signed by Tulane President Scott Cowen, KIPP Foundation CEO Richard Barth and KIPP New Orleans Schools Executive Director Rhonda Kalifey - Aluise in the library on the second floor of KIPP Believe College Prep middle school, 1607 South Carrollton Ave. With this partnership, Tulane promises to enroll and provide scholarships for 10 KIPP students annually beginning in the 2012 - 13 academic year.

The state Board of Education approved a plan last month that takes over three high schools and one middle school after years of academic probation.

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.

While a number of DCPS elementary schools have improved in recent years, parents have complained that the system's middle schools suffer from low achievement, discipline and safety issues, and a limited range of academic and extracurricular offerings.

ExpandED Schools (formerly TASC), the New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE), and the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI), invite applications from schools and community partners [1] to join us in a two - year study of a professional development program designed to boost students» interest, engagement and academic performance in science during the middle school years.

The middle schools in Springfield began a dramatic transformation just about a year ago in a bid to lift the schools out of the bottom academic rung and avert a likely state takeover.

Neelys Bend and Madison Middle Schools both struggle with high mobility rates, with more than two out of five children spending less than the whole year at the schools last year, statistically hurting those students» academics.

Over 50 years ago, educational scholar William Alexander identified the need for dedicated academic institutions catering to the unique developmental needs of early adolescents: middle schools.

There is now 32 years of peer - reviewed academic research showing that it is the salesman and their «golden opportunities» that destroy middle - class portfolios.