Sentences with phrase «middle school students attending»

Physicist Luis Delgado - Aparicio told middle school students attending a conference of Hispanics Inspiring Students» Performance and Achievement (HISPA) at Princeton University to follow their dreams and to pursue careers in science even if the path is difficult.

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Ryan, 17, and Morgan, 16, attended Stoneman Douglas with Alex. Avery, 12, is a student at nearby Westglades Middle School.

Meta - analyses also indicate that young people of low socioeconomic status benefit more from attending these schools than do students from the middle and upper classes.

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Your tween may be looking forward to attending middle school this year, and that's good news because middle school offers a lot of change and opportunity for students — lockers, extracurricular activities, and new friends, and teachers.

It doesn't matter where your child attends middle school, the school will undoubtedly have a code of conduct, and a list of student behavior expectations that your child will be expected to follow.

Most middle schools and high schools, attended by children aged about 11 to 17, also do not sell fruits and vegetables outside traditional cafeteria lunch lines so that students can find them at random times, the report showed.

Having attended middle school lessons at our school, and reviewed several students» Lesson Books, I am impressed by the focus on cultivating powers of observation and perception as a basis...

Middle school students may no longer see old friends as they pursue different interests or passions, or if students attend different schools they may no longer have the opportunity to connect with old friends.

Having attended middle school lessons at our school, and reviewed several students» Lesson Books, I am impressed by the focus on cultivating powers of observation and perception as a basis for comprehending scientific principles.

It excludes roughly 54 percent of the middle school students who attend schools that also serve elementary or high school students.

Some 39,244 elementary and middle schools students were mandated for summer school — though not all of those had to attend in order to move up a grade — and registered.

Mr. Cuomo has also voiced support for a bill, backed by the Catholic Church and advocates of vouchers, that would offer tax credits to individuals and corporations who donate money to public schools, or to scholarship programs that help poor and middle - class students attend private schools.

The Education Investment Tax Credit will increase funds in two areas — donations to public schools, school districts and teacher - driven projects; and scholarships to help low - and middle - income students attend religious and other tuition - based schools, according to the NY Archdiocese.

Cappella and her colleagues found that attending a middle or junior high school negatively impacted certain measures of beliefs about students» academic abilities.

The most dramatic effect was measured in students attending middle schools; they were more likely to have a negative view of their reading skills and interest levels.

Today, 90 percent of U.S. public school students attend a middle school or junior high school.

Students who attend a middle school compared to a K - 8 school are likely to have a lower perception of their reading skills, finds a new study by NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Develoschool compared to a K - 8 school are likely to have a lower perception of their reading skills, finds a new study by NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Develoschool are likely to have a lower perception of their reading skills, finds a new study by NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human DeveloSchool of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

RAND researchers analyzed information collected from 8,214 students enrolled in 6th, 7th and 8th grade who attended 16 Southern California middle schools during 2010 and 2011.

These provisions would have made it more expensive to attend graduate school, and would have discouraged students from low - and even middle - income families from considering a career in science.

Fourteen teachers arrived from schools as close as Ithaca and as far as Anaheim, Calif. to attend the BTI Plant Biology Curriculum Development Projects (CDP) teacher institute July 13 - 17, to begin their year - long journey to translate plant research into classroom learning opportunities for middle and high school STEM students across the country.

The Sweet Valley Twins series features the twins as sixth grade students attending Sweet Valley Middle School.

The Fordham Institute's new report, High Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all students.

All lottery winners travel farther to attend their first - choice school, but the distance is greater for high school students than for middle school students.

Under such policies, taxpayers can receive tax credits worth between 50 percent to 100 percent of their donations to nonprofit scholarship organizations that help low - and middle - income students attend private schools.

(p. 22) On later earnings they find: «Charter high school attendance is associated with an increase in maximum annual earnings for students between ages 23 and 25 of $ 2,347 — or about 12.7 percent higher earnings than for comparable students who attended a charter middle school but matriculated to a traditional high school.»

The students involved in the project attend two Title 1 schools from Sparks, Nevada — Sparks Middle School and Sparks High School, both with high percentages of students on free and reduced - priced lunch — and Cottonwood Elementary School, a K - 4 school in Fernley, NSchool and Sparks High School, both with high percentages of students on free and reduced - priced lunch — and Cottonwood Elementary School, a K - 4 school in Fernley, NSchool, both with high percentages of students on free and reduced - priced lunch — and Cottonwood Elementary School, a K - 4 school in Fernley, NSchool, a K - 4 school in Fernley, Nschool in Fernley, Nevada.

One study looks at students who attended two magnet middle school programs that had an exclusive focus on high - achieving students.

A higher percentage of students in West Virginia attend small schools at all three levels — elementary, middle, and high school — than in most other states.

Students who attend middle schools at risk of dropping out of high school As compared to students in K - 8 elementary schools, middle school students also score lower on achievemenStudents who attend middle schools at risk of dropping out of high school As compared to students in K - 8 elementary schools, middle school students also score lower on achievemenstudents in K - 8 elementary schools, middle school students also score lower on achievemenstudents also score lower on achievement tests.

Specifically, we ran a statistical model that used the last grade served by the school that a student attended in grade 3 to predict whether the student attended a middle school.

To isolate the impact of attending a middle school from the many other factors that influence student achievement, we combined two basic strategies.

A lingering concern, however, is the possibility that different types of students choose to attend middle schools than choose to continue in a K — 8 school.

The Granite State's STC program grants tax credits to corporations worth 85 percent of their contributions to nonprofit scholarship organizations that aid low - and middle - income students attending the schools of their choice.

The achievement gap between middle - school students and K — 8 students is put in stark relief in Figure 1, which displays our estimates of the impact of attending a middle school on student achievement as measured by standardized tests in math and English Language Arts.

For example, Figure 1 shows that 45 percent of students who first participated in FTC in elementary or middle school attended a public college in Florida within two years of expected high school graduation, compared to 39 percent of matched non-FTC students.

Controlling for key student characteristics (including demographics, prior test scores, and the prior choice to enroll in a charter middle school), students who attend a charter high school are 7 to 15 percentage points more likely to earn a standard diploma than students who attend a traditional public high school.

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.

For many charter middle - school students, attending a charter high school may be infeasible due to the lack of a charter high school within a reasonable distance.

We then used that prediction to place each student into one of the two groups we are comparing, that is, students who attend middle schools and those who do not.

The graphs show how well students who attend a middle school perform relative to how we would expect them to perform if they attended a K — 8 school.

This raises the possibility that the measured effects of attending a charter high school on educational attainment could simply reflect advantages of grouping middle and high school grades together, thereby creating greater continuity for students and eliminating the disruption often associated with changing schools.

Even after accounting for a host of other factors that influence student achievement, students who eventually attend middle schools go from scoring better than their counterparts in K — 8 schools in the year prior to transitioning to middle school to scoring below where we would expect if they were not attending a middle school.

Some 1,000 students attend three schools: a K — 4 elementary school and grade 5 — 8 middle school are both fully enrolled, and a growing second elementary school currently serves grades K — 2.

The researchers point out that this raises the possibility that the positive effects of attending a charter high school on educational attainment could simply reflect advantages of grouping middle and high school grades together, thereby creating greater continuity for students and eliminating the disruption often associated with changing schools.

More than one - third are middle - class white students who would otherwise be attending their suburban neighborhood public school.

While we encourage readers to be cautious about applying our findings without qualification to all public schools, we also encourage school districts to support research that can identify middle - school effects in other settings, especially since we find the consequences of attending a middle school for student achievement to be substantial and troubling.

In Chicago, 40 percent of charter middle schools offered both middle - and high - school grades, and nearly half of the 8th - grade charter students could attend at least some high - school grades without changing schools.

In other words, if students from feeder elementary schools eventually attend five different non-KIPP middle schools, the two most commonly attended of these middle schools would be included in the «comparison» middle - school group.

A few of my students attended Visitacion Valley Middle School, a school that has a well - established, in - school meditation program, and a few of them have done yoga, but most of them have never done any focused, intentional stress reduSchool, a school that has a well - established, in - school meditation program, and a few of them have done yoga, but most of them have never done any focused, intentional stress reduschool that has a well - established, in - school meditation program, and a few of them have done yoga, but most of them have never done any focused, intentional stress reduschool meditation program, and a few of them have done yoga, but most of them have never done any focused, intentional stress reduction.