Sentences with phrase «middle school students say»

«Middle school students say if you squeeze hard you will see the light gets dimmer, even though they've stepped on that cord before, or they've put the corner of their chair on that cord before, and nothing has happened,» he said.

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«In middle school, students try to find where they fit in socially, and academic demands increase,» she says.

By providing a tasting to families before the start of the school year, the district hopes to build support for the «envelope - pushing» items and win over even the pickiest elementary and middle school students, said Coletta Hines - Newell, the district's food service director.

Are you following the, «Do what I say not what I do» approach when encouraging your middle school student to get organized?

After more than a decade of no - nonsense academics and harsh discipline, «He (Levin) had created the perfect middle - school student, but he hadn't created the perfect college student,» said Tough.

Pope, the co-founder of Challenge Success, said that research from that group found that high school students from high - achieving schools average more than three hours of homework each night, and middle school students average about 2.5 hours.

At Vista Middle School, Principal Nidia Castro says she will do her best to keep cups of water in her school, even suggesting she might pay out - of - pocket to provide cups for her stuSchool, Principal Nidia Castro says she will do her best to keep cups of water in her school, even suggesting she might pay out - of - pocket to provide cups for her stuschool, even suggesting she might pay out - of - pocket to provide cups for her students.

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer said combining the middle school grades from Wadleigh and FDA II was «a brilliant solution,» and praised the efforts of community members and students to defend Wadleigh.

«Working collaboratively with the Broome County Promise Zone, those interested in serving as mentors will be matched with children in schools that are part of CCPA's University - assisted community school effort, which aims to level the playing field for students from low - income families who lack some of the supports for academic success from which children from middle - class families benefit,» Bronstein said.

BERLIN — A student was detained at Berlin Middle - High School Tuesday after allegedly making a shooting threat, the district superintendent said in announcement posted on the district website.

Klug said Wadleigh's middle school students didn't have physical education last year and lost their only guidance counselor and math coach because of budget cuts.

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.

By providing resources to these students early, and continuing throughout middle school, we can ensure that every child in the New York City public school system has the same opportunity to learn, grow, and potentially enroll in these prestigious schools,» said Senator Klein.

A student was detained at Berlin Middle - High School after allegedly making a shooting threat, the district superintendent said in announcement posted on the district website.

President Mahama said many industries and businesses such as the oil and gas sector were looking for graduates with middle level technical skills, and encouraged the students to take up such courses to enable them to get jobs after school.

Wadleigh librarian Paul McIntosh, who has secured West, Liu and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio as part of a speakers program at the school, said students, faculty and parents know they are facing a difficult to nearly impossible fight to keep their middle school open.

Liu, who addressed middle school students Friday about the contributions of Martin Luther King Jr., said he was opposed to the policy of closing schools deemed to be failing only to open new schools in their place.

She has referred to the battle over charter co-locations into district schools, which critics say siphon away needed resources from district students, as a «Middle East war.»

«These schools must also guarantee admission to the two top students in each middle public school,» he said.

De Blasio said the city got a «consistent funding line» from Albany for his pre-K initiative as well as after - school programming for middle school students, calling it a «victory» because 70,000 kids are going to pre-K and because the city doubled the number of middle school students in after - school programs.

The health department says in the last ten years, use of tobacco products by High School students declined by 37 %, and smoking by Middle School students decreased by 54 %.

The family of a 12 - year - old Muslim middle school student has filed a $ 25 million federal lawsuit against the East Islip school district, claiming the seventh - grader's civil rights were violated when school officials forced him to sign a false confession saying he was a terrorist.

And while the CDC reported that the percentage of middle and high school students who smoke declined from 2011 to 2015, it also said the use of electronic cigarettes in those populations has increased nearly tenfold over that period of time.

De Blasio's plan is generally talked about in terms of providing universal pre-K, but he said expanding after - school programs to all middle school students is «an equally important part of my plan.»

The state Attorney General's office has opened an investigation into the data breach that occurred after Questar Assessment Inc. of Apple Valley, Minnesota, administered the statewide test to elementary and middle school students, officials said.

«Governor Cuomo's first budget makes heartlessly large cuts to our schools to finance tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires and students in poor and middle class districts will lose the most educationally,» the group's executive director, Billy Easton, said in a statement.

A small group of middle school students caused the trouble, said Capt. Karen Smith of the North Tonawanda Police Department, the city's juvenile aid officer until recently.

A class of North Carolina middle school students on a field trip began singing «The Star - Spangled Banner» in an outdoor area when one of the museum's security guards stopped them and said they needed a permit before they could sing in unison, an act that would be considered a public demonstration.

But the authors noted that about 20 percent of middle school students and about 7 percent of high school students who had ever used e-cigarettes had never smoked regular cigarettes — meaning that some kids are introduced to the addictive drug nicotine through e-cigarettes, the authors said.

Kilgus said the student version, which was given to middle school students in the study, is available through Fastbridge Learning, a software company that works with schools to offer online academic and behavioral screening, as well as other assessment services.

Computers used in the workplace are not suited for the classroom, because in most cases they're fragile and too big for elementary and middle school students» desks, says Tony Salvadore, a senior principal engineer with Intel who is also a psychologist and anthropologist.

The HHS and FDA said on Tuesday that surveys show 1 in 4 high school students and 1 in 13 middle schoolers report being tobacco users.

What is clear is that for many gay youth, middle school is more survival than learning — one parent of a gay teenager I spent time with Tyler Barney, a high school student in Mt Juliet, said he made the discovery that decreased performance has to do with phones lithium - ion batteries when

«Too often, the assessments new teachers use have very little to do with the standards they are expecting students to meet,» said McCann, principal at Western View Middle School, in Corvallis, Oregon.

«Studies found that elementary schools were pretty well taken care of with after - school child care, and high schools had such high - caliber programs as youth - leadership development and arts and theater,» says Salmons, who points out that middle school students, meanwhile, were vastly underserved.

«Don't fight fun,» says Patrick Duhon, deputy director of the Providence After School Alliance (PASA), the intermediary organization linking the students of seven middle schools with high - quality enrichment programs that get rolling when the school bell School Alliance (PASA), the intermediary organization linking the students of seven middle schools with high - quality enrichment programs that get rolling when the school bell school bell rings.

But after three years of teaching all levels of middle school students in a flexible environment, I can say that the benefits far outweigh any management issues that arise.

Though some middle - class families did leave because of the influx of poorer students, she said the school's demographics had been changing for years.

Learn what some middle school students had to say when Education World asked them that question!

Sandra Sermos, a middle school teacher from Clayton, Missouri, says on the site, «I dreamed of excitement, adventure, education, and safety for my students.

D'Astoli — principal at Thomas Carr College (for secondary years 7 - 8, equivalent to a U.S. middle school) in Tarneit, Victoria, Australia — says: «What I look for when employing staff is the ability to inspire students with the importance of the learning.»

Hull staff members said they are happy that A Day has done so much to allay the fears of new middle school students — and their parents.

Students and teachers at Lowes Grove Middle School also became more conscious of shutting off lights and computers, said principal Kathy Kirkpatrick.

Tuma Lewey, the middle school instructor at Beatrice Rafferty, said he is motivated to help students and pass on native culture partly because of his personal experiences as a student during the mid-1970s.

When I was a new teacher in middle school several centuries ago, I occasionally said things to students that I later regretted.

Joan Wilson, a sixth grade teacher whose class was filmed for the movie, said that as a former fifth grade teacher she realized some students» anxieties about the middle - school transition ran deep.

But well - designed after - school programs — including those for middle and high school students — have been shown to keep youngsters out of danger, it says.

After watching a protest by middle school students demanding better education grow into a national strike that shut down the country's education system for months, Adelman says she realized where her work would take her.

Teachers at Fuller Middle School wanted a wellness theme throughout the building and noted that students were getting less physical activity, says James Carey, the Framingham district's director of health and physical education.

«I can easily see Breakthrough's students - teaching - students model not only benefiting younger, middle school students but also students from the Rosebud Reservation that do go to college,» she says.