Sentences with phrase «middle schools controlling»

As further evidence of this, we estimated value - added to math scores in middle schools controlling only for prior reading scores — prior math scores were ignored.

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Detroit's property values fell, tax revenue dropped, police couldn't control a growing murder rate, and many middle - class blacks fled the city for safer suburbs with better schools.

I don't even really want to see your children in school next to mine, but since I have no control over that, keep your stone throwing, women hating views in the middle east where they belong.

«I know that the trend is moving ever younger in terms of cellphone ownership,» Blair says, «but middle - schoolers generally do not possess the maturity and self - control to use some of these tools safely and responsibly.»

Although the results are limited by the absence of control schools and may not be generalizable in magnitude to middle schools and high schools, these results offer important preliminary insights related to possible economic consequences of eliminating chocolate milk.

In fact, only 4 percent of elementary schools, 8 percent of middle schools, and 2 percent of high schools offer daily physical education, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Many of the factors that affect students during the middle school transition are beyond parents» control.

While STAR provides state tax dollars back to lower - and middle - income New Yorkers, it imposes no controls on growth of school taxes and has no benefits for the state's businesses, Adams said.

Rep. Steve Israel calls on the Republican - controlled Congress to pass legislation to close gun sale loopholes and expand background checks held outside of the Great Neck South Middle School in Great Neck, Friday, Oct. 16, 2015.

Caught in the middle are a host of issues affecting 8.5 million residents of New York City such as mayoral control of schools, the expansion of charter schools and the most recent hot - button issue between the two men — the controversial 421 - a tax abatement program.

• Mayoral control of schools: Though the status quo fought it, mayoral control of schools has proven to be the vital first step towards fixing public schools and, more important, restoring middle class voters» confidence in them.

Among them are extending or enhancing rent control regulations critical in efforts to keep New York City affordable for the middle class and whether to continue mayoral control of New York City schools.

A study by Murray Hill Middle School in Maryland investigates the effects of microgravity on microencapsulation, a process that could be used to help control the rate at which a drug is released in the body.

«However, a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that fewer than 20 percent of public middle and high schools in the U.S. start at the recommended time,» Owens says.

But instead of «ewwwwws» and twinging faces, the students from Decatur's Renfroe Middle School were excited to know even more about each part of the brain — asking Black, a postdoctoral researcher, more about the parts controlling speech, taste and sight, for example.

Nearly 58 percent of middle school students in nine states and almost 73 percent of high school students across the country don't get the recommended amount of nightly shuteye, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Because ever since I hit puberty way back in the terrors of middle school, I've always had problems figuring out — and controlling — my skin.

There is a control to Burnham's story that makes it sing, as he takes us from one experience by Kayla to the next, without there being a larger goal than hoping she makes it to the last day of middle school.

Since I'm told that middle school scheduling is similar in complexity to programming a NASA flight control system, I'm not optimistic about this changing much in 2016 - 17.

Lessons Learned from Howard Gardner and the TV Remote Control Teacher Max Fischer reflects on the eye - opening move from the elementary classroom to the middle school.

The middle schoolers who agreed to lose part of their paycheck if they failed to increase it were no more likely than their control group peers at increasing their paycheck.

In a similar vein, middle - class and more - educated parents tend to shape Christian schools toward less tension with the outside world, greater emphasis on academic excellence, less rigid social control of students, greater room for individual creativity and expression, and less denominationally distinctive ways of integrating religion into school life.

Dallas and D.C. were «input» experiments where students were paid for taking certain specific steps that they controlled: In Dallas, second - graders were paid $ 2 each time they read a book and passed a quiz on it; in D.C., middle - schoolers received money rewards for such things as good behavior, attendance, turning in homework, and wearing a school uniform.

«The Shape of the U» showed that in the 2007 - 08 school year, controlling for demographics of students served, approximately 21 % of California charter schools were performing in the bottom tenth of all public schools in the state, with another 21 % in the top tenth, and strikingly few «in the middle.»

Lessons Learned from Howard Gardner and the TV Remote Control This week, educator Max Fischer's first days in a middle school classroom — after years at the elementary level — were eye - openers.

Zeana had taken wood shop in middle school and knew she wanted to continue in high school, where she could have more creative control and build bigger things.

We confirmed this by estimating middle school pilot effects with demographic controls in a sample that includes grade 6 — 8 middle schools only.

And starting this year, their school and schools in eight other California districts will test students on how well they have learned the kind of skills like self - control and conscientiousness that the games aim to cultivate — ones that might be described as everything you should have learned in kindergarten but are still reading self - help books to master in middle age.

This study reports year 1 findings from a multi-site cluster randomized controlled trial of a cognitive strategies approach to teaching text - based analytical writing for mainstreamed Latino English Language learners (ELLs) in 9 middle schools and 6 high schools.

The observational analysis controls for demographic and background characteristics as well as students» lagged test scores (for example, the elementary school scores of middle school students).

Our main analyses control for students» age, gender, and the average test scores at their middle schools, but we obtain similar results from a simple comparison of lottery winners and losers, as we would expect given the use of the lottery.

Under the plan, the mayor is to get more or less direct control over three low - performing high schools and the elementary and middle schools that feed into them.

Historically, middle and high school students have learned science through lectures, textbooks, controlled classroom experiments, or perhaps field trips — but these methods don't necessarily prepare students to thrive in the field.

Even after controlling for proficiency rates and other school characteristics, middle schools receive ratings that are, on average, 18 percent of a letter grade lower than comparable elementary schools.

Ruby (2006) found that middle school science students in treatment schools demonstrated significantly greater improvement on district standardized tests than students in the matched control schools.

Balfanz et al. (2006) reported that, in a study of middle school mathematics, students in treatment schools outperformed students in control schools on district and state benchmarks.

«Sit Tight»: The Uneasy Alliance Between Freedom and Control in a Middle School Classroom, Ruth Vinz

But also important — and within the control of schools — is the fact that in such districts, the content standards and the instructional content coverage tend to be more rigorous, especially in the middle grades.

Middle School, said some instructors might be more reluctant to take on low - income minority students if they are evaluated on test scores, which do not account for poverty and other factors teachers can not control but that are known to affect learning.

And starting this year, their school and schools in eight other California districts will test students on how well they have learned the kind of skills like self - control and conscientiousness that the games aim to cultivate — ones that might be described as everything you should have learned in kindergarten but are still reading selfhelp books to master in middle age.

After which for two years, she served as the Project Manager for a Center for Disease Control multi-million dollar grant study of the Second Step Program in 28 middle schools for the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.

Among them were new superintendent Walter G. Amprey, who promoted school - based management and independence from traditional bureaucratic control, and the school's selection as a Maryland site for the Carnegie Corporation's Middle Grade School State Policy Initiative.1 As the new principal, I had distinct ideas about how to help transform Canton, a school with a racially mixed population of 800 students: about 57 percent white, 38 percent African American, and 5 percent Native American or Hisschool - based management and independence from traditional bureaucratic control, and the school's selection as a Maryland site for the Carnegie Corporation's Middle Grade School State Policy Initiative.1 As the new principal, I had distinct ideas about how to help transform Canton, a school with a racially mixed population of 800 students: about 57 percent white, 38 percent African American, and 5 percent Native American or Hisschool's selection as a Maryland site for the Carnegie Corporation's Middle Grade School State Policy Initiative.1 As the new principal, I had distinct ideas about how to help transform Canton, a school with a racially mixed population of 800 students: about 57 percent white, 38 percent African American, and 5 percent Native American or HisSchool State Policy Initiative.1 As the new principal, I had distinct ideas about how to help transform Canton, a school with a racially mixed population of 800 students: about 57 percent white, 38 percent African American, and 5 percent Native American or Hisschool with a racially mixed population of 800 students: about 57 percent white, 38 percent African American, and 5 percent Native American or Hispanic.

«My husband and I decided we wanted our children home for the middle school years to give us more control over their education during those formative years.

The MMC course (the control condition) was structured around the most adopted mathematics education textbook in the United States, Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally, by Van de Walle, Karp and Bay - Williams (2013).

The Center is comprised of an elementary, middle and high school division, each organized around a board of control and with a standing committee structure.

At Zionsville West Middle School in Whitestown, Ind., the funded grants range from $ 110 for a remote control for the overhead projector to $ 5,500 for a concert by a rock violinist at three schools.

There were no control group observations, but compared to 31 middle school classrooms observed in other programs.

Likewise, issues surrounding school discipline loom large, with middle - class standards of behavior and decorum recast as a form of cultural hegemony imposed by well - off, mainly white parents intent on remaining in control.

However, controlling for pre-existing differences in student demographics and achievement, APP principals bettered their comparison group counterparts in ELA performance in elementary and middle schools.

Cortines, 83, said he broke up a fight between students last year at Markham Middle School, which he said was «out of control» toward the end of the schoolSchool, which he said was «out of control» toward the end of the schoolschool year.