Sentences with phrase «middle schools in the studies»

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The shocking part is that we claim that women aren't studying STEM subjects at school and aren't entering tech careers in the U.S. because of discrimination and oppression, but in countries where women don't have a lot of rights (and granted, those rights vary drastically even within Middle Eastern countries), they manage to succeed in STEM in school.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

According to GirlsWhoCode, 74 percent of middle - school girls express interest in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, yet only 0.4 percent of high - school girls plan to study computer science as a major in college.

Young women are simply losing interest in these fields as an area of study and a profession as they progress from middle school to high school to college.

I ate up studies (from Facebook and others) that argued the site actually encouraged a certain kind of information diversity, because your Facebook friends are likely drawn from a wider group of people (the guy you went to middle school with, your mom's neighbor, that rando you met that weekend at the beach) than the people you discuss news with in real life.

If you were creating a middle - of - the - funnel webinar discussing the teaching methodology your horseback riding school follows, and you were targeting an intermediate - level rider, you could include a case study of an intermediate rider who came to your school and, as a result of your methodology and training, became one of the top riders in their division and moved on to compete with more advanced - level horseback riders.

He led a group of middle school boys in a Bible study about «the great fights of the Bible,» which was the only subject he could find that kept their attention.

A 2013 study by Mathematica Policy Research revealed that students at five urban EL middle schools advanced ahead of matched peers at comparison schools by an average of ten months in math and seven months in reading over the course of three years.

The study's authors offered several possible explanations for the concussion rate in female middle school soccer players four times higher than in the most recent study of female high school soccer players.

We are the only school in Zurich offering the International Baccalaureate (IB) Programme for Primary Years, Middle Years, and Diploma Studies.

Many studies show that tweens become less engaged in school after entering middle school.

Some students just don't have the discipline or study skills to tackle high school courses in middle school.

That study assessed children in middle school and parents seem to be more comfortable setting limits around younger children.

In 2013, Mathematica conducted the first rigorous study of the impact of EL middle schools on academic achievement outcomes.

But a recent study published in Developmental Psychology finds that maternal depression is actually most common among mothers of middle school children as they catapult into the tween years.

The design of this study made it possible to examine 1) the extent to which benefits of breastfeeding on cognitive ability and achievement were evident throughout middle childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood; and 2) the extent to which breastfeeding was related to a range of indices of academic achievement that included performance on standardized tests, teacher ratings of academic achievement, and levels of success in examinations on leaving school.

Experience the distinct teaching methods used by our dedicated faculty to bring challenging subject matters, such as nature studies in elementary school and platonic solids in middle school, to life.

Design, Setting, and Participants This descriptive, longitudinal study examined changes in the nutritional quality of 1741630 school meals at 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in an urban school district in Washington state.

This study took place in 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in a large, urban US school district that serves predominantly low - income, racial / ethnic minority students.

This longitudinal study in 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in a large, urban US school district in Washington state compared the nutritional quality of student school lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stanschool district in Washington state compared the nutritional quality of student school lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stanschool lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stanSchool Lunch Program meal standards.

This descriptive, longitudinal study examined changes in the nutritional quality of 1741630 school meals at 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in an urban school district in Washington state.

Milestones End - of - Grade (EOG) exams are administered every spring in Grades 3 - 8 in the subjects of English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies; Milestones End - of - Course (EOC) exams are administered for designated high school courses... and, middle school students who are taking any of those courses for high school credit must also take the EOC for that subject.

1 out of 5 STEM college students decided to study STEM in middle school or earlier because their interest in the subjects was sparked by a teacher or interest in a subject matter.

But a three - year study of students in 12 middle schools determined that kids did accept the changes to their cafeteria trays.

Although awareness has increased about sports concussions, little research has been done on middle school athletes, especially girls, noted study co-author Dr. Melissa Schiff, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health in Seschool athletes, especially girls, noted study co-author Dr. Melissa Schiff, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health in SeSchool of Public Health in Seattle.

The authors thank Cornell Cooperative Extension of Wayne County and the 16 elementary and middle schools in Wayne County NY who participated in the research for help with study implementation and data collection.

To confirm this finding, six middle schools in this same district were added to the study.

Location of School Lunch Salad Bars and Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Middle Schools: A Cross-Sectional Plate Waste Study.

It collated results from a five - year study and a two - year study of 159 middle schools in Texas and found no statistically significant improvement in scores for English, maths, science or social studies, despite a # 3,000 bonus being offered to successful teachers.

In a Ward 6 tussle between newcomers (two - term incumbent Elisa Ball declined to run for re-election), middle - school social studies teacher Tony Davis edged Hale Advisers account executive Alex Panagiotopoulos 1,239 - 1176.

One of the latest and most ambitious studies on bullying and cyberbullying in middle and high school students begs to differ with the age - old adage, «sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can't hurt me.»

A team of researchers from Saint Louis University collected and analyzed survey responses from 133 nurses serving elementary, middle, and high schools in Missouri to determine whether schools were any more prepared for another pandemic than they were based on a similar study conducted in 2011.

«We knew we had to study this empirically, and I was stunned to discover that about 1 in 20 middle - and high - school - age students have bullied themselves online.

The proportion of marijuana - positive drivers involved in fatal motor vehicle crashes in Colorado has increased dramatically since the commercialization of medical marijuana in the middle of 2009, according to a study by University of Colorado School of Medicine researchers.

«This new study shows it is during the hectic middle and high school years — perhaps more than ever — that mothers must deliberately prioritize the regular receipt of «authentic connections» in their everyday lives.»

Now, with a $ 2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, AAAS's Project 2061 and the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) are embarking on a project to develop chemistry and biochemistry materials for middle school students and teachers, based on the latest research in learning.

The study, published in The Journal of Social Studies Research, shows iCivics is an effective tool for teaching civics concepts to primary and middle school students.

Young children in six low - and middle - income countries prefer junk food and sugar sweetened beverages over traditional and home cooked meals, according to a new study from the University of Maryland School of Public Health.

Camp noted that a National Center on Education Statistics study predicts that more than 125,000 high school and middle school science teaching jobs will open up in the next few years.

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.

Based on a study of more than 30,000 elementary, middle, and high school students conducted in winter 2015 - 16, researchers found that elementary and middle school students scored lower on a computer - based test that did not allow them to return to previous items than on two comparable tests — paper - or computer - based — that allowed them to skip, review, and change previous responses.

As part of an unusual study, Philip Sadler, the Frances W. Wright Senior Lecturer in the Department of Astronomy, and colleagues tested 181 middle school physical science teachers and nearly 10,000 of their students, and showed that while most of the teachers were well - versed in their subject, those better able to predict their students» wrong answers on standardized tests helped students learn the most.

The study analysed data from four large - scale longitudinal studies and found that the poorer reading and maths skills of children born prematurely were associated with lower educational qualifications on leaving school and lower income in middle age.

As part of an unusual study, Sadler and colleagues tested 181 middle school physical science teachers and nearly 10,000 of their students, and showed that while most of the teachers were well - versed in their subject, those better able to predict their students» wrong answers on standardized tests helped students learn the most.

«Overuse of groundwaters in Libya has already caused ecological disasters,» says Tony Allen from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, who is a specialist on Middle East water.

Using a major new data source — merged birth and school records for all children born in Florida from 1992 to 2002 — the researchers studied the relationships between birth weight and cognitive development by following more than 1.3 million children and nearly 15,000 pairs of twins from birth through middle school.

«One in 25 middle school children binge drinking, Canadian study finds.»

Three elementary and middle schools in the eastern Massachusetts city of Revere have implemented the BOKS program for the current school year as part of a new study, led by Whooten, that is now underway.

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An initiative of the Reebok Foundation, which was a co-sponsor of the current study, the BOKS Program is currently available in more than 3,000 elementary and middle schools in the U.S. and other countries.