Sentences with phrase «more middle school student»

Twice as many 10 - to 14 - year - olds are committing suicide today than a decade ago, and suicide now accounts for more middle school student deaths than car crashes.

Following a successful rollout to thousands of students across the country enrolled in K12's high school, K12 is now making Brightspace available to thousands more middle school students.

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We're not only supporting companies, we're also building a community around us, opening our space to middle - and high - school students in an effort to create more entrepreneurs and makers.

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.

Bullying tends to peak in 6th grade, and many students find that the academic challenges of middle school are far more difficult than in elementary school.

By the time the students got to middle school, they were more positive about eating in the cafeteria, seemed to have a preference for produce in season and were conscious that their eating choices could help or hurt the environment, according to the report.

Public schools serve all students in a community: rich, poor, middle class, of various ethnicities, ability levels, health concerns, family backgrounds and more.

But more importantly, participation by middle class students in school meal programs raises the level of awareness of what those programs are like.

Also the classic novels that are often assigned to middle... MORE school and high school students can be found in used books stores.

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.

Middle school is a time for students to take on a little more and to push themselves just a tad.

As students enter middle school and high school these days, their pallets are typically more sophisticated — they're looking for bold flavors with their own favorite ingredients.

By contrast, last school year, the district's food service staff fed more than half of Milton high school students, 70 percent of elementary and middle school students and around 100 staff members regularly.

University of Washington researchers analyzed more than 1.7 million school lunches selected by students in three middle schools and three high schools near Seattle over a 31 - month period.

So he instituted the middle school concept of team teaching to Hadley Junior High School in Glen Ellyn, where he was principal for more than 20 years and developed a tight bond with hundreds of stuschool concept of team teaching to Hadley Junior High School in Glen Ellyn, where he was principal for more than 20 years and developed a tight bond with hundreds of stuSchool in Glen Ellyn, where he was principal for more than 20 years and developed a tight bond with hundreds of students.

Cherokee County School Board members recently toured the new / replacement Dean Rusk Middle School, getting a glimpse of the state - of - the - art facility that will serve more than 1,450 students when the school year begins on Monday, AugSchool Board members recently toured the new / replacement Dean Rusk Middle School, getting a glimpse of the state - of - the - art facility that will serve more than 1,450 students when the school year begins on Monday, AugSchool, getting a glimpse of the state - of - the - art facility that will serve more than 1,450 students when the school year begins on Monday, Augschool year begins on Monday, August 1.

Gain New Perspectives: More than 54 million students in middle and high school participate in youth sports making youth athlete safety a hot topic for a broad audience.

The program, called PARK Kids, is aimed at providing elementary and middle school students with structured programs that offer more than traditional park fare, such as basketball or track.

[37] Mahopac is the largest school district in Putnam County, educating more than 5,000 students in four elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school (1600 students).

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.

More than 71,000 elementary and middle school students refused to take the state Common Core math test yesterday in 80 of Long Island's 124 school districts that responded to a Newsday survey — nearly 53 percent of those eligible for the exam in those systems.

Beginning at 9:00 pm host Gary Axelbank will talk with Peter Murphy, the Policy Director of the New York Charter School Association, and Dr. Jessica Shiller of the Department of Middle and High School Education at Lehman College about student performance, a cap on the number of charter schools, funding, teacher's union issues, and more.

The report estimates more than 600,000 middle school students and 3 million high schoolers smoke cigarettes.

Students in middle schools with low student proficiency rates were more than four times as likely to be taught by a U-rated teacher as students in schools with high proficiencStudents in middle schools with low student proficiency rates were more than four times as likely to be taught by a U-rated teacher as students in schools with high proficiencstudents in schools with high proficiency rates.

Currently, Project BOOST operates in 60 elementary and middle schools, serving more than 700 students in grades four through eight across New York City.

Currently, Project BOOST includes 60 elementary and middle schools, serving more than 700 students in grades four through eight throughout New York City.

We will ask the very wealthy to pay a little more in taxes so that we can offer full - day universal pre-K and after - school programs for every middle school student.

It currently includes 60 elementary and middle schools, serving more than 700 students.

De Blasio is calling for an income tax increase on New Yorkers earning $ 500,000 or more to fund universal Pre-K, as well as provide quality after - school programs for middle school students across the city.

Among the students honored by Bove at West Seneca West Middle School on Wednesday was Julianna Owczarczak, an 8th grader who joins her peers and suggests that ending bullying starts with simply offering more respect for their peers.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

This year's event, which took place in Texas in February in conjunction with the AAAS Annual Meeting in Austin, brought 32 scientists into middle and high school classrooms across Austin, Dallas and Houston reaching more than 5,000 students — a significant jump from the 20 scientists who participated in Boston in 2017.

Modern biology depends more and more on ideas from the physical sciences, but are today's middle school students learning what they need to succeed?

Donovan, who has been a middle school teacher for more than 20 years, explained that other science curriculum materials are often subject - specific, focusing lessons on individual scientific fields like biology and excluding disciplines like chemistry that can provide an essential foundation for students.

AAAS Science Assessment Website — Science educators have easy access to more than 700 high - quality multiple choice items for testing middle and high school students» understanding of 16 important topics in earth, life, and physical science and the nature of science.

The research centers on MESA, a 48 - year - old enrichment program operating throughout the United States that uses classes, hands - on competitions, academic support and industry involvement to help first - generation, low - income and socioeconomically disadvantaged students from middle school through college become more involved in STEM fields.

In 2016, more than 2.1 million U.S. middle and high school students reported using e-cigarettes.

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.

The new study analyzed results from 82 different programs involving more than 97,000 students from kindergarten to middle school in the U.S., Europe and the U.K. where the effects were assessed at least six months after the programs completed.

For starters, there's the fact that 70 % of middle school students possess no more than a «basic» understanding of what they need to know to do well in the subject, and only 2 % perform at an «advanced» level.

Lunches brought from home contained more sodium (1,110 vs less than or equal to 640 mg for elementary and 1,003 vs. less than or equal to 710 mg for middle school students) and fewer servings of fruit (0.33 cup for elementary and 0.29 cup for middle school students vs. 0.50 cup per the NSLP guidelines).

The researchers will next look at middle school students to see if the beneficial effects of Smart Start and More at Four continue.

Elementary and middle school students who are given at least 25 minutes to eat lunch are more likely to choose fruits and consume more of their entrees, milk, and vegetables according to a new study released in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Middle and high school students, regardless of their race and ethnicity, have more favorable perceptions of their Black and Latino teachers than of their White teachers, finds a study by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Develoschool students, regardless of their race and ethnicity, have more favorable perceptions of their Black and Latino teachers than of their White teachers, finds a study by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human DeveloSchool of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

In fact, compared with elementary schools, middle grade schools often have more students per grade, lower levels of student autonomy, less positive teacher - student relationships, and more competition and less cooperation among students.

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.

Studying more than 8,000 Southern California middle school students, researchers found that youth who reported seeing any ads for medical marijuana were twice as likely as peers who reported never seeing an ad to have used marijuana or report higher intentions to use the drug in the future.

A learning progression that describes how middle and high school students develop more sophisticated understanding of biodiversity will be integral to the SWESP module.

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.