Sentences with phrase «ninth grade students»

The academy or middle school model for ninth grade students is essential to providing them the best opportunity at high school success.

We followed 3 cohorts of ninth grade students in Central Texas across the next ten years to look at high school graduation, high school drop out, college enrollment & college completion during this time period.

Another recent project, also funded by the department of education, is examining the use of early warning indicator systems to locate and provide interventions for ninth grade students at risk for dropping out of high school.

He believes this can ultimately affect Syracuse's poor graduation rate, in which less than half of ninth grade students graduate within four years.

In this role he raised and managed $ 600,000 in grant funding, designed the course curriculum in Forensic Science and Criminology, and created and managed programs such as the e-Pal Program, an innovative literacy program in which ninth grade students correspond about classic novels via email with Boston area professionals.

Students, may in their application materials, also indicate a willingness to participate in PING, an opportunity to mentor rising ninth grade students who will be onsite for 2 weeks.

Supplemental Table 2: Compares characteristics of SSC enrollees in the study sample, all students that are assigned to these SSCs through the high school application process, and all first - time ninth grade students in New York City public schools.

A study using data on ninth grade students in North Carolina schools found that teachers can affect students in ways not reflected by test scores, such as whether they come to school (attendance) or complete the work necessary to progress to the next grade.

Seeking to to help incoming ninth grade students transition successfully, many high schools have instituted a dedicated course often referred to as freshman seminar.

In this blog post, CEL Project Director Joanna Michelson takes a real - world example and shows step by step how a group of teachers collaboratively analyzed Elie Wiesel's Nobel lecture «Hope, Despair, and Memory» and found ways to help ninth grade students to comprehend and interact with the complex text.

Principal Diana Smith said if rising eighth and ninth grade students avoided all screens on the 11 Tuesdays during the summer break, she would pay them each $ 100 out of her own pocket.

When a white ninth grade student called her friend the N - word in front of me, for instance, I did not let it pass unaddressed.

By comparing the size of the Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR) cohorts for the classes of 2011 and 2015 with the size of their actual ninth grade enrollments in 2007 - 08 and 2010 - 11 (the years those two cohorts entered ninth grade), it is possible to compare the count of ninth grade students with the adjusted cohort for that grade, which is calculated later and adjusted for students who have transferred in or out of the cohort.

They team - teach an integrated humanities program to ninth grade students at High Technology High School in Lincroft, New Jersey.

Among 11,000 ninth grade students who would have enrolled in the large schools but enrolled elsewhere because the schools had been replaced, the graduation rate was 15 percentage points higher than it would have been had the large, failing schools remained in operation.

«If you want to reduce dropouts and increase the number of on - time graduates, focusing your work on ninth grade students is consistently an effective strategy.»

At Walter L. Cohen College Prep High School, the incoming ninth grade students were far lower than expected, about 121 instead of the 175 budgeted for or even the traditional number of around 140.

It is also noteworthy that Houston's average SAT - 9 reading scores for 2003 peaked in the first grade at the 51st percentile, and consistently declined beyond that point to the 27th percentile for ninth grade students, a level at which a student has almost no comprehension of the assigned textbooks.

A 2009 Stanford University study found that fifth, seventh and ninth grade students in California who passed the state physical fitness test and those whose fitness improved between fifth and seventh grade scored better than their less fit peers on the state's standardized tests.

In spring 2012, the Helsinki University Centre for Educational Assessment implemented a nationally representative assessment of ninth grade students» learning to learn competence.

The study effectively compared the academic performance of all four groups according to results of a general test of academic performance which all ninth grade students in Denmark (at age 15 - 16 years) complete.

It's hard to tell where Portis ends and the Coens begin, though; as anyone who has read Portis's novel (including my ninth grade students these past few years) can tell you, their deadpan senses of humor and probing existential ideas are quite similar.

Here you'll find more photos of the outdoor display, as well as the content that our ninth grade students were able to tackle through project - based learning rather than textbook - directed learning.

My ninth grade students have partnered on an epic quest with grad students at the University of Alaska Southeast and members of the Gamifi - ED OOC to study serious games, create an encyclopedia of serious games, and ultimately to create their own serious game in Minecraft.

All ninth grade students are enrolled in the year - long Freshman Orientation course, which meets once a week for a 40 - minute class period.

I once asked a ninth grade student what I should do instead, and he suggested assigning a small task that will make students feel successful — and that will end before boredom or confusion sets in.

The Freshman Orientation seminar is a year - long class for all ninth grade students.

Kaden Litzinger is a ninth grade student at Delta High School in State College, Pennsylvania — a public, democratic school.

Chase Harris is a ninth grade student from Highland, who is currently attending Timberline Middle School.

Thomas Sitterud, representing a group of parents and ninth grade students approached the school board concerning moving the ninth grade students to high school and the sixth grade students to middle school.

The assessment reached about 7800 ninth grade students in 82 schools in 65 municipalities.

«I understand that state leaders have very tough decisions to make in the next few months,» said William Frome, a ninth grade student at Explorations Academy in Winsted.

We started small, with 200 ninth grade students in our two new San Jose schools.

Created and taught curriculum in the four major subjects to forty - five «at - risk» ninth grade students in an underprivileged school setting.

While designed primarily for ninth grade students, it can be used with students in other appropriate grades (e.g., 8 — 12) or the appropriate age (e.g., 13 — 18).