Sentences with phrase «ninth graders»

In 2004 - 2005, the school only had a 73 % attendance rate, and 75 % of ninth graders failed at least one course.

They also found that eighth and ninth graders who played violent games more frequently displayed greater «hostile attribution bias» (being vigilant for enemies) and got into more arguments with teachers.

Only approximately two - thirds of incoming ninth graders will graduate from high school on time.

The new small schools got new crops of ninth graders so it seems difficult to compare the new schools to the old schools since they have different kids.

There's a joke going around among American ninth graders: Want to scare your parents?

As with many ninth graders, the future seems far from definite.

The percentage of ninth graders earning 10 or more credits in a year increased from 82 percent the previous year to 97 percent.

And the writing task improved the scores of highly anxious ninth graders so much that they performed as well as students with low anxiety on a biology final exam.

This big - hearted engineer was essential to designing a project that was authentic but still doable by ninth graders without any engineering background or math skills beyond some algebra and geometry.

One major suggestion is adding ninth graders into the assessment group, which currently consists of third through eighth graders, to measure student growth into high school.

In an area high school, I worked with ninth graders reading on a third to fifth grade level.

First, I prepare ninth graders to read and visualize using their senses.

To make home visits manageable, I only visited the homes of the four to five ninth graders who were new to my advisory class.

She designed a program to improve those areas by providing guidance to incoming ninth graders.

In 2008 - 2009, only 30 percent of ninth graders were promoted, while the next year, the figure went up to 63 percent.

Teacher Wes Upton has just one question for ninth graders in his social studies class at Ben Davis Ninth Grade Center in Indianapolis: Do you like rats?

The shortfall of incoming ninth graders at Cohen will lead to a reduction in per - pupil funding.

After serving for five years as academic dean, Dr. Avilés was tapped by the district to open and lead the Above and Beyond Ninth Grade High School Initiative to serve students who were considered at - risk of dropping out of school, where, as a result, 114 of 118 students moved to the 10th grade, compared to 40 percent retention rates for ninth graders in the district and state.

«I had a specific question that I wanted help answering,» he says, noting that the start of a freshmen academy was aimed at keeping ninth graders from slipping through the cracks.

According to data compiled by the Texas Education Agency, 348,903 students were enrolled as ninth graders in Texas high schools in 1997.

-- H. L Mencken We have overwhelming data that while our nation's high schools serve some students well, they serve yet more students poorly, and many others not at all: About 70 percent of the nation's ninth graders graduate from high school four years later, but

Chapin Hall researchers are conducting a study of a cohort of Chicago Public School ninth graders who participated in Career and Technical Education while in hi...

The SHSAT is also a very big deal in New York City, as some 28,000 (mostly) eighth and ninth graders take it every year, competing for about 6,000 spaces in the schools themselves.

Dating norms and dating violence among ninth graders in Northeast Georgia: Reports from student surveys and focus groups.

Heller Nature Center offers nature - based summer camps for first through ninth graders.

She developed a cross-age mentoring program in which ninth graders worked in a cooperative learning program to teach social skills to seventh graders with LD.

The AGI will release a report this spring on how teaching affects opportunities and outcomes for sixth - to - ninth graders across 14,000 classrooms from the 2013 — 14 school year.

The report found that absences, course failures, course credits, and GPA all can be used to accurately predict whether ninth graders with disabilities will graduate from high school.

I would say in department meetings, «These kids don't know how to read,» and I could point to the testing data that showed ninth graders coming into the school were reading at a fifth grade level.

Some ENLACE programs provide ninth graders with mentors — upperclassmen or college students — to help with the transition and act as role models.

In the Los Angeles Unified School District alone, 44 percent of ninth graders enrolled in beginning algebra during the fall 2004 semester failed.

Centaurus focuses in particular on strong supports for entering ninth graders, embracing them with a thoughtful set of social and academic supports, hands - on learning, and extracurricular opportunities.

The Oakland ninth grader who gets this Kindle is also extremely lucky!

Marc Belich, 15, a 6 - foot - 2, 210 - pound ninth grader from West Allis, Wis., pitched the first perfect game in the history of the VFW Teener Baseball Meet when he defeated Pierre, S. Dak. in Hershey, Pa..

A pack of ninth graders rush into my classroom and insist that I come to the girls» bathroom as quickly as possible.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says about 20 - ninth graders joined the program this fall at McKinley High School.

While at NYU, Brennan has been actively involved in youth development through Arts in the Community, which attempts to bring college students together with local NYC arts education nonprofits, and through Peer Health Exchange, which focuses on teaching health to ninth graders around NYC.

So, is this the start of a long career for the now -14-year-old ninth grader?

But I'm thinking back to my kids — the third grader who hadn't learned to grasp a pencil and the outwardly confident ninth grader who was hesitant to expose his difficulty reading aloud.

With a no - nonsense confidence, he reminds them how important the harbor - science course — which takes a group of ninth graders out for a daylong «classroom» on a local body of water once every two weeks — is to their school.

Greg Toppo, a reporter at USA Today, profiles a social studies teacher in Minnesota who can't get his «zombified ninth graders» to care about geopolitics until he invents Fantasy Geopolitics, a version of fantasy football that substitutes countries for gridiron stars.

My students (very jaded ninth graders) are impressed, and that's saying a lot.»

I played music with positive subliminal messages to ninth graders until they complained that it gave them headaches.

Included: Descriptions of how the two ninth graders manage content on their Web site for teachers.

11, a candidate for a Certificate in Advanced Studies, for her favorite memory from her summers working for Explo, a creative academic summer program for eighth and ninth graders based in Wellesley, Mass., it's hard for her to name just one.

Only 3.8 percent of New York's eighth and ninth graders hit the mastery level on the new algebra exam, compared with more than 15 percent on the easier pre-Common Core exam.

For instance, one group of researchers asked ninth graders to write about how their weekly science lessons connected to their own lives, and students who previously had low expectations for their achievement in the science course saw a significant boost in their grades, compared with similar students who did not participate in the exercise.33

We now match ninth graders to juniors and seniors for mentoring.