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

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.

The district is planning to implement the program with the first cohort of ninth graders in 2017 - 18, with the end goal of all students at every level in the program at 2022 - 23, Koenke said.

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

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 program focused on third, seventh, and ninth graders in the Rochester City School District.

The program focused on third, seventh, and ninth graders in the Rochester City School District.

This statement comes from one of my ninth graders in response to yet another lecture of mine on how important it is for students to bring their literature books to class — a particular hurdle in my case because I teach at a military school....

Suppose a student entered «Lincoln High School» as a ninth grader in, say, fall of 2012.

It's not just one moment, but millions of lightbulbs - on, warm - my - cynical - heart moments that happen every day in public school classrooms, on school buses, and in school libraries: It's the ninth grader in Maryland teacher Amy Clark Cox's classroom who told her, «I respect everyone's opinion except when it diminishes the existence of others.»

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«The ninth and tenth graders still have this test over their heads that they have to take,» said Angie Gallo, legislative chair for the Florida PTA, which has been urging officials in Tallahassee to find a solution.

«I think that we've all suffered enough, more than any kid should have to this year, and I think that having to study for a test that either lets you graduate high school or not is very unfair,» said Alexa Kitaygorodsky, a ninth grader who was in the freshman building when the shooting happened.

When Gotham Asset Management co-founder Joel Greenblatt was asked to teach stock market concepts to ninth - graders in Harlem, he brought a large jar of jelly beans to the class and asked them to guess how many were in the jar.

A study performed at the Department of Psychiatry in Taipei, Taiwan, polled the parents of 2643 first to ninth graders and discovered that dyssomnia (sleep - disordered breathing problems and daytime inadvertent napping) were related to ADHD symptoms as reported by mothers and teachers.

Town and State Police responded to a report that a ninth grader at Cairo - Durham High School said he had a bullet and other students could be in danger.

«We may see a slight incline in the graduation rate but I'm questioning whether or not we are ignoring the fact that we are losing so many ninth graders,» she said.

Dr. Kriner Cash told the school board that in Buffalo for every 100 ninth graders, only 50 end up graduating.

School - based studies in the past have found that nearly 9 percent of ninth through 12th graders experience physical dating violence, and 10 percent to 25 percent experience dating violence when including both physical and verbal aggression.

Miller still works in the area's school district, teaching honors biology to ninth graders and anatomy and physiology to 10th through 12th graders at Dover Area Senior 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.

Writing and publishing a book in collaboration with her class of ninth - graders is just the kind of authentic learning experience that Michaelsen advocates.

«This means every ninth - grader has a big sister or big brother in each of the other classes.This vertical integration, as opposed to horizontal integration of grouping students in grade levels by age, fosters deep friendships across grades and promotes a feeling of family in our school community.

Chicago ninth - graders were paid every five weeks for good grades in five core courses; in New York, fourth - and seventh - graders were paid for doing well on tests.

Nephew Kalen Early is a ninth - grader in the gifted program at Robert C. Hatch High School.

My ninth graders write about failing math tests, getting cut from the soccer team, and auditioning for the lead in the musical only to be cast in the ensemble.

Knowing that their work would be viewed by people who were interested purely in its merit and content — and not simply as an entity to be graded — brought about a level of professionalism I didn't think lived in ninth graders.

Right now, my ninth graders are participating in the H&R Block Budget Challenge.

To enhance student - level differentiation, we supplied all sixth and ninth graders with a math tutor in a two - on - one setting and provided an extra dose of reading or math instruction to students in other grades who had previously performed below grade level.

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.

Corey Trevena, a ninth grader at Lodi High School, says he first watched his dad explore Second Life and eventually taught himself how to script — a means of adding attributes and behaviors to the digital objects in the virtual world.

My name is Anna and I am a ninth grader at School Without Walls in Washington DC.

As I contemplated the writing assignment for our required reading of The Odyssey, I was filled with dread at the thought of reading 120 uninspired essays in which my ninth graders would dutifully recount details from the epic.

Mike Reilly teaches ninth - graders in the interdisciplinary Center for Design and Technology at Lanier High School in Sugar Hill, Georgia.

As described in the post, Gehlbach and his research team surveyed 315 ninth graders and 25 of their teachers with questions on ``...

In a growing number of high schools around the country, however, ninth and tenth graders are being organized into interdisciplinary academic teams, with advisory programs not unlike middle schools.

In a study published in the Journal of Educational Research (Jan - Feb 1991), Summer Birth Date Children: Kindergarten Entrance Age and Academic Achievement (ERIC Document EJ426449), Sandra L. Crosser compared academic achievement indices of seventh through ninth graders (n = 45) who entered kindergarten at age five with indices of similar children who entered at age six (n = 45In a study published in the Journal of Educational Research (Jan - Feb 1991), Summer Birth Date Children: Kindergarten Entrance Age and Academic Achievement (ERIC Document EJ426449), Sandra L. Crosser compared academic achievement indices of seventh through ninth graders (n = 45) who entered kindergarten at age five with indices of similar children who entered at age six (n = 45in the Journal of Educational Research (Jan - Feb 1991), Summer Birth Date Children: Kindergarten Entrance Age and Academic Achievement (ERIC Document EJ426449), Sandra L. Crosser compared academic achievement indices of seventh through ninth graders (n = 45) who entered kindergarten at age five with indices of similar children who entered at age six (n = 45).

Ijtihad, a ninth grader at Jenkins High School, says the confidence he's gained from performing in the play spills over into all areas of his life.

Wall - to - wall career academies and a transition program for ninth graders have helped create an environment at this Texas high school in which rigorous, relevant education — inside and outside of the classroom — is the norm for all students.

Ultimately comparability is also how a parent could determine how her ninth - grader is faring in comparison with her peers elsewhere in the nation — and other nations.

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

The inaugural class of 110 ninth graders, admitted on the basis of grades, recommendations, interviews, and test scores, takes lab courses in biochemistry and engineering.

All ninth graders took Private Pilot Ground School last year, which we've come to see is probably better done in sophomore or junior year.

The researchers, led by developmental psychologist Nancy Hill, surveyed 624 ninth, 10th, and 11th graders in an economically and racially diverse public high school.

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

An estimated 18 percent of ninth - graders in the district go on to earn a bachelor's degree within 10 years of starting high school, according to a recent study by the University of Chicago's Consortium on School Research.

in No. 05 - 908, pp. 90a - 92a.1 The plan allows incoming ninth graders to choose from among any of the district's high schools, ranking however many schools they wish in order of preference.

In particular, parents need to be actively involved in the decisions their eighth - graders are asked to make about classes they will take in ninth grade and understand the long - term effects of the course decisions (Paulson, 1994In particular, parents need to be actively involved in the decisions their eighth - graders are asked to make about classes they will take in ninth grade and understand the long - term effects of the course decisions (Paulson, 1994in the decisions their eighth - graders are asked to make about classes they will take in ninth grade and understand the long - term effects of the course decisions (Paulson, 1994in ninth grade and understand the long - term effects of the course decisions (Paulson, 1994).

A «Big Sister / Brother» Program that begins in eighth grade and continues through ninth grade, a spring social event for current and incoming high school students, and writing programs where eighth - graders correspond with high school students are just a few ways that transition programs can provide students social support.

And so Guadalupe Gonzales, a ninth - grader at Panorama High School in Los Angeles, put the two ingredients together in a dish that was named the top winner Tuesday in L.A. Unified's first annual breakfast recipe contest.

Last fall semester in Tacoma, 46 percent of ninth - graders failed at least one class, according to a recent district analysis.