Sentences with phrase «of grade school students»

«Roughly two - thirds of grade school students will end up doing work that hasn't been invented yet,» Resnick contends, hinting at the emerging worlds of artificial intelligence, self - driving cars, and «smart» houses.

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With a 1.7 high school grade point average and unable to get admitted to any degree - granting institution, Kalin faked an MIT student ID and then used a letter of recommendation from a professor he met there to get himself admitted to NYU.

Through the years, the Kelley School has fashioned a reputation as a true MBA innovator, from being one of the few programs that give a single grade for the entire core curriculum to having a series of first - year academies that provide experiential learning, consulting projects and coaching to students interested in six core areas that range from capital markets and strategic finance to consulting and supply chain management.

Anita Krishnamurthi and Nick Hutchinson were able to talk about the much larger picture of PPP programs for informal STEM education, including how we measure private industry involvement, as well as how students are improving their grades, school participation, and post-graduation success rates.

The number of states that require high school students to complete a course in economics has dropped over the last two years, and mandates for personal finance education in the upper grades remain stagnant, a new survey shows.

And it's hardly racially balanced: Black students are three times more likely to be suspended or expelled than white students, according to the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, and research in Texas found students who have been suspended are more likely to be held back a grade and drop out of school entirely.

My wife recently graduated with a degree in elementary education and the blessings of GCU, the love of Christ, and the benefits of servant leadership are now being transferred to her sixth grade students in a local Christian School in the Phoenix area.

It is probably the largest network of private primary and secondary education with over 7,000 schools in the US alone educating over 2 million grade school and high school students in 2009/2010.

Over the past three decades, the number of homeschooled children has grown by at least 7 percent a year» the number may now exceed the number attending charter schools» and between 6 and 12 percent of all students are educated at home at some point between kindergarten and twelfth grade.

However, when schools open their doors to students of highly diverse backgrounds and interests, rigid grade standards make no sense.

When the members of the school board of Dover, Pennsylvania, a small community near Harrisburg, required students to read a short statement concerning intelligent design before studying ninth - grade biology, they met stiff resistance from some parents and teachers.

That means, according to Shakeshaft, that «of the approximately 45 million students attending public and private K - 12 schools, more than 3 million will have been the target of physical sexual exploitation by an employee of the school by 11th grade.»

As a parent of a grade - school student, I had a difficult time getting into that mind - set.

I am a school teacher trying to memorize luke 6:39 - 42 with my third grade students, yes so far we've enjoyed the humor in the text, but now I realize there's much more to it... and It's my prayer that the Holy Spirit will help us to digest all of it!

Although Malcolm was an outstanding student and extremely popular among his peers, he dropped out of school when his white eighth grade English teacher discouraged him from becoming a lawyer and suggested carpentry as a more «realistic goal for a nigger.»

The Houston Press: San Benito Teacher Replaced After Bizarre Classroom Rant About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, UFOs & The Apocalypse A ninth - grade teacher at San Benito's Veterans Memorial High School has been replaced for the remainder of the year after her lesson plan went badly awry last Tuesday and her 12 - minute rant was filmed by a student and uploaded to YouTube.

Education is essentially competitive, not cooperative, as illustrated by the common practice of grading on a curve, or the fact that students getting together to cooperate on their work are said to be «cheating» — so highly are the communal virtues regarded in our schools.

It is noteworthy that, in contradistinction to the older Bible - centered training in the past, most of these students had come up through the modern graded Sunday Schools in which not the Bible but the child has been central; in which the Bible has been brought into the focus of attention only when the situation demanded it.

To be eligible for the fellowship, individuals must have to have junior or senior status, a grade point average of 3.0 or above and be a student in the Johnson & Wales School of Hospitality.

Furthermore, the schools (in general) do not provide teachers with the adequate resources to perform their jobs effectively, such as teacher - requested books for their students; presentation items such as chalk, whiteboard markers, or projectors; basic classroom organizational needs such as storage bins, filing cabinets with adequate files, and functional modern computers with adequate software to make results tabulating more efficient; or motivational equipment designed to reward students for good behavior, scores, or attitudes (grades simply are not enough of a motivational tool).

Eastern Christian was established six months ago, and with less than three weeks until the start of the academic school year, 54 students are enrolled in grades six through 12.

The International School of Denver 206 Red Cross Way Denver, CO 80230 303-340-3647 www.isdenver.org/admissions The International School of Denver (ISDenver) is a multicultural, multilingual international school, welcoming students as young as three years old and continuing through 8th School of Denver 206 Red Cross Way Denver, CO 80230 303-340-3647 www.isdenver.org/admissions The International School of Denver (ISDenver) is a multicultural, multilingual international school, welcoming students as young as three years old and continuing through 8th School of Denver (ISDenver) is a multicultural, multilingual international school, welcoming students as young as three years old and continuing through 8th school, welcoming students as young as three years old and continuing through 8th grade.

The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

Students at these high - achieving schools can be ranked in the bottom quartile even with excellent grade point averages, and consequently feel «dumb» and «less worthy» compared to the majority of their peers.

This workshop examines the tension that parents, students, and teachers often experience over issues such as homework, grades, and the culture of competition, and offers tools for creating a healthier school climate.

It was written by a perspective Princeton student who believed that «The recruitment of elite athletes from grade school onward is degrading our entire educational system, and it bodes ill... for America's children and our nation's future.»

Other possible changes may include a greater use of technology in the classroom or at home, or increased student responsibility (often the grade levels in preparation before transitioning to middle or high school).

At the Waldorf School of Baltimore, students are assigned homework beginning only in the middle of third grade.

Character Education: State Board of Education Policy 2109 (2005) requires character education to be incorporated into the curriculum for all grades modeled by moral leadership from school administrators, teachers, and students.

In 6th - 8th grade, students are welcome to join any of the co-ed sports teams, such as basketball or volleyball, which compete against other local independent and Waldorf schools in the Bay Area.

Founded in 1971, the Waldorf School of Baltimore is an independent, coeducational day school for students in nursery through 8th School of Baltimore is an independent, coeducational day school for students in nursery through 8th school for students in nursery through 8th grade.

Any public school containing these grades with a minimum enrollment of 125 students per school site, have a breakfast program, and serve at least 40 % of its lunches to free and reduced price meals shall be eligible for a state financial supplement.

-- Christof Wiechert Social Emotional Intelligence: The Basis for a New Vision of Education in the United States — Linda Lantieri Rudolf Steiner's Research Methods for Teachers — Martyn Rawson Combined Grades in Waldorf Schools: Creating Classrooms Teachers Can Feel Good About — Lori L. Freer Educating Gifted Students in Waldorf Schools — Ellen Fjeld KØttker and Balazs Tarnai How Do Teachers Learn with Teachers?

A majority of the more than 1,385 high school students, 3,600 parents and 520 teachers of all grade levels who returned a questionnaire after this change was piloted in Palo Alto said, «If I controlled the school calendar, I would want first - semester finals to occur before winter break»; this included more than 85 percent of the high school students, according to Challenge Success.

Additional content requirements: KRS 160.345 (2005) requires the school council of a school containing grades K - 5, or any combination thereof, to develop a wellness policy that must include moderate to vigorous physical activity each day and encourages healthy choices among students.

Established in 1956, Clark County School District is the fifth largest school district in the country, educating almost 75 percent of all students in Nevada with more than 320,000 students enrolled in kindergarten through 12th School District is the fifth largest school district in the country, educating almost 75 percent of all students in Nevada with more than 320,000 students enrolled in kindergarten through 12th school district in the country, educating almost 75 percent of all students in Nevada with more than 320,000 students enrolled in kindergarten through 12th grade.

Drawing material from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS - 88) and tracking a representative sample of students who were in 10th grade in 1990 and 12th grade in 1992, to see what was happening in their lives in 2000, the following was discovered in comparing high school athletes to non-athletes.

For this school year, in a bid to boost participation in its lunch program from its paying students, the district will now offer them the choice of two entrees and a self - serve salad bar available on Tuesdays and Thursdays for students in grades three to five.

Last week I volunteered, as I do every month, with a group of fourth grade students at an economically disadvantaged elementary school participating in Houston's Recipe for Success program.

In addition, the early middle school grades typically provide less independence to students than do the upper levels of elementary schools.

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

But for students in grades K — 5 at Somerville public schools, eating carrots is part of the afterschool curriculum thanks to a partnership with Drumlin Farm.

But for students in grades K — 5 at Somerville public schools, eating carrots is part of the afterschool curriculum.

There's James Heckman, a Nobel Prize - winning economist at the University of Chicago, who found in the late 1990s that students who earned high school diplomas through the General Educational Development program, widely known as the GED, had the same future prospects as high school dropouts, a discovery that led him to conclude that there were qualities beyond courses and grades that made a big difference in students» success.

Second grade elementary students from Statham Elementary partnered with high school students at the Sims Academy of Plant Sciences Program for a live streaming event in which Academy students gave the second graders a virtual tour of their greenhouse.

The school serves a maximum of 80 students from kindergarten through eighth grade.

Achievement First has been assembling its own version of Geoffrey Canada's «conveyor belt»; this year, for the first time, one of the group's charter elementary schools began feeding students into one of their middle schools with four years of Achievement First education under their belts — arriving ahead of grade level instead of well behind it.

What brings Jeff to PMWS is the emphasis on imagination for the pre-school and kindergarten classes and the comprehensiveness of the curriculum for the grade school students.

Regardless of the grading system that your child's school uses to report on student learning, there are some universal truths about modern student report cards that every parent needs to know.