Sentences with phrase «of high school students feel»

As The 74 highlighted last week, the nonprofit YouthTruth found that just half of high school students feel they have the skills and knowledge for a university education.

As presented above, 45 percent of high school students feel positively about their college and career readiness.

Less than half of high school students feel safe in school.

Not surprisingly, responses also differed by grade level, with perceptions of safety decreasing as grade level increased: 88 percent of elementary school parents, 70 percent of middle school parents, and 63 percent of parents of high school students felt that their child's school was safe.

Not exact matches

Now, you heard one of the students say they're not going to feel safe going back to school when the doors eventually open at Douglas High, because they want to see some change, they want to see some action.

Stevens offered not a word of concern about whether religious students might feel themselves to be less than full members of the political community if, by order of the nation's highest court, their messages and only their messages are categorically excluded from the school's public arena.

And yet, as I progressed through high school and college, got a job in full - time student ministry, and even traveled through Europe for a few weeks, checking each of these dreams off my list (sans Aussie heartthrob), I found myself at age twenty - four absorbed in feelings that I didn't expect to come for at least another fifteen years, if ever.

We first meet Charlotte Simmons on the eve of her departure from Sparta, North Carolina, where, as a gifted student, she had felt rather isolated from (and superior to) her high school classmates.

Like many high school teachers, she felt mystified by the behavior and choices that some of her students made.

Berger, who spent 25 years working as a public school teacher and educational consultant in rural Massachusetts before joining Expeditionary Learning, clearly feels a special connection with those EL schools, like Polaris, that enroll high numbers of students growing up in adversity.

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.

Pressure to play needs to be taken off kids in order for them to feel comfortable reporting their signs and symptoms of a possible concussion,» says Tamara Valovich McLeod,, PhD, ATC, FNATA, Professor in the Athletic Training Program and Directors of the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory and Athletic Training Practice - Based Research Network in the Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences at A.T. Still University in Mesa, Arizona, co-author of the attitude study, and lead author of an earlier study [3] on attitudes on concussions among high school students.

It summarizes why he agreed to let Jamie's cameras roll at West Adams Preparatory High School and what he feels the students got out of the Food Revolution experience.

Reading the comment carefully, you understand that the father (and child) feel less shame about taking advantage of school meals at breakfast, where the service is universal (available to all regardless of economic need) versus at lunch, where there is often a more visible distinction between paying and nonpaying students, or between students on the federally reimbursable lunch line versus those who can purchase for - cash (and often more desirable) «a la carte» food, or (in the case of high schoolers) between students who can go off campus to buy lunch at convenience stores and restaurants versus those with no money in their pockets.

The study notes that there are limitations to the sample of students used in the study — with all of them attending privileged, high - performing schools — but they said they felt it was worthwhile to investigate the stresses of homework on this population of students.

The students spoke about the fear they felt in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. and the need for more action to prevent future massacres.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are feeling a mixed - bag of emotions ranging from relief, stress, guilt, and more, according to University at Buffalo Professor and Psychiatry Department Chairman Dr. Stephen Dubovsky.

«I want to be known for something at New Dorp High School, and now knowing that future students are going to enjoy the field lights because of this opportunity we've been given, it's such an amazing feeling,» she said.

For example, the independent evaluator who assessed the Toward High School Biology materials felt the curriculum could do more to make the flow of ideas in the lessons more transparent to students.

Among those middle and high school students who had the lowest levels of resilience, their ability to learn and feel safe at school was negatively affected many times.

They add that veterans feel separate from the rest of the student body because of their extended gap between high school and college, older average age, and deployment experiences, thus creating additional challenges for them to integrate with the rest of the classroom.

The researchers say that changing computer science stereotypes to make more students feel welcome in high school classrooms would help recruit more girls to the field, which has one of the lowest percentages of women among STEM fields.

One of the students who took the class, Andrew Karpinski, said it helped him develop a new understanding of the science of evolution, which he had learned in high school, though feeling somewhat dissatisfied with the totally secular discussion offered in school.

Based on the nonfiction book compiled by Long Beach high school teacher Erin Gruwell from the writings of her economically - challenged and scholastically - underserved students taken from their diaries, Freedom Writers is a formula feel - good film about one teacher's near - quixotic quest to get her students to learn something about themselves, and about others, in order to not be swallowed up by the negativity surrounding them.

A new cast will be assembled for the story which follows a high school student and her best friend as they navigate the relationships, feelings and realities of being a teenage girl.

Starring Saoirse Ronan as the eponymous high school student over her senior year as she navigates filial, romantic, and platonic relationships in the staid environs of Sacramento, it is one of the sweetest and most deeply felt films of the year.

Speaking about role as a high school student in «Lady Bird,» Ronan said, «Young kids need to know from all of us that it's all right to not feel really confident all the time.

«I feel like I'm not learning in a box of fluorescent lights like I was in my first years in high school,» says student Kelly Carlin.

Some surveys in South Korea show about 20 % of middle and high school students feel tempted to suicide.

The OECD said that there was «much to be positive about», including: levels of reading and science above international averages; a high level of social inclusion; a drop in teenage smoking and alcohol consumption; and a large majority (nine in ten) of students who feel positive about their school and teachers.

«We feel student achievement is at a higher rate when students are in school regularly,» said Beth Shields, deputy superintendent for instruction in the School District of Hillsborough County, Flschool regularly,» said Beth Shields, deputy superintendent for instruction in the School District of Hillsborough County, FlSchool District of Hillsborough County, Florida.

Lima, who participated in some of the first broadcasts in 2007, says that at first it felt surreal to look down at her video feed while she was teaching and see high school students gathered in bare wooden rooms, sometimes surrounded by hammocks where their own children were sleeping.

One of my teachers told me about how he was admitted to Cornell, a really hot Ivy League school, but chose the University of Rochester because he'd felt lost in a 4,000 - student high school and wanted a small college where he thought he'd have more opportunities.

That being said, if I do my job well, my hope is that I can leave DCPS as a district where students are achieving at high levels no matter their backgrounds, families are choosing DCPS schools because of the world - class education we provide, and parents and community members feel like they've contributed to DCPS» amazing successes.

It was pretty short little speech — in fact, you just read most of it — but I felt that was an appropriate way to address things because, by the time students enter junior year of high school, they know how to behave, right?

A researcher at Harvard surveyed 10,000 middle and high school students in 33 different schools around the nation about what they thought their folks cared about most: that they achieve at a high level, that they are happy (defined as «feeling good most of the time»), or that they care for others.

«Folks that were using it told us they felt giving just the one - time snapshot of the incoming grade - nine students wasn't enough,» says Jenny Curtin, coordinator for high school graduation initiatives in the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Even before (student shootings at) Columbine (High School), we felt we needed a higher level of security, Fulmer told Education World.

Schools are not just places where students acquire academic skills, they also help students become more resilient in the face of adversity, feel more connected with the people around them, and aim higher in their aspirations for their future.

An average of three quarters of students feel they belong at school, and in some of the highest performing education systems, including Chinese Taipei, Japan, the Netherlands, Vietnam, Finland, Korea, Estonia and Singapore that share is even higher.

When we paid closer attention to television and films, students noticed a high school chemistry teacher who cooked meth, and how Superman, in the movie Man of Steel, was bullied as a child and felt isolated as he tried to suppress his powers.

If students and school officials at Altoona High School in Altoona, Wis., feel a bit of d «j... vu at their graduation ceremony this spring, they'll have a good rschool officials at Altoona High School in Altoona, Wis., feel a bit of d «j... vu at their graduation ceremony this spring, they'll have a good rSchool in Altoona, Wis., feel a bit of d «j... vu at their graduation ceremony this spring, they'll have a good reason.

The report, scheduled for release this week, examines racial patterns in the aspirations and motivations of middle and high school students, as well as their feelings toward teachers and the role that peer pressure plays in their academic aspirations.

Take for example, the call for extending the school day; the development of a more demanding curriculum that better prepares students for a global, information - driven economy; building K - 12 and higher education collaboration such as in a K - 16 model, and providing alternative educational opportunities for high school students who feel they must go to work.

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There is a combination of reasons why this is the case; it is believed that many teachers are feeling pressured for their students to perform to qualify for school funding, and some parents are more eager for their children to obtain high grades than they have been in previous years.

A 2015 survey by Marc Brackett of Yale University asked 22,000 high - school students how they felt when they were in school.

He has done extensive work on what schools with high levels of student engagement look and feel like.

Bycznski's hands - off approach is especially appealing to students who feel limited by high school's typical barrage of top - down assignments, grades, and mandates.

For many of the high school students, the mentoring experience is the first time in their lives they have felt successful, Sites noted.