Sentences with phrase «of middle school age»

The second study (hereafter the «meta - analysis»), by Credé et al., [iii] is a systematic review of data from all the published studies that could be found in which participants who were at least of middle school age and in which correlations were reported or could be calculated between scores on any of Duckworth's grit scales and other variables.

In a 6 - year study of middle school age gifted learners taking biology, chemistry, or physics in a 3 - week summer program, these younger learners outperformed high school students taking these courses for a full academic year (Lynch, 1992).

The second study (hereafter the «meta - analysis»), by Credé et al., [iii] is a systematic review of data from all the published studies that could be found in which participants who were at least of middle school age and in which correlations were reported or could be calculated between scores on any of Duckworth's grit scales and other variables.

Chandler told Education World that «the best discussions will occur with students of middle school age and beyond.»

Not exact matches

Though the pair were close in age and geography — they went to the same elementary and middle schools — they had never met before collaborating on this semi-biographical piece of work that has so resonated with audiences.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

When our son came of age during the height of Florida's pill mill epidemic, Oxycontin and similar pain pills flooded the halls of our middle schools and high schools, offering cheap, quick escapes for teens struggling to find themselves.

There's also a historical precedent for Christian involvement in education, whether you look at the monastic schools of the middle ages or the wealthy benefactors providing education for the 19thcentury poor.

Every person my age remembers the pictures of black lungs displayed at admonitory lectures we attended in elementary and middle school.

In the middle of all of this — a grueling nonstop regimen of speaking dates and meetings — Schlafly put herself through law school, graduating from Washington University in 1978 at age fifty - four.

A middle - aged widow told how an informal support group (of former church school teachers) rallied round when they received word that her teen - age daughter had run away.

But they wore their youth and bright future so carelessly, and I found myself applauding until my palms tingled for the men and women like my brother - in - law who had to battle through school with so many other demands on their attention, for the women older than my mother who have finally finished their degree long after their nests emptied, the middle - aged men with a circle of whiskers on their shining bald heads.

It has over 110,000 students involved and it's specifically written for primary and middle school students (8 — 14 years of age).

While I am not prone to writing in the somewhat snarky and definitly sarcastic tone Wise employed in his Tuesday column, and although he seemed to mostly align himself with the group at Aspen - led by Dr. Bob Cantu - that views football as too dangerous to be played before the age of 14 (a position with which I respectfully disagree), I did find myself agreeing with what seemed to be his main point: that whatever measures are instituted to protect player safety will get us nowhere if the culture on NFL fields (and by extension, the high school, middle school, and youth gridiron) doesn't change.

Unfortunately, many parents of middle - school - age children don't have Appelbaum's sanguine attitude.

The American Pediatrics Association recommends just one hour per day outside of school time for elementary - age students and two hours for kids in middle school through high school.

Activities in Waldorf early childhood education take into consideration the age - specific developmental needs of young children, from a focus on will - oriented physical activity in the first three years, then on imaginative play in the middle years of early childhood, and later a more cognitive approach to learning after the child enters school.

The middle to late school age years are a time of great change in your child.

Between the ages of 9 and 13 the typical tween has to face increasing homework, changing relationships, middle school, and a whole lot of peer pressure to succeed, rebel, fit in, and conform.

While some are young people in long - distance relation - ships because of schooling or careers, or couples who want to live together but can't for various reasons (such as military families), many include women like me — divorced, middle - aged empty - nesters who want nothing that resembles the married life we knew.

Señora Pasion, our Spanish teacher, begins working with our rising first grade students towards the end of their kindergarten year (at age 5 or 6), and Spanish studies continue until they graduate from our middle school.

Among middle - school aged children who have four hours or more of screen time a day, only 1 % earn A's in math and language arts.

Other names for kids of this age group include preteens, middle schoolers, and tweeny (or tweenies).

And, because we know middle school isn't the only time for parents to have ongoing conversations with youth about sexuality topics, we offer age - appropriate workshops for parents of children in early childhood, elementary and high school.

One ad features a middle - aged dad with a goatee telling a group of fellow parents that his first - grader cried when he came home from school, apparently too tired to go to karate practice.

While some are young people in long - distance relationships because of schooling or careers, or couples who want to live together but can't for various reasons (military families are a good example), many include women like me — divorced, middle - aged empty - nesters who want nothing that resembles the married life we knew.

While some are young people in long - distance relation - ships because of schooling or careers, or couples who want to live together but can't for various reasons (such as military families), many include middle - aged empty - nester divorcees who want nothing that resembles the married life we knew.

I am a former middle and high school teacher who continues to mentor students of those ages and frequent the schools often.

Most of you have middle and high school age kids.

We have 9 weeks of camp for elementary, middle and high - school aged kids and multiple levels.

I work on a wide variety of programming which serves middle and high school - aged students, middle school teachers, and undergraduates.

73 % of low - income teens have little or no exposure to pathways to careers in science, and UL Xplorlabs does a great job of introducing middle school aged kids to a career as a fire investigator.

In fact, school - related anxiety affects 2 to 5 percent of school - age children, but it's much more common in times of transition: when a child starts kindergarten, middle school or high school, according to the Anxiety Disorders Association of America.

«In those middle ages which our school - books still speak of as days of darkness and ignorance, the great body of Englishmen were far better off in every way that they are now».

Meanwhile discussions elsewhere reached consensus on disability rights, taking competition out of the NHS, tribunal fees, legal aid, zero - hours and short - hours contracts, agency workers, immigration, local government funding, housing, the Middle East, the minimum wage, the living wage, Royal Mail, the railways, science and technology, mental health, fracking, animal welfare, Lords reform, reducing smoking and consumption of alcohol, fats and sugar, reaffirming all - women shortlists, youth services, careers advice, sexual and relationship education, and even the 11 - plus (recognising that selection at age 11 damaged education for all children, but stopping short of abolishing existing grammar schools).

«We must finish the job and pass a responsible budget that makes college tuition free for the middle class, fully funds our public schools, cuts taxes for the middle class, Raises the Age of criminal responsibility, combats homelessness, and moves New York forward.

Cable said he wanted to see renewed investment in adult education, speaking of both his parents» education at night schools during his childhood, but said new technical training courses were needed to retrain middle - aged workers whose jobs were coming under threat from automation.

The film is intended to educate parents, community members, and middle - school to college - aged children about the dangers of addiction and how to avoid becoming a victim.

One of the latest and most ambitious studies on bullying and cyberbullying in middle and high school students begs to differ with the age - old adage, «sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can't hurt me.»

They used a nationally representative sample of 5,593 middle and high school students between the ages of 12 and 17 years old living in the United States to find out how many youth participated in digital self - harm, as well as their motivations for such behavior.

The first describes Operation Reboot, a $ 2.5 million, federally funded program to train middle - aged, out - of - work computer professionals for jobs as high school computer teachers.

Science News for Students is an award - winning, free online magazine that reports daily on research and new developments across scientific disciplines for inquiring minds of every age — from middle school on up.

Research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Radboud University Medical Centre in the Netherlands, and Stanford University shows that disrupting just one night of sleep in healthy, middle - aged adults causes an increase in a brain protein associated with Alzheimer's disease.

Researchers from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine compared symptoms associated with concussion in middle / high school - age athletes with those in college - age athletes to determine whether age - related differences School of Medicine compared symptoms associated with concussion in middle / high school - age athletes with those in college - age athletes to determine whether age - related differences school - age athletes with those in college - age athletes to determine whether age - related differences exist.

During the same period, the number of middle - school students, aged between 12 and 15, with extremely poor sight increased from 13.4 per cent to 20.4 per cent.

The study analysed data from four large - scale longitudinal studies and found that the poorer reading and maths skills of children born prematurely were associated with lower educational qualifications on leaving school and lower income in middle age.

Although the number of playground injuries is decreasingfrom 187,000 in 1992 to 98,000 in 1997Phelan hopes that prevention efforts aimed at middle - school - age children can reduce the number even further.

Dishman and colleagues at the University of South Carolina are now looking at ways to help kids identify with exercise at a younger age, so that by the time they reach middle school they are more likely to identify as someone who exercises.

Researchers from the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, along with colleagues from other institutions, assessed the presence of heart disease in 562 middle - aged twins (340 identical and 222 fraternal) from the Vietnam Era Twin Registry.

«Our study findings suggest that the majority of young and middle - aged to old adults underestimate the intensity of physical activity that is required to achieve health benefits,» says Professor Jennifer Kuk, School of Kinesiology and Health Science.