Sentences with phrase «of middle schools students own»

The academic program provides both rigor and flexibility to meet the diverse needs of middle school students as they transition from Lower to High School.

Waldorf is dedicated to providing its middle school students with an academic curriculum with rigor and purpose — one that is creatively designed to meet the particular needs of middle school students — along with exceptional teachers, regular class travel, a no - cut athletic program, and fine arts and performing arts courses.

One Pennsylvania teacher may have had his / her mind wrapped so far around all things Fifty, that they thought giving a word search based on the movie was a great way to exercise the brain power of a class full of middle school students.

In one of the many experiments cited in Paul Tough's new book, Helping Children Succeed, a group of middle school students received this message on a Post-it note, attached to a paper their teachers were handing back.

Yet while we know that adequate amounts of sleep are biologically necessary for our bodies and minds to function properly, according to the National Sleep Foundation as many as 59 % of middle school students and 87 % of high school students are not getting the recommended 8 - 10 hours of sleep each night as set forth by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM).

It excludes roughly 54 percent of the middle school students who attend schools that also serve elementary or high school students.

Recently, scores of middle school students at Riverdale Country School attempted to survive without their cell phones for two whole days.

De Blasio said the city got a «consistent funding line» from Albany for his pre-K initiative as well as after - school programming for middle school students, calling it a «victory» because 70,000 kids are going to pre-K and because the city doubled the number of middle school students in after - school programs.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor inspired teams of middle school students as they competed in the Thurgood Marshall Junior Mock Trials in the Bronx, and BronxNet cameras were there to capture highlights.

The Science Expo, at the American Museum of Natural History, was a showcase for the work of middle school students.

A small group of middle school students caused the trouble, said Capt. Karen Smith of the North Tonawanda Police Department, the city's juvenile aid officer until recently.

But the authors noted that about 20 percent of middle school students and about 7 percent of high school students who had ever used e-cigarettes had never smoked regular cigarettes — meaning that some kids are introduced to the addictive drug nicotine through e-cigarettes, the authors said.

For starters, there's the fact that 70 % of middle school students possess no more than a «basic» understanding of what they need to know to do well in the subject, and only 2 % perform at an «advanced» level.

The National Mathematics Advisory Panel is intended to feed into a proposed $ 250 - million mathematics initiative by the Bush Administration aimed at giving elementary school students a strong foundation in math and boosting the abilities of middle school students who have fallen behind (Science, 10 February, p. 762).

In 2016, only 4 in 10 eight grade public school students were proficient in science and 97.9 % of middle school students who took the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) test, where Puerto Rico ranked 64 out of 70, exhibited low abilities interpreting scientific information and working on complex problems.

Nearly 58 percent of middle school students in nine states and almost 73 percent of high school students across the country don't get the recommended amount of nightly shuteye, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

When Alabama school counselor Angie Johnson discovered that some of her middle school students had seen methamphetamines in their neighborhood, she went to the Internet for lessons to help her explain the dangerous chemicals the drug contains and what they would do to students» bodies.

While Estefany watches other girls get into the ring during the two - hour Monday and Wednesday Girls Train2Box session at the Nickerson Community Center, a short van ride away, another group of middle school students is at the Roger Williams Park Zoo, participating in the Pets & Vets program.

But after three years of teaching all levels of middle school students in a flexible environment, I can say that the benefits far outweigh any management issues that arise.

MathMobs are very popular: Usually a third or more of the middle school students participate.

Huge numbers of middle school students are rushing to take geometry and advanced algebra when their abstraction level is so developmentally inappropriate that these courses are belittled to nothing more than regurgitation and back - of - the - bookishness.

He used data from Wake County, North Carolina, to study how start times affect the performance of middle school students on standardized tests.

Telecollaborative Project Develops Compassion, Global Awareness Educator Brenda Dyck reflects on the power of telecollaborative learning in the lives of middle school students.

In this study, I use data from Wake County, North Carolina, to examine how start times affect the performance of middle school students on standardized tests.

A California teacher has pleaded not guilty to charges that she had sexual relationships with two of her middle school students.

Researchers from Boston College's Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy, found paper - and - pencil writing tests did not accurately measure the abilities of middle school students who were accustomed to doing most of their writing on a computer.

The survey — which included interviews with 1,000 teenagers and 829 parents — found that 62 percent of high school students and 23 percent of middle school students reported attending schools where illegal drugs are readily available.

The BIA also conducted a survey of middle school students in 1997 to determine which at - risk behaviors among students could contribute to them dropping out of school.

00, Ed.D.» 08, whose work focuses on the reading and writing skills of middle school students with disabilities.

The Pine Tree State set a new standard for teaching 21st - century skills when lawmakers agreed to put laptop computers in the hands of every middle school student and teacher — a program that's now being expanded into high schools.

The X-Space design is the latest product of middle school students in the Studio H program at Realm Charter School in Berkeley, Calif..

The observational analysis controls for demographic and background characteristics as well as students» lagged test scores (for example, the elementary school scores of middle school students).

About 80 percent of teenagers in high school have witnessed drug dealing and drug use, and 31 percent of high school students and 9 percent of middle school students see such activity at least once a week, says a report from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse.

Science textbooks used by an estimated 80 percent of middle school students nationwide are riddled with errors, a new study concludes.

Obama has proposed a «Success in the Middle Act,» which would provide federal support to improve the education of middle school students in low - performing schools by requiring states to develop detailed plans to improve student achievement, develop and utilize early identification data systems to identify those students most at - risk of dropping out, and invest in proven strategies that reduce the number of drop outs.

The study of middle school students in the Wake County, North Carolina public school system (WCPSS), the 16th - largest public school district in the United States (146,687 current students), was conducted by economist Finley Edwards.

Age gap: 37 percent of middle school students rated their school culture positively, versus 30 percent of high schoolers.

None of the schools in her district met the federal requirement for participating in state exams, with only about half of middle school students taking the tests at Washburne School.

A special education teacher and I worked with a small class of middle school students on a research project on Alcatraz.

We know their «positive recognition of good behavior» methods resulted inthe highest number of suspensions of any school in the state, with 32.5 percent of elementary school students and 49.4 percent of middle school students having at least one in - school suspension, out - of - school suspension, or expulsion.

Self - esteem, achievement motivation, social skills, coping skills, and aspirations are critical to the development of middle school students.

Unfair Expectations: A Pilot Study of Middle School Students» Comparisons of Gifted and Regular Classes.

Black students represent 16 percent of middle school students, but 42 percent of students in those grades who are held back a year.

Fifty - eight percent of middle school students report that they help, compared to 51 percent of high school students.

One hundred percent of our middle school students take both music and arts.

Fifty four percent of middle school students report feeling their school work was relevant to life outside the classroom, compared to just 46 percent of high school students.

As shown in Table 2, effect sizes were all positive, illustrating the general tendency of the middle school students in this baseline data sample to be more positive in their perceptions of STEM than were the preservice teachers.

In order to best serve the District's students and the community, middle school students should benefit by a dedicated middle school site that is tailored to the specific educational and physical needs of middle school students.

STEM Semantics dispositions of middle school students versus preservice teachers using baseline and replication data samples drawn across two school years.

The Effects of Collaborative Strategic Reading Instruction on the Reading Comprehension of Middle School Students: Year 2 Replication.