Sentences with phrase «of middle students»

And a report from the Southern Regional Education Board, which supports increasing the number of middle students taking Algebra I, found that among students in the lowest quartile on achievement tests, those enrolled in higher - level mathematics had a slightly higher failure rate than those enrolled in lower - level mathematics (Cooney & Bottoms, 2009, p. 2).»

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-- Jeremy Keeshin, cofounder and CEO of CodeHS, an online platform to teach computer science in high schools and middle schools used by hundreds of thousands of students

Real - life behavioral psychology: Students have to make a major life decision in the middle of taking the most stressful math test they've ever had.

A few years ago, a male graduate student told me that he would go work in the middle of a mosquito - infested swamp if that was the job that would guarantee him the best opportunity for a lucrative career down the road.

While he graduated in the middle of his class, Abdullah's extracurricular activities meant his CV could put any honour's student's to shame.

She also developed the Emergency Mask (EM) Pod to help reduce the risk of smoke inhalation for first responders and an Inventing 101 syllabus for middle school students.

Coulter said those requirements included that she make her speech in the middle of the day, that the event only be open to students, and that the venue she'd be speaking at wouldn't be announced until the last minute.

The route would include a stop in the middle at Columbia, site of the University of Missouri's 33,000 - student flagship campus.

With an 11 % acceptance rate for the class of 2018 and the middle 80 % of students scoring between 690 and 760 on the GMAT, the HBS admissions process is competitive.

The students are in the middle of a diplomatic dispute between Bangkok and Rangoon - after the Myanmar embassy in Thailand was occupied earlier this month, Thailand is pressuring the...

Recognizing the need for a high tech workforce of the future, the Florida High Tech Corridor Council established an educational initiative to reach middle and high school students.

This rolling application deadline means you can wait to hear back from schools about their various financial aid packages and apply for a private student loan in the middle of a semester.

In what apparently is the latest incident in a campaign to push children toward becoming LGBT - rights activists, a teacher has instructed a middle - school student to sign up for «recurring text messages» associated with an LGBT «Day of Silence» campaign.

On March 14, students at Lewis Middle School in Allied Gardens joined hundreds of thousands of other students from across the country in a walkout to protest gun violence in schools following the death of 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School in Parkland, Florida one month earlier.

A week later, in the middle of a lecture in this professor's packed class, he started to tell a story about a student he once met who was a chaplain intern at a hospital.

Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

In other words, if a student stands up in the middle of class waves a Bible in the air and starts the «Lord's prayer», then yeah they might be due a suspension.

From a politically independent Anglican middle - of - the - road evangelical seminary student sister in Christ,

For example, in his days as an undergraduate at Oxford Waugh's fellow student Harold Acton used a megaphone to shout out lines from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land from an open window of his upper - storey college suite and was later thrown into a fountain by some drunken students in the middle of the night; while another student, Brian Howard, spoke with a stutter and gossiped his head off: all of which got fused in the character of Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited.

He was not that sort of man and I am not so sure he enjoyed teaching middle school students.

On average, students come from the middle of the middle class.

Or, as a student of Middle Eastern descent put it toward the end of the discussion, «this book is only dystopic if you already believe that Old Christian Europe was something worth preserving.

Freedom to pray does not mean that a student can demand a 10 - minute out - loud prayer in the middle of class, which somehow translates in the minds of those who choose not to think to «prayer is illegal!

They are some of the most elemental bits of knowledge that any middle school student should know off the top of their head much less guess the answer on a multiple choice basis!

Ironically, although the faculty fell very much in line with this philosophy (or appeared to), the ultra-conservative student body wasn't having any of it, especially in the middle of the Reagan revolution.

They are meant to vault the student right into the middle of those fascinating discussions where the astronomer and the theologian find something in common.

As someone who grew up in the largest muslim city outside of the middle east (Detroit Metro) and having grown up getting muslim holidays off of school, I would argue that if some 12 + % of NYC students really are muslim — if this guy has his facts right — why not?

My own experience in teaching religion and theology to middle - and upper - middle - class undergraduates and graduate students in America for the past decade or so certainly suggests that this way of thinking about religion fits neatly with a strong tendency toward the kind of knee - jerk relativism that is also widespread among those in the same social strata.

A couple of months ago, for example, I saw several different students successively one afternoon, one Jewish, several Christian, but also a Muslim student, whose parents immigrated to this country from the Middle East, and a Hindu student whose parents came here from India.

Meta - analyses also indicate that young people of low socioeconomic status benefit more from attending these schools than do students from the middle and upper classes.

Binge drinking also negatively effects sober or light drinking students who find themselves sexually harassed, insulted, and woken up in the middle of the night.

The locker room offers the appearance of privacy, but at the same time elicits public performance (as every awkward middle school student knows too well).

Add to this mix a handful of international students, most likely from a Middle Eastern, Islamic culture or from an Asian society in which people deem it strange to share any religious conviction, and we have an assembly that we could address only if the miracle of Pentecost touched our tongues.

The old style of religious education in China was patterned after the Arabic and Iranian methods of the Middle Ages in which there were several specialists who lectured and the students chose their lectures according to their inclinations.

In countries in the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etc..

In early 1980s Indiana, middle school student Will Byers leaves from after a night of playing Dungeons & Dragons with his best friends, only to disappear during his bike ride home.

(Wellesley, Massachusetts) A Wellesley Middle School field trip to a local mosque has sparked controversy in the affluent community west of Boston after a video surfaced showing some of the students praying inside the hall.

Liberation theologians committed themselves from the beginning to «listening» to the poor and to organizing them (along with students, lawyers, journalists, and others of the middle class) in comunidades de base, or base communities.

I shall be reflecting largely from my own experience, as process thought enables and indeed requires us to do; but the nature of that experience is essentially that shared by all who nurture — whether, for example, single social workers, middle - aged adoptive parents, teachers who care about their students or, I suspect, those artists and poets who cherish and give birth to the world.

And here I am plopped into the middle of a wide range of international students from all over the world: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Bangladesh, China, Korea and Japan, to name a few... and all the religions and philosophies these students represent.

When I teach the Gospel of John, I usually tell my students that a paraclete is the one whose name you call when you are hauled into court on false charges, when the school bully is beating you up on the playground, when you wake up from a bad dream in the middle of the night.

good for her... still doesn't change the policies of the GOP that hurt the middle class, women, minorities, gays, working class, students, the elderly, the poor, the sick.

Whether in the classrooms on this campus or the lecture halls of other colleges, I have found that surprising numbers of white students (who are nothing if not middle class) are deeply interested in the study and application of religion.

O'Malley has been writing, not about college professors or committed adult Christians (or about those, like myself, who are faithful readers of First Things), but about teenagers» American high school students, primarily those from middle «class and affluent families, who are the objects of Catholic «catechesis.»

While dozens of tour buses wait, thousands of pilgrims of every description — the maimed, the blind, the infirm, the elderly, middle - aged American housewives, professionals, students and even a few yuppies in designer jogging suits — walk or crawl up the mountain.

For example, Fisk cultivated the attentions of George Bethune English, a former divinity student from New England who had gone to the Middle East in 1818 as an agent of John Quincy Adams, then - secretary of state.

One of the students was right in the middle of giving the soliloquy that he had to memorize for class and the teacher just started breastfeeding her baby right in the middle of it.

According to a Stanford University study of 7,804 students, some 82 percent of middle - schoolers couldn't distinguish between an ad labeled «sponsored content» and a real news story on a website.

That evening, the students climbed aboard a flatbed trailer loaded with bales of hay and took a hayride out the middle of the desert.

I don't know if it is because I am in the middle of one myself, between college student and young professional.