Sentences with phrase «of your high school students missed»

What would you do if at least 20 % of your high school students missed school regularly?

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``... Students who eat breakfast score significantly higher on tests, miss fewer days of school and face fewer health problems related to hunger.»

Research shows that students who eat breakfast score significantly higher on tests, miss fewer days of school and face fewer health problems related to hunger.

But in recent years officials have become concerned that students who spend too much time perfecting their transcripts may be missing out on some of the important but intangible social and emotional aspects of the high school experience.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> School district Superintendent Paul Padalino is looking into a possible connection between the recent near - dismissal of a high school basketball coach and the district missing an opportunity to have former Major League Baseball player Darryl Strawberry give a drug abuse prevention talk to stuSchool district Superintendent Paul Padalino is looking into a possible connection between the recent near - dismissal of a high school basketball coach and the district missing an opportunity to have former Major League Baseball player Darryl Strawberry give a drug abuse prevention talk to stuschool basketball coach and the district missing an opportunity to have former Major League Baseball player Darryl Strawberry give a drug abuse prevention talk to students.

According to Nana Addo, since the introduction of the policy, the number of students who would have missed out on Senior High School education has dropped by more than 30 percent.

Just east of the epicenter, 1,000 students and teachers were reportedly killed or missing at a collapsed high school in Beichuan County.

The study, published as a QMUL School of Economics and Finance Working Paper, looked at the period from 1998 to 2007, when English schools used a process called «borderlining» to regrade exams from students who narrowly missed out on a higher Key Stage result.

About a third of Baltimore high school students report they have had asthma, causing frequent absences and missed learning, said Dr. Leana Wen, Baltimore's health commissioner.

This movie, which embraces some wonderful performances by both adults and high - school kids, should prove a draw for all ages and might just remind some of us who are years beyond their student days of our own successes and misses way back when.

This is partly about fairness: It's wrong for any child to miss out on academic challenges at school, and we should do everything we can to develop the full potential of all our students, including high achievers.

While this number was, and essentially remains, twice the national average of high school graduates who graduate from a four - year college, we were concerned because although nearly all of the students who left our school were college - bound, we suspected we had missed the mark of college readiness for some of our students.

Collins, who became the high school principal in August, hired an attendance officer after he noticed that some students had missed as many as ten days of school by mid-October.

Because any intervention aimed at high school students would miss this group altogether, this suggests that high school might be too late for the youth at highest risk of criminal activity.

«The absences at the middle and high school levels are on a tiered format, so a student can miss a couple of days for illness and still be in the drawing for the grand prize at the end of the year.»

For example, in a recent Evidence Speaks post, Jing Liu and Susanna Loeb reported that high school teachers have differential effects on unexcused class absences — that is, when students miss only part of the school day — highlighting how the academic environment can influence school attendance.

That's the message from two state departments of education seeking to reach high school students who might not know what they're missing.

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual students are two to three times as likely to be bullied as non-LGBTQ peers, and they're more likely to miss school and almost five times as likely to attempt suicide — the number is even higher for transgender people — according to a major survey of 15,600 high school students by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

While Danny, the Champion of the World, isn't necessarily a «high school» book, a couple of students have picked it up and read it over a weekend, as a fun, light read that they may have missed in elementary school.

Eventually he missed the students and returned to the classroom, this time to Newton North High School, one of the city's two high schools, where he now runs their alternative school - to - career progHigh School, one of the city's two high schools, where he now runs their alternative school - to - career prSchool, one of the city's two high schools, where he now runs their alternative school - to - career proghigh schools, where he now runs their alternative school - to - career prschool - to - career program.

I think caring is demonstrated through such actions as having high expectations, spending time with the student and not ignoring them, encouraging them, showing attention to maybe things like a poor quality of work, or being late, or missing school.

Roughly one in 10 of its students miss school every day, with half of the absences unexcused; and, data show students with an attendance record of less than 80 per cent have a 10 to 20 per cent chance of graduating on time from high school.

At Albert Einstein High School in Kensington, where Hispanic students represent nearly half of the enrollment, longtime Principal James Fernandez said one of the biggest issues for his students is attendance, with some missing class because they need to take jobs to help their families.

Whitford - Narine introduced a ProPublica reporter to one student, Charlotte Mims, who said she has been taking classes at Aloma after missing much of high school when her parents fell seriously — and, in her father's case, fatally — ill.

Still, Mr. West noted that it's not certain whether the false positives come from mistakes that make sense in context — for example, a high - performing student who gets chicken pox and misses two weeks of school — or the effect of interventions to help at - risk students in later grades.

That type of treatment [hospitalization] does take a toll — the hospital stay and high doses of antibiotics cause students to miss school, miss sports, and feel wiped out.

Students miss a third day of classes as teachers continue push for higher pay and more support for schools.

This big improvement has occurred even as the schools are serving a higher percentage of low - income students — 84 percent — than before the storm, and despite the fact that many of the students missed months of school.

The original goal of all students achieving high academic standards by attaining proficiency or better in reading and mathematics by the 2013 — 2014 school year was missed by a mile.

The participation rate is even higher in urban districts where 65 percent of the largest 100 districts participate, covering 40 percent of all urban high school graduates.The National Student Clearinghouse didn't reveal which districts are or are not participating and so it is unclear how the missing high schools might be skewing the data.

According to Every Student, Every Day: A National Initiative to Address and Eliminate Chronic Absenteeism, the problem is «typically defined as missing at least 10 % or more of school days in a year for any reason, excused or unexcused, chronic absenteeism affects as many as 7.5 million kids a year and is a strong predictor of low academic achievement and high school dropout.»

Nationally, the evidence is mounting that students who are chronically absent - missing 10 % or more of the school year for any reason - are less likely to read well by the end of third grade and are more prone to drop out of high school.

NEA member and Valley Regional High School library media specialist Kristie Schmidt provides a visual explanation to her students of what would happen if the censors got their way: An empty bookshelf in their library and a list of what's missing.

While there is a perception that charter schools often miss those student populations, the Chicago - area charter school the Elgin group hopes to mirror has «a high level of special needs and high low - income,» students, she said.

Why do 40 percent of New York City high school students miss a month of school each year?

Demonstrating the value of such an analysis, ECONorthwest used data from the state's Department of Education to determine that 23 percent of students K - 12 in Oregon were chronically absent in 2009 - 10, with low - income students at the highest risk of missing significant amounts of school.

I explained that our adequate yearly progress (AYP) targets would be tied to the state's new high school proficiency assessment and that if we missed those targets for several years in a row we could face sanctions, including the implementation of student transfers and supplemental tutorial plans.

Working as a high school principal in 1995 he stumbled across research about the effects of family engagement on student learning and was immediately convinced that this was the missing ingredient in helping all children learn.

Parents of a Texas high school student who was reported missing in late January had abused their daughter after she refused an...

A high - level investigation into chronic absenteeism in Washington, D.C., high schools has found that students across the city graduated despite missing more than 30 days of school in a single course, in violation of district policy.

Of the 148 schools where too many students missed the statewide Smarter Balanced Assessment, nearly three - quarters were high schools.

Missing at least 10 percent of the school year, particularly in early grades, studies show, reduces the likelihood that students will read proficiently by 3rd grade, increases the chances of poor academic performance in middle school and increases the likelihood that students will drop out in high school.

The state Department of Education decided on the penalties after the U.S. Department of Education directed Connecticut and 12 other states to come up with plans to deal with high numbers of students that missed the annual exams last school year.

In one version of events, DC's Ballou High School has been a morass of cheating and subterfuge, where the principal pressured teachers to ensure that many students who had missed weeks of school and were otherwise unqualified to graduate nevertheless received dipSchool has been a morass of cheating and subterfuge, where the principal pressured teachers to ensure that many students who had missed weeks of school and were otherwise unqualified to graduate nevertheless received dipschool and were otherwise unqualified to graduate nevertheless received diplomas.

«At most [D.C.] high schools, students have been allowed to pass courses despite excessive unexcused absences, at times missing the majority of the course,» the report concluded.

As early as the first month of school, chronic absence (missing 10 percent of school days, an average of just two days a month) can be an early warning sign of academic trouble, whether a student is in preschool or high school.

Almost 12 % of our students are chronically absent — that means that 12 % of our students are missing 10 % or more of their school year — and we feel that rate is too high.

«Trust between teachers and students and between administration and some teachers is missing,» an independent school review of Marion High found in 2009.

Those students who eventually dropped out of high school had missed significantly more days of school in first grade than their peers who later graduated from high school.

While the law aimed to close these gaps, they persist despite incremental progress.20 Even after making statistical adjustments to proficiency rates under NCLB, by 2005 — four years after the law passed — the rates of schools making «adequate yearly progress» started to decline.21 Any school missing a single target for any subgroup for two years in a row initiated particular actions, such as offering free tutoring or the option for students to transfer to a higher - performing school.