Sentences with phrase «other than a middle school»

There are few places other than a middle school where unsharpened pencils, paper clips on the floor, a stray line on a white board, or a misspoken word, even if it's obviously inadvertent, would warrant the scrutiny of an archaeological dig or the interrogation of a grand jury.

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I ate up studies (from Facebook and others) that argued the site actually encouraged a certain kind of information diversity, because your Facebook friends are likely drawn from a wider group of people (the guy you went to middle school with, your mom's neighbor, that rando you met that weekend at the beach) than the people you discuss news with in real life.

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.

High school boys had significantly greater odds of using protein powder / shades and other muscle - enhancing substances than those in middle school;

The use of muscle - enhancing behaviors among middle and high school boys and girls - including such unhealthy behaviors as using protein powders or shakes, steroids, and other muscle - enhancing substances - is substantially higher than previously reported, a new study finds.1

Right now middle and high schools can not sell more than 12 fl. oz of beverages other than milk, and they must not contain more than 30 grams of sugar per eight ounces.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

Donovan, who has been a middle school teacher for more than 20 years, explained that other science curriculum materials are often subject - specific, focusing lessons on individual scientific fields like biology and excluding disciplines like chemistry that can provide an essential foundation for students.

An initiative of the Reebok Foundation, which was a co-sponsor of the current study, the BOKS Program is currently available in more than 3,000 elementary and middle schools in the U.S. and other countries.

Other than super casually playing basketball and volleyball in middle school and running track in high school, I didn't develop much of a workout regime until after college.

«I slept in my makeup all the time in middle school, I rarely used any other product than a cleansing wipe through high school, and I NEVER cleaned my makeup brushes or paid attention to formula expiration dates until college,» she says.

It is in the middle of nowhere, there are more banned books in town than actual books to check out at the library, the high school history teacher teaches The War of Northern Aggression, and there are more churches than any other buildings.

Whilst elements of the presentation raise a smirk or even a giggle (including the alliteration efforts of Popper's pithy personal assistant, played by No Strings Attached's Ophelia Lovibond), and the titular creatures charm as anticipated, there's no mistaking this saccharine star vehicle for anything other than middle of the road school holiday fare that might even inspire a few pet purchases.

His experience of middle school is painful, much more so than for other kids.

And though I've always favored Ferrell's absurdist, noisier roles (Elf, Anchorman, Step Brothers) to his goofy «straight» characters (Kicking & Screaming, Land of the Lost, The Other Guys), there's something to be said for Ferrell stepping out of the lime light and playing the middle ground between the two (Old School, Stranger Than Fiction, Wedding Crashers).

Both student and teacher attendance is higher than at other local schools, with the student attendance rate surpassing that of every other middle school in the district (and significantly better than the citywide average).

A higher percentage of students in West Virginia attend small schools at all three levels — elementary, middle, and high school — than in most other states.

In other words, middle school start times are somewhat earlier in Wake County than in most districts nationwide.

Her kindergarten teacher was a Puerto Rican woman who spoke Spanish and English, but «besides that, all teachers were white in elementary school, all of them were white in middle school other than, I believe, my PE teacher.

«Some parents are better than others at helping their children make the connection between middle school achievement and post-high school plans,» Hill says.

«Middle schools need a reliable structure to build community, teach (rather than assume) social skills, and prepare students for learning each day,» observes Linda Crawford, executive director of Origins, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering learning and community in schools and other educational institutions.

Even after accounting for a host of other factors that influence student achievement, students who eventually attend middle schools go from scoring better than their counterparts in K — 8 schools in the year prior to transitioning to middle school to scoring below where we would expect if they were not attending a middle school.

Because we could follow the same children over a period of time, we could do a better job of ruling out the role of influences other than middle - school attendance on educational outcomes.

Students leaving KIPP schools have similar prior achievement to those leaving nearby middle schools, but the late entrants at KIPP schools tend to have had higher achievement than late entrants at these other schools.

We find that, on average, KIPP middle schools admit students who are similar to those in other local schools, and patterns of student attrition are typically no different at KIPP than at nearby public middle schools.

Many Americans were introduced to foreign languages in middle school or high school classes that emphasized conjugation of verbs and other dull grammatical tasks rather than relevant communication skills.

During the 1998 - 1999 school year, KIPP students scored higher in reading and mathematics than did kids in any other Bronx middle school program, Levin said.

Stating that allowing parents to use their 529 savings for K - 12 tuition «will erode the tax base that funds public schools» when it will benefit many middle class New Yorkers already taking a 2018 hit with lost state and local deduction opportunities; when the real world state budget impact is demonstrably negligible; and in a state that already spends more per public school pupil than any other — is simply poor public education.

Elementary, middle, and high school students in Utah are less likely to attend small schools than are students in most other states.

A student in the middle grades may now have as many as five teachers, none of which know her well — one of the reasons big schools, other things being equal, tend to perform less well than others.

Lecturer Rick Weissbourd, Ed.D.» 87, commenting on his new study that found that middle and high school students care more about personal achievement and being happy than caring for others.

The middle schools in which ELL test - takers are concentrated have, on average, significantly higher student - to - teacher ratios than other public schools in the state.

New Commitments by More than 20 Colleges To Offer Advice to Students Navigating College Application: More than 20 colleges and universities are — along with efforts in other categories — taking actions to expand summer college preparation programs for low - income students; creating new relationships with high schools to provide advising about college and financial aid; and expanding opportunities for current college students to work in high schools and middle schools to help advise students on college options

All public elementary, intermediate, middle, junior high schools, and high schools, other than charter schools, in existence on September 1, 2002 shall be deemed registered by the Board of Regents pursuant to this subdivision as of such date.

Establishes a system of meaningfully differentiating all public schools on an annual basis that is based on all indicators in the State's accountability system and that, with respect to achievement, growth or the other academic indicator for elementary and middle schools, graduation rate, and progress in achieving English language proficiency, affords: Substantial weight to each such indicator; and, in the aggregate, much greater weight than is afforded to the indicator or indicators of school quality or student success.

The data also indicate that patterns of student attrition at KIPP schools are typically no different from other local schools except that KIPP schools replace vacancies with fewer students in the last two years of middle school, and those late - arriving students are somewhat higher - achieving than students entering KIPP schools in 5th and 6th grades.

However, parents do appear to be somewhat more responsive than other citizens to school poverty rates and take an especially dim view of middle schools, assigning them grades that are 39 percent of a letter grade lower than otherwise similar elementary schools.

Even after controlling for proficiency rates and other school characteristics, middle schools receive ratings that are, on average, 18 percent of a letter grade lower than comparable elementary schools.

It seems probable that some middle and high schools are taking a tougher approach to discipline than others, and some of these schools — «suspension factories» if you will — serve high proportions of children of color.

For example, after we helped a middle school assess its school climate, we learned that 6th graders felt dramatically less safe in school than other students did.

In the full middle and high school model that accounts for Wilson HS and its feeder middle schools, no other neighborhood factors are significant other than location in the Wilson HS boundary.

This could be because middle and high school boundary neighborhoods are much larger and less different from each other than elementary school neighborhoods, which are smaller and more differentiated.

Gothard said Cherokee and Black Hawk middle schools are closer than the district's other middle schools in possibly using an eight - period day next school year.

Some states and school districts have more opportunities for foreign language education in middle schools than others.

«The first half of his tenure was marked by a series of reforms: closing more than one dozen failing schools and programs and creating several others that have thrived; decentralizing the system by cutting the headquarters staff by more than half; giving principals power over budget decisions; creating choice for city families, and competition among middle and high schools; and signing a landmark pay - for - performance teachers» union contract that was hailed as a model in the nation.

Two exceptions were in middle school math, where TFA teachers had much higher acceleration than both other new teachers and veteran teachers, and high school math, where TFA teachers did not differ from other new teachers and had lower acceleration than veteran teachers had.

Interestingly, the answer is science even though it is taught less frequently than any other subject prior to middle school.

Special - progress classes were even more racially and academically segregated from other students than their contemporary version, «gifted and talented» programs that retain middle - class parents in the public - school system by separating their children from most low - income and minority - group peers.

American middle and high school teachers report spending more time at the front of the classroom than teachers in nearly every other country in the developed world.9 While U.S. teachers deliver instruction for about 80 percent of their workday, the international average is around 60 percent — and teachers in high - performing nations like Japan, Korea, and Singapore spend only about one - third of their time providing instruction directly to students.10 We know that it does not have to be this way for U.S. teachers.

And while a traditional high school typically has students that attended a handful of feeder middle schools, Bravo's students come to the school from more than 32 different middle schools from around East LA, South LA and other places like Hollywood and Koreatown.