Sentences with phrase «repeat a grade as»

I also find large and meaningful reductions in the percentage of students at district schools who are required to repeat a grade as a result of charter school entry.

According to a College Board report published earlier this year, black male students are 2.4 times as likely to have been suspended and twice as likely to have repeated a grade as white males.

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And regardless of social class, the stresses and distractions that afflict unemployed parents also afflict their kids, who are more likely to repeat a grade in school, and who on average earn less as adults.

When, like Oher, your journey includes a mother who was a drug addict and a father murdered in prison, when you repeated the first and second grades, went to 11 different schools in your first nine years as a student and was dumped into foster care at age seven — well, you instinctively know who really wants you and who really cares.

If outdoors, find a long, medium - grade hill in your neighborhood and walk up it as fast as you can, then slowly walk back down and repeat 5 to 10 times.

But the guidelines for what students should learn in each grade have a low level of rigor compared with those of some other states, content is repeated across and within grades, and the tests are not as challenging as they should be, the analysis concludes.

While most of the movement between classes was due to parental complaints or behavioral problems, the attrition figures could also reflect other factors unrelated to the study, such as students» moving out of a school's geographic zone or having to repeat a grade.

«School - aged children in both two - parent and single - parent families are more likely to get mostly A's, to enjoy school, and to participate in extracurricular activities and are less likely to have ever repeated a grade and to have ever been suspended or expelled if their fathers or mothers have high as opposed to low levels of involvement in their schools.»

Students from more than one racial background are more likely than their single - race peers to experience trouble in school, such as repeating a grade, skipping school, and being suspended, a new study shows.

These comparisons take into account students» test scores in the prior year as well as their race or ethnicity, gender, age, suspensions and absences in the previous year, whether they repeated a grade, special education status, and limited English status.

The variable Sigt is the years spent in a charter or pilot school as of the test date, counting any repeated grades, and counting time in all charter and pilot schools, not only the ones in our lottery sample.

If a school receives repeated grades of D or F, it can be required by the state to take a variety of drastic measures, such as making the entire faculty reapply for their jobs, converting the school to a charter or closing it down altogether.

This attrition could reflect ordinary factors unrelated to the study, such as students» moving out of a school's geographic zone or having to repeat a grade, as well as families» responses to being assigned to a particular class.

The idea that repeating a grade with the same material as a method of improving learning is already flawed, especially if nothing about the academic environment changes.

A North Carolina study found that students who attended sixth grade at a middle school were more likely to be suspended, and later to repeat a grade or drop out of school, compared to counterparts who attended sixth grade in an elementary school.17 A longitudinal study of New York City sixth graders found that attending sixth grade in a middle school, as opposed to a K - 8 school, produced a negative impact on achievement that began in the first year and extended throughout the middle school years.

This scenario will simply repeat itself as schools do not reach the «C» grade in three years despite improvement.

California education code states that students who don't meet grade standards — as measured by state standardized tests at promotion «gates» in elementary and middle schools — must repeat the grade.

It found that the majority of students who attend virtual charter schools are low - achieving; they are also more likely to be designated as special education and more likely to have repeated a prior grade than their traditional brick - and - mortar school counterparts.

In both versions — using friendly numbers or the actual dimensions — we utilize division as repeated subtraction to help make a connection to a flexible division algorithm which can also be found in our Ontario Guide to Effective Instruction Number Sense and Numeration, Grades 4 to 6: Division resource on page 21.

They found that (a) teachers reported having more conflictual relationships with children exhibiting repeated impulsive behavior and (b) greater levels of conflict perceived by the teacher were associated with decreases in school engagement on the part of the child, as well as reduced academic competence in 1st grade.

Classnotes Podcast (May 11, 2018) Schools have long used the practice of holding students back to repeat a grade for such problems as failing grades and excessive absences.

This includes program areas such as: highway - rail grade crossing safety, pedestrian / bicycle safety, run - off - the - road crashes and guardrail safety, roadway hazard elimination, work zone safety, speed management, aggressive driving and red light running prevention, minimum drinking age, seat belt usage, drunk driving and standard blood alcohol levels enforcement, repeat offenders» penalties, open containers laws, and drug offender's license suspension.

True to form, Google repeated the same promises for the Pixel's camera and gleefully proclaimed DxO Mark, a company known for testing and grading camera performance, ranked the Pixel as the best smartphone camera ever; beating the iPhone 7 Plus and Galaxy S7 Edge.

• Assist lead teachers in planning, designing and implementing curriculum • Provide assistance in preparing lesson plans • Impart classroom instruction in accordance to lesson plans • Supervise and control students during class and when the lead teacher is not present • Assist students with carrying out classroom activities • Assist students during lunch time • Observe students for developmental issues and communicate findings to lead teachers • Implement age appropriate activities and monitor safety throughout • Research information for lesson development • Communicate progress and observations to parents • Maintain student records and perform other clerical tasks • Help in maintaining a clean and organized classroom • Ensure sanitation of all surfaces, equipment and toys • Assist students in social skills development • Assist in putting up bulletins • Accompany young students to the bathroom • Take attendance and make copies of tests • Assist in grading test papers and exams • Assist in checking work books and homework • Operate equipment such as projectors and computers for instructional purposes • Maintain appropriate classroom discipline and decorum • Prepare and distribute worksheets • Ensure that students retain information by repeating information constantly and practicing patience • Deliver instruction in the absence of lead teacher • Perform hall and bus duty as instructed by the lead teacher

• Conduct compliance inspections to ensure that trains maintain safe operations • Perform investigations to resolve issues by obtaining data from carriers, conducting interviews and reviewing records • Lead accident investigations to determine root causes and undertake measures to ensure that safety mistakes are not repeated • Inspect railroads and carriers to ensure that they are working in accordance to federal regulations • Oversee field inspections of existing and proposed railroad crossings and structures to ensure consistency in safety practices • Assist in the development and implementation of railroad grade crossing safety programs • Create schedules and ensure that safety staff members abide by them so that all shifts are properly covered • Act as a field liaison between railroad companies and governmental agencies, to ensure appropriate coordination of safety work

Absentee periods, grade point average, tardies, and days suspended were analyzed as dependent variables using 2 (intervention: TM vs. CTL) by 2 (time: pre - vs. post-intervention) repeated measures ANOVAs.

Correspondingly, increasing the share of adolescents living with two biological parents to the 1970 level, as illustrated in the third column, would mean that 643,264 fewer children would repeat a grade.

Success in the early years of schooling is important as children who repeat grade one are particularly at risk for future dropout.