Sentences with phrase «school age students as»

Designed for English language students, the software is appropriate for school age students as well as older students.

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As another school year begins, artistic - minded students (and their parents) are once again wrestling with the age - old question of whether one should indulge an enthusiasm for music, literature or other fine - arts subjects at school, or instead study something more... shall we say... employable?

With its state license for 116 students; lucrative tuition subsidies for single parents, available from North Carolina's Child Care Resources program; and expertise with children, from infants to after - schoolers (up to age 12), this business could advance as quickly as a 2 - year - old — if placed in the care of a growth - minded new owner.

On Wednesday, as high school students from DC, Maryland, and Virginia protested in front of the US Capitol and the White House, Sen. Jeff Flake (R - AZ) announced he and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) were working on a bill that would raise the minimum age to buy an AR - 15 rifle to 21 for buyers who aren't in the military (an initiative opposed by the National Rifle Association).

I have straddled both sides of this fence, having had a near - death experience myself at age 29 (when my daughter was 3 years old) and, years later, at age 46, when I served as a student chaplain in a Level - One trauma center during graduate school.

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

And yet, as I progressed through high school and college, got a job in full - time student ministry, and even traveled through Europe for a few weeks, checking each of these dreams off my list (sans Aussie heartthrob), I found myself at age twenty - four absorbed in feelings that I didn't expect to come for at least another fifteen years, if ever.

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.

I do wish his parents will put some boundaries and expectations in place instead of telling him that he does not need to do well to go to college as it is a government requirement that all students stay at school till a certain age.

Kathryn facilitated hundreds of workshops to preschool through high school aged students, teachers, and parents around the topics of sexual assault prevention, bullying, and stranger awareness, and became certified as a National Trainer for the Child Assault Prevention Program.

(2014) Directs each local school board to adopt a policy to set aside, in each school in the school division, a non-restroom location that is shielded from the public view to be designated as an area in which any mother who is employed by the local school board or enrolled as a student may take breaks of reasonable length during the school day to express milk to feed her child until the child reaches the age of one.

Addressing a group of students at Bedford - Stuyvesant's Boys and Girls High School on Thursday evening, Adams discussed a new state law permitting up to two teens over the age of 16 to participate as members in each of the city's 59 CBs.

NORTH CREEK — Thirty students took their final walk through the gymnasium at Johnsburg Central School June 24, marking their coming of age as the Class of 2017.

They conducted a large controlled trial of 1,200 students aged 14 - 16 in 70 classes from secondary schools across the south and south west of the UK, in which students were tested for acceptance of evolution and understanding of evolution and, as a control subject, genetics.

They used a nationally representative sample of 5,593 middle and high school students between the ages of 12 and 17 years old living in the United States to find out how many youth participated in digital self - harm, as well as their motivations for such behavior.

«We had high - school and college - age students with grad students and postdocs in the lab, and they were each sharing experiences, educating each other as to how to go from that specific part of their lives and move on to the challenges of the next phase, both scientifically and personally,» she says.

But then Russo and two fellow graduate students, Brett Walker and Michael Bell, realized its potential in schools, from light - up textbooks to DIY circuitry projects for kids as young as elementary school age.

Harrison said that future research will look at how other age groups — such as high school students — handle the temptation to text when it is inappropriate.

Unlike schools, which grow increasingly segregated and involve more individual instruction as children grow older, afterschool programs are spaces where instructors, often similar to the students in age and background, can facilitate diverse, productive interactions that help youth reach social and academic goals.

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) will once again offer a wide variety of cutting - edge science talks as it kicks off its popular Ronald E. Hatcher Science on Saturday Lecture Series for high school students and science lovers of all ages on Saturday, Jan. 14, at 9:30 a.m. at the Laboratory, 100 Stellarator Road, Princeton, New Jersey.

Seventeen age -, IQ -, and parental socioeconomic status - matched typically developing adult males who served as controls in Experiment 1 were college students, graduate school students, hospital staff and their acquaintances (30.4 ± 5.6 years old; Table 1)(Hollingshead, 1957).

For many years she was employed at a K - 8 school as a paraeducator working with students of all abilities and ages.

As a misfit youth, John Farley (Scott, Ice Age 2) was one of many students regularly humiliated by his bullying P.E. teacher, Mr. Woodcock (Thornton, School for Scoundrels).

They are assigned high - school detail to search for a new drug, and the sheer idiocy of this is never ignored, as students continuously comment on their obvious age — a comic tactic employed by this tongue - in - cheek movie as it takes itself not one - ounce seriously.

31 years old during filming, Turner isn't convincing as either a middle - aged mother or a high school student.

Children of immigrants account for about one - quarter of children in the nation under age 5, and their share of school enrollment will grow as they move into elementary school, according to a report on student demographics by the Washington - based Urban Institute.

Transmedia storytelling — telling a single story across multiple media platforms — as a means to help students engage with challenging cultural issues of civic responsibility, diversity, and social justice can be an important tool in the classroom, especially in an age where students are finding it increasingly difficult to see over the wall between their school lives and their «real» lives.

The Normal School teaches about 550 students between the ages of 14 and 19, while also serving as one of 11 teacher practice schools in Finland.

«This means every ninth - grader has a big sister or big brother in each of the other classes.This vertical integration, as opposed to horizontal integration of grouping students in grade levels by age, fosters deep friendships across grades and promotes a feeling of family in our school community.

Instead, the special education gap begins in kindergarten, when students classified at a young age as having a speech or language disorder are less likely than other students to apply to charter schools.

The Fordham Institute's new report, High Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all students.

Meeting this fifth challenge depends on better ways of: identifying children at risk of being locked into trajectories of low achievement at the earliest possible ages; enhancing levels of school readiness; diagnosing learning difficulties upon entry to school; and intervening intensively during the early years of school to address individual learning needs to give as many students as possible the chance of successful ongoing learning.

Indeed, it was King Charles I, in 1645, who gave the Rev. John Eliot a charter to start a school in Boston to, as Eliot said, «fit [students] for public service both in church and commonwealth in succeeding ages.»

As a school, they've only got about 85 students, running right the way through from... starting off school at the age of five right through to 17, 18 when you finish.

Travelling from schools right across the UK, the teams of students aged 10 to 18 will come together in London to pitch in front of a panel of judges comprised of industry leaders and high profile figures, such as digital entrepreneur Baroness Martha Lane Fox, Tech City CEO Gerard Grech and TV presenter Davina McCall.

Students at public and private schools from Maine and New York to Wisconsin and Wyoming are now enrolled in such courses as AP Physics, the Modern Middle East, Journalism in the Digital Age and AP Art History.

Parthenon began gathering data on every student who entered New York City's high schools in 1999, nearly a quarter million of them, and by 2005, as education journalist Sarah Garland reported in a 2010 Washington Monthly story, had accumulated data that were «shocking»: «Nearly 140,000 high - school - age youth in the city were at least two years behind where they needed to be to graduate on time.

Because students enter adolescence during their middle - school years, examining the effect of start times as students age allows me to test this theory.

The stimulation during the ages of their rapid development strongly influences social - emotional control and the highest thinking skill sets that today's students will carry with them as they leave school and become adults.

As usual, I started an after - school storytelling club for elementary students of all ages.

Reformers thus embraced the junior high school movement, knowing that the purpose of these institutions was to encourage students to make vocational choices as early as age 12 or 13.

Some competency - based schools are even doing away with age - based grade levels entirely, treating learning as a continuum, and holding multiple graduation ceremonies each year to award diplomas when students are ready.

The reason is this: Picture a school — like many of the online schools in Colorado — that enrolls a student in the fall who is classified as, say, a junior, based on his age.

Grateful parents swoon, while bright, cheerful students meet their academic manifest destinies as their awesome teachers reject the discredited orthodoxies of industrial - age schooling in favor of hands - on projects and authentic, real - world tasks.

During his two years at HGSE, Waddy has focused his efforts exclusively on middle school students — an age often described as «tough» by educators.

The stimulation of these networks during the ages of their rapid development strongly influences the development of the executive functions — the social - emotional control and the highest thinking skillsets that today's students will carry with them as they leave school and become adults.

As former middle school teachers, the trio found that despite the many challenges students face as they transition from «learning to read» to «reading to learn,» few programs focus on this age group, offer help to the seven different reading levels found in middle school classrooms, or assist skilled readerAs former middle school teachers, the trio found that despite the many challenges students face as they transition from «learning to read» to «reading to learn,» few programs focus on this age group, offer help to the seven different reading levels found in middle school classrooms, or assist skilled readeras they transition from «learning to read» to «reading to learn,» few programs focus on this age group, offer help to the seven different reading levels found in middle school classrooms, or assist skilled readers.

I've classed the resource as suitable for ages 7 - 14, but it really does depend on the age at which your students begin their FRENCH, and what areas of learning they might need to focus on at particular times during the school year.

As a consequence, the underrepresentation of minority teachers relative to the proportion of minority school - aged students could be having the effect of limiting minority students» educational success.

The assessment itself was first given in 1969, but the underlying political compromises meant that (a) students were tested by age, not grade level; (b) results were reported either as percentages of test takers getting individual questions right or (starting in 1984) on a psychometric scale that included no benchmarks, standards, or «cut points»; and (c) the «units of analysis» were the entire country and four big regions but not individual states, let alone districts or schools.