Sentences with phrase «school age students reported»

The Monitoring the Future survey that studies drug and alcohol use among high school age students reported: «in 2014, approximately 20.3 % of 8th graders had abused an illegal drug in their lifetime, while 37.4 % of 10th graders had and 49.1 % of 12th - grade students reported lifetime drug abuse.»

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Most middle schools and high schools, attended by children aged about 11 to 17, also do not sell fruits and vegetables outside traditional cafeteria lunch lines so that students can find them at random times, the report showed.

Students and staff at Catmose College give their views for our School Report assignment on whether the voting age should be lowered.

Science News for Students is an award - winning, free online magazine that reports daily on research and new developments across scientific disciplines for inquiring minds of every age — from middle school on up.

Nearly 43 percent of high school students of driving age who were surveyed in 2011 reported texting while driving at least once in the past 30 days, according to a study to be presented Saturday, May 4, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Washington, DC.

Research shows that 28 percent of students ages 12 to 18 years old report being bullied at school, and 24 percent in the same age group report being cyberbullied.

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.

A 2010 report, How College Students Evaluate and Use Information in the Digital Age, found that while nearly 75 percent of students reported using Wikipedia for school research, almost all of them said they turn first to course readings and consulted more with instructors and scholarly research than with WiStudents Evaluate and Use Information in the Digital Age, found that while nearly 75 percent of students reported using Wikipedia for school research, almost all of them said they turn first to course readings and consulted more with instructors and scholarly research than with Wistudents reported using Wikipedia for school research, almost all of them said they turn first to course readings and consulted more with instructors and scholarly research than with Wikipedia.

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.

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.

46 Aging schools house health hazards; all English 11 - year - olds could receive cookbooks; state planning healthy school report cards; elementary wellness, exercise program benefits students, staff.

According to the National Survey for Sport and Physical Education's Shape of the Nation report released in 1997, nearly half the nation's youths between the ages of 12 and 21 and more than one - third of high school students did not participate in vigorous physical activity on a regular basis.

Responding to recent reports of sexual misconduct in New York City's public schools, a state legislator wants to make it a crime for school employees to have sex even with students who are above the age of consent.

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.

Again, this has been linked to higher student achievement with the Trust reporting that «students who write outside school daily are five times more likely to have levels of writing above those expected for their age, compared with those who never write outside the classroom (30.9 per cent versus 5.8 per cent)».

For a time Winerip did a feature column called «On Sunday,» but in the Times online archive trajectory (a wonderful thing), you can begin to see his favoring of school stories — whether his choice or an assignment editor's is not known — with reporting on teen - age dropouts, disabled students, school taxes, P.S.A.T. tests, etc..

Schools and communities need to devise strategies for managing high school students» asthma, a federal report says, in light of the significant incidence of the chronic respiratory disorder among that age group.

I find it intriguing that we have not fully realised the affordance that technology offers in relation to real - time (just in - time) formative assessment practices that research tells us makes a significant impact on student learning (Wiliam, Black, Hattie) I have a pre-school age child whose school uses a «reporting / communication» tool where daily updates are captured by the educators including work samples, outcomes linked, photos of my child engaged in learning tasks etc..

The Sutton Trust report, «Background to Success», investigates patterns of academic attainment of more than 3,000 students whose educational outcomes were studied across different phases of school and pre-school from age three to age 18.

«The most recent PISA report showed that secondary students in rural and remote schools are up to three years behind students of the same age from high - SES backgrounds in major cities.»

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

The launch of edweek.org in 1996 ushered EPE into the Digital Age and created a platform for the evolution of its Education Week flagship publication into an integrated print - digital news organization that provides distinctive staff - written original reporting, a forum for a lively but civil exchange of opinion on education issues, an unequaled online archive of 30 - plus years of education coverage, high - quality content from news and information partners, interactive databases, and a host of video, multimedia, and other features that clarify complex points of policy and bring the stories of American schools, educators, students, and parents to life.

In the 2014 — 15 academic year, students between the ages of 12 and 18 reported nearly twice as many bullying incidents in transitional areas between classes — where they spend a fraction of their time — as in other school areas like cafeterias or playgrounds.

By student age, charter - school parents are more likely to report they are «very satisfied» with their school by 6, 5, and 9 percentage points, respectively, compared to parents whose children attend an assigned - district school.

Half of school students aged between 16 and 18 say they will consider an apprenticeship after leaving school, a new report claims.

In a recent study from the National Center for Education Statistics, students between the ages of 12 and 18 reported nearly twice as many bullying incidents in hallways and stairwells — where they spend a fraction of their time — as in other school areas like cafeterias or playgrounds.

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Student Assistance Coordinator School Law Certificate Day 1 - Emerging Legal Issues and Requirements for SACs This session will include an overview of legal requirements related to the role of the student assistance counselor, including the components of a comprehensive drug and alcohol counseling program, requirements for reporting students suspected of being under the influence, the parameters of student confidentiality and student records law in the age of technology and social media, and the intersection between drug and alcohol dependency and related mental health Student Assistance Coordinator School Law Certificate Day 1 - Emerging Legal Issues and Requirements for SACs This session will include an overview of legal requirements related to the role of the student assistance counselor, including the components of a comprehensive drug and alcohol counseling program, requirements for reporting students suspected of being under the influence, the parameters of student confidentiality and student records law in the age of technology and social media, and the intersection between drug and alcohol dependency and related mental health student assistance counselor, including the components of a comprehensive drug and alcohol counseling program, requirements for reporting students suspected of being under the influence, the parameters of student confidentiality and student records law in the age of technology and social media, and the intersection between drug and alcohol dependency and related mental health student confidentiality and student records law in the age of technology and social media, and the intersection between drug and alcohol dependency and related mental health student records law in the age of technology and social media, and the intersection between drug and alcohol dependency and related mental health issues.

More than a third of the students in this report never met with a high school guidance counselor, and almost half did not know they had a legal right to remain in school until age 21.

Additionally, Discovery Education Espresso continuously provides timely news content to educators and keeps students engaged in current global issues through biweekly broadcasts from a Swedish news service for primary schools, as well as regular, age - appropriate reports from Sweden's leading daily newspaper, Dagens Nyheter.

Even as official reports still attempt to explain away absent students through Texas» many «leaver codes» and attempt to classify the disappearing populations in innocuous or benign ways, the fact is: we are not educating large segments of the school - age population.

Their school year is 11 months, and Chinese students typically spend twice as much time on homework than their U.S. peers, according to a 2006 Asia Society report, «Math and Science Education in a Global Age: What the U.S. Can Learn from China.»

In 2015, there were 33 victimizations per 1,000 students ages 12 to 18 at school, according to the report, Indicators of School Crime and Safetyschool, according to the report, Indicators of School Crime and SafetySchool Crime and Safety 2016.

Mulgrew stated that both State Education Commissioner John King and Chancellor Dennis Walcott told him they were against standardized testing for pre K to grade 2 but Mulgrew went on to say that 36 schools were giving bubble tests to kids of this age and that he talked to a teacher who reported that some of these students could not even hold a pencil.

The report revisits the findings of a 2011 issue brief by CAP examining teacher diversity, which found that students of color made up more than 40 % of the school - age population, while teachers of color were only 17 % of the teaching force.

[1] As a result of this policy that outlines inclusive education, survey data from the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) in 2005 reported 32 % of 700,000 primary school - age children with disabilities attended classes in regular schools, a significant advancement for the country given that up to just a decade ago, there was only one lower secondary school that was able to accept students with disabilities.

Unlike VOSD's previous reporting, which focused solely on data for the class of 2016 from five charters, the new data shows high school students of all age groups who transferred during a single school year.

OAKLAND — Although California school districts have largely focused on building new schools to accommodate growing student populations, districts should concentrate more on renovating and replacing aging schools, according to a new report.

Following a longitudinal study, NFER produced a case study report which found that if school - based programmes are put in place to support students aged 14 - 16 at risk of temporary disconnection from learning, then the young people's attitudes to school can be improved over time.

According to the NNG's report on student and parent use of educational websites, grade - school age groups and their parents require a very different kind of approach in the overall design.

Objectives To determine parental knowledge of risk behaviors of their middle - school - aged children and to compare that knowledge with behaviors reported by the students.

To determine parental knowledge of risk behaviors of their middle - school - aged children and to compare that knowledge with behaviors reported by the students.

Approximately 1 in 5 female high school students report being physically and / or sexually abused by a dating partner.4 A study of college students revealed that nearly half of them had been the victim of emotional, sexual, and / or physical violence by a partner.5 Females 16 to 24 years of age are more vulnerable to IPV than any other age group.3 Given the complexities and unique dynamics in the teenaged population, further discussion of IPV in adolescent relationships is beyond the scope of this report.

Despite these modifications, consistencies with data from other developed nations were apparent: children's reports of Social Integration at school were similar to those reported previously in primary school samples in Australia14 and Hong Kong30 31; response patterns on the EATQ - R scales (Attention, Inhibitory Control, Perceptual Sensitivity and Aggression) aligned with data from a community sample of 1055 Dutch32 school students of similar age and access to Supportive Relationships at Home, School and in the Community was similar to that reported for a community sample of Canadian fourth - grade school children (~ 2 years younger than our sample).16 The pattern of responses on the Big Five personality constructs was also consistent with that reported for an Australian sample of 268 children aged 10 — 12 years33 using the full 65 - item version of the BFQ school were similar to those reported previously in primary school samples in Australia14 and Hong Kong30 31; response patterns on the EATQ - R scales (Attention, Inhibitory Control, Perceptual Sensitivity and Aggression) aligned with data from a community sample of 1055 Dutch32 school students of similar age and access to Supportive Relationships at Home, School and in the Community was similar to that reported for a community sample of Canadian fourth - grade school children (~ 2 years younger than our sample).16 The pattern of responses on the Big Five personality constructs was also consistent with that reported for an Australian sample of 268 children aged 10 — 12 years33 using the full 65 - item version of the BFQ school samples in Australia14 and Hong Kong30 31; response patterns on the EATQ - R scales (Attention, Inhibitory Control, Perceptual Sensitivity and Aggression) aligned with data from a community sample of 1055 Dutch32 school students of similar age and access to Supportive Relationships at Home, School and in the Community was similar to that reported for a community sample of Canadian fourth - grade school children (~ 2 years younger than our sample).16 The pattern of responses on the Big Five personality constructs was also consistent with that reported for an Australian sample of 268 children aged 10 — 12 years33 using the full 65 - item version of the BFQ school students of similar age and access to Supportive Relationships at Home, School and in the Community was similar to that reported for a community sample of Canadian fourth - grade school children (~ 2 years younger than our sample).16 The pattern of responses on the Big Five personality constructs was also consistent with that reported for an Australian sample of 268 children aged 10 — 12 years33 using the full 65 - item version of the BFQ School and in the Community was similar to that reported for a community sample of Canadian fourth - grade school children (~ 2 years younger than our sample).16 The pattern of responses on the Big Five personality constructs was also consistent with that reported for an Australian sample of 268 children aged 10 — 12 years33 using the full 65 - item version of the BFQ school children (~ 2 years younger than our sample).16 The pattern of responses on the Big Five personality constructs was also consistent with that reported for an Australian sample of 268 children aged 10 — 12 years33 using the full 65 - item version of the BFQ - C.20

Results at the one - year follow - up reported that students who participated in the program, as compared with a control group, showed greater family cohesion, less family fighting, greater school attachment, higher self - esteem, and a belief that alcohol should not be consumed until an older age.

Individual indicators of self - reported victimization among elementary school - age students: A latent class analysis.

A report recently released by Rhode Island Kids Count indicates that in 2015, 19 percent of high school students and 7.5 percent of middle school students had reported using an e-cigarette at the same time traditional cigarette use was at an all - time low for those age groups.