Sentences with phrase «school day on average»

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High schoolers are on screens for non-academic reasons for an average of 9 hours a day; this is more hours per day than they sleep!

children eligible for free & reduced - price meals participated in school breakfast on an average school day

Up from 23.4 % in 2007, in 2017 40.6 % of students now spend 3 or more hours each day (on an average school day) playing video or computer games, or using a computer, smartphone, or tablet for something other than school work.

On an average day in Vermont's schools, about 75 % of students who qualify for free meals, and 50 % of all students, eat school lunch.

The almost weeklong protest resulted in a 22 percent average drop in cafeteria sales on each day ---- costing the school about $ 860 a day, school officials said.

Nationally, on an average day during the 2015 — 2016 school year, 12.1 million students eligible to receive free and reduced - price school meals participated in school breakfast, an increase of 3.7 percent, or nearly 433,000 children from the previous school year.

In North Carolina, 371,000 low - income children participated in the national School Breakfast Program on an average school day in school year 2016 — 2017, according to a report released today bySchool Breakfast Program on an average school day in school year 2016 — 2017, according to a report released today byschool day in school year 2016 — 2017, according to a report released today byschool year 2016 — 2017, according to a report released today by FRAC.

Nationally, on an average school day, 56 low - income children participated in the School Breakfast Program for every 100 participating in the National School Lunch Program, up from 54.3 the previous school year and 50.4 percent in the 2011 — 2012 schoolschool day, 56 low - income children participated in the School Breakfast Program for every 100 participating in the National School Lunch Program, up from 54.3 the previous school year and 50.4 percent in the 2011 — 2012 schoolSchool Breakfast Program for every 100 participating in the National School Lunch Program, up from 54.3 the previous school year and 50.4 percent in the 2011 — 2012 schoolSchool Lunch Program, up from 54.3 the previous school year and 50.4 percent in the 2011 — 2012 schoolschool year and 50.4 percent in the 2011 — 2012 schoolschool year.

According to the Food Research & Action Center's newly released School Breakfast Scorecard, 12.2 million low - income students participated in the School Breakfast Program on an average school day in the 2016 — 2017 schoolSchool Breakfast Scorecard, 12.2 million low - income students participated in the School Breakfast Program on an average school day in the 2016 — 2017 schoolSchool Breakfast Program on an average school day in the 2016 — 2017 schoolschool day in the 2016 — 2017 schoolschool year.

With the steady encroachment of technology into the average home and the emphasis on academics in school early on, most children these days lose out on valuable playtime at home and in school.

The report found that nearly 12.2 million children participated in the School Breakfast Program on an average day, nearly 70,000 additional students than compared to the year before.

Thirty - one million children eat school lunches, and nearly 15 million get school breakfasts on an average day.

A recent study which looked at 58 elementary and secondary schools found that on days when only white milk was offered in cafeterias, milk consumption dropped an average of 35 percent.

In July 2010, only 15 children received Summer Nutrition for every 100 low - income students who received lunch on an average day in the 2009 - 2010 school year, a significant decrease from 2009's ratio of 16:100.

Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign reported in 2013 that on average, students who eat school breakfast attend 1.5 more days of school per year and score 17.5 percent higher on standardized math tests; when combined, these factors translate into a student being twenty percent more likely to graduate high school.

A new study says that on average, New York City charter school students show growth equal to 23 extra days of learning in reading and 63 more days in math each year, compared with similar students in traditional public schools.

On average, study participants reported three missed days of work or school in a three - month period, or 12 missed days in a year.

Larry Kramer of Texas Medical School in Houston and colleagues carried out MRI scans on 27 NASA astronauts after they had spent an average of 108 days in space.

The Institute of Medicine's recommended daily amount of fiber is 25 grams or more, depending on gender and age, but the average American gets only 15 grams a day, says the Harvard School of Public Health.

During pharmacy school, I worked as a pharmacy intern at a busy Walgreens pharmacy, where we filled on average 500 prescriptions per day.

On Chicago's south side, an average day finds kids prepping for school as their parents head off to work, young adults trying to make a living, and the elders keeping an eye on things from their front porcheOn Chicago's south side, an average day finds kids prepping for school as their parents head off to work, young adults trying to make a living, and the elders keeping an eye on things from their front porcheon things from their front porches.

Going back 15 years to the days of Tony Blair's «education, education, education» statement stressing his commitment to the sector, schools have experienced a budget increase of, on average, 3.5 per cent per annum.

On average, 20 - 30 students stay after school each day to do homework, and up to 40 students — nearly a third of the student body — show up on SaturdayOn average, 20 - 30 students stay after school each day to do homework, and up to 40 students — nearly a third of the student body — show up on Saturdayon Saturdays.

«Those who attended an after - school club one day per week had, on average, a 1.7 point higher actual Key Stage 2 score than predicted based on their prior attainment and circumstances, while those who attended an after - school club two days per week had on average a three point higher actual total point score than predicted.»

Kronholz cites findings from the National Council on Teacher Quality's database on collective - bargaining agreements in 113 large school districts, which show that district contracts give their teachers an average of 13.5 days of sick and personal leave per school year.

The average Massachusetts student misses eight school days per year, according to Goodman, but student absences vary by poverty status, with poor students being absent ten days per year on average, three days more than nonpoor students.

A 2008 paper by Sylvia Allegretto, Sean Corcoran, and Lawrence Mishel presents a 14.1 percent wage correction for «summers off» based on 188 work days, 9 paid holidays, and 15.6 paid vacation days in a school year; 15 percent of teachers working in summer school; and nonteacher college graduates averaging a paid work year of 51 weeks (based on March CPS tabulations).

Courtenay Harris and Leon Straker's «Survey of physical ergonomics issues associated with school childrens» use of laptop computers» found that students in schools with mandatory laptop programs spent on average more than three hours per day on the computer.

School systems would have to raise their annual budgets by an average of about 20 percent in order to respond to three of the major recommendations of the National Commission on Excellence in Education: extending the school day to seven hours, extending the school year to 200 days, and making teachers» starting salaries «market sensitive.&School systems would have to raise their annual budgets by an average of about 20 percent in order to respond to three of the major recommendations of the National Commission on Excellence in Education: extending the school day to seven hours, extending the school year to 200 days, and making teachers» starting salaries «market sensitive.&school day to seven hours, extending the school year to 200 days, and making teachers» starting salaries «market sensitive.&school year to 200 days, and making teachers» starting salaries «market sensitive.»

Similarly, it would be ideal to understand the intensity of use of blended learning in schools — for what percentage of the day are students in blended - learning environments or how many classes on average do students take that are blended — but the survey didn't get at these questions.

Data from the National Council on Teacher Quality show that the average CBA entitles teachers to nearly thirteen days of paid sick and / or personal leave per 180 - day school year (or the equivalent of sixteen days over the typical professional's 225 - day work year).

But consider this: In the typical 180 - day school year, an average daily attendance rate of 93 percent means students are missing, on the...

«I'm just not prepared to give up on it because I think 90 per cent [whole school attendance] is unacceptable - on average every kid missing a day a fortnight is just outrageous.»

In the education department's 2009 — 10 report — assembled by its Office for Civil Rights from surveys of 57,000 schools — on average, half the teachers in the 208 Rhode Island schools surveyed were absent more than 10 days during the year, surpassing teacher absences in Hawaii, Arkansas, Oregon, and New Mexico by only a whisker.

Selman and Elizabeth's eagerness to create the guide also springs from a depressing fact: According to a 2010 Kaiser Family Foundation study of 8 - to 18 - year - olds, students outside of school spend a huge amount of time each day — more than seven and a half hours on average — using media.

Parents were sent an average of 30 texts over one school year, with content ranging from dates of upcoming tests and warnings about missed homework, to conversation prompts on what their child had learnt that day.

The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), which maintains a database on collective - bargaining agreements in 113 large school districts, reports that the contracts give their teachers, on average, 13.5 days of sick and personal leave per school year.

To hit the target, the principal and his staff will need to find a solution to the problem of the Friday dip — whole school attendance on that day of the week is around 4 per cent lower than average.

The bright side is that with effective modules, adaptive modification, and the will to succeed, the average citizen of the future will be learning something new every day, whether it's at school or on the job, for the rest of their lives.

On average, the teachers in the study say that their pupils take four tests or assessments annually and spend approximately 37 hours, or the equivalent of five school days, a year taking them.

Displaced students from district schools that closed in urban areas gained, on average, forty - nine extra days of learning in reading relative to the comparison group; in math, it was thirty - four days.

The researchers at Loughborough University's School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences found that, when compared to the London average, pupils on the Greenhouse Sports programmes are twice more likely to meet or exceed the 60 minutes of exercise a day recommended by government.

«Those who attended an after - school club one day per week had, on average, a 1.7 point higher actual Key Stage 2 score than predicted based on their prior attainment and circumstances, while those who attended after - school club two days per week had on average a three point higher actual total point score than predicted.»

Walking into the school just three years ago and you would have been faced with a very different situation: «On an average day there were fights, a fair amount of bullying and no real respect for each other,» remembers head teacher Liam Nolan.

The researchers at Loughborough University's School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences found that, when compared to the London average, pupils on the Greenhouse Sports programmes are twice more likely to meet or exceed the 60 minutes of exercise a day recommended by Government.

In Solihull this has averaged out to saving schools two and a half days» administration a month, a significant amount of time which can be spent on other aspects of running a school.

Every missed school day costs the district state funding, which is calculated on average daily attendance.

The survey found that on average, secondary school teachers lose 50 minutes each day because of pupil misconduct.

In Florida, which tests students more frequently than most other states, many schools this year will dedicate on average 60 to 80 days out of the 180 - day school year to standardized testing.

On average, students spent 7.5 hours per day and 185 days per year in school, compared to an average of 6.9 hours per day and 170 days per year in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) during the period this analysis covers.