Sentences with phrase «school eighth graders»

Nationally, 33 percent of public school eighth graders achieved at the proficient level or above.

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As an eighth - grader he started on the high school varsity baseball team.

In the meantime, says his volleyball coach Lou Panzella, Marcus will be the same friendly kid he first saw play as an eighth grader at Black Diamond middle school.

The school is currently expanding its program to serve Middle School students and will be accepting new seventh graders in the fall of 2014, and new eighth graders in the fall ofschool is currently expanding its program to serve Middle School students and will be accepting new seventh graders in the fall of 2014, and new eighth graders in the fall ofSchool students and will be accepting new seventh graders in the fall of 2014, and new eighth graders in the fall of 2015.

SH's eighth - graders all go on to wonderful, challenging high schools.

Missing the first two days of school after winter break is okay for my future eighth grader — he will be at a family wedding, with uncles and grandparents, and extended family, and that event and those memories will be far more important in his hopefully long life than the algebra he won't be learning those days.

Researchers Christopher Bryan at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and David Yeager at the University of Texas at Austin, along with other colleagues, randomly assigned over 500 eighth graders to one of three learning conditions:

Linda has shepherded one Steiner School class from first through eighth grades, taken another from sixth through eighth, and is currently happily engaged in teaching a lively band of third graders.

But now, the Baltimore eighth - grader's tray features beds of greens and fruits and vegetables that are available at her middle school through a salad bar option that is sprouting up in school cafeterias around the city.

With more rigorous assessment tests this year creating concerns that the number of failing students could rise, Chicago Public Schools plans to revamp its promotion policy for third -, sixth - and eighth - graders.

It examined about 1,400 eighth graders, from Boston's public and charter schools.

Sixth -, seventh - and eighth - graders at the Oswego school were busy polishing off selections from a multiple - choice menu that included tacos, salads and chicken patties, and even a serving of turkey.

Cindy Garcia, an eighth - grader at Vista Middle School, says having free water available in cups during the UCLA / RAND research program changed her drinking habits.

A survey covering 2005 through 2013 found 71.6 percent of rising eighth graders were students of color, but only 52 percent of those students took an admissions test for specialized high schools.

A Syracuse City School District parent says her daughter was suspended for three days because she refused to take the state English assessment test, but district officials insist the eighth - grader was suspended for «disciplinary reasons.»

They also pointed out how the education department has made recent adjustments to standardized testing, such as reducing the number of questions and testing time on state assessments for students in grades 3 through 8 this school year, and receiving a federal waiver to stop «double testing» in math for seventh and eighth graders through a combination of state and federal testing.

It's just something that no one should have to go to in the middle of a school year, or at all,» said Angelina Mistretta, an eighth grader at City Honors Sschool year, or at all,» said Angelina Mistretta, an eighth grader at City Honors SchoolSchool.

This year's state exams, which third through eighth graders will begin taking this week, immediately follow a bitter battle between Cuomo and teachers» unions over evaluations as well as tenure, merit pay and turnaround strategies for chronically underperforming schools.

The state began testing third through eighth graders on the more difficult material last April, despite protests from unions and teachers that schools did not have the resources or time to prepare.

I am proud to have been a part of his efforts with then - Councilman Ignizio to make sure Island seventh - and eighth - graders had yellow school bus service, and I feel privileged to have his support.»

Because many eighth graders assumed the schools would be closed and the Education Department discouraged them from attending the schools, few applied.

«I first met Ron in 2010 when, working pro bono and working closely with then - Councilman [Vincent] Ignizio and me, he sued the city when it cut school bus service to seventh - and eighth - graders.

Public Preparatory Network, a network of three single - sex schools, launched a «Life Knowledge» course for eighth - graders, to help them envision futures where they won't have babies before they can support them.

A parents organization in the Westhill School District in Onondaga County is asking families to consider having their third through eighth graders refuse to take the next round of state english and math tests.

On statewide tests for third through eighth graders this year, New York City's most troubled schools kept pace with the rest of city schools, showing similar gains in reading and math.

As city of Buffalo's eighth graders are trying to decide where they will go to high school, the Buffalo Public School District will be show - casing five new choices Saturday morning in Bennett High Sschool, the Buffalo Public School District will be show - casing five new choices Saturday morning in Bennett High SSchool District will be show - casing five new choices Saturday morning in Bennett High SchoolSchool.

The eighth grader is one of 25 Northern Adirondack Central School students who dedicate their time to community service projects with the school's Builder's Club, a youth program sponsored by the Rouses Point - Champlain KiwanisSchool students who dedicate their time to community service projects with the school's Builder's Club, a youth program sponsored by the Rouses Point - Champlain Kiwanisschool's Builder's Club, a youth program sponsored by the Rouses Point - Champlain Kiwanis Club.

At Milner, for a few fleeting seconds, eighth - grader Angel Rivera seemed impressed that a city school would have a butterfly vivarium.

An trio of eighth graders asks when there will be speed cameras in front of every city school after their school lost three students to hit - and - runs.

The occasion for my visit was a reunion of Global Tech's first class of eighth - graders, who were now, four years after their middle - school commencement, graduating from high school.

An ongoing lawsuit over the closing of nineteen public schools has delayed notification for 80,000 of the city's eighth - graders waiting to hear from the Department of Education about where they'll be going to high school, and parents are steaming mad.

An eighth grader asks how to make the high school admissions process simpler.

Tens of thousands of eighth - graders still face an uphill battle in high school despite the city's boast that more students passed the 2017 state Common Core exams.

People flocked to a Massapequa school board meeting on Aug. 3, 2017, when the agenda focused on the plan to move sixth - graders districtwide into Alfred G. Berner Middle School with the seventh - and eighth - grschool board meeting on Aug. 3, 2017, when the agenda focused on the plan to move sixth - graders districtwide into Alfred G. Berner Middle School with the seventh - and eighth - grSchool with the seventh - and eighth - graders.

I took to middle school wrestling as a rather scrawny 80 - pound eighth grader, and in so doing, ironically became all too conscious of my homosexual orientation.

Eighth graders at Pennsauken Phifer Middle School in New Jersey will examine the growth rate in microgravity of penicillium, which future astronauts could grow as an antibiotic to treat infections.

Some 209,000 fourth - graders from 8,500 schools and 175,200 eighth - graders from 7,610 schools participated in the 2011 test.

These findings come from the 2017 Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey of eighth, 10th and 12th graders in schools nationwide, reported today by the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, along with scientists from the University of Michigan, who conduct the annual research.

Fifty seventh - and eighth - graders from John Witherspoon Middle School in Princeton came to PPPL for a half day on March 4 to become scientists — doing a variety of hands - on science activities, from building a motor to sampling ice cream frozen with liquid nitrogen in a cryogenics demonstration, to watching cool plasma demonstrations of lightning, static electricity and stars.

Fifty seventh - and eighth - graders from John Witherspoon Middle School in Princeton came to PPPL for a half day on March 4 to become scientists — doing a variety of hands - on science activities, from building a motor to

The film which stars newcomer Elsie Fisher focuses on eighth - grader Kayla as she makes her way through the last week of middle school.

At KIPP Ascend, where many fifth - graders start one or two grades behind in reading and math, after four years at the school, 100 percent of eighth - graders passed math and 94 percent passed reading on the Illinois Standards Achievement Test.

Eighth graders suffered through five to seven different tests at the end of the 2000 - 01 school year, which caused a boycott in Scarsdale and an outcry in some other districts.

Eighth graders in Mollie Ferguson's Globaloria class at Tygarts Valley Middle School, in Mill Creek, W.Va., design their own video games utilizing the Globaloria social network.

With nearly 6.3 million students, California is still far from being able to provide a laptop for everyone, as the state of Maine, with its total number of 189,000 students, was able to do for its seventh and eighth graders (as of fall 2009, about half of Maine's high schools had laptops for each student).

Eighth graders at the author's school taught themselves psychology by writing their own primer on the topic.

Two eighth graders who appeared in the film as sixth graders said facing bullies and getting lost were among their top concerns about middle school.

Such is the case with sixth - graders, who are usually nervous about starting middle school and are sometimes much smaller than the eighth - graders, said Judy Klinek, principal of Florida's Loggers» Run Middle School, which has 56 portables on its campus thisschool and are sometimes much smaller than the eighth - graders, said Judy Klinek, principal of Florida's Loggers» Run Middle School, which has 56 portables on its campus thisSchool, which has 56 portables on its campus this year.

That is so motivating to me, to see 130 eighth graders preparing to go into high school, where they'll take African American history and then other history classes and have a sense of who they are and what they stand for.