Sentences with phrase «students in the middle»

For example, in his days as an undergraduate at Oxford Waugh's fellow student Harold Acton used a megaphone to shout out lines from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land from an open window of his upper - storey college suite and was later thrown into a fountain by some drunken students in the middle of the night; while another student, Brian Howard, spoke with a stutter and gossiped his head off: all of which got fused in the character of Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited.

We want students in middle school and high school to be able to persevere, to be resilient, to be tenacious when faced with obstacles — but we don't often stop to consider the deep roots of those skills, the steps that every child must take, developmentally, to get there.

As a K - 8 principal, I found the students in my middle school struggling with work overload.

Gain New Perspectives: More than 54 million students in middle and high school participate in youth sports making youth athlete safety a hot topic for a broad audience.

Would you recommend participating in high school sports and activities to students in middle school?

«These schools must also guarantee admission to the two top students in each middle public school,» he said.

Students in middle schools with low student proficiency rates were more than four times as likely to be taught by a U-rated teacher as students in schools with high proficiency rates.

Further, the authors found that many high school students hold the same misconceptions as students in middle school, making the need for high - quality, diagnostic assessments a top priority for energy education.

The botanist Irene Manton and her students in the middle of the last century clarified the ancestry of several groups of British ferns, and showed just how easily a new species can emerge.

Hayat Sindi, founder of the i2 Institute for Imagination and Ingenuity in Saudi Arabia, said she thinks many students in the Middle East, particularly women, stop taking science courses at the introductory level because science and science education are not adequately attuned to social needs.

For group discussions, like Socratic seminars or fishbowl discussions, group students in the middle of the classroom.

FOR GIRLS» SCHOOLS OR SCHOOL PROGRAMS FOR GIRLS This lesson is for students in middle grades and students with learning disabilities in higher grades.

Even students in the middle of the G&T distribution are likely to experience a loss of ranking in the magnet G&T schools as compared to their neighborhood schools.

A Lesson in Proofing Students in middle and high school learn to use Word's Find / Replace feature to check written work, increase accuracy, and improve their grades.

One reason students in middle school need to learn more is to prepare for high school work.

When they complete the castle tour, students in middle school and above can click More About Castles to read The Case of the King Who Was Crazy for Castles.

Because the studies use data from a single school year to contrast students in middle schools and K — 8 schools, most of the available research can not reject the possibility that differences between the groups of students, rather than in the grade configuration of their schools, are actually responsible for the differences in behavior and achievement.

LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

Now, reformers in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Maryland, and New York, and the large urban districts of Cincinnati, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, are challenging the notion that grouping students in the middle grades in their own school buildings is the right approach.

In the New York City schools we studied, the average cohort size was 75 students in K — 8 schools, 100 students in K — 5 and K — 6 schools, and over 200 students in middle schools for grades 6 — 8 and 7 — 8 (see Figure 3).

Students in the middle of the prior test - score distribution also experience substantial gains of roughly 0.10 to 0.12 standard deviations in math and 0.08 to 0.10 standard deviations in English.

Among the half of students in the middle of the ability range the chances of getting a B or above in English at GCSE ranged from one in ten to seven in ten in 2016, depending on their verbal reasoning bias.

Moreover, our findings are limited to students in the middle grades, and it is only the benefits of the relative emphasis on one or another teaching style that is being assessed.

Countries participating in the study were required to administer tests to students in the middle - school years, but could choose whether or not to participate in the primary and final school years.

A student in the middle grades may now have as many as five teachers, none of which know her well — one of the reasons big schools, other things being equal, tend to perform less well than others.

Students in middle - school English, for example, write research papers showing they can analyze and present information from different sources.

There were few, if any, students in the middle range.

I'd be interested in the statistics of students in middle years Mathematics being taught by teachers outside their field.

«Intuitively, I had not expected this to be an important policy lever, but there are a lot of indicators that things are not going well for students in the middle school grades in the United States,» says West, who serves as executive editor of Education Next.

School staff members plan to identify students in middle school who might have trouble graduating in the traditional four years.

From an ICT perspective, Years 10 - 12 have a BYOD program while students in the Middle School and Years 5 - 6 participate in a one - to - one iPad program.

The Web - based lesson plans below are appropriate for ESL / EFL students in continuing - education programs, as well as for students in middle school and high school.

«As a K - 8 school, we have students in our middle school act as peer mediators for our younger children.»

This is one of those creative, yet authentic activities that stimulate engagement and foster enthusiasm for mathematics — and so it can be particularly useful for students in middle and high school, when classroom math becomes more abstract.

It's providing scholarships to children and families at a very young age and actively mentoring students in middle school, high school, and through college, focusing on what it will take for them to succeed.

The nonprofit Carolina Studios built this mobile music studio, which serves students in middle and high school in Charleston, South Carolina.

Decades of research show that homework has some benefits, especially for students in middle and high school — but there are risks to assigning too much.

Several other schools perform higher, but have the advantage of starting with students in middle school or even elementary school.

It's providing scholarships to children and families at a very young age and actively mentoring students in middle school, high school, and through college.

In the same year, 89 percent, each, of students in kindergarten through second grade, and students in third through fifth grade, had a parent who attended a scheduled meeting with a teacher, compared with 71 percent of students in middle school and 57 percent of students in high school.

Online courses allow districts to expand programming options for students in middle school and high school.

She has two kids — one is getting ready for college, the other is a special ed student in middle school.

[ix] In other words, students in some middle schools in which academic performance (as measured by ELA test scores) is high report relatively low social - emotional skills, and vice versa.

High schools rather than all schools are used because choice is more likely to be available for high school students than students in middle or elementary school.

But, in fact, many teachers across the country are reading to students in middle and high schools, too, and some education researchers say more teachers of adolescents ought to be using the same strategy.

Since its release in the fall of 2013, Activators: Classroom Strategies for Engaging Students in Middle and High School has been one of our best - sellers.

A lot happens for students in the middle school years, both personally and academically.

The proposal also calls for nearly $ 200 million in cuts to federal TRIO and Gear Up programs, which help disadvantaged students in middle and high schools prepare for college.

DOMA Algebra can be used to assess Algebra students in middle school or high school to determine their understanding of key Algebra constructs.

Effects of a Professional Development Program on Behavioral Engagement of Students in Middle and High School.