Sentences with phrase «students in those grades who»

[3] I also calculate the percentage of students in all grades who were eligible for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program, an indicator of socioeconomic disadvantage.

Black students represent 16 percent of middle school students, but 42 percent of students in those grades who are held back a year.

NCLB's adequate yearly progress (AYP) model, for example, identifies schools as successful or unsuccessful on the basis of the percentage of students in each grade who have attained the minimum «proficiency» level.

This model identifies schools as successful or unsuccessful on the basis of the percentage of students in each grade who have attained the minimum «proficient» level.

My son is one of the more than 250 students in his grade who met those requirements and parents want to make sure those standards remain in place.

Not exact matches

According to The News & Observer, Wednesday's report «found a new culprit: the Academic Support Program for Student - Athletes... The report describes a fairly broad group of academic and athletic officials who knew about athletes getting better grades in classes that only required papers, yet taking little or no action.»

«College students who reported positive fantasies tended to report putting less effort into their coursework; this was, in turn, associated with lower grades and higher depression scores,» reports the release, though the study's authors caution more research is needed.

A study by Dan Ariely and Klaus Wertenbroch bears this out: They found that students who turned in work at regular intervals during the semester got higher grades than those who chose to turn in all their work on the last possible day.

Almost half of Canadian students (45 %) who wrote the test in 2000 achieved top scores in reading, but in 2009 only 40 % made similar grades.

And it's hardly racially balanced: Black students are three times more likely to be suspended or expelled than white students, according to the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, and research in Texas found students who have been suspended are more likely to be held back a grade and drop out of school entirely.

God's Not Dead, the tale of a college professor who grades his students based on whether they'll write «God is dead» in their notebooks, is not an example of high quality movie making.

Along with her pet lizard «Liz,» the excellently dressed Miss Frizzle was her classroom's intrepid leader, who used moxie and a bit of magic to guide her third - grade students in learning science.

I too have been reading since the beginning — who needs a story — you've got the man, you've got the happiness, and you've got the skills to make one hell of an empty stomach feel like the luckiest organ in the world — Besides, my husband, who was able to vote when I was born, just happens to be my professor from college... And when people ask what grade I got in his class, I become quiet and with a slight whisper say «I got a B» — And that was only 1 of 3 B's I got in college... Our story is wonderful for him since he nabbed the young student... Doesn't sound so good for me, but I love him and sharing it regardless... Happy Anniversary Deb and Alex!!!

Parents and / or teachers of students in grades 1 - 3 who would like to participate in the program can visit the «Just for Kids» section on www.idahopotato.com.

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.

For example, if a faculty member arranged for a student - athlete to receive credit in a course in which they did not enroll or attend or created a fake course that had no requirements but resulted in a grade, the NCAA Constitution would require anyone who became aware of that arrangement to report it.

If the grades for his three intellectually daunting courses (Golf 1, Music 140, AIDS: What Every College Student Should Know), which are due on Sept. 4, don't raise his cumulative GPA to at least 2.0, then the man who may be the best player in the nation will be academically ineligible from Sept. 5, when Ohio State opens its season at West Virginia, until mid-December.

At Castilleja, the only prize you get for a senior talk or 8th grade speech is flowers — flowers and the comments of teachers and students alike who will tell you «congrats on your speech» and «great speech,» whether you have spoken to them before in your life or not.

Students who are enrolled in a pre-AP course receive an earned grade for the course multiplied by 1.1, and those enrolled in an AP receive one multiplied by 1.2, when factored into GPA.

In a second, parallel study in which all students were required to revise their paper, the black students who received the «high expectations» Post-it were graded more than two points higher, on a 15 - point scale, on the revised essay than the ones who got the plain - vanilla «feedback» Post-iIn a second, parallel study in which all students were required to revise their paper, the black students who received the «high expectations» Post-it were graded more than two points higher, on a 15 - point scale, on the revised essay than the ones who got the plain - vanilla «feedback» Post-iin which all students were required to revise their paper, the black students who received the «high expectations» Post-it were graded more than two points higher, on a 15 - point scale, on the revised essay than the ones who got the plain - vanilla «feedback» Post-it.

In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeeIn contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeein order to succeed.

Students in 4th - 6th grade who went to bed an average of 30 - 40 minutes earlier improved in memory, motor speed, attention, and other abilities associated with math and reading test scores.

However, some students at Princeton agreed with the article, and cited professors who had complained about the athletes in their classes for bringing down the average grade and for low attendance to lectures.

Sports - Related Drug Testing: N.J.S.A. 18A: 40A - 23 (2005) allows boards of education to adopt a policy for the random testing of the districts students in grades 9 - 12 who participate in extracurricular activities, including interscholastic athletics, or who possess parking permits for the use of controlled dangerous substances, including as defined in N.J.S.A. 2C: 35 - 2 and 24:21 - 2 or alcoholic beverages, as defined in N.J.S.A. 33:1 - 1.

A majority of the more than 1,385 high school students, 3,600 parents and 520 teachers of all grade levels who returned a questionnaire after this change was piloted in Palo Alto said, «If I controlled the school calendar, I would want first - semester finals to occur before winter break»; this included more than 85 percent of the high school students, according to Challenge Success.

Drawing material from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS - 88) and tracking a representative sample of students who were in 10th grade in 1990 and 12th grade in 1992, to see what was happening in their lives in 2000, the following was discovered in comparing high school athletes to non-athletes.

There's James Heckman, a Nobel Prize - winning economist at the University of Chicago, who found in the late 1990s that students who earned high school diplomas through the General Educational Development program, widely known as the GED, had the same future prospects as high school dropouts, a discovery that led him to conclude that there were qualities beyond courses and grades that made a big difference in students» success.

The Admission Committee looks at the applicant in the context of students currently attending and the other candidates who would like to join the same grade.

Any family who requests tuition reduction for a student in the grades classes may be eligible for a maximum of 40 % reduction off of the regular full tuition for the 2016 - 2017 school year.

Today's New York Post has a story (in which I'm quoted) about eighth grade students in Queens who, due to school cafeteria overcrowding, will be required to eat their «lunch» this year at 9:45 am.

But as a former student who once devoted way too many hours to busy work that didn't teach me anything, and a current parent who has been shocked to see my child get homework in both kindergarten and first grade, I have to say, I think that Alfie Kohn just might be on to something.

For example, some teachers give high grades to students who try hard and hand their homework in even if their calculations are consistently wrong.

In fact, students who excel in ninth grade are far more likely to graduate high school, enroll in college and remain in college beyond their freshman year, than are students who struggled through their first year of high schooIn fact, students who excel in ninth grade are far more likely to graduate high school, enroll in college and remain in college beyond their freshman year, than are students who struggled through their first year of high schooin ninth grade are far more likely to graduate high school, enroll in college and remain in college beyond their freshman year, than are students who struggled through their first year of high schooin college and remain in college beyond their freshman year, than are students who struggled through their first year of high schooin college beyond their freshman year, than are students who struggled through their first year of high school.

Students who wish to have all collegiate options down the road will need to take a rigorous course load, beginning in ninth grade.

A student who transfers from the Florida Virtual School full - time program to a traditional public school before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year pursuant to paragraph (a).

Any public school or private school student who has been unable to maintain academic eligibility for participation in interscholastic extracurricular activities is ineligible to participate in such activities as a charter school student until the student has successfully completed one grading period in a charter school pursuant to subparagraph 2.

A student who transfers from a charter school program to a traditional public school before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year, pursuant to subparagraph 2.

Milestones End - of - Grade (EOG) exams are administered every spring in Grades 3 - 8 in the subjects of English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies; Milestones End - of - Course (EOC) exams are administered for designated high school courses... and, middle school students who are taking any of those courses for high school credit must also take the EOC for that subject.

After having been a tutor / mentor in language arts for students in grades 3 -4-5 for several years, I wanted to see how another program worked to help students who were behind in school catch up.

Studies conducted in Minnesota and Maryland found that students who ate breakfast before starting school had a general increase in math grades and reading scores.

Here's the explanation of the award: «Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's Empire State Excellence in Teaching Award recognizes educational leaders, pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, who exemplify the professional work of thousands of outstanding, progressive teachers and innovative educators striving to attain New York standards and success for all of their students.

Catalfo, a math whiz who passed the exam in seventh grade, found the flaw as he was reviewing the test in order to tutor other students.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to stop intimidating New York parents and school districts with threats of pulling funding from schools with high percentages of students who opt out of grades 3 - 8 Common Core standardized tests — in essence, telling them to stop trying to «kill the messenger» for their introduction of a flawed system.

In math, the percentage of students in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased slightly over last year in most of the Big 5 City School DistrictIn math, the percentage of students in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased slightly over last year in most of the Big 5 City School Districtin grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased slightly over last year in most of the Big 5 City School Districtin most of the Big 5 City School Districts.

In the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets iIn the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets iin Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets iin each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets inin.

Less than one - third of students in the third through eighth grade, around 31 percent, passed the new math and English exams given for the first time this year, says Regents Chancellor Merrill Tisch, who made the announcement on a conference call.

The 4 +1 option would apply beginning with students who first entered ninth grade in or after September 2011 and thereafter or who are otherwise eligible to receive a high school diploma in June 2015 and thereafter and have passed four required Regents exams (or Department - approved alternative assessments) in English, mathematics, science and social studies.

Yet he documented multiple instances in which principals had targeted teachers for dismissal without even observing them or rated teachers ineffective when they would not change grades or would not pass students who barely attended class.

Students who do poorly on the exams have to try to improve their performance in summer school or face having to repeat a grade.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.