Sentences with phrase «suggests about middle school»

From its inception, Citizen Schools has focused on kids in sixth, seventh, and particularly eighth grade because, as Schwarz suggests about middle school's «capstone year,» intervention at this point is most likely «to prevent kids from voting with their feet and dropping out later on.»

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What was so odd about Dennis Walcott's announcement that New York City was opening 50 new middle schools is that the most recent research suggesting that a middle school grade configuration (generally, 6 — 8) is probably not the way to go was done in his city.

Richard Weissbourd, a boomer - age senior lecturer at Harvard's Education Department, is the lead author of a recent report that suggests misogyny and sexual harassment are «pervasive» among young people, yet few parents are talking to them about it and neither are high schools or middle schools.

«These statistics about young adolescents» poor academic performance suggest that many middle - grades schools are failing to enable the majority of their students to achieve at anywhere near adequate levels,» noted the Phi Delta Kappan editors.

However, the NBER paper suggests that when low - income borrowers attend less selective schools that are still in the middle of the road in terms of economic mobility, about half end up earning more than $ 25,000 a year after entering repayment.