Sentences with phrase «taking by high school students»

Patterns of course - taking by high school students show a dramatic shift away from VE as a separate track.

The Iowa City, Iowa - based publisher of the ACT — the college - entrance exam taken by high school students primarily in the Midwest and the South — will open 40 testing centers in the next few months and is on its way to having 250 operating by the end of next year, said Richard L. Ferguson, the president of ACT.

At KCTCS, the number of credit hours taken by high school students increased from nearly 35,000 to more than 75,000 in the same timeframe.

Not exact matches

The shooter, a 19 - year - old expelled former student of the high school, has been taken into custody by authorities.

Two female students at Charles Flanagan High in Pembroke Pines complained that 20 students were threatened by a knife, and they don't feel like the school took their concerns seriously.

The program will have seven stages, including a culinary arts competition in which teams of high school culinary arts students from throughout the country take on the challenge of creating a delicious, nutritious school meal for $ 1 per meal; a Healthy Eating Crockpot 8 - week cooking course for families, at the end of which participants and / or the individuals will receive a free crock pot; healthy recipe / healthy snack cook book and monthly newsletter by student chefs; and supporting student chefs in developing and growing their own home gardens.

But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

From discovering the alphabet in the first grade to discovering anatomy, algebra, and U.S. history in the eighth grade, and all the way up through their high school studies, Waldorf students take part in the learning process by creating their own textbooks — beautifully - drawn journals containing stories, essays, poems, maps, illustrations, lab descriptions, and math equations.

This action was taken despite the fact that our state ranks fifth in the nation for obesity among high school students, and despite public comments reportedly opposing the TDA's plan by an astounding margin of 105 to 8.

As high school students mull which classes to take next fall, many are hoping to get a leg up in the college admissions race by choosing «dual enrollment» courses — university - level academics offered at their schools that earn them actual college credit.

To graduate high school, Wisconsin students have to take a health class worth half a credit that may or may not include nutrition; if it does, a bill recently signed into law by Gov. Scott Walker says nutrition instruction has to be based on guidelines that are updated every five years by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

In 1998, Florida became the first state to require a class on relationships and marriage for high school students, part of a larger plan to encourage marriage skills by discounting marriage licenses for couples that take a premarital skills course.

Some high schools in B.C. are weaning students off «fear of failure» by allowing them, after a failed test result, to review the unit on which the test was based and then take a different version of the test on the same topic.

Dr. Opoku Prempeh, who took his turn at the «Meet the Press» series in Accra, indicated that a number of students had been placed by the Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) but could not enroll in Senior High Schools due to the lack of finances.

Students from Holland High School, Nardin Academy and Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart journey to Washington Friday to take part in this year's National Rocketry Challenge, sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association.

The decision was taken by the Ghana Education Service (GES) after separate meetings with the lady in question, Priscilla Tettey, a final year student of Odoben Senior High School, the headteacher and residents of Eduman.

The terrific video above, created by insideschools.org, takes you through the steps with advice from high school students and educators.

Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has said his Ministry will take on any regional director of Education who fails to protect female students who are victims of sexual abuse by teachers in Senior High Schools across the country.

«Please take note that, apart from the above commitment by the government, all other approved fee items payable by all senior high school students will also be borne by day students,» the statement said.

Under the proposal, half of the expected 300 students would have to meet the higher performance standards while the others — who could be admitted by taking a school tour or signing up for information at a fair, for example — could gain entry based on less stringent criteria, the notice stated.

Organized by the Westchester Student Coalition Against Gun Violence, school security was a major topic after multiple violent incidents took place near New Rochelle High School earlier in theschool security was a major topic after multiple violent incidents took place near New Rochelle High School earlier in theSchool earlier in the year.

The algebra initiative is inspired by a recent report by researchers at the New School, which found that students who don't take algebra do not have access to high - level math and science courses in high school, and are less likely to be college School, which found that students who don't take algebra do not have access to high - level math and science courses in high school, and are less likely to be college school, and are less likely to be college ready.

Inspired by students from the targeted Florida high school, as many as 500,000 people are expected to rally against gun violence and in favor of stricter gun laws on March 24 in Washington, D.C., with sister marches taking place in cities across the world.

The researchers also monitored the advanced math and science courses that students chose to take in high school, concluding that the girls who had been discouraged by their elementary school teachers were much less likely than the boys to opt for advanced courses.

I WAS in Perth last week to take part in the annual science summer school for high school students organised by Murdoch University.

If you were a really keen student in high school, you may remember that insulin takes sugar away from your blood and stores it in your liver and muscles by converting it to a molecule called «glycogen».

They are assigned high - school detail to search for a new drug, and the sheer idiocy of this is never ignored, as students continuously comment on their obvious age — a comic tactic employed by this tongue - in - cheek movie as it takes itself not one - ounce seriously.

In this installment, a high school student by day, ninja by night takes on his dad, the evil warlord Garmadon.

Based on the nonfiction book compiled by Long Beach high school teacher Erin Gruwell from the writings of her economically - challenged and scholastically - underserved students taken from their diaries, Freedom Writers is a formula feel - good film about one teacher's near - quixotic quest to get her students to learn something about themselves, and about others, in order to not be swallowed up by the negativity surrounding them.

The film sees Kalu take on a community leadership role as traditional Hawaian burial sites are disturbed; Kalu's status Kumu sees her teach her male high school students as they prepare for a end of performance, accompanied by sixth grade tomboy Ho'onani, who is also «in the middle» like Kalu.

Olivia took to her Twitter account to comment on the Spring Valley High School incident in which a police officer in South Carolina arrested a black student in her classroom by dragging her from her desk to the front of the room.

The Screen Queensland collaboration and the role it plays in fostering talent and production activity is taken very seriously by Fisher, who states, «For the local industry, we develop future film professionals through screen culture and screen education, (including) dedicated screenings, career forums and workshops for high - school students.

Sort of «The Scarlet Letter» set in a Southern California high school, «Easy A» stars Emma Stone in a hugely charismatic performance as a whip - smart student who takes pity on geeky guys by letting them say they've had sex with her.

The students had just found out that they — like middle and high school students across the country, boosted by fundraising campaigns and the wise support of their principals, teachers, parents, and local community leaders — were taking a school trip to see Black Panther for free.

High schoolers can begin to investigate the mathematics behind the cube (elegant curriculum kits are distributed and sold by Seven Towns Ltd., the makers of the Rubik's Cube), while college students can take entire courses on the mathematics of the Cube.

Hot - button issues such as sanctuary cities, homelessness, and domestic violence were addressed this year by high school students taking part in the Civic Action Project of the Constitutional Rights Foundation.

There is no evidence that high school students who enroll in college - level courses such as Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate classes improve their academic performance in college unless they take the tests offered at the end of each course, says a study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

And if Lawrenceville Academy were to offer a nifty high - school level MOOC in, say, world geography, by what means would Bill or Belinda, students at Bethesda - Chevy Chase High School, get credit for takinghigh - school level MOOC in, say, world geography, by what means would Bill or Belinda, students at Bethesda - Chevy Chase High School, get credit for takischool level MOOC in, say, world geography, by what means would Bill or Belinda, students at Bethesda - Chevy Chase High School, get credit for takingHigh School, get credit for takiSchool, get credit for taking it?

When informed that 75 percent of students graduated from high school, the public took that as neutral to mildly good news, as the percentage giving schools an «A» or «B» increased by a trivial 2 points and the percentage getting a «D» or «F» dropped by 1 point (both statistically insignificant changes).

One highlight that had nothing to do with teachers was that a lot of the gap we see in end of 8th - grade test scores and high school course taking between advantaged and disadvantaged students can be explained by a student's 3rd - grade test.

We first compare the average gains made by all students in charter schools with the gains made by students in traditional public schools, taking into account differences in gender, ethnicity, and the highest level of education completed by their parents.

Taking into account the higher rates of student turnover in charter schools reduces the magnitude of the estimated negative effect of charter schools by 29 percent in reading and by 30 percent in math.

Some use these tests to create «high stakes» for students (preventing them from advancing to the next grade or graduating) or for educators (taking over underperforming schools, requiring the schools to accept external assistance, or simply shaming them by identifying them as poor schools).

Such initiatives can give high - achieving students an incentive to work hard by taking summer school or online classes to wrap up their requirements a semester or two early.

Sixty - six second - year high school students who were preparing during English class to take a high - stakes exam (the PSAT) by practicing the writing section were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: a 30 - minute written «mental contrasting combined with implementation intentions» (MCII) exercise or a control condition.

At Bremerton (Washington) High School, students have taken control of the language they hear in the halls by choosing to hold their tongues.

Students from Rochester High School, located in a rural area two hours north of Indianapolis, earn up to 30 college credits by taking courses online from Tri-County College.

In Littleton, Colorado, infamous for its student assassins, a teacher has been taking high school students to a remote part of Kenya where they work side by side with local people, a project that gets no media coverage.

Still Working: Ghosts of Chinese Transcontinental Railroad Workers by Lonnie Dai Zovi, is a short ghost story with exercises about a pair of graduated high school students taking their last camping trip together sleeping out in the open, right where the deserted Chinese Labor camp, where the workers on the Transcontinental Railroad used to stay.