Sentences with phrase «tenth grader»

Therefore, a grade level score of 10.4 would indicate that a tenth grader would be able to read the text.

In an email a few days ago, Clara Nevins, a tenth grader there, asked this question:

Kayla is a tenth grader and for the first time in her life she is participating in extra-curricular activities and she has goals for her future.»

«I always tried getting on her good side,» said tenth grader Rachelle, «but for some reason I was always on her bad side.»

Nicky, a tenth grader at NYC iSchool, told us what that meant to students:

«In everything that we do, all of the teachers and all of the leaders, they're preparing us to be leaders,» said tenth grader Tyler Rountree.

For example, your seventh grade student scored the same as a tenth grader taking that seventh grade test.

Russlynn Ali, the former assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education, talks about the district where a black Kindergartener gets suspended for pulling a fire alarm while a white tenth grader does the same thing and gets off with a warning.

When you see a tenth grader try to «clone a carnivorous plant,» or a ninth grader learn sign language to communicate with her deaf younger cousin, or a fourth grader produce his own movie, then you'll know why 20 % rocks.

For instance, Mino recalls a tenth grader at Crosby High School, in Waterbury, Connecticut, who described the game this way: «PowerUp lets me save the world the way I want to.»

Ethan, a tenth grader at Jenkins High School who is in the production, says that since he began playing Marcus Garvey — an early - twentieth - century activist who inspired many U.S. civil rights leaders — he has started to see the civil rights movement pop up everywhere: on television, in conversations, even in class.

Leslie Bank, a tenth grader at Turlock High School, in California's Central Valley, has a favorite place to visit.

«Terry's video was fantastic,» says his teacher, Meredith Szewchuk, who taught the tenth grader last year at York, a public high school.

Oddly enough, it was about a brilliant but obnoxious tenth grader who is eventually ejected from his school.

Tenth grader Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) is Rushmore Academy's most extracurricular student — and its least scholarly.

I am a tenth grader that is 15 years old.

Tenth grader Perla says she's already talking to her young daughter about what she wants for her.

«The ninth and tenth graders still have this test over their heads that they have to take,» said Angie Gallo, legislative chair for the Florida PTA, which has been urging officials in Tallahassee to find a solution.

Between 1992 and 1995, the proportion of eighth graders using illicit drugs almost doubled; among tenth graders it jumped by nearly two - thirds; among seniors it escalated by nearly half.

The percentage of adolescents reporting to have sexual experience in this study was relatively low — up to 5.8 percent of tenth graders and 11.4 percent of twelfth graders.

The tenth graders» teachers conducted classes remotely over the Internet, keeping in touch with video chats enabled by webcams or email.

Tenth graders study world religions, and juniors enroll in a PeaceBuilders course, which includes a vision quest retreat and a personal service project.

The first year I did this, there was a lot of pushback from students who weren't used to having a teacher visit their home, but in the second year, the tenth graders were able to sell the idea for me.

Like most tenth graders in the country, Envision Schools» students read To Kill a Mockingbird.

For instance, her tenth graders chose a Waterkeeper group as part of a pen pal program.

In my intro to technology course, required for tenth graders, [students] learned to make basic Web pages using straight HTML.

A group of five tenth graders can be seen seated in various different areas at their site in an alleyway.

The first submission is a world - history text for tenth graders, and it lives on Wikipedia, an open - content encyclopedia.

When the state in 2003 required students to pass the proficiency bar on the high school examination offered to tenth graders, critics claimed many students would fail.

In a growing number of high schools around the country, however, ninth and tenth graders are being organized into interdisciplinary academic teams, with advisory programs not unlike middle schools.

Bassett also knows the program is working because of the number of ninth and tenth graders who have moved on but return to ask to do community service with the group.

Tenth graders in the U.S. take an advanced algebra course in mathematics.

Tenth graders discover details about the First Nations of Alberta.

Like many tenth graders, my husband couldn't fathom how to fill a class period with prose about a leaf.

Massachusetts, for example, is quite stringent, so that only 20 % of tenth graders are labeled «proficient,» though MA consistently scores among the top states on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

The scores for eight and tenth graders yielded similarly abysmal results.

One of our tenth graders won an essay contest that will enable her to spend almost three weeks in Greece this summer.

COUNSELOR NAKIA BURROWS (Northwest College Prep High School)-- We've taken students who've come to us as tenth graders and eleventh graders — we've even taken some students who've come to us as seniors who were not on track to graduate — and we've found ways to get those students back on track.

California Department of Education officials want to administer a new statewide science test to all fifth, eighth and tenth graders this spring; a test tailor - made to match the new science standards teachers are following this year.

For the first time ever, the Optional Schools Application will allow rising ninth and tenth graders (current eighth and ninth graders) to not only choose their school, but to choose their area of study, too.

Tenth graders also take an assessment in science.

So here's what Maltese and Hochbein did: They looked at how well all of a school's tenth graders scored on the «end - of - course assessments» to determine if the school was improving or declining.

When I looked up the records on the Colorado Education website I learned that the group of 44 graduates who got into college did not begin as 44 tenth graders two years earlier.

The Lopez Street campus — which serves elementary and middle schoolers — and the new North Derbigny Street campus — which will serve ninth and tenth graders — will each have their own parent representative.

I think the worst teaching I saw was a TFA - type English teacher who had a class with about 9 tenth graders.

In a class of 33 students (too many, I might add) of tenth graders taking Advanced Placement US Government and Politics I can easily have a very wide range of learning styles: were I to always teach in the same way I would be ignoring those differences, favoring some while disfavoring others.

Tenth graders, however, turned in a less than stellar performance, with scores dropping slightly in writing, math and science.

Tenth graders discuss Elie Wiesel's memoir Night in Jessica Frichtel's language arts class.

Countering Bullying and Harassment, our pro-social, anti-bullying curriculum for sixth through tenth graders, shares an approach for building competency and commitment among early adolescents to counter bullying and harassment that was developed over the course of many years within our organization and field tested in collaboration with six middle schools in Massachusetts.

In one study of 1,140 tenth graders, the dropout rate among athletes was 1 % while it climbed to 11 % for those who didn't play a high school sport.