Sentences with phrase «than elementary school students»

«For example, we found that middle school students had less affective engagement or positive emotions — such as interest, happiness and excitement — than elementary school students.

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My fiancé teaches elementary school and her students seem to know more about science than you.

Middle school teachers tend to offer less social support to students than do elementary school teachers.

In addition, the early middle school grades typically provide less independence to students than do the upper levels of elementary schools.

Bullying tends to peak in 6th grade, and many students find that the academic challenges of middle school are far more difficult than in elementary school.

I am glad the show is tackling an entire school system, rather than only focusing on the much - easier - to - mold - and - entertain pre-school and elementary school students.

With more than a decade of experience as elementary school teacher and parent educator, Amanda Morin has discovered that teaching is more than just lesson plans, it's an interactive process that involves parents, teachers and students working together to create a base of knowledge.

By contrast, last school year, the district's food service staff fed more than half of Milton high school students, 70 percent of elementary and middle school students and around 100 staff members regularly.

The program, called PARK Kids, is aimed at providing elementary and middle school students with structured programs that offer more than traditional park fare, such as basketball or track.

Students in a Brooklyn elementary - school classroom drank from a fountain whose water was more contaminated than Flint, Mich.'s — laden with 1,000 times the amount of lead permitted by federal safety regulations, a December test revealed.

Sloan said the 5,451 - student Port Washington school district has about 100 more children enrolled this year than last year, and some elementary class sizes have swelled to 28 students.

[37] Mahopac is the largest school district in Putnam County, educating more than 5,000 students in four elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school (1600 students).

More than 71,000 elementary and middle school students refused to take the state Common Core math test yesterday in 80 of Long Island's 124 school districts that responded to a Newsday survey — nearly 53 percent of those eligible for the exam in those systems.

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

«Angle's radical plans to eliminate the Department of Education would cost Nevada college students more than $ 500 million in financial aid like Pell grants, and hundreds of millions for our state's elementary and secondary schools — all at a time when our students can least afford such draconian cuts,» Reid campaign spokesman Kelly Steele said in a statement.

The carnival is part of the Police Athletic League's Summer Day Camp, which serves more than 2,000 elementary school students at 22 PAL Centers across the city.

Currently, Project BOOST operates in 60 elementary and middle schools, serving more than 700 students in grades four through eight across New York City.

Currently, Project BOOST includes 60 elementary and middle schools, serving more than 700 students in grades four through eight throughout New York City.

It currently includes 60 elementary and middle schools, serving more than 700 students.

More than half of elementary schools responding have scaled back services to help academically struggling students, and almost two thirds cited reductions in supplies.

While two of four elementary schools — P.S. 261 and P.S. 287 — are currently under capacity, by 2017 the neighborhood is expected to absorb more than 4,000 newly occupied apartments and 1,164 new students, leaders said.

A crew of white - coat - clad kitchen employees is preparing locally landed Acadian redfish fillets topped with oyster cracker crumbs and seasoned with Old Bay for more than 2,000 elementary school students.

Based on a study of more than 30,000 elementary, middle, and high school students conducted in winter 2015 - 16, researchers found that elementary and middle school students scored lower on a computer - based test that did not allow them to return to previous items than on two comparable tests — paper - or computer - based — that allowed them to skip, review, and change previous responses.

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.

The clearinghouse now houses more than 500 reports that summarize current findings on such topics as math instruction for young children, elementary school writing and helping students with the college application process.

I had been teaching and promoting science education efforts for more than 10 years, through interactions with underrepresented minority students from elementary school to postdoctoral levels, with the assistance and mentorship of caring people who extended countless opportunities to me throughout my career.

The study of more than 7,000 students in 77 elementary schools in Finland found that one program greatly benefited the mental health of sixth - graders who experienced the most bullying.

Lunches brought from home contained more sodium (1,110 vs less than or equal to 640 mg for elementary and 1,003 vs. less than or equal to 710 mg for middle school students) and fewer servings of fruit (0.33 cup for elementary and 0.29 cup for middle school students vs. 0.50 cup per the NSLP guidelines).

Federal programs provide less than 10 percent of the $ 500 billion spent each year to educate the nation's 50 million elementary and secondary school students.

Boston Latin School Association 27 School Street, Suite 300 Boston, MA 02108 Phone: [phone] The School District of Collier County (CCPS) serves more than 47,000 total students in 29 elementary schools, 10 middle schools, 8 high schools, and a PreK

Before then, the high school dropout rate was almost 16 percent; the percentage of our elementary students meeting national norms on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in reading was less than 37; the percentage of our students testing in the bottom quarter was about 32.

It grows in part because students enrolled in district elementary schools are considerably more likely to be classified as having an SLD than those enrolled in charter elementary schools.

The proportion of students in poverty in the majority - black elementary schools has increased over time, and remains at higher levels (currently at 91 percent poor) than the district's other elementary schools (76.6 percent poor.)

It grows in part because students enrolled in district schools are considerably more likely to be classified as having a specific learning disability in early elementary grades than are students enrolled in charter schools, and also because students without disabilities are more likely to enter charters in non-gateway grades than are students with disabilities.

Across all four districts, which together serve more than 465,000 students, the researchers found new elementary teachers were assigned students who had performed.1 to.3 of a standard deviation below their peers who were assigned to teachers with four years of experience or more — meaning that these students were about three to nine months of schooling behind their classmates.

More than three years ago, schools in the small central Ohio city of Coshocton launched an experiment to pay elementary students for passing or scoring high on state exams.

Since students in the early grades generally have a limited attention span and suffer from learning fatigue in a more demonstrative way than older students, elementary school teachers are constantly forced to manage the learning state more acutely than teachers of middle school and high school.

This shift toward greater accountability also included putting «low performing» schools, those in which fewer than 15 percent of elementary students met national norms in reading, on an academic watch list.

In fact, students with disabilities are less likely to exit charter elementary schools than they are to exit district schools.

In an effort to improve the achievement levels of their most disadvantaged students, the Dade County schools have launched a large new program this year that will place more than 17,000 elementary - school children in classes of 15 or fewer.

Last year, some elementary schools took up to 540 minutes to test students, more than double the length of the SAT.

The largest declines were among elementary schools in 12 urban dioceses (New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Cleveland, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Boston, Newark, Detroit, and Miami), which together have lost almost 20 percent of their students (more than 136,000) in the last five years.

In addition, a survey of English language arts classrooms published by the Fordham Institute found that most elementary - school teachers, at least in the early stages of common core implementation, assigned books based on students» abilities, rather than grade - level complexity, as the standards state.

K12 students are disproportionately enrolled in the middle grades rather than in the elementary or high - school grades.

The vast majority of students, even those in elementary school, claimed that rigorous study habits and test preparation impinged on their ability to get more than seven hours of sleep each night.

Lovenheim and Willén found that students who spent all 12 years of elementary and secondary school in a state with a duty - to - bargain law earn an average of $ 795 less per year as adults than students who were not exposed to collective bargaining laws during the same time period.

Playworks began in two Berkeley, California, elementary schools and today serves more than 50,000 students in 131 low - income public schools.

The study also shows that students with disabilities are less likely to exit charter elementary schools than they are to exit district elementary schools.

A higher percentage of students in West Virginia attend small schools at all three levels — elementary, middle, and high school — than in most other states.

Wellness News Study: Students Drinking by Sixth Grade A study of more than 4,000 sixth - graders in Chicago schools showing that 17 percent already had tried alcohol suggests that education programs need to start at the elementary level, researchers said.