Sentences with phrase «third of my classmates»

In the early 1990s, the average Latino and black student attended a school where roughly a third of students were low income (as measured by free and reduced price lunch eligibility), but now attend schools where low income students account for nearly two - thirds of their classmates.

Perhaps one - third of my classmates have jobs lined up, based on my conversations with them.

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Consistent with their perceptions of public stigma, more than two - thirds of those polled said they definitely or probably would hide a mental health problem from co-workers or classmates, and more than one - third said they would do so from family or friends as well.

The results were clear: Students who strategically reflected on how to use their resources to learn effectively ended up with higher grades at the end of the semester, outperforming their classmates by an average of one third of a letter grade.

Review I have seen this movie twice, probably the third romantic movie that compelled me to do that, and the reasons are quite simple: It's probably impossible that anyone can't relate to young Josh Hutcherson's character, an 11 year old with a normal middle class life and problems (parents initiating divorce); that its surprise by the rediscovery of a young classmate (Charley Ray) initially as an unexpected friend and later as something else... The well crafted work of director Mark Levin is based on the mutual discovery of all these feelings (mostly new and uncontrolled) that evolved in Josh's character and in another particular viewer: you.

So we wanted to see if playfulness in Kindergarten had any predictive ability to talk about how the children would be in First, Second and Third Grades, both in terms of teacher's perspectives and in terms of their classmates» perspectives.

Instead, the report recommends a ten - year programme of social reform, which it believes should have the key objective of narrowing the attainment gap at GCSE between poorer children and their better - off classmates by two - thirds.

Third - and fourth - grade teacher Jessie Heckman says she empowers her students to become more resourceful by solving common problems with the support of their classmates.

Third - grader Valeria Sanchez sat toward the back of her science class Tuesday, listening as her classmates asked questions about an upcoming assignment.

The typical Latino student in the region attends a school where less than a quarter of their classmates are white; nearly two - thirds are other Latinos; and two - thirds are poor.

A third - grader studying the Spanish settlement of California found a virtual tour online and shared the trip with her classmates by slipping a smartphone into a Google Cardboard viewing device.

The state Department of Education said its latest multiple measurement ratings, or MMRs, show nearly two - thirds of Minnesota schools are on track to meet a state goal of cutting the achievement gap between poor and minority students and their classmates in half by 2017.

And when at least 1.2 million fourth - grade students, or one - third of the nation's students in that grade are likely to drop out — and nearly 1 million more of their classmates who are barely reading at Basic proficiency unlikely to succeed in college and career — we have a moral, intellectual, and systems - change obligation to focus on stemming achievement gaps.

As a thirty - something ex-ranchwife, third generation Montanan, my story was perhaps more difficult to capture in four typewritten pages than those of my classmates, most of whom were under twenty and could count the months of their «Montana experience» on their fingers.

Film making has been a passion for Evan since elementary school days, where a viewing of The Lord of the Rings movies spurred him to craft his own 2 - part epic, featuring 30 of his third grade classmates.

When my articling principal went through law school, one - third of his first year classmates were gone by January.

Martin is the third of the 17 victims awarded the same honor this week, including classmates and cadets Alaina Petty, 14, and Peter Wong, 15.

In 50 years of evaluation, PCHP has documented important longitudinal impacts for program participants: graduates enter school as well or better prepared than their classmates, perform significantly better than their socioeconomic peers and as well as or better than the overall population on school readiness measures in kindergarten and first grade, and are reading and doing math on grade level in third grade.