Sentences with phrase «through ninth graders»

In a study published in the Journal of Educational Research (Jan - Feb 1991), Summer Birth Date Children: Kindergarten Entrance Age and Academic Achievement (ERIC Document EJ426449), Sandra L. Crosser compared academic achievement indices of seventh through ninth graders (n = 45) who entered kindergarten at age five with indices of similar children who entered at age six (n = 45).

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School - based studies in the past have found that nearly 9 percent of ninth through 12th graders experience physical dating violence, and 10 percent to 25 percent experience dating violence when including both physical and verbal aggression.

Miller still works in the area's school district, teaching honors biology to ninth graders and anatomy and physiology to 10th through 12th graders at Dover Area Senior High School.

While at NYU, Brennan has been actively involved in youth development through Arts in the Community, which attempts to bring college students together with local NYC arts education nonprofits, and through Peer Health Exchange, which focuses on teaching health to ninth graders around NYC.

«I had a specific question that I wanted help answering,» he says, noting that the start of a freshmen academy was aimed at keeping ninth graders from slipping through the cracks.

A «Big Sister / Brother» Program that begins in eighth grade and continues through ninth grade, a spring social event for current and incoming high school students, and writing programs where eighth - graders correspond with high school students are just a few ways that transition programs can provide students social support.

One major suggestion is adding ninth graders into the assessment group, which currently consists of third through eighth graders, to measure student growth into high school.

Now the Illinois State Board of Education is moving to expand free testing, providing a set of college - admissions - related exams to all ninth -, 10th - and 11th - graders across the state, potentially costing taxpayers up to $ 75 million through 2024, ISBE records show.

The intensive six - week summer program for rising seventh, eighth, and ninth graders is a key component of Summerbridge's effort to ensure students are receiving academically rigorous instruction through middle school and upon entering their first year of high school.

Currently, the two schools include students in 10th through 12th grades, but starting in the 2016 - 17 school year, both will include ninth - graders.

Short sentences with content ranging from conversation to real - life scenarios can help middle school students through ninth - graders learn how to make inferences about what they have read.

ERASE STEREOTYPES: Every September, each ninth - grader in the school participates in «Challenge Day,» a program hosted by the non-profit Be The Change Movement, which takes the kids through team - building, stereotype - challenging activities.