Sentences with phrase «times than elementary schools»

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Today's stock market even at its all time high is cheaper than it was the day that I graduated from elementary school.

Every time I'm inspired to do something out of my comfort zone (royal icing, fondant, cake pops), the result looks more like it was created by an elementary school - aged child than it does a Bakerella piece of edible art.

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.

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 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.

A separate study of elementary school classrooms found that kids were «off - task» more than a quarter of the time.

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.)

This evidence strongly suggests that the return to neighborhood schools was not the underlying cause behind the increase in parent involvement at the time neighborhood elementary schools were re-established; rather, the increased effort of school officials at getting parents involved appear to be the source of the increase, an effort that benefited the schools undergoing busing for integration even more than the resegregated neighborhood schools.

Even though elementary schools are the most universally attended educational institutions — between prekindergarten and 8th grade, a child attends school for more than 9,000 hours, more than twice the time spent in high school — the attention to, and regard for, elementary education is inversely proportionate.

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.

At one time, high school teachers were paid more than elementary school teachers.

The study, published Wednesday in The American Journal of Family Therapy, found students in the early elementary school years are getting significantly more homework than is recommended by education leaders, in some cases nearly three times as much homework as is recommended.

School administrators report that it is very difficult or impossible to fill elementary teaching positions about 6 percent of the time, while positions in math, physical sciences, and special education are difficult or impossible to fill more than 30 percent of the time.

At the time, female teachers made less money than male teachers, minority teachers made less than white teachers, and elementary school teachers made less than high school teachers.

Based on test score data covering seven years, The Times analyzed the effects of more than 6,000 elementary school teachers on their students» learning.

Later this month, The Times will publish a database of more than 6,000 elementary school teachers ranked by their ability to improve students» scores on standardized tests, marking the first time such information had been released publicly.

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It is bad for teachers to use group grades in elementary schools and in middle schools for more than 30 % of the time.

According to CAP's analysis, the gap in full - time employment rates between mothers of elementary - school - age children and mothers of middle - and high - school - age children suggests that more than 1 million fewer mothers of elementary - school - age children are working full time, forfeiting an annual median wage of $ 35,000.

The charters, often billed by proponents as a superior alternative to traditional schools, were seven times more likely than regular schools to get an F in the appraisal of the state's elementary and middle schools.

We do, however, take issue with assessments that are implemented in a rushed manner, that have elementary school students sitting for longer periods of time than are required for most professional licensing and certification exams, and that test learning without students and teachers having the benefit of materials and resources necessary to receive and deliver appropriate instruction.

CPS sez: «The rationale behind moving CPS schools to a full school day is clear... our elementary school students are receiving 22 % less instructional time than their peers across the country.»

For a variety of reasons, these groups of students are less likely to attend out - of - school time programs than their elementary - school counterparts and more advantaged peers.

In addition, 27 percent of elementary students were truant in 2015 - 16 — meaning they were absent or tardy by more than 30 minutes without a valid excuse at least three times in a school year.

Because children with mild disabilities are significantly more likely to be mainstreamed during the elementary years than at any other time during their educational experience, elementary school social studies teachers are in a particularly challenging situation.

Still, elementary and middle school boys receive eight times more classroom attention than girls.

Those two elementary schools combined had more arrests than any single high school in Connecticut for that time period.

It is important to note that the majority of elementary APs are «teaching APs» (estimated at more than 450 full - time employees) and provide classroom instruction in addition to school administrative duties.

Across the 50 cities, white students were four times more likely than black students to enroll in a top - scoring elementary or middle school.

Black elementary school students are 2.65 times more likely to be suspended than their white peers.

OGDEN — With year - end testing rearing its head in Utah's public schools, some Ogden elementary students may find themselves spending more time with their books than on the playground.

In an analysis published in May 2011 in the Creativity Research Journal researchers found elementary school children in 2008 were significantly more imaginative and more comfortable playing make - believe than their counterparts in 1985 despite having less time for free play.

Giving them comprehension strategies rather than knowledge in elementary school means that by the time they get to high school, they'll be hopelessly behind.

Results indicate that more than 90 % of special education teachers work in regular elementary or secondary schools, though more than 80 % of their instructional time is spent in special education settings.

To accomplish this, we partner with more than 60 providers to oversee out of school time activities for over 6,000 elementary - and middle school - aged students in 30 Omaha Public Schools each year.

The rate of suspensions and expulsions at charter schools during the last school year have declined slightly, but are once again far higher than state averages, particularly for children in elementary schools where the rate is four times the state average, the report said.

According to a Center for American Progress report examining the largest school districts in the country, schools are closed for an average of 29 days each school year — not including summer recess — which is 13 days longer than the average private sector worker has in paid leave.58 Not only do days off increase the cost of child care, but the short length of the school day also decreases economic productivity when parents have to take time off from work or when parents with elementary school - age children opt out of full - time employment in order to accommodate their children's schedules.59

Disparities affecting Latinas are especially severe in elementary school where they are 2.7 times more likely to be arrested than young white girls.

A new study finds that elementary school students are getting nearly three times as much homework, on average, than is recommended by education leaders.

But Brian M. Rosenthal of The Seattle Times reports that one PTA president of a local elementary school reveals that parents at his school view volunteering as «more valuable than money.»

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Boys who were more aggressive (black solid line) were bullied more during elementary school than boys who were less aggressive (black dotted line), but the difference diminished over time.