Sentences with phrase «top grades in school»

You got top grades in school, you excelled through college, and you graduated with a first class degree from a tier one university.

Not merely a collection of good ideas, this book spells out the 67 timeless principles and practices used by the world's most successful men and women — proven principles and strategies that can be adapted for your own life, whether you want to be the best salesperson in your company, become a leading architect, score top grades in school, lose weight, buy your dream home, make millions, or just get back in the job market.

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She held fast to that dream throughout high school, toiling over her art portfolio and racking up painting awards, all the while maintaining top grades, earning her grade 10 Royal Conservatory of Music certification for piano, and playing saxophone in seven different bands.

It'll be like out on the black top in grade school back in the day.»

The Schulich School of Business at York University earned the top mark of 86 per cent, receiving a high grade in all three evaluated categories that continues a nine - year reign on top of our rankings.

My grade - school science teacher demonstrated the chemical reaction of baking soda and vinegar by mixing them in a test tube and placing a balloon over the top so it would inflate from the gas that formed.

At a school considered in some academic rankings as the No. 1 private school in the state and among the top 10 in the nation, both Jayda and Jayla are right at a 4.0 grade point average.

They're not going pro in Major League Baseball, and they're out here earning top grades and entering graduate school next fall.

She's Type A, and in that I can definitely relate... I sat my parents down in ninth grade and had printed out the top ten schools for musical theater and said «I'm going to go to one of these schools.»

Appelbaum's sons attend the high - performing Bell School on the city's North Side, which placed in the top 10 of a 2007 Chicago Sun - Times list of the highest - scoring middle - grade programs in Illinois.

In private sessions Saturday, 22 school teams from around the country will toss around ideas on how schools can help to broaden the rigid notion of «success» that has taken hold on so many hyper - competitive campuses — high grades, top test scores and acceptance into prestigious colleges.

A simple idea in college motivated a group of 17 - 21 year old women to earn top grades on campus, so I'm thinking this could really work for younger kids as a reward system or as extra inspiration in school work.

Granted we were talking to high achieving schools and we were doing the survey in school, but even given that, the top answers were homework, tests, grades and competition to get into colleges.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), who was the top vote getter in the Assembly on the Stop Common Core ballot line in 2014, today announced new legislation he is introducing, the «Common Core Parental Refusal Act» to require that school districts notify parents of their rights to refuse to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in the Common Core standardized tests.

BOLTON — Bolton Central School's kindergarten through fifth grade programs skyrocketed in rankings according the recently released Schools Report complied by the Albany Business Review, landing the school top honors forSchool's kindergarten through fifth grade programs skyrocketed in rankings according the recently released Schools Report complied by the Albany Business Review, landing the school top honors forschool top honors for 2016.

«[T] he three strongest determinants of access to graduate education [at these top schools are] college grades, Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores, and the reputation of a student's undergraduate institution,» she writes in her book.

The contest, open to U. S. students in grades 6 - 12, will recognize top chemistry projects being conducted by middle and high school students — the scientists of tomorrow.

Rebecca began studying ballet and swimming competitively in grade school, was a top - ranked hurdler in high school, played Division - I field hockey in college, and has since dabbled in golf, rock climbing, and snowboarding.

The researchers also compared sugary ready - to - eat cereal to oatmeal and found oatmeal's nutritional advantage (more nourishing whole food meal) made it a better choice at improving brain power and encouraging better test scores.1 Additional stats show higher test grades and better school attendance in breakfast eaters than in non-breakfast eaters too.2 Bottom line: to excel in whatever we do, whether it be school, work, play or relationships, we need breakfast to be at the top of our mental game.

Since we began working with Melissa, she is getting top marks in school for being a hard worker and she is getting good grades.

And I started doing the back twist not too long ago when crop tops came back to fashion, reminds me of when I was in grade school!

And not the cheesy, 3rd grade glitter you would sprinkle over glue or the middle school glitter eyeshadow for the school dance... Glitter is making a sophisticated comeback in heels, skirts, tops and dresses.

For example, in the Athens Area School District, student gains topped 87 percent, and of the eighty - nine Quakertown students who failed tenth - grade math, 72 percent are now getting A's, B's, or C's in their junior year.

At the top of her class in eighth grade, she learned of a program that places children of color in elite prep schools.

Raleigh, N.C. — A blue - ribbon commission appointed by Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. is recommending the establishment of a «career - growth» program for teachers, the reduction of class sizes in grades 4 - 6, and a recommitment to learning as schools» top priority.

Students who scored in the top quarter of the sixth - grade math exam averaged anywhere from 19 to 26 on the high school ACT math test; the variations correlated with the effectiveness scores of their high school math teachers.

What if you knew that at the top 10 percent of schools, similar students advance two whole grades in a year?

Admitting that students with a 3.2 grade point average were not in the top half of their class at the high school — and that more than 140 students in the school had over a 4.0 average — a superintendent in our region recently advocated dropping class rank.

By the 4th grade, public school children who score among the top 10 percent of students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are reading at least six grade levels above those in the bottom 10 percent.

So when these top - flight schools decide that advanced honors courses in physics and chemistry are to be given the same weight in calculating a student's official grade point average (GPA) as any other course, including cooking, check - book balancing, and make - up algebra, it becomes ever so clear — once again — that the country's progressive educators have successfully pushed back the forces of school reform.

We have seen this happen to students who were top students in grade school — they seem to lose their confidence, their liking for school, and their determination to do well.

This past year, 92 percent of BVP's 7th graders (at the time the highest grade level enrolled) were proficient in math, a figure that topped every middle school in the state but one, a small suburban charter school (see Figure 1).

Under the leadership of head teacher Dean Coombes, the school is now rated «Good» by Ofsted and sits in the top 10 nationally for the proportion of lower ability pupils who gain five or more GCSEs at grade C and above.

However, teacher thinking on this issue has slipped from a high of 38 % giving schools one of the two top grades in 2011 to just 30 % in 2016.

On the 2009 state test in English language arts, in four of the six grades tested, the top school in Albany was one of Carroll's charters.

Figure 1 shows scatterplots of averaged reading and math test scores in third grade and fifth grade for students in the top quartile of the socioeconomic status distribution versus those in the bottom quartile of the socioeconomic status distribution in the same school.

Less than 20 percent of whites and African Americans accord the nation's schools an «A» or a «B,» and only around 40 percent give the schools in their community one of these two top grades.

Starting in tenth grade, participating students meet regularly after school, on the weekends, and throughout the summer to ensure they are prepared and empowered to apply to, attend, and graduate from the nation's top colleges.

New Jersey's is a complex and troubled public school system: although the state ranks in the top 5 on most nationally normed tests (NAEP, SAT, ACT), it has one of the worst achievement gaps in the country — 50th out of 51 in 8th - grade reading, for example.

When asked to grade the nation's schools on the same A to F scale traditionally used to evaluate students, only 18 percent of survey respondents give them an «A» or a «B.» This equals the percentage that awarded one of the top two grades in 2009, which had been the lowest level observed across the three years of our survey.

In Figure 3, we relate the average SES level of the school to the test score gap in third or fifth grade between students in the top and bottom SES quartilIn Figure 3, we relate the average SES level of the school to the test score gap in third or fifth grade between students in the top and bottom SES quartilin third or fifth grade between students in the top and bottom SES quartilin the top and bottom SES quartile.

That is, the majority of students are admitted if they rank in the top 10 % of any high school in the state (with ranking determined by student grade point averages).

Barnaby Lenon, chairman of the ISC, said: «A concerted effort to halt grade inflation in recent years has seen the top grades both nationally and in independent schools level off and fall slightly, so it is encouraging to see the headline A * and A figure remain solid.

Finally, we exclude from our main analysis students who attended a «feeder» high school, which we define as one in which more than 30 students in each grade typically score in the top 10 percent on college assessment exams.

If, as has been the case in a number of places, the comparison group is all the teachers in a given grade in the school district — with, say, the top 15 percent of the 4th grade teachers receiving an award — what is the significance of a big or small school?

According to published school league tables in 2015, Tring Park is in the top 10 independent schools in Hertfordshire for A level results * with almost 32 % of its A Level students achieving an A * or A grade, and 64 % achieving A *, A or B grades.

The 4.7 % increase in the number of A * grades achieved by St Albans School boys this year stands in marked contrast to the slight national decrease in the award of the top grade.

Most notably, more of them give the schools a D or an F than assign an A or a B. Only 20 percent of survey respondents give the schools in the nation as a whole one of the two top grades, over 50 percent give them a C, and no less than 25 percent grade them with a D or an F. African Americans and Hispanics are even more likely than whites to give the nation's schools low marks.

I learned recently that when the top - flight principal left my childhood elementary school within 2 years all the good teachers quit, turning the school from excellent when my parents bought their house to failing by the time I was in second grade.

Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, in Brays Lane, has been given the top grading from Ofsted inspectors.