education briefs

Plainfield Sun

Four hundred sixth grade students are scheduled to attend Aux Sable this school year. Alexander estimates about 70 percent of those students answered their ...



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New faces at Ferri promise smooth start to school year

Johnston Sun Rise

Elizabeth's sister Nayile Cruz will start sixth grade on Sept. 2. An annual tradition, Nicholas A. Ferri Middle School held an ice cream social to welcome ...

Students get cold greeting

Plainfield Sun

So the Sixth Grade Welcome Day committee, comprising the school's social workers, deans, administrators, three sixth - grade teachers and 11 eighth- grade ...



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Start of Year at Batavia Middle School

The Batavian

As a school community, we are striving to improve upon the fifth grade to sixth grade transition. Not only will our BMS Connect program prepare sixth grade ...

Corrections, clarifications

Tulsa World

Union's sixth - grade math score is 78; sixth - grade reading is 71; seventh- grade math is 77; seventh- grade reading is 81; eighth- grade math is 76; ...

Area schools welcome new teachers

Gallatin North Missourian

Jessica Wyatt will teach fifth and sixth grade science. She was born and raised at Coffey, and graduated from South Harrison R-2 High School. ...



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First-day for middle school, high school newbies

The Coloradoan

With her viola in hand, the instrument Maddie Clark decided to learn for her sixth - grade orchestra class, she headed off to the bus stop, where she met ...



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Summer school gives students a jump-start in the classroom

DesMoinesRegister.com

On the last day of summer school, fourth- through sixth - grade students performed a play by reading a story out loud to the second-and third- grade students. ...

Sixth - grade teacher excited about new school, school year

The Mountain Press

sevierville cheryl Zamora, a sixth - grade teacher at the new Catlettsburg Elementary School, has never been more ready for the school year ...

First day 'smooth' in city schools

Martinsville Bulletin

It's a huge success every year, Tarpley said, adding that this year's group is one of the largest incoming sixth - grade classes she has seen. ...

Hanover gets grant for activity

Wilkes Barre Times-Leader

That information shows slightly more than 16 percent of students in kindergarten through sixth grade are overweight, and nearly 17 percent are obese. ...



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School Notes - Aug. 19

Hudson Hub-Times

24 from 4 to 6 pm Hudson Middle School will host its sixth - grade open house from 6 until 7:30 pm Aug. 24. Evamere (grades kindergarten and first) and ...

Willmar Middle School registration starts Tuesday

West Central Tribune

willmar registration for grades 6, 7 and 8 at Willmar Middle School will begin with the sixth grade at 8 am Tuesday. willmar registration for grades 6, ...

Youth football registration deadline is noon Wednesday West Central Tribune



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Teachers ready for gifted students

Savage Pacer

Well, some of these fifth- or sixth - grade students could come in right away and know more than we do, she said. We could learn from them. ...

County schools rev up for new year

Le Mars Daily Sentinel

Sixth grade orientation will be at 6:30 pm Tuesday at the middle school. Open house for all LCS students will be from 11 am to 1 pm Wednesday for all ...



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PSSA results released early amid budget negotiations

Philadelphia Inquirer

The largest percentage jump came in seventh- grade math, up 4.9 points to 75.5 percent. Sixth - grade math rose 3.6 points to 75.9, and fifth- grade reading ...



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Seven new teachers begin school

Holyoke Enterprise

One of the most exciting things, she shared, is the chance to teach a sixth grade class for the first time. It is her hope that she can cultivate and ...

Unalaska makes progress by federal standard

Dutch Harbor Fisherman

Conwell pointed out that 88 percent of the third- through sixth - grade students and 87 percent of the seventh- through 10th- grade students were proficient in ...

School starts with good grade

Knoxville News Sentinel

"They need to start working on that in the sixth grade ," Loy said. "You can't wait until high school." Outside each classroom, the teacher has hanging a ...

New year, new goals for Westport schools

Westport Minuteman

The board will also discuss whether to initiate a pre-algebra course for students in the sixth grade as opposed to the seventh grade and will review the ...