Students go to neighboring Flushing and Whitestone for upper grades in public schools.
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There are successful programmed-learning texts for primary-grade pupils, but most such texts have been designed for upper-grade and college-level subjects such as statistics, economics, and foreign languages.
The use of student journals is highly encouranged for the upper grades, and places where we feel a journal entry should be made during the investigation have been noted in the text.
At the Shipley School in Philadelphia, where yearly tuition for the upper grades amounts to around $35,000, head of school Steven Piltch, Ed.M.'84, Ed.M.'88, Ed.D.'91, acknowledges having to do some parental persuading.
Among possible changes, she said, are adding English-language classes and expanding classroom time for students in upper grades, who master the language much more slowly than younger children.
But it is a recipe for failure in the upper grades, where older foreign-born students must simultaneously learn English and master complex subjects like math, science and literature.
Although there has been no large scale experiment done for the middle and upper grades, as STAR did in the early grades, there are numerous studies showing that smaller classes are correlated with achievement gains and/or lower dropout rates in the middle and upper grades as well.
Since 1968 municipalities have offered courses for adults covering the three upper grades of comprehensive school and upper secondary school.
Homework, in fact, is an important component of education for students in the middle and upper grades of schooling.
Her colleagues ribbed her by referring to her as "the sexy grandmother" after adopting her proposal for sex education courses in the upper grades.
