Sentence examples for students zoning from inspiring English sources

President Doxey points to research from the nonprofit NTL Institute in Alexandria, Va.; it estimates that learning retention rates for those working in groups can range from 75% to 90% versus just 5% for students zoning out in lectures.

THE SCHOOLS The area lies within the prized School District 26, with most students zoned for Public School 186, on 72nd Avenue in Parkwood Estates.

Still, roughly half of the students are from outside the zone, having qualified through specialized Francis Lewis programs like law and science or through the No Child Left Behind law, which lets students zoned for failing schools enroll in better ones.

Students zoned to Johnston, Long, and Pershing Middle Schools may choose to attend Pin Oak instead; therefore Bellaire students may attend Pin Oak.

To a computer measuring keystrokes, a student zoning out because he's bored is indistinguishable from one who is moved by her book to imagine a world of her own.

He also helps his students confront zoning issues that are peculiar to city and suburban areas.

But Brookings said the district did not provide students and parents with much actual choice because most students are zoned to attend a school near their residence.

Some students are zoned to attend Junior High School 104, the Simon Baruch School, on East 21st.

THE SCHOOLS Some primary students are zoned for Public School 3 on Hudson Street, which got a C on its most recent city progress report.

THE SCHOOLS All elementary students are zoned to attend Public School 130, a few blocks south of the area on Baxter Street.

But not on Far Rockaway, where those scores were high enough for Peninsula Prep to outperform 9 of the 10 elementary schools its students are zoned for.