It was there that another volunteer told Zaremba about Experience Corps, a nonprofit that recruits tutors to mentor elementary school students struggling to learn to read.
Wallace says FedEx wants to expand the program to several more cities in the U.S. and overseas, boosting the total number of participants in several related programs to 500 next year and expanding the camps to include elementary school students.
In STEM education, Alcoa underwrites efforts such as community colleges that coordinate with local manufacturers and a program to teach elementary and middle school students about model airplanes and applied aerodynamics.
The UNESCO Global Microscience Experiments Project aims to provide a practical approach to experiencing science for elementary and secondary school students (and in some countries, students in their first academic year), using kits designed especially with a textbook illustrating the various experiments.
The report, by 36 businessmen and academics, suggests a dramatic re-shaping of elementary and high-school education to help minority students.
The first wave of some 3, 000 elementary and high school students went back to school last week.
About 360, 000 kids were actively involved last year, a number that balloons to 2.4 million if you add the elementary school students who were taught golf in a First Tee-designed gym class.
Such divisions may prove hard to overcome as the town moves forward with a plan to raze Sandy Hook Elementary School nearly five months after 20 students and six staff members were gunned down by 20-year-old Adam Lanza, who also killed himself and his mother.
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States should provide additional resources to train and employ teachers of science, technology, engineering and math, as well as increase access to the latest hardware and software for elementary and high-school students.
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In the Hasnabad area, where 750 Chowduli families live on the edge of ponds and canals, 40% of students don't show up to elementary school for half the year, teachers say, when their parents travel to work in brick kilns several miles away.
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Among the visitors are elementary school students who do small chemistry experiments related to color and absorption of liquids in a BASF lab and learn how everyday products get made.
High school FFA members are paired with designated elementary students to help those youngsters with their self-esteem and help them learn.
In elementary school, obese students are 63% more likely to be bullied than their non-overweight peers, according to a 2012 report from the Rudd Center.
The program provides underprivileged students in elementary through high school free tutoring, access to an afterschool center and scholarships.
Palmer told students at Parkside Elementary School that she grew up listening to all kinds of music, including country.
The two boys, ages 10 and 11, told authorities that they were also going to kill, or "get, " six more students at Fort Colville Elementary School in Colville, Washington, and even identified them from a class list provided by school employees, according to court documents.
The crash occurred minutes before students and parents typically pass through on their way to a nearby elementary school.
But my goal is to challenge more schools and more communities to take part in this, particularly middle and high school students, because right now those 635 students are at the elementary school level, and we need to take this challenge up to kids in middle schools and high schools.
American students are great at math compared to their international peers--in elementary school.
Today, more than 500 elementary school students in our local public school hauled recyclable bags filled with more recyclable plastic bags to school to mark America Recycles Day.
He grew up in Waterbury, Connecticut, the son of an elementary-school teacher and a math professor, went to nearby Fairfield University, and, like many good students, decided that he would go into medicine.
But Bush also likes to relax, as he told a Webster Elementary School student Daniel Hannah-Dubois of Manchester, one of two students who interviewed him on LaBombard's bus during a campaign swing last month.
On Friday, a public school in San Diego, Carver Elementary, responded to a public furor by eliminating the practice of affording Muslim students time during classes for mid-day prayers.
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