There is a significant shortfall in the number of middle grade, more experienced doctors.
Mr McGoran said it had been successful in recruiting consultants but that attracting middle grade, more junior doctors was a problem.
My kids have entered that nebulous no-mans-zone known as the middle grade (or tween) years: too old for simple chapter books (like The Magic Tree House series), but too young to demolish YA books about vampires by the dozen.
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This problem first hit me a couple years ago when Jordan competed against 40 other boys to get onto the seventh grade basketball team at his middle school.
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Julie Rexford is a 7th grade Life Science Teacher at Harry Hurst Middle School.
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So in sixth grade I played goalie for my Princeton middle school team.
As the years went by, I moved from Montreal to an upper-middle-class suburb of Boston for the sixth grade.
And I think, gosh, you're living a life of a middle aged executive and you're only in 10th grade.
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This means they can raise capital from private lenders: 31% of the bank's middle-income lending now goes to countries with investment-grade credit ratings.
When I started BUILD, it was estimated that less than 30% of the kids who started ninth grade in high school who came from East Palo Alto middle school district, graduated high school.
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The tests are also used by New York City to help determine promotions to the next grade and summer school attendance, and scores can help determine what middle or high school children attend.
There is also increasing evidence that interventions can produce middle-to longer-run effects on school achievement, special education placement, grade retention, disruptive behavior and delinquency and high school graduation.
Today, YES serves students from the third grade through graduate school, though Eisner focuses on the pivotal upper-middle-school years: The kids are old enough for him to reliably evaluate their work ethic and their hunger for knowledge, but young enough that their minds are still growing rapidly.
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"It's very upsetting, " said Alex Ragone, director of the middle and upper school at City and Country School in Manhattan, which runs through eighth grade.
Galli grew up in middle-class Pittsburgh, the son of a doting mother and a hard-nosed father with an eighth-grade education who still works most days at the junkyard he has owned for 50 years.
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