Sentences with phrase «close look at student»

But here is how Leading for Learning and the work with CEL really helped us take a close look at the student learning problem and ask the right questions.

A team of researchers sought to answer exactly that question in a paper, «An Up - Close Look at Student - Centered Math Teaching and Its Effects on Learning: A Study of Highly Regarded High School Teachers and Their Students,» published on Nov. 18, 2014.

[i] See Susan P. Choy and Xiaojie Li (2006), «Dealing With Debt: 1992 — 93 Bachelor's Degree Recipients 10 Years Later,» Postsecondary Education Descriptive Analysis Report NCES 2006 - 156, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education; Erin Dillon (2007), «Hidden Details: A Closer Look at Student Loan Default Rates,» Washington, DC: Education Sector.

An important new book, The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities, takes a closer look at students» views about diversity, merit, and race on selective college campuses in the U.S. and the U.K. I sat down with the book's author, my colleague Natasha Warikoo, an Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, for the following interview.

The feature stories on WKCD.org, which give an close look at students and teachers wrestling to improve their schools, draw thousands of visitors.The small publication, The Schools We Need: Creating Small High School that Work for Us (2003), which WKCD wrote with students who attended small high schools in the Bronx, made it on to the Commissioner of Education's short list of summer reads.

By examining data, we can get a closer look at students» experiences and a more accurate a sense for how our systems are not yet serving all students, despite our best intentions.

During the post-discussion, teachers and coaches take a closer look at the student artifacts (their question responses and their actual work) and begin to identify gaps in learning.

A closer look at student demographics by academic need shows that overall graduation rates have improved as students» needs have remained constant or increased slightly.

The student loans are another issue and while some can be eliminated in bankruptcy in many situations, it would require a closer look at the student loans to determine if there is any help available for them through bankruptcy.

Not exact matches

Here's a closer look at how student loans and mortgage eligibility are related.

In this Credible Insights report, the latest in a series, we'll take a closer look at who is willing to take the leap and cosign a private student loan, and why.

But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

The first of these assertions comes in for particular scrutiny, specifically the sub-claim that AP classes increase a student's chances of academic success in college; «[A] closer look at studies [on the subject] reveals some potential problems with the notion of causality,» reads the report.

Recently I took a closer look at both the healthy immigrant effect and the Hispanic paradox with Andrew Fenelon, a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania.

Using data from the 2004/09 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study, the study tracked a cohort of beginning bachelor's degree students over six years, providing a close look at STEM attrition among a group of high - performing college sStudents Longitudinal Study, the study tracked a cohort of beginning bachelor's degree students over six years, providing a close look at STEM attrition among a group of high - performing college sstudents over six years, providing a close look at STEM attrition among a group of high - performing college studentsstudents.

«Right now I have two postdocs, two Ph.D. students [who] are close to finishing, three technicians, and three undergrads, so I spend most of my day helping them look at and interpret data and plan the next set of experiments,» he says.

Using micro-computer tomography (CT) scanners and advanced computing software, Anderson and study lead author Jason Pardo, a doctoral student supervised by Anderson, got a close look at the internal anatomy of the fossilized Lethiscus.

In one set of experiments, Fried, Koch, and Gabriel Kreiman, a Caltech grad student, found cells that respond both when a subject looks at an image — of a baseball, say, or a woman's face — and when he closes his eyes and recalls the image in his mind's eye.

After a closed - door talk at Harvard's Data Privacy Lab on Monday, Vickery showed this reporter how he could access the database by looking up the father of a Mexican student spending a year at the university.

In the new study, a team led by University of Maryland doctoral student Dheeraj Pasham took a closer look at M82 X-1.

Whether it's the Louvre or the Rubin Museum of Art, students are often encouraged to spend time sketching the paintings and sculptures that intrigue them — not to practice their art skills, but to get them to look closer at the details: the complex color of a sky, the figure off in the distance... After taking the time to draw a sketch yourself, you're bound to remember the details of a work and have a greater appreciation for its creation.

Students in The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology completed a study that takes a closer look at the success stories of online daters.

A New York City middle school teacher gives students a close - up look at the art and science of television weather reporting.

In a study of 90 English language learners in a Southern California public school system, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Nonie Lesaux, along with then - doctoral students Michael Kieffer and Amy Crosson, took a closer look at why these children fall behind, and how new instructional strategies might redress the balance.

They have two ways of looking at the student feedback: a four - point scale on close - ended questions and qualitative feedback from open - ended questions.

A closer look at one high - stakes evaluation system, however, shows the positive consequences such systems can have for students.

a close look at the record reveals undeniable improvements in school governance and respectable progress on student achievement.

In a new article for Education Next, Matthew Davis of the University of Pennsylvania and Blake Heller of Harvard University take a close look at Noble Street College Prep in Chicago, where administrators set high expectations for students and see long - term results.

In this new volume, Barrera - Osorio and his co-editors have returned to take a closer look at a wide range of private providers and public - private partnerships and to explore their effects on student performance.

Michael Petrilli called the Department's recent warning that it would take a closer look at these within - district allocations «meddling,» but it's shameful that our public policies disproportionately place students of color in schools with poor lighting, unsafe or temporary structures, and unequal access to technology and curriculum.

As policymakers call on schools to help combat childhood obesity, Education Next takes a close look at an innovative P.E. class that holds students accountable for how long and how hard they work out.

Mike's article describes the challenges of differentiated instruction and takes a close look at one school that is doing its best to differentiate instruction to help diverse students reach their potential.

But if you look at the data in Amazon books, you will see that the bestselling books about the Common Core are «skills - centric» ones that claim to prepare teachers for the new language arts standards by advocating techniques for «close reading» and for mastering «text complexity» as though such skills were the main ones for understanding a text no matter how unfamiliar a student might be with the topic of the text.

As a close look at the data from PISA reveals, the income gap in the United States does not explain the inability of our schools to teach our students basic math, science and reading skills.

The most straightforward way of adjusting for national trends is to look at the extent to which D.C. closed the gap between its students» performances and those of students nationwide.

Nothing is a better hook to get students interested in the Iditarod than an up - close - and - personal look at the sled dogs.

I have an assignment for you this week (sorry, the teacher in me): take a close look at your gifted and advanced students and ask yourself this question: Is he or she really being challenged in my classroom?

These case studies take a close look at some of the private schools accepting voucher students.

The No Child Left Behind act is forcing school systems to take a closer look at the academic achievement of their elementary and middle school students.

A book released today takes a close look at why only 60 percent of students entering four - year colleges are graduating.

Or, if we look at grammar schools or independent schools, many of which are not only selective but also more academic and less vocational which in itself can close off certain avenues for students.

The Ohio study also looked at whether the program led to changes in academic achievement for students that were in schools that were close to being eligible for the program.

Looking at data from students who lived in the HCZ neighborhood and attended a Promise Academy charter school there, and others who only attended Promise, Fryer and Dobbie found that by eighth grade, both groups had closed the achievement gap in math.

On January 10, The New York Times took a close look at New Amsterdam Academy, a new school in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, founded by HGSE doctoral student Shimon Waronker.

What can a close look at specific pieces of student work reveal and illuminate about the real meaning of Common Core or other standards, like the Next Generation Science Standards?

But when Paul von Hippel and Laura Bellows took a close look at the evaluations of teacher education programs in six states, they found that the differences between the programs in their graduates» impact on student learning were negligible.

A closer look at both assessment and other student data can help administrators recognize red flags in class access, school climate, parent involvement, and other areas that could be undermining their efforts to close achievement gaps.

[3] Susan Aud, «A Closer Look at Title I: Making Education for the Disadvantaged More Student - Centered,» Heritage Foundation Special Report No. 15, June 28, 2007, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2007/06/a-closer-look-at-title-i-making-education-for-the-disadvantaged-more-student-centered.

A third report, Small High Schools at Work: A Case Study of Six Gates - Funded Schools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college preparation.

Video: As policymakers call on schools to help combat childhood obesity, Education Next takes a close look at an innovative P.E. class that holds students accountable for how long and how hard they work out.