Sentences with phrase «last academic year students»

Last academic year students accessed an outstanding 32,000 Pods, of which over 11,000 were Maths (the highest Maths usage of any PiXL member).

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If that hypothetical student borrowed using a federal direct loan for graduate school, which had a rate of 5.84 percent last academic year, she would have accrued $ 1,682 in interest during the grace period.

Then groups are formed that will last for the academic year, each made up of ten students, a faculty member, and a teaching supervisor closely associated with the social ministry that the students will later serve.

SU's Graduate Student Organization re-elected its president and finalized its budget at its last meeting of the 2017 - 18 academic year.

The NPP Government surreptitiously used last academic year's GES approved fees of 1,022.20 for boarders and GHS 560 for day students in order that it can beat down the actual cost of Free SHS.

Last month, GhCampus.com reported that, the Director - General of Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr Jacob Kor at a press briefing in Accra indicated that a total of 42 Community Day Senior High Schools (SHS) are expected to start admission of their first batch of students for 2016/2017 academic year.

All courses last 1 academic year, and financial support may be available if you are applying as a mature student (anyone over the age of 24) and you have not had funding for a postgraduate course from the government already.

Until last week, the North Carolina Community College System, which as of the 2006 - 07 academic year had 112 degree - seeking undocumented high school graduates among about 800,000 students of all kinds at its 58 campuses, followed the same policy.

Last year, at the National Education Summit, governors and business leaders concluded that «efforts to set clear, common... academic standards for students in a given school district or state are necessary to improve student performance.».

The legislature's Senate education committee recently discussed ways of changing the Texas Grant Program, not long after TheDallas Morning News reported last month that $ 27 million out of $ 120 million available to students went unused over the 2001 - 02 academic year.

During the last academic year, that included three master's students.

New York — Addressing the federal group charged with recommending ways to improve American education, two researchers last week urged that elementary and secondary schools make tougher academic demands of students and experiment with new tracking systems, while another argued that such in - school factors were more important than has been commonly held in recent years.

Few high - school principals have taken steps to ensure that their students are aware of the new academic standards for freshmen college athletes passed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association last year, according to a survey by four faculty members at Clemson University.

Last year, for instance, several of my introverted American history students worked diligently on an academic debate in which they passionately defended President Truman's decision to use atomic warfare to end World War II.

Last year, Education Next published the findings of a study of the academic achievement of two groups: those who in adolescence lived in single - parent households and those who lived in two - parent households (see «One - Parent Students Leave School Earlier,» features, Spring 2015).

«The vast majority of research, policy, and practice pertaining to student aspirations has focused on understanding and supporting the educational and career aspirations of students in the last three years of secondary school... and yet we found that the aspirations of younger students were similar in many respects to those of older students,» the academics write.

The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written academic discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.

Last academic year, the «challenge» for students was to code and program their own BBC micro: bits to solve a real - life engineering problem.

Gov. Gray Davis of California called last week for adding six weeks to the school year for middle school students, saying the extra time for academics would help students more successfully bridge the years between elementary and high school.

Jim O'Connor, principal of the KIPP Ascend middle school in Chicago, told me this month that five students from his last year's eighth grade who are in regular public high schools are having the most difficult time, because their schools lack the focus on strong academic results they found at KIPP.

The petition tracks language adopted unanimously by the Knox County School Board, which passed a resolution last week opposing the use of student test scores in teacher evaluation for this academic year.

Over the duration of the last academic year I have been studying this theory, using learning observations, meetings with teachers, student voice, book looks and learning walks (supportive strolls) as sources of information from which I could hopefully draw some conclusions.

The report provides data that indicate scholarship students are making academic progress and are closing the achievement gap with the statewide student average by almost half over the last five years, from 32 percentage points in 2011 to 18 percentage points in 2015.

Mewborn challenged the faculty and students last spring with a promise: If all students met their year - end academic goals, he would ride from North Hart across more than 20 miles of rural landscape to the middle school... on his bicycle.

For another, Quitman's student population is rapidly changing: There was an influx of children with special needs when their school closed last academic year, and meanwhile some of the highest - performing students are being recruited away by well - regarded charter schools.

When the campaign launched last school year, it offered every low - income student at Oakland High and Coliseum College Preparatory Academy up to $ 16,000 if they met academic and attendance requirements, applied for federal financial aid and demonstrated community service or leadership.

Frances Gipson, LA Unified's chief academic officer, said a number of actions have been taken to get extra help and resources to the students who are failing a course, and the district is still hopeful that last year's record graduation rate of 77 percent will be surpassed.

In the latest release of data, we have a sense of how much progress students show on state assessments from one year to the next (as it's been two years since the last time we had growth data, here's a quick reminder on how it is calculated: a student's performance on the test is compared to her «academic peers» — other students who had the same test score she had the previous year, resulting in the individual's student growth percentile.

If you said «yes» to Question # 4 above, you must submit documents attached to this application from your last two school years that provide evidence of your effectiveness as a teacher in your current school district (performance evaluations and student academic growth data).

A Stanford University study last fall found that students in some subjects trailed their peers in traditional schools by as much as an entire academic year.

Lawmakers threw out the model state officials used to calculate last year's grades during the last legislative session, rejecting the notion that state officials should compare a student's academic growth to the growth of her peers in determining a school's grade.

On a whole Denver elementary students showed impressive improvement last year: the percent of students meeting or exceeding grade level expectations increased 4.7 points in English Language Arts and 2.3 points in math; on average elementary students scored better than 56 % of their academic peers across the state in ELA and better than 54 % of their peers in math.

Tenth - graders made across - the - board improvements on the MCAS last academic year, and 84 percent of students have already met the state's minimum testing requirements needed to earn a high school diploma on their first try.

A much - cited Stanford University study last fall found that some virtual charter students can trail their traditional school peers by up to an entire academic year.

In a Pre / K Question and Answer session at a professional development session last month, 70 percent of the Pre / K teachers raised their hands when asked if they had students whose parents were in prison for part of the 2015 - 2016 academic year.

[1] As it has been two years since the last time we had growth data, here's a quick reminder on how it is calculated: a student's performance on the test is compared to her «academic peers» — other students who had the same test score she had the previous year, resulting in the individual's student growth percentile.

Last year, dozens of researchers and academics from around the world wrote an open letter to Andreas Schleicher, director of the Program of International Student Assessment, urging him to suspend administration of PISA until a new exam can be created.

This number does not give [her] feedback about what [she] did for [her] students to support their academic achievement last year or how to improve [her] instruction going forward.»

The numbers were based on the results of The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium tests, administered to students in the third through eighth grades and the 11th grade and tied to the Common Core academic benchmarks that went into effect last year.

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With less than two months left in the academic year, a majority of the two dozen Victory Schools in Southern Nevada reported double - to triple - digit gains in the number of students reaching proficiency in English and math since they received the money last fall.

Last summer during a NCTAF planning session, a team of five teachers selected this question to be the center of their work with their students for the academic year.

A report released by the National Center for Education Statistics last year (NCES) estimated that as of the 2010 - 11 academic year (most recent data) 96 percent of public two - year community colleges offered some form of college credit to high school students through a dual - enrollment program.

What started last year with one AP Human Geography course offered to 90 students in seven schools across the district, grew into an expansive roll - out for the 2015 - 2016 academic year, which includes offering five AP courses — Human Geography, Psychology, English Literature, Statistics and Environmental Science — with capacity to serve up to 520 students.

New scores meant to show student improvement for the last academic year reveal a wide discrepancy among Nashville - area districts.

Last year, California passed legislation to allow students» academic performance to be used to evaluate teachers and principals in California.

For example, if you awarded $ 30,000 in scholarships to undocumented students last year and you request a $ 10,000 grant from E4FC, you must commit to awarding $ 50,000 in scholarships to undocumented students beginning in the 2017 - 2018 academic year -LRB-

The students have shaped the design of the new campus, the academic schedule, an empathetic and friendly culture, and - in the last three years - they have founded nearly 40 clubs and sports teams.

Sharpe tells the CTMirror, «What Milner has been for the last 20 years is a chronically failing school, arguably the worst in the state» and repeats his misleading claim that Jumoke has achieved much better academic results, overlooking, as he always does, the fundamental difference in student populations.

Government expenditures on K - 12 education have more than doubled over the last 40 years (adjusted for inflation), and yet U.S. students» academic performance at the end of high school is flat.