Sentences with phrase «most students at this level»

Most students at this level are already teachers looking for additional knowledge to improve their advancement opportunities.

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The most difficult challenge in operating an incubator at the college level is giving students enough time to discover and develop the skills, process and heart to become successful entrepreneurs.

Most important, FedEx believes urgent action is required at the local, state, and Federal level to protect schools and students from incidents such as the horrific tragedy in Florida on February 14th,» FedEx said in a statement.

Student motorists are hit even harder than most: premiums for young drivers are at record levels.

The students at these levels may not master the finer points of Aristotelian philosophy, but they at least gain an introduction to the history and greatest books of western civilization --- which is to say, they're receiving a better liberal arts education than most of today's college students.

However, at the high school level, football is far and away the most popular sport according to a recent report by the National Federation of State High School Associations, which found that more than 1,085,000 students played during the 2015 - 2016 season.

One of the most active athletic trainers» association at the state level is in New Jersey, which was the first state to require by law that coaches receive safety training, is among the 40 states that have enacted strong youth concussion safety laws, and has been a leader in advocating for academic accommodations for concussed student - athletes.

The most recent statistics from the National Athletic Training Association suggest that almost 4 out of 10 U.S. high schools still do not have access to an athletic trainer (although this statistic may be somewhat misleading, as the percentage of high school students with AT coverage is higher, perhaps as high as 70 %, due to the fact that larger high schools in more densely populated states are much more likely to have one or mor athletic trainers on staff), and the likelihood that trained personnel will be present during games or practices at the youth level is lowAT coverage is higher, perhaps as high as 70 %, due to the fact that larger high schools in more densely populated states are much more likely to have one or mor athletic trainers on staff), and the likelihood that trained personnel will be present during games or practices at the youth level is lowat the youth level is low).

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

In math, the percentage of students in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased slightly over last year in most of the Big 5 City School Districts.

Unfortunately, most districts and unions across the state set the bar so low that nearly 60 % of teachers got the highest rating when only a third of students read and do math at grade level.

Officials at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) hope their 40 - page document, titled Curriculum Focal Points: A Quest for Coherence, will help change the «mile - wide, inch - deep» approach that they say has left most U.S. students without a solid preparation for higher - level mathematics.

«Most students have disappeared at the level of the master or Ph.D. thesis, and the ones that survived are as good as those from other educational directions,» says Emanuel Dupoux, a researcher in cognitive and brain science at the ENS.

In India, most research institutes are government supported, either at the national or state level, but they have small budget allocations for graduate students.

U.S. students may be holding their own in math and science at the elementary level, but international comparisons indicate they are falling behind most of their global peers as they progress through the system.

The research team found perception gaps are even wider at the upper levels of mathematics ability — among those students with the most talent and potential in these fields.

The fifth and most important factor for success is involving the most creative people at all levels, which requires introducing measures that will persuade our brightest students to opt for science and technology when they are deciding on their careers.

The Carl Sagan Institute (CSI) explores factors that determine if a planet or moon can host life and how we could find it by bringing together experts from a wide range of scientific disciplines, who work together with some of the planet's most talented students at the undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral level.

At most science fairs, a student with a simple project who «knows their stuff» will win over a student with a complicated project who is not as great a presenter (this is especially true at higher level fairsAt most science fairs, a student with a simple project who «knows their stuff» will win over a student with a complicated project who is not as great a presenter (this is especially true at higher level fairsat higher level fairs).

The new biomedical innovation course, which will take place at the laboratory's Maine campus, is geared to advanced graduate students, post-doctoral trainees and researchers at all levels who want to learn the basics of organoid culture and the most recent developments in the organoid field.

While any well - trained yoga teacher will focus on giving students the experience of wellness, most yoga teachers at the 200 - hour level are only trained to deal with people who fall in category 1 and, to some extent, category 2.

This leads me to wonder whether students of classical music, who show particular promise, are encouraged to apply for scholarships at specialist schools, as the state system is simply not tuned up to provide the high - level teaching required for the most talented?

Most states don't keep student - level data, so researchers also can't compare similar students at a full - time virtual school and those in a full - time conventional one.

As Heather Staker and I have written, the models of blended learning most likely to scale into the core academic subjects at all levels of schooling in the near term are sustaining innovations, in which online learning is essentially an augmentation to the traditional classroom, but there is still a fundamental shift in the learning model from the student's perspective.

These are 2 different worksheets that can be used to practise / revise the most common types of linear equations that students are expected to be able to solve at GCSE level.

Most of the students in this book, either through their own drivenness or through the interventions of adults — either parents, teachers, or related services people, therapists and so forth — develop the strategies they needed to be successful: to be able to access education at a high level; to know how to handle the heavy reading load when they read at a very low rate; to learn how to manage pain, which was the case with one of the students in the book who has chronic pain due to his physical disabilities; or to learn how to manage anxiety, which is the case of two of the people in the book.

Most states have set their proficiency bars at much lower levels, perhaps because it causes less embarrassment when more students can make it across the proficiency bar, or because it was the easiest way for states to comply with the NCLB requirement to bring all students up to full proficiency.

«Accountability for student performance is one of the two or three - if not the most - prominent issues in policy at the state and local levels right now,» says Richard F. Elmore, a professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education (Quality Counts, 1999)

Encarta Schoolhouse One of the most comprehensive of those is Encarta Schoolhouse — a great place to find a large number of lesson plans that are sure to capture the interest of students at almost every grade level.

For smaller American Indian / Alaskan Native and Hawaiian Native / Pacific Islander subgroups, the majority of students in the subgroup remain uncovered if only students in that subgroup are pooled: the «super subgroup» strategy of aggregating across racial / ethnic groups is the only way to account for most students in these groups, although their data are not identifiable at the subgroup level.

The most controversial reform implemented under Driscoll's watch was requiring that students perform at a certain level on the state's 10th grade test in order to graduate.

It's not just a problem for Kew — data issued by the Australian Government (Office of the Chief Scientist, 2016) show, at a national level, student participation in most Year 12 maths and science subjects is declining.

In addition, a survey of English language arts classrooms published by the Fordham Institute found that most elementary - school teachers, at least in the early stages of common core implementation, assigned books based on students» abilities, rather than grade - level complexity, as the standards state.

Most teachers understand this and attempt to teach every student at an appropriate level.

Predictably, the researchers found that the students who struggled the most with learning English lagged well behind their English - speaking peers at all levels of schooling, never really catching up at any point along the spectrum.

First, and most NCLB - relevant, «We should get the federal government out of the business of monitoring education at the school or student level.»

One of the most passionately debated topics of 21st Century education surrounds the primary tenet of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act: All students, and that means 100 percent of enrolled students, will test at or above proficiency levels by the 2013 - 2014 school year.

A higher percentage of students in West Virginia attend small schools at all three levels — elementary, middle, and high school — than in most other states.

Most students at the graduate level can offset that gap by applying for federal loans like the Perkins or working on campus through the federal work study program.

A researcher at Harvard surveyed 10,000 middle and high school students in 33 different schools around the nation about what they thought their folks cared about most: that they achieve at a high level, that they are happy (defined as «feeling good most of the time»), or that they care for others.

The lack of information on numbers experiencing blended learning has created challenges at multiple levels — from understanding if the phenomenon is actually scaling to contextualizing if bumps on the road, like the recent demise of Amplify, are mere blips or catastrophic events, and from understanding where policymakers and philanthropists can make the most impact to knowing whether the blended learning that is occurring is a good or bad thing for students.

Teachers should be rewarded for producing useful student outcomes, most notably, student learning gains, measured by value - added standards (i.e., improvement) rather than by levels of achievement at the end of a course.

Given the rampant grade inflation at all levels of American education, grades earned by students in even the most elite traditional private schools can not be trusted.

Decide for yourself how often you should focus on tasks at each level so that students gain the most from the learning opportunities you design.

«Unfortunately, the majority of students entering Urban Prep read at about the fifth - or sixth - grade level, and most of them are not able to perform math above the seventh - grade level,» explains Allen.

Most importantly, to best serve students and teachers, educators at all levels need to be clear on their goals, both in teaching and in using technology to teach and learn.

Students would have to describe how this method worked and why it was the easiest and most effective method.This could work at any level but may look different at each level.

As has been noted frequently, the lack of preparation of our students necessitates extensive remedial education at the postsecondary level, detracting from the ability of colleges and universities to be most effective.

While maths continues to be the most popular subject at A level, with almost 25 % of pupils choosing to study it, there are almost three quarters of students with an A * - C in GCSE maths at age 16 who decide not to continue studying the subject.

Consider starting with one or two students during a unit of instruction where most children are at similar levels of foundational knowledge.