Sentences with phrase «students in countries»

Lawyers and Law Students in these countries have been encouraged to remove themselves from being bound by all the acts, statutes, and codes of their particular country of origin.

On our Study USA and Study UK blogs, you can hear directly from international students in those countries about the things on their mind.

However, in our ever more global societies it is becoming clear that many of today's key education issues are international in nature and must be addressed for all students in all countries.

The systems of schooling in Shanghai (China) Finland, Japan, Singapore, and Ontario (Canada) are analyzed, since students in those countries or provinces consistently outperform American students on international tests of academic performance.

Recent brain research has shown youth have different sleep needs than adults, while it's been popular to say that students in the US have less «seat time» than students around the world (as a matter of fact, this is incorrect: while students in some countries have more days of school than the US, most of those countries have shorter school days that actually results in less seat time).

I would bet that students in countries that lead the world in achievement spend maybe 25 - 40 % of their time in these optimal zones.

He found that students in countries with merit pay policies in place were performing approximately 0.25 standard deviations higher on an international math and science test than students in countries without such policies.

Because representative samples of student performance on NAEP 2005 are available for each state, it is possible to compare the percentages of students in the Class of 2009 who were at the advanced level for each state to the percentage of equally skilled students in countries from around the globe.

It is at the secondary level that they introduce the high stakes exams for students, with Japanese students required to take an entrance exam for upper secondary school and students in both countries required to take tests at the end of upper secondary school that will determine what kind of higher education institution they can enter.

The researchers found that students in countries with higher proportions of children enrolled in private schools score higher on internationally comparable exams.

Students in countries with higher perceived levels of corruption and low government efficiency generally express lower levels of trust.»

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On average, students in countries with performance - related pay score 24.8 percent of a standard deviation higher on the PISA math test; in reading the effect is 24.3 percent of a standard deviation; and in science it is 15.4 percent (see Figure 1).

Students in countries where a larger share of decisions was made at the national level scored lower in both math and science (the effect in math, however, was statistically insignificant).

All things being equal, students in countries with centralized exams scored 16 points higher in math and 11 points higher in science, although the science finding is not statistically significant due to the small number of countries in the sample (see Figure 3 for results).

Students in countries that permit teacher salaries to be adjusted for outstanding performance score approximately one - quarter of a standard deviation higher on the international math and reading tests, and about 15 percent higher on the science test, than students in countries without performance pay.

Students in countries with larger shares of their enrollment in privately managed schools scored significantly higher in both math and science.

Specifically, students in countries that permit teacher salaries to be adjusted for outstanding performance score approximately one - quarter of a standard deviation higher on the international math and reading tests, and about 15 percent higher on the science test, than students in countries without performance pay.

Linking that information to a country's test performance, one finds that students in countries with performance pay perform at higher levels in math, science, and reading.

In «Why Students in Some Countries Do Better,» Ludger Woessmann asks why some nations do better than others in math and science.

Students in countries with centralized curricula scored 11 points better in math, 6 in science.

In this study, students in countries where schools have more decision - making powers in managing personnel, planning, choosing their instructional methods, and deciding how to use resources scored significantly higher in science and higher in math (though the effect in math is statistically insignificant).

White students in the United States trail well behind all students in countries such Japan, Germany, Belgium, and Canada.

Indeed, the study shows that the percent proficient among U.S. students whose parents are college - educated or who are white is significantly less than the percent proficient among all students in countries such as Korea, Singapore, and Finland.

Ludger Woessman (see «Merit Pay International,» research) looked at 27 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries and found that students in countries with some form of performance pay for teachers score about 25 percent of a standard deviation higher on the international math test than do their peers in countries without teacher performance pay.

In fact, the vast majority of students in these countries often succeed on only a tiny fraction of the curriculum specified for their grade.

«So it's no longer necessary [for students in these countries] to go abroad to get the kind of degree you'd get if you went abroad,» she says.

Riley was invited to express his views by the Washington Examiner, and he unloaded on the mainstream media's attempt to apply the views of David Hogg to every student in the country.

Cicil aims to solve this problem for the six million university students in the country over the four years of their education.

Entry is free and the results are pulled from the overall race finishers to find the fastest students in the country.

The Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom are on a mission to bring breakfast to every student in the country because we know that breakfast translates into a better - nourished student who is ready to learn!

Dr. Yoni Freedhoff of Weighty Matters debuts on Civil Eats with a post regarding a food - industry - created nutrition education curriculum that reaches 12.5 million students in this country each year.

In 2013, for the first time, a majority of public - school students in this country — 51 percent, to be precise — fell below the federal government's low - income cutoff, meaning they were eligible for a free or subsidized school lunch.

Two of London's local authorities rank in some of the lowest concentrations of home educated students in the country, among them are Westminster and Lambeth where only 0.14 % and 0.12 % of 5 - 16 year olds study at home.

Therefore, we can know things such as that there were 1,096,000 homeschooled students in the United States in 2003: 2.2 % of all K — 12 students in the country.

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Koppell had been pushing for a more progressive agenda including a higher minimum wage and public financing of campaigns, passage of the Dream Act, which would allow students in the country illegally access to state financial aid, along with all 10 points of the Women's Equality Agenda, which includes a contentious abortion plank.

«We don't want to wait until next year,» the Manhattan Democrat said of the Dream Act, which would extend state financial aid to students in the country illegally.

«It is expected that the last batch of these students would be evacuated today implying that all Nigerian students in that country would have been evacuated by the end of the day,» he said.

General News of Sunday, 13 May 2018 Source: Enock Akonnor Teachers are being encouraged to use indigenous languages to help students Chief for Atwima Kwanwoma Nana Amponsa - Kwaa IV has appealed to the government through the Ministry of Education to consider setting in motion policies that will ensure that Akan language (Twi) is strictly used by teachers as the communication channel in the teaching of students in the country.

Cuomo is also backing the so - called Dream Act that would extend state financial aid to students in the country illegally as part of his budget proposal for the coming fiscal year.

The circular released the fee items the government has absorbed for all day public senior high school students in the country in line with its commitment to implement the progressively free secondary education policy as expressed in President John Mahama's State of the Nation Address last year.

«We are number one in spending per student in the country,» he said.

When Gov. Dannel P. Malloy was elected four years ago, Connecticut had the worst achievement gap between poor minority students and suburban white students in the country.

«Our graduate program has the largest populous of black Ph.D. students in the country,» Gilbert claims, with 12 to 15 African - American graduate students.

The ongoing tuition increases raise the average debt load of students in this country, and they make it more difficult for students to graduate on time.

Imagine, if you will, a classroom in which every seat is occupied by one of the best students in the country — bright, fully engaged, and hungry to know more.

Our patients benefit from the conscientious attention of some of the finest faculty, residents and medical students in the country.

The NFB has the largest scholarship program for legally blind post-secondary students in the country.

As the most socially relevant genre film of the year, The Dirties should be (but won't) essential viewing for every teacher, school administrator and high school student in the country.