Sentences with phrase «academic benefit as a result»

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But despite these shortcomings in academic quality and rigor, there were other important benefits of the program that were available as a direct result of the use of blended learning.

In addition to academic gains for students in some voucher programs, other scholars have identified benefits among public schools as a result of such programs.

The data show that SEL programs yielded a strong benefit in academic accomplishment, as demonstrated in achievement test results and grade - point averages.

When teachers have the necessary time to engage in high quality professional learning — coupled with the supports to use that time well — such professional learning can result in marked improvements in student academic growth.40 This is why the National Education Association's Foundation for the Improvement of Education includes «adequate time for inquiry, reflection, and mentoring» as one of the components of high - quality professional development.41 When teachers have time to plan, practice, collaborate, and learn, both teachers and students benefit.

DeVos could simply require that states use that money to expand voucher programs and then reject grant applications that spell out too rigorous a set of academic standards for private schools that benefit as a result.

K12 will provide comprehensive wraparound services targeted to individual student needs and for the benefit of the school community: development of strong community within the virtual academy; access to the best and most current virtual instruction curriculum, assessment and instruction based on solid research; customizing each student's education to their own individual learning plan; academic success at the school and individual student levels resulting from teachers» instruction and constant monitoring of student growth and achievement with interventions as needed; national and local parent trainings and networking; frequent (i.e., every two to three week) teacher / parent communication through emails and scheduled meetings; establishment of unique settings for students and parents to interact; connecting students on a regular basis with students across the United States in similar virtual academies and across the world through networking and K12 national competitions (e.g., art contest and spelling bees) and International Clubs; access to the entire K12 suite of services and instructional curriculum (currently including K12, Aventa, A +, and powerspeak12) to include world languages, credit recovery courses, remedial courses, and AP courses; participation in a national advanced learners programs; a comprehensive Title I program that will provide additional services for students; school led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowling club.

Research on the effects of grade retention has generally concluded that, at least beyond the early elementary grades, its harms outweigh its purported benefits, in particular, being overage for grade as a results of being held back eats away at students» sense of academic worth.

That very clearly results in a reduced benefit, and in some cases actually a substantial loss, to the wider public as well as to academics themselves.

The issue arose as a result of the fact that, despite being informed of the right to enrol in benefits and the application process at the point of employment, and despite being sent a follow - up e-mail with an invitation to contact the individual at the College who was responsible for enrolment of academic staff into benefits, some partial load employees simply did not follow - up and contact the College to fill out the application forms.

I do not agree with what I see as your assumption that academia is purposely keeping results a secret through limited accessibility (as per «How do we benefit as a society, if our Universities bury their research among a closed group of two to five thousand academics sprinkled around the globe?»).