Sentences with phrase «academic progress even»

It's also true that most states should emphasize academic progress even more aggressively.

At the same time, fluid cognitive skills remain potent predictors of academic progress even among students attending oversubscribed charter schools.

Not exact matches

For students who started classes before they were called up for active duty, time spent in a combat zone, even if not under direct fire, disrupted academic progress.

But even as my career progressed, I observed that many of my female colleagues were disproportionately dropping out of academic medicine careers.

Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.

By many measures, children's academic outcomes have improved — particularly in the charter schools that this movement created — but the consensus is that progress has either not been fast enough or that it's not even legit.

Academics, and Even Attendance: Charts and Graphs Tell the Story As a Total Quality Management school, students and teachers are always setting goals and recording progress toward those goals.

There are also articles about obstacles to greater progress: a study reveals that teacher expectations impact students» likelihood of completing college and are often lower for black students than for their white counterparts, even after accounting for students» academic and demographic backgrounds; and a look at how allowing laptop use in the classroom actually distracts from student learning.

This progress in turn can lead to more academic success and enhance optimism even further.

If minority students today deliberately underachieve in order to avoid social sanctions, that by itself could explain why the academic performance of 17 - year - old African Americans, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), has deteriorated since the late 1980s, even while that of nine - year - olds has been improving.

As the weeks progress, Dodge will introduce various topics and activities that explore issues of race, sexuality, gender; or academic issues, such as how to handle the new levels of responsibility and work at high school; or even how to think about what to major in and how to define their future academic and personal goals.

Even students who fully expect to drop out may expend more effort in the short term as they are forced to progress through a state - mandated set of core academic courses.

Some civil rights advocates have voiced similar concerns about accountability systems that rely exclusively on growth measures, which could allow schools serving disadvantaged students to avoid sanction even if their students» academic progress is insufficient to close achievement gaps.

Indeed, even if they made good academic progress, they wouldn't graduate unless they demonstrated good teamwork and willingness to exceed expectations.

Through the «Parent Portal», guardians with a child attending Stephen Gaynor can login and immediately see their child's academic progress, take a look at their in school and after school calendar, RSVP to events, and even speak with other parents who have children in the same class.

Even though K12, Inc. is notorious for churning students through its programs and failing to demonstrate academic progress, both of the companies» virtual charter programs are likely to get the green light since the legislation compels the State Board of Education to get the pilot program up and running this fall.

This enables our scholars who are behind to catch up more quickly, and help those who are on grade level accelerate their progress towards the mastery of key academic skills even faster.

Even if disadvantaged students make great progress during the academic year.

More formally, after we've got the RTI model implemented, well, parents are going to choose to be involved in varying levels, but as a school person I'd encourage parents to be involved as we look at the results of our screening whether we're screening annually, or maybe even three times a year, when we're looking at those academic benchmarks that would indicate how well a youngster is performing in class and then when we're conducting the progress monitoring so that students who are part of more intensive interventions will have their progress monitored, or will conduct those formative assessments to inform us how well that intervention is working.

More than one - third of the schools haven't met even half of their own goals for attendance, academic progress and other improvements.

Our easy - to - teach program garners outstanding reviews from educators who've noticed schoolwide improvement and see even the most challenging students make progress in emotion management, situational awareness, and academic achievement.