Sentences with phrase «academic years behind»

When students come to us for the first time, they may be several academic years behind their more affluent peers.

With only 3 academic years behind it, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) is a new kid on the block.

Results showed pupils in Wales are the equivalent of half an academic year behind others for mathematical literacy.

Not exact matches

After ten years of academic investigation at the University of Maryland, the researchers behind VisiSonics brought their «3D audio» technology to market in 2012.

Coming back to the broader issue of data innovation, it is interesting to note that dataset merges have been behind a growing number of important academic studies and research findings in recent years.

The report card provides parents with information they can't easily get anywhere else: In addition to five years of academic results, the report card shows which schools are improving or falling behind.

The children at the Fresh Foods distribution, who were not even 10 years old, were already considerably behind in terms of academic and enrichment opportunities than their peers from the more affluent neighborhood.

In the 2007 - 2008 academic year, for instance, awards supported research on topics such as the imaging of brain regions involved in the learning of words, the relation between memory and the growth of brain cells in adulthood, the neural activity behind birdsongs and the processing of sensory data in the brains of infants at risk for autism.

Now, with a year of the Ed School behind her, she is looking at ways that technology — and a small academic scholarship program that she started while in Iraq for three high school seniors each year — can help students all over Thailand improve their lives.

Improvements in states» academic standards in English / language arts have been widespread since the federal No Child Left Behind Act kicked in three years ago, but the mathematics guidelines are still generally «vague and undemanding,» concludes the latest 50 - state review by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.

Under the «No Child Left Behind» Act of 2001, states must determine each year whether school districts have made «adequate yearly progress» in academic achievement.

On November 26, 2002, — after almost a year of discussion and debate — final regulations regarding the Title I: Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged section of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act were released.

I think that's exactly right, but especially in the last five years, because of the No Child Left Behind legislation, more and more of these programs really do have an academic component.

The idea The idea behind a tiny and cheap computer for kids came in 2006, when Dr Eben Upton and his colleagues at the University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory, including Rob Mullins, Jack Lang and Alan Mycroft, became concerned about the year - on - year decline in the numbers and skills levels of the A Level students applying to read Computer Science in each academic year.

In addition, the main thrust of the report's criticism, that the state's ESSA plan is not sufficiently similar to what it would have been had No Child Left Behind remained in effect, assumes the test - based accountability strategy that these reviewers have made their careers pursuing had been effective, which it has not; and therefore, when coupled with the false claim that California has high - quality academic standards and assessments, which it doesn't (California's standards being based on the Common Core, which leaves American students 2 - 3 years behind their peers in East Asia and northern Europe), California's families remain well advised to opt out of state schooling wherever and whenever possible, until the overreach from both the federal and state capitals is brought to an end and local schools that want to pursue genuinely world - class excellence can tBehind remained in effect, assumes the test - based accountability strategy that these reviewers have made their careers pursuing had been effective, which it has not; and therefore, when coupled with the false claim that California has high - quality academic standards and assessments, which it doesn't (California's standards being based on the Common Core, which leaves American students 2 - 3 years behind their peers in East Asia and northern Europe), California's families remain well advised to opt out of state schooling wherever and whenever possible, until the overreach from both the federal and state capitals is brought to an end and local schools that want to pursue genuinely world - class excellence can tbehind their peers in East Asia and northern Europe), California's families remain well advised to opt out of state schooling wherever and whenever possible, until the overreach from both the federal and state capitals is brought to an end and local schools that want to pursue genuinely world - class excellence can thrive.

The report card provides parents with information they can't easily get anywhere else: In addition to five years of academic results, the report card shows which schools are improving or falling behind.

The additional letter tells parents that nearly every school in Washington won't meet the No Child Left Behind requirements this year, and that the 28 superintendents are «proud of the significant academic progress our students are making.»

«It's good news for our nation's 90,000 local school board members, and an historic step toward reversing years of undue burden under the No Child Left Behind Act and restoring responsibility for school accountability and academic standards back to states and local school districts,» stated Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, NSBA, in a press release issued today.

Most school districts in Washington State will likely have less control over how they spend money during the next academic year, and those that were already under sanction for failing to make progress under the federal No Child Left Behind law will face more severe consequences.

The study, completed by Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, found that, in a 180 - day academic year, virtual charter students lagged behind their peers by an average of 72 days in reading, and 180 days in math.

While many of our students arrive at their first day of school many years behind on academic achievement measures, over the course of their tenure at a school, students should close the gap between their own achievement profile and that of a college - ready student profile.

Steve (Technology)-- The new 9 - 1 Technology GCSE is first examined next academic year, a year behind most subjects» first 9 - 1 sitting and two years behind English & Maths.

The following year former Superintendent John Deasy argued that the district was exempt, for one year, from the parent trigger by a federal waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law that allowed LA Unified and seven other California school districts to create their own metrics for academic performance in the temporary absence of statewide standards.

As mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), all states currently require that a school is accountable only if the student has been enrolled in the school for a full academic year.

Yet, low - income children show drop - off in reading ability over the summer break and then enter the next academic school year further behind their peers.

Unlike public and academic libraries, which have prioritized ebook acquisition in recent years, K - 12 school libraries still lag far behind, according to the third - annual «2012 Ebook Usage in U.S. School (K - 12) Libraries,» sponsored by Follett.

Academics today threw their weight behind calls for a strong climate deal in Paris later this year, urging governments to take immediate action to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

But when SSRN was acquired last year by academic journal publisher Elsevier, a sibling company to LexisNexis, some scholars and information professionals became concerned that SSRN's free access would eventually be locked behind a paywall (even though SSRN said otherwise) or exploited to mine and sell user data.