Sentences with phrase «advantage over students»

She says it provides an advantage over students at other schools who won't get their first taste of corporate law until second year.

For example, schools should watch to see whether students who have more access to technology outside of school than others display an advantage over students who have less, she said.

Students whose parents understand the homework and can help them with it at home have a major advantage over students whose parents are unable or unavailable to help.

More than two - thirds of charter students were found to perform better in reading and math and to have a significant achievement advantage over students in the nearest regular public school.

«Children who learn in a classroom with a working word wall have a distinct advantage over students who don't have such a resource in their room,» said Shaw.

Fortunately, his years as an outdoor educator at The Mountain Institute and North Carolina Outward Bound School gives him one advantage over his students — an awareness that such a thing as nature existed.

Since reading comprehension depends chiefly on knowledge of the topic (including the vocabulary) in the passage, the student with that knowledge has a large advantage over the student without it.

Not exact matches

Federal student loans have many advantages over private loans, and in most cases a borrower should extinguish all available federal loans for any given academic year before relying on private loans.

This study found that «the achievement advantage of white over minority students... increases in public schools during the last two years of schooling, whereas the minority gap actually decreases in Catholic schools.»

Takana, a rabbinic forum established in 2003 to clamp down on s - exual misconduct by Orthodox educators, went public February 15 with allegations that Mordechai «Moti» Elon had taken advantage of his influence over male students and performed «acts at odds with sacred and moral values.»

Over a span of 18 years, 3,100 students (47 percent of which were athletes) at UNC took advantage of these courses which allowed them to receive quality grades without having to show up for class, turn in papers or take tests.

Another reason for regulation, and this is unfortunate but true, is that there are people who attempt to get modifications for their children when they are not really needed because they believe it will give their children advantages over other students.

Section 504 and IDEA allow for accommodation on testing, but they do not require schools to accommodate students to such a degree that they have advantages over other students.

Tough, a former editor at The New York Times Magazine and the author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America (2008), believes that students from schools like KIPP may have «character advantages» over their wealthier counterparts because of the hard work it takes for them to succeed.

We don't believe that people who are here illegally should have an advantage over people who are taking out student loans,» Skelos said.

She did a Ph.D. at the Pierre et Marie Curie University, but her ENS connections — such as access to prominent people in her field — gave her a large advantage over other university students working on a Ph.D. thesis.

Graduate students in the sciences have one tremendous advantage over their colleagues in the humanities: money.

With career advantages like this DIGS - BB will continue to recruit excellent PhD students from all over the world and to provide top - notch research and training opportunities.

Meg Urry was the first tenured woman professor in the Physics Department at Yale University and was often the only woman in her physics classes, including her graduate class at MIT, but she still heard a fellow student complain that women were unfairly given advantages over their male colleagues.

I felt that sometimes conversations were boiled down to one best practice — for example, current best practices stress integrating students into the public system and government ownership over the sector, but this seemed to undermine the «both / and» approach: that formal and informal programs were necessary, given the scale of the crisis, and that international, national and local actors all have their own advantages and expertise to offer.

This initial advantage in academic achievement dissipates sharply over time, however, and appears to vanish by high school when, as a 9th grader, the redshirted student is at most 7 percent older than his peers.

The foundations and donors supporting the education reform movement do have one enormous advantage over their philanthropic counterparts in the arts, health, the environment, human services, and any number of other fields, namely, the presence of measures of student achievement that allow real comparisons of school performance.

The latter may be influenced by students» homes and neighborhoods and may give teachers in middle - class suburban communities an advantage over those teaching in less advantaged communities.

These advantages include greater flexibility at a lower cost than traditional testing, quicker feedback for students, parents, and teachers regarding student performance (typically, test results are not available until months after students have taken standardized tests), and considerable time savings over traditional methods.

Cheating is wrong for at least four reasons: it gives students who cheat an unfair advantage over those who do not cheat; it is dishonest; it is a violation of trust; and it undermines the academic integrity, the code of conduct, and the social order of the school.

Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found that NYC charter students gained an additional one month of learning per year in reading over their district - school peers; in math the advantage was five months of additional learning each year.

72 percent believe students who have access to computers at home have a major advantage over those who do not.

More over, they're not taking advantage of new technology innovation that is available to support them in their on going efforts to protect staff and students.

Since suburban students certainly have other advantages over the average student in the cities, we might not expect equal spending to produce identical results.

It is likely that the students with the strongest ability to regulate their own learning accumulate understanding and gain an advantage over their peers, so that by the time these students reach Grade 5 those with the highest self - regulated learning skills have also become the highest achievers.

Students that get apprenticeships through Digital Advantage will benefit from high quality work experience, respected qualifications and good starting salaries; giving them a head start in the digital industries over young people coming out of university.»

For example, CT showed advantage in promoting mathematics achievement of elementary over secondary school students.

Online courses have an advantage over traditional classroom teaching: Students can work at their own pace.

The advantage of this approach is that it compares the same students over time.

A new study evaluates whether students who are the oldest in their class have an advantage over their younger peers.

Today, more than 2 million students are taking advantage of this robust public school choice option in over 5,600 charter schools across the country.

For example, last year over 90 urban public high school students in New Orleans took advantage of Louisiana's new Supplemental Course Academy (SCA) to complete credits for their first year of college through Bard Early College Campus, a satellite campus of Bard College in New York.

It didn't take long for school reformers to see that this approach has distinct advantages over the standard way in which students move through the K - 12 curriculum: by accumulating Carnegie Units (or course credits).

When that over - $ 1,100 advantage is applied to a school or district of one - thousand students, the wealthiest top 5 percent resource advantage grows to over $ 1.1 million.

The PISA data indicate that the observed variation in the distribution of student characteristics across countries does not place the United States at a disadvantage in international assessments compared with other highly developed countries; students with high levels of socioeconomic status had an educational advantage over their low SES counterparts across all 20 countries, even after considering the differences in the percentage of students who are immigrants, from less - advantaged homes, non-native language speakers, and other factors.

The preservice teacher's pedagogical training has taught her that OLEs have gained increased popularity as a means to teach students using context - specific authentic problems because of the advantages this approach offers over classrooms that emphasize rote memorization of preexisting expertly conceived concepts (Edelson et al., 1999).

School districts nationwide are encouraged to take advantage of time over the summer to offer innovative learning programs for students — including those who are at risk — and help them as well as teachers prepare for the new state standards.

Previous research has found that Teach for America staff give their students an advantage over their peers who had regular teachers on math tests.

Assertions that the sector has «fulfilled one of its core missions — equity for students — by establishing itself as a primarily urban phenomenon with significant chains of schools that are closing achievement gaps» (Lake, 2013, p. 1) are countered by claims that «charter schools, on average, don't have an academic advantage over traditional public schools, but they do have a significant risk of leading to increased segregation» (Rotberg, 2014, para 2).

ESSA can help or can damage, it all depends on how each district takes it, and if they actually use it for the advantage of the students, or if they use it to have more control over schools and worsen the situation.

MYTH # 3: Race - based affirmative action gives Black and Latino students an unfair advantage over others.

The Occupy movement has catalyzed rising anxiety over income inequality; we desperately need a similar reminder of the relationship between economic advantage and student performance.

Until now... thanks to a thorough study carried out by The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS), an association that works with more than 300 boarding schools around the world, there is evidence that supports the advantages of a boarding school education for students over public and private day schools.

The advantage over the national average grows throughout elementary school and especially by the end of middle school, showing that the longer a student attends a Catholic school, the greater the likelihood for academic success and performance above the norm.

The pre-K students entered kindergarten with a decided advantage over the comparison group, but that advantage diminished over time.