Sentences with phrase «after a student failed»

Teachers who knew they could do better after students failed adjusted their methods and saw future classes go on to excel.

And, even after a student failed one or more state tests, there was no guarantee that assistance would be provided.

«We want to know the best way to present math concepts a second time, after students fail to grasp it the first time,» she said.

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After the shooting in Florida, he sent out a tweet that appeared to blame the students for failing to report warning signs about the gunman (though it was later reported that people had).

Players do have a brain afterall and what Wenger does is encourage them to use it rather than just instruct them like most other managers do, now when it all comes together, we go a whole season unbeaten, when it fails, we go a decade without a trophy all in it is why a large number of former Wenger students and players have gone on to greater things within and beyond football, Even Guardiola took a chunk of his coaching badges under Wenger even after playing under Fergie just before hanging up his boots, Viera went on to a senior role at Man.

These students continue to work hard in a class even after failing a few tests; when they are stumped or confused by complex material, they look for new ways to master it rather than simply giving up.

After decades of failed efforts to improve the lives of poor students, Mr Tough has written a fine and provocative book about the kind of work that seems to be making a difference.

Some high schools in B.C. are weaning students off «fear of failure» by allowing them, after a failed test result, to review the unit on which the test was based and then take a different version of the test on the same topic.

After four years and half a billion dollars on a failed school turnaround program, NYC students need a leader who will work with urgency to give them the quality of schools they deserve,» said StudentsFirstNY Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

After the first two years of the phase - in of this agreement, however, the state first froze and then dramatically slashed aid for education, the suit notes, and in so doing, failed to fulfill its constitutional requirement to provide every student with a sound, basic education.

The chancellor also blasted Mr. Cuomo's call for the firing of any teacher whose students fail to meet test standards after two years as an intrusion on the internal workings of schools.

MIDTOWN — The city could be forced to shell out nearly $ 44 million in private school tuition after failing to place thousands of kindergarten students with special needs in public schools for next fall, according to a new report by Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.

«This is the real scandal in Albany, the alarming fact that state government has stood by and done nothing as generation after generation of students have passed through failing schools,» Cuomo said in a series of press releases he issued Thursday naming each failing school and the legislators whose districts they are located in.

PhD students can now elect representatives to a national students» council and to the academic senate of an increasing number of universities, enjoy economic benefits similar to those of undergraduate students, choose to write their thesis in a foreign language, appeal following a failed defence, and hold their title right after a successful defence, because all further bureaucratic requirements like filing copies of the thesis to the national libraries have been transferred to the universities.

After a promising lead with a mining museum in Saint Petersburg failed to pan out, Igor Huskić, a graduate student in the Friščić research group at McGill turned his attention to synthesizing analogues of the minerals in the lab — and succeeded.

(Dating a med student — and gently remind them after they get their well above passing grade how unnecessary the I'm going to fail out of medical Dating a med student who spends more time with his books than you?

The film stars Julianne Moore as a high school English teacher whose life takes a turn when a former star student returns after failing as a playwright in New York City.

The English Teacher (Unrated) Julianne Moore handles the titular role as a spinster with a pair of Siamese cats whose life is disrupted by the return to town of a former student (Michael Angarano) after failing as a playwright in the Big Apple.

It tells of a man who «plateaus» in life, after his acting career fails to materialize, his girlfriend (Judy Greer) dumps him, and a student (Michael Cera) in the acting class that he teaches gets better work.

After her rich fiance dumps her, slacker teacher Elizabeth (Diaz) returns to her middle school classroom with even less interest than before, fending off the interest of hang - dog coach Russell (Segel), perky colleague Amy (Punch) and gullible Lynn (Smith), while the oblivious principal (Higgins) fails to notice that she's merely showing school - themed movies to her students.

Several studies (download) have found that more high school students fail ninth grade than any other grade; in low - income high schools, 40 percent of all dropouts (download) leave after ninth grade.

And with ongoing implementation of Common Core standards and assessments, Skandera pursued what she calls «truth telling,» or being honest about school and student performance after too many years of failing to acknowledge a painful reality.

Tools for Teaching: Escaping the Paper Grading Trap The paper - grading ritual, says Dr. Fred Jones, not only fails to improve student learning, it also cannibalizes the after - school time available for planning tomorrow's lessons with yesterday's clerical work.

There is also evidence that the number of university applicants identifying teaching as their first preference has been quite stable over recent years, suggesting that a growing number of students are entering teaching after failing to obtain a place in their course of first choice.

During her Planning for Education Progress (PEP) meeting — a student - led meeting for all 11th - grade students to prepare for college and life after high school — she expressed concern that she wouldn't succeed in college because she'd failed the class.

The change would let students who had failed a course for the first time to be reinstated in clubs or on teams after just three weeks, and allow them to practice or rehearse in the meantime.

But some teachers and parents attribute that to a new «credit recovery» program that lets failing students retake courses after school.

After all, if you believe in top - down accountability, it will point you toward those schools that are truly failing their students.

The study — conducted by William L. Sanders, the statistician who pioneered the concept of «value - added» analysis of teaching effectiveness — found that there was basically no difference in the achievement levels of students whose teachers earned the prestigious NBPTS credential, those who tried but failed to earn it, those who never tried to get the certification, or those who earned it after the student...

They said the gains were inflated by the retention of low - performing 3rd graders after 2002, when Florida ended «social promotion» by requiring students who failed 3rd grade tests to repeat that grade.

These obstacles are compounded by the fact that few districts are making it easy for parents to exercise their right to choose or to avail themselves of the related option that offers «supplemental services,» such as after - school tutoring, to students who remain in schools that have failed to improve student performance.

Second, exploiting a natural experiment, I show that a fail inspection rating leads to test - score gains for primary school students that remain evident even after the students move into secondary schools.

Applied to learning, grit would be summoned every time students stare down a challenge, persist through adversity, or refuse to quit after failing to reduce a fraction — for the fifth time.

At the conference he will explain how the system is failing the students: «We know of cases where, after re-remarks have come through, their pupils are confirmed as having exceeded the offer of their first choice university yet have nevertheless been told - inexplicably - that they no longer have a place for that year.

The consequences for schools that failed to meet their performance targets were progressively severe — after one year, districts would be required to offer public school choice to all the students in a school; after several years, districts would be required to replace school staff, convert the school into a public charter school, or hand the school over to a private contractor.

After taking assessments, students receive pass / fail feedback, as well as a detailed explanation of their performance.

«If a school continues to fail its students year after year, if it doesn't show signs of improvement, then there's got to be a sense of accountability,» President Obama announced.

Escaping the Paper Grading Trap The paper - grading ritual, says Dr. Fred Jones, not only fails to improve student learning, it also cannibalizes the after - school time available for planning tomorrow's lessons with yesterday's clerical work.

The nation's public schools have failed to adequately prepare students for life after high school, said honors students in college who participated in a recently concluded «national forum» series.

After all, if nearly all schools in California are labeled as failing in a few years, what choices will the students and parents have?

Ten years before, that school had received a «failing» label from the state; after commencing the zoo partnership, says the principal, student achievement soared.

Mr. Vallas had long complained that the state's February testing date failed to give students the benefit of a full year of schooling, and last month declared that he would give the Illinois Standard Achievement Tests to students in May — four months after the rest of the state.

The paper - grading ritual not only fails to improve student learning, it also cannibalizes the after - school time available for the teacher's highest level job function — planning tomorrow's lessons — with the teacher's lowest level job function — yesterday's clerical work.

At the same time, though, courts have refused to apply the defense of assumption of risk when educators failed to provide adequate supervision such as where a competitor in a track and field meet was struck by an errant discus while standing in a safe zone; a student was injured during an indoor (American) football practice when he slipped on a wet gym floor where coaches failed to provide proper supervision or after another player was injured due to the lack of supervision at a practice; coaches did not warn a student sufficiently about the dangers of diving into a pool; coaches conducted a track practice in a high school hallway that unreasonably increased a student's risk of injury; and a coach lacked enough experience to provide adequate supervision to avoid injury to a cheerleader.

After all, if all students must meet a defined external standard, there may not be much glory in failing and being subject to a consequence as harsh as not graduating.

After using whole - class novels that failed to engage students, a teacher finds the benefits of letting them choose what to read.

Charter advocates in Massachusetts sought to increase the number of urban students who can enroll in charters, and the state had several well - qualified charter operators eager to open new schools, but both efforts failed in the legislature and in a referendum after a fierce campaign by teachers» unions.

Nearly 20 years ago, after the Clinton administration proposed a program of voluntary national student testing, Chester Finn, then a senior fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute, warned that if it failed it would be because «liberals hate the word «testing» and conservatives hate the word «national.

Atlanta District Rolls Out New Grade - Changing Rules District Dossier: Superintendent Meria Carstarphen launched an investigation into grade changing after an internal investigation found that one high school principal changed more than 100 student grades from failing to passing.

The other enrolls disadvantaged students, works very hard to educate them, but after graduating most of them fail to get decent jobs and many of their start - up ventures end in bankruptcy.