Sentences with phrase «among students at all levels»

Controversial when first introduced, the wisdom of the move can be gauged from the fact that the model has helped curtail drastically the attrition rate among students at all levels.

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One of the most active athletic trainers» association at the state level is in New Jersey, which was the first state to require by law that coaches receive safety training, is among the 40 states that have enacted strong youth concussion safety laws, and has been a leader in advocating for academic accommodations for concussed student - athletes.

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

The projects, undertaken by students of all levels, were among examples that stand at the intersection of an emerging approach to teaching that integrates the fundamental tenets of human rights into science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.

Among those middle and high school students who had the lowest levels of resilience, their ability to learn and feel safe at school was negatively affected many times.

The study, «Spectrophotometric analysis at the single - cell level: elucidating dispersity within melanic immortalized cell populations,» was supported in part by the Mizzou Advantage program, an initiative that fosters interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty, staff, students and external partners to solve real - world problems in four areas of strength identified at the University of Missouri, including Food for the Future, One Health / One Medicine, Sustainable Energy and Media of the Future.

While minority males struggle at the student level of S&E (and college period), no real progress has been made for either sex among S&E faculty, although minority males slightly outnumber minority females.

Inhalant use — the one category of drug use that is typically higher among younger students — is back up to 2015 levels among eighth graders, measured at 4.7 percent, compared to 3.8 percent in 2016.

The research team found perception gaps are even wider at the upper levels of mathematics ability — among those students with the most talent and potential in these fields.

Students at each grade level are scheduled together as a cohort to take a core set of academic classes and a technical class related to the theme of the academy (e.g., biotechnology, business, electronics, engineering, health, information technology, media and communications, among many others).

• Debt and default among black or African - American college students is at crisis levels, and even a bachelor's degree is no guarantee of security: black BA graduates default at five times the rate of white BA graduates (21 versus 4 percent), and are more likely to default than white dropouts.

Among the book's more «robust» conclusions, to use the economists» term, is that the high Swedish expenditure on adult education (which is very well developed in Sweden, as a resource for unemployed workers and as a way of upgrading or changing one's credentials) is not warranted by its returns: But how could it be, when, we learn, «individuals received student pay [all students are paid in Sweden — part of the commitment to equality] at the level of unemployment benefits, which in Sweden replace up to 80 percent of forgone earnings.»

These effects are concentrated at lower achievement levels and among students who were eligible for subsidized lunch.

And of the students who score well on the PSAT / NMSQT, indicating a 70 percent likelihood of thriving in an AP course, of those students, six out of ten Asians will take an AP course, [compared with] four out of ten white students and two out of ten African American students... In other words there is a racial break among kids who could achieve at a high level and are being propelled into more challenging academic experiences; that data needs to be understood.

Scott's doctoral dissertation, Beyond the Fourth Grade Glass Ceiling: Understanding Reading Comprehension Among Bilingual / Bimodal Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students, examined the factors influencing reading comprehension scores of deaf and hard of hearing students at the middle and high schoolStudents, examined the factors influencing reading comprehension scores of deaf and hard of hearing students at the middle and high schoolstudents at the middle and high school levels.

By the 4th grade, public school children who score among the top 10 percent of students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are reading at least six grade levels above those in the bottom 10 percent.

Los Altos already ranked among the best - performing districts in the state, but it had set itself a goal of improving individual achievement, and «capturing data at a granular level» on each student was proving difficult, Goines told me.

By comparing each student's gain to gains among students who performed at a similar level and would have experienced a similar, natural shift toward the average score, I can better separate legitimate test - score gains and losses from change associated with mean reversion.

A dissimilarity index at the district level, however, measures the dissimilarity of districts and the overall student population in the area, and provides information on changes over time in racial differences in the distribution of students among districts.

These resources on the Geographical Association website contain high quality images that can be used in the classroom at all levels to stimulate enquiry among your students into a variety of human and physical geographical topics, including resource management, landforms and processes, people and place, hazards and risk, and global development.

For students from families with low parental education levels, Texas (28 %) and New Jersey (25 %) have the highest proficiency rates, well ahead of Massachusetts and Minnesota (both at 18 %), putting them in 7th and 8th place among U.S. states for this category of students.

The report by the nonprofit research organization urges, among other recommendations, that states align high school exit exams with entry - level college coursework, that educators at the high school and college levels collaborate more, and that high schools prepare students for the independence they will experience in college.

At the policy level, we will need to strive toward a stable consensus among political factions, and clearly articulated vision of the kind of education students now need.

A small number of CMOs will have grown to serve at least 20,000 students, placing them among the largest 2 percent of school districts nationally in terms of size, while delivering a level of performance that will change the current paradigm of delivering performance at scale.

Comparability would enable serious researchers to make fine - grained, practice - based distinctions at the classroom level, enabling the field to observe, define, and disseminate effective practices among various subsets of students.

If all students in the United States were performing at the level of high - schoolers in Massachusetts, our country would be at the top of the pack among peer nations.

In Sweden, for example, whose students were among the high performers at the senior - high level, the school year is only 170 days long.

The survey results presented in this report offer important insights into: educators» perspectives on issues related to student engagement and motivation; the levels of engagement and motivation among students at respondents» schools; potential strategies and solutions; and a range of related topics.

The authors present novel analyses of the factors at the school and student levels that relate to chronic absenteeism and describe evidence - based strategies for schools as they work to reduce rates of chronic absence among students.

Among Florida ELL eighth - graders at middle schools that do not have a sufficient number of white eighth - grade students, only about 10 % scored at or above the proficient level in math.

But the story at the secondary level is continued growth among both black and white students.

Among those goals are children prepared to start kindergarten, students performing at grade level by the end of the third grade, making sure students are prepared for a high school curriculum and on track to graduate once they start.

For example, among eighth - grade ELL students in Florida, about 30 % score at or above the proficient level in math if they attend a middle school that has a minimum threshold number of white students.

Among the four operating charter schools admitting students at the high school level, three contribute to the lottery analysis.

The key is making sure that schools and educators have the tools to provide students with the kind of education they need to clear the bar, including resources, the ability to build teams of excellent educators, and enough flexibility at the school level to adjust the length of the school day and year (among other things).

Commenting on the small differences in satisfaction levels among parents with children in the charter and chosen district sectors, Paul E. Peterson, professor of government and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard Kennedy School, notes that «chosen district schools serve a smaller percentage of students of color than charters do, and they are more likely to use examinations as entry requirements, while most charter schools must accept all applicants or use a lottery to select among them.»

The percentage of students scoring at the advanced level varies among the 50 states.

• Satisfaction levels are higher among private - school parents than among those with children at charter schools and chosen district schools, who in turn register higher levels of satisfaction than parents of students attending assigned district schools.

Twenty - four countries have a larger percentage of highly accomplished students than the 8 percent achieving at that level among the U.S. white student population in the Class of 2009.

Minnesota, with more than 10 percent of its students at the advanced level, ranks second among the 50 states, but it trails 16 countries and performs at the level attained by Slovenia and Denmark.

According to the NAEP (2013) among 12th grade students only 26 percent of all students score at or above proficient levels in math, and 38 percent are proficient or better in reading.

In contrast to statistically nonsignificant differences for the teachers within levels of school effectiveness, these statistically significant differences among teachers across schools suggest that a teacher's preferred style of interacting with students is a teaching dimension which is less well influenced by the practice of others at the school level than other dimensions of teaching being investigated in our study (e.g., time spent by students in independent reading, or degree of home communication).

They also show that American student test scores are generally in the middle or in the top third but not at the very highest levels among the world's nations.

As a result of a statewide agreement among Washington's public colleges and universities, high school students who score at college - ready levels 3 or 4 may use the Smarter Balanced score to enroll directly into college - level courses without taking additional placement tests.

Offer a range of professional development programs and activities to build skills and knowledge among educators and aspiring educators at all levels in developing students» social and emotional health.

It's at the level of the school building that most of the action around teacher evaluation and its consequences occurs, and truth be told, most economists are not devoting much attention to the interior of the school or the social relations among school leaders, teachers and students.

You'll also choose among more than 50 practical workshops, for educators at all levels, devoted to topics like school transformation, change leadership, inspirational feedback, cultivating student autonomy, building collaborative school culture, and reframing classroom instruction to inspire learning like never before.

Unlike legislation last summer that would have at one point required student test scores be among the performance indicators - Calderon's bill would require governing board of school districts to regularly «evaluate and assess the performance of certificated staff using multiple measures, including a minimum of four rating levels.»

Many school systems have gotten the message that they need to be more data driven, and they are now awash in data - not just yearly student test scores, but figures on how different groups of students are doing in particular subjects or grade levels, how successful a school is at attracting and retaining teachers or closing the achievement gap among disadvantaged students, or how equitable funding is from school to school.

There were larger differences among students from low income and higher income high schools, however, when looking at enrollment rates by the institution level.