Sentences with phrase «at least grading on»

The speakers are also very good, at least grading on the smartphone curve.

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Thus when we ascribe mass to an entity, we are asserting a kind of limit on its dynamics.12 Bringing this back to the preprojective, we are saying that insofar as a high - grade society objectifies a given nexus by virtue of the Category of Transmutation in the flattened form that is mass, the dynamics of that nexus are bounded, at least with regard to its extensive relations with the world.

Tuna poke bowls seem to be popping up everywhere (at least they are in my city), but if you can get your hands on sushi grade tuna, they're actually really easy to prepare at home.

Beginning in 1986, the rule stipulated, entering freshmen would be eligible for scholarships only if they had achieved a grade point average of at least 2.0 in a college - preparatory core curriculum and, when it came to the two standard college entrance examinations, attained a minimum score of 700 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or 15 on the American College Testing Program's exam.

If the grades for his three intellectually daunting courses (Golf 1, Music 140, AIDS: What Every College Student Should Know), which are due on Sept. 4, don't raise his cumulative GPA to at least 2.0, then the man who may be the best player in the nation will be academically ineligible from Sept. 5, when Ohio State opens its season at West Virginia, until mid-December.

Parent involvement in school - based activities seems to have the greatest effect on kids» grades, but home - based parent involvement also plays at least some role.

THAT»S how I ended up diving into John Toland's 1000 - page history of the Pacific War from the Japanese point of view (in paperback, thank god) while on the bus on a FIFTH - GRADE field trip... starting with 200 - odd pages of 1930s Japanese nationalist politics, which at least was full of plots, assassinations, coup attempts, ritual suicides, and other exciting stuff.

At least 50,000 students statewide in grades three to eight, including about 20,000 on Long Island, opt out of spring testing.

The New York State Sheriffs» Association this week called on the Legislature to include funding in the next state budget for at least one armed school resource officer at every grade school and high school, which could run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

The tests will still be given to students in third through eighth grade this spring, but they won't count on either the students» or the teachers» records until at least 2020.

Cuomo wants to change the way teacher evaluations are measured, he'd like to see at least half of a teacher's grade be based on standardized tests associated with the Common Core curriculum.

The New York State Sheriffs» Association is calling on lawmakers to include funding in the state budget to provide at least one armed school resource officer at every grade school and high school in the state.

I was told that the criterion for promotion was to receive at least two consecutive above - average gradings on the annual merit appraisals.

In almost every third to fifth grade class tested, at least one child (and occasionally as many as four or five) drew signs on the doors and walls of the laboratory bearing such messages as «Keep Out!»

The women ran at three different grades -LRB--6 percent, 0 percent, +6 percent) on three separate days, with at least 48 hours between each round.

Causes of PCOS include excess insulin and low grade inflammation, and if you've been on a ketogenic diet, or at least have explored it for a little bit, you may already know that a reduction in insulin levels and inflammation just happen to be two of the benefits of eating this way!

I'd knock The Drop up half a letter grade were it not for its truly ruinous final scene — a last beat that stinks of studio interference, or at least of a failure of nerve on the part of the filmmakers.

Release: Saturday, May 14, 2016 [Netflix] Directed by: Andy Billman Imagine growing up in a city where you're taught, almost assuredly from at least the eighth grade onward, that losing is a reality you must accept, simply based on some silly geographic lottery that you were thrust into at birth.

Now, results from the tests students took last spring won't be available until at least February after the state school board discovered a problem that led to incorrect scores on the science portion of the 11th grade test, graded by San Antonio - based Harcourt Assessment.

Classroom behavior, grades, and attendance were all given a more prominent role in the retention decision, and an appeals process was, in theory at least, implemented for parents who wanted to dispute a retention decision — in part the result of an agreement with the U.S. Office for Civil Rights that was brought on by the 1999 PURE lawsuit.

Based on self - reports by state officials, the survey found that, in 30 states, curricula aligned to the common core were already being taught in at least some districts or grade levels.

NCLB mandated reading and math testing in grades 3 through 8 and at least once in high school, and it required states to rate schools on the basis of test performance overall and for key subgroups.

In addition, a survey of English language arts classrooms published by the Fordham Institute found that most elementary - school teachers, at least in the early stages of common core implementation, assigned books based on students» abilities, rather than grade - level complexity, as the standards state.

Teachers grade and give feedback on assignments, and they call students at least once a month, and much more frequently if distress signals are detected.

On top of that, each subject included at least a dozen standards, yet teachers had to find a magic formula to come up with a single grade.

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.

A country's performance on any given test cycle (for example, PIRLS 4th - grade reading, TIMSS 8th - grade math) is only considered if the country participated at least twice within that respective cycle.

Base at least 80 percent of students» semester grades on their demonstration of skill and content mastery.

That rule would have barred all institutional aid to incoming student - athletes who did not have a 2.0 grade - point average in 11 core high - school subjects, plus a score of at least 700 (out of 1600) on the Scholastic...

At least one foreign language from first grade on is part of the standard Austrian curriculum, and in Spiss, the kids seem to be picking it up very quickly due both to Web sites in English and to Klingenschmid's direct teaching methods.

As Porter et al. note, «Whether these differences between Common Core and Massachusetts mean that Common Core represents a better curriculum is difficult to judge, although at least at grade 7 in [English language arts], there is a shift in the Common Core standards toward greater emphasis on higher cognitive demand.»

An MCT is a standardized exam of basic skills on which a passing score is intended to signify that a student has acquired at least the minimum necessary skills and knowledge for promotion to the next grade or for graduation from high school.

Keep in mind that federal policy — at least the test - related elements of it — has concentrated on the elementary and middle grades and the only statutory NAEP mandates are for grades four and eight.

On average, approximately 18 percent of third grade students has been subject to at least one formal investigation for child maltreatment.

Require states to back - map achievement standards down to at least third grade, so that passing the state assessment in each grade indicates that a student is on track to graduate from twelfth grade ready for college or a career.

In both subjects, scores on both exams are at least as strongly correlated with college grades as the SAT, a widely used indicator of college readiness.

Almost every U.S. public - school student now takes state exams in (at least) reading and math from 3rd grade on.

The reality is that Texas has set the TAKS bar exceedingly low going back at least to 2003, following a consistent policy of serious grade inflation on our high - stakes tests.

Her statement on company letterhead emphasized in boldface that 63 percent of students gain at least two grade levels in reading and 77 percent make grade - level growth in math after attending ALS schools for at least a semester.

Retention policies are controversial because the research is mixed for students who are held back, but a report published on August 16th by the Brookings Institution suggests that at least for younger children who struggle with reading, repeating a grade may be beneficial.

This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Poll on behalf of University of Phoenix between March 29 - April 3, 2017 among 1,001 U.S. adults aged 18 and older, who are full - time employed as teachers in grades K - 12 with at least an undergraduate degree.

Thus, grade 6 — 8 pilot schools appear to be weaker than K — 8 schools, at least as measured by their impact on math scores.

By redefining urban teaching, at least on a two - year basis, as prestigious and cool, Kopp helped solve the teacher shortage problem; today, in many cities, there is actually a surplus of certified teachers for most subjects and grades.

Thanks to Giroux and others, the contemporary classroom - even if it falls short of the critical pedagogues» ideal - increasingly is a block - scheduled site presided over by a teacher who, at least concerning academics, is the guide on the side, eschews grades in favor of portfolios, minimizes ability - grouping, and, rather than being a content provider, is a manager of peer editing, team building, and other processes.

Like the Cook research on behavior, the Rockoff and Lockwood study finds that the negative achievement effect on children who moved into middle school «persists at least through 8th grade, the highest grade for which we could obtain test scores.»

With each student in grades 3 through 8 now being tested annually in at least two subjects, and schools» progress assessed largely on the basis of the results, there is no corner of the American public school system left untouched.

At least twice a week, teachers in older grades incorporate lessons on things like conflict resolution and managing anxiety.

States have joined those two standardized testing groups to give exams on Common Core standards — West Virginia is set to give a Smarter Balanced version for the first time this spring, though the state will delay, for at least this school year and the next, labeling schools with its new A-F grading system, which is based in part on the test.

They suggest that multiple grades be used, and at the very least performance reports should have two grades: one for achievement and one for growth on the A-F scale.

This of course meant that, on average, ratios of students to teachers in the upper grades would be higher for at least a portion of the school day.