Sentences with phrase «because more pupils»

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Nearly nine out of ten pupils said they now read more because they know Premier League footballers read

«The NASUWT is continuing to support its members in challenging these injustices, but much more action is needed by Government to affect the systemic change which is needed to ensure that no pupil or teacher is held back because of their ethnicity or faith.

Yet, more crucially, changes are moving so quickly because they are finding some traction with the people on the ground to whom it really matters — pupils, parents and even teachers.

[Cuomo said the latest lawsuit challenging the way New York allocates education dollars is flawed because the state spends more money per pupil — on average — than any other state and doesn't get top results.]

Sixth form pupils at Clifton College, Bristol, heard how a notorious «career criminal» turned his life around because of an innovative rehabilitation technique called restorative justice Peter Woolf, a prolific offender who committed an estimated 20,000 crimes across the UK, discussed his life and unique story to more than 300 sixth form pupils at the College's Redgrave Theatre.

Caroline Wright, BESA director said, «British teachers are world - leaders in the use of educational - technology in the classroom so it is of great concern that pupils are being denied access to innovative and effective digital learning because of poor internet connectivity in more than half of the UK's schools.

Likewise, West Virginia fares better than Connecticut because it is poorer; if both states spend exactly the same per pupil, West Virginia naturally winds up devoting more of its per - capita income to education.

Ms Curnock Cook further voiced that a focus on universities on increasing their intakes of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds «probably did not» threaten the prospects of privately - educated pupils, because falling pupil numbers meant students with «good A-levels will be in more demand than ever».

Public schools in Cleveland actually have more money per pupil as a result of school vouchers, because they keep money not used to pay for the voucher.

In an interview with TES, Kevin Courtney, deputy general secretary of the NUT teaching union, said: «Teachers know in their gut that a smaller class improves education because pupils get more individual attention.

This cross-school approach embeds basic science concepts and improves educational outcomes because everyone — both pupils and teachers — want to discuss what they have seen and done, and are left eager for more.

However, the trust found that pupils took more days off because some parents had children at different schools.

Because the per - pupil voucher amount our students received from the state had not increased in more than five years, we had no reserves to fall back on, and no endowment.

A gateway is an investment that pays dividends in pupil performance and long - term savings as Mark Haddleton found: «We have... recover [ed] the cost of using Schoolcomms and more; I have started to think of it as free, because as well as saving on costly text messaging to parents, (all app messages and longer emails don't cost anything), we also managed to identify many extra Pupil Premium qualifying families through parents taking the in - app test, which has brought quite a sum of money into school&rpupil performance and long - term savings as Mark Haddleton found: «We have... recover [ed] the cost of using Schoolcomms and more; I have started to think of it as free, because as well as saving on costly text messaging to parents, (all app messages and longer emails don't cost anything), we also managed to identify many extra Pupil Premium qualifying families through parents taking the in - app test, which has brought quite a sum of money into school&rPupil Premium qualifying families through parents taking the in - app test, which has brought quite a sum of money into school»

What's more Free School Meal take up has risen from 50 per cent to 95 per cent, possibly because pupils no longer feel stigmatised, as there is nothing to visibly set them apart from their peers.

Let your pupils get it wrong and make a mess of it, because through this, they'll learn more and be far more enthused by the success of when it does work.

Charters receive more money per pupil because they don't receive the same level of services from the central office as traditional schools do.

In fact, the weak relationship between pupil - teacher ratio and school ratings is in the opposite of the expected direction: schools with larger classes receive somewhat higher grades, perhaps because effective schools attract more families to the neighborhood.

Would it perhaps be more sensible to treat English spelling with the contempt it deserves and to make pupils aware that learning to spell English takes many long years - only because roughly half of all words have something silly them: some are encumbered with SURPLUS letters (heAd, hEart, plouGH, gonE), others have WRONG letters (fond — PHoto, run — frOnt, ditty — prEtty), some have both WRONG AND SURPLUS letters (sum - sOmE, taut — bOuGHt) and some COULD DO WITH MORE letters (lost toast — pOst, shoddy — bomore sensible to treat English spelling with the contempt it deserves and to make pupils aware that learning to spell English takes many long years - only because roughly half of all words have something silly them: some are encumbered with SURPLUS letters (heAd, hEart, plouGH, gonE), others have WRONG letters (fond — PHoto, run — frOnt, ditty — prEtty), some have both WRONG AND SURPLUS letters (sum - sOmE, taut — bOuGHt) and some COULD DO WITH MORE letters (lost toast — pOst, shoddy — boMORE letters (lost toast — pOst, shoddy — boDy).

Poorer pupils are missing out on music and sports clubs because they have to spend more time trying to improve their maths and English, the Sutton Trust has found.

Poorer pupils are missing out on music and sports clubs because they have to spend more time trying to improve their maths and English, the Sutton Trust has...

This is significant because it shows that disadvantaged pupils are held back at secondary school by more than lower prior attainment.

So schools which were working with more challenging pupils with low prior attainment were effectively marked down in the league tables, because this extra challenge was not considered.

It also argues the negative impact on nearby schools is greater because more lower ability pupils are left behind.

Because his teacher, Angela, knows that James and four of his low prior - attainment peers seem to be having particular difficulty with geometry she can now book herself on to a course that gives her more teaching strategies in geometry with these pupils.

This is because pupils at English state schools enter, on average, nine GCSEs and equivalent qualifications, rising to more than 10 for more able pupils.

Labour's Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt says teachers and pupils are suffering because of government interference as the number of under - performing state secondary schools more than doubles in a year.

Kaukl said he met with the governor and suggested increasing the state - imposed revenue limits to more than $ 200 per pupil and increase funding for rural school districts that have had to recently quit offering summer school in part because of transportation costs.

It says this may be because these pupils are more likely to get good exam results and to go to a top university.

Partly because state schools don't have the cash and partly because they have more pupils so administration is cumbersome.

The pupils from Camelsdale benefitted because they could take part in much more sophisticated experiments than they could usually access at Junior School.

«Making schools favour poorer children would revolutionise school intakes, but if schools are left to make their own choices few would give preference to disadvantaged pupils because, on the whole, educating them is much more demanding as many need far more help and resources.

In about a third of primary schools, more able pupils do not make enough progress because the work they are set is not challenging enough.

Most experts agree that comprehensive education systems are more equitable than differentiated systems (where the schools choose the pupils) because they are less selective.

Speaking at a debate held by the Sutton Trust on Wednesday in central London, Machin said education had been a «dequaliser» because it benefited rich pupils more.

Yes of course there are more pupils in good or outstanding schools — there are more pupils because the school age population is growing!

School A can have a higher score than School B, and yet because it has a few more pupils be in a lower band!

Although there are 32 more state - funded schools open compared to last year, the total number of schools in England has decreased by 29 to 24,288 because of a decline in the number of independent schools and pupil referral units.

The report found an extra 5,000 leaders would be needed by 2022 because of growing pupil numbers, but predicted more than half of current leaders would leave in the next six years.

Some pupils have been «targeted» to attend, but because of demand more than half of year 11 are turning up.

Pupils felt «more alert» because rooms did not have «the stuffy feeling that occurs in afternoon classes»

Academies are less than 20 % of England's schools but educate over a third of pupils, because more academies are secondary schools — and those have more pupils.

«It is of great concern that pupils are being denied access to innovative and effective digital learning because of poor internet connectivity in more than half of the UK's schools,» said Besa's director Caroline Wright.

Carroll County receives more in per - pupil state aid than most districts, because of a formula that favors poorer districts, and all of the virtual academy's students are counted as Carroll students, regardless of where they live.

Grammar schools achieve better results only because of more able, wealthier pupils, a study suggests.

Teach First suggests recruiting more highly qualified teachers and school leaders in poorer areas, where schools face more challenges because of greater levels of deprivation among pupils.

Last year, they operated with about $ 200 more per pupil than they were entitled to because the district did not reduce their funding when state revenue fell short.

It believes the system will be less bureaucratic and that head teachers should take more control because they know what is best for their pupils.

Luckin believes that prioritising facts is leaving pupils more susceptible to «fake news» because they are in a system that teaches them knowledge is just «given».

Many schools focus efforts on C - D borderline pupils because obtaining a C grade in English and maths is the key academic requirement for pupils to continue in education, whether it be studying A-levels or a more vocational course.