Sentences with phrase «benefit high achieving students»

Increased exposure to rigorous content, deep engagement, and academically - oriented peer support benefit high achieving students and lead to strong preparation for top colleges and universities.

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Together, these organizations will meet the community's unmet healthcare needs by providing high quality patient care and experiences; offering unique patient, provider, staff, and student education; fostering interprofessional learning experiences; and achieving many other benefits to each organization through collaboration, resulting in healthier communities.

Benefits to School Life Looking at the lasting impact of LOtC experiences in terms of academic performance, Learning Away's recent research found that school trips resulted in higher academic achievement, with 61 per cent of students achieving higher than their predicted grade following a school trip based on the subject area.

By contrast, the idea behind «gifted and talented» programs is that high - achieving students benefit from being among one another.

For instance, the argument against «tracking» is based on the notion that both low - and high - achieving students benefit from being exposed to one another in the classroom.

Many schools chose to send high achieving students to these events believing that they will benefit from it and be able to engage easily with the tasks.

More authentic work, say the report authors, benefits both low - and high - achieving students.

And yet, as Loveless summarizes, recent research indicates that high - achieving disadvantaged students may benefit from tracking and, in fact, suffer losses from being enrolled in heterogeneous courses.

The social benefits of the ECO-C Intervention are harder to define in dollar terms, but they are the benefits associated with increased income and sociodemographic mobility for high - achieving students from low - income families.

But if students benefit from learning with higher - achieving peers, tracking could disadvantage lower - achieving students, thereby exacerbating inequality.

Students achieve the highest academic standards, whilst also benefitting from broad extra-curricular activities, exceptional pastoral care and first - class facilities.

The launch event, which attracted business leaders from across the region, saw guest speakers including Northumberland Tourism Director, Jude Leitch and Northumberland College's Chair of Governors, Jacqui Henderson, outline the benefits of Career Colleges to high achieving students.

As those students face the prospect of additional school time, high - achieving students may best benefit from a more flexible schedule, one that allows them time to pursue other activities (such as college courses) that might enhance their education.

To the extent that teachers benefit from more generous pay and benefits, less - demanding work conditions, and higher job security, the unions will pursue those goals, even if achieving them comes at the expense of students.

At the same time, most studies (Eren and Henderson, 2006) agree that homework benefits lower - achieving students more than it does high achievers.

Roseanna Ander, Jonathan Guryan and Jens Ludwig propose scaling up a daily, individualized tutorial program that would allow students who have fallen behind grade level in math to reengage with regular classroom instruction, likely increasing their chances of graduating high school and achieving the many long - term economic benefits that go along with academic success.

Moreover, initially low - performing students appear to benefit more from high grading standards when they are placed in high - achieving classrooms.

The trick is that, to a point, low - achieving students benefit from being around higher - achieving students too.

We found that high - achieving students benefit most from tough grading standards when they are placed in classrooms where the overall level of achievement is relatively low (see Figure 3).

As I mentioned the other day, rigorous «peer effects» research by economists like Caroline Hoxby indicates that high achieving students benefit from being around other high achieving students.

We also work with these organizations to identify high - achieving, low - income students who can benefit from our scholarship and mentoring services.

In fact, no tool in the SIM «toolkit» is released for use unless it is proven in matched comparison studies to benefit Learning Disabled, Low Achieving, Average, and High Achieving students.

And as the student population continues to grow more racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse, the teacher workforce remains overwhelmingly white.3 Research shows, however, that students of color benefit from having teachers with whom they share the same race or ethnicity, 4 and white students benefit from having nonwhite teachers as well.5 In order to increase the number of teacher candidates of color enrolling in and graduating from teacher preparation programs, several states are developing initiatives to intentionally recruit high - achieving people of color into the teaching profession.

Teachers are more likely to inflate the scores of high - achieving students on the margin, but low - achieving students benefit more from manipulation in aggregate due to the greater density of these students near the proficiency cutoffs.

All students, including the most high achieving white students, benefit from a school system truly committed to the best education for all, said Singleton.

Based on more recent data, Russell Rumberger and Gregory Palardy speculated in 2005 that, because students across the income and ability spectrum can be shown to benefit from attending high - performing schools, aggressive efforts to homogenize schools» demographic profiles will likely hurt better - prepared students, with predicted declines for the highest - achieving students (who are now concentrated in high - income schools) exceeding the expected gains for low - income and minority students.

For example, a student who is achieving at a low level may or may not benefit by transferring to a school that is producing high gains only with high achieving students.

Other authors agree that we need to give all students equal access to the benefits of higher education and describe how personal mentoring (Roberta Espinoza, p. 56) or early college high school programs (Jennifer Glenn Morrow and Alex Torrez, p. 74) can help economically disadvantaged students achieve this goal.

Although its students appeared to achieve well on assessments, the district was concerned that buried within the high scores were subgroups not benefitting equitably from the curriculum.

«To help as many students as possible reap these benefits, the study suggests that districts run summer programs for at least five weeks, include sufficient time on academics, and focus on the challenge of achieving high attendance rates.»

But research shows that City Colleges are not the best post-secondary choice for high - achieving students who will benefit from the Star Scholarship.

It is necessary for LAUSD magnet high schools to put more effort into achieving racial integration so that students who attend these schools can benefit from integration and so that racial relations in society may be improved.

The movie touts the benefits of fast track and direct entry to teaching programs such as Teach for America, but the country with the highest achieving students, Finland, also has highly educated teachers.

In addition, school teams will benefit from time spent identifying specific student learning priorities, building consensus and capacity to achieve these goals, investing in high quality implementation, and spending time examining student outcomes.

Any profits they make from their private student loans get put right back into the organization and the greater New Hampshire community, where they support higher education by offering borrower benefits and helping community members avoid default, plan for college, and achieve financial fitness.