Sentences with phrase «better than other students»

Disadvantaged students at this school are performing far better than other students in the state, and this school is successfully closing the achievement gap.

As we have shown in previous articles, Common Core tests are not fair in that they were deliberately designed to fail two thirds of American students even though American students, when adjusted for poverty, do better than any other students in the world.

The center found that charter - school students scored as well as or slightly better than other students on the state tests.

If you pay your bill on time, you can earn up to 1.25 percent cash back on all your purchases for that month, which is in line or better than some other student cards.

It is my personal goal for every school year: to find at least one thing every student does better than every other student.

Not exact matches

The important thing to remember is, all other things being equal, a lower student loan interest rate is better than a higher one — but you need to consider all of the terms of the loan including whether the rate is fixed or variable and what your loan repayment options are to ensure you get the best overall deal.

And a new report finds that while many low - income students fall behind and fail to graduate on time from U.S. colleges, the University of California system supports them significantly better than other schools do.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

Private school students, on average, score better than public school students in reading, math and a host of other subject areas, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

The schools they attend are likely to be segregated by race and class and to have less money to spend on instruction than the schools well - off students attend, and their teachers are likely to be less experienced and less well - trained than teachers at other schools.

In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeed.

He argued that because athletes with lower academic scores are being admitted into better colleges than other students, the best colleges in the nation are not selecting and breeding top academics to compete with the rest of the world.

Still, some students stand out more than others, getting better grades and grasping material more deeply.

And, what he found is that there were certain teachers who were reliably better able than others to improve their student's performance on these proxy measures.

These heroes may work behind the scenes more than other cafeteria employees, but they are working hard to ensure everything on the frontline is running smoothly — by maintaining the quality of the school meal programs through student interaction, menu planning and a commitment to serving nutritious, tasty and well - balanced school meals.

I've taught nearly 500 students and we as educators constantly hear parents talk about how their child is gifted but the implication they make is that their child is gifted over others, well guess what... every child's ability isn't better than another although each is uniquely gifted.

She gives the example of a school with five fifth grade classes, where students in one classroom score much better on the math tests than the other four.

Success Academy's students, most of whom are black or Hispanic, performed better on this year's state reading and math tests than did students in any other district in the state.

We are seeing increasing number of students coming from other West African countries to come and study here in Ghana because our education system is much better and is performing well than the system in their country,» he said.

«With some universities charging # 9,000 more than others, many students will be forced to choose the cheapest course, not the one that is best for them.»

Studies have shown that students in the new schools have fared better than their predecessors in the larger schools, but some other large schools have suffered from having to absorb more struggling students.

He says the New York State Board of Elections alone has registered more than 500 high school students across the county, and there are also other organizations like the League of Women Voters, as well as candidate groups, that are working to get first time voters registered.

But they did a bit better than other failing students statewide who got the same scores the year before, officials said.

There are other, better, ways to win your students» respect than to impress them with how many facts you know.

When fed brain scans produced by students looking at fresh paintings by the same artists, the program correctly identified the painter better than chance alone: it was correct 83 per cent of the time among the six students who were art majors and 62 per cent of the time among the others (NeuroReport, DOI: 10.1097 / WNR.0 b013e3283331322).

A new study suggests that charter school students are more likely to do well at college and earn significantly more than their counterparts at other schools.

«Rather than confuse students with misleading attacks on evolution and other issues, we need to teach science better than ever to inspire a new generation and secure America's future.»

They also encounter a more thoughtful objection, which goes something like this: American students are tested so much already — far more often than students in other countries, such as Finland and Singapore, which regularly place well ahead of the U.S. in international evaluations.

On the other hand, it could be that some schools are better than others at identifying eating disorders in their students and ensuring they get diagnosed and treated.»

«Other deans of science at major research universities would tell me: «Our students are better than that.

Erika Eliason, a graduate student at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in Canada, wanted to know whether different populations of Fraser River salmon were better than others at handling the heat.

To find out if individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits were better at learning how to lie than others, the researchers recruited 52 students from The University of Hong Kong — 23 who showed low levels of psychopathic traits and 29 who showed high levels of psychopathic traits based on a questionnaire that can be used to assess psychopathy in a non-clinical setting.

In a study of student's stools during exam week, it was found that the student's stools contained fewer lactobacilli (a strain of «good bacteria») than compared to any other normal day.

I centralize most work from the pelvic floor on up... always starting class with ab work on the floor or the roller, having student feel their transverse abdominis as well as the complex muscles of the pelvic floor as stabilizers (allowing other body parts to move safely and with ease) rather than doing crunches.

Scary yet comforting mix of horror, humor, monsters, scientists, werewolves, vampires, clueless cheerleaders and suburban honor students... They all up to no good, other than to keep you entertained.

And my teacher said, «Without a light meter you managed to do better than most of my other students do with a light meter.»

And in the other study with the Walton Arts Center we are surveying more than 2,000 7th grade students in area schools to link the past performances they have seen on school field trips to their current behaviors as cultural consumers and producers as well as some empathy and tolerance outcomes.

We should be telling parents about ways to limit device usage (see Curbi Parental Controls for iOS), other than just the plain old every day discipline of taking a device away or sitting beside a student while they use technology (by the way, these two things are the best way to be proactive with our children).

In addition, it wasn't particularly well aligned with the district's other main accountability program, school probation, which focused on second - quartile students rather than the lowest - performing students in a school.

«In this way, students are given the opportunity to read good literature at a variety of levels, for a purpose other than just for a report in class.

Our analysis of these data reveals that teachers transfer from one school to another — or exit the Texas public school system altogether — more as a reaction to the characteristics of their students than in response to better salaries in other schools.

It is also good practice to ask students for ideas other than the ones on the slide they might connect, and update the slides accordingly.

It is accepted that not all students will learn equally well and that some students are naturally better learners (more «academically inclined») than others.

«While 62 per cent of our students performed better in collaborative problem solving than was expected based on their reading, Maths and Science scores, a focus on one skill shouldn't come at the expense of the others,» he said.

When schools with the same demographics get the same amount of money, some achieve better outcomes for students than others.

Both student and teacher attendance is higher than at other local schools, with the student attendance rate surpassing that of every other middle school in the district (and significantly better than the citywide average).

They make an apples - to - apples comparison of the data to determine if students of similar family backgrounds do better in the United States than in other countries.

I think it is more than possible that students can be equipped with the knowledge and skills to choose something better than ignorance when it comes to knowing themselves, relating to others, and making responsible decisions.

But then one would recall that other public functions exist, such as health, transportation, and higher education, that make large and urgent claims on the budgets of state governments; that problems other than a lack of money afflict the schools, such as students who arrive unprepared for learning or life in a classroom; and that evidence for the efficacy of money per se is at best mixed.

Schools that participate say they are curious to see how their students compare to students from other countries, especially if the school is considered high performing; a few participated to demonstrate that low - income minority students could perform as well or better than students nationally or internationally.