Sentences with phrase «by grade groupings»

To see how chronic absence rates break down by state and by grade groupings, you can check out the report's interactive map, which uses the most recent national data.

Not exact matches

According to a recent survey conducted by Towers Watson and National Business Group on Health, most workplace wellness programs simply aren't making the grade.

High - grade military explosives used to build the bomb were sent by air cargo from Turkey as part of a plot inspired and directed by the militant Islamic State group, police Deputy Commissioner National Security Michael Phelan said in August.

That borrower will then be graded according to the risk - determining variables used by the scoring system, resulting in a ranking of the borrower within the group of similar borrowers.

For example, by comparing a group of corporate bonds (like investment grade corporate bonds) vs. treasuries, you get a picture of where the average investment grade bond credit spread currently stands.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Ages All - Sports Camp for ages 6 - 12 * years, boys & girls Campers are grouped by Fall 2016 school grade level NEW: Coach - In - Training Program (Ages 13 - 15)

However, graded inequalities by maternal education emerged in the intervention group -LCB- relative risk [RR] = 1.12 [95 % confidence interval (CI): 1.04, 1.20] for partial university and RR = 1.20 [95 % CI: 1.11, 1.31] for secondary education or less vs complete university; risk difference [RD] = 0.06 [95 % CI: 0.03, 0.09] and 0.10 [95 % CI: 0.06, 0.14], respectively -RCB-.

Summer at Chestnut Hill caters to campers by providing four age group divisions: Lower (ages 3 - 5), Intermediate (grades 1 - 3), Upper (grades 4 - 6), and Senior (grades 7 - 8), which implement traditional and innovative programming led by experienced adult

First - grade teachers will help foster your child's social development by encouraging her to talk about her feelings, work in groups with other children, and figure out creative ways to solve disputes.

A budget watch dog group is giving Gov. Andrew Cuomo a mixed grade on his budget proposals, saying he's done a good job reigning in spending, but is making a mistake by shifting some significant costs to New York City.

Most local government websites in western New York — 90 percent — received a failing grade by a good - government group for the quality and timeliness of information posted.

But the bulk of the veto stack was taken up by $ 193 million in member items, the grants beloved of legislators and derided by good government groups as grade - A pork.

The group reserves its worst grade for the governor's plan to shift significant costs to New York City by reversing a policy to help the city pick up Medicaid cost increases, and by slashing the City University's budget.

The grades earned by the 901 students in the course featuring daily quizzes were, on average, about half a letter grade higher than those earned by a comparison group of 935 of Pennebaker and Gosling's previous students, who had experienced a more traditionally designed course covering the same material.

Backed by millions of euros from the European Union and designed by a group of higher education research centers, a new system to grade the world's universities is being billed as less simplistic and more reliable than existing university rankings.

Investigators led by Jeffrey Drope, Ph.D., writing in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, say these populations include individuals in lower education and / or socioeconomic groups; from certain racial / ethnic groups; in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community; with mental illness; and in the military, particularly among those in the lowest pay grades.

Dose - densified chemoimmunotherapy followed by systemic central nervous system prophylaxis for younger high - risk diffuse large B - cell / follicular grade 3 lymphoma patients: results of a phase II Nordic Lymphoma Group study.

October 23, 2013 University of Chicago Medicine's «A» safety score reaffirmed The University of Chicago Medicine maintained its «A» grade in hospital safety, according to the latest survey of more than 2,500 U.S. hospitals by non-profit The Leapfrog Group.

Another test assay, the global acne grading score (GAGS), «did not change by a significant amount» in either group, but was still slightly higher in the sunflower seed group.

Acne showed improvement in the lactoferrin group by significant decreases in inflammatory lesion count by 38.6 %, total lesion count by 23.1 %, and acne grade by 20.3 % compared with the placebo group at 12 wk.

The film takes us inside the Asian community, showing us a group of smart Asian high school kids who know the drill of grades = college = success, but are bored and not challenged by our current sad state of education.

«This means every ninth - grader has a big sister or big brother in each of the other classes.This vertical integration, as opposed to horizontal integration of grouping students in grade levels by age, fosters deep friendships across grades and promotes a feeling of family in our school community.

These activities are grouped by topic, grade level, and subject area so they can be easily incorporated into a workshop with varied participants.

The contests, to be judged by grade level, involve creative computer - generated art, non-computer art, essays, group projects, and innovative lesson ideas.

ESSA requires states to continue testing students in grades 3 - 8 and once in high school, and to disaggregate the results by student group.

Turning Points 2000: A Blueprint For Middle Grades Education Reform A new report by the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans advises that groups need to work together to help Hispanic students close the achievement gap with students of other ethnic groups.

Unlike most sites, this one groups lesson plans by grade level rather than by subject area.

Journey through the Digestive System 7/13/2000 [Our Bodies, Science Grades 9 - 12 Submitted by Richard Lord] Students work in cooperative groups to design a theme park based on the anatomy and physiology of the digestive system, prepare a portfolio of the park's attractions, and construct an approximate scale model of it.

Drafting a Recording Contract 5/25/2000 [Dance & Music, Vocational Ed Grades 9 - 12 Submitted by Barry R. Hill] Students learn about recording artist contracts and write their own contract in negotiation with another group.

The instructional units are grouped by elementary, middle school, and high school level, and each grade cluster is categorized into topics such as: arithmetic, data analysis, fractions, geometry, and probability / patterns for elementary; pre-algebra, graphing / statistics, geometry, number theory, and interdisciplinary for middle school; and algebra, geometry, trigonometry, pre-calculus, Internet, science, and modeling for high school.

In response to administrators» and teachers» worries about the vocabulary skills of Boston Public School students, a group of researchers and educators — assembled by the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP) in collaboration with the Boston Public Schools, and directed by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Catherine Snow — designed a curriculum supplement called Word Generation, for sixth - to eighth - grade classrooms.

School management is graded according to whether schools meet «national financial management standards», designed by the money - for - value group.

This lesson includes: - Clear learning objectives, - Fully differentiated resources, - Opportunities for group work, class discussions and extended writing, - Pace and challenge throughout, - Differentiated homework task to extend learning, - High level analysis of challenging texts, - Links to relevant clips, - Lesson graded as outstanding by observers, - 2 hour lesson with a clear split for 2x 1hour lessons.

Investigating World Cultures 03/09/2001 [Geography, Technology Grades 6 - 8 Submitted by David Anderson] Students work in groups to write research reports and create visuals about countries, put on a culture fair, and use PowerPoint to present their information.

According to data collected by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the frequency of ability grouping's use in fourth grade reading instruction rose about two and a half times, from 28 percent in 1998 to 71 percent in 2009.

The study by ctb / McGraw - Hill found that, in 1987, students in grades 1 to 8 who took its Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills scored an average of 6.63 percentile points higher in reading, 10.83 points higher in language, and 14 points higher in mathematics than a 1981 comparison group.

This study introduces two empirical strategies that circumvent these obstacles by examining differences in cohorts of students - a school's group of 3rd graders in one year versus the next year's group of 3rd graders - rather than cross-sections of classrooms at the same grade level.

The groups had similar English and Spanish reading skills by 4th grade, the study found.

Earlier this year, we published a report produced by a team of volunteer economists from Pro Bono Economics, which revealed that students who have taken a CREST Silver Award achieved half a grade higher on their best science GCSE result and were more likely to continue with STEM education, compared to a matched control group.

We also made use of the archived interview by embedding it on the fourth grade's English wiki site, thus making it available to the entire year group.

I think that math or any other subject can be taught as per levels of the students by forming ability groups despite which ever grade the child is studying in or whatever his age may be.

Three groups were traced: 1) unimpaired children; 2) children defined in 3rd grade as RD due to an aptitude / achievement discrepancy; and 3) those so defined simply by low achievement.

A group can be organized by subject, grade level, specialty, or any combination of topics that administrators believe need attention.

These prizes, separated into three groups by grade level, include $ 2,500 awards and are designed to honor exceptional classroom social studies teaching.

A group led by Florida State University professor of psychology Joseph K. Torgesen assigned severely disabled readers in grades 3 - 5 to one of two remediation programs, where they received 67.5 hours of individualized instruction over an eight - week period.

By the upper grades of high school, students no longer need roles defined for them and are able to jump into group work without guidance.

First, CTBA cites a longitudinal study of Milwaukee's voucher program by researchers at the University of Arkansas, claiming that voucher students in grades 3 - 8 «performed statistically similar» to a matched group of district - school peers on standardized tests.

Yet in addition to checking whether the lotteried - in and lotteried - out students are comparable as whole groups, we also need to check that subgroups of students, sorted by the grade to which they applied, are comparable.

The study also showed no discernible impact for either group on many of the long - term outcomes desired by policymakers, including minimizing grade retention and dependence on public assistance and positively impacting later employment and earnings.