Sentences with phrase «by individual students in»

Real progress by individual students in reading, math and other skills is key.

Our results suggest that traditional public schools did not respond to competition from charter schools by becoming more effective, at least as measured by the learning gains made by individual students in the years immediately following establishment of charter schools.

As Chris Stewart, also a mentor on the Derby course, puts it, «what you experience being a mentor is very much defined by the individual students in the group.»

Not exact matches

In this new course, Raja aims to teach students to improve their work by examining their writing on four separate levels: narrative, paragraph, sentence, all the way down to individual words.

SokoText, from students at the London School of Economics, has been testing similar technology in Mathare Valley, Nairobi, by sending text messages from small - scale rural farmers to individuals in slums who want to secure wholesale prices for healthy produce once it arrives at a market.

HealthIM, started in 2014 by University of Waterloo students Daniel MacKenzie and Daniel Pearson Hirdes, makes software that improves how police respond to situations involving mentally unstable individuals.

The panel is based on credit report data collected by Equifax (one of the three credit bureaus in the United States) and it contains information on all outstanding loans — including mortgages, auto and student loans, and credit card debt — at the individual consumer level.

Another example, in the Army Forces Student Loan Repayment program, each individual who enlists in the Army is eligible to have up to $ 65,000 of their student loans forgiven by thStudent Loan Repayment program, each individual who enlists in the Army is eligible to have up to $ 65,000 of their student loans forgiven by thstudent loans forgiven by the Army.

For individuals aged 25 — 49 who held federal student loans, only 12 % were in default, while 27 % of loans held by individuals 65 — 74 were in default, and more than half of the loans held by individuals 75 or older were in default.4

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the ruling on Friday, saying the family had not persuaded the three - judge panel «that the individual prayers or other remarks to be given by students at graduation are, in fact, school - sponsored.»

The totality of the teaching of, and learning by, an individual is a «unique configuration» in the case of every single student.

Whitehead knew that within his large scheme of three cycles the individual student would be learning at a pace that would be influenced by the type of study required and the student's interest in it.»

In this way the students would be invited to serve the good rather than compete for status, and they would be encouraged to be individuals and not conformists, since their work would be judged by a process of qualitative discrimination and not by simple ranking.

Christianity teaches that this particular individual, and so every individual, whatever in other respects this individual may be, man, woman, serving - maid, minister of state, merchant, barber, student, etc. — this individual exists before God — this individual who perhaps would be vain for having once in his life talked with the King, this man who is not a little proud of living on intimate terms with that person or the other, this man exists before God, can talk with God any moment he will, sure to be heard by Him; in short, this man is invited to live on the most intimate terms with God!

The student of Aquinas already familiar with his teachings on individual personal responsibility, conscience, and the role of reason and will in free choice is likely to be surprised by his unremitting hostility to heretics.

The program will have seven stages, including a culinary arts competition in which teams of high school culinary arts students from throughout the country take on the challenge of creating a delicious, nutritious school meal for $ 1 per meal; a Healthy Eating Crockpot 8 - week cooking course for families, at the end of which participants and / or the individuals will receive a free crock pot; healthy recipe / healthy snack cook book and monthly newsletter by student chefs; and supporting student chefs in developing and growing their own home gardens.

The International Sommelier Guild (ISG) courses were created by a private individual in Ontario who developed a series of courses and exams, and then certified students as «sommeliers».

After 785 student - athletes raced 1000s of miles supported by 1000s of coaches, parents, and supporters in the historic Dirt Club venue SoCal came out ahead in the number of individual state championships won (7 - 4) but NorCal showed its strength in depth by winning all three divisions of team competition.

The search for a new campus led the Waldorf Institute to the Threefold Community in Spring Valley (now, Chestnut Ridge), N.Y. Founded in 1926 by individuals who were students of Rudolf Steiner (the founder of Waldorf Education and its spiritual base, anthroposophy), the Threefold Community was the most well - established anthroposophically - based community in North America.

The keynote address is presented by an individual who fosters education of students, as well as the public, and represents the athletic training profession in a positive manner.

Standardized tests and final exams, sometimes marked in another town by an unknown person and never returned with any explanation or discussion with the individual student, are like that.

Prof. Naana Opoku Agyemang commenting further noted the beneficiary students in the free SHS program exclude day students in the 2015/16 academic year that are benefiting from other forms of scholarships such as the Ghana Cocoa Board Scholarships, Northern Scholarships, Secondary Education Improvement Project Scholarships, and those on scholarships provided by NGOs, corporate bodies and individuals.

More than 1,000 delegates voted to adopt a resolution which noted that «studies conducted by prominent researchers and renowned education experts show that individual merit pay plans have not helped to significantly improve student achievement in any of the United States school districts where they have been implemented.»

«These regulations significantly undercut the quality of teaching in SUNY authorized charter schools by permitting insufficiently prepared individuals to educate large numbers of high needs students beyond that which is already allowed for by law,» the lawsuit states.

Surely an individualistic culture could also be imported by Hollywood movies, returning foreign exchange students,... (Also suppose that once all cultures were collectivistic (not too unreasonable in the 1492 - 1900 timeframe)- where do the individualistic individuals come from?)

Joined by area politicians and community leaders, the parents, students and teachers rallied in support of the Education Investment Tax Credit which would increase support for public and religious schools by creating a tax incentive for individuals and corporations to donate to scholarship programs administered by nonprofit educational organizations.

Members, including chancellor Merryl Tisch, argued the new evaluation system, which was largely prescribed in law by Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature, would penalize teachers who work in the most challenging environments and with the neediest students and even prevent talented individuals from entering the field to begin with.

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A classroom program that helps teachers adapt their interactions with students based on individuals» temperaments may lead to more student engagement in kindergarten, more teacher emotional support to kindergarten and first grade students, and better classroom organization and less off - task behavior in first - grade classes, according to research by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

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► «[A] novel analysis finding a link between how U.S. graduate students in the biomedical sciences are funded and their first job after earning their Ph.D. turns one piece of conventional wisdom on its head: Students supported on a research grant are more likely to take a research job than those funded by other mechanisms,» including training grants and individual fellowships, Jeffrey Mervis wrotstudents in the biomedical sciences are funded and their first job after earning their Ph.D. turns one piece of conventional wisdom on its head: Students supported on a research grant are more likely to take a research job than those funded by other mechanisms,» including training grants and individual fellowships, Jeffrey Mervis wrotStudents supported on a research grant are more likely to take a research job than those funded by other mechanisms,» including training grants and individual fellowships, Jeffrey Mervis wrote today.

The new analyses by Powers and colleagues showed that individual student grades also improved just from being in classrooms with a greater proportion of African Americans who received the intervention.

And further analyses revealed that the classroom improvement effect was not influenced by various individual - and classroom - level factors, including student race, student intervention condition, and teacher team, in either study.

Studies of individual neurons in dishes of cultured neurons and in brain slices by co-first author Robert E. Stanley, a graduate student in the lab, revealed that neurons in the mutant mice had decreased numbers of dendritic spines, an important part of the synapses that neurons use to communicate with one another.

They include the BEST (Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training) programs at 17 institutes across the country; encouraging the use of individual development plans (IDPs) by all NIH - supported graduate students and postdocs; and, one I am particularly pleased about, offering individual F30 and F31 predoctoral fellowships through all the NIH institutes and centers.

By varying the model and studying alternative pathways to train combined degree students for patient - oriented research, better pathways may be identified to train these individuals optimally for the unique role they play in biomedical research.

He makes a convincing case for incorporating valuable but less easily measured attributes into our view of intelligence, such as the persistence that can propel driven students to higher test scores than their less committed peers and the creativity demonstrated by individuals more in tune with intuition than intellect.

Glen Hood, a Ph.D. student at Notre Dame and lead author of the paper, said, «Our study has impacted our understanding of evolution by suggesting that change in individual lineages can reverberate through different trophic levels of an ecosystem and increase community - level biodiversity.»

«This study, led by my graduate student, Tamara Rosen, clarifies and focuses inconsistencies in previous research on the unique way error processing manifests and can impact anxiety symptoms in individuals with ASD,» said senior author Dr. Matthew Lerner, of Stony Brook University.

Published this week in the journal PNAS, a research team led by psychology professor John McDonald and doctoral student John Gaspar used EEG technology to determine that while «high - capacity» individuals (those who perform well on memory tasks) are able to suppress distractors, «low - capacity» individuals are unable to suppress them in time to prevent them from grabbing their attention.

«Certainly, in industry it is critical to work within teams to accomplish goals that are defined more by the company than by individuals,» he says, «but I see industry and academia as equally exciting and valuable career options for students,» says Gregory E. Amidon, a research professor at the University of Michigan, College of Pharmacy, in Ann Arbor and American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Fellow.

Recently I was asked by a university's postdoc association and graduate student council to spend a day in individual meetings with their members.

«A lot of people assume that self - defense training only helps individual women, one - by - one, prevent sexual assault,» said Professor Martha McCaughey, speaking in response to the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault.

A 2009 investigation led by psychologist Amy B. Brunell of Ohio State University at Newark found that narcissistic individuals readily emerged as leaders in group discussions, and among students enrolled in a graduate business program, narcissists were likely to rise to top positions.

Pedler, a marine biology graduate student at Scripps, spent several years working with Scripps marine microbiologist Azam and chemical oceanographer Aluwihare in designing a system that would precisely measure carbon consumption by individual bacterial species.

Two years ago, April Hamblin, an entomology graduate student at NCSU who carried out the field work and co-wrote the study, began looking at how some of North Carolina's common native bee species tolerate increasing heat by placing individual bees in small test tubes.

NanoRacks is committed to helping stimulate the market demand across all orbiting platforms by creating a commercial climate conducive to allowing new users, from students to researchers, from government space agencies to individuals, to conduct research, design experiments, tinker, make mistakes, and maybe realize wonderful breakthroughs in low - earth orbit and beyond.

«Almost all our PhD students and postdocs receive support from the NIH, as members of training grant programs, as recipients of individual awards, and as participants in research by UCSF faculty, a majority of whom are affiliated with one or more of our graduate training programs,» said Elizabeth Watkins, PhD, dean of the UCSF Graduate Division and vice chancellor of student academic affairs.

The American Society of Human Genetics invites trainee members (defined as undergraduate students and individuals completing various levels of post-baccalaureate training in human genetics or allied fields) to contribute to the Society's leadership by serving on ASHG committees or the ASHG Board of Directors.

However, the study of early career markers over the past 7 to 10 years has demonstrated increasing interest in research careers by medical students, steady growth of the MD - PhD pool, and a new burst of activity in the «late bloomer» pool of MDs (individuals who choose research careers in medical school or in residency training), fueled by loan repayment programs that were created by the NIH in 2002.