Sentences with phrase «class of students whose»

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The new version would leave the state with the same result as did its predecessor: Charter school students would find themselves in classes taught by teachers whose training was far less rigorous than that demanded of regular public school teachers.

Across the academic spectrum, «over half of the STEM degrees went to students whose [SAT math] scores put them in the top third of their class; those in the bottom third earned about one - sixth of the degrees,» Sander and Taylor continue.

Students whose circadian rhythms were out of sync with their class schedules — say, night owls taking early morning courses — received lower grades due to «social jet lag,» a condition in which peak alertness times are at odds with work, school or other demands.

A student whose preparation puts her near the bottom of the class can easily feel progressively more lost, and the poor grades that take her to the bottom of a STEM curve add insult to injury,» they write.

In this year alone I went from being a college student whose schedule consisted of working 3 part time jobs and interning for amazing companies all while taking full time college classes... talk about a crazy 4 years!

Charlie's class brings Zoey together with her new circle of friends, which includes woke sophomore Aaron (Trevor Jackson); bisexual Nomi (Emily Arlook), whose uncle (Chris Parnell) is the dean of students; Drake wannabe Vivek (Jordan Buhat), who sells drugs to pay for his wardrobe; laid back - verging - on - comatose Luca (Luka Sabbat); and identical twin track stars Skyler and Jazlyn (Chloe and Halle Bailey), while later episodes bring in Francia Raisa as Ana.

The supporting cast provides the broader strokes: Henry Winkler is, unsurprisingly, excellent as the egocentric teacher of the acting class Barry enrolls in to follow his next target; Stephen Root plays Barry's money - hungry boss; Sarah Goldberg is terrific as a talented but self - centered acting student; and Paula Newsome plays a detective whose scenes with an amorous Winkler provide some of the show's best moments.

Step focuses on three high - school seniors in the inaugural class of the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, whose mandate is to send every student to college.

And then there are the maudlin fixtures of films such as these: the bright student whose mother decides to pull him out of the class; the son who feels neglected by all the attention Roberta lavishes upon his students.

Then students will be responsible for introducing the students whose snowballs they «caught» to the rest of the class.

Students work in mixed ability - level groups during class; often the ages of the students in the classroom are mixed, too, thanks to a program called Teenagers in Middle School (TIME), whose students are scattered throughout Students work in mixed ability - level groups during class; often the ages of the students in the classroom are mixed, too, thanks to a program called Teenagers in Middle School (TIME), whose students are scattered throughout students in the classroom are mixed, too, thanks to a program called Teenagers in Middle School (TIME), whose students are scattered throughout students are scattered throughout classes.

To measure the effect of being in the top 10 percent, the authors compared the grade point averages of students whose class rank was just above or just below the cutoff.

In other words, a student in a classroom that prohibits computers is on equal footing with a peer who is in a class that allows computers and whose GPA is one third of a standard deviation higher — nearly the difference between a B + and A - average.

In fact, with the possible exception of minority boys from the Caribbean, schools whose student population had shifted from white working class to minority were usually schools with high gain scores.

In the class of 2015, more than nine out of ten students whose highest math course was Trigonometry or Algebra II fail to meet the NAEP proficient standard.

This has profound implications: Chetty and colleagues estimate that replacing a teacher whose value added is in the bottom 5 percent of the distribution with an average teacher would increase the present discounted value of students» lifetime income by more than $ 250,000 for a typical class (of 28 students).

Sally Carson, who also teaches third grade at Bacich and whose class includes the visually impaired student, says her students» work with Braille fostered an «awareness of how difficult it must be to be blind.

«The students immediately knew people who had something to say about the topic,» explains Nuval, whose class consists entirely of students of color.

After two years, the schools were no longer required to hold weekly meetings for their planning teams; instead, unsuccessful algebra teachers (those whose teaching allowed fewer than 15 percent of their students to pass the end - of - course exam last year) would be pulled out of their classes for eight days of in - depth training.

To Suzie Menerey whose daily generous sharing of originally created resources has helped to educate hundreds of students in many more classes beyond the walls of her own.

In this episode, Susan Payne Carter, assistant professor of economics at the United States Military Academy, joins EdNext editor - in - chief Marty West to discuss her new study which found that students whose professors banned laptops and tablets from class outperformed students whose professors allowed the devices.

Looping allows for a wait - and - see approach to a student who's struggling; otherwise, a teacher may feel pressured to move a student whose grasp of material is tentative into special education classes for fear of not responding to the child's needs.

Activities that require use of spatial intelligence often prove beneficial for students whose reading and writing abilities don't measure up and for those gifted members of the class who are bored stiff and unchallenged.

The impact of even a slightly better - than - average quality teacher — one whose effectiveness ranks at the 60th percentile, for example — still has significant economic results, raising an individual student's lifetime earnings by $ 5,300, or a class of 20 students» aggregate lifetime earnings by a total of $ 106,000.

According to the study, 43 percent of teachers whose classes consist of a majority of English learners received no more than one inservice training session in the past five years on how to instruct these students.

Sure, there were teachers who didn't quite click with the students, and a principal whose zeal to catch students skipping classes made him the butt of many jokes, but we felt well cared - for and safe at West Cary.

And there was Mr. Spivey, whose insistence that we memorize and recite the preamble to the Constitution was tempered by an understanding that some students would miss class on that crucial recital day simply because of their stage fright.

Teachers whose students agreed with the statement, «We spend a lot of time in this class practicing for the state test,» tended to make smaller gains on those exams than other teachers.

This will be a logistical nightmare — figuring out which 125 students are going on which days, disrupting teachers whose testing students are out of class, finding space for kids who take longer than expected, finding places for the students displaced from their computer lab classes, and more that I'm sure I haven't thought of.

graders this year, committee members underscored the unfair advantage of students whose parents can afford to enroll them in SAT prep classes.

I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students, here in the country less then three months, who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them «Putas» (whores) and throwing things, that the teachers were in tears.

Think about several students in your school or class whose biology, degree of privilege, positioning for learning, and or preferences shape experiences with school.

Innovate Public Schools is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to build the parent and community demand for world - class public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low - income students and students of color.

And is the antipathy of hedge fund managers toward organized labor generally in the interests of poor and working class students, whose parents can't make ends meet in part because organized labor has been eviscerated in the United States over the past half century?

«If kids aren't there every day, it's going to be hard for us to succeed,» said Balfanz, whose work has helped show that there is a tight link between students who miss class frequently — more than 10 percent of the school year, or 18 days in a 180 - day school year — and those who struggle academically and eventually drop out.

Beginning with the graduating class of 2013, all students whose scores are college reportable, both standard and extended time tests, are now included in the reports.

After Harvard offered what was, in essence, a free college education to students whose families earned under $ 40,000 a year, Hoxby says, «the number of students whose families had income below that threshold changed by only about 15 students, and the class at Harvard is about 1,650 freshmen.»

This explanation would be plausible if a teacher's class were composed of a small subset of students who gained considerable skill during the prior year and a larger subset of students whose previous gains were modest.

[19] Teachers whose classes have both students with and without disabilities will need to choose one or the other type of instruction, and — depending on the choice — they might be less effective with one or the other group of students.

We know that we can remove apparent systematic errors in value - added errors when we account for detailed information on disability status, especially for teachers whose classes have majorities of students with disabilities.

A WBEZ investigation found that Chicago's new school construction and additions disproportionately benefit schools that serve white, middle class students, even though white students are far less likely to suffer overcrowded schools than Latino students, whose schools do not see the benefit of capital spending.

Imagine planning a lesson for a class of students, whose reading levels might range anywhere between a second - grade and a seventh - grade level.

Johanna Rodriguez, whose eighth - grade son was included in the civil rights complaint, said her son was suspended and at home for most of last year, while this year she said he was suspended in school most of the time in a room set aside for students who are removed from class because of a behavior issue.

Noguera cited a 90 - minute math class he had visited at Hollenbeck Middle School whose teacher had complete control of her class and allowed students to help each other.

TCTA testified that in exempting themselves from statutory class - size limits instead of pursuing a waiver from TEA, districts were skirting requirements to notify parents of students whose classes exceeded the limits.

In 1998, voters approved Prop. 227, a law passed amid anti-immigrant fervor that said students whose first language isn't English can only take one year of intensive English instruction before transitioning to English - only classes.

Eligible students are defined as those school - age children living in the attendance boundary of a low - achieving school as of the first day of classes and whose household income meets the following criteria:

The activity set off by the contest has enabled Schnur's network to press as never before its frontal challenge to the teachers» unions: they argue that a country that spends more per pupil than any other but whose student performance ranks in the bottom third among developed nations isn't failing its children for lack of resources but for lack of trained, motivated, accountable talent at the front of the class.

Only 9 percent of students in the class of 2017 who came from low - income families, whose parents did not go to college, and who identified as black, Hispanic, American Indian or Pacific Islander are strongly ready for college, according to ACT scores.

I thought of that earlier this year when I reviewed a biography by Amy Houts of TV personality Rachel Maddow (Rachel Maddow: Primetime Political Commentator), whose life as an out lesbian — I noted in the review — has been distinguished by a number of «firsts»: she was one of only two openly gay students in her freshman class at Stanford; the first openly gay recipient of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship; and the first openly gay person to host a prime - time news show on TV — a terrific role model, in short, for LGBTQ kids, who, historically, have had too few such in books to read.