Sentences with phrase «class schools tend»

As for cultural diversity, research has shown that schools that do the best job of educating low - income students tend to favor a traditional curriculum, strict discipline, and a paternalistic environment, whereas typical middle - class schools tend to be less structured and more child - centric.

As a result, poor students sent to middle - class schools tend to be placed into non-accelerated classes.

Finally, middle - class schools tend to draw stronger teachers who avoid the tougher working environment found in high - poverty schools.

Not exact matches

It's not unusual for world class faculty to be paid so generously, but the highest paid business school professors tend to be widely known and publicly visible figures at universities that can afford them, not at a troubled school that has been in a long - term fight for survival.

So were the average GMAT scores of its entering classes, which tended to range near 600, more than 100 points below the best schools, which typically report scores in the 700 - plus range on an entrance test where the highest possible score is 800.

Using skills he had learned in marine science classes in high school, Quenee created a makeshift greenhouse out of recycled yogurt containers he tended on the roof of his mother's home.

She will home school her children because there is not enough money to have them all go to school, and a girl child in class is one less pair of hands in the constant struggle to fetch water, gather fire wood, tend crops, prepare food so on and so forth.

This can also become an equity issue since students from small, rural, or low - income schools tend to have less access to AP classes.

Our preadolescent children tend to have friendship activities that focus on their neighborhood, activities, school classes and sports teammates.

Finally, there's Jamie (Lily Gladstone, Winter in the Blood)-- whose name we never even hear — a young and lonely Native - American woman tending horses on a ranch who develops an infatuation for another young woman, Beth (Kristen Stewart, Clouds of Sils Maria), a just - graduated lawyer who drives four hours from the city, twice a week, to teach a class on school law.

Although composite classes are common, students tend to be grouped into year levels, by age, and to progress automatically with their age peers from one year of school to the next.

Lynch says he's proud of the fact that the schools he's worked in — which have tended to serve working - class students — have had good records and that «a high percentage of the students got jobs; some of them have done quite well from an academic point of view.»

In a similar vein, middle - class and more - educated parents tend to shape Christian schools toward less tension with the outside world, greater emphasis on academic excellence, less rigid social control of students, greater room for individual creativity and expression, and less denominationally distinctive ways of integrating religion into school life.

In the elite suburbs, where wealthy and politically influential people tend to live, the schools are assumed to be world - class.

Although I believe American schools have smaller class sizes and American teachers tend to move about the room more than our Japanese counterparts, I felt a strong bond with the teachers I saw, and I could say many of the comments listed above about American schools.

And of course it tended to perpetuate class divisions, as better - off kids with better - educated parents were much more apt to make it into (and want to enter) the grammar schools.

For example, teachers who receive merit pay may tend to select schools and classes whose students are high achievers for other reasons.

For example, grouping schools according to size (as is done in high - school sports) and giving awards to the top 5 percent in each size class would tend to even out the incentives (and disparities) between large and small schools.

Previous studies have shown that minority and low - income students tend to participate in AP courses and take AP exams at lower rates than middle - class white students at the same high schools.

Parents are a constant presence on campus, helping in classrooms, running after - school classes, tending the garden.

The class is the unit, and class size tends to be uniform within a school district.

The report, Resegregation in American Schools, published by the Civil Rights Project, Harvard University, found that minorities tend to go to school with other minorities in impoverished neighborhoods and that white students go to schools that remain overwhelmingly white and middleSchools, published by the Civil Rights Project, Harvard University, found that minorities tend to go to school with other minorities in impoverished neighborhoods and that white students go to schools that remain overwhelmingly white and middleschools that remain overwhelmingly white and middle class.

While the introduction of FabLabs and makerspaces into schools tends to focus on the importance of hands - on projects in the STEM or STEAM fields, it's just as important that students engage in maker projects in their humanities and social science classes.

Studies show that «students who work in collaborative groups tend to be more satisfied with their classes, complete more assignments, and generally like school better» (Summers, 2006).

«When we have been successful in bringing parents into the school, they tended to be white, middle class parents who had done well when they were students in school,» Ehrich said.

What that demographic tends to seek for its children's education — besides the universal desiderata of «a solid core curriculum... an emphasis on... STEM education, and the development in students of good study habits, strong critical thinking skills, and excellent verbal and written communication skills» — is schools that «offer vocational classes or job - related programs.»

In two of the school districts he visited, white parents tended to be the ones most involved in the parent — teacher associations.They know, for example, about mathematics placement tests in fifth grade that dictated which classes students will take.

At a panel convened last week by the Public School Forum of N.C., a research and advocacy group in Raleigh, Tulbert was one of several principals at low - performing schools — many of them teeming with low - income children — who described how their children tend to arrive lagging behind their middle - class and upper - class peers.

Schools that held classes 10 or more days longer each year tended to produce better student achievement, for example.

While these schools provide small class sizes to increase individualized attention, they tend not to challenge students with rigorous academics and college - preparation courses, such as AP or honors.The two most viable options for former dropouts and other students who have not succeeded in traditional schools are really not viable at all.

«At present, the system tends to favour middle - class parents who have the time and the knowledge to research the schools in their area and, in some cases, can even afford to move to a better catchment area.

Private schooling and upper middle class families do tend to lead to better educated students.

However, digging a little deeper, Pisa found that the most financially advantaged schools tended also to be those with more middle - class pupils - although it is worth noting that in England funding formulas divert extra cash towards schools with poorer pupils.

The first seeks to reduce the number of high - poverty schools, which tend to be segregated both by class and race, by dispersing students from poor families to schools with predominantly middle - class or affluent students.

One explanation for the difference in waitlists may be that middle - class parents tend to choose schools where there's already a critical mass of families like them.

Of course, one - to - one tutoring, especially by teachers, can be very expensive, but whole - school and whole - class approaches tend to be relatively inexpensive on a per - pupil basis.

As a recent issue brief on the achievement gap from the Educational Testing Service points out, schools having high numbers of minority students tend to have larger classes of 25 students or more, and the class size gap between high - minority schools and low - minority schools actually worsened between 2000 - 2004.

While LA Unified is firmly committed to online credit recovery classes as a means to the district's newly stated top goal — 100 percent graduation — Los Angeles charter school operators use these classes much more sparingly, as their graduation rates tend to be far ahead of the district's.

In schools that are offering the new A-level in computing, class sizes tend to be small, raising the prospect, says the Roehampton report, that their economic viability will be questioned under new sixth form funding arrangements.

However, while the most common forms of family engagement (such as encouraging parents to attend school events, serve as classroom volunteers, and participate on fund - raising committees) tend to line up well with middle - class child - rearing practices and family resources (Lareau, 2003), they can be less accessible to families who have recently arrived in the United States, or whose child - rearing practices differ from those of school leaders.

Because public school teaching, leadership, and governance tend to reflect white middle - class norms, educators may not be aware of the variety of child - rearing practices that exist in their school communities.

Empowered middle - class families already tend to view their relationships with educators as partnerships and actively participate in school decision - making contexts (Davidson, 2014).

Business tends to slow down during the school holidays and airlines can not fill their Business Class seats, hence selling them at an impressively discounted price, that — in some cases — matches the price of tickets for the seats in the crammed back of the plane.

Unfortunately, the cases that are most relevant for a law school M&A class and the ones I use tend to involve high - profile subjects such as Hewlett Packard and Time Warner.

The study found that mastery - oriented law students tended to be the students at the top of their law school class despite the performancebased goal structure of law school.

Online classes allow students the ability to start and stop as their attention span changes, whereas in traditional driving school classrooms, students tend to zone out or sleep when they become bored

It is important to make sure that you don't purchase your driving class from a driving school that practice methods that are not student - focused, that is, they tend to utilize the time of one student to teach another.

In general, high school students tend to focus on their club participation while college students often incorporate major class projects.

Since there are more expectations placed on elementary school children (e.g., being able to complete homework, working with others, sitting still and listening in class), ADHD symptoms tend to be more noticeable among this age group.

Kids who were engaged in school tended to participate in class and succeed academically.