Sentences with phrase «class students perform»

47 % of charter schools serving middle class students perform worse than similar schools.

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In a last ditch effort, Wagstaff, who goes by Dr. Bob, brought the Orabrush to a marketing class at Brigham Young University's graduate school, which offers companies the chance to let students perform a case study for them for about $ 1,500.

But it is how many of these students performed once they entered their programs that made them the best in their classes.

When I find a well - intentioned undergraduate student performing poorly in class, I ask why.

«Whether you attend the concert or bring your family to the full - day Saturday taste, we want everyone to know we do this for the kids - the funds we raise from summer high school classes and public events like TOTV go right back to school sites for visual and performing arts and curriculum support to benefit students,» he added.

We found that some students were selected for paper - class treatment because they were considered behavior problems in the classroom, while others were selected simply because they were student - athletes On one occasion, for example, a Swahili instructor apparently requested that up to six football players be enrolled in a Swahili 3 paper class because they were under - performing in the Swahili 3 lecture class.

Waldorf is dedicated to providing its middle school students with an academic curriculum with rigor and purpose — one that is creatively designed to meet the particular needs of middle school students — along with exceptional teachers, regular class travel, a no - cut athletic program, and fine arts and performing arts courses.

All students study math and science and learn foreign languages; they all play an instrument and sing in the chorus; they all learn handwork and take movement classes and perform in the class play.

An innovative leader in mathematics education, offering a system of after - school math classes for high - performing students.

One commonly used definition of a «good» school is one that has high academic outcomes in absolute terms - its students don't drop out, frequently go to college, frequently go to selective colleges if they do go to college, frequently find decent jobs if they don't go to college, perform well on standardized tests, take more advanced classes such as advanced placement, international baccalaureate, honors and college classes, etc..

This Wednesday «rally follows the release of Families for Excellent Schools» white paper, «A Tale of Two School Systems, «in August, which found that black and Hispanic students are confined to a second - class system of the city's worst performing schools.

Do not put them into a special class of «affirmative - action» students who are not expected to perform as well as other students.

Steele and his colleagues performed a series of studies to prove that regardless of class, racial pressures depress the academic performance of African - American students.

In 2011, UGC issued guidelines that exempted students from performing dissections in undergraduate classes and allowed students in postgraduate courses to opt out.

Astonishingly, students who took the daily quizzes in their psychology class also performed better in their other courses, during the semester they were enrolled in Pennebaker and Gosling's class and in the semesters that followed — suggesting that the frequent tests accompanied by feedback worked to improve their general skills of self - regulation.

Introduction to Psychology is the only official prerequisite for Psych 160, but students who sign up for Spencer Morrison's class at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln know that there's another unwritten requirement: an interest in seeing rats perform bold athletic feats.

Here, he looked at 73 MBA student teams performing a semester - long consulting project in a class.

It took a lot of courage for me to do this, but it has helped define what I need to «click» with a teacher: basic human kindness, respect for the student, and gratitude that they have come to class, regardless of how their body performs each day.

Students may also enjoy learning yoga sequences, such as modified sun salutations, that are performed in the same order at every class.

In an Iyengar class, students perform a variety of postures while controlling the breath.

In the USA in particular, overall school grades performances tied to funding can put more pressure on classes, parents and students to perform better.

Four actresses who were students in Franco's acting classes and a filmmaker who considered him a mentor say in the article published on Thursday that Franco asked them to perform sexually inappropriate and coercive scenes, and described him «storming off» a movie set when women refused his demands to appear naked.

At Studio 4, he taught a class titled «Sex Scenes,» and students allege that he pressured them to perform scenes partially nude or acted inappropriately while filming sexual encounters.

«We were able to do what we do as teachers,» says theater arts teacher Judy Dove, who had students in her puppetry class make Asian - style rod puppets and write and perform folktales based on Popoviciu's Everest climb.

And research suggests that students who participate in both college prep and career and technology classes in high school perform best in college.

A student survey allows students to voice their issues, needs, and desires, giving feedback on how a teacher can change his or her instruction to help them perform better in class.

He explains, «The purpose of this survey is to give my students a voice to tell me what changes I can make and what practices can I implement to help them perform better in class.

In the most effective classes I visited, teachers use data tracking as part of their weekly or biweekly classroom routine, and reserve time for students to write reflections on how they've performed.

These classes are set up on a subject by subject basis, because students do not all perform the same in all subjects.

At one point in the lesson, students are asked to perform a miracle using 1 slice of bread to feed the whole class.

The first class affected by the retention policy entered the 4th grade during the 2004 school year, and thus the first NAEP score that could have been influenced by the exclusion of low - performing students from the 4th - grade NAEP sample was the spring 2005 administration.

These students can be helped by greeting them at the door before class, calling on them more frequently, asking them to help perform academic tasks, like solving a problem on the whiteboard, or generally making sure they feel appreciated.

(For lower performing classes, I provide students with a blank shield.

Would students perform better in school if classes started later?

Some high - performing nations boast middle or high school class sizes of 40 to 50 students.

So producing students who are creative, who can navigate delicate social situations, who encourage their peers to perform better, who take extra science classes, or who can figure out the right questions to be asking in the first place is a lower priority than producing students who can nudge test scores higher.

Under a state plan to turn around James Lick High School, a persistently failing school in San Jose, low - performing students in those grades will be put in intensive skills classes, leaving some of them little time to pursue science, social studies, physical education,...

We then linked the grades given to each school to data on the school's characteristics: its size, the size of classes at the school, the racial and ethnic composition of its students, the percentage of students from poor families, and the percentage of students performing at proficient levels on state reading and math tests.

LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

Negash sat with one low - performing student for much of the first - period class and with three others in the second period, hoping to encourage some of that «success.»

By and large, the state - level testing not only failed to report results disaggregated by race and class but often wasn't even administered to low performing students.

This also is a way to determine if some students who excel in class don't perform well on tests, or the other way around, Michaelis noted.

Unfortunately, they are often seen as the adversary themselves...» Students know that there is subjectivity inherent in teachers» grading systems, which supplies students with the ready excuse that when they perform poorly in a class, they can blame it on the teacher for being too hard or unfair, rather than taking responsibility for their own needs for imprStudents know that there is subjectivity inherent in teachers» grading systems, which supplies students with the ready excuse that when they perform poorly in a class, they can blame it on the teacher for being too hard or unfair, rather than taking responsibility for their own needs for imprstudents with the ready excuse that when they perform poorly in a class, they can blame it on the teacher for being too hard or unfair, rather than taking responsibility for their own needs for improvement.

Black, Hispanic, and white 3rd graders all tend to perform worse in reading and math when they are in classes that have a larger share of black students.

Further, West Point students have strong incentives to perform, since class rank determines who gets the first pick of jobs after graduation.

Given that time, our scholars consistently out - perform wealthy Westchester County on their Regents exams in nearly every subject and our first class of graduates outperformed white students on their SAT's.

Students of National Board teachers who exhibited superior academic performance may already have been performing at a high level when they entered class in the fall.

The butterflies he felt before performing also made Williams more empathetic to students who perform in front of a class.

Let's turn now to the preferred strategy, which controls for the fact that students performing at different levels may be sorted into smaller or larger classes both between and within schools.

Jubert, the DJ Project's lanky, dreadlocked audio - production instructor, wants to play his students» latest work: a public - service announcement written and performed by students from the project's introductory audio - production class and expertly layered over a Marvin Gaye sample.