Sentences with phrase «cohorts of students before»
We consider the achievement growth of different cohorts of students before and after the reforms — for example, students in 3rd grade in 2005 and students in 3rd grade in 2012.
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Before joining the first cohort of students at the Blavatnik School of Government, I worked as a journalist for state - owned China Central Television, the biggest media outlet in China.
Dean McCartney tells a story about when the faculty were developing the curriculum before the first cohort of students arrived.
Long before the first cohort of 25 students left their full - time jobs and arrived on campus, the idea was ambitious and clear: The Ed School was not going to develop leaders for the education system as it currently exists.
Each year the cohorts get together before Thanksgiving to relish in the history of a Harvard space and to share traditional American fare with international students.
It may be because Kris Liu, a member of the Higher Education cohort, decided to start a group on the social networking website Facebook this summer, which gave the students a chance to communicate before they arrived on Appian Way.
We found that more students in the phase - out cohort left their school before 12th grade, with the percentage of students still in their 9th - grade school at the end of 12th grade dropping by 6.9 percentage points to 48.8 percent, from 41.9 percent.
«This, alongside the need to compare the performance of student cohorts over several years, means that we expect it will be 2019 at the earliest before exam boards will start to use the information from the NRT when they award GCSEs.»
To construct this figure, we first define the top 5 percent of teachers as «high VA» and the bottom 5 percent as «low VA.» Figure 1 displays average test scores for cohorts of students in the years before and after a high - VA teacher arrives.
16, arrived on Appian Way as a member of the Technology, Innovation, and Education cohort, he was already well aware of the fact that this generation of students is the wired generation; he saw it in his own four children, who he says were acquainted with an iPad before they started using a paper notepad.
Therefore, we may have to wait until a cohort of students has progressed through that pipeline before we can get a full picture of how these comprehensive services have benefited them.
Before the Whole - School Social Justice cohorts program, African American students were more likely to be suspended out of school than their white counterparts.
But Ryerson can probably graduate its first cohort of law students before we actually see any of this substantial change occurring in any of the other law schools.
The staff were barely in place when the first cohort of students arrived, and the Law Society officially approved Rise's name only days before opening.