Sentences with phrase «counterpart classes in schools»

Challenge 20/20 is an Internet - based program that pairs classes at any grade level (K - 12) from schools in the U.S. with their counterpart classes in schools in other countries; together the teams (of two or three schools) tackle real global problems to find solutions that can be implemented at the local level and in their own communities.

Challenge 20/20 is an Internet - based program that pairs classes at any grade level (K - 12) at U.S. private, public or charter schools with a counterpart class in a school abroad.

Not exact matches

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

The comprehensive schools (and their counterparts in higher education, the comprehensive universities) recognize the necessity for educational differentiation but, by keeping the students together in some classes and in the student activities program, minimize social class divisions.

Although our colleges and universities are home to world - class science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs that attract the best and brightest domestic and international students, I am very concerned that the math and science test scores of American school children are lagging behind their counterparts in other countries.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

A school that enrolls a heavily middle - class population faces a far lower hurdle in getting its children to reach high reading levels than does a counterpart school enrolling a heavily low - income population.

At KIPP, teachers make about $ 10,000 a year more than their regular public school counterparts, but they put in longer days, Saturday classes and summer school - all extra time and extra resources to lift students who begin KIPP below grade level.

According to KIPP, last school year, more than 70 percent of Morfin's class scored proficient or advanced in English on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress state tests, while only 37 percent of California's Latino fifth - graders and 65 percent of their white counterparts achieved the same results.

Rather than creating policies with the new white middle and upper - class families in mind, policy and school administrators also need to consider their positions and sentiments, even if they do not have the same social capital or resources as their white counterparts.