Sentences with phrase «course of last school year»

We came together — teachers, paraprofessionals, administrators, and colleagues from across the district — multiple times over the course of last school year to answer this question.

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Last year, only 44 percent of high - school graduates were prepared for college - level math and 36 percent were prepared for university - level science courses, according to the National Math and Science Initiative.

TechCrunch reported that Flatiron School, which was acquired by WeWork late last year (2017), «is currently working to build a portfolio of courses for new members, including accounting, finance and marketing classes.»

The number of states that require high school students to complete a course in economics has dropped over the last two years, and mandates for personal finance education in the upper grades remain stagnant, a new survey shows.

To take a single example, last year I had the privilege of participating in one of these schools in a small university town, where in a parish of about one thousand members over two hundred persons (including a goodly number of interested «enquirers» who had heard of the program through a carefully planned advertising campaign) attended eight night sessions, held from eight until ten o'clock, with a choice among eight different courses, dealing with theological, ethical, historical, devotional, and scriptural subjects.

These clubs are not new, of course, but they have grown in popularity over the last few years, and for some post-baby boomers, they might be acting as substitutes for the Bible studies and Sunday Schools they grew up with.

I wasn't always a football fan but over the years, we've become big fans of the Houston Texans, our alama mater, the Texas A&M Aggies and of course our state - winning high school football team (they won last year and that was a pretty amazing journey!)

Daughter # 1 spent last year attending school in a nearby town which meant periodic day trips and of course some new restaurants.

The Children's Miracle Network Classic — or the Disney, as Tour players have always called it because the tournament is played on the Magnolia and Palm courses at Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. — is the last official Tour stop of the year and the place where harsh reality is doled out right next to Fantasyland: Finish outside the top 125 on the seasonlong money list, and you're going back to dreaded qualifying school, the Nationwide tour or worse.

Highlights from last year's summit included developing school breakfast menus, communication training sessions, and food and nutrition insecurity problem solving; there were lots of opportunities to get moving, including a dance - off and a sing - a-long, and of course there were visits from NFL players from the Dallas Cowboys, the Washington Redskins, the Carolina Panthers, and more.

From the tens of thousands of e-mails I have received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their care.

The question of identity has grown more pressing over the course of the last 15 years as the number of Waldorf schools has grown and as a new generation of teachers has moved into positions of responsibility within the schools.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan was staunch in his support for no longer than a one - year extension of mayoral control of New York City schools, calling it a «wise course» that lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo approved 12 - month deadline last year.

Last year, the International Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School in Italy began offering researchers, at all levels, and industrial professionals 5 days of courses in topics including genome design, metabolic engineering, synthetic circuits and cells, biological design automation, and high - throughput techniques.

Over the course of the last few years, I've had the pleasure of visiting many high - performing schools in diverse communities.

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Readers of Education Next may have seen a report entitled Diploma to Nowhere from Strong American Schools last year that counted up the number of high school graduates who end up in remedial courses at the next level.

Over the last two years or so we've shared research and practical advice for the classroom through our series on School Improvement, Action Research, Teaching Methods, Global Education and, of course, The Research Files --- and we've thrown in a few special episodes for good measure!

Schools of education frequently change their course offerings and requirements (the widespread adoption of TPAs in the last couple years is one example).

The Stanford School of Engineering has been filming a number of their courses over the course of the last couple of years, ranging from introductory programming to more serious courses like iOS development.

According to the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), during the 2002 — 03 school year (the last data available), 36 percent of U.S. school districts (5,500 out of 15,040) had students enrolled in distance - education programs, and 38 percent of public high schools offered distance - education courses.

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.

These pupils were due to progress to the new CfE Higher courses this session but last year, under pressure from unions and others, the Scottish Education Secretary (Mike Russell) has allowed schools to continue with the existing Higher courses if they felt it to be in the best interests of their pupils.

Last year, more than 95 percent of the seniors in HCZ's four high - school afterschool programs were accepted into college, helped with everything from SAT preparation courses to tutoring to counseling.

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Although Skyline and Castlemont required students to apply and show that they had taken the necessary prerequisites to take AP courses, only 31 percent — or 61 of the 194 students who took AP tests in English, math or science subjects at both schools combined last year — scored a 3 or higher.

Last year the School Teachers» Review Body (STRB) said a pay uplift «significantly» higher than 1 per cent will be needed in the course of this parliament «to ensure the teacher pay framework remains competitive».

Since graduating from DePaul University with a Master of Arts in Mathematics Education, he has spent the past 11 years teaching high school mathematics in the public school districts of Chicago, West Allis and Milwaukee, with the last 7 of which teaching courses as part of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program at Reagan College Preparatory High School on Milwaukee's southschool mathematics in the public school districts of Chicago, West Allis and Milwaukee, with the last 7 of which teaching courses as part of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program at Reagan College Preparatory High School on Milwaukee's southschool districts of Chicago, West Allis and Milwaukee, with the last 7 of which teaching courses as part of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program at Reagan College Preparatory High School on Milwaukee's southSchool on Milwaukee's south side.

The AP program has evolved quite far from its roots — winning the cold war and alleviating the boredom of superbly educated students who had been exposed to virtually identical courses during their last year of prep school and their first year of college.

For example, last year over 90 urban public high school students in New Orleans took advantage of Louisiana's new Supplemental Course Academy (SCA) to complete credits for their first year of college through Bard Early College Campus, a satellite campus of Bard College in New York.

Each teacher license gives the teacher access to one grade level or course from May 15 to June 30 (or last day of summer school) of the school year for which access was purchased.

As part of a partnership between the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut and various education institutions in Jordan, I recently spent several weeks over the course of the last year there with a group of Connecticut superintendents.

But the new initiative is the product of a separate online pilot program the district launched last year, which provided online math courses to certain elementary school students.

In other words, many of the low - performing district schools (Tier 1) have improved over the course of last year!

The issue affects middle school students who opted out of the Badger Exam last spring and are now taking high school - level courses this year while still in middle school.

Schools Week reported last year that the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) had submitted plans to develop a more creative engineering A-level to exam board Pearson, in an attempt to encourage more girls into undergraduate courses.

According to the report, the National Center for Education Statistics said 88 percent of school districts around the country offered some form of credit recovery courses to their students in school year 2009 - 10, and, «as online and blended learning have grown significantly in the last five years, it is likely those numbers are significantly higher now.»

Based on internal analysis of its success data, MTDA has rolled out several new design enhancements in the last two school years, including a simplified course organization, increased access to live tutoring for students struggling on particular assignments or concepts, and an increased expectation of local schools to build a supportive environment around credit recovery students.

Last school year, 1,381 seniors — more than 20 percent of San Diego Unified's class of 2016 — took an online version of a course required for graduation.

By the state's calculations, 46.3 percent of Washington Community High School students passed either state standardized tests or required end - of - course assessments for high school math and English lastSchool students passed either state standardized tests or required end - of - course assessments for high school math and English lastschool math and English last year.

Over the course of the last year the Board of The Three Rivers Learning Trust and the Governing Bodies of schools within the Morpeth Education Partnership have been exploring the most beneficial way forward for schools that have expressed an interest in joining the Learning Trust.

Recent internal progress reports obtained by LA School Report show only 54 percent of seniors are currently on track to meet their «A through G» course requirements for graduation, but the reports also show the problem is spread throughout the district, as 55 of its 59 traditional high schools with more than 200 students show a projected graduation rate behind last year's districtwide rate of 74 percent.

AYEP adult courses are offered in the last two years of high school.

For the first time last year, all students had to pass a series of college - prep classes, known as A-G courses, in order to graduate high school.

Maureen Reyes, the executive director of the AP program at the College Board, says that 100 new schools last year offered the new class as their first AP course ever.

Last year schools were approaching me - anxious to attract trainees — within the first couple of months of the course.

Chang estimated that 4 or 5 percent of PUC graduates last year had taken at least one online course and said it was most commonly used when a student transferred into a PUC school already behind in credits.

Last year NACEP published a case study on Memphis» strategies to reduce financial and other barriers to student participation and development of partnerships and administrative structures to support schools to grow dual and concurrent enrollment course offerings.

For new Stingray and Z06 owners who have taken delivery of their Corvettes within the last year, we highly recommend that you set up your two - day Corvette owners school course available only at Ron Fellows Performance Driving School at Spring Mouschool course available only at Ron Fellows Performance Driving School at Spring MouSchool at Spring Mountain.

As the school year begins, recent grads may feel a little strange to have checked every course off the list (and those of you entering your last year may be starting to sweat those student loans which you know are coming due soon).