Sentences with phrase «different than other students»

He has autism, so his school requirements were different than other students, but he took part in the same big events.

They let him know he is no different than any other student and that he will achieve greatness.»

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PLUS loans are a little different than other federal student loans.

Erika Eliason, a graduate student at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in Canada, wanted to know whether different populations of Fraser River salmon were better than others at handling the heat.

At the same time, the students of the Facing History teachers demonstrated significantly greater historical thinking skills, civic efficacy, and tolerance for others with different views than control students.

This audience is very different from the graduate students, faculty, researchers, and policymakers with whom I regularly interact, but in many ways, my discussion of the importance of college had a greater impact on them than on any other group that I address.

Badge accumulation can occur in a non-linear fashion; some students may earn different badges than others.

To be sure, it is a real problem when students in one state learn very different things than those in other states, and in particular when students from some states lack the skills needed for our modern economy.

There are two documents here - two different versions of the same thing, one more detailed than the other - both student friendly.

In addition, students gain global and cultural competency when they are exposed to people who are different than they are, and to the art, music, history and culture of other nations, races and peoples.

We find that, on average, KIPP middle schools admit students who are similar to those in other local schools, and patterns of student attrition are typically no different at KIPP than at nearby public middle schools.

While students in Catholic schools (the most common form of private education) and secular private schools are more politically tolerant than students in assigned public schools, the 2 percent of America's students in other religious schools - an amalgam of schools sponsored by many different faiths - score lower on the political tolerance index.

In our hallways, we can hear different languages being spoken and students sit next to each other in the dining rooms, sharing and learning about cultures other than their own.

This is of course beneficial to all students, but when ELLs see that they have many things in common with other classmates, especially classmates from different background than them, then it becomes especially important for them.

Interestingly, parents and students valued different aspects of teaching practices more so than others.

Writing about Illinois» newly approved NCLB waiver, it breathlessly reported that, «Under a dramatic new approach to rating public schools, Illinois students of different backgrounds no longer will be held to the same standards — with Latinos and blacks, low - income children and other groups having lower targets than whites for passing state exams, the Tribune has found.»

In my research I have identified 34 different examples of charter school innovation, including small size; untenured teachers; contracts with parents; real parent and teacher involvement in school governance; outcome -(rather than input --RRB- based accreditation; service learning fully integrated into the curricula; unusual grade configurations; split sessions and extended school days and years to accommodate working students; and computer - assisted instruction for at - risk and other frequently absent students.

With over 30 different nationalities at the school, communication in languages other than English or the students native language has become imperative for students to grasp and understand one another.

At the other extreme, in countries that stream students into different kinds of secondary schools (for example, academic and vocational), between - school variance is much larger than in Australia.

On the first two «costs» the book provides no evidence of harm, other than summary statements about segregation, expressing concern that «education programs that serve low - income and minority students have become quite different from those that serve the rest of the student population,» (p. 225) and that «charter schools have moved the country farther away from the collective and democratic forms of education.»

Similarly, there could be unobserved differences between students whose teachers rely more and less heavily on lecturing if, for example, teachers in schools serving low - income students adopt different practices than teachers in other types of schools.

The Norwegian students, on the other hand, get to meet people who come from very different countries, cultures, and journeys than themselves — all of which contributes to a better school environment.

What opportunities are there to develop your students» financial literacy skills in different subject areas, other than numeracy and mathematics?

According to interviews with more than a dozen teachers and school administrators in five different districts, students in New York are taking more practice tests, and they're spending more time on math and reading — and less on other subjects — since Common Core was put into place.

The data also indicate that patterns of student attrition at KIPP schools are typically no different from other local schools except that KIPP schools replace vacancies with fewer students in the last two years of middle school, and those late - arriving students are somewhat higher - achieving than students entering KIPP schools in 5th and 6th grades.

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For example, peer pressure to conform may be experienced in a somewhat different context by many academically talented females and minority students than by other agemates (Ford, 1994; Kerr, 1985).

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The law allows states to experiment with different types of teacher training academies and with measures of student progress other than just standardized tests.

It makes a big difference for a student to say what students think; adults tend to listen to student advocates in a different way than we listen to each other.

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You may also find that colleges have very different testing requirements for home - schooled students than other applicants.

Rather, local variances in system capacity, resources and student demographics make different reforms more or less urgent — and plausible — in some places than in others.

For this reason, no day at Village Green is routine; students will work on some subjects longer than others if they need to and teachers will work with different groups of students depending on which students need to learn the same skill at that point in their lessons.

What teachers typically find is that students are much tougher on each other than the teacher would feel able to be, because the power relationships are different.

Now, more than any other time in history, someone of a different culture or race is educating black students.

The other 73 percent applied through a lottery to attend a school other than their in - boundary option, which breaks down across different options (aside from in - boundary) as follows: 46 percent of public school students attended a public charter school, 21 percent attended an out - of - boundary DCPS school, and the remaining 6 percent attended other DCPS schools [1](Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education (DME), 2017).

To connect different tests and measure student growth, designers of value - added models commonly assume that the curriculum in higher grades is nothing more than a harder version of that in the previous grade; in other words, 8th grade math is the same as 7th grade math, just more difficult.

If constituents are willing to accept less - than - perfectly - integrated schools in the interest of better serving different constituencies and drawing on teacher strengths, it will be crucial to monitor those schools for resource equity and academic quality and to provide students with frequent opportunities to interact meaningfully with students from the other learning communities.

In the school setting, students with exceptional strengths and weaknesses may have different instructional needs than other students.

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And while a traditional high school typically has students that attended a handful of feeder middle schools, Bravo's students come to the school from more than 32 different middle schools from around East LA, South LA and other places like Hollywood and Koreatown.

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Until these models are bias - free (which is unlikely), never can claims be made that the teachers caused the growth (or lack thereof), or in this case more or less growth than other similar teachers with different sets of students non-randomly attending different districts and schools and non-randomly assigned into different classrooms with different teachers.

I met one teacher who teaches an extreme set of students, and who by others» accounts is one of the best teachers in her district, but she was labeled «highly ineffective;» hence, without evidence I'd beg to argue the VAM in use in this state is probably not much different than others.

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One common explanation for the lagging math achievement of ELL students is that these students tend to have different income, demographic and family characteristics than do other students.

In a mathematics pull - out group with same - age peers, where the students were pulled from different classes other than their regular mathematics instruction, the teacher reported that the group met the needs of her students who showed more ability in mathematics, increased their motivation, and evidenced students» learning new knowledge.

«This data shows us the degree to which students of different races, ethnicities, and gender identities can have profoundly different experiences of their school than other students.

We are excited to provide a different choice other than the traditional model for Sparta students and families.