Sentences with phrase «early school performance»

Without help, evidence suggests that these emotional and behavioral difficulties may stabilize or escalate and negatively affect early school performance.

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Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

In an effort to be a more family - friendly workplace, many companies grant mothers and fathers the freedom to leave the office earlier to pick up their children from school, attend their daughter's soccer game or watch their son's orchestra performance.

Those earlier rulings also recognized that a measure extending governmental assistance to sectarian schools in the performance of secular functions does not constitute a «law respecting an establishment of religion» merely because the secular program may incidentally benefit a church in fulfilling its religious mission.

This means that starting high school early is having disastrous results in terms of depression and academic performance for teens.

Developing independence with fine motor skills at an early age is crucial to school performance and self - care skills (such as dressing).

Children who participate in high - quality early childhood programs show remarkable improvement in school performance, social skills, and other factors critical to future success.

In addition, breastfeeding has a cognitive benefit, particularly in terms of mental health, early brain development, optimal neuronal development, cognitive ability, school performance and linguistic ability [8].

The reasons can be early pubertal development, poverty, sexual abuse in childhood, lack of parent's attention, lack of career goals, family and cultural patterns of early sex, substance abuse, dropping out from school and poor school performance.

As Ofsted concluded last year, it is simply «too early to judge the overall performance of free schools».

At the time I was going to university in the early «90s, school performance was terrible in Tower Hamlets, but my school was brilliant.

Earlier this year, and as part of Race to the Top requirements, the state did direct New York school districts develop their own teacher evaluation systems, known as annual professional performance reviews plan (APPR), lest the districts risk losing additional available state aid.

Earlier this year, the state did mandate that New York school districts develop their own teacher evaluation systems, known as annual professional performance reviews plan (APPR), or risk losing additional state aid.

The advice represents a major shift from earlier in the year, when Governor Cuomo forcefully pushed new performance reviews for teachers beginning this school year, that would depend more heavily on standardized test results.

The high economic and social costs of early mental illness compound as children get older; for example, adjustment disorders in childhood are associated with poor school performance and increased reliance on social welfare, Heinmeuller says.

Through early testing and teacher selection, certain children are singled out for an enriched lesson plan to push them to their limit, whereas others are labeled as low achievers, which often diminishes their expectations of themselves and hurts their performance in school.

Often, the pressure to excel at school performance starts early in childhood.

Saoirse Ronan was raised in Ireland and is now in her early 20s, but her performance as a 17 - year - old American high school student is entirely convincing.

Other striking male performances were provided by: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Alec Baldwin and Anthony Anderson in The Departed; Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber and Toby Jones in The Painted Veil; Wim Willaert in When the Sea Rises; Leslie Phillips and Richard Griffiths in Venus; Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Inside Man; Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase and Shido Nakamura in Letters from Iwo Jima; Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Alan Arkin and Paul Dano in Little Miss Sunshine; Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti and Rufus Sewell in The Illusionist; Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Noah Emmerich, Gregg Edelman and Ty Simpkins in Little Children; Keanu Reeves, Christopher Plummer and Dylan Walsh in The Lake House; Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena and Stephen Dorff in World Trade Center; Tim Blake Nelson, Pat Corley, Jeffrey Donovan, Stacy Keach and Scott Wilson in Come Early Morning; Ryan Gosling and Anthony Mackie in Half Nelson; Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn, and Danny Huston in Marie Antoinette; Matt Damon, Michael Gambon, Alec Baldwin, William Hurt, Billy Crudup, Robert De Niro, Keir Dullea, Timothy Hutton, Eddie Redmayne, Mark Ivanir and Joe Pesci in The Good Shepherd; Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Kelsey Grammer, James Marsden, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Vinnie Jones and Ben Foster in X-Men: The Last Stand; Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini, Simon Abkarian, Sebastien Foucan, Jesper Christensen and Tobias Menzies in Casino Royale; Ebru Ceylan and Mehmet Eryilmaz in Climates; Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck and Bob Hoskins in Hollywoodland; Jamie Foxx, Danny Glover, Keith Robinson and Hinton Battle in Dreamgirls; Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Trevor Fehrman, Kevin Smith and Jason Lee in Clerks II; Justin Kirk and Jamie Harrold in Flannel Pajamas; Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker and Adrian Grenier in The Devil Wears Prada; Will Ferrell, Dustin Hoffman and Tom Hulce in Stranger Than Fiction; Samuel L. Jackson, Curtis Jackson, Chad Michael Murray, Sam Jones III and Brian Presley in Home of the Brave; Harris Yulin, Ty Burrell and Boris McGiver in Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus; Max Minghella, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar, Ethan Suplee, Joel David Moore and Nick Swardson in Art School Confidential; Joseph Cross, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes and Alec Baldwin in Running with Scissors; Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Ciarán Hinds, Justin Theroux, Barry Shabaka Henley, Luis Tosar and John Ortiz in Miami Vice; Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam and Tim McMullan in The Queen; Samuel L. Jackson, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe, Anthony Mackie, Marlon Sherman and Clarke Peters in Freedomland; Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Linus Roache, Alex Rocco, Ron Silver and Raul Esparza in Find Me Guilty; Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci, Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley in Lucky Number Slevin; Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Chris Klein, Shohreh Aghdashloo, John Cho, Tony Yalda, Sam Golzari and Willem Dafoe in American Dreamz; Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson and Rory Cochrane in A Scanner Darkly; Adam Beach, Ryan A. Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, John Benjamin Hickey, Jon Slattery, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Paul Walker and Robert Patrick in Flags of Our Fathers; Chow Yun - Fat in Curse of the Golden Flower; Sergi López, Doug Jones, Álex Angulo and Federico Luppi in Pan's Labyrinth; Bill Nighy in Notes on a Scandal.

Ballots don't come with lists of eligible choices so it's up to each member to think up a list and since the category is «under 21» it takes a bit of research for the teen / young adult performances; as is Hollywood tradition almost everyone playing high schoolers in Lady Bird or Spider - Man Homecoming are in their early - to - mid 20s.

For their part, colleges — the final arbiters of high school performance — are signaling a surprising willingness to depart from traditional assessments that have been in place since the early 19th century.

In addition, he is looking to work with partners for creative solutions on delivering quality early literacy education, which he sees as a vital initiative for stemming the low - performance culture of Holyoke public schools.

Putting the case for Year 1 assessment, its report says: «Early success in reading and number sense is a powerful predictor of later achievement, and is strongly correlated with schooling performance across the curriculum.

The provisional school results will include performance measures such as the percentage of pupils achieving five or more GCSEs or equivalents at A * to C, the percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), and the Attainment 8 scores, showing average achievement across eight subjects, including English and maths, for those schools that have opted into the new accountability system a year early.

They begin the school year on track to achieve low grades and, given that the best predictor of performance in the later years of school is performance in the earlier years, many of these students receive low grades year after year.

When Christopher Pagan, a physics teacher at Trinidad Garza Early College High School, reflected on his students» performance, he realized that they weren't meeting his expectations or their own potential.

The early experience with the New York City School - Wide Performance Bonus Program suggests, however, that a heavy reliance on school - wide rewards may hamper the effectiveness of merit pay programs in schools with large teaching staffs that are not highly collaborSchool - Wide Performance Bonus Program suggests, however, that a heavy reliance on school - wide rewards may hamper the effectiveness of merit pay programs in schools with large teaching staffs that are not highly collaborschool - wide rewards may hamper the effectiveness of merit pay programs in schools with large teaching staffs that are not highly collaborative.

But if beginning the school day early in the morning has a negative impact on academic performance, staggering start times may not be worth the cost savings.

It's difficult to know exactly how this disconnect between teenagers» optimal sleep times and school schedules affects their classroom performance because school districts that start high schools later might be better - resourced or otherwise support students better than do those that start high schools earlier in the day.

This program may yet lift the performance of our pupils as they go through the school system, although problems remain: out of Australia's total expenditure on early childhood education in 2010, parents contributed almost half the cost and only 56 per cent was met from the public purse — compared with an OECD average of 82 per cent public funding — and the rest was from private sources, probably parental pockets.

As a result, it is not clear if there is no effect because start times are not a factor in the academic performance of prepubescent students, or because the schools start much later and only very early start times affect performance.

Because Paedae taught advanced math to eleventh and twelfth graders, while the Florida FCAT only tested students through grade eight, 50 percent of her evaluation was based «on the school - wide performance of students taking the tenth - grade FCAT reading test — a test in a different subject administered... to different students in an earlier grade» (p. 3).

From the early days, I was dismayed that most government agencies saw charter schools more as an escape valve for angry parents and disaffected teachers, not as a way to create better schools by establishing binding performance goals and consequences, placing the locus of authority and accountability at the school level, and pushing schools to be distinctive and purposeful about their instruction.

Another study, by Eric Hanushek and Margaret Raymond, both also at Stanford, evaluated the impact of school - accountability policies on state - level NAEP math and reading achievement measured by the difference between the performance of a state's 8th graders and that of 4th graders in the same state four years earlier.

The papers, slated to be made public early next month, define charter districts as systems of autonomous schools that are given regulatory freedom in exchange for meeting performance standards specified either in contracts or charters.

Several school districts across the country are trying to change their teacher - salary structures in ways that would not only reward performance, but also allow effective teachers to reach top salary levels earlier in their careers, making teacher - compensation plans more in line with those in other occupations.

Without extensive early - intervention efforts focused on the growing numbers of such children, the school chiefs said in a report to be forwarded to U.S. Secretary of Education Lauro F. Cavazos, the nation can not hope to reduce the dropout rate, improve student performance, or effectively compete internationally in the 21st century.

These children subsequently lack in early skill development, which can negatively affect their school performance and future job prospects.

The report goes on to say that data on free school performance is mixed and it is too early to determine whether they have been a success.

Although the law is not slated for reauthorization until 2007, they are hoping for amendments as early as next year, in part to address the large number of schools and districts that may not meet its performance targets.

This study evaluates a subjective performance - evaluation regime in place in the English public school system since the early 1990s.

Well, in addition to using a much cruder measure of school performance, the earlier analysis by the Times ignored the fact that the schools in which APP graduates were placed were much lower performing before the new principals arrived — a fact that is clearly documented in the NYU study.

Students themselves and the United States as a whole benefit from improved performance in the early grades only if that translates into measurably higher skills at the end of school.

The fact that none of the gains observed in earlier years translate into improved high - school performance leaves one to wonder whether high schools are effectively building on the gains achieved in earlier years.

Amid changes as exciting as they are fragile, this much seems clear to the reform community: Even briefly settling for today's improved performance levels is to avail critics of the opportunity to say that school reform has stalled after early gains that were easy and perhaps unsustainable (see Figure 4).

Given the importance of early academic performance, it is critical for school systems to develop ways to support children who have experienced maltreatment.

Competition from early adopters, coupled with performance pressures arising from accountability reforms, will force all schools — including private schools and low - tech charter schools resting on their laurels — to consider technological solutions.

The school concluded that poor reading skills were contributing to early school leaving, disruptive and antisocial behaviour and poor performance across almost all areas of the curriculum.

Unfortunately, the performance of digital technology in the classroom proved disappointing early on, because its rapid influx into schools coincided with another dominant trend in U.S. public education: the national push for standards and accountability.

Given that research has shown that a school's early - year performance almost always predicts its future performance, those weak schools are unlikely to improve.