Sentences with phrase «entire academic school year»

The researchers used a blend of data collection methods from action research and linguistic anthropology to examine the learning environment in which students (ages four to seven) worked with a professional visual artist, one day per week for an entire academic school year.

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An entire school year is a large amount of learning time in your child's academic career.

This year, the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) launched «Community Conversations» that aim to focus the entire community on a particular series of dialogues for each academic year.

The students join the program in the sixth grade and commit for the entire academic year, for three days a week after school (academic tutoring and squash practice) and for a few hours every Saturday (more squash or community service and tutoring, if needed).

Add to this nebulous college entrance environment the challenge presented by the proliferation of four - year high schools, whose numbers skyrocketed from 2,526 in 1890 to 10,213 in 1910, and it is easy to see why the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation felt the need to define college: «An institution to be ranked a college must have at least six (6) professors giving their entire time to college and university work, a course of four full years in liberal arts and sciences, and should require for admission not less than the usual four years of academic or high school preparation, or its equivalent, in addition to the preacademic or grammar school studies.»

Photographing an entire school full of wiggly, wind - blown youngsters is not only disruptive to the academic schedule, but the results of that lost day seem to become more and more disappointing every year.

Poston is referring to a 2015 Stanford University study that found virtual charter students may trail their peers in traditional public schools by as much as an entire academic year.

A Stanford University study last fall found that students in some subjects trailed their peers in traditional schools by as much as an entire academic year.

Overall, the reported academic gains of students enrolled in these schools were so miniscule, says Margaret Raymond, executive director of CREDO, it was «literally as though the student did not go to school for the entire year.»

Her entire argument can essentially be summed up in one sentence: «Taxpayers across the U.S. will soon be spending $ 1 billion a year to help families pay private school tuition — and there's little evidence that the investment yields academic gains.»

A much - cited Stanford University study last fall found that some virtual charter students can trail their traditional school peers by up to an entire academic year.

Oakland Unified has some of the top charters in California, including Aspire Golden State College Prep, whose entire 2012 graduation class is college - bound, and Lighthouse Community Charter High School, which received the Title I Academic Achievement Award earlier this year.

Not only does Noble punish students for the smallest infractions of their dress and behavior codes, but they charge fees for these infractions that can add up to hundreds of dollars and result in the student having to repeat the entire school year regardless of their academic progress.

Today, Doreen and Bartola personify why the law was written: they were leaders in using it to become the first parents in California to successfully transform their neighborhood school — which had been state - identified as failing for years, having the lowest academic performance record in the entire Adelanto School Disschool — which had been state - identified as failing for years, having the lowest academic performance record in the entire Adelanto School DisSchool District.