Sentences with phrase «especially in math»

We did put him in school this year and he was way ahead - especially in math.

Sroufe has found that even though these children lead unstable lives, if they had a secure mother - infant attachment they were likely to be self - reliant into adolescence, have lower rates of psychopathology, enjoy successful peer relationships through age 16 and do well in school - especially in math - at all ages.

To be blunt: Compared to you, the average person is quite stupid and very little educated, especially in math.

It means helping black and Hispanic students keep up with their white and Asian American counterparts at an early age, especially in math and science.

All of our students deserve well - trained teachers, but high needs schools often struggle to retain teachers, especially in math and science.

However, sometimes a team is just too big, especially in math.

Their study concludes: ``... the preponderance of evidence suggests positive effects of the accountability movement in the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s on student achievement, especially in math.»

Despite the high turnover, the authors found that student performance, especially in math, improved.

As states implemented increased course requirements for high school graduation, especially in math and science, the number of students taking classes in these subjects went up by 69 percent and 60 percent, respectively, between 1987 — 88 and 2007 — 08.

«Especially in math, we still are pretty abysmal.»

«Our goal was to be number one in new teacher pay, to be able to recruit new teachers especially in the math and sciences,» said Eberhart, who is retired from the school system but served until recently on the Maryland State School Board.

Fourth and eighth graders across the country have shown meaningful progress on it since the early 1990s, especially in math.

The PISA is known for its testing of high school students around the world, especially in math and reading.

And that leadership tomorrow depends on how we educate our students today, especially in math, science, technology, and engineering.»

There's a worry, for example, that some schools will interpret the standards as a ceiling instead of a floor, especially in math, where they end at Algebra II.

A 2009 MIT - Harvard study, under the direction of Thomas Kane of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, found that «achievement gains among Boston charter school students were significantly higher than those of their peers in either BPS or pilot schools, especially in math.»

«We are particularly encouraged to see the increases posted by black and Hispanic students, especially in math and reading, and we will continue to work to close these achievement gaps,» said Deputy Superintendent Steve Lockard.

As the head of the K12's Curriculum and Products organization, his focus is on delivering strong student outcomes by producing and implementing standards - aligned solutions that will significantly accelerate students» growth — especially in math and reading — and drive success on high - stakes assessments.

After years of concern that girls were being shortchanged in male - dominated schools, especially in math and science, there has grown a rising chorus of voices worrying about whether boys are the ones in peril.

She describes three school settings in South Korea, Finland and Poland as being devoid of the technology U.S. teachers take for granted, and how, especially in math and science, their best students outperform our best students by a wide margin.

• Computer - assisted learning, in which educational software helps students develop particular skills, is particularly promising, especially in math.

Early in his tenure, Obama pointed out that «leadership tomorrow depends on how we educate our students today, especially in math, science, technology, and engineering.»

Schools that face tougher competition have greater demand for teachers who attended well - regarded colleges, majored in subject areas (especially in math and science), and who put in more effort and show more independence.

It started with North Carolina and Texas, which saw stratospheric increases in the 1990s, especially in math, and across all racial groups.

And it's worked — national assessment results show huge gains for the country's low - performing, low - income, and minority children since the late 1990s, especially in the early grades, and especially in math.

But it's hardly alone; there were plenty of other backsliders, especially in math: Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, and Vermont all saw declines in both fourth and eighth grades.

What we think of as a fast and slow, or proficient and below - proficient, may really be nothing more than a terrifyingly deterministic game of genetics and timing, especially in math and science.

Test scores are up — especially in math, and especially for our lowest - performing, low - income, and minority children.

Instead, it is individual student absences, which increase on days when schools remain open despite the bad weather, that affect student achievement, especially in math.

This analysis (again the Newspeak) builds on a large body of program evaluations in Louisiana, Indiana, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., all of which show that students attending participating private schools perform significantly worse than their peers in public schools — especially in math.

«She knows a lot about instruction, especially in math, and she knows how to cut to...

DCPS dismissed the majority of very low performing teachers and replaced them with teachers whose students did better, especially in math.

• «Especially in math» means «almost exclusively in math.»

But there are problems: She's not a great student (especially in math), her family is having financial issues and her caring but controlling mother (played by Laurie Metcalf) doesn't want her daughter moving far away.

Over the next 10 years, school boards across Canada can expect a shortage of teachers, especially in math and science, according to a 2002 Ministry of Education study.

But I studied hard and did very well, especially in math.

Terri said it was clear that her daughter picked things up much faster than the other students did — especially in math.

In that way, teachers are certain that students have «learned» the important concepts that are documented in their state's standards and that students have the building blocks necessary, especially in the maths, to move on to the next skill.

STEM inherently creates relevance, especially in maths.

The school received # 205,700 in pupil premium funding in 2014/15, money that it has used to increase staffing levels, especially in maths and English.

Not exact matches

Doing the math has helped Piola walk through many a door, especially in his early days in the field.

I related to a lot of those characteristics with one exception, and that is I wasn't a good student, especially in science and math.

That's brutally low, especially when you consider that 27 % of computer science and math - related jobs are held by women in the US.

Having met several products of Wheaton College's educational programs... I would say the religious aspect definitely hurts the quality of education they receive, especially those who are interested in continuing to graduate school in math and science.

Anyone with a maths background, especially one specialising in probability will confirm everything I said, its not open to debate.

Comparison is especially prevalent in sports, where we are flooded with statistics — which is an entire branch of math devoted to comparisons.

- The Department of Education, which has for years pushed an agenda that places paramount importance on schools» test scores, especially in reading and math, leaving no time for the nutrition education which is such an important part of helping children learn to make sensible eating choices.

«A lot of kids in middle school are struggling around that time thinking, oh, math and science aren't for me, especially girls,» says Kristen Vogt, museum manager of education and events.

This is especially true in non-verbal reasoning areas, like math and science.

According to Bill McKibben, author of Maybe One: An Environmental and Personal Argument for Single - Child Families, studies show that only children tend to do better in school, especially in science, math, and literature; have more friends; and be more flexible about gender roles than kids in larger families.