Sentences with phrase «far at the achievement»

While it is early in this school year, a spokeswoman said that as of late last week, only one student has been suspended so far at the Achievement First Hartford Academy Elementary School.

On Oct. 4, the Courant reported that «only one student has been suspended so far at the Achievement First Hartford Academy Elementary School.»

Not exact matches

This article looks at how buyers are seeking to further their intelligence on challenges and goal achievement and how organizations can model intelligence seeking versus content mapping.

Trump has been resentful, even furious, at what he views as the media's failure to reflect the magnitude of his achievements, and he feels demoralized that the public's perception of his presidency so far does not necessarily align with his own sense of accomplishment.

At least as far as entertainment goes they are arguably the internet's greatest achievement.

Zidane took charge in 2016 and since being in charge has won La Liga and the Champions League twice — and it is arguably his former achievements at the club, both as a coach and a player, that have kept him from the axe thus far.

The strengths of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.

The research team aims to develop and further understanding of the changing patterns, causes and consequences of fuel poverty through its broad and varied work programme, uncovering the circumstances and processes which lead households to be exposed to either cold and damp homes, or the achievement of a warm and dry home at the expense of other resources necessary for health and well - being.

The unfortunate aspect is that if one side of the equation has to be sacrificed, the disappointment is far greater or of more political significance than the pleasure felt at the achievement of the other side.

Dr. Omane Boamah at the event touted President John Mahama's achievements in fighting corruption and preventing further judgment debt payments in Ghana.

Children from low - income families are likely to hear 30 million fewer words than their peers from higher - income families, a deficit that can have far - reaching implications on educational achievement, health and economic status, said Alan Mendelsohn, associate professor of pediatrics and population health at the New York University School of Medicine.

I also saw this job as an opportunity to use the knowledge I had gained at university and to further my own academic achievement.

Encouraged by this achievement, the managers at the Athenaeum plan to further enrich the menu with additional faculty - inspired cocktails.

The North Pole and Its Seekers October 28, 1868 New Expeditions to the Arctic Regions June 24, 1871 The Latest Arctic Explorations — The Remarkable Escape of the Polaris Party June 7, 1873 Rescue of the Remaining Survivors of the Polaris October 4, 1873 The Latest Polar Expedition December 26, 1874 Work for Arctic Explorers July 17, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition The Coming Arctic Expeditions May 22, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition August 28, 1975 July 3, 1876 The Search for the Pole The British Arctic Expedition December 23 and 30, 1876 The Recent Arctic Expedition January 20, 1877 Another Approach: Balloons and Airships Some Suggestions for Future Polar Expeditions February 13, 1877 Proposed New British Polar Expedition September 20, 1879 To the North Pole by Balloon July 13, 1895 Wellman's Airship for His North Polar Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American July 7, 1906 The Wellman Polar Airship Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American June 22, 1907 Farther North The American Arctic Expedition September 14, 1878 The Peary Arctic Expedition July 15, 1893 Nansen's Polar Expedition March 14, 1896 The Recent Failures of Arctic Expeditions August 29, 1896 The Return of Lieut. Peary September 27, 1902 The Polar Regions June 11, 1904 Peary's New Ship for Work in Arctic Seas October 8, 1904 Peary and the North Pole July 15, 1905 Peary's Arctic Ship, The «Roosevelt» July 15, 1905 Peary's «Farthest North» November 17, 1906 Race to the Finish: Peary and Cook Peary's Quest of the North Pole July 18, 1908 Peary and the North Pole August 21, 1909 Dr. Cook and the North Pole September 11, 1909 Dr. Cook's Discovery of the North Pole September 11, 1909 Honor to Whom Honor is Due September 18, 1909 Commander Peary's Discovery of the North Pole September 18, 1909 Retrospect of the Year 1909: Exploration January 1, 1910 «Investigating» Peary April 22, 1911 THE SOUTH POLE Exploring Antarctica Antarctic Exploration January 23, 1897 To South Polar Lands February 13, 1897 The Voyage of the «Discovery» February 3, 1906 Antarctic Expeditions, Past and Present Some Heroes of Exploration November 11, 1911 Dr. Charcot's Antarctic Expedition November 30, 1907 Motoring Toward the Pole By Motor Car to the South Pole By J. S. Dunnet October 19, 1907 The Shackleton Antarctic Expedition By John Plummer August 29, 1908 Lieut. Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition April 3, 1909 Lieut. Shackleton April 9, 1910 Two Novel Motor Sleds By Walter Langford May 14, 1910 Race to the Finish: Amundsen and Scott The Antarctic Expeditions January 13, 1912 The Discovery of the South Pole March 16, 1912 Amundsen's Attainment of the South Pole Progress of Antarctic Exploration By G. W. Littlehales, Hydrographic Office, United States Navy March 23, 1912 Capt. Scott at the South Pole April 13, 1912 Shadows at the South Pole June 15, 1912 The Scott Expedition and its Tragic End A Sacrifice Made for Scientific Ideals February 22, 1913 Achievements and Lessons of the Scott Expedition March 1, 1913 To the South Pole with the Cinematograph Film Records of Scott's Ill - Fated Expedition June 21, 1913 Science in the Heroic Age The Height of the Antarctic Continent By Walter Langford June 4, 1910 The Renewed Siege of the Antarctic January 17, 1914 Shackleton's South Polar Expedition The Value of His Scientific Observations By Henryk Arctowski June 17, 1916 Thawing Scott's Legacy A pioneer in atmosphere ozone studies, Susan Solomon rewrites the history of a fatal polar expedition By Sarah Simpson December 2001 Greater Glory In the race to the South Pole, explorer Robert F. Scott refused to sacrifice his ambitious science agenda By Edward J. Larson June 2011

Mathematics and science achievement at the K - 12 level is critically important as a basis for further science and engineering study.

Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a slight gain.

At one point, someone suggests that these boys are seeking opportunities for heroism and personal achievement that they can't find in the real world, but this intriguing thesis is explored no further.

And while writer - director Andrew Haigh may now be best known in the United States for his short - lived HBO series Looking, this is — so far at least — his crowning achievement.

So far four achievements have surfaced on the list, totally at 50 points of Gamerscore, and all of them seem to revolve around Wallace, who's supposedly going to be a new playable character in the upcoming DLC, «Online Multiplayer and Wallace» pack.

The Fellowship Of The Ring — It's hard to rate the Lord Of The Rings films separately, because they were made at the same time and are meant to be seen together and are really three parts of one great movie that's probably the most impressive film achievement of this century so far, if not the best.

By the time the Han Solo movie is released, he will have 4 Star Wars scripts under his belt — no small achievement, to be sure, especially considering one of those films is easily the best Star Wars film... so far, at least.

According to research presented at the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement in January 2011 (PDF, 168KB), «No other factor contributed to the change in student's achievement further than the intervention of DI.»

-- Identify the priorities for further strengthening of global education given the existing needs and the achievements at the country level.

Further, that the ambition of teachers should not be confined to the achievement of a basic level of reading proficiency, but should instead look at the multiple ways we can help children use the full repertoire of the English language.

When examined in this light, the impacts of NCLB — which the NRC estimates at a 0.08 standard deviation improvement in average achievement nationwide — are far greater than suggested by the NRC committee, which concludes that test - based accountability under NCLB had minimal impact and probably should be abandoned.

They also perform at far higher levels on the Stanford Achievement Tests, which the district administers annually in five subjects: math, reading, language, social science, and science.

The study, part of the Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series at Harvard University, found that students moving from grade 5 into middle school show a «sharp drop» in math and language arts achievement in the transition year that plagues them as far out as 10th grade, even risking thwarting their ability to graduate high school and...

I would further suggest that these days we seem to be awash in existential educational questions like those, brought on by such new controversies (at least, newly packaged) as whether it's good to try to close the achievement gap, whether it's counterproductive to demand «proficiency» as opposed to «improvement,» whether «differentiated instruction» is another form of tracking, whether common standards are anti-American, etc..

If all you're going to do is give a single score, there are far more efficient ways of getting at a student's achievement level.»

During the last decade, we have made remarkable progress in improving elementary school achievement, but have accomplished far less at the secondary school level.

However, the AFT seems unwilling or unable to address abysmal performances at many Hartford schools — possibly one reason why Achievement First is, by far, the top choice for many Hartford parents.

The results indicate that instructional practices have a significant effect on achievement (Model 1), but that this effect is diminished when we introduce teachers «professional community (Model 2), and it is further diminished when we look at school level and school demographic characteristics (Model 3).

A 2011 meta - analysis study of more than 30 studies (including the oft - cited 2011 Friedman Foundation Report) by the Center for Education Policy found that «the empirical evidence on vouchers is inconclusive and further found that any gains in student achievement are modest if they exist at all» (amicus brief, Schwartz v. López, 2016).

The researchers noted, however, that «the relationships here are correlational, not causal,» and the finding could be at odds with another finding from the study.13 Separately, the VAL - ED principal performance assessment (developed with support from The Wallace Foundation) measures principals on community and parent engagement.14 Vanderbilt researchers who developed the assessment are undertaking further study on how important this practice is in affecting students, achievement.

She has also served as a teacher development coach with the Achievement School district, observing and analyzing teachers at work and collaborating with school leadership to create a system of best practices and targeted feedback to further improve teaching skills.

U.S. teachers grade homework far more than teachers in other countries, yet at least one study shows a negative correlation between grading homework and student achievement.

Buried further into the report they also found that DCPS replaced teachers who left with teachers who increased student achievement by 0.05 SD in reading (at not a 5 % but a 10 % statistical significance level).

Burton and Malinowski both agreed that this collaborative approach — which doesn't happen at every school — to examining data and capitalizing on what works has brought their school's students very far in terms of academic achievement.

The report found that twice as many foster youth performed «below basic» and «far below basic» on state academic achievement tests than students statewide, were much more likely to drop out than any other at - risk student group, and only 58 percent of foster youth 12th graders graduated as compared to 84 percent of all 12th graders in California.

In fact, teachers at schools where achievement is low are usually being called upon to do far more in their routine school day than their suburban peers where achievement is quite high.

Dept. is looking to find out whether any schools, districts, state education agencies, and colleges or universities are taking a finer - grained look at Asian students in a way that reveals a far more diverse and nuanced achievement picture.

While models with parental education and parental occupation were marginally better at predicting pupil achievement, the potential costs of switching to either of these approaches far outweighed any slight gains.Switching to either approach would require significant investment to collect data, and collecting data on parents» education levels or occupations on a national scale could be a challenge.

And the Achievement First issue becomes far more complex and serious because in the very center of the education reform debate is now a Commissioner of Education who has been part of Achievement First since it was created and now faces what is certainly a direct conflict of interest or at least the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Assistant Superintendent Georgeanne Warnock and her team at Carrollton - Farmers Branch ISD (CFBISD) fiercely focus on high achievement for all students, and this commitment to excellence goes far beyond test scores.

Far more fashionable in education today is the concept of «differentiated instruction,» in which — in theory — every teacher instructs every student at his appropriate level of ability and prior achievement, all within the same classroom.

USDE further elaborated that at that time, the only choice for special education students was to either take a grade - level assessment or an alternate assessment based on alternate academic achievement standards and that neither of these options provided an accurate assessment of what these students know and can do.

Disadvantaged students at this school are performing far better than other students in the state, and this school is successfully closing the achievement gap.

The Endeavor students are still scoring higher, but when you look at this data, it is clear which achievement is more impressive: One school improved student outcomes, while the other allowed students to fall further behind.

In Part Two, our investigation of leadership and student achievement examines in further detail certain characteristics of school districts (some previously identified — see Section 2.3; others introduced here) as they shape the role districts play in initiatives aimed at change.

Some limited restorative progress was made during the last session in the adoption of an A-F performance grading system for schools and districts tied to student achievement, but, true to form, most educators, administrators, and school boards have risen in opposition to this grading system and are working to overturn it or at least further water down its underlying standards and rigor.