Sentences with phrase «for small numbers of students»

In a recent opinion piece for Education Week, Arthur Wise of the Center for Teaching Quality writes that current mainstream ideas on how to improve American public schools will result in «at best, a marginal improvement for small numbers of students.»

(Reliable information for the small number of students attending schools in districts with enrollment below 300 is unavailable for the years prior to 2000.)

In effect, the nation's urban high schools, which served increasing numbers of young people from poor and immigrant families, were arguably providing the best academic and, for a smaller number of students, vocational education available in the United States at that time.

Mississippi's law does exactly that, but it also provides accountability for the small number of students who still can not read on grade - level before fourth grade.

Because lab teachers are responsible for a small number of students, they can confer with them every two to three days; these conferences become platforms for both informal assessment and coaching in discrete skills.

Every time a voucher starts as an urban pilot for a small number of students, it expands across the state.

Although the laws may place credit cards out of reach for a small number of students, it will result in consumer protection for those students who do qualify.

Not exact matches

A September study published by the Brookings Institution found that a large share of the growth in the number of students struggling to pay off their loans over the past several years is tied to students borrowing to go to for - profit schools and to a smaller extent two - year community college.

Each year Hameline brings in some 75 students who think they are football players, a significant number for a small school (Wagner's full - time enrollment: 1,292, half of whom are women).

The State Education Department's grades 3 - 8 assessment vendor, Questar Assessment, Inc., experienced a data breach affecting a small number of students registered for computer - based testing (CBT) in spring 2017, Commissioner MaryEllen Elia announced today.

Unfortunately for him, this entailed a ballot of university staff, registered alumni and a small number of students in representative positions.

But it also helps to support everything from summer music lessons for students to the presentation of new musical instruments to a small number of college - bound city students, and music performance opportunities.

As that small number suggests, these institutions educate India's academic elite; more than 300,000 students vie for this small number of entry - level seats.

The picture for India is almost the opposite, with a growing population of students pursuing graduate degrees and a small, stable number obtaining undergraduate degrees.

It was a major shift for me to go from a laboratory with a large army of postdocs and students to a unit consisting of a small number of software developers and students.

However, a glance at the statistics for the numbers of doctoral titles awarded (see Table 2) shows that the number of Ph.D. s awarded in 1999 - 2000 was far smaller than the number of students registered 3 years earlier, in 1996.

Young men account for roughly 10 % of sugar babies, though Urick admits male students are less likely to find success through the site due to the small, but growing, number of sugar mommas.

As a result, NAEP never collected in its long - term trend assessment a representative sample of students for any specific state, and the median number of tested students in each state was very small.

A small but growing number of lawsuits around the country are seeking to hold school districts responsible for the sexual harassment of students by their classmates.

When a student has earned a predetermined number of tallies, he or she can exchange them for small prizes or classroom privileges.

The designation of low - scoring students as eligible for special education was more common in schools where a small number of students had failed the 8th - grade exam, making it easier for educators to target specific students.

It's probably easier for the teachers who have a small number of students with similar issues who are just building skills - not preparing for exams - rather than trying to suit hundreds of students.

Each district's foundation level is adjusted by such factors as the «teacher - training and - experience index,» by the number of special education students, and for small rural schools and districts.

Vouchers have come to include the use of private funding as partial tuition support for low - income students to attend private schools (as in Washington, D.C., San Antonio, and New York); the use of public funds to allow a small number of low - income students to attend private schools (as in Milwaukee and Cleveland); or, as in the case of Florida, the provision of public funds for students to attend a private school or another public school if their current public school has a poor aca - demic record.

For this portion of the study, we compare KIPP students with two groups of district school students: all those attending non-KIPP middle schools in the same district, and a smaller comparison group of students attending middle schools that accepted an above - average number of students from the feeder elementary schools.

For book buddies, they say, take small numbers of student / elder pairs and provide books of different levels in a space that offers some privacy and a library - like environment.

After dispensing with Greek and Latin early last century, progressives campaigned relentlessly to discredit all the basic components of liberal education, condemning modern languages, history, geography, literature, higher mathematics, and laboratory sciences as elitist, inappropriate, and even damaging for all but a small number of college - bound students.

At the outset, you might use a large set of arrow cards for whole class demonstrations, while pairs of students assemble numbers using smaller sets.

I started creating handouts with tips for a number of topics, things like managing routines and homework, finding out about your students, teaching large and small groups, setting up individualized prescriptive instruction, learning about the school community, even preparing for guest speakers and field trips.

We also include the total number of students in the district, to allow for the possibility that large districts operate differently from small districts.

All things being equal, students in countries with centralized exams scored 16 points higher in math and 11 points higher in science, although the science finding is not statistically significant due to the small number of countries in the sample (see Figure 3 for results).

While the small number of students entering charter schools in midstream grades, like grades 6 through 12, precludes our estimating effects for them, the resulting focus is on the whole desirable.

For example, the Gates Foundation's small school reforms were widely panned as a flop in early reviews relying on student test scores, but a number of later rigorous studies showed (sometimes substantial) positive effects on outcomes such as graduation and college enrollment.

Where schools pay a high per - pupil amount to offer some courses (for example, AP Spanish or remedial reading) to a small number of students, they may find lower - cost options exist via distance learning or contracted services.

OCR said that a small number of papers going missing is inevitable and the estimating of results is done for the benefit of the student.

Science is our middle name British Science Week offers a number of ways for schools and colleges to get involved in a national science celebration, from small - scale activities held during a lesson to all - day events that involve not just the students, but parents and the rest of the community as well.

[22] That report showed that when transfer students were awarded bachelor's degrees, they tended to have more excess credits than so - called native students, but the difference was small and there were a number of possible explanations for that difference.

While the National Center for Education Statistics does not release the exact number of students given the reading test, Best said it was between 3,600 and 4,200 students, a very small percentage of the tens of thousands of public school students in the state who are taking the Maryland School Assessments.

Among the G8 economies, the U.S. assessed the second smallest number of students for PISA and collected the least contextual information, limiting the inferences that can be drawn for states and the usefulness of PISA for policy.

Apparently, the AP program hasn't so much raised the level of the curriculum in the American high school as it has created an escape hatch that lets a small number of ambitious students get out of the low - demand environment for a few hours.

Outside of the smaller number of districts where secession is taking place, trends in segregation are more complicated, since the student population has become more diverse over time, Steve Rivkin writes in an article for Education Next.

«For every one percent of a public school's students who leave for a charter,» concludes Mr. Winters, «reading proficiency among those who remain increases by about 0.02 standard deviations, a small but not insignificant number, in view of the widely held suspicion that the impact on local public schools... would be negative.&raqFor every one percent of a public school's students who leave for a charter,» concludes Mr. Winters, «reading proficiency among those who remain increases by about 0.02 standard deviations, a small but not insignificant number, in view of the widely held suspicion that the impact on local public schools... would be negative.&raqfor a charter,» concludes Mr. Winters, «reading proficiency among those who remain increases by about 0.02 standard deviations, a small but not insignificant number, in view of the widely held suspicion that the impact on local public schools... would be negative.»

By comparison, two moderately effective schools operated a one - on - one nationally disseminated intervention for a relatively small number of students in grade 1.

That number is small compared to the Atlanta and Philadelphia scandals, yet with more state policies — like teacher evaluations, merit pay, and takeovers of schools with poor ISTEP + scores — riding on students» scores on state tests, state officials, education experts, and parents told StateImpact Indiana they see these pressures to get results as incentives for teachers who can't hack it to bend the rules on state tests.

That number sounds small, but if you could calculate which of the three school leaders is most responsible for boosting the number of college - ready D.C. students from tough neighborhoods, my money would be on Schaeffler.

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Teachers set expectations with students in advance about a small number of behaviors they will be looking for and refer to.

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Even as it advocated more inclusiveness for students with disabilities, the report also noted that «once most schools have become Opportunity Schools, IPS may continue to operate a small number of schools and provide special education on those campuses.»