Sentences with phrase «gains for students of»

Only Achieve3000 has a 17 - year track record of accelerating reading gains for students of all ages and ability levels.

For instance, the median finding across 10 studies of teacher effectiveness estimates that a teacher who is one standard deviation above the average in terms of quality produces additional learning gains for students of 0.12 standard deviations in reading and 0.14 standard deviations in math.

While these schools succeed in generating test - score gains for students of all cognitive abilities, it is still the case that students with strong fluid cognitive skills learn more.

Not exact matches

Doing Business Internationally MBA students gain a global perspective on business by studying abroad at one of Rotman's international partner schools for one to two weeks.

In addition to easing the burden of paying back your student loans, you will also earn a decent salary by working for the military and gain valuable leadership skills.

Some didn't make the final bill and remain unchanged — including capital gains rules for the sale of a primary residence, deductions for student loan interest, treatment of tuition waivers, adoption assistance, investment interest, teachers» out - of - pocket expenses, and the credit for electric car purchases.

Furthermore, 87 % of companies think that internships should last at least three months for students to gain enough experience when most internships last around two months long.

Seasonally speaking, crude oil tends to make significant price gains in the summer, as vacationers and the annual trek of students returning to college in August creates increased demand for unleaded gasoline.

Having, therefore, lived for years with Biblical scholars as my friends and colleagues and in the classroom having dealt with students, trying to gain a coherent and usable understanding of the Bible for practical purposes, I have dared the attempt to put together developments of ideas which the separate Biblical disciplines leave apart.

In opposition, speaking as a student of Greek and Hebrew, a participant insisted that these languages are a foundational study for all theological education, and seminary is, for her, an opportunity to gain a solid grounding in God's Word.

Take the course, and you gain admission to The Dream Group... a private Facebook group just for students of the course.

And in a world in which a college degree has become» probably foolishly and unfortunately» a kind of «credential» one needs to gain employment (even employment for which the degree provides precious little preparation), students and parents are wise to ponder their options.

The initial duty in applied science, research, or teaching is to do the job well: to design an airplane wing that will hold under stress, to find a valid equation for chemical equilibrium, or to help students gain sound understanding of metabolism.

When there is a such a wide array of opinions and beliefs on what a particular passage means, and there is very little chance for the average student of Scripture to gain clarity or certainty on which view is right, most people think «Why even try?»

And my third claim is a corollary: While some students can profit greatly from a full three years at an ecumenical seminary, all ministers can gain much from having a segment of their preparation for ministry there.

Students lack a command of the general content of the Bible, and yet at the same time they are restless with gaining familiarity with this basic content for its own sake.

Ryan Cragun, an assistant professor of sociology, and two students examined U.S. tax laws to estimate the total cost of tax exemptions for religious institutions - on property, donations, business enterprises, capital gains and «parsonage allowances,» which permit clergy to deduct housing costs.

The reference book Of Pandas and People is available for students who might be interested in gaining an understanding of what Intelligent Design actually involves.&raquOf Pandas and People is available for students who might be interested in gaining an understanding of what Intelligent Design actually involves.&raquof what Intelligent Design actually involves.»

Speaking to Princeton students, the late Adlai E. Stevenson once declared: «What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty boils down to something like this: the knowledge that he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas... but of people, places, actions — a knowledge not gained... by words, but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love — the human experiences and emotions of this earth; and perhaps, too, a little faith and a little reverence for the things you can not see.»

The leadership skills and disciplined I gained from athletics contributed to my other interests, and it wasn't until I dismissed my stereotypes of what an athlete or a student should be that I was able to reach for bigger ambitions across my professional and personal life.

During this program students will experience various aspects of local tribal life and gain respect for the people of the Wampanoag and Massachusetts tribes.

«This event was valuable not only for our [athletic training] students, who were able to interact with a different than usual target group, but also for the attending children and parents, who gained valuable information regarding safe sport participation and child exercise recommendations,» states Jan Kretzschmar, Director of Exercise Science at King's College.

citifmonline.com understands that over 70 students of the St Vincent College of Education at Yendi in the Northern Region have been asked to go home for using grade D7 in English, Mathematics and Science to gain admission into the college.

Being his first stage comedy play, Bismark, with his Notorious nick name, «Gatuso», this time exhibited how rude, arrogant and bully he can be in Prof. Chibere's class, to outsmart intelligent mates, in his quest to be part of the best two students to gain slots for an excursion to DC through Dubai, on the ticket of the Education Office's Science and Innovation Test.

As dozens of students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland have gained popularity spearheading a new movement for increased gun control after a gunman killed 17 people at their school in February, Kashuv has garnered a following among conservatives for opposing those efforts and emphasizing conservative legislative initiatives.

Cautioning the students against any attempt to vote for a change in administration, he said any such decision posed a serious threat to the progress of the country, adding that «such a mistake will erode the gains we have made so far.

Superintendent Kriner Cash said he's concerned about unusually high gains for the Class of 2015 — particularly among students who earned their diploma after taking summer credit - recovery classes.

The congregation was the first of its kind for students who had completed their studies after gaining admission in the 2012/2013 academic year after the school was established in 2012.

Under the proposal, half of the expected 300 students would have to meet the higher performance standards while the others — who could be admitted by taking a school tour or signing up for information at a fair, for example — could gain entry based on less stringent criteria, the notice stated.

This chain of events caused something of a stir in the north east where the story made the Durham Times and saw the creation of a Facebook group - Durham University Students for Freedom of Speech - which has so far gained almost 3,000 members.

In this case, (District 75) students will now gain access to a brand new, state - of - the - art facility and Success will be able to meet the continued demand for its schools,» DOE spokesman Devon Puglia said in a statement.

«Now that the CPO is appointed, Ms. Akinyemi should immediately begin to reach out to parents through public hearings... to gain their input so that their children's privacy and safety can be secured, said Leonie Haimson, co-chair of the national Parent Coalition for Student Privacy and executive director of the nonprofit Class Size Matters.

The students may not be standing for classes, but a Citi News reporter managed to gain access to the classrooms in the school, and the sight that greeted him resembled conditions one would associate with primary schools - under - trees in some of the most deprived areas of the country.

With the assistance of Dr. Joseph Savarese, D.V.M., Professor and Chair of Medaille's Veterinary Technology Department, we are in development of a volunteer program for their students to gain experience in the field of public health at these clinics and see how the animal and the human world work together to protect the public.»

Through the Bronx Youth Corps, the students will learn to work as a group, learn about the importance of taking responsibility for their community, and gain the skills to make positive changes in The Bronx and become future leaders.

Through the Bronx Youth Corps, the students will learn to work as a group, learn about the importance of responsibility for the community, and gain the skills to make positive changes in The Bronx and become future leaders.

Memorizing the expression «atoms are not created or destroyed» and balancing chemical equations — a common approach to teaching chemical reactions — has proved to be insufficient for helping students explain how living things gain mass, said Jo Ellen Roseman, director of Project 2061, a long - term initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to improve science literacy and education.

These students outpaced bilingual and English - only students in the rate of gains for inhibitory control skills.

The study's authors recommend that educators, administrators, and parents work to strengthen students» positive emotions and minimize negative emotions related to school subjects, for example, by helping students gain a greater sense of control over their performance.

Albeanu and colleagues, including Arkarup Banerjee and Fred Marbach, graduate students in the Watson School for Biological Sciences at CSHL and co-first authors of the Neuron paper, conducted experiments in living animals that revealed a mechanism for adjusting olfactory signal gain.

To truly benefit the students of Tennessee, he added, «teachers must present the best peer - reviewed research; only in this way will students gain the strong understanding of science necessary to compete for high - skill jobs in an increasingly high - tech world economy.»

«There is a recognition and a demand for students to be as employable as possible when they finish their degree, and part of that is gaining relevant work experience,» King says.

So far, gaining access to universities in their host countries has been very difficult for Syrian students, because of money issues, language barriers, and laws that don't allow them to enroll in local universities or leave the refugee camps if they live there.

Overall, the upcoming involvement of academia in the drug discovery process will provide graduate students and postdocs the opportunity to gain experience and skills which are important for pharmaceutical and biotech companies whilst still engaging in hypothesis - driven academic research.

«By investigating these limits and characterizing them, you can gain quite a bit of insight about the performance of these schemes and how you can leverage tools from other fields, like coding theory and so forth, for designing and understanding security systems,» says Flavio du Pin Calmon, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on all three Allerton papers.

Overall, studies in the field indicate that children from low - income families tend to show the most gains from social emotional learning interventions, but results for other groups of students are more mixed, although a number of studies show positive effects.

To take stringent measures against foreign students and drive them away works against the best interests of the United States: For example, the «war on terrorism» has demonstrated a striking lack of cultural competency that can be gained in exchanges with foreign students and scholars.

The NIH expects that such programs will: help attract young students to careers in science; provide opportunities for college students to gain valuable research experience to help prepare them for graduate school; and enhance the skills of science teachers and enable them to more effectively communicate the nature of the scientific process to their students.

The success of this study may provide the foundation for an improved program for high school students to foster their interest in research and gain invaluable experiences outside of the classroom while providing bacteriophages that can serve as the base chassis of synthetically engineered phages for diagnosis and treatment of MDR pathogens.

«High school students with disabilities are often unprepared for the challenges of gaining access to college or the workforce,» said Elaine E. Katz, senior vice president of Grants and Communications at Kessler Foundation.