Sentences with phrase «gains in math in»

• In central Phoenix, seventh - graders at Friendly House Academia del Pueblo, a K - 8 charter school where nearly all students qualify for federally subsidized lunches, showed remarkable gains in math in 2009.

Last fall, the government reported sluggish gains in math in a companion series of federal tests.

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Doing the math to find out exactly how much you'll pay in long term capital gains, short - term capital gains, and other taxes when you sell an investment is difficult.

For active stock pickers, the math is cruel: All else equal, if stocks rise 20 %, then a fund with a tenth of its assets in cash will generate only an 18 % gain before expenses.

Similarly, I expect that in the event of a general bull market in stocks, the fund will not shine so brightly in terms of relative performance., The math of investing would favour the fund, however, over several bull and bear market cycles because, on a percentage basis, lost dollars are simply harder to replace than gained dollars are to lose.

It is claimed that girls seeing boys in the art or music class and boys seeing girls in the math, science, and technology classes gain evidence that these pursuits are not gender - linked.

Students who rated themselves lower on these non-cognitive skills had more absences, got in trouble more and made fewer gains in math.

Their middle - of - the - road charmer may only scrape a C in maths, but that absence of academic flair is eclipsed by their ability to gain friends and influence people.

The minor gains that NYC students made on state reading and math tests aren't good enough, according to Eva Moskowitz, the Success Academy charter school founder, who blasted Mayor de Blasio for the incremental improvements at a press conference in her Wall Street headquarters.

City kids in Grades 3 to 8 posted modest gains on the 2017 state English and math exams, a fourth consecutive year of improvement, according to new data.

New York's school children made incremental progress in math scores but no gains in English tests in the second year of Common Core - related exams.

On statewide tests for third through eighth graders this year, New York City's most troubled schools kept pace with the rest of city schools, showing similar gains in reading and math.

Born in Staffordshire, she grew up in a pub in Buxton and attended a comprehensive before gaining a maths degree from Imperial College London.

In touting mostly across - the - board gains, they also noted that 41 of the city's 63 struggling «Renewal Schools» saw an increase in their English scores and 36 saw an increase in matIn touting mostly across - the - board gains, they also noted that 41 of the city's 63 struggling «Renewal Schools» saw an increase in their English scores and 36 saw an increase in matin their English scores and 36 saw an increase in matin math.

New York City students in grades 3 through eight made modest gains on the state's annual math and English exams, outstripping gains made by students in the rest of the state, according to statistics released on Aug. 8 by the state Education Department.

These children made dramatic gains in math achievement when they engaged with the math app,» Berkowitz said.

Buckley acknowledged that the gains from 2009 to 2011 were modest, taking as an example the one - point rise in math scores among fourth - graders.

But in this moment, with scientific success being in part a simple function of math — is an idea gaining or losing adherents?

So while India gained 17 million people in that year and the U.S. gained three million, by this simplified math the U.S. growth in population counted for the equivalent of an additional 25.6 million tons of oil consumed, whereas India's much greater growth counted for only 6.6 million additional tons.

In this study, gains in working memory, attention and processing speed did not translate into improved math or reading performancIn this study, gains in working memory, attention and processing speed did not translate into improved math or reading performancin working memory, attention and processing speed did not translate into improved math or reading performance.

She found that students taught by the high - expectations group made significant gains in math compared with the control group.

As the paper states, «Although the math games caused persistent gains in children's non-symbolic mathematical abilities, they failed to enhance children's readiness for learning the new symbolic content presented in primary school.»

For example, preschool systems in Tulsa and Boston have produced gains of between half and a full year of additional learning in reading and math.

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.

Compared to four steady - state 30 minute treadmill exercise protocols per week in the control group, the Tabata group (which, if you do the math, was performing just 16 total minutes of exercise per week) saw massive gains in both aerobic capacity and muscle endurance, and there's plenty more Tabata research to go around.

Recommendations for improvement included restructuring the math activities to be more rigorous, earlier training in how to critique academic work, and gaining more regular feedback from teachers.

For example, in the Athens Area School District, student gains topped 87 percent, and of the eighty - nine Quakertown students who failed tenth - grade math, 72 percent are now getting A's, B's, or C's in their junior year.

If, for instance, the families of students who were and were not awarded a seat through a lottery had the same effect on reading and families controlled half the gains in reading, then the difference between the estimated math and reading effects would be fully explained.

Solve these 30 math problems to gain entrance through the secret gate in the back.»

According to the models comparing high - scoring F schools with low - scoring D schools, to achieve the same 5 - point gain in math that the threat of vouchers accomplished, Florida schools would need to increase per - pupil spending by $ 3,484 at previously failing schools.

So, kids could be really high achievers in terms of math and reading but gain nothing from our program if they didn't have these sort of sit - still skills.

Another way to think about these gains is to understand that, for every year they spend in a charter school, students make up 12 percent of the distance from failing to proficient in math.

However, Houston's scores are significantly higher than those of Los Angeles in both reading and math, and the city has experienced greater gains in recent years.

English and Maths saw some of the largest falls, with the proportion of pupils gaining A * - C in English falling 5.2 per cent to 60.2 per cent and maths dropping 2.3 percentage poMaths saw some of the largest falls, with the proportion of pupils gaining A * - C in English falling 5.2 per cent to 60.2 per cent and maths dropping 2.3 percentage pomaths dropping 2.3 percentage points.

While about two - thirds of SIG schools did register modest gains in reading and math, scores at one - third actually declined over the period.

If the same approach is applied to the STAR sample to adjust for the fact that some students did not enroll in the class they were assigned to - and a comparable sample of low - income black students is used - the gains in test scores after two years of attending a small class (average of 16 students) as opposed to a regular - size class (average of 23 students) is 9.1 national percentile ranks in reading and 9.8 ranks in math.

Florida's students had been performing near the bottom on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) when Bush took office, but by 2007 they had made remarkable gains in both reading and math; this was particularly true of Hispanic students.

A 2006 study by Douglas Harris used data from 22,000 schools to find that the Latino and African American gains in math were far greater in diverse schools than in segregated ones.

But those gains have been mostly in math and almost entirely in the younger grades.

Although elementary schoolers in Los Angeles have made real gains in literacy in recent years, among high - school students, only 23 percent in reading and 34 percent in math meet or exceed the national norm on the Stanford 9.

New research has shown that gaining qualifications in science, technology, engineering and maths at A Level is likely to help girls earn more than a third in earnings than those who do not.

After being a classroom teacher and a content - area teacher (math and science) at the early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school levels for over 10 years, I wanted to specialize and gain expertise in an area that I was passionate about: literacy.

The Department for Education (DfE) has released GCSE and A level performance tables for 2015, which show that 57.1 per cent of pupils gained five GCSEs at A * to C, including English and maths, representing a slight increase from 56.6 per cent in 2014.

The correlations between our summary measure of fluid cognitive ability and test - score gains in math and reading were 0.32 and 0.18, respectively.

Critics will continue to point to the fact that no impacts of the program have been observed in math, or that applicants from SINI schools, who were a service priority, have not demonstrated statistically significant achievement gains at the subgroup level, as reasons to characterize these findings as disappointing.

Schools operated by Achievement First, for example, have helped their students gain an additional 125 days of learning in math and 57 days in English over traditional public schools.

Annual average improvement target of 2.5 percentage point gains in achievement on state reading and math tests between 2018 and 2025 for all students and student subgroups; plan includes goal of reaching a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2025 for all students and student subgroups

Students made short - term gains in math and reading achievement, were better prepared for high school, and took fewer remedial courses once there.

Or what techniques you can use to help students gain confidence in math?

Earlier experimental evaluations of voucher programs were somewhat more likely to report achievement gains from the programs in math than in reading — the opposite of what was observed for the OSP.