Sentences with phrase «gave schools data»

In Fulton, he said, the district gave schools data reports, similar to baseball player cards complete with a picture, of all students in the bottom quartile for achievement to make sure they knew the students needing the most support.

In Year 2 we gave all schools a report summarizing the research findings from Year 1, because we felt a moral obligation to give these schools our data as they became available.

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But this makes little sense given the data they present: U.S. workers with less than a high - school degree had relatively little access to traditional pensions before the shift away from pensions to defined - contribution plans.

Given milk sales data and school enrollment, behavioral changes can be evaluated between the two school years.

Watch the webinar to get a brief introduction to the various meal and snack programs available to schools, and how to use the data snapshot for your school to understand what actions will give you the best leverage to strengthen the meal programs and local food purchasing in your specific situation.

«By doing a menu analysis we actually have some data to show the nutrition level,» says Roxanne Williams, supervisor of food service for Minneapolis Public Schools, «so we can stress to vendors to give us nutrient sheets on their products.

Given conflicting data indicating that 90 % of districts are already meeting the standards successfully, many school food advocates have asked the obvious question: instead of weakening nutrition — a move that directly harms kids — why not put more effort into helping the small minority of districts that are struggling?

In some circumstances, such as dealing with school registrations, medical information, or other systems that rely on name data, there can be mix - ups when the names are indistinguishable, especially given that twins (usually) have the same birthdate.

What they gave the USDA was a modeled prediction based on all sorts of data the firm collected from 2,314 students at 398 schools that year, including the types of food served, the amount of time kids were given to eat, prices charged, and interviews with children and their parents revealing what the kids typically ate in the course of a day and family income.

In other words, it would give the green light for these backroom data - sharing deals to operate in secret even when no crime is suspected — extending a regime that is already causing migrants to avoid seeking healthcare and keep their children away from school.

Senior Deputy Commissioner John King said, «The data shows that schools responded to the assignment they were given — they worked hard to help students achieve standards as measured by the state tests that were being given at that time.

The state Division of Budget does not track separate data on aid given to religious versus independent non-public schools.

Entirely justifiably, teachers and school leaders remain concerned that inspection outcomes do not always give credit for the full extent of schools» achievements, especially those that are not readily captured by pupil performance data.

1) Detecting Disease «Google gives access to data that's not readily available anywhere else,» says John Brownstein, an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School.

«ENIGMA's scientists screen brain scans and genomes worldwide for factors that help or harm the brain — this crowd - sourcing and sheer wealth of data gives us the power to crack the brain's genetic code,» said Paul Thompson, Ph.D., Keck School of Medicine of USC professor and principal investigator of ENIGMA.

Given this data on the positive impact group fitness can have, schools should consider offering group fitness opportunities,» said Dr. Yorks.

Given the animal data, «there's a good chance that it will work,» says Brian Greenwood, a malaria researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

In collaboration with Professor Robert Deng, also at the SMU School of Information Systems, Professor Li is now working to develop new solutions for attribute - based encryption — a form of encryption that gives data owners better control over who can access their data.

«We don't have human data yet, but these findings strongly suggest some alternative ways of giving a very commonly used drug in a manner that doesn't harm, but in fact helps muscle,» said lead investigator Dr. Elizabeth McNally, the Elizabeth J. Ward Professor of Genetic Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine physician.

I have attended several conferences during my graduate school career and have presented data, but this was my first opportunity to give a talk, rather than present a poster.

«We had a good idea of what the prevalence of vulvodynia was but this data gives us a better understanding of how often new cases develop and the potential risk factors that may be involved,» says lead author Barbara D. Reed, M.D., M.S.P.H., professor of family medicine at the U-M Medical School.

Establishing this relationship between data, that apparently is independent and that humans are unable to connect so quickly, gives us the chance to come to a conclusion in real time and apply some kind of solution to the cause of the problem, because you know that the child will not go to school and you have to fix this.

Teachers had little understanding of how to use test data to drive improvement and had given insufficient attention to implementing the national curriculum, putting Denmark at a disadvantage compared with other WA schools.

Seldom do the schools provide the teacher with prior information about the persons to be taught, given the fear of breaching the existing legislation regarding the protection of the rights of the child or the data protection law.

«NAPLAN online will deliver even greater insight into the individual capacity of a student to inform teachers, schools and parents as well as continue to provide the data giving us a national snapshot.»

Parents or the pupil (depending on their age) must give their use of personal data used outside the everyday business of the school and also for the use of photographs, such as on your website or social media.

For some time now, I've been giving the Department a hard time about not releasing enough data on the performance of the SIG (School Improvement Grants) program — I'm trying to hold them accountable for the Secretary's talk of turning around 5,000 persistently failing schools over the course of five years.

When I was writing my book, I asked scores of dioceses and other collections of private schools to give me test score and poverty data on their schools.

[vii] Studies based on the international data confirm that students perform better in a given subject when their school devotes more time to it.

We then linked the grades given to each school to data on the school's characteristics: its size, the size of classes at the school, the racial and ethnic composition of its students, the percentage of students from poor families, and the percentage of students performing at proficient levels on state reading and math tests.

Given a large data set, I also was able to account for characteristics of schools that I could not directly measure but that might influence student achievement over the school year.

Of the elementary and middle schools the survey respondents rated, 14 percent received a grade of «A,» 41 percent received a «B» grade, while 36 percent received a «C.» Seven percent were given a «D» and 2 percent an «F.» These subjective ratings were compared with data on actual school quality as measured by the percentage of students in each school who achieved «proficiency» in math and reading on states» accountability exams during the 2007 - 08 school year.

The Education Next study looked at data from the 2007 NAEP tests in reading and math, given to 8th graders in U.S. public and private schools.

It reads: «Given concerns about both the design and administration of the new assessments, the lack of preparation for schools, the inadequate time to implement the new curriculum for the current cohort, and the variations in approaches between schools resulting from delayed and obscure guidance, it is hard to have confidence in the data produced by this round of assessments.»

Whole - school, headline, quantitative data only tells part of the story for students» learning needs and can only give a high - level overview of the areas that would benefit most from additional resource or support.

Given that every approach has limitations, it makes sense to us to gather information based on as many approaches as data will support and use the results to ensure that school districts have adequate resources.

He said: «SATs data only gives parents part of the picture when judging a pupil's success or a school's effectiveness.

Thus an analysis of elite schools, we believe, gives us important data from which we can draw some, albeit tentative, conclusions.

Emerge is the app offering schools access to data and processes on mobile devices, and has been extended to include Emerge Desktop, a teacher dashboard giving staff access to data and tools to streamline their administrative processes.

The regulation will strengthen and unify the safety and security of the information held by schools, replacing the Data Protection Act of 1998 which gives individuals control over what information is held on them by organisations.

Given that there is a greater volume, variety and claimed importance on data and data use in schools, this study sought to find out what was meant by the key terms data and data use in the current literature; to make some initial analysis of such and to show one approach that has been successfully used that avoids repeating the limitations in the earlier literature.

Learners are given four sets of data one set from a rural school, one set from a town school and two sets from city schools.

But all types of annual giving, donations made by alumni and others to annual solicitations and usually applied to schools» operating budgets, increased between 1981 - 82 and 1982 - 83, according to a review of the survey data by the National Association of Independent Sschools» operating budgets, increased between 1981 - 82 and 1982 - 83, according to a review of the survey data by the National Association of Independent SchoolsSchools.

The findings show that even using the most careful methods given the available data, the results for online charter schools are very bad.

A new study fills this gap by using data from five school districts in California that measure growth mindset for students in 3rd to 8th grade to assess the extent that students with stronger growth mindset learn more in a given year than those without.

Given the specialized nature of this kind of quantitative analysis, we also recommend that schools identify a «data specialist» in the faculty who can support his or her colleagues in using data in real - time.

In some ways, the push for tracking chronic absenteeism benefitted from timing, given the increased emphasis on education data and the ESSA's commitment to going beyond test scores to measure school success.

«One of the gaps that we saw is that there was a lot of attention on the supply side of school quality, making better options available, investing in teacher quality, and so forth, but not a lot of attention is paid to how to help parents navigate those new options or interpret all data that was given to them,» said David Keeling, a co-founder of EdNavigator and the nonprofit's communications chief.

In 2013, for the first time, the school's operational targets included giving teaching teams the responsibility to analyse and interpret multiple data sets, construct annual goals and monitor them throughout the year.

Following an inspection of official exam data by BBC Radio 4's Today programme, it has been revealed that the number of pupils receiving extra time in state schools is less in comparison to private, with one in eight being given a time boost.