Sentences with phrase «grade cohort as»

The increase in immigrant population throughout the 1980s dramatically changed the first grade cohort as more English Language Learners entered the classroom.

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Area and individual maternal characteristics included country of residence, ward type, socioeconomic status, ethnicity (defined by Office for National Statistics guidelines and classified for this analysis as British / Irish white3 or of other ethnic origin), maternal age in years at cohort child's birth, level of education (attainment of qualification at GCSE grade G or above), parity (whether cohort child is first live birth), and lone parent status.

Students at each grade level are scheduled together as a cohort to take a core set of academic classes and a technical class related to the theme of the academy (e.g., biotechnology, business, electronics, engineering, health, information technology, media and communications, among many others).

On the other hand, the researchers found negative long - term impacts for low - scoring students in grade cohorts who attended a school facing the opportunity to achieve a «Recognized» rating as compared to those in schools not facing a recognition opportunity.

Ormiston Forge Academy in Cradley Heath capped a remarkable year with 84 per cent of the A level cohort achieving three or more passes at grades A * - E. Just 18 months after the Academy was judged as Good by Ofsted and in the same year it was designated as a National Support School, every indicator at Key Stage 5 has improved yet again.

We measure peer domestic violence at the cohort level (that is, across all students in a grade at a school) as opposed to the classroom level due to the possible sorting of students into classrooms according to their achievement and behavior.

Telia Kapteyn Learning and Teaching Hometown: Atlanta Experience: Taught kindergarten as a Teach For America corps member in Brooklyn, New York; high school English teacher in a rural fishing village in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholarship; elementary school teacher at a KIPP school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their classrooms

With perfect compliance, equal - sized cohorts, and no dropouts or loss to follow - up, the first stage for the middle school lotteries would be two years, since this is the average time spent in middle school as of MCAS exams in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade.

Continuously enrolled means, for grades 3 - 8, students whose latest date of enrollment occurred after the date prescribed by the commissioner on which BEDS forms are required to be completed and, for grades 9 - 12, students in the high school cohort, as defined in paragraph (16) of this subdivision.

One critique of Success Academy is that the school is pushing out low achievers, resulting in decreasing cohort sizes as students reach higher grades.

Accountability groups shall mean, for each public school, school district and charter school, those groups of students for each grade level or annual high school cohort, as described in paragraph (16) of this subdivision comprised of: all students; students from major racial and ethnic groups, as set forth in subparagraph (bb)(2)(v) of this section; students with disabilities, as defined in section 200.1 of this Title, including, beginning with the 2009 - 2010 school year, students no longer identified as students with disabilities but who had been so identified during the preceding one or two school years; students with limited English proficiency, as defined in Part 154 of this Title, including, beginning with the 2006 - 2007 school year, a student previously identified as a limited English proficient student during the preceding one or two school years; and economically disadvantaged students, as identified pursuant to section 1113 (a)(5) of the NCLB, 20 U.S.C. section 6316 (a)(5)(Public Law, section 107 - 110, section 1113 [a][5], 115 STAT.

Although middle schools offer far fewer grades than K — 8 schools, Florida middle schools on average enroll 146 more students than their K — 8 counterparts; as a result, typical grade cohorts are almost three times as large.

The second innovation is the use of the Hispanic cohort's 10th grade basic math scores as a control for performance - based selection biases among the different language treatments.

In reading scores, two of the four within - cohort comparisons reveal a widening of the black - white gap as children move through school: between the 1st and 2nd grades, the gap grew one - third of a standard deviation larger, and another one - fifth of a standard deviation larger between grades 3 and 5.

By comparing the grade 6 cohorts that were not in a separate middle school to those that were, the researchers found some remarkable results: «students who attend middle school in sixth grade are twice as likely to be disciplined relative to their counterparts in elementary school.»

Focusing on a recent Baltimore City ninth grade cohort, the report examines the behavioral factors identified in previous research as key predictors of high school graduation, particularly -LSB-...]

Project BOOST fosters cross-grade collaboration through its «feeder pattern» model that pairs elementary and middle schools together to serve cohorts of students as they progress from the fourth through the eighth grades.

Focusing on a recent Baltimore City ninth grade cohort, the report examines the behavioral factors identified in previous research as key predictors of high school graduation, particularly ninth grade attendance and course passing.

Antonio's earliest forays into education were teaching in second grade classrooms, chairing the initial cohorts at Leadership Prep Bed - Stuyvesant at Uncommon Schools, (2007 - 2009), and within NYC's Department of Education as a Teach For America corps member at PS 170 in the Bronx from 2003 - 2007.

Normed tests, also known as Norm Referenced Tests are tests that are normed by collecting large amounts of testing data from large cohorts of students, later comparing the performance of age and grade groups.

Data listed in the «Before inclusive reform» column reflect each student cohort's scores two years before its current grade level (for example, data from 3rd grade for students listed as currently in 5th grade).

Their analysis of the data led the teams to define questions about the progress of cohorts of students as they moved from one grade to the next.

Serve as a Crew leader to a grade level cohort of students, being the primary trusted adult and family liaison and supporting students in community building, character development, and academic progress monitoring.

But Jonathan Simons, head of the education at the right - leaning thinktank Policy Exchange, said drastic falls in Ofsted grades are usually caused by major events such as a change in pupil cohorts, heads leaving, an exodus of teachers or a financial crisis.

They monitor, over time, how cohorts of students are performing and will act as a guide for increases or decreases in that cohort's GCSE grades.

Districts could also track, over time, the average achievement of grade - level cohorts within schools to determine if performance changes as predicted by the value added by teachers who transfer into or out of schools and grades.

«Our students made substantial gains on the state assessments at every grade level assessed and in comparison to our regional district cohort and the state as a whole.

Dr. Timothy Jenney, superintendent for the Fort Bend Independent School District (home to a 2011 National School of Character), said, «Our students made substantial gains on the state assessments at every grade level assessed and in comparison to our regional district cohort and the state as a whole.

Not shown in the table, however, are several significant negative effects in relationships with teachers as rated by first - grade and third - grade teachers; in fact, there were no significant positive effects for this cohort as assessed by teachers for any of the elementary years.

Pryor has been a presenter for the Tennessee Organization of School Superintendents, serves in the Tennessee Teacher Leadership Collaborative for SCORE (State Collaborative on Reforming Education), serves as a coach for the Tennessee Department of Education's Teacher Leader Cohort, and serves on the Tennessee Department of Education steering committee for Alternate Portfolio Assessment in non-tested grades and subjects.

The District should closely watch the cohort of students who are in ninth grade as their current academic achievements will shape graduation rates.

... Among students in this cohort who took the Iowa Assessments in third grade (2013 - 14 school year), those with regular attendance in each of the early - elementary years were nearly twice as likely to be proficient [in reading] as those who were chronically absent two or more years.

Multiple factors reportedly increase the risk of suicide.44 - 49 Substance abuse has repeatedly been associated with suicidal behaviors, and depression has as well.1,50 - 62 Moreover, previous reports from the ACE Study have demonstrated strong, graded relationships between the number of adverse childhood experiences and the risk of alcohol or illicit substance abuse and depressive disorders.23, 24,28 Although a temporal relationship between the onset of substance abuse or depressive disorders and lifetime suicide attempts in the ACE Study cohort is uncertain, our analysis of the potential mediating effects of these known risk factors provides evidence that for some persons, adverse childhood experiences play a role in the development of substance abuse or depression.