Sentences with phrase «grades of students in»

Low grades in writing assignments rightly affect overall grades of students in the final assessment.

Not exact matches

By comparing a student's transcripts against a database of tens of millions of past student records, Brightspace's Degree Compass feature can tell what letter grade he or she will get in any given course with 92 % accuracy — before the first class starts.

According to The News & Observer, Wednesday's report «found a new culprit: the Academic Support Program for Student - Athletes... The report describes a fairly broad group of academic and athletic officials who knew about athletes getting better grades in classes that only required papers, yet taking little or no action.»

And so, essentially, the average student in Chicago looks like they're learning six years worth of math and reading skills in the five - year period between third and eighth grade.

With In2Books, for example, ePals helps students in grades 3 to 5 to improve their reading skills with the support of adult mentors in a safe, online learning environment.

Families with kids in kindergarten through 12th grade will spend an average $ 634.78, versus $ 688.62 in 2012, while families of college students will spend $ 836.83, down from $ 907.22 last year.

Almost half of Canadian students (45 %) who wrote the test in 2000 achieved top scores in reading, but in 2009 only 40 % made similar grades.

Through the years, the Kelley School has fashioned a reputation as a true MBA innovator, from being one of the few programs that give a single grade for the entire core curriculum to having a series of first - year academies that provide experiential learning, consulting projects and coaching to students interested in six core areas that range from capital markets and strategic finance to consulting and supply chain management.

At Audubon Park Elementary in Orlando, Florida, fifth - grade students will observe a moment of silence for the Parkland victims; younger students will participate in age - appropriate observances, and their parents will write letters to Congress and the White House.

After a crushing loss in a student council race in the 6th grade, Lee learned the importance of getting the story right from the beginning.

The University of Toronto's engineering program received the top grade of 72 per cent, powered by a perfect grade in the student participation section and a 96 per cent score for institutional support.

The number of states that require high school students to complete a course in economics has dropped over the last two years, and mandates for personal finance education in the upper grades remain stagnant, a new survey shows.

And it's hardly racially balanced: Black students are three times more likely to be suspended or expelled than white students, according to the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, and research in Texas found students who have been suspended are more likely to be held back a grade and drop out of school entirely.

My wife recently graduated with a degree in elementary education and the blessings of GCU, the love of Christ, and the benefits of servant leadership are now being transferred to her sixth grade students in a local Christian School in the Phoenix area.

He is the co-founder of Edison Universe, a non-profit organization focused on fostering the next generation of innovators (future Thomas Edisons) in the K - 12 grade level and using tools like creativity, collaboration and immersion to prepare students to identify new opportunities and create solutions around the opportunities.

It is probably the largest network of private primary and secondary education with over 7,000 schools in the US alone educating over 2 million grade school and high school students in 2009/2010.

Therefore, a grade of plus 3 meant that one had scored 15 percent above one's base grade, and students had to score an average of plus 2 in order to graduate.

The distinction between social class and functional classification is discussed particularly in the field of education and the dangers of grading students abilities and the grades in which students are placed.

God's Not Dead, the tale of a college professor who grades his students based on whether they'll write «God is dead» in their notebooks, is not an example of high quality movie making.

Never Whitehead's student in the technical sense, he graded papers for him, attended his lectures, and began an in - depth study of his writings about the same time as he was working on the Peirce papers.

I am a school teacher trying to memorize luke 6:39 - 42 with my third grade students, yes so far we've enjoyed the humor in the text, but now I realize there's much more to it... and It's my prayer that the Holy Spirit will help us to digest all of it!

The issue, then, is deeper than a student's grade, a distinguished preacher's embarrassment, an undistinguished preacher's pretensions, or a homiletics professor's pedantry in drawing a crooked line of definition between plagiarism and legitimate borrowing.

Education is essentially competitive, not cooperative, as illustrated by the common practice of grading on a curve, or the fact that students getting together to cooperate on their work are said to be «cheating» — so highly are the communal virtues regarded in our schools.

It is noteworthy that, in contradistinction to the older Bible - centered training in the past, most of these students had come up through the modern graded Sunday Schools in which not the Bible but the child has been central; in which the Bible has been brought into the focus of attention only when the situation demanded it.

Along with her pet lizard «Liz,» the excellently dressed Miss Frizzle was her classroom's intrepid leader, who used moxie and a bit of magic to guide her third - grade students in learning science.

I too have been reading since the beginning — who needs a story — you've got the man, you've got the happiness, and you've got the skills to make one hell of an empty stomach feel like the luckiest organ in the world — Besides, my husband, who was able to vote when I was born, just happens to be my professor from college... And when people ask what grade I got in his class, I become quiet and with a slight whisper say «I got a B» — And that was only 1 of 3 B's I got in college... Our story is wonderful for him since he nabbed the young student... Doesn't sound so good for me, but I love him and sharing it regardless... Happy Anniversary Deb and Alex!!!

To be eligible for the fellowship, individuals must have to have junior or senior status, a grade point average of 3.0 or above and be a student in the Johnson & Wales School of Hospitality.

Parents and / or teachers of students in grades 1 - 3 who would like to participate in the program can visit the «Just for Kids» section on www.idahopotato.com.

For example, if a faculty member arranged for a student - athlete to receive credit in a course in which they did not enroll or attend or created a fake course that had no requirements but resulted in a grade, the NCAA Constitution would require anyone who became aware of that arrangement to report it.

Furthermore, the schools (in general) do not provide teachers with the adequate resources to perform their jobs effectively, such as teacher - requested books for their students; presentation items such as chalk, whiteboard markers, or projectors; basic classroom organizational needs such as storage bins, filing cabinets with adequate files, and functional modern computers with adequate software to make results tabulating more efficient; or motivational equipment designed to reward students for good behavior, scores, or attitudes (grades simply are not enough of a motivational tool).

A good student — «though football was all I thought about from the seventh grade on» — Smith went to Princeton, where he was president of his class in his sophomore, junior and senior years, captained the football team and in 1952 and 1953 was named All - East and All - Ivy League at single - wing fullback.

Eastern Christian was established six months ago, and with less than three weeks until the start of the academic school year, 54 students are enrolled in grades six through 12.

Over a span of 18 years, 3,100 students (47 percent of which were athletes) at UNC took advantage of these courses which allowed them to receive quality grades without having to show up for class, turn in papers or take tests.

Between 2007 and 2009, Fryer distributed a total of $ 9.4 million in cash incentives to 27,000 students in Chicago, Dallas, and New York City, incentivizing book reading in Dallas, test scores in New York, and course grades in Chicago.

At Castilleja, the only prize you get for a senior talk or 8th grade speech is flowers — flowers and the comments of teachers and students alike who will tell you «congrats on your speech» and «great speech,» whether you have spoken to them before in your life or not.

According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, the gap in eighth - grade reading and math test scores between low - income students and their wealthier peers hasn't shrunk at all over the past 20 years.

He found a detailed database in North Carolina that tracked the performance of every single ninth - grade student in the state between 2005 and 2012 — a total of 537,241 students.

Our pre-K — 5th grade students learn both in and through French, Spanish or Mandarin, in programs that are accredited by ministries of education in France and Spain and by the Hanban in China, and taught by native speakers.

$ 150 gift coupon to use in the Oak Meadow Bookstore plus choice of our new Homeschool Parent Planner (for parents of students in grades K - 4) or Student Planner (for students in grades 5 - 12).

The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

She was the founder and head of Bridges Academy, which serves a population of twice - exceptional students in grades 6 - 12, from 1994 - 2003 (bridges.edu).

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

Sports, like grades and test scores, become part of a student's competitive package that is offered to college admissions in hopes of making the cut.

Students at these high - achieving schools can be ranked in the bottom quartile even with excellent grade point averages, and consequently feel «dumb» and «less worthy» compared to the majority of their peers.

Students in 4th - 6th grade who went to bed an average of 30 - 40 minutes earlier improved in memory, motor speed, attention, and other abilities associated with math and reading test scores.

State Board of Education and the Idaho State Legislature adopted the Idaho Health Education Standards (2010), mental and social wellness are included in the core concepts to be taught to students in grades K - 12.

Students in grades 7 - 12 must be taught the symptoms and nature of mental illness.

Standard F recommends students by the end of grades 4, 8, and 12 be able to express their feelings in healthy ways.

Other possible changes may include a greater use of technology in the classroom or at home, or increased student responsibility (often the grade levels in preparation before transitioning to middle or high school).

At the Waldorf School of Baltimore, students are assigned homework beginning only in the middle of third grade.