Sentences with phrase «grades than in other»

As you can see, in 2013 schools were, across the board, much more likely to receive positive value - added scores in 4th and 8th grades than in other grades.

In November, a quietly released study from Stanford University revealed that Chicago public school students, on average, learn more from third grade through eighth grade than in any other large or moderate - sized district in the country.

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Mark Barden, whose seven - year - old son Daniel was shot to death in his first - grade classroom, said he and other Sandy Hook parents had been advocating for the bill for more than three years.

From the turn - key access in AAA - grade office space right downtown, to the great community of other high tech companies in our building, and not to mention the flexibility to grow faster than we had originally planned, Our company's space in LaunchPad was the key to establishing our new business quickly and professionally on PEI.»

The other day a colleague of mine, who came to America from Russia via Israel, told me a story about her son who is in the eighth grade in a renowned progressive school in Cambridge, Massachusetts (than which no community could be more progressive).

In a piece for the Washington Post entitled «Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,» Chua explains how her children were never allowed to attend a sleepover, have a play date, be in a school play, watch TV, choose any of their own extracurricular activities, get any grade less than an A, or play any instrument other than piano or violiIn a piece for the Washington Post entitled «Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,» Chua explains how her children were never allowed to attend a sleepover, have a play date, be in a school play, watch TV, choose any of their own extracurricular activities, get any grade less than an A, or play any instrument other than piano or violiin a school play, watch TV, choose any of their own extracurricular activities, get any grade less than an A, or play any instrument other than piano or violin.

Others don't think they are sinners, or if they do, they think God grades on the curve, and as long as they are better than someone else, they'll get in.

While other feed grade rice protein manufacturers resorted to adding Melamine in 2005 to achieve a false positive protein measurement and falsely convince the animal feed arena to meet the Axiom specification, Axiom Foods remained dedicated to proprietary, chemical - free processes and certified organic product development while maintaining protein levels consistently higher than any other competitor.

Other than a brief stretch of time during his sophomore year in which his grades slipped again, Jones has been passing his classes and has been able to take advantage of his athletic skills in football and track.

If Pritchard makes Poch's grade then the Spurs first - team next season will likely be more than half - full of academy players, which is a great feather in our cap as no other top Premier League team can even come close to that.

In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeeIn contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeein order to succeed.

Other than that the Spectra Baby is still one of the best hospital grade breast pump devices in the marketplace right now.

With seven grades in the school and sharing that space for other activities, there might have been more than one lunch period, but I don't believe there was one for each grade.

Being one of those women with physical limitations, my formula fed child is at the top of her first grade class and healthier than any of the other kids in her class.

She gives the example of a school with five fifth grade classes, where students in one classroom score much better on the math tests than the other four.

Despite the intervention's brevity, the black children who received the affirmative assignment scored one fourth to one third of a grade point higher in that course than the black control group at the end of the term, and the difference showed up in other classes, too.

On average, CPC graduates — whether they participated in preschool only, or through second or third grade — completed more years of education than those who participated in other programs.

• Cover letter describing why you are interested in the field / project described in the advertisement and what makes you suitable for the project in question • CV — degrees and other completed courses, work experience and a list of degree projects / theses • Degree certificates and grades confirming that you meet the general and specific entry requirements (no more than 6 files) • Letters of recommendation (no more than 6 files) • Degree projects / theses (no more than 6 files).

Fewer patients in the combination group reported grade 3/4 adverse events than in either of the other groups, at 58 % compared with 66 % in the encorafenib group and 63 % of the vemurafenib patients.

The authors showed that MELK expression is higher in high - grade breast cancers (Figure 2B), thus it is not clear whether MELK expression is higher in in BCC because there are more high - grade tumors in the BCC sub-types than the other 4 sub-types in the dataset used for the analysis.

Use of illicit drugs other than marijuana is at its lowest level in the history of the survey for all three grades.

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We found a medical grade silicone that is so much thinner and more flexible than the silicone used in other cups, and used it to create the original Lily Cup, which we launched in 2012.

I felt better than I ever had before, but at the same time, I noticed certain withdrawal issues, which surprised me -(low grade headaches, some dizziness, and the fact that all other food tasted much better than before): in short, the same feelings one has when one cuts out sugar.

Matcha is more expensive than other forms of tea, but the price depends on its quality; high grade matcha has a deeper, sweeter flavor, while the standard quality is coarser and harvested later in the year.

▻ matcha is a type of green tea that is grown in Japan ▻ matcha is technically a «loose - leaf» tea, but it's different than other standard teas because the tea leaves that have been ground into a powder ▻ because the entire tea leaf is consumed, you get more nutritional benefits than regular steeped tea (like vitamins, minerals & antioxidants) ▻ matcha has less caffeine than coffee and the effect is said to be gentler and more gradual on the body ▻ when making matcha, make sure you select a high quality, ceremonial grade matcha that is shade grown from Japan

It was two years later when I got my first job in 9th grade (other than babysitting) and saved all my money up for anything paisley printed from Benetton — remember all their gorgeous items?

Being on Spring Break and in full blown «project mode» (you know, that feeling you get when you have freedom to do anything other than plan, teach, grade and sleep?)

Other than the green beer, today my only thoughts of St. Patty's Day are reminiscent of the days of my youth coloring in shamrock outlines in grade school and looking forward to receiving milk chocolate candies wrapped in metallic gold foil because, apparently, only children can make off with a leprechaun's gold without consequence!

Troubling, though, is the fact that 35 percent of the climate grade depends on having classes smaller than 25 pupils, which means that QC has taken sides in the great class - size debate, notwithstanding the rivers of doubt that Hoover Institution economist Eric Hanushek and others have poured on the notion that smaller classes are an efficient means of boosting achievement.

And in the other study with the Walton Arts Center we are surveying more than 2,000 7th grade students in area schools to link the past performances they have seen on school field trips to their current behaviors as cultural consumers and producers as well as some empathy and tolerance outcomes.

In particular, selective and independent centres were found to have less variability in grades A * - C than other centre typeIn particular, selective and independent centres were found to have less variability in grades A * - C than other centre typein grades A * - C than other centre types.

West Virginia, of all places, gets the highest grade here — a straight A — as it reportedly spent $ 8,322 per pupil on public education in 1999 and has been boosting its outlays faster than any other state and digging deeper than all but one.

Several studies (download) have found that more high school students fail ninth grade than any other grade; in low - income high schools, 40 percent of all dropouts (download) leave after ninth grade.

They grade themselves and they're in a much better position to do that than I am since they were the ones that had to work with each other.

In the last decade, at least 15 state legislatures and boards of education have adopted policies incentivizing their public schools to prioritize measures other than grades when assessing students» skills and competencies.

In schools that had a chance to achieve a Recognized rating, low - scoring students who were not designated as eligible for special education in 8th grade were 2.4 percentage points more likely to be newly designated as such in 10th grade, an increase of more than 100 percent relative to the 2 percent designation rate in other schoolIn schools that had a chance to achieve a Recognized rating, low - scoring students who were not designated as eligible for special education in 8th grade were 2.4 percentage points more likely to be newly designated as such in 10th grade, an increase of more than 100 percent relative to the 2 percent designation rate in other schoolin 8th grade were 2.4 percentage points more likely to be newly designated as such in 10th grade, an increase of more than 100 percent relative to the 2 percent designation rate in other schoolin 10th grade, an increase of more than 100 percent relative to the 2 percent designation rate in other schoolin other schools.

Snow and her colleagues carried out a quasi-experimental study comparing nearly 700 sixth - to eighth - grade students in five Word Generation schools to more than 300 students in three other Boston Public schools that did not choose to implement the program.

It is also closer than many other states to having standards - based exams in every core subject in every grade span.

In math the graduates of the University of Florida, the state's premier university, outperformed the other institutions at teaching students in fourth to eighth grade by as much as 10 percent of a standard deviation, even though NCTQ gave it no better rating than Florida State or Florida AtlantiIn math the graduates of the University of Florida, the state's premier university, outperformed the other institutions at teaching students in fourth to eighth grade by as much as 10 percent of a standard deviation, even though NCTQ gave it no better rating than Florida State or Florida Atlantiin fourth to eighth grade by as much as 10 percent of a standard deviation, even though NCTQ gave it no better rating than Florida State or Florida Atlantic.

Kids do in fact learn how to read, and first grade, more than any other grade, is where that wonderful accomplishment can be observed while it happens.

And, in fact, parents of school - aged children are even more positive than other Americans about their local public schools, with 58 percent assigning them an «A» or «B» grade.

We estimate that an 8th grader who attends school with 200 other 8th - grade students will score 0.04 standard deviations lower in both math and English than he would if he attended a school with 75 other 8th graders, the average cohort size for a K — 8 school.

Specifically, I pointed out that gains on the National Assessment of Educational Progress under Rhee's tenure were much larger than average gains for the other ten urban school districts participating in the assessment in 8th grade math and in 4th grade reading and math.

Other critics point to greater gains in word recognition than in reading comprehension and to diminished gains in the later grades, as in the so - called 4th - grade slump.

Sean explained, «The utility of perceived conscientiousness in predicting how well students do aligns with other research showing that it is how hard students work, rather than their IQ, that is the best predictor of academic grades, but the bigger story is that there is no accuracy at all unless you control for attractiveness bias.»

Other programs, such as skipping grades, would actually save money, since students would spend 12 rather than 13 years in the system.

And, of course, it's also possible that schools that serve one group better than another in the early elementary grades also serve the same group better than the other in the later elementary grades.

The students in the smaller classes continued to achieve at higher rates than their peers in the other groups even after they returned to normal - sized classrooms in grades four and beyond.

To ensure that students are keeping up with the material, DoDEA schools administer more tests than any other school system in the U.S., in third through 11th grades, Lambe said.