Sentences with phrase «group in a particular school»

For students of color as a group in a particular school or district, the initial goal might be to reach and exceed state - level averages for white kids.

Not exact matches

Dr David Landrum, director of advocacy at the EA, said: «As we expected, the report shows how strongly faith groups, parents and others feel about proposals to register and regulate out - of - school settings, and in particular about the role of Ofsted.

This narrowness arises from the idiosyncrasies and timidities of particular authors, of particular social groups, of particular schools of thought, of particular epochs in the history of civilization.

Moral Majority and other groups for what they call «voluntary prayer» in the public schools threatens the religious liberty of the minority that will oppose prayer in general or particular prayers.

In such a school, no particular group comes close to being in the majoritIn such a school, no particular group comes close to being in the majoritin the majority.

Adopting «in Jesus» name» as the necessary minimal condition for a counting as a «Christian congregation» for the purpose of a theological school's study does not, of course, require any particular answer to the quite different question whether God is truly known and worshiped by groups who do not worship in Jesus» name or whether God is redemptively present to them.

What Greg has seen is this: if there is one teenager in your church group who goes to a particular school then there is the potential to reach the whole school.

There is a large group of kids that attend their school that are racially and religiously different than what you might find typical in this particular area.

A randomized controlled trial of another program demonstrated high participation in school or training compared to the rate of the control group; a particular benefit of this program was the setting of concrete goals with the mothers for their education and professional development.

A Waldorf school is a living organization involving many people who each have their own relationship to the endeavor, and who find themselves in groups that have particular roles and responsibilities — all important to the overall function and health of the organism.

«We had a group of students at one elementary school in particular who petitioned the superintendent and the administration to reconsider.»

This includes being neglected in a particular social group, growing up in orphanages, moving among multiple foster homes, being forcefully removed from a neglectful home and transferring schools from time to time.

Charter school advocacy groups in particular have been unusually silent.

School districts, in particular, should not expect anything approaching a repeat of this year's record $ 1.5 billion (6.5 percent) state aid increase — although advocacy groups will surely demand it.

Through my experience in schools and talking in particular to head teachers, I saw that there is a group of young people who aren't just disadvantaged economically.

The group, in particular, blamed the Buffalo School Board.

«Every year, the particular group of viruses is mutable, keeps modifying genetically, so the shot you got last year may not work this year,» says Elaine Leventhal, professor emerita of medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, in whose practice the study was conducted.

Since the inherited risk is based in family genetics and is therefore beyond clinical reach, McFarlane relies on multifamily group therapy and social supports at school and at work to protect vulnerable patients from environmental triggers — illicit drugs and emotional stress in particular — that might send them over the edge.

So anyway, we headed down the canyon, and I should say that the reason we did this particular trip was because it was put together by the National Center for Science Education, which is the Oakland based group that really does the frontline work with protecting evolution education in the nation's public schools.

Mike has been able to track his buddies from high school and college and watch their progression; in particular, one friend has piqued his interest, and «seeing him now crushing group rides, having a blast, and winning races as a master's racer is really cool!»

In particular, forget the single school of thought that champions training a single muscle group with every ounce of body strength.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

In particular, we take advantage of the lottery - based admissions process for charter schools to compare the academic performance of two groups of students: those who wanted to attend a charter school and were randomly admitted and those who wanted to attend but were not admitted and remained in traditional public schoolIn particular, we take advantage of the lottery - based admissions process for charter schools to compare the academic performance of two groups of students: those who wanted to attend a charter school and were randomly admitted and those who wanted to attend but were not admitted and remained in traditional public schoolin traditional public schools.

This is especially the case when they are enrolled in the same schools in low - income neighborhoods, irrespective of language background or identification with a particular racial group.

In particular, I examine 1) whether a child was below grade for age while still of school age (a proxy for grade retention); 2) three indicators of adult educational attainment (high school dropout, high school degree only, and some college); 3) adult wage and salary earnings and indicators of employment and receipt of public assistance income; and 4) an indicator for residence in institutionalized group quarters, a widely used proxy for incarceratioIn particular, I examine 1) whether a child was below grade for age while still of school age (a proxy for grade retention); 2) three indicators of adult educational attainment (high school dropout, high school degree only, and some college); 3) adult wage and salary earnings and indicators of employment and receipt of public assistance income; and 4) an indicator for residence in institutionalized group quarters, a widely used proxy for incarceratioin institutionalized group quarters, a widely used proxy for incarceration.

In my case, it was the disability advocacy groups who actively opposed charter schools as well as «specialized schools» designed to serve particular disabilities like autism.

Nearly all the schools surveyed placed students in particular attainment groups purely based on their previous attainment levels.

More subtly, concluding that students in a particular school are performing well «given their socioeconomic backgrounds» or «given the proportion of Indigenous students in the school» reflect reduced expectations based on group membership.

Because the performances of all students would continue to be reported on the current NAPLAN score scale, it would still be possible to calculate year level averages, to show how students perform in relation to their year group, and to identify levels of proficiency that, ideally, all students should reach by particular times in their schooling.

He showed me charts with stick figures in five colors (representing percentages of English school children) that are used to explain to teachers and parents what the particular problems were for each group of students and how to fix them.

Yet data clearly show that some groups of students, poor and minority students in particular, do not fare appreciably better in schools that are higher performing overall.

Average Year 9 reading results for schools in three ICSEA groups (2009 to 2013) Of particular concern is the observation that, since 2000, between - school differences in student performance in PISA have been increasing.

Building community also means connecting with kids, so United for Success starts and ends each school day with an advisory period, during which a small group of students meet with a particular teacher, creating an in - school family of sorts to support students academically and personally as they navigate the rough waters of adolescence.

Interventions (both in - school and out - of - school) for any particular age group tend to be very similar in purpose, no matter what their label.

In addition, we should stop framing the equity goal as closing gaps between groups inside particular schools and districts.

If successful, these interventions could be targeted to specific disorders or patient groups, and researchers could explore how they could link across schools and other institutions in families» lives, and in particular how they could offer support to vulnerable populations.

Critics on the right, meanwhile, worry such a plan would increase the federal role in education and pressure states to standardize state tax credit programs, many of which now allow nonprofit groups to prioritize a particular type of school, such as those of particular religious denominations, for instance.

The Mathematica researchers draw on other studies to try to estimate the potential peer effects, but clearly the best way to resolve the issues of self selection, attrition and replacement would be for KIPP to run a substantial number of «conversion» charter schools — schools in which KIPP educates students who happen to live in a particular neighborhood, rather than a self - selected group of students.

The schools were randomly selected and did not represent any particular socio - economic groupings within the large metropolitan school district in which they resided.

As with other faith schools in the state sector, they will be allowed to recruit 100 % of pupils from particular faith groups.

In lengthy letters, civil rights and advocacy groups in particular criticized the school selection methodology as seriously flaweIn lengthy letters, civil rights and advocacy groups in particular criticized the school selection methodology as seriously flawein particular criticized the school selection methodology as seriously flawed.

He is also concerned about the removal of the stipulation that, when drawing school catchment areas, schools «must not exclude particular housing estates or addresses in a way that might disadvantage particular social groups» - and that choices of feeder school should not «unfairly disadvantage children from more deprived areas».

After all, a school that is top - performing in general may not be the right fit for particular groups of children, especially young black men who, along with American Indian peers, suffer the most from the nation's education crisis.

Education Week examines whether the «widespread worry that states would walk away from making sure that particular groups of students — English - language learners, students in special education, and racial minorities — mattered in their school accountability systems» under ESSA is well founded.

Many school systems have gotten the message that they need to be more data driven, and they are now awash in data - not just yearly student test scores, but figures on how different groups of students are doing in particular subjects or grade levels, how successful a school is at attracting and retaining teachers or closing the achievement gap among disadvantaged students, or how equitable funding is from school to school.

In schools and afterschool programs, efforts to help children develop social and emotional skills should focus on skills that are relevant to the particular age group, according to the spring issue of The Future of Children.

As a classroom teacher who taught in Aboriginal communities for many years and then as a researcher working with minority language students, I have long questioned why particular groups of minority students tend to under - perform in school.

In particular, the ability to opt out by choosing an alternative to the public system — including private, parochial and, more recently, charter schools — can lead to the sorting and segregation of children by social groups.

Large - scale summative assessments may be useful for ranking and comparing schools, districts, or programs, and they may yield disaggregated data that identify content areas in which particular groups of students are struggling.

The tables show how well a particular year group of pupils at a given school has performed in tests or exams.