Sentences with phrase «growth in a single school»

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With its state license for 116 students; lucrative tuition subsidies for single parents, available from North Carolina's Child Care Resources program; and expertise with children, from infants to after - schoolers (up to age 12), this business could advance as quickly as a 2 - year - old — if placed in the care of a growth - minded new owner.

Welcoming the crowd, the headmaster singled out Dr. Clement Apaak for a shower of praise he said he deserved for the role he reportedly played in the infrastructural growth the school had seen recently.

If you took high school biology in the 1990s, you probably learned about the molecular basis for human genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis (1989), Huntingtons (1993), Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (1987), and a rapidly growing list of single - gene disorders, and the correspondingly rapid growth in clinical diagnostic technology based on DNA sequence information, enabling certain diagnosis, sometimes before the advent of overt symptoms.

For example, in a forthcoming analysis in three school districts where it was possible to track teachers» student achievement growth over many years, Doug Staiger and I found that of those teachers who were in the bottom quartile of value - added in a single year, 55 to 65 percent were in the bottom quartile over their careers and 82 to 87 percent were in the bottom half.

The most immediate and overwhelming single factor constraining charter school growth in the Bay Area is a lack of access to affordable school buildings.

The safe harbor provision in NCLB was a crude way to measure growth, but it at least attempted to account for the fact that not all students come in with the same achievement levels and we can't expect schools to erase those gaps in a single year.

Schools, and those of us working in them, are deemed «failing» based solely on a single test's scores, with no consideration of the growth in our students» scores.

So what issues are at play when we consider the future growth of charter schools, and what role will single sites and a greater variety of school offerings play in that strategy?

What is the future role of single - site schools in that growth, given that charter management organizations (CMOs) and for - profit education management organizations (EMOs) are increasingly crowding the field?

The growth marks the largest single - year increase in charter school enrollment since charter schools first came on the scene two decades ago.

«Research consistently shows that teaching is the single most important school - based factor in a student's academic growth.»

The growth represents the largest increase in enrollment over a single year since charter schools were founded nearly two decades ago.

These major differences in the way the brains of boys and girls function should create increased demand and growth opportunity for new charter schools that offer single - gender learning environments.

The school says that generally the children taught by its students do much better than that, showing on average 1.3 years of growth in reading in a single year.

While the entertainment and service industries are collectively the largest employers, the major single employer in Southern Nevada is the Clark County School District, a reflection of the explosive population growth over the past decade.