Sentences with phrase «high academic performance in»

At Mesquite Elementary, the additional half - hour of differentiated instruction every day has helped maintain the highest academic performance in the state,.

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The black conservatives claim that the decline of values such as patience, hard work, deferred gratification and self - reliance have resulted in the high crime rates, the increasing number of unwed mothers, and the relatively uncompetitive academic performances of black youth.

And that eating breakfast in the classroom is associated with higher attendance, improved academic performance, and better test scores?

This means that starting high school early is having disastrous results in terms of depression and academic performance for teens.

This effort is intended to offer an alternative to the prevailing notion in so many schools of success as high academic performance, often at the cost of children's mental and physical health, character and integrity.

That in turn can lead to higher academic performance and improved classroom behavior, as children who aren't distracted by hunger pains are clearly in a better position to learn.

On her part, Ms Lankai Quarcoopome, who is an alumnus of the school (AGOSA» 76) and also the Guest Speaker, said she believes that «through quality education, we could make our lives better and also transform our nation and for this reason, we must insist on achieving very high academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.»

The Parents Teachers Association (PTA), of the Tsito - Awudome Senior High School (AWUSCO), in the Volta Region, have explained that the decision to levy students despite the implementation of government's Free Senior High School Policy was a collective resolve by parents to support the school's efforts to enhance the academic performance of students.

And the Success Academy schools, as the SUNY folks note, have demonstrated «some of the highest» levels of academic performance in the state.

Using this elegant technological fix, they achieved some of the highest density, highest performance CNTs ever made — especially given that they did this in an academic lab with less sophisticated equipment than a commercial fabrication plant.

The study is titled, «Assessing the Effect of High Performance Computing Capabilities on Academic Research Output» and was published in Empirical Economics.

«Conventional wisdom is that academic performance in high school is important for college admission, but this is the first study to clearly demonstrate the link between high school GPA and labor market earnings many years later,» says French, director of the Health Economics Research Group (HERG) in the Department of Sociology at the UM College of Arts and Sciences, and corresponding author of the study.

By the fall of their kindergarten year, children who participated in Head Start and the REDI - P group scored higher than the children in the control group on several measures, showing greater increases in their vocabulary, literacy skills, reading fluency and academic performance upon entering kindergarten.

The paper: Why «the best way of learning to coach the game is playing the game»: conceptualising «fast - tracked» high - performance coaching pathways was published in the academic journal Sport, Education and Society.

The children in the REDI - P program showed significantly higher retention of literacy and learning skills and sustained improvements in academic performance and social interaction.

Furthermore, in a previous study we demonstrated that group emotional intelligence is related to higher levels of academic performance.»

«High social - emotional health has been associated with greater academic performance and improved behavior in the school environment,» said Elisa I. Muñiz, M.D., M.S., developmental - behavioral pediatrician, Department of Pediatrics, Bronx - Lebanon Hospital Center, who led the research while a fellow at CERC.

Parental bereavement in childhood has been robustly linked to impaired academic performance, higher rates of teenage pregnancy and drug and alcohol abuse, as well as a range of mental health disorders as adults.

(1) Similarly, ART singletons and ART twins also had comparable test scores, suggesting, say the investigators, that «the higher obstetric risk» identified in ART pregnancies — and particularly in twins — «is not associated with poorer academic performance in adolescence.»

The meeting also highlights existing opportunities for academic and industrial researchers to access automated cell - based and biochemical technologies based at the Karolinska High Throughput Center; home to one of the most sophisticated, state - of - the - art, ultra-high performance liquid handling and analysis platforms in Europe.

Topics for the scientific sessions are: Single cell genomics and gene expression Genetic interactions RNAi and somatic cell genetics Protein - DNA interactions Cancer The meeting also highlights existing opportunities for academic and industrial researchers to access automated cell - based and biochemical technologies based at the Karolinska High Throughput Center; home to one of the most sophisticated, state - of - the - art, ultra-high performance liquid handling and analysis platforms in Europe.

Typical fears underlying academic performance anxiety or exam performance anxiety are: Fear of not gaining admission to a high profile University, fear of disappointing parents, fear of failing in life, fear of accomplishing less than our friends or siblings etc..

Examining this teaching framework, used in an elementary school, a high school, and a community college, the documentary highlights research and results from leading neurocognitive experts, and how this framework can greatly increase academic performance.

Benefits to School Life Looking at the lasting impact of LOtC experiences in terms of academic performance, Learning Away's recent research found that school trips resulted in higher academic achievement, with 61 per cent of students achieving higher than their predicted grade following a school trip based on the subject area.

Over the past decade, hundreds of BIFF children failing or underachieving in middle and high school have completely overhauled their academic performances, surpassing even BIFF's own goals.

Many pundits point to the fact that in the United States, teachers tend not to be drawn from the top of the academic - performance distribution, as is the case in countries with higher student achievement, such as Finland, Korea, and Singapore.

Research in many countries over the past 40 years has shown that high noise levels and poor acoustics (i.e. long reverberation times) cause health problems for teachers and reduce pupils» academic performance.

Aside from an increase in general health, Horridge says that active school environments encourage better academic performance, better behaviour, higher engagement and better concentration.

[xi] Di Xu and Shanna Jaggars, «Performance Gaps Between Online and Face - to - Face Courses: Differences Across Types of Students and Academic Subject Areas,» Journal of Higher Education 85 (3), 633 - 659, 2014; Cassandra Hart, Elizabeth Friedmann, and Michael Hill, «Online Course - Taking and Student Outcomes in California Community Colleges,» Education Finance and Policy, forthcoming.

There is no evidence that high school students who enroll in college - level courses such as Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate classes improve their academic performance in college unless they take the tests offered at the end of each course, says a study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.

A teachers» union has launched a campaign against efforts to raise academic performance in Connecticut's state - run technical high schools.

When Norm Morrow became the principal of Jefferson High School in Los Angeles four years ago, the art deco building was severely overcrowded, had poor security, and — two months into his leadership — was one of 12 schools statewide to be audited because of low academic performance.

Educational researchers David C. Berliner and Audrey L. Amrein, both from Arizona State University, published in 2002 a report on «The Impact of High - Stakes Tests on Student Academic Performance.»

«School Poverty and Academic Performance: NAEP Achievement in High - Poverty Schools» is available by calling (800) USA - LEARN.

Students of National Board teachers who exhibited superior academic performance may already have been performing at a high level when they entered class in the fall.

I was also informed that while my academic performance had placed me in the highest track at my East Harlem school, I would be educated with the «average» kids at P.S. 183.

The young organization has already achieved notable success: in 2005 its first campus, Marin School of Arts and Technology (MSAT), was the highest - performing school in its district on California's academic performance index (API).

Income - based disparities in academic performance have actually grown over the last decade or so, and last year the state's achievement gap was the third highest in the nation.

... poor academic performance in middle school and even elementary school can decrease a student's motivation in high school, which can lead to failing courses and skipping school,... [and] dropping out.

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

Numerous randomized - controlled studies have demonstrated that students in choice programs exhibit higher academic performance while additional studies have found higher graduation rates, increased college enrollment, and increased civic - mindedness.

To explore these questions, we studied the 29 high school closures begun between 2003 and 2009 in New York City to determine the degree to which a closure affected a range of student outcomes, including graduation rates, mobility, attendance, and academic performance.

Therefore, it does not appear that school SES levels per se affect the degree to which high - SES and low - SES students differ in either their academic performance or their kindergarten readiness probabilities.

Newsweek listed it as one of the top ten most transformational high schools in America, and its schools consistently outperformed their peers on California's Academic Performance Index (API).

For instance, are higher levels of performance anxiety in content - centered classrooms due to the focus on academic content or to the personalities of the teachers who defy convention in emphasizing such content?

in schools with a high concentration of children with «risk factors,» the academic performance of all children — not just those with disadvantages — was negatively affected.

While PISA is a test of everyday knowledge, TIMSS measures performance on the sorts of academic disciplines students are normally taught in school, and which are often required for success in higher education.

PSA's findings demonstrate that Citizen Schools bridges the transition from middle school to high school and improves performance in core academic courses and high - stakes tests well after students graduate from the program.

But the state's urgent task is to provide new, high - quality seats for the 57,000 students languishing in its worst schools, those occupying the bottom 10 percent of academic performance for at least three years.

And before they receive their high school diploma, students must complete separate performance assessments (known at the Urban Academy as academic proficiencies) that demonstrate their skills and knowledge in six academic areas: mathematics, social studies, science, creative arts, criticism, and literature.