Sentences with phrase «high achieving students at»

That would net more quality teachers and higher achieving students at a lower cost to the taxpayers, but the unions won't allow it.

my kid is now excellent high achieving student at this school because he wants it.

Not exact matches

Our schools are producing fragile, stressed - out students who achieve at high levels but at a high cost.

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.

Alexandria Marsicovetere is a participant of Uplift Plus at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a program that seeks out high - achieving high school students who have been historically underrepresented in higher education.

She hoped to learn about how top students view their high school experience, and spent a year shadowing five high - achieving students at a top public high school (local, but unnamed).

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

If you work in a North Carolina school or district with a high free - and - reduced rate student population, but you're struggling to achieve good participation at school breakfast, The Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom can help.

Do you work in a Missouri school or district with a high free - and - reduced rate student population, but you're struggling to achieve good participation at school breakfast?

Do you work in a Nebraska school or district with a high free - and - reduced rate student population, but you're struggling to achieve good participation at school breakfast?

High achieving students were feted at setting known for creatures wild and wise.

By contrast, in Japan, 85 % of students achieve the equivalent of maths A-level, and Indian students study maths and science for twice as long each week at high school as their British counterparts.

Ms. Moskowitz proudly touted the success of Success, noting with real joy how three students at the school in Bed - Stuy had achieved a perfect score on an international math test «out of 30 or 40 worldwide» and taking particular pride in how many of the schools» high achievers are «black and brown» and from neighborhoods that face enormous disadvantages.

But as at now the promise of making education free for all students of senior high school has not been achieved... it's in the interest of government to state this because some parents of second and third year believe that their children are going to enjoy free education and if it is not explained, it will create problems for the headmasters and headmistresses.

Students at the Bronx's Samuel Gompers High School want the same federal help other low - achieving are receiving through a new «re-start» program.

Still suffering from last year's school budget cuts and with the mayor threatening more to come, UFT members at high - achieving Leon M. Goldstein HS for the Sciences in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, rallied and leafleted faculty, staff, students and members of the community on Nov. 17 with the message «No Budget Cuts — Save Our Schools.»

The academics believe spotting «procrastinators» who hand in work at the last minute early on and warning them of the dangers of the habit could help students achieve higher grades.

An international research team led by Takuma Izumi, a second - year master's student of science at the University of Tokyo, and Kotaro Kohno, a professor at the University of Tokyo, successfully captured a detailed image of high - density molecular gas around an active supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy called NGC 1097 at the highest sensitivity ever achieved.

Students at New York's High School of Performing Arts see if they have the dedication and talent necessary to achieve their dreams.

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.

(For high achieving students who are already approaching this standard, schools would be held accountable for making sure they grow at least a year's worth of learning every year.)

Moreover, a 2014 Public Health England report found that the amount of moderate to vigorous physical activity students engaged with at 11 years of age had an effect on academic performance across English, maths and science, including final GCSE exam results, with active students found to achieve up to 20 per cent higher results than non ‑ active students.

Meanwhile, at the other end of the spectrum: `... the proportion of higher - achieving students (placed in the top two NAPLAN bands) has dropped from 49.4 per cent in Year 3 to 20.6 per cent by Year 9.

She has helped to restore hope, dignity, and purpose to students who are scholastically challenged and provide them with a proven pathway to help them achieve academically at their highest learning potential.

«PIRLS 2016 shows that 81 per cent of Australian Year 4 students are achieving at or above the Intermediate benchmark — the proficient standard for Australia — compared to 76 per cent in 2011, with more students achieving at the High or Advanced benchmark,» Dr Thomson said.

Principal McClellan has a refrain at MC2 STEM that reinforces high expectations, rather than the time students spend to achieve them: «Time is the variable.

One hypothesis, for example, is that retesting reduces the pressure to unduly focus teaching effort on the marginal students — students who may or may not pass — in the months before the initial test, and thus teachers can give relatively more effort to the infra - marginal students, including those high - achieving students at little risk of failing.

The common sense of our present day — that the majority of students in American public schools ought to achieve at reasonably high levels — is unprecedented.

Drawing on a six - year study that closely followed more than one thousand high - achieving fifth - and sixth - grade African - American, Latino, Indochinese, and Caucasian students, Bempechat uncovers the family and school practices and attitudes that contribute to high achievement in at - risk children.

Fourth, I decided to put at least five high - speed networked computers with a printer in each classroom and more if necessary to achieve a student - computer ratio of 5 to 1.

«The same NAPLAN achievement scale will be used, but students» achievements will be measured more precisely, particularly for students in the high - and low - achieving categories, and results will be returned much more quickly than at present.

Put differently, our evidence indicates that effective schools help their students achieve at higher levels than expected based on their fluid cognitive skills.

Similarly, because growth measures may do a poor job of capturing the progress of high - achieving students, some states may want the weights assigned to achievement and growth to vary based on the level at which a school's students are achieving.

Put differently, a black student with straight As is no more popular than a black student with a 2.9 GPA, but high - achieving whites are at the top of the popularity pyramid.

In Australia four out of five students (80 per cent), performed at Level 2 or higher: 15 per cent achieved Level 4 proficiency; 34 per cent achieved Level 3; and 31 per cent of students were at Level 2.

That being said, if I do my job well, my hope is that I can leave DCPS as a district where students are achieving at high levels no matter their backgrounds, families are choosing DCPS schools because of the world - class education we provide, and parents and community members feel like they've contributed to DCPS» amazing successes.

Verne - Marie Kozak, a teacher of fourth - grade students in a talent pool enrichment program of gifted and high - achieving students at Anna Reynolds and Elizabeth Green Schools, became the «director» of the multimedia presentation.

«Double - dose» algebra — providing two consecutive periods of math instruction for under - achieving 9th grade students — is considered a potentially promising alternative to the «algebra for all» policy, which encourages more students to take algebra and at earlier ages, but may put struggling students at higher risk of failure.

Allowing students to proceed through courses, and even the whole K — 12 sequence, at their own pace is a fantastic idea and will be a particular boon to high - achieving, low - income students — kids who have been neglected in the age of standards.

One study looks at students who attended two magnet middle school programs that had an exclusive focus on high - achieving students.

High school students are required to achieve, at minimum, a «needs - improvement» (level two) score in both math and ELA in order to graduate from high schHigh school students are required to achieve, at minimum, a «needs - improvement» (level two) score in both math and ELA in order to graduate from high schhigh school.

The students will feel better and achieve at higher levels, and the staff will have higher morale.

Effective schools help students achieve at higher levels than one would expect, based on their cognitive skills, a recent study finds, rather than enhancing students» core abstract - reasoning capabilities.

And of the students who score well on the PSAT / NMSQT, indicating a 70 percent likelihood of thriving in an AP course, of those students, six out of ten Asians will take an AP course, [compared with] four out of ten white students and two out of ten African American students... In other words there is a racial break among kids who could achieve at a high level and are being propelled into more challenging academic experiences; that data needs to be understood.

A researcher at Harvard surveyed 10,000 middle and high school students in 33 different schools around the nation about what they thought their folks cared about most: that they achieve at a high level, that they are happy (defined as «feeling good most of the time»), or that they care for others.

According to the College Board, in order to have a 65 percent chance of getting a B - average in college, students should achieve about 1030 on the math and verbal SATs and earn a B average in high school (taking courses of at least «average» rigor).

If students at a particular school achieve at high levels and show strong growth, that school probably doesn't have the same urgency around identifying poor performers.

(Btw, some argue that students with relatively mild disabilities are achieving well in charters, but I'd love to see more hard data proving that in charters kids at risk for special ed are not being labeled, and / or they're being exited from sped at higher rates after meeting grade level standards.)

No matter how good the technology, students will always need to be surrounded by adults who set high expectations and hold them accountable for achieving at the highest possible level.

«The objective is to apply state education clauses as a mandate to better ensure that high - need programs possess the means to provide all students with adequate opportunity to achieve to at least the minimum standards.»