Sentences with phrase «high achieving students from»

He says that, «LAUSD has a large population of high achieving students from low socioeconomic backgrounds.»

«The Australian Research Council's Federation Fellowships scheme, for example, encourages Australian researchers working overseas to bring their skills back into Australian science, while scholarships offered under the Endeavour Programme allow high achieving students from around the world to undertake study or research in Australia.»

Early concern was that the creation of charter schools would lead to «cream skimming» of whiter, wealthier and higher achieving students from the traditional public school system.

The highest achieving students from Generation Z anticipate building careers in STEM fields and healthcare, and they aim to do it with advanced degrees and studies abroad.

Not exact matches

Taking a step back from the specific question of what the Parkland students achieved, it's clear from the polling data that support for increased gun control remains high and has steadily increased in recent years.

The students who used the «study drug» were academically diverse: from high - achieving, AP and Honors students looking for a fast alternative to balance their schedules while maintaining a high GPA, to students struggling to keep a minimum GPA to play on a sports team.

Pope, the co-founder of Challenge Success, said that research from that group found that high school students from high - achieving schools average more than three hours of homework each night, and middle school students average about 2.5 hours.

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.

In 2007, the overall A * - C pass rate for all UK entries increased from 62.4 per cent to 63.3 per cent, with one in five students achieving the highest A grade.

Buffalo had performance increases measured in students achieving proficiency or higher on both ELA and Math from the 2015 - 16 to 2016 - 17 school year.

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.»

With this in mind, I've long supported opportunity scholarships, which allow students transfer from underperforming schools to higher achieving schools where they can take advantage of the best our education system has to offer.

The majority of minorities entering science and engineering are from the middle - and upper - income families, but considerable debt and modest earnings (compared to business, law, and medicine) may deter even some high - achieving minority students from choosing these fields.1 Up to 25 % of academically qualified low - income students either do not apply to college2 or drop out, unable to keep pace with escalating prices.3

After taking into account their parents» income and education — factors that are known to affect exam scores — the highest - achieving students were more than three times more likely to suffer from the mental illness than their average peers.

This program is open to high - achieving undergraduate students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds or groups traditionally underrepresented in the sciences.

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.

First, it advances specific ideas for how state accountability systems can be redesigned to demand strong performance and growth from high - achieving students while meeting the requirements set forth in ESSA.

... [In numeracy] the proportion of higher - achieving students (placed in the top two NAPLAN bands) drops from 35.6 per cent in Year 3 to 22.5 per cent by Year 9.»

Higher - performing schools facing pressure to achieve favorable recognition appear to have responded primarily by finding ways to exempt their low - scoring students from counting toward the school's results.

Among the reform milestones they achieved were a new requirement that 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based on student achievement; raising the charter school cap from 200 to 460; and higher student achievement goals on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 4th grade and 8th grade reading tests and Regents exams.

Substantial evidence from educational psychology indicates that students who are placed in higher - achieving groups can suffer psychological harm.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Studies of two middle - school programs for high - achieving students — known as gifted and talented (G&T) programs — show that being placed in programs with academically strong peers does not boost students» achievement over and above what is learned in a regular classroom from the start of 6th grade to mid-way through 7th grade.

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.

By contrast, the idea behind «gifted and talented» programs is that high - achieving students benefit from being among one another.

Students must achieve a minimum score in order to proceed to the next grade and to graduate from high school.

For instance, the argument against «tracking» is based on the notion that both low - and high - achieving students benefit from being exposed to one another in the classroom.

(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.)

There, he established national scholarship and grant - making programs for — and conducted original research about — high - achieving low - income students from elementary through graduate school.

Earlier this year, we published a report produced by a team of volunteer economists from Pro Bono Economics, which revealed that students who have taken a CREST Silver Award achieved half a grade higher on their best science GCSE result and were more likely to continue with STEM education, compared to a matched control group.

The first, Crimson Summer Academy, brings approximately 90 high - achieving, economically disadvantaged students from Boston and Cambridge to live in Harvard dorms and take rigorous classes for six weeks each summer.

Many schools chose to send high achieving students to these events believing that they will benefit from it and be able to engage easily with the tasks.

In Massachusetts, a statewide system divides students into three grade chunks (from first grade all the way up to 12th) and focuses on children's likelihood of achieving progressive academic targets — all of which are separately considered indicators for high school graduation but also have more immediate relevance.

As we work with states in developing these systems, one of the key components is making sure the information is translatable for parents, that they can understand what percentage of students in that school who are mastering standards and achieving grade - level expectations and whether or not those students are going to be ready to graduate from high school and be successful in college.

High - achieving students who feel pressured to attain perfection (and Ivy League acceptances) may turn to cheating as a way to find an edge on the competition or to keep a single bad test score from sabotaging months of hard work.

But they disregard Fusaro's own strong warning: «A seductive conclusion from these results is that attendance at full - day kindergartens causes students to achieve at a higher level than attendance at half - day kindergartens.

Tilson cited data from Illinois and Tennessee to show that teachers working with high - achieving students are far more likely to be flagged as effective by state value - added systems and performance metrics.

And yet, as Loveless summarizes, recent research indicates that high - achieving disadvantaged students may benefit from tracking and, in fact, suffer losses from being enrolled in heterogeneous courses.

If we're ever going to fully embrace personalized learning, we need to embrace competency - based assessment and an accountability regimen that enables all students to achieve high standards in the long run while giving them a viable path to get there from where they currently are.

Younger students gain an advantage by learning from and competing with older students, who tend to be higher achieving and better behaved.

Data from the tracking schools allow us to estimate the effect of being taught with a higher - achieving vs. lower - achieving peer group by comparing students with baseline test scores in the middle of the distribution.

The program is not associated with improved high school graduation rates or increases in the number of students taking college entrance exams, suggesting that the APIP improves the outcomes of high - achieving students rather than those students who may not have graduated from high school or even applied to college.

The findings might have been strengthened if measures of teacher ability had been included in the analysis, because the alternatively certified teachers in the study, from Teach For America (TFA) and the NYC Teaching Fellows program, represent high - achieving students from the nation's elite universities.

In 2013, research conducted at Stanford University found that «students in high - achieving communities who spend too much time on homework experience more stress, physical health problems, a lack of balance in their lives, and alienation from society.»

The social benefits of the ECO-C Intervention are harder to define in dollar terms, but they are the benefits associated with increased income and sociodemographic mobility for high - achieving students from low - income families.

But if students benefit from learning with higher - achieving peers, tracking could disadvantage lower - achieving students, thereby exacerbating inequality.

We focused on high - achieving, low - income students from nonfeeder schools because we hypothesized (and the early data confirmed) that they would be more affected by the ECO-C Intervention than students who attend a high school with a critical mass of high - achieving students.

Students achieve the highest academic standards, whilst also benefitting from broad extra-curricular activities, exceptional pastoral care and first - class facilities.

The launch event, which attracted business leaders from across the region, saw guest speakers including Northumberland Tourism Director, Jude Leitch and Northumberland College's Chair of Governors, Jacqui Henderson, outline the benefits of Career Colleges to high achieving students.

Everyone who goes to these schools or almost gets in (the students used as controls in the relevant studies) are super high achieving and likely to graduate from college, not to mention high school, regardless.

That is the score achieved by the exact middle student in the year 12 class when their scores are ranked from lowest to highest.