Sentences with phrase «high quality of student»

Successes reported by field - test teachers consistently identified the high quality of student discussion mentioning use of knowledge and vocabulary, listening to and challenging other students, and considering different points of view.

The College also received top billing for it online graduate program in education, and received the nation's highest score for online student selectivity — considered a benchmark indicating the high quality of students enrolled.

Not exact matches

College Board President David Coleman said the partnership aims to level the college admissions playing field by putting high - quality training within easy reach of students without the funds for commercial test - prep services or the family support often needed to stick with a self - paced practice book.

Introduction to grasping reality with both hands: Private university students who try to take out $ 250,000 in student loans when they're barely out of puberty are patted on the back and given directions to a high - quality local state university.

The investigation stemmed from allegations that UNC had a system in which students took an African Studies course that never met, had little instruction, and required only one paper that received high marks, regardless of quality.

Admission to the program is based on criteria that ensure high standards of academic quality and student achievement, as well as diversity.

Further, the higher degree of freedom to experiment in informal learning settings is an increasingly attractive quality for students.

At some university divinity schools and a few independent institutions the quality of resources and students is much higher (though there one often can worry about how few of their students are headed toward ministry).

Though their course of study is longer and their debt load higher, rabbinical students, as a group, have most of the characteristics of «quality» that other groups say they want.

Thus, the curriculum of liberal studies is to be guided primarily by concern for high quality, not by considerations of student popularity and interest — though these may be welcome by - products.

God's Not Dead, the tale of a college professor who grades his students based on whether they'll write «God is dead» in their notebooks, is not an example of high quality movie making.

Ton Mulgrew, BBC Cook of the Year and chef at Ravenscliffe High School, which provides a predominantly vegetarian menu, said: «This is a great opportunity for all school chefs to showcase their skills — for example, writing their own menus for their students and schools, and having the flexibility to use only the best quality and local produce when designing menus.»

And when I say lucky, I mean it: got to taste the ultimate breakfast bowl creations made with high - quality ingredients by five talented student chefs from the Institute of Culinary Education.

Through this scheme, over 3,100 students received one or more semesters of deficient instruction and were awarded high grades that often had little relationship to the quality of their work.

At the very moment when a student might be gearing up to react to the teacher's comments as a threat, a sign of the teacher's personal disapproval or bias, the Post-it gave the student an alternative frame through which to view those comments — not as an attack, in other words, but as a vote of confidence that the student was capable of high - quality work.

Sales of upgraded meals and the extra items, Rolls says, help pay for the high - quality «green plate specials» available to low - income students.

Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and abroad.

There's James Heckman, a Nobel Prize - winning economist at the University of Chicago, who found in the late 1990s that students who earned high school diplomas through the General Educational Development program, widely known as the GED, had the same future prospects as high school dropouts, a discovery that led him to conclude that there were qualities beyond courses and grades that made a big difference in students» success.

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

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.

The disparity results in a revenue shortfall that undermines the goal of providing the highest quality meal possible to all students.

If you're a student, a parent, or an educator, you will find that there are plenty of high - quality educational apps available to download, and many of them are even free.

Local school districts have been improving the quality of food they've been serving for years, but Tanner wanted to see the district leverage its considerable buying power to serve higher quality food to more students, more consistently.

The program might allow certain students opportunities for higher - level work, yet it also can siphon off the best students and teachers and may reduce the quality of education for non-AP students, and in some cases, cause undue stress for students enrolled in the program.

It's important to note that the study did find that «high levels of fruit and vegetable waste continued to be a problem — students discarded roughly 60 % -75 % of vegetables and 40 % of fruits on their trays,» but the authors conclude that this finding means that districts must «must focus on improving food quality and palatability to reduce waste,» rather than seeking to roll back the new meal standards.

Mass Audubon worked with the Student Conservation Association, an AmeriCorps trail crew and led a volunteer effort to make sense of the existing trail network and simplify it so the visitor has a high - quality trail experience.

One of the goals of the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) is to provide all students with personalized, high - quality experiential learning opportunities, both regionally and globally with multiple pathways and delivery formats that will enable all graduates to pursue meaningful lives and successful careers.

Since the updated meal standards were implemented, students of all ages are choosing lunches higher in nutritional quality with fewer calories per gram and consuming more fruits and larger portions of their entrees and vegetables.

That's why so much of my time is taken up in trying to publicize just how important it is for our lowest income and most vulnerable students to have access to the highest possible quality of food at school.

This longitudinal study in 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in a large, urban US school district in Washington state compared the nutritional quality of student school lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal standards.

Chartwells has encountered problems in other parts of the country, including a well - publicized student boycott at a Connecticut high school last fall over the quality of the food the company provided.

«Maintaining mayoral control of city schools is critical to students, parents and employers who all depend on high quality public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, President & CEO of the Partnership for New York City.

That's especially true for bills that impede our obligation to provide all of our students with a high - quality public education.»

«There is incredible momentum behind raising standards for students and teachers and for increasing the number of high quality charter schools,» Sedlis said.

«These regulations significantly undercut the quality of teaching in SUNY authorized charter schools by permitting insufficiently prepared individuals to educate large numbers of high needs students beyond that which is already allowed for by law,» the lawsuit states.

«We propose a budget that prioritizes an affordable and high quality education for Westchester Community College's students and families,» said Dr. Belinda S. Miles, president of Westchester Community College.

Student debt is accumulating as schools struggle with having to impose higher tuition rates, which some argue threatens the quality of a college education.

The levels of motivation, teamwork and leadership required of service personnel are significant, and these are qualities that can only benefit Britain's students both at school and beyond: who better to teach them, than those who have had to learn them to the highest level themselves?

Without adequate funding the quality and value of a SUNY degree will plummet, too high a tuition will deny access to students with limited means.

Postgraduate courses have become an important source of income for universities, particularly from the higher fees paid by overseas students, but there has been concern over the quality of some courses.

State Education Commissioner John B. King Jr. says he is taking the unprecedented step of forcing Buffalo to send students from two high schools to take classes outside of the district because the city appears «incapable» of running «quality programs» there.

«The City University of New York system is a world - class higher education institution that provides quality and affordable education to students in the five boroughs,» Cuomo said in a press release.

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«Maintaining mayoral control of city schools is critical to students, parents and employers who all depend on high quality public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, the president of the Partnership for New York City.

On Thursday, with the New York State Board of Regents hearing testimony regarding the newly approved teacher evaluation system, leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and public school parents offered recommendations and sent letters calling for a system that ensures all public school students have access to high - quality teachers.

«A quality education with high expectations for all students is clearly a major priority for New Yorkers, and that's exactly why two years of work has gone into revising the standards,» said Steve Sigmund, the group's executive director.

Despite reports highlighting poor quality of meals being served Senior High School students under the free SHS programme, the School Feeding Programme is insisting its Nutrition Department collaborates with caterers under the programme to prepare nutritious meals for pupils.

Negron told reporters earlier in the day he met with two Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students who sustained grievous injuries but had survived because of the quality of the care they received following the shooting.

Professor Afful - Broni said management was determined to increase the intake of students from the 2018/19 academic year as part of the desire to ensure that as many qualified young men and women as possible, received high quality university education.

A recent study from the National Bureau of Economic Research indicates that the quality of a high school can predict how well its students will perform in college.