Sentences with phrase «holding back student»

The Ministry believed that illiterate teachers leading learning on reading and writing were holding back student learning.

They say the real issues holding back student achievement are inadequate resources, large class sizes and lack of parental involvement.

You either hold back students and give them extra help to achieve the level, allow high achieving students to acquire other skills while the rest catch up, allow the higher achieving students to skip grades with scaffold testing or some more complex version of them all.

Rocketship schools have made it their mission to close the achievement gap that holds back students in under - served communities.

Holding back students seems like a poor choice, as does punishing schools that can educate students faster with less revenue.

Many policy makers agreed: set higher standards; test to see if students have mastered them; hold back students or prevent them from graduating if they don't pass.

Holding Back Students Damages Their Educational Progress: An Advocacy Report This report presents research that demonstrates why retention policies are damaging to students, and presents methods for advocating against retention....

Lawmakers in at least four states (Colorado, Iowa, New Mexico and Tennessee) want to hold back students who aren't reading at grade level by the end of third grade.

The new standards will not hold back students any more than the old standards did.

Through review and analysis of teacher recommendations, districts may be able to avoid holding back students inappropriately while at the same time advancing students who do not perform well on tests but are capable of succeeding in a higher math course.

Districts have used additional measures, such as grades and proficiency scores on other state tests, in which the scores held back some students no longer needing sheltered English instruction in classes with less demanding content.

It doesn't seem fair to hold back students who are capable of doing grade - level work or better by requiring their schools to admit students who are far behind.

The mayor also has repeatedly pledged to hold back students who fail the test and do not meet even Level 2, a minimal standard.

There are also some other important reasons that hold back students from writing their research paper.

Not exact matches

It's no secret that higher education is commonplace for young entrepreneurs, but in an era where the approximate balance of the nation's student loans is growing by $ 2,762.27 a second, potential entrepreneurs could be holding back from pursuing their business ideas.

However, sometimes all the relevant information was given upfront and sometimes a key detail — which professor was teaching a course the students were thinking of taking or how much credit card debt an otherwise exceptional applicant for a loan had outstanding — was held back but then later revealed.

And with fewer student loans to hold them back, students at these top private colleges graduate ahead of the financial curve.»

«It absolutely could hold back growth,» Powell said in response to a question on student debt.

«With fewer student loans to hold them back, students at these top private colleges graduate ahead of the financial curve.»

You want to start a family, but there's something holding you back: your student loan debt.

«My student loan will be like an anchor holding me back until I have it all paid off — in my eyes — only then will I be free,» Asadullah said.

My student loan will be like an anchor holding me back until I have it all paid off — in my eyes — only then will I be free.

At West Boca Raton Community High School, about 50 students held a «die - in» on school grounds with some of the «dead» wearing targets pinned onto their backs.

And it's hardly racially balanced: Black students are three times more likely to be suspended or expelled than white students, according to the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, and research in Texas found students who have been suspended are more likely to be held back a grade and drop out of school entirely.

Or should that student tested again and again, and if necessary held back in that grade?

There will come a day that these students will think back to the time that their very cool (who are we kidding, coolest) teacher offered to hold class outside and they declined.

It easily adheres to the back of your phone or phone case and is the perfect size for holding your ID, credit card, student ID, hotel key, business cards, and so much more

is to kick the organization off campus, wait at least 5 years for any undergraduate that was affiliated with that organization to graduate, and then find an entirely new batch of students who holds the right values to start it back up again.

Held back - to - back, we were able to share our breakfast - in - the - classroom journey with many ANC attendees, and we also had the opportunity to hear from you — school nutrition professionals who are working to implement and expand access to school breakfast for students around the country.

Many school systems only allow students to miss a certain number of days a year, or risk the possibility of being held back.

The new students are getting older (more parents are «redshirting» — a practice of holding their children back to give them a leg up).

In general, holding a student back is not a first - choice approach for a kid who is falling behind.

'' [The Universities Minister] said that it was disappointing that the University of Oxford, in particular, was held back from expanding by a limit on student housing in the city.

The suit alleges that Success Academy subjected students with perceived disabilities to numerous suspensions and detentions, and often held them back in their grades for multiple years.

Tony's stance on key issues such as job creation (bringing jobs back to the New York State), access to affordable and quality health care for all, improving the quality of education for students, and holding state officials accountable for how they spend taxpayers» money is aligned with the Coalition's point of views.

Students from the Hoosick Falls school district held their own press conference in February to request a new water system, which they feel is exactly what the town needs to bounce back.

Students held back during their secondary education for non-performance will not be catered for in their extra year of study under the Free Senior High School education policy.

«I am concerned that there are inequities in Fair Student Funding that are holding some of our high schools back,» Adams said in a statement.

When he visited Syracuse University in February, he held a brief press conference about the Reducing Educational Debt Act, a bill that would make the first two years of community college free, allow student loan borrowers to refinance at lower rates and increase the number of Pell Grants, which, unlike loans, do not have to be paid back.

Frazer is one of seven low - achieving schools the district hopes gets a boost from a $ 31.5 million grant that will allow new and radical solutions to the persistent problems that have traditionally held students back.

«Certainly, it's not scientific, but I would say there are thousands of students held back each year,» said state Sen. Todd Kaminsky (D - Long Beach), who has worked closely with the Multiple Pathways parent group.

«Overwhelming student loan payments are holding millions back from buying homes, starting families and saving for retirement,» said Stefanik in a statement.

When Canadian graduate student Marie - Ève Maillé held interviews with 93 people in 2010 about a massive wind farm being built in the Arthabaska region of Quebec, she made a promise that social scientists routinely make: that her respondents would remain anonymous, and that nobody would be able to trace quotes in her thesis back to them.

It will also mean holding back from trying to skew the labour market and letting students find and study what they are good at, once they have mastered a broad range of basic competencies.

Frustration with an adviser due to, for example, conflicting expectations or working styles, or a student feeling that their progress is being held back by an unavailable adviser, is a common source of trouble that O'Connell and Lane help students address.

Additionally, both Smart Start and More at Four reduced the probability of students being held back during elementary school.

As he paced enthusiastically back and forth talking into a hand - held microphone, he often got entangled in the wire, and periodically a student would have to unwind him.

The Professor Is In takes on the «peon» mentality that holds back so many graduate students and explains how to think differently in order to succeed.

One of the big challenges when I was a student back in the»70s was that there was only one naturopathic college left in all of North America and it was just holding on by the skin of its teeth.

Holding my own ground, work a lot cause I have to, got a live, work full time and college student, yes went back to college after being out of school for centuries, I am...