Sentences with phrase «in a given school tend»

By looking at the achievement level that most closely corresponds to the level of their child, i.e., 25 th, 50 th, or 75 th percentile, they can see whether students in a given school tend to increase, decrease, or maintain their level of achievement (relative to other students within the school district) over their several years of schooling.

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While the first paper restricted itself to TARP, a second paper from Harvard Business School found that large investors tend to trade more in periods ahead of portfolio liquidation announcements, giving select clients a competitive advantage over retail investors.

The Franciscan schools tended to be «voluntarist» in prioritising the will as the primary faculty by which we grasp God's Self - revelation to us, whereas the Dominican school, with St. Thomas Aquinas as its greatest champion, gave priority to the intellect.

In its extreme form this ethos can tend to alienate the common life and familiar language of a theological school from the ordinary language and patterns of common life of the churches, giving rise to complaints that theological schooling is «irrelevant» to the «real life» of actual congregations.

In early grade school, children tend to give up the concept of an imaginary friend, or at least keep it in their private thoughts (much the way adults have mental figures they think about privately — religious figures, like saints or guardian angels, or deceased relatives and friendsIn early grade school, children tend to give up the concept of an imaginary friend, or at least keep it in their private thoughts (much the way adults have mental figures they think about privately — religious figures, like saints or guardian angels, or deceased relatives and friendsin their private thoughts (much the way adults have mental figures they think about privately — religious figures, like saints or guardian angels, or deceased relatives and friends).

Also, in middle school and high school, where the number of students taught in a given subject is larger, the stability of the measures tends to be higher.

Like in the case of elementary grades, minority and disadvantaged students, who tend to blindly trust the information given out by schools, will be particularly hardly hit by this fog of doublespeak about college readiness.

This is not surprising in some ways, given problems in current educational practice: we tend to provide less funding, have fewer outstanding teachers and principals, and require less rigorous coursework in schools that serve lower - income students.

In a 2002 pilot study involving three middle school classrooms in Boston, Dede found that students who played his game River City surpassed the test group in three areas: They were more motivated to do the work, performed better on postlesson tests, and tended to look to their teachers to facilitate rather than give directioIn a 2002 pilot study involving three middle school classrooms in Boston, Dede found that students who played his game River City surpassed the test group in three areas: They were more motivated to do the work, performed better on postlesson tests, and tended to look to their teachers to facilitate rather than give directioin Boston, Dede found that students who played his game River City surpassed the test group in three areas: They were more motivated to do the work, performed better on postlesson tests, and tended to look to their teachers to facilitate rather than give directioin three areas: They were more motivated to do the work, performed better on postlesson tests, and tended to look to their teachers to facilitate rather than give direction.

«The fact that African American and Latino corps members tend to stay in teaching longer than their White counterparts is very important, given the nation's shortage of teachers of color and increasing numbers of children of color in our schools,» Donaldson said.

For example, grouping schools according to size (as is done in high - school sports) and giving awards to the top 5 percent in each size class would tend to even out the incentives (and disparities) between large and small schools.

In India, for example, government - funded schools (whether public or private) tend to teach in the local language despite widespread parental preference for instruction to be given in EnglisIn India, for example, government - funded schools (whether public or private) tend to teach in the local language despite widespread parental preference for instruction to be given in Englisin the local language despite widespread parental preference for instruction to be given in Englisin English.

ACER CEO Professor Geoff Masters AO has identified that rapidly improving schools, and schools that produce unusually good outcomes given their student intakes and circumstances, tend to have a number of features in common: «They pursue an explicit improvement agenda — they know what they want to see improve and they know how they will monitor success.»

Now school buildings do not tend to be «system built», they tend to vary in age, layout, fabric, etc, but the DECs can at least give a general idea of energy efficiency levels.

While this is a reasonable approach, given the high percentages of students from low - income families in CEP schools, such a policy tends to conflict with the heavy emphasis placed by the ESEA on measuring achievement gaps between students from low - income families and other students in establishing performance consequences for schools.

The existing funding system for grammar schools was criticised for being arbitrary and tending to give more money to city schools than those in suburbs and shire counties.

Parents in low - poverty schools also tend to have a more flexible work schedule, which allows them greater time to give to the school community than low - income parents.

Both Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Education and Childcare Minister Liz Truss have stressed the need to give disadvantaged children, who tend to do worse at school, the best start in life.

Given the choice of commuting a long way to a high - performing school on the other side of town and transferring to a school in the neighborhood, low - income parents tend to choose the latter.

For efficiencies, charter operators tend to cluster a number of schools in one city or state, thus giving more students easy access.

And while it is critical that schools tend to students who are at immediate risk of dropping out, discrete dropout prevention programs can not change the systems that give rise to risk in the first place.

Backers of vouchers, who tend to be Republicans, argue that they give more educational choices, allowing children the opportunity to receive a better education than they might in public schools.

Parents in this background tend to view private school as a privilege their kids do not need to be given (Lacy, 2007).

As survey exhibitions tend to be, the way of framing raises questions — from the implication of contextualizing women artists in Glasgow through the lens of their association with the art school, and the absence of women architects particularly given the strong associations between the school and city to architecture.

In Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America, Dean David Thomas of Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business states that minorities in corporate settings are often overlooked for promotions because people tend to view members of their own racial groups as more promotable, and often give them higher performance ratingIn Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America, Dean David Thomas of Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business states that minorities in corporate settings are often overlooked for promotions because people tend to view members of their own racial groups as more promotable, and often give them higher performance ratingin Corporate America, Dean David Thomas of Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business states that minorities in corporate settings are often overlooked for promotions because people tend to view members of their own racial groups as more promotable, and often give them higher performance ratingin corporate settings are often overlooked for promotions because people tend to view members of their own racial groups as more promotable, and often give them higher performance ratings.

People tend to copy what was given them in school.

However, recent research has shown that children exposed to high levels of adversity may be less prepared to succeed in school, in part due to deficits in executive function skills.6, 7,9,10,11 These deficits may undermine children's abilities to succeed in academics and develop positive peer and teacher relationships.12, 14,15 This may have long - term implications for school success given that the achievement gap tends to persist and even widen throughout the school years.16, 17