Sentences with phrase «increase grade levels»

These existing charters will use the money to expand enrollment, increase grade levels and replicate campuses:

These non-profit schools will use the money to open new schools or expand enrollment, increase grade levels and replicate campuses already serving Arizona students.

On the other hand, there is reason to believe that the approach to bolstering students» advanced literacy skills, and academic language skills in particular, need not be entirely different for different groups, particularly with increasing grade levels.

He has also increased the grade levels covered by the school's dual - language program and will continue building on this progress until all students in grades Pre-K — 8 have access to this rigorous an academic experience.

Not exact matches

Yellen repeated her third grade teacher tutorial about how savers have indirectly have benefited because of the bounty of jobs available for them and their children and grandchildren and they should stop complaining because home prices have increased to pre-crisis levels in many parts of the country — all because of the wonderful work of the FED and its QE programs.

Other possible changes may include a greater use of technology in the classroom or at home, or increased student responsibility (often the grade levels in preparation before transitioning to middle or high school).

The School Nutrition Department credits the new garden as doubling vegetable consumption across all grade levels and increasing the sale of salads at school lunch by 300 %!

The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 and the resulting new school meal guidelines that went into effect in 2012 support increasing consumption of vegetables and fruits by changing the school lunch requirements to 6.25 - 10 servings of fruits and vegetables weekly depending on grade level and adding new requirements for legumes and vegetable subgroups.

«Although the number of fatalities and accidents at highway - railroad grade crossings have fallen steadily on a national level, over the past several years collisions have increased across New York State,» said Carlucci, a Rockland lawmaker and member of the independent Democratic Conference.

In math, the percentage of students in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased slightly over last year in most of the Big 5 City School Districts.

In ELA this year, the percentage of all test takers in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased over last year in each of the Big 5 City School Districts.

The Chartered Institute of Building is changing its grade structure to encourage more people to become chartered, increasing the level of professionalism within the industry and improving recognition of Chartered status.

Elia said the improvements to the standards include increasing the complexity of reading materials for each grade level and helping children to better learn how to read things like technical manuals for information, as well as developing an affinity for reading fiction and literature.

PEF and CSEA members are making $ 4 - $ 10k more than MCs at the same grade level right now, but MCs still have to accept the health insurance contribution increase and the furloughs that CSEA accepted.

Commissioner Elia says the improvements to the standards include increasing the complexity of reading materials for each grade level, and helping children to better learn how to read things like technical manuals for information, as well as developing an affinity for reading fiction and literature.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

The PACE trial, published in The Lancet in 2011 [2], examined the effects of three different treatments for people with CFS, compared with usual specialist medical care (SMC): cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT, where a health professional helps the patient to understand and change the way they think about and respond to their symptoms), graded exercise therapy (GET, a personalised and gradually increasing exercise programme delivered by a physiotherapist), and adaptive pacing therapy (APT, where patients adapt activity levels to the amount of energy they have).

In the light of these facts, it can be concluded that the theory according to which linoleic acid promotes low - grade inflammation by increasing the body's arachidonic acid levels, is too simplified.

Obesity leads to a state of chronic, low - grade inflammation in liver and fat tissue, which in turn increases the levels of a pair of kinases: IKK - ε and TBK1.

The wild - type mice didn't develop colitis, but showed low - grade inflammation in their intestines and several features of metabolic syndrome: slight weight gain, increased body fat and food intake, and higher blood sugar levels, which indicate poor glucose regulation associated with diabetes.

Misdiagnosis commonly happens when students start learning to read in the first and second grades, and as English - language learners continue through the grade levels, the demand for the application of such executive control processes such as working memory and language increases as reading comprehension requirements become more complex.

In contrast, in mice with normal immune systems, emulsifiers induced low - grade or mild intestinal inflammation and metabolic syndrome, characterized by increased levels of food consumption, obesity, hyperglycemia and insulin resistance.

Results: MR - proADM levels significantly increased with DWML grade progression.

The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 and the resulting new school meal guidelines that went into effect in 2012 support increasing consumption of vegetables and fruits by changing the school lunch requirements to 6.25 - 10 servings of fruits and vegetables weekly depending on grade level and adding new requirements for legumes and vegetable subgroups.

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Overweight individuals have higher levels of C - reactive protein, interleukin - 6, leptin, and other inflammatory biomarkers that cause cardiovascular and diabetes risks.1, 2 The accumulation of fat, or adipose tissue, is associated with low - grade inflammation.3 Furthermore, foods high in sugar, which influence weight gain, increase the glycemic load and C - reactive protein levels in the body to cause metabolic dysfunction and cardiovascular issues.4

Western lifestyle is associated with a sustained low grade increase in inflammation - increased levels of endotoxin in the body and increased activation of Toll - like receptors and neutrophils, which leads to impaired immunity and reduced resistance to disease, changes which might explain the epidemic of chronic diseases spreading around the globe.

hs - CRP - Elevated CRP levels can indicate chronic low - grade inflammation which may be correlated with an increased risk for heart disease.

The researchers concluded that men with higher blood concentrations of animal - based (marine - derived) omega - 3s had a 44 percent increased risk of developing low - grade prostate cancer compared to those with the lowest levels.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Games feature prominently in the novels that follow and, in the spirit of video games, I've ranked them in increasing levels of difficulty that correspond to high school grade levels.

Data averaging pools students across grade levels at the school - year level, and / or across years at the school - grade level, increasing the number of observations and, consequently, the chance of getting to the minimum n - size.

The importance of substitutes in the lives of students is made more poignant by class - size reductions, which have increased the number of classes at different grade levels and increased the demand for substitute teachers.

A state using three - year data averaging would increase subgroup sample size similarly to using grade - span reporting over three grade levels.

I also detect no evidence that the establishment of kindergarten programs as a result of the funding initiatives prompted an increase in academic expectations of students in the early grades, which would have adversely affected children with low levels of achievement.

Again, however, we do not find consistent evidence that NCLB increased reading performance at either grade level.

In its first year, 2004 — 05, the percentage of kindergarten and 1st - grade students reading at or above grade level increased from 26 to 96 percent; in the same period, the percentage of 5th graders reading at or above grade level increased from 18 to 55 percent.

Between 2004 and 2014, the percentage of students scoring at or above grade level in reading, writing, and math increased from 33 to 48, far faster than the state average.

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), between 1990 and 2012, the scores of nine - year - olds at the tenth and twenty - fifth percentiles increased by roughly two grade levels (about twenty points).

But while the latest report confirms performance increases found in the first - year study, it also shows that the gains were not strong enough to get students up to grade level by the end of the school year.

Where, she wondered, «is the research to support: close reading, increased Lexile levels, the use of informational texts, and other questionable practices in the primary grades?»

Armed with this information, staff members at the school district, city, and partner organizations have been developing strategies and practices that give both dropouts and at - risk students a web of increased support and services, including providing dropout - prevention specialists in several high schools, establishing accelerated - learning programs for older students who are behind on credits, and implementing reading programs for older students whose skills are well below grade level.

We also need to hear much more about creating increased opportunities for students to learn other languages, starting in early grades, so they may have sufficient opportunities to reach high levels of communicative proficiency and intercultural competence.

According to statistics from CGCS, since 1995 - 1996, the number of third - grade students scoring at or above grade level in reading increased 18 percent.

Larson, who presents a session called Classroom Walk - Through Training, says teachers benefit by learning to use reflection to increase their knowledge, skills, and performance; strategically aligning classroom instruction to district curriculum; and increasing student learning across grade levels.

During his presentation, he shared a video of seventh grade Latino boys in which they appeared bored during a reading comprehension lesson when they were asked to make sense of a passage in English; however, when asked to translate the same passage into Spanish their level of engagement increased markedly.

According to the study, Reading First did not increase the percentage of students with scores at or above grade level.

As little as one additional grade level may increase the income earning potential for girls up to 20 % in developing countries.

For example, in 2012, Long Beach City College (LBCC) in California was one of the first to develop and pilot an alternative placement algorithm based on high school coursework and grades, which increased the proportion of students placing directly into college - level coursework by 21 percentage points in math and 56 percentage points in English, without significantly lowering the average performance of students in these courses.

I'm not a gambling person, but if I had to place a bet on one sure - fire method for engaging students, increasing test scores, reaching students who fall below standards, challenging students who exceed grade - level standards, accessing students» creativity and originality, maximizing brain connections formed, applying concepts to new situations, and making the learning process more fun for the students and teacher, I would place that bet on... teaching the core curriculum through the arts.