Sentences with phrase «little difference for those students»

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Along the way, certainly, those efforts have produced individual successes — schools and programs that make a genuine difference for some low - income students — but they have led to little or no improvement in the performance of low - income children as a whole.

I hope you younger students, even you girls way back there in the sunshine yellow ties, remember that the little things you do for others really make a difference — not only for the people who you help, but for your own growth and sense of self - worth.

More important, however, is the fact that the vast majority of HISD students are unaware of these nutritional modifications; to our children, there's little difference between HISD's beef taco nachos (which, I believe, use reduced - fat cheese and baked chips) and the beef taco nachos they get off campus (except for the fact that the latter may taste better).

«I think if we can just slow down a little bit on the high - stakes assessment and get teachers comfortable using something like Toward High School Biology or units from IQWST then teachers will begin to get a feel for what [the new standards] mean and will start seeing a difference in their students learning,» Roseman said.

A growing body of research suggests that college remediation programs — meant to bolster the skills of students deemed underprepared for the rigors of postsecondary study — seem to make very little positive difference to students, and may even have a negative effect on overall success in college.

These changes can be difficult even for students who have the best supports, but for students with disabilities, English language learners, and those with little family or community support, these transitions can make the difference between success and failure.

Giving thanks for the little things makes a difference to students!

These little interactions can be the difference maker for a struggling student.

As hard as it is when you're a busy student, planning ahead makes a big difference; if you can slot out a little time each day on the days leading up to an exam to study in different ways — try using a study app one day, review with friends the next, create a practice test on the third — you'll be much better prepared for test day.

While quantitative input measures show little impact, several measures of institutional structures and of the quality of the teaching force can account for significant portions of the immense international differences in the level and equity of student achievement.

In addition, they found little difference between scores on papers students selected as «best pieces» and scores for the rest of the writing portfolio, a finding that is inconsistent with other evidence suggesting lack of generalizability across different writing tasks (Dunbar, Koretz, Hoover, 1991).

It will steer us toward measurable pain points that we can turn into opportunities for professional learning so that little by little, gain by gain, we will make a tremendous difference in student learning.

While some charter schools serve some of the students in highest need, analysis of TEA data for 2016 - 17 statewide reveals that there is very little difference in the percentage of students served who are considered at risk of dropping out: 50 percent in traditional schools compared to 52 percent in charter schools.

This might be the case for the individual student, but system - wide it makes little or no difference.

And consider the difference a little green marker can make for an amateur astronomer or environmentalist, a high school student working on a science fair project, a Wikipedian struggling to build the best researched entry she can in Wikipedia, and then the reader who follows her links to learn more about the topic.

Lindsey Meleg, Medical Assistant student, participated in the Hunter Hospitality House collection and expressed her desire to help by stating, «when a family has a loved one that is in a hospital for an extended period of time sometimes the little things make a big difference.