Sentences with phrase «longer than any other students»

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This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

In spite of the fact that Socrates studied with all diligence to acquire a knowledge of human nature and to understand himself, and in spite of the fame accorded him through the centuries as one who beyond all other men had an insight into the human heart, he has himself admitted that the reason for his shrinking from reflection upon the nature of such beings as Pegasus and the Gorgons was that he, the life - long student of human nature, had not yet been able to make up his mind whether he was a stranger monster than Typhon, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, partaking of something divine (Phaedrus, 229 E).

«It's not surprising, then, that postsecondary students with LD take longer to earn a degree and are more likely to leave postsecondary schooling without earning a degree than other students,» the researchers note.

Some students complete the program in 6 years, while others may take longer than 8 years.

An important reason for this is the current setup of most university programs: Although German students experience great latitude during their university educations, they study much longer than do their competitors in other countries.

As a consequence, the racial disparities in student achievement are no longer larger in the South than in other parts of the country.

F&M staff had long observed that students who came to the Lancaster campus through Posse tended to graduate at a much higher rate than other minority students.

Though Lee's writing appears to be anexample of bad taste and poor judgmentrather than a sign of mentalimbalance or danger to others, a case from Long Island, New York, could be the bestexample of how attentionto a student's writing mayhave foiled a plan to attack aschool.

Outwardly, Success is similar to other «no excuses» (Moskowitz dislikes that term) charter schools: students are called «scholars» and wear uniforms; a longer school day and year allow for about one - third more instruction time than district schools provide; rooms are named after the teacher's alma mater; a culture of discipline and high expectations reigns.

Questions are not in order as some sections are longer than others, so the questions were re-ordered so as to keep the student's attention.

If it takes longer than a year, in most cases you then have to account for a whole pile of new variables to do with the assignment of students and teachers to particular classes, the effects of other teachers and the effects of the curriculum.

Teachers at LACES probably have more work to do than their counterparts in other districts schools, but the longer hours for staff members pay off in the relationships they build with students and peers, Rutschman said.

A Department of Education 2008 report determined that students who seek to master an academic topic with mastery - oriented goals show better long - term academic development than do their peers whose main goals are to get good grades or outperform others, thus the value of including feedback other than formal grades and of metacognition.

Many students sit the exam with relatively little formal teaching and there has long been suggestion that it is less valuable than other subjects.

Use TAs to add value to what teachers do, not replace them — avoid assigning TAs to specific students for long periods of time and ensure students who need the most support spend no less time with the teacher than other members of the class.

Yes, I know, there are other factors that contribute to their better score on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)-- longer school days, advanced science and math starting earlier in elementary school rather than high school, extra tutoring in Korean hagwons, less to learn with a more focused curriculum, no non-essential learning activities such as sports, home ec or computer applications courses.

Writing about Illinois» newly approved NCLB waiver, it breathlessly reported that, «Under a dramatic new approach to rating public schools, Illinois students of different backgrounds no longer will be held to the same standards — with Latinos and blacks, low - income children and other groups having lower targets than whites for passing state exams, the Tribune has found.»

While every student is expected to achieve high standards eventually, this approach recognises that, because of their less advanced starting points, some students take longer to reach high standards than others.

In contrast, academic studies have found that whenever students write for other actual, live people, they throw their back into the work — producing stuff with better organization and content, and nearly 40 per cent longer than when they write for just their instructor.

He did not specify how long that school year should be, however he noted that U.S. students attend classes, on average, about a month less than children in most other advanced countries.

The other good long term news is that Black and Hispanic students, who usually have much lower test scores than white students, are making greater long - term progress than whites — shrinking the achievement gap between whites and the other two groups.

In that case, how can school reformers continue to operate on the assumption that everybody other than principals and classroom teachers plays a lesser role in students» long - term success?

Second, other measures of teacher performance, such as principal evaluations, student ratings, or classroom observations, may ultimately prove to be better predictors of teachers» long - term impacts on students than VAMs.

For this reason, no day at Village Green is routine; students will work on some subjects longer than others if they need to and teachers will work with different groups of students depending on which students need to learn the same skill at that point in their lessons.

Explore students wear uniforms and have a longer school day and year than the students in the other schools in the building, schools with which they have a difficult relationship.

However, district leaders don't have all the information they need when it comes to understanding which elements of a principals» background connect most to student success, as well as the elements that lead some principals to stay in their jobs longer than others.

Students at top - tier colleges are less likely than their peers at other colleges to go into education; high - achieving college graduates are less likely to go into teaching; and those who do become teachers are less likely to stay in the profession long term.45 In recent polling, high - achieving Millennials revealed much of the thinking that goes into this drop - off: They reported that they do not believe teaching is a good career option for high - achieving students, and they feel that the status of the teaching profession is in deStudents at top - tier colleges are less likely than their peers at other colleges to go into education; high - achieving college graduates are less likely to go into teaching; and those who do become teachers are less likely to stay in the profession long term.45 In recent polling, high - achieving Millennials revealed much of the thinking that goes into this drop - off: They reported that they do not believe teaching is a good career option for high - achieving students, and they feel that the status of the teaching profession is in destudents, and they feel that the status of the teaching profession is in decline.46

«We've had English learners in the Cajon Valley area for a very long time — about half of our students speak a language other than English at home — but I can tell you the students coming from war have a particular need beyond language.»

Teens are naturally driven to stay awake later at night and sleep longer into the morning than other age groups, and school start times have been disrupting this pattern — to students» peril.

Sadly, states and local school districts have a long history of valuing some students more than others.

Scholars at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the teaching fellows program and found positive results, including a) graduates teach in schools and classrooms with greater concentrations of higher performing and lower poverty students; b) graduates produce larger increases in student test scores in all high school exams and in 3rd - 8th grade mathematics exams; and c) teaching fellows remain in North Carolina public schools longer than other teachers.

Other research shows two in five secondary schools may be commissioning independent alternative provision as part of «off - site alternative provision» and more than one in five may use this for a full academic year or longer for their students.

It also confirms what we've long known: student achievement at high - poverty schools is lower than at other public schools.

Many elite colleges and universities no longer offer undergraduate teacher preparation programs, and many teacher preparation programs are housed within less selective colleges.5 Nonetheless, the academic profiles of teaching candidates in regional comprehensive universities are high relative to other programs offered in those schools.6 Furthermore, many teacher preparation programs do not have admission criteria beyond those of their home institution, and only have access to a pool of candidates already admitted to the overarching college or university.7 For these reasons among others, the average SAT scores of students going into education have historically been lower than those of their peers entering other professions, although there is some evidence that this is shifting.8

Schools with the longest hours tend to be charters and to serve a larger percentage of low - income, black, and Hispanic students than all other schools, according to a new report from the U. S. Government Accountability Office.

In fact, the importance of experience may be clearer in the teaching profession than any other, as shown in a recent re-analysis of the STAR Tennessee experiment, showing that Kindergarten students had higher achievement and earnings as adults, depending on how long their teachers had been in the profession, with gains for every year up to twenty.

All classes and other school - related activities will be canceled the day of the strike, and students will have to attend school on June 18, one day longer than originally scheduled.

I hope that your students will WANT to complete this fun book report project that is larger and contains longer writing responses for students than other wanted posters that you have used in the past.

«This long - term, upward trend is far more important than a snapshot for a single year and reflects the hard work of thousands of teachers, principals and other educators and their dedication to helping students meet high expectations.»

He made five overarching points: that's it's possible to implement measures of teacher effectiveness, that LA Unified has a higher ratio of ineffective teachers than school districts studied by other researchers, that a disproportionate number of ineffective teachers in LA Unified serve Latino and African American students, that effective teachers have a causal effect on student achievement and that teachers have long - term impacts not only on student achievement but also lifetime earnings.

Other installment accounts with terms extending longer than one year (i.e., student loans, personal loans).

For example, if your credit report shows an old paid - off student loan or other account no longer active along with a new credit card opened less than six months ago, together they can generate a credit score for you as of the moment the new card appears on your credit report.

While some interest rates are much lower than others (like student loans, which tend to have large balances that naturally take a long time to pay down), credit card interest rates tend to be hefty.

Employment outcomes tend to be less favorable for these graduates than others, hampering their ability to manage their student loan debt and build wealth long - term.

Under current law, only students with an expected family contribution (EFC)-- the amount that the federal government expects a family to pay toward the student's postsecondary education expenses — of less than about $ 5,200 are eligible for a Pell grant, whereas recipients of subsidized loans may have a larger EFC, as long as it is less than their estimated tuition, room, board, and other costs of attendance not covered by other aid received.

But if you're unable to contribute money to a 401 (k) or other retirement fund because you are repaying student loans, you may miss out on a decade's worth of saving and have to work longer than you would like during your lifetime.

Why we like it: The Perkins loan has a very competitive interest rate, no loan fees, more money per student than Stafford loans, and a longer grace period than other loans.

Yes, I'm always enthusiastic about student accommodation — I believe it's more defensive / contra - cyclical than most other property out there in the event of an economic / property downturn, and will continue to benefit from the long term tailwind of helicopter parents & snowflake students who love high quality / custom - built / secure student accommodation!

I suppose there must be data on how many minimum wage earners are students or other people intentionally temporarily at that level, rather than people who have no other long - term prospects.

The ABA Sourcebook on Legal Writing Programs recommends that in a program using tenure - track professors «each professor in a required first - year legal writing course should have no more than 30 to 35 students» and that this faculty / student ratio should be reduced when the writing professor teaches another course at the same time.145 In a program using full - time legal writing professors on long - term or short - term contracts, each professor should have no more than 30 to 45 students each semester, «assuming the professor is not teaching any other course,» and «[s] maller numbers are better.»