Sentences with phrase «look at level of school»

We look at level of school (high school, middle school, or elementary school), total enrollment, percentage of the student body that is white, average experience of teachers, and school performance, as measured by the school's academic rank within the state.

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Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

This November study from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business looked at how stress and levels of control affected 2,363 employees.

At the high school level, he is so dominant that he looks out of place, like if you were to take a good junior player and drop him in a bantam game.

Advanced sports clinics are offered to experienced middle school girls who are looking to improve their skills and prepare themselves to compete at the high school level in their sport of interest.

I have a plan, of sorts, I am ready to take Science Sparks to the next level, I might look at working in a school, maybe get an education qualification.

School officials consider expansion of breakfast program (July 28, 2011): Hartford, CT is looking at expanding school breakfast at the high school School officials consider expansion of breakfast program (July 28, 2011): Hartford, CT is looking at expanding school breakfast at the high school school breakfast at the high school school level.

That's why many of our favorite books of 2016 do something a little bit extra: They take our science to a new level, looking at how schools, organizations, and society at large can apply the research to create a more compassionate world.

He said the council looked critically at the decisions of stakeholders at the last education summit and resolved that the government would continue to fund education at the primary and post primary school levels.

In a related but independent study published in July in Psychological Science, Emily Bianchi, a professor at Emory University's Goizueta Business School, looked at how the state of the nation's economy affected individual levels of narcissism.

The researchers also measured socioeconomic status looking at median household income, the percentage of individuals living below the poverty level, and whether or not they had a high school education.

Schools are being looked to as a means for addressing childhood obesity and physical activity levels because of the amount of time students spend at school during the school year.

One study led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City looked at 373 sites across India, the Philippines and Indonesia, and calculated how much damage elevated levels of lead, chromium and other chemicals imparted to human health.

The finding builds on an earlier surprise from the Joslin Medalist Study program, which looks for clues on how some people live with type 1 diabetes for more than 50 years with unusually low levels of complications, says George King, M.D., Joslin's Chief Scientific Officer and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Looking at basic demographic variations, our survey showed that those with college degrees and higher levels of household income are significantly more likely to be married than those with high school diplomas and those living in households with more modest levels of income.

Boasting a commentary track for every film, the Blu - ray packaging includes a 100 - page hardcore book with an introduction by Neil Gaiman, a massive supply of special features that offer a film school - level look at each film, and digital remasters of each film overseen by del Toro himself.

What we're trying to do is create a clearer picture of what this looks like at a school level and recognise that different people are playing different roles in that process at a school level.

The paradigm shift must include a new look at governance at all levels — school boards, mayoral control, etc. — looking at the best structure to support our agents of change.

And the situation is even worse because most regulators making decisions about what choice schools should be opened, expanded, or closed are not relying on rigorously identified gains in test scores — they just look primarily at the levels of test scores and call those with low scores bad.

For states that track other pieces of information beyond the high school level, we'd encourage them to look at college retention rates, degree - earning, and whether or not graduates are earning living wages.

Looking forward, the 2010 — 11 and 2011 — 12 school years pack a one - two punch, with school district leaders facing the end of ARRA dollars and answering tough questions about programs and personnel that have been (and will be) cut, while trying to figure out what, if any, economic recovery is in store at the state and local levels.

Here is an example and video of how this type of instruction may look at the early elementary level and here is an explanation at the late elementary / middle school level.

Looking at the levels of children that enjoy reading, three - quarters (78 per cent) of primary school children enjoy reading — the highest levels we have ever recorded.

A second necessity is an outline of what an effective school looks like, and the correlates of effective urban schools (which have held up remarkably well over the years) have given me a vision of the pieces that need to be in place for all children to learn at high levels.

Since Donald Trump's election and Betsy DeVos's selection as Secretary of Education put private - school - choice programs in the national spotlight — after years of slow - and - steady growth at the state level — advocates across Twitter and the blogosphere have been offering ideas on what a big push at the federal level might look like.

«But Deb has really gotten into the skin of the school by coming as often as she can to meetings and we'll walk around the school and we'll look at which buildings are going to be for which year levels — so she's not just blindly timetabling.»

These findings also highlight the importance of taking a close look at the practices and instructional policies at the school level, rather than solely concentrating on district - level policies.

In any case, the Philadelphia results point to the importance of looking at a range of outcomes beyond discipline rates by race, and to allowing for heterogeneity at the school level when studying district - level reforms.

Families, friends, and neighborhoods also exert an influence so that looking just at the overall level of a student's achievement does not capture the school's contribution to learning.

«In middle school, you start to see this shift of girls struggling more and their interest waning, and at the college level and at the career level, you look around and ask, «Where are all the ladies in engineering and tech?»»

«At the end of the last school year, we looked at every student who started reading below grade leveAt the end of the last school year, we looked at every student who started reading below grade leveat every student who started reading below grade level.

I know that a lot of schools are trying really hard to do that and I think it's certainly not a simple fix, it's something that we have people at high levels who know this, who are prioritising this, but somehow it's not filtering down, and we've got to look at that and how that works.

I would be really appreciative if you could pass on some journal articles or resources that are looking at implementing this approach in local schools and plausible ways of introducing it at a national / school level.

When author Karin Chenoweth began to investigate what goes in to making a school successful, she looked at a rather unexpected place: schools in low - income communties that, despite their lack of resources and supports, were showing impressive levels of student achievement.

Dozens of boys and girls playing at week - ends at U11, 12, 13 and 14 level for North Tyneside Schools Football Association (North Tyneside SFA) will be looking to score in their new tops thanks to the generosity of Whitley Bay - based First Class Supply.

We look at the program's approach, and its implications for the teaching of project - based learning in rigorous courses at the high school level, and how one district AP coordinator uses Knowledge in Action in her district.

«Now we arrive at the point — in 2014 — where you can literally walk down a hallway in Columbia High School and look in a classroom and know whether it's an upper - level class or a lower - level class based on the racial composition of the classroom,» Fields said.

But its «proficiency index» — which looks at the percentage of students getting to proficient and above — is a lowly C. Or perhaps not so lowly — almost no high - poverty schools in the state broke into the B range, because the proficiency index is almost perfectly correlated to school poverty levels.

But these previous studies looked at aggregate relationships at the school level; therefore, we can not rule out the possibility that schools with more teachers of color have different disciplinary practices for reasons unrelated to teacher demographics.

While these very low - performing schools may not have every indicator in the bottom 5 percent, it is obvious when looking at their data that these are the schools in need of the highest level of support.

The picture looks largely the same as for the national sample, with slightly larger proportions of students graduating from high school at a college - prepared level, matriculating, and completing college.

Use micro and macro triangulation of teaching and learning over time and look for patterns and trends at a whole school level and subject specific level.

The district will also develop a plan to tailor school - based services in ways to reduce suspensions, including looking at staffing levels of social workers, guidance counselors, and mental health workers.

At primary school level, Hardy said she also wanted to look at the impact of high - stakes primary assessment, particularly SATs, on the mental health of pupilAt primary school level, Hardy said she also wanted to look at the impact of high - stakes primary assessment, particularly SATs, on the mental health of pupilat the impact of high - stakes primary assessment, particularly SATs, on the mental health of pupils.

The first step was to look at each student's individualized education plan (IEP) and make a list of students by grade level who would be receiving special education and related services in the following school year.

In the first we looked only at the association of the Positive State Policy Index and teachers «ratings of the principal «s instructional leadership, controlling for two key school characteristics (building level, coded as elementary or secondary; and the percentage of students in poverty, or eligible for free and reduced - price lunch).

For example, looking at access to quality seats at the county level, we can report that the majority of schools in eight of Arizona's 15 counties can be classified as in Tier 1.

Let's look at this on two levels 1) whole school strategic approach 2) Impact to professional development, ethos and culture of teaching and learning.

One really fun question to ask actually to people at lots of different levels in schools is, what does awesome look like?

We also need to look at why with all the money thrown at Hartford schools over the years, why haven't they improved to the level of suburban schools.