Sentences with phrase «made grades difficult»

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In a letter to parents seen by NBC 6, the school said: «Today, a difficult and necessary decision has been made regarding Ms Jocelyn Morffi, our first - grade teacher.

In describing why the person should go to AA as well as participate in counseling, it is well to stress that making the grade to stable sobriety is a difficult accomplishment in which several forms of help are often needed.

When you give everything a subjective aim, and make this apply right down the scale, you are using language which is very difficult to make intelligible, except in the case of what Whitehead calls «high grade organisms.»

If that's difficult to envision, get this: Trinidad Moruga Scorpion peppers contain about as much capsaicin — the chemical compound in peppers that makes them burn by activating heat receptors in human nerve endings — as a shot glass full of law enforcement - grade pepper spray.

We had a very difficult season because players we brought in from Europe didn't make the grade and we paid the price.

Despite how much sense it makes for both teams, there are just two not - so - tiny problems here that make it difficult to grade this rumor above a C -.

To make things even more difficult, I have an autoimmune disease that gives me joint pain, fatigue, and low - grade fevers.

This has made it more difficult to attain top grades in those subjects.

In speeches, interviews and a letter over the past few weeks, the governor has said that he thinks the state's teacher grading system, only in its third year, is too easy to pass, making it too difficult to fire underperforming educators.

It's not easy being the new kid in school, and it's made unimaginably more difficult when you're starting fifth grade and you have a disfiguring condition called Treacher Collins Syndrome.

However, the nature of educating young children makes advancement difficult in the early grades.

Which teacher is going to welcome teaching the most demanding and difficult pupils if they know that, despite their best efforts, those pupils are not going to make the required improvements in their grades to meet the teacher's objectives?

As James Coleman observed as early as 1959, students often gang up to pick on the «curve raiser»: when students are graded on a curve relative to one another, those who work hard and raise the class average make things difficult for other students, who must then work harder for their grades (see «The Adolescent Society,» features, Winter 2006).

The Telegraph has reported that the new GCSE's, which grade pupils on a 9 -1 system opposed to the traditional A * - G, will make it more difficult for schools to reach national benchmarks, with more than half expected to fall short.

«The things that make it especially difficult moving from grade five to grade six is the students go from a self - contained, supportive atmosphere where they have one teacher they know... to sixth grade and they are confronted with seven different [teachers»] personalities.

The middle grades social studies curriculum is invariably a mile wide and an inch deep, making it difficult to do justice to the subject and to our students.

This means that doing well in a class makes it more difficult for others to get top grades.

Was it made more difficult that they weren't even of the same grade level I was teaching?

CCSS has made a great start in identifying those standards and the grade level where those learnings should occur, but CCSS are end - of - year standards, not scaffolded within the year, and many would argue, too complex and too difficult for individual teachers to universally and correctly interpret, and too numerous to reasonably expect all students to master.

Summer learning loss can have compounding effects on academic achievement — if a student is already struggling with learning to read, a summer setback can make it that much more difficult for the student to be reading to learn by fourth grade.

The spokeswoman said the wider specialist options under the new syllabus would have made it very difficult to set grade boundaries.

But the shift is largely attributable to school success, because flat or improved test scores statewide triggered a new clause in the school grade law that makes the grading scale more difficult when too many schools earn either an A grade or B grade.

And, this really makes it difficult to have students reach grade level expectations.

According to the state's request, NCLB's goal of 100 percent proficiency by 2014 makes operating schools difficult because Michigan would have to raise performance targets to make that goal — a move that would penalize more and more schools that don't meet the rising grades.

Declines in student enrollment may be dispersed across all grade levels and schools within the district, but may be minimal in particular schools or classrooms, making reductions in spending difficult.

Nevertheless, Committee members found the evidence on the impact of high - quality pre-K and third - grade reading so compelling that members recommended making difficult choices to prioritize these areas even at the potential expense of other K - 12 funding priorities, such as lowering class sizes, investing in teacher professional development, and improving classroom technology, that have not been shown to correlate as strongly with improved student outcomes, particularly for high - need students.

Millions of American adults read at or below the fifth - grade level, making it difficult for them to perform such everyday tasks as reading a newspaper, writing and addressing a letter or completing a job application.

This inconsistency makes it difficult to generalize about the success of the program in preparing students cognitively to keep up in later grades.

The author concludes that such practices as grade inflation and grade nonequivalence make it difficult for college admissions officers to make a valid assessment of a student's achievement in comparison with other applicants.

Structuring an assignment could be difficult for a student, but there are certain methods of writing an assignment which makes it easier and helps to fetch better academic grade.

... while «good enough» can be a little difficult to define, «not good enough» is very easy to spot: almost every single one of the self - published books I've been sent for my self publishing review blog has slotted into this category, some far more easily than others (and bear in mind that I've got a backlog of book reviews waiting to be scheduled for publication, and most of them didn't make the grade).

The assignment in the same sometimes seems to be difficult to complete for most of the students, and to deal with such an issue, we have come up with aerospace assignment help where the students get professional assistance to secure the best grades and impress their professor with a quality document without making much effort.

The well - respected private schools that boast 100 % university acceptance do so not by giving away good grades, but by making them more difficult to achieve.

This can make determining between grade 2 and 3 difficult.

Generally speaking, dry pet food made with animal protein contains rendered meat by - products, which are more difficult for pets to digest than human grade meat.

With nostrils floating in a sea of rubbery flesh, shirt buttons straining against a bloated paunch, the overall impression is one that makes me think back to Mr Ward and his production of Animal Farm in sixth grade where my drama teacher found it difficult to transform human children into convincing representations of authoritarian Orwellian livestock.

There is also an AI training suite with increasingly challenging combat scenarios that get pretty difficult quickly and you are graded on your performance which make these worth replaying.

It's extremely difficult and costly to make weapons grade material from the used fuel from modern civilian nuclear power plants.

My suggestion would be to look for properties than may be listed as «unbuildable» or odd lots where grade or drainage (flood plain) might make building conventionally difficult or limit the use of footing, basement, conventional septic.

The builder noted that the sloped site conditions made it difficult to assure that the bottom part of the exterior insulation would stay sufficiently above grade over time.

(1) There is no evidence that the «Socratic Method» is a particularly effective pedagogical method; (2) Unlike other disciplines, the vast majority of law professors have no experience teaching, nor any education on how to effectively teach, prior to becoming law professors; (3) Using final essay exams for 100 % of a students mark, then distributing the grades on a curve, is, to be charitable, not the best way of accurately assessing and representing to future employers students» grasp of the subject matter; (4)» Teaching students to think like a lawyer», to the extent anyone even knows what that is supposed to mean, is made difficult by the fact that most tenured law professors have little if any real experience in the practice of law themselves.

In any case, the strong YouTube compression and the intense color grading also makes it difficult to really compare the quality in any measurable way.