Sentences with phrase «means increasing student»

Instead, I chose the simple task of school improvement — a term that at its core means increasing student learning.

For example, one argument could be that better school food would mean increased student participation, which in turn would increase federal reimbursements.

«Blended learning involves leveraging the Internet to afford each student a more personalized learning experience, meaning increased student control over the time, place, path, and / or pace of his or her learning,» declares the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation.

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That means for many student loans, when the grace period is over, six months» worth of interest is added to the loan principal, and that will increase the loan balance.

Mr. Dayler, of CASA, said students in other provinces are accustomed to tuition increases and the idea that a post-secondary education means going into debt.

Typically, students who are education or business majors show an increase in religiosity during their time at college, meaning they regularly attend a religious service and place value upon their spiritual life.

«Breakfast After the Bell,» meaning any service model that provides students the opportunity to eat breakfast after the official start of the school day, has proven to be effective in transforming school breakfast programs and increasing participation by students from all income groups.

What does this partnership mean for HUMAN franchisees across the country: 1) Franchisees provide AACS students / future professionals with convenient access to nutrition education and healthful food and beverage options, including hot meals 2) Franchisees have increased access to high - traffic AACS schools in their area 3) Franchisees have increased visibility and impact in their local communities

After implementation of the Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act, change was associated with significant improvement in the nutritional quality of foods chosen by students, as measured by increased mean adequacy ratio from a mean of 58.7 (range, 49.6 - 63.1) prior to policy implementation to 75.6 (range, 68.7 - 81.8) after policy implementation and decreased energy density from a mean of 1.65 (range, 1.53 - 1.82) to 1.44 (range, 1.29 - 1.61), respectively.

«The state's rapidly improving economic picture means there's a real opportunity for the state to more fully invest in its public schools, including dedicating new money to Foundation Aid as a way of increasing equity and further helping students to thrive,» said NYSUT President Andy Pallotta.

The government's total student loan debt is expected to rise to # 55 billion by 2018, meaning an increase in top - up fees would require the introduction of a targeted, regulated private loans scheme.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Historically, student assignment policies were meant to reduce segregation and enhance diversity; however, current student choice policies and how they affect diversity in an era of increasing segregation haven't been analyzed.

But, though they feel positive about the bill itself, students were quick to reiterate that their approval does not mean they agree with the increases in tuition that caused its parturition: «We don't want higher tuition fees, it's going to prevent people from coming to university.

The team also tested the students» understanding of genetics and found that the genetics - first effect either increased genetics understanding as well or made no difference, meaning that teaching genetics first doesn't harm students» appreciation of this subject.

The nation's colleges and universities use a variety of methods for increasing these numbers, but I will share what I have found to be the most effective means for helping community college students transfer, graduate, and enter into post-baccalaureate programs leading to the Ph.D. and professional degrees.

«Though these galaxies are very faint, their increased numbers means that they account for the majority of star formation during this epoch,» said team member Anahita Alavi, a Ph.D. graduate student in Siana's lab, and the first author of the research paper.

Whilst the government has advised that it wants «fewer, larger, more resilient and efficient providers», the NUS has argued the move could mean more travel and increased expenses, deterring students from further education.

Usdin clarified that the standards are increasing, but that still means that 56 percent of students are on level and that percentage is rising.

For more visual strategies to support meaning making and retention, see our book BrainSMART: 60 Strategies for Increasing Student Learning.

Among the findings: (1) art activities can be integrated into classroom content and used to encourage rehearsal - type activities (such as songs) that incorporate relevant subject matter, (2) incorporating information into story, poem, song, or art form may place the knowledge in context, which can help students remember it, especially if the students are creating art that relates subject matter to themselves, (3) through artistic activities like writing a story or creating a drawing, students generate information they might otherwise have simply read, which will very likely lead to better long - term retention of that information, (4) physically acting out material, such as in a play, helps learners recall information, (5) speaking words aloud results in better retention than reading words in silence, (6) increasing the amount of effort involved in learning new information (such as being asked to discern meaning from an ambiguous sentence or to interpret a work of art) is positively associated with its retention, (7) emotionally charged content is easier to remember than content linked to events that are emotionally neutral, and (8) information presented as pictures is retained better than the same information presented as words.

Highlights of this year's NAPLAN results include: • There is evidence of movement of students from lower to higher bands of achievement across year levels and most domains over the last 10 years • Year 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year levels

Ms Curnock Cook further voiced that a focus on universities on increasing their intakes of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds «probably did not» threaten the prospects of privately - educated pupils, because falling pupil numbers meant students with «good A-levels will be in more demand than ever».

As states across the U.S. move to adopt standardized tests as a means to determine grade promotion and school graduation, new research presented in the Harvard Educational Review shows that sole reliance on high - stakes tests as a graduation requirement may increase inequities among students by both race and gender.

Attracting students means knowing what students are looking for in their next education provider: This may help us better meet these expectations and increase student enrolments.

The effect of the planned changes is expected to grow direct funding to universities for teaching, learning and research from $ 10.7 billion in 2017 by 8 per cent to $ 11.5 billion in 2021, and taxpayer - backed student loans paid to universities from $ 6.4 billion to $ 7.4 billion, meaning a total funding increase of 11 per cent, if universities maintained their current enrolment patterns.

An increasing number of educators and policymakers see blended learning as one of the most promising means of educating students with a wide variety of learning styles and abilities.

In addition, in cases in which inclusion really means «mainstreaming» (special education students are «brought into» a regular classroom for certain periods of the day) or when special education professionals focus solely on special education students instead of supporting, and interacting with, all students, individual differences are magnified and social isolation is increased.

This steady exodus means that low - income students are routinely taught by inexperienced teachers, that students experience the disruption and loss caused by teacher turnover, and that schools do not increase their instructional capacity over time.

With VLEs for example, while the online format means greater access for students and the possibility for flash animations and embedded video / audio means more involving learning content, at the end of the day we should avoid simply giving students increased access to yet more trackable learning objects, connected mainly with CPD and accreditation.

The speakers sought to encourage a broad national commitment to bilingualism through two means: educating limited - English - speaking students in both English and their native tongue, and increasing...

In elementary schools, where students generally spend the day with one teacher, increasing class size because of Khan would mean bigger classes in every other subject, too.

When mean wait times of three to five seconds are achieved through training, the length of student responses increases, the number of unsolicited but appropriate responses also increases, and failures to respond decrease.

This means the first designation need just say, «starting place» and subsequent graphs are amount by which the student increased from that point.

As teachers, we have to get better at turning over some of the responsibility to our students in a structured manner that increases their connection to content and offers contextual meaning in their world.

Commenting on the figures, Rudolf Eliott Lockhart, chief executive of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales, said: «While it is fantastic to see increasing numbers of students opting to take the full course GCSE in Religious Studies, a reflection of the attraction of an academically rigorous subject that helps prepare students to understand an increasingly diverse modern world, we should not ignore the troubling news that declining entries for the short course mean that more than 100,000 fewer young people have studied the subject at GCSE level this year than in 2010.

The use of interdistrict - choice programs is unlikely to increase most students» educational opportunities significantly, a new report concludes, despite recent attention to the idea as a means of reducing economic and racial segregation and giving students in low - performing public schools a chance to find a better school.

The changes in senior schooling means that there will be an increasing need for students to be able to respond to unfamiliar testing environments.

Targeted class size reductions combined with other proven methods of improving achievement would be a more cost - effective means of increasing student achievement.

In primary schools, a crowded curriculum and an increased emphasis on time spent in «on the job» training in schools have meant that students who hope to become music coordinators in primary schools have much less training in actual musical skills.

Robyn Ewing (Ewing, 2010) highlights the power of Drama as a means of increasing student agency by «authentically sharing power and risk - taking» (Ewing, 2010, p. 41) between teachers and children.

The I.S. 192 building, which Winerip complained had a double - digit increase in its student body, was built for 1,527 students, meaning it still had room to spare after welcoming all the new students in 2003 (only a third of whom, as we saw, actually arrived because of NCLB).

This means that whereas technology use in education is increasing, several students and teachers only use technology to make them efficient and not necessarily effective.

For example, the evidence is clear that high - stakes testing can produce severely inflated scores, meaning increases in scores far larger than real improvements in student learning.

School - based management is meant to improve in - class and in - school decisions that may positively influence students and help them increase self - confidence.

This does not mean that the total number of AP and IB exams taken by white students did not increase at APIP schools.

This means you have the potential to increase your student base massively, which means a lot more revenue and profit are possible than if you only run classroom - based sessions.

With cashless solutions, you get faster throughput, meaning you can serve more students and increase sales.

Research shows that students who have fun while learning recall statistics more easily, experience increased levels of happy hormones which promote learning and stay curious — meaning they keep coming back for more.

In addition, the share of DPS students enrolled in charter schools has increased from 12.3 to 20.3 percent — meaning that one in five DPS students attend a charter school.