Sentences with phrase «moving more students»

That said — while schools are moving more students into proficient and goal - level performance, significant gaps in achievement continue between economically disadvantaged students and their peers.»

This initiative is not about moving more students to public charter schools.

But when teachers, students, and parents are all on board, flipping has the potential not only to move more students to proficiency, but also to take more students beyond proficiency to the desired goal of mastery.

The law is aimed at improving the measurement of student performance in order to move more students successfully through the high school curriculum.

Not exact matches

At Chicago, «Ted» Snyder oversaw the move to the school's new Hyde Park campus, brought in the largest donation to any business school in the world — a $ 300 million gift from alumnus David Booth and his family — tripled scholarship assistance to students, and more than doubled the school's endowment.

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Private student loans make up a small percentage of the total student loan market, but many more borrowers have moved toward private lenders to help fund their education in the past several years.Private student loans offer some benefits over federal student loans, including the potential for a lower interest rate and extended repayment terms.

Brooklyn's NYU Tandon is moving toward gender parity by making tech more welcoming to female students.

«I think what is happening is that schools are moving more to a hybrid model, where some courses are offered at extension sites and some offered online, which means fewer student enrollments at extension sites,» Tanner said.

The program also involves a monthly teaching and research colloquy that brings faculty members together with beginning and advanced Ph.D. students for conversations that move from case studies in teaching to more personal and vocational reflections.

This being said, however, I must in all seriousness bemoan one very important omission, which seems to me to open the doors to those perplexing questions I referred to earlier: there is no greater and more moving passage about friendship than Augustine's description, in Book IV of the Confessions, of his «very dear» (but unnamed) friend, an acquaintance from childhood, a fellow student and then fellow teacher of rhetoric.

Given the 7 million monthly estimated purchases at Sodexo cafeterias, the company estimates this move will result in a savings of more than 250 million calories, 38 million grams of fat, 15 million grams of saturated fat and 304 million milligrams of sodium from student meals each month.

For many schools, moving toward a more holistic way of teaching students is key to their future success outside of the classroom.

Fashion marketing expert Raymond Nadeau, who has worked with brands ranging from Adidas to Gucci, is the show's creative director this year, a move NC State hopes will give the student designers more opportunities to market and sell their work.

By moving the time of service from before the first bell to after the first bell, more students have access to the morning meal.

North Carolina dropped spots in spite of serving slightly more students than in SY 2014 - 15, but a breakfast - in - the - classroom program is a great way to increase participation — and move up that Scorecard!

from another...» She used to be here in Michigan, more than one infant death here related to illegal use of vaccum at a home birth — her CPM credential was revoked (and later, one of her students, having learned similar practices at her «knee» also lost her credential) so I'm not surprised, but still shocked — I had understood that she was «retired» from Midwifery after she moved to Utah; I'm very saddened by this.»

The goal is to move completely from food rewards to other tangibles and eventually a more intrinsic reward system... but when you are dealing with students with behavioral issues that prevent them from interacting with their peers, you have to use what works.

Hunger Free Vermont and New England Dairy and Food Council challenge schools across the state to increase student participation in the School Breakfast Program by at least 20 % or more by moving breakfast after the bell.

You'll be able to take what you've learned here and help your students move on to a healthier, more functional life.

Last school year, more than 4,600 CPS students scored below the 24th percentile on a portion of the Illinois Standards Achievement Test and were required to attend summer school before moving to the next grade level.

This success is due in part to the D.C. Healthy Schools Act of 2010, which requires school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students in D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular school day.

Hunger Free Vermont and New England Dairy & Food Council in collaboration with the Vermont Breakfast After the Bell co-sponsors, challenge schools across the state to increase student participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP) by 25 % or more by moving breakfast after the bell.

Students will learn more about the ways that these animals move, eat, and protect themselves from danger.

During my school food career, I also founded the Chef Ann Foundation (CAF), which has reached over 7,000 schools and more than 2.6 million students with healthy school food programming, including Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools, a grant program that has donated almost 5,000 salad bars to school cafeterias since 2010.

At the same time, an enrollment increase could move some students away from private colleges in the state, negatively impacting institutions that have less money and are more regionally known.

«In the summer of 2014, we had a large number of special ed [ucation] students move into our district that were not budgeted for, which caused us to expend more than half - a-million dollars in additional funds to cover the cost of these students» tuitions and additional transportation for those students,» says Burnell.

That is more information released than in prior years, a move the group says allows parents and teachers to view students» constructed responses and also give feedback.

Students then quickly moved to take their message of change for «not one more» school shooting to the streets.

«As schools and teachers move forward with implementation of the Common Core, I would expect, over time, educators will get more familiar with the standards, and they will get better at adapting their materials to the needs of their students.»

More than 1,400 students have moved into the new Nchumuruman Community Day Senior High school at Chinderi in the Volta Region.

Although the students will mobilise into an almost army - like campaigning force, Clegg will be fortunate in that the students most angry and unconditioned to the tuition fee price hikes will have moved on, saddled with large debt, whilst the new intake will be more used to this policy and less angry.

Raubvogel, the school's principal, said moving down to the Financial District would give the students, especially the boys, more positive role models along with much - needed facilities.

Advocates say Trump's move hasn't changed that transgender students in New York are protected from discrimination but they note it does serve as a warning that New York has more to do to protect LGBT rights.

Lawmakers also moved to reduce the burden on students from tests aligned with the more rigorous set of curricular standards known as the Common Core.

Thankfully, we are moving away from the emphasis on high - stakes tests and toward the creation of more authentic student learning measures.

In a move that echoed conversations between many doctoral advisors and their graduate students, Butz urged participants to define more clearly the problems.

Vive la Trottinette is currently inactive, but it still exists, and Bourtourault has in mind to «try to move this former student association to a more professional activity that would keep this «political» arm.»»

«The herbivores created space for other plants and animals to move in and we saw much more diversity and variety in these ecosystems,» said Rebecca Kordas, the lead author of the study who completed this research as a PhD student in zoology at UBC.

Matthew Huber, who uses computer models to examine climate dynamics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, has his new students work on test projects to prove their skills before they move on to more advanced problems.

He decided mouse eggs were too fragile and moved on to more familiar terrain, instructing his student to try using bull semen and cow eggs.

Students may invest more in their friendships if they know they can't find someone new or if they think it would be hard to move in and out of relationships easily.

Samaniego spends time helping students understand simple concepts and gradually moves on to more complex questions.

The perpetrators are more prone to commit domestic violence when forced to move into a group with few fertile females, said first author Matthew Zipple, a graduate student in professor Susan Albert's lab at Duke University.

In addition, some previous research has shown that when moving to a more rigorous academic environment, students» self - evaluations of their intelligence tends to suffer — even if they have high academic ability.

The Atlas of Science Literacy illustrates how students» knowledge of science develops from kindergarten through high school as they weave together related concepts and skills and move from simpler to more sophisticated understandings.

Both the House and the Senate bills demonstrate a move away from earlier, more draconian attempts to enact a moratorium on issuing student visas.

Nurses, including Reynolds» students, will play significant roles on future interdisciplinary teams if the healthcare system moves to a more encompassing palliative care model.

«Moving from my own little PhD project to having more structure with PhD - students and postdocs that I can supervise and collaborate with is really nice.

«In fact, Wolfe moved from Pittsburgh to UCSD primarily to take advantage of the Keck Observatory; was a Principal Investigator for 40 + continuous semesters, totaling more than 100 nights; he was one of the most highly cited observers using Keck Observatory data; and he mentored the PhDs of 5 students who almost exclusively used Keck Observatory data.»