Sentences with phrase «much higher number of students»

Exam officials have stressed that tougher requirements on accuracy in the new exam, and a much higher number of students taking the papers could explain lower grades.

Following the outcry of the grades awarded, exam officials have stressed that tougher requirements on accuracy in the new exam, and a much higher number of students taking the papers, could explain lower grades.

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Much to the distress of the session's chair, higher education minister David Lammy, one of the joint winners was a suggestion for a cap on the number of places at Oxford and Cambridge given to privately - educated students.

Rather than having regular check - ups on student progress, with relatively low stakes on those results, we'd have much higher stakes attached to a smaller number of test scores.

«A growing number of other countries are turning out entire high school graduating classes that are much better educated than ours, with much more equity, and they are doing it at a lower cost per student,» says Marc.

A growing number of other countries are turning out entire high school graduating classes that are much better educated than ours, with much more equity, and they are doing it at a lower cost per student.

So, as much as we may want ever - increasing numbers of students to graduate high school ready for college and career, amping up the criteria for attaining the general diploma to such a high degree, at least too quickly, is neither the right thing to do, nor is it practically or politically sensible.

Apparently, the AP program hasn't so much raised the level of the curriculum in the American high school as it has created an escape hatch that lets a small number of ambitious students get out of the low - demand environment for a few hours.

So, there are a number of trials, albeit much smaller than this EEF trial, which suggest that a Lesson Study approach can have significant, positive impact on student outcomes, but only when the content is of high quality.

One study of struggling readers who were also second language learners noted that the key factor in how much progress students made was the number of texts each student read at 98 percent or higher accuracy (Ehri, Dreyer, Flugman, & Gross, 2007).

Research suggests that cutting the number of high school dropouts by even a quarter could contribute more than $ 12 million to the economy for each graduating class — and as much as $ 5 million more if those students go on to college.

There are a number of good ideas being floated, recently and prominently in a January 2013 address to The Pope Center in North Carolina by Dr. Sandra Stotsky, who believes that the weighting of education reform focus should be shifted from student standards to a priority on educator standards, beginning with much higher standards for admission to preparation programs and limiting schools of education to the graduate level.

In Weld RE-4, south of Greeley, some elementary classes have more than 27 students — you want to typically keep those numbers much lower in the primary grades; in high school they have classes of 32 and 34 students.

The portability amendment would have slowed states to allocate Title I funds to districts based on the number of poor students who attend, but the White House criticized the idea saying that 25 percent of school districts with high concentrations of poverty, above 25 percent, would lose as much as $ 700 million in federal funds while low - poverty districts would gain as much as $ 470 million.

At work in over seventy colleges during this initial testing year, some schools saw as much as a 24 % increase in students» completion of higher math courses, as well as a ten percent decrease in the numbers of students dropping math classes due to unpreparedness.

With so much government attention and funding going towards creating the so - called 21st Century Learners and with the nearly 100 % widespread adoption of the Common Core in the US which requires focused technology instruction, high school students are now using those same devices for academic purposes in greater numbers than before.

Certainly a much higher number of debtors who filed bankruptcy have some of the very same characteristics but never filed an adversary proceeding to get a full discharge of their student loans.

In the United States, the number of student loans is much higher than in any other place.

The number of high school students passing New York State's standardized tests, the Regents exams, is raised by as much as 10 percentage points if the teachers participated in Columbia University's Summer Research Program for Science Teachers, the study found.

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS • Developed a project as part of the high school pilot project series in a bid to assist students understand the methodologies for ribonucleic acid encapsulation • Increased student interest in laboratory work by introducing real time lab projects including minor electrostatic interactions with DNA • Decreased the number of high school students opting out of chemistry class by 30 % by implementing chemistry concepts through non-conventional methods of teaching • Introduced interactive curriculum development to the school which brought about much interest from students willing to become part of the chemistry lesson planning activities