Sentences with phrase «number of students leaving»

As of 2012, the national dropout rate was 7 %; estimates put the number of students leaving school ahead of schedule around 1.3 million each year.

I despair at the countless number of students leaving school with pitiful knowledge and slanted interpretations of their country's turbulent past.

With the number of university applicants at an all - time high and the number of students leaving school with the adequate STEM skills needed in the modern workplace at a worrying low, we believe that this partnership approach can help to fill the widening gap.

And plenty of «no - excuses» charter schools are known for their tough discipline policies — which, yes, sometimes result in a high number of students leaving.

The report asks, «If a significant number of students left a public school district for any reason from one year to the next, is it feasible for the district to reduce the costs of these items commensurate with the decrease in its student population?»

Even if a number of students leave from different classrooms across a school district to attend a charter school, the cost of operating a community's entire school district is essentially unchanged.

Districts could be on the hook to pay teachers they don't need if, for example, a large number of students leave from one year to the next.

They also tout the programs» financial benefits, predicting that states will save money, as sufficient numbers of students leave public schools to offset losses to state revenues from tax credits.

Not exact matches

Let people and students have an open leave policy that allows them a certain number of days off (sickness, vacation, whatever).

«Overloaded and Underprepared» joins an increasing number of voices expressing concern about the future of the stereotypical high school student of today — the one with the non-stop schedule who is overstressed, anxious, not getting enough sleep and locked into rigid definitions of success that don't leave room for genuine engagement, critical thinking skills and creativity.

As The Education Trust — New York revealed in its report, See Our Truth, Latino and Black students represent 43 percent of New York State's K - 12 enrollment yet only 16 percent of the state's teachers — leaving significant numbers of students of all races and ethnicities without access to educators of color.The gap is...

The school has also not been able to raise the standard of teaching and learning over a number of years, which has left up to about 80 percent of second and third - year students unable to properly...

As The Education Trust — New York revealed in its report, See Our Truth, Latino and Black students represent 43 percent of New York State's K - 12 enrollment yet only 16 percent of the state's teachers — leaving significant numbers of students of all races and ethnicities without access to educators of color.

This is based on the number of students tracked through the system who no longer have the right to remain in the UK, but are not yet recorded as having left.

With more than two months left in the 2015 - 16 academic year at that point, the number of intoxicated students transported to the hospital t approached the total number of transports reported during the 2014 - 15 academic year, according to the report.

Feeling drained from «teaching huge numbers of students,» she left the university in 1999 to work at consulting company Cantox in Mississauga, Canada, where she learned about regulatory affairs as she helped food - processing companies win approval for new ingredients from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

This simple numerical comparison (leaving aside other factors affecting the classrooms in Spanish universities such as the large number of students in many centers and the increase in the type of «unquantifiable» work that this generates for teaching staff) shows that the «civil servant professor» has a significant decrease in availability of time for research compared to members of research - only institutes.

Encouraging students to start research early also benefits the institution by decreasing the numbers of STEM students who leave the program, he said.

43 % of New Teachers in New Jersey Plan to Leave Classroom Teaching; Nearly Half are Mid-Career Entrants At a time when U.S. schools will need to hire over two million new teachers to serve a growing number of students and replace a large cohort of retiring teachers, new research findings from the Harvard Graduate School of Education suggest that 43 % of new teachers do not anticipate staying in the classroom as full - time teachers for their entire careers.

For processing speed, students were asked to translate numbers into corresponding symbols using a number - symbol key, and to indicate as quickly as possible under a time constraint whether either of two symbols on the left side of a page matched any of five symbols on the right side.

While this number was, and essentially remains, twice the national average of high school graduates who graduate from a four - year college, we were concerned because although nearly all of the students who left our school were college - bound, we suspected we had missed the mark of college readiness for some of our students.

Staying connected: A good number of administrators would admit that it takes just a short time after leaving teaching to feel distanced from students and teachers.

Arizona school districts where a significant number of children left for charter schools responded with leadership changes and other attempts to draw students back to the district.

While the demands of the federal No Child Left Behind Act have some districts fighting to raise the achievement of students who aren't performing at grade level, the 185,000 - student Philadelphia district plans to expand greatly the number of enrichment programs for its students.

As the day goes on, any time students do something that involves math (if they keep score during a game, count lunch money, line up according to height, or count the number of minutes left before lunch, for example), add that information to the list on the bulletin board.

KIPP schools admit more new students in grade 6 than the number of students who left through attrition in grade 5.

It remains to be seen which exam boards, if any, will offer resits in subjects outside of English, maths and science, but it will likely leave many students unable to resit a large number of subjects once the new GCSE's come into force

Our members report that growing numbers of teachers are leaving the classroom due to increased levels of bureaucracy and a dramatic deterioration in student behaviour.

- Fun games to get the students to speak in the target language (see explanation under the slide)- A listening activity on what you saw and did not see at the zoo - Vocabulary slides with lovely pictures - Plenty of mini-whiteboard games on colours with animals and on opinions about animals - Grammar explanation on negative forms and verbs of opinion - Several writing activities about your favorite restaurant - Survey activity on likes and dislikes - Translation exercises - A writing activity to use longer sentences and verbs of opinion + infinitive - Grammar explanation on the partitive with worksheets to practice - Grammar explanation on infinitives and conjugating - er verbs - A lesson on infinitives and how to conjugate - er verbs - A worksheet explaining the steps of conjugating an - er verb - A fun mime the verb game - A mini-whiteboard game to practise conjugating - er verbs - Grammar explanation on numbers and quantities - Learn high numbers to be able to give prices and quantities - Mini-whiteboard activities about numbers and quantities - Games with prices - Dialogue worksheets to build up to role - play activity - A number worksheet - Put the dialogue back in order worksheet to help with role - play activity - A grammar explanation of «il y a» and «il n» y a pas» - Grammar explanation «on peut + infinitive» and other grammar revision - A song with lyrics created and sang by me with a link to the Youtube video - Vocabulary building activities to teach directions - A grammar explanation on the imperative with exercises to practice - A grammar worksheet on the imperative in French - An iPhone activity - A grammar explanation on modal verbs - A grammar explanation of prepositions with «de» and exercises to practice - A grammar worksheet on prepositions in French I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message.

In a 2008 study, we examined whether the academic achievement of special education students was affected by the number of options they had to leave their public school with a voucher.

The difficult conditions caused some villagers to leave the mountains, and a declining national birth rate has meant that the number of students has dropped from thirty in 1967 to eight today.

Released in August and dubbed, Mapping Australian higher education 2016, the report led the Melbourne - based think tank to warn that encouraging young students to pursue higher education in STEM - based courses could leave an increasing number of graduates unemployed.6

Through local collective bargaining agreements, teachers have a say in district salary schedules, the number and type of sick and personal leave, the length and timing of the school day and year, the number of students per classroom, the amount and type of support services offered to students, and the professional development provided for teachers.

Have each student in the group calculate the number of leaves on the tree; the group then uses the average of its members» counts as its official «leaf census» number.

Public school choice has exploded to include more than five million students, a number that will surely rise under the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

For the second letter of your last name, students will find that letter in the left column and write the corresponding code - letter found in the column labeled with the number 2.

Students will find the first letter of your last name in the left column and then find the corresponding code - letter in the column labeled with the number 1.

Estimating the Number of Leaves on the Tree Have students count as accurately as possible the number of leaves on a small twig from theNumber of Leaves on the Tree Have students count as accurately as possible the number of leaves on a small twig from thenumber of leaves on a small twig from the tree.

However, students could later leave school for a number of reasons, such as being expelled or moving house, which could then make the tables inaccurate.

Then, there are huge numbers of students [in Los Angeles] being pushed out of their homes or who have left home due to their sexual orientation.

For example, a charter law may restrict the number of students who attend charters or the number of new schools allowed or require a state reimburse districts for the money it loses when a student leaves the district.

If the student gets out of her seat often to do such things as sharpen her pencil or ask a question, you might give her a limited number of tickets and require that she give you one when she wants to leave her seat.

However, the government's introduction of student loan reimbursement programme for science and Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) teachers may help to reduce the number of teachers leaving in the future.

But it is essential that every time students leave our classroom, we ask a number of questions:

Within this decade, U.S. schools will have to hire 2 million teachers to replace those leaving the profession and to accommodate a growing number of students.

Such simple things, as reducing the number of actions for the task setting, or the automatization of the grading process can leave a significant time frame for the better tutoring and face - to - face communication between a student and a teacher.

Wiener: Those students who leave the school are growing in number because of family instability.

And even as we watch in wonder as high - performing urban charter schools send increasing numbers of low - income minority students to college, it is hard not to be discouraged by the many more who remain trapped in schools that simply do not work, left to wander through the same opportunity void as their parents before them.

Lastly, the National Education Association points out that moving students from public to private schools harms school districts because they can not reduce their fixed facilities and transportation costs in proportion to the number of students who leave.

Welner takes issue with one of these, arguing that Florida's OPPAGA study is based on questionable assumptions regarding the number of students who were induced to leave the public school system because of the STC program.