Sentences with phrase «numbers of students achieve»

CCSA advocates for rigorous academic accountability so that chronically underperforming charter schools are closed and higher performing charter schools can help even greater numbers of students achieve academic success.

The number of students achieving top grades also fell for the fifth year in a row, with the proportion gaining A or A * dropping 0.7 per cent to 20.5 per cent.

The proportion of students who achieved a C or above in their GCSEs has increased again this year, while the number of students achieving an A * saw a slight drop.

Meanwhile, within the United States, modest advances in the number of students achieving proficiency have not been accompanied by similar increases in the number of students from all backgrounds achieving at advanced levels.

«Of particular note is the number of students achieving ABB grades, which will see many of them moving on to the university of his or her choice, a high number to the top institutions.

The number of students achieving proficiency increased substantially and continued to grow with each year of support received.

In the No Child Left Behind era, K — 12 systems were judged by the number of students achieving «proficiency» on state tests — with each state left to define «proficiency» for themselves.

The number of students achieving five or more A * to C grades, including English and maths, has risen from 58 per...

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Now the published measure will include numbers of sixth - form students who achieve AAB in two «facilitating» or «E-Bacc» A Level subjects, rather than three as originally proposed.

- 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

Throughout each 10 - week period, the student coaches helped participants establish a baseline number for the amount of steps they would like to achieve in a day.

We expanded our expertise in a number of health and wellness disciplines, attracted the best and brightest faculty and students, became regionally accredited, and achieved university status.

If we can not expect students to achieve until every child has a perfect teacher, Zoch warns, we will wait a long time indeed, because the number of such paragons will always be small.

Martin is one of six teachers in the UK to receive a 2016 Teachers of Physics Award from the IOP for his outstanding work teaching physics and was nominated by his colleagues, after the School achieved a record number of students progressing to study A-Level physics.

In 2014, the number of wealthiest students who achieved three or more As increased to 21.13 per cent, while the number of poorer pupils saw a much smaller jump to 2.99 per cent.

Instead we need to be doing what an increasing number of schools like another Arizona - based school, the Carpe Diem Collegiate High School and Middle School, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a student - centric system — not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports — but to use existing resources to prioritize student learning and achieve great results.

The number of high - achieving minority students in the average school is fewer than the number of high - achieving white students.

g number of schools successfully serving low - income students provides hard evidence that when these students have access to an excellent education they can reach levels achieved by their affluent peers.

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.

While the number of sports and games out there is endless, not all motivate students to achieve their personal best.

For example, a multi-classroom leader who leads a team of teachers, coaching, co-teaching, and co-planning to achieve results for all the team's students, needs demonstrated team leadership capacity, the ability to influence others (directly and indirectly), and the drive and planning habits to serve a larger number of students exceptionally well with a team.

The Colorado Opportunity Contract Pilot Program, enacted in 2003, established a voucher program for a limited number of low - income, low - achieving students who had attended schools in any of 11 poorly performing school districts.

«It starts at the very basics and gradually becomes more difficult, and the large number of word problems helps students achieve excellence no matter what area you're concentrating on.»

That grant, managed jointly by the Florida Department of Education and the Florida Department of Labor and Employment Security, resulted in the development of a number of programs designed to provide students with the means to achieve economic independence and to provide employers with a competent and competitive workforce.

In our main experiment, we randomly assigned each of 3,000 high - achieving, low - income 2011 — 12 high school seniors to the ECO-C Intervention and the same number of students to the control group.

An earlier study by Peterson, Hanushek, and Ludger Woessman looked at which countries — and which U.S. states — were producing large numbers of high - achieving students in math.

The program is not associated with improved high school graduation rates or increases in the number of students taking college entrance exams, suggesting that the APIP improves the outcomes of high - achieving students rather than those students who may not have graduated from high school or even applied to college.

Peer review is one collaborative writing strategy that can assist students in achieving a number of the Common Core Standards, including the one stating that students will improve their writing by «revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.»

However, he adds crude measures - the total number of 40 + scores achieved by students has doubled in the last three years - would suggest it's having an impact.

If there is no challenge, such as adding single digit numbers by a student who has achieved mastery in adding double - digit numbers, there is activation of the dopamine - reward network.

Students quickly learnt the importance of accuracy when measuring the circumference and diameter to try to achieve the number 3.1415.

However, Miami - Dade is among school districts that have bucked that trend, achieving higher - than - average graduation rates among its Latino students and seeing large numbers of them scoring well on Advanced Placement tests.

One of the rallying cries of standards - based education is that all students can achieve at high levels — a point proven by a number of high - performing, high - poverty schools.

When ELL students are not isolated in these low - achieving schools, their gap in test score results is considerably narrower, according to a Pew Hispanic Center analysis of newly available standardized testing data for public schools in the five states with the largest numbers of ELL students.

Yes, but doesn't the first effect you mention happen because there is a relatively small number of underachieving students sent to an achieving evironment?

«Boosting the number of students who are called proficient without ensuring they also are prepared for their futures is a hollow exercise,» said Achieve President Michael Cohen.

The results of the studies on the efficacy of ITS systems suggest that they can be effective in achieving student learning, but a number of factors have aligned to deliver «defeat from the jaws of victory.»

In both reading and math, the U.S. produces about the same number of low - achieving white students as low - achieving black students.

Our large number of low - achieving students is also a critical issue.

The article focuses on high - achieving students who are looking for an extra challenge, but increasingly policymakers are looking to introduce larger numbers of low - income high school students to college courses as a way to jumpstart their higher education.

[i] One set of numbers for New York State finds that 70 percent of low - achieving students were concentrated in 20 percent of schools.

The researchers suggested that, although it was unlikely that the reform was intended to increase numbers of children retained or placed in special education, the net effect was that these low - achieving students were removed or delayed from the accountability stream.

And as the student population continues to grow more racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse, the teacher workforce remains overwhelmingly white.3 Research shows, however, that students of color benefit from having teachers with whom they share the same race or ethnicity, 4 and white students benefit from having nonwhite teachers as well.5 In order to increase the number of teacher candidates of color enrolling in and graduating from teacher preparation programs, several states are developing initiatives to intentionally recruit high - achieving people of color into the teaching profession.

We found that a teacher receives a higher value - added score when he is teaching students who are already higher - achieving, more affluent and more versed in English than when he is assigned large numbers of new English learners and students with fewer educational advantages.

From mastering fractions and whole - number division by the end of elementary school to completing more - advanced math courses by the end of high school, each milestone a student achieves is one step closer to success in school and in life.

While the sheer number of Latino students in California makes the task of having less concentrated enrollments of black and Latino students in many schools very difficult, Orfield rejects the view that if more racially integrated schools can't be achieved for all students, it shouldn't be attempted at all.

For example, schools will have to show that there's «clear and rigorous process for providing interventions and supports for low - achieving students in those schools» when one or more at - risk group is missing achievement goals or graduation rate targets over a number of years.

She began as a teacher at the ground level of one of the country's most economically and demographically challenging inner city populations, the North Side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she faced what so many teachers face: high class numbers, and needing to support learning, emotional and physical needs of a multilingual population of students in poverty while achieving state and district test score goals.

MCAN works toward achieving this goal by advocating for policy reforms that lower the barriers to college for students, sponsoring a number of statewide initiatives focused on increasing college access, delivering professional development to train college access professionals to be highly qualified and effective college advisers, and strengthening like - minded and mission - aligned statewide college access and success initiatives.

California English Language Development test results also show a sharp increase in the number of intermediate - level students, from 59 percent to 79 percent; and a few students have achieved advanced status.