Sentences with phrase «of changing student populations»

Commentators often try to explain away this troubling trend as an artifact of changing student populations, flaws in test design, or declining student effort on low - stakes tests.

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She said she doesn't want any groups of students or young workers unintentionally left behind by whatever changes the Liberals ultimately decide upon, but suggested that future changes would look to target vulnerable populations like indigenous youth and new immigrants, who have a harder time accessing the job market.

However, today the changing population of students calls for a conscious shift to the church - on - campus model.

Nirmala Kannankutty of the National Science Foundation's Division of Graduate Education explored similarly striking changes in the demography and size of the graduate student population, which now includes many more women and noncitizens, over the past 40 years.

If nothing else, changing these dimensions will enhance the marketability of postdocs, avoiding the unpleasant choice between student and postdoctoral population control or an arrogant disregard for postdocs» employment prospects.

Hertel and doctoral student Uris Baldos developed a combination of economic models — one that captures the main drivers of crop supply and demand and another that assesses food security based on caloric consumption — to predict how global food security from 2006 to 2050 could be affected by changes in population, income, bioenergy, agricultural productivity and climate.

The scat detection dogs helped biology PhD student Alex Filazzola discover not only scat, but the importance of shrubs in preserving lizard populations in the face of climate change.

«This is particularly important when you want to look at a species» ability to cope with change,» said Jennifer Pistevos, a master of research student at the Marine Biological Association, who studied clone populations of Celleporella hyalina, a tiny organism she found to have an amazing ability to reproduce in both more acidic and warmer water conditions.

Improving the relevance of graduate education in a changing student population.

«Recent changes in the federal laws guiding special education programs have made it much more difficult to be in simple compliance with student discipline, meeting paperwork requirements, and dealing with providing for the needs of what appears to be a growing population of students who qualify for special services.»

With a population of approximately 1,500 students, 60 percent of whom are of color and 71 percent of whom are low - income, RHS is a national example of the type of programmatic systems change needed to move our schools forward.

In the future, Scott, a third - year doctoral student, plans to research schools of the deaf and how these schools are changing considering student population and technology growth.

While there has been an overall rise in the number of trainees this year, a growing student population and changes in the curriculum mean numbers have fallen short of targets, with only three subjects: History, English and PE, reaching its set goals.

From the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 1975 to its more inclusive follow - up in 1997; from the cry for attention from those lobbying for gifted students to calls for greater sensitivity to the learning styles of all student populations; from the initial proficiency tests of the early»90s to their high - stakes, pass - fail descendants; from the rise of bilingual education in some parts of the country to its demise in other regionspublic education has been a veritable vessel of change.

2) The dissimilarity index measures the extent to which schools and the overall student population are racially dissimilar, by calculating the percentage of blacks that would need to change schools if all schools were to have the same percentage of black students.

A dissimilarity index at the district level, however, measures the dissimilarity of districts and the overall student population in the area, and provides information on changes over time in racial differences in the distribution of students among districts.

As with the national data, we should be mindful that demographic changes can affect achievement trends, especially as Hispanic students make up an ever - larger proportion of our population.

In education, that phenomenon explains why some aggregate trend lines look flat or worse, even though every student subgroup is improving, because of the changing demographic composition of the total student population (e.g., lower - scoring Latino students are gradually replacing higher - scoring white students).

States, districts, and schools can change how they do this, can develop more young students into Einsteins — and can do so across more segments of the population.

We account for the variation in funding that should be directly attributed to the percentage of the student population living in poverty, independent of any change produced by an SFJ.

, Paul Hill considers the question of whether or not charter schools are major factors in the national trend of greater separation of the races in schools, which is driven by racial isolation by neighborhood, population change (fewer white students), the cost of housing, and a transportation system that makes cross-town movement difficult.

Changes in historical shares of Catholics in the population that are associated with a 10 - percentage - point increase in the private school share today lead to a $ 3,209 reduction in cumulative spending per student, or 5.6 percent of the average OECD spending level of $ 56,947 (see Figure 3).

We also include student fixed effects, which account for changes in the composition of the schools» student populations over time that can not be explained by the limited set of student characteristics for which information was available in the district's database.

The authors examined not only changes in the grade distribution over time but also changes in the educational system and in the characteristics of the student populations.

You would repeat this cycle with the new population of students making adjustments to reflect the change in your student population.

Those compound failures are particularly disturbing, Levine said, «given the enormous changes that need to happen» in response to changed student demographics, the growth in student populations, new skills required for students to compete economically later in life, and the rapid evolution of technology.

San Francisco — Secondary - school principals, challenged by dramatic changes in the character of their student populations, appear to be increasingly concerned about improving their schools and dealing more effectively with student «learning styles.»

In fact, we come to the same conclusion in both analyses: the expected increase in student outcomes after the hurricanes due to population change is no more than 0.02 to 0.06 standard deviations, or about 10 percent of the difference - in - differences estimates in Figure 1.

The headwinds of the 2008 recession and the changing demographic mix of the student population are significant.

And what better population of student to study and nurture than, as education journalist Linda Perlstein puts it, youngsters whose «bodies and psyches morph through the most radical changes since infancy, leaving them torn between anxiety and ardor, dependence and autonomy, conformity and rebellion.»

For instance, the population of students may have changed during the period in which high - stakes testing was implemented.

However, our schools have struggled to keep pace with the sheer numbers of children and rapid changes to the student population — changes that require different support structures for students and teachers alike.

The reason has to do with dramatic changes in the racial / ethnic composition of the U.S. student population during the past few decades.

Along with changing demographics of the student population, academic performance within the district gradually worsened.

Before changes made in the late 1990s, special education funds in California were distributed on a cost - based» model but the Legislature moved to a census - based» approach beginning in 1998 - 99 on the theory that the educational costs of students with disabilities would be spread somewhat evenly throughout the overall student population, according to a report from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst.

For another, Quitman's student population is rapidly changing: There was an influx of children with special needs when their school closed last academic year, and meanwhile some of the highest - performing students are being recruited away by well - regarded charter schools.

Provision of Title I Services (2002) examines the extent to which changes in Title I legislation have helped promote school improvement activities, as well as the provision of instructional services including extended time, use of pullout and in - class instruction, use of teacher aides; and coordination of services for special population students.

Evaluation Brief: Provision of Title I Services (2002) examines the extent to which changes in Title I legislation have helped promote school improvement activities, as well as the provision of instructional services including extended time, use of pullout and in - class instruction, use of teacher aides; and coordination of services for special population students.

So there was really an increase of 803,442 teachers, adjusted for the change in student population.

Whatever the reason, a change in the population of students tested can have an impact on school test score patterns and signal a weakening in schools» «holding power,» especially for the school's or district's most vulnerable students.

Rises may also reflect changes in the population of students tested more than particular school improvement strategies.

Changes in the nature of literacy itself, changes in the diversity of our student population, changes in the occupational characteristics of teaching are part of the near Changes in the nature of literacy itself, changes in the diversity of our student population, changes in the occupational characteristics of teaching are part of the near changes in the diversity of our student population, changes in the occupational characteristics of teaching are part of the near changes in the occupational characteristics of teaching are part of the near future.

The likelihood that character initiatives will survive and thrive over the years, regardless of changes in student population, personnel, and community is also carefully considered when planning new initiatives.

By 2012, though, things had changed for the better: Sanger Unified ranked third in achievement gains among California districts with high populations of minority, English language learners and disadvantaged students.

Students are challenged to grow the mountains to their maximum height (corresponding to the maximum change in light level on either side of the chain) while maintaining a viable population of plants on each side.

Assist the district to redefine needs as a result of the FEA activity and establish a new level of change, including new changes in academic and other outcomes for the student population.

Over this time, however, significant changes have occurred in the demography of the U.S. student population, in the technology available for research, and in the data available beyond the national surveys.

Students then explore how the color of the rabbit population changes as the environment changes over time.

Yet many suburban districts now rival urban districts in the challenges they face, having experienced dramatic population changes in just the past decade, with fast growing numbers of English Language Learners and students living in poverty attending Read more about Suburban Schools: The Unrecognized Frontier in Public Education -LSB-...]

Therefore, while Mrs. Blake's opinion of the white population is negative, she is willing to make changes to the school system in the form of integration and representation if it means Hartford students, including her own children, are provided with a rich, thorough, engaging, and sustainable schooling.