Sentences with phrase «of day the students»

They would have defined lessons in science, maths, humanities and English but that was, say, for two hours of the day and the rest of the day the students would come together as a large group and do tasks from any of the areas, so there was a lot of student autonomy around what they were choosing to do.

In addition, 86 % of day students at the school were accepted into their first - choice university, of which over a third of students (38 %) will be going on to study at a top 10 ranked university in the country.

Consistent with the Wisconsin evidence, parallel studies in Colorado and Maryland found that weather - related differences in the number of days students had spent in school when they were tested had noticeable effects on their achievement.

At the end of the day students and teachers would spend a few minutes together debriefing the activity and connecting it to the theme.

A 2008 study of graduation patterns in Chicago Public Schools, for example, found that the number of days students were absent in eighth grade was eight times more predictive of freshman year course failure than eighth grade test scores.

• Decreased the average number of days students spent in suspension by 1.8 days overall, and by 3 for African American students.

There's no doubt that teachers and parents prefer smaller classes, but what would the impact on student learning be of increasing class size by this modest amount in order to make a large increase in the number of days students spend in school?

The first and last periods of the day students are with the same teacher and their mainstream class.

A sample of 36 Great Expectation model elementary schools were matched with 556 Oklahoma non-Great Expectations elementary schools based on the following variables: ethnicity, free and reduced lunch eligibility, school size, average number of days students absent, percent of parents attending conferences, percent of teachers with advanced degrees, percent passing third grade reading test, district population size, unemployment rate, average household income, teachers per administrator, percent of student's in special education, instructional support budget, and district percent passing Algebra I. Five years of pass rates on third grade reading and third grade math state exams were examined.

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To provide as much scheduling flexibility as possible, Asper students can take classes on one of three timetables: afternoons and evenings from Monday to Thursday, all day on Saturday and Sunday, or Saturday and Sunday mornings.

Adam White, general manager at Coinbase, vividly recalls trying to write about bitcoin while he was a student at Harvard Business School during the early days of crypto.

We have a relatively thankless job, so rest assured that we work hard each day for the sole purpose of immense compassion for our students.

One of the three experiments in the study had 30 university students refraining from eating and drinking between 11 p.m. and the time they arrived to the study lab the next day, which was either 8:30 a.m. or 9:15 a.m. Half of the participants were served breakfast before the experiment, the others went straight to the Iowa Gambling Task.

According to a study of 367 college students conducted by biologist Christoph Randler, early risers perform better on the job, attain greater career success, and reap higher wages than people who start their day later.

«They're [still] college students at the end of the day,» Biyani says.

My 29 «Foundations of Entrepreneurial Management» students at Babson College made solid 12 - month revenue estimates in three days so I know it can be done without spending a huge amount of time or money.

Students take courses in four 10 - day sessions or «modules,» the second of which takes place in Palo Alto, California.

That, too, is a creation of Daniel Zhang, who latched on to a day celebrated ironically by romantically unattached Chinese college students and turned it into a behemoth e-shopping event.

In fact, about 90 percent of student loans these days are provided by the federal government.

The decision came as Jennifer Campisi was taking her 9 - year - old son E.J., a transgender student, to the first day of school in the Dallas - Fort Worth area.

Anderson was teased terribly at school and harassed by students and a hateful headmaster, and he considered those some of the darkest days of his life.

A concrete example of this that landed one of my students, Miriam Pearl of Delicious Without Gluten not just an interview but a regular column on her local breakfast TV show was pitching gluten - free Valentine's Day treats.

Landau: Mariel Hemingway joined the day after I did, but a lot of university students and everyday managers are there, too.

In 2014, just days before the start of student - led democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong, he traveled to Beijing and met with President Xi Jinping.

It recommends that parents sign their students out of school for those 17 minutes or for the whole day.

On the topic of temptation, Green said he learned a big lesson from the early days of his first company, Zimride, a ride - sharing service for college students and employees of local companies.

University students in Tokyo on their last day of classes before summer holidays did just that, jumping into the fray within moments of the launch, capturing monsters as a frenzy erupted between classes.

One school administrator says she meets a lot of students at different sessions and doesn't remember all of them, so sending a quick e-mail within a day or two allows you to reintroduce yourself.

A few days after a gunman murdered 17 of her fellow students in Parkland, Florida, she stood at a podium and, with unbelievable poise and power, said the fearless words that adults couldn't.

These days the company publishes its freebie unofficial student guides for 70 colleges in 35 cities, with a total circulation of one million.

The Senate's epic fail surprises no one as interest rates on Stafford student loans double today, the end of Google Reader is nigh, Independence Day is predicted to be a legendary travel bonanza, acco...

Another interesting nugget: At the time, Facebook had a 1.9 million monthly userbase (out of which an impressive 1.2 million logged on every day, proving that even in its infancy, Facebook was potently addictive) that primarily used the network to do things like «find students who share similar interests or courses.»

What's more, she's also using the day to teach her students about the lack of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.

The other founder, Ryan Bubinski, longed for his days at Columbia University, where he taught programming and evangelized the importance of learning to code through a student group he had founded called the Application Development Initiative.

Drucker plans to do this with dozens of customers in the coming days, as the community grieves the loss of its students, peers, and colleagues.

The journey to the doors of huge tech firms has been ironic for Powers and Walker, since both of them knew so little of Silicon Valley during their student days.

That was the scenario a few days ago at Hero City in San Mateo, where Adam Draper, founder of the Bitcoin - focused startup accelerator Boost, interviewed four members of his family before an audience of Boost participants and Draper University students.

More of our students gain access to high - speed internet in their schools every single day,» he said.

In his online course, «Kindle Launch Plan: $ 1400 in 30 Days & an Amazon Bestseller,» Loper teaches his students how to build a foundation on Amazon and then successfully launch a book even if an author doesn't yet have a large audience of fans.

At the end of the first year, students are taken on a 10 - day international study trip, where they meet local executives and learn about local business conditions.

We've started world language immersion programs in which students spend half of each school day learning in Chinese or Spanish, beginning in kindergarten.

Student Union, on the first day of Black History Month.

We're also doing a scaled - down version of this global project for students all over the world, using data to understand their communities, for one day, on November 8th.

FORTUNE — Hundreds of students, business leaders, and investors crammed into the Shell Auditorium at Rice University on Thursday evening to watch the Rice Business Plan Competition elevator pitch contest, arguably the most dramatic event at the university's three - day business plan extravaganza.

Coulter said those requirements included that she make her speech in the middle of the day, that the event only be open to students, and that the venue she'd be speaking at wouldn't be announced until the last minute.

An earlier version misstated the day of the planned student walkout.

Singles Day was begun by Chinese college students in the 1990s as a version of Valentine's Day for people without romantic partners.

The right time to demonstrate your interest in startup life isn't when you're interviewing for your first startup job, according to Brewster Stanislaw of Inside Social: «It's quite easy these days to expose yourself to entrepreneurship as a student.

That would require the center to increase the number of staff per student but also would permit charging higher fees than the current weekly rate of $ 115 per full - day child and $ 78 for after - schoolers.

Bill Gates was the most public face of Microsoft, but of course the company started as a partnership with the kid Gates met one day in a group of students crowded around a teletype machine in a Seattle high school.