Sentences with phrase «of high ability students»

«A commissioned paper on the performance of high ability students on national and international tests.»

We have re-designed our elementary high ability program to provide greater emphasis on meeting the individual needs of our high ability students.

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FedLoan Servicing was established by the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) to support the U.S. Department of Education's ability to service student loans owned by the federal government.

In addition, since your ability to obtain a private loan depends largely on a student's (and often their parents») creditworthiness, interest rates can vary quite a bit and can potentially be significantly higher than those available through one of the federal options we discussed earlier.

Everything in society is now viewed through that very instrumentalized lens and unlike a lot of other people who hold the kind of job that I do, it's totally understandable that that would be the orientation, because higher education has done a spectacularly poor job of delivering on its promises: It has racked up over $ 1.4 trillion in student loan debt, putting an immense burden upon the next generation, not only financially, but dampening their ability to innovate and create.

From next year one examination board will be introducing a choice of Shakespeare for students of differing abilities: those with a higher ability will study King Lear and those with a lower ability, Romeo and Juliet.

Most of us agree that the SAT math section does a pretty good job of measuring a student's ability to do high school math (though there are quibbles, of course).

In particular, such stressors compromise the higher order thinking skills that allow students to sort out complex and seemingly contradictory information such as when the letter C is pronounced like K (what psychologists call «executive functioning»), and their ability to keep a lot of information in their heads at once, a skill known as «working memory» that's crucial to success in school, college, and work.

Memorisation is being mistaken for learning and high academic records as a yardstick for measuring the ability of students» creativity.

Excerpt: «Chris knows that we have to invest in Oregon's community college and state university system to ensure students from all walks of life have the ability to study, train and update their skills so they can compete for good - paying jobs today and be ready for the high - tech jobs of Oregon's next economy.»

«We are really pleased to be partnering with John and Todd on this initiative and to have the ability to offer our students additional support in their transition from high school to higher education,» said Superintendent of Schools Kenneth Facin.

«For most students, access to higher education is dependent on their ability to obtain financial aid,» said Assemblymember Deborah Glick, Chair of the Higher Education Commhigher education is dependent on their ability to obtain financial aid,» said Assemblymember Deborah Glick, Chair of the Higher Education CommHigher Education Committee.

Among those middle and high school students who had the lowest levels of resilience, their ability to learn and feel safe at school was negatively affected many times.

The questions have been field - tested by over 100,000 middle school and early high school students for their ability to assess students» knowledge of life and physical sciences and to identify students» common misconceptions about the sciences.

In one study of 1,651 high school students from three states, reading ability was just as important to students» science - class grades and scores on state - level science tests as the amount of science knowledge they had.

«College Selectivity and Degree Completion,» by Scott Heil of the City University of New York (CUNY), Liza Reisel of the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, and Paul Attewell of the CUNY Graduate Center, is the first study on this topic to use nationally representative data and to account for the higher graduation rates of highly selective institutions in terms of their ability to attract and enroll higher achieving students.

In addition, some previous research has shown that when moving to a more rigorous academic environment, students» self - evaluations of their intelligence tends to suffer — even if they have high academic ability.

Making the transition from high school to college may be stressful — but it can be downright depressing for students who graduate from a school with peers of high academic ability and wind up at a college with students of lesser ability, according to a new study.

«Making a leap from high - ability high school to college of lesser academic status can be a real downer: Students who are «undermatched» as they shift into higher education show a 27 - percent hike in symptoms of depression.»

An intensive assistance of the remaining motivated students will allow a basic assessment of the demands on entrepreneurs and company owners (the necessary «ability») and therefore a safe selection and support of the «high potentials.»

For high ability students receiving financial aid, the impact of expenditures on amenities is having a negative impact post-recession.

Lowest income aided students receiving scholarships and grants that cover most, if not all, of their educational expenses and lowest ability, highest - income no - need students.

As the costs of college in the U.S. continue to rise, the disproportionate level of student loan debt among black young adults is cause for concern, as high student loan debt loads may exacerbate racial disparities in college dropout and completion rates, and may also have broader implications across the life course, including young people's ability to attain other conventional markers of adulthood (such as marriage and becoming a parent).

The study, conducted by economists Amanda Griffith of Wake Forest University and Kevin Rask of Colorado College, examines how high - ability students from 2005 - 2012 decided where to enroll from among the schools where they were accepted.

Cappella and her colleagues found that attending a middle or junior high school negatively impacted certain measures of beliefs about students» academic abilities.

The study showed that prediction of student graduation may be significantly improved by including in the college admission process consideration of AP exam performance and a small set of personality traits, along with traditional indicators of student abilities and high school grades.

«The ability to coordinate attention with another person without a smile, without an emotional component, seems to be particularly important for high - risk siblings in the development of ASD symptoms,» says Devon Gangi, Ph.D. student in the UM College of Arts and Sciences and first author of the study.

The KITPC outreach develops a series of scientific activities including public science lectures and science research group classes in order to popularize natural science, arouse interest in science and improve the scientific research abilities among the students and teachers of Universities and high schools.

Childrens Yoga in hundreds of NYC classrooms with students of all abilities and ages (from preschool through high school.)

This method of training is not only for elite level athletes, it is for people of all ages and athletic abilities, from high school students to seniors.

The level of challenge is aimed at higher ability level GCSE students but it will serve as a useful starter at A-level.

The first round of grants will focus on three areas: building commitment among policymakers and business and community leaders to increase postsecondary completion rates; improving the ability of institutions of higher learning to help struggling students at two - and four - year colleges finish their programs,...

The level of challenge is aimed at higher ability level GCSE students.

That trajectory continues through the end of high school, and then students enter college, where «there are mountains and mountains of learning opportunities... and your success on campus is dependent on your ability to chart a course for yourself.»

Students randomly assigned to receive a school tour of an art museum experience improvements in their knowledge of and ability to think critically about art, display stronger historical empathy, develop higher tolerance, and are more likely to visit such cultural institutions as art museums in the future.

If teachers of color hold higher expectations for minority students — stemming from their perceptions about student ability, effort, and behavior — they might be more likely to push students to work hard and to insist on their best effort in all assignments.

Because the local property tax base is typically higher in areas with higher home values, and there are persistently high levels of residential segregation by socioeconomic status, heavy reliance on local financing contributed to affluent districts» ability to spend more per student.

The value given to art and design in schools and colleges is impacting on choice and provision of art and design qualifications offered for both higher and lower ability students

Are comparisons between the United States and other countries truly equitable / comapable when the U.S. has a pluralistic approach to teaching all children versus other countries in which students are deliberately grouped, tracked, and segregated into different ability classifications and restricted in their access to higher levels of education?

This would be especially useful to students learning English as a Second Language who are at a much higher level of ability.

Factors other than school quality could help to explain high levels of achievement of charter school students in these states — including the ability of parents to close underperforming schools.

Compiled from various sources this mixed algebra revision sheet is a useful tool for challenging all areas of higher level GCSE students» ability.

The effect of being placed in a higher - ability classroom may not necessarily be positive, however, especially for a marginal G&T student.

Both of these admissions tests fail to assess most of the material - economics, civics, literature, foreign languages, and the ability to write an essay - that high - school students are expected to learn.

Wilson notes the dramatic withdrawal from arithmetic in the elementary grades that has occurred over the past two to three decades, reflecting the mistaken but increasingly popular view that learning whole number operations (such as the multiplication tables) to the point of instant recall is bad for a student, not necessary to higher math, and impedes students» ability to understand mathematical principles.

Washington — The «modified» ability tests that may decide whether a physically handicapped student graduates from high school or is accepted by a college do not and can not comply fully with federal regulations designed to prevent discrimination against the handicapped, according to a report issued here last week by the National Research Council, the research branch of the National Academy of Sciences (nas).

The decision, in a case brought by a former Georgia high - school student who alleged she had been sexually harassed and abused by a teacher, greatly expands the ability of students to obtain redress from school districts for acts of discrimination.

These «whole school» models appear to offer the kind of dedication to high achievement, as well as reinforcement from similarly focused peers, that serve students with exceptional abilities well.

This lesson would be suitable for students of intermediate to higher level at GCSE or higher ability at KS3.

One of the consequences of it not being addressed is that teachers who understand how the system works and value high evaluation scores will do their best to be assigned to schools with high ability students, and within schools will do their best to get assigned the best students.