Sentences with phrase «of higher achieving students»

Tracking, the practice of putting a small group of higher achieving students into separate advanced or honors classes, isn't popular with progressive educators.

Concise student friendly descriptions of the key characteristics and mindset of a high achieving student.

He says that, «LAUSD has a large population of high achieving students from low socioeconomic backgrounds.»

«We were very proud to see our percentage of A * / A grades increase this year and it's fair to say that a large number of our highest achieving students were heavy users of the Pods for revision.

The same can be said of a high achieving student who transfers to a school that is producing high gains with low achieving students.

Parenting Practices of Lower Socioeconomic Status Parents of High Achieving Students.

Not exact matches

Taking a step back from the specific question of what the Parkland students achieved, it's clear from the polling data that support for increased gun control remains high and has steadily increased in recent years.

As a high - achieving student, a super-charged executive or entrepreneur, a busy mom turned home - based businesswoman or one of those active «retirees» who will never really retire, you need those treasured matcha shots of varied recipes to maintain your sanity and equilibrium each and every day.

Students at these high - achieving schools can be ranked in the bottom quartile even with excellent grade point averages, and consequently feel «dumb» and «less worthy» compared to the majority of their peers.

Alexandria Marsicovetere is a participant of Uplift Plus at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a program that seeks out high - achieving high school students who have been historically underrepresented in higher education.

Many middle schools offer gifted or high achieving students the option of taking high school courses before high school even begins.

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

The Waldorf School of Baltimore is a member partner school with B.E.S.T. BEST spectrum of services begins with the identification and recruitment of high - achieving African American students in Baltimore who have the potential to thrive in an independent school environment but lack the financial resources necessary to enroll.

Pope, the co-founder of Challenge Success, said that research from that group found that high school students from high - achieving schools average more than three hours of homework each night, and middle school students average about 2.5 hours.

To get ahead, many of these high - achieving students feel compelled to compromise their values and manipulate the system.

For high school credit courses, the percentage of CCSD students achieving Developing to Distinguished scores was: 88 % for 9th Grade Literature and Composition (78 % Georgia), 86 % for Algebra (70 % Georgia), 88 % for American Literature and Composition (76 % for Georgia), 87 % for Analytic Geometry (70 % Georgia), 81 % for Biology (68 % Georgia), 79 % for Physical Science (66 % Georgia), 88 % for U.S. History (77 % Georgia) and 87 % for Economics (81 %).

By contrast, in Japan, 85 % of students achieve the equivalent of maths A-level, and Indian students study maths and science for twice as long each week at high school as their British counterparts.

Ms. Moskowitz proudly touted the success of Success, noting with real joy how three students at the school in Bed - Stuy had achieved a perfect score on an international math test «out of 30 or 40 worldwide» and taking particular pride in how many of the schools» high achievers are «black and brown» and from neighborhoods that face enormous disadvantages.

But as at now the promise of making education free for all students of senior high school has not been achieved... it's in the interest of government to state this because some parents of second and third year believe that their children are going to enjoy free education and if it is not explained, it will create problems for the headmasters and headmistresses.

Parents worry about funding and standards for their public school students and remain least concerned about the amount of testing in classrooms, a survey released by High Achievement New York and Achieve found.

Still suffering from last year's school budget cuts and with the mayor threatening more to come, UFT members at high - achieving Leon M. Goldstein HS for the Sciences in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, rallied and leafleted faculty, staff, students and members of the community on Nov. 17 with the message «No Budget Cuts — Save Our Schools.»

``... well - implemented community schools lead to improvement in student and school outcomes and contribute to meeting the educational needs of low - achieving students in high - poverty schools.

With this in mind, I've long supported opportunity scholarships, which allow students transfer from underperforming schools to higher achieving schools where they can take advantage of the best our education system has to offer.

There are hundreds of students across the country with the skill set to be successful in high - performance computing, but the only way to achieve success or reach this potential is to «get in the game.»

«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.

Gustafsson and graduate student Hesper Rego had achieved higher - resolution SIM with a variation called saturated depletion non-linear SIM, but that method trades improvements in spatial resolution for harsher conditions and a loss of speed.

Many teachers in top - achieving schools with high levels of collective efficacy talked about how they used social persuasion to enforce norms of high expectations for student success.

The majority of minorities entering science and engineering are from the middle - and upper - income families, but considerable debt and modest earnings (compared to business, law, and medicine) may deter even some high - achieving minority students from choosing these fields.1 Up to 25 % of academically qualified low - income students either do not apply to college2 or drop out, unable to keep pace with escalating prices.3

Chung, Student aid and major choice: A study of high - achieving students of color.

The academics believe spotting «procrastinators» who hand in work at the last minute early on and warning them of the dangers of the habit could help students achieve higher grades.

Together with Persson, Berkeley Lab scientist Gerbrand Ceder, postdoctoral associate Miao Liu, and MIT graduate student Ziqin Rong, the Materials Project team investigated some of the more promising materials in detail for high multivalent ion mobility, which is the most difficult property to achieve in these cathodes.

WEST ORANGE, N.J. January 7, 2016 — Kessler Foundation awarded a two - year, $ 500,000 grant to Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago to launch the Realizing Education and Advancement for Disabled Youth (READY) Program — a transition program for high school students with disabilities in Chicago, Illinois, so that they can achieve economic independence after graduation.

An international research team led by Takuma Izumi, a second - year master's student of science at the University of Tokyo, and Kotaro Kohno, a professor at the University of Tokyo, successfully captured a detailed image of high - density molecular gas around an active supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy called NGC 1097 at the highest sensitivity ever achieved.

Students at New York's High School of Performing Arts see if they have the dedication and talent necessary to achieve their dreams.

Test - based incentive programs, as designed and implemented in the programs that have been carefully studied, have not increased student achievement enough to bring the United States close to the levels of the highest achieving countries.

The hope is that the educational needs of high - achieving students get the attention they deserve — and that they didn't get in the NCLB era.

In particular, it is not known whether teachers leave schools with high concentrations of disadvantaged and low - achieving populations for financial reasons or because of the working conditions associated with serving these students.

Another school profiled is the Denver School of Science and Technology, which enrolls a mostly - minority, 47 percent low - income student population and has achieved «national renown» for its results, including the second - highest longitudinal growth rate in student test scores statewide.

Male trade high school students achieved an average time of 7 minutes and 40 seconds, technical high school students 8 minutes and 15 seconds and academic high school students 9 minutes and 12 seconds.

Benefits to School Life Looking at the lasting impact of LOtC experiences in terms of academic performance, Learning Away's recent research found that school trips resulted in higher academic achievement, with 61 per cent of students achieving higher than their predicted grade following a school trip based on the subject area.

High taxes and equitable wages... Half the Half to a quarter the percent of students achieving in the top bands as Singapore.

(For high achieving students who are already approaching this standard, schools would be held accountable for making sure they grow at least a year's worth of learning every year.)

Moreover, a 2014 Public Health England report found that the amount of moderate to vigorous physical activity students engaged with at 11 years of age had an effect on academic performance across English, maths and science, including final GCSE exam results, with active students found to achieve up to 20 per cent higher results than non ‑ active students.

The Fordham Institute's new report, High Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all studeHigh Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all studeHigh Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all studehigh - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all students.

A new poll has revealed that high school students with a desk in their bedroom get better grades in exams, as 51 % of parents with children that achieved five or more A * to C graded confirmed that their child's bedrooms were equipped with desks or dedicated study areas; compared to just 18 % of those who failed their GCSE's having a desk.

The difficulty of attracting high achieving students to university education programs is more challenging than is reflected by ATAR entry scores.

The teacher will have a thorough material on marketing, that will let him or her achieve a significant improvement of the student's knowledge on this area, and additionally is a material cumulated during my last 8 years teaching the subject, fundamental on achieving classes with high grades as per our IB international standards.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

Meanwhile, at the other end of the spectrum: `... the proportion of higher - achieving students (placed in the top two NAPLAN bands) has dropped from 49.4 per cent in Year 3 to 20.6 per cent by Year 9.

... [In numeracy] the proportion of higher - achieving students (placed in the top two NAPLAN bands) drops from 35.6 per cent in Year 3 to 22.5 per cent by Year 9.»