Sentences with phrase «of students at»

To see whether this disparity could explain my findings, I adjusted the data to eliminate the effect of differences in the number of students at each school with similar GPAs.

Calli Rusche - Nicholson works with a few of her students at Miles Avenue Elementary School in Billings, Mont., where Native American studies are part of the curriculum.

Nancy Stoll, Ed.D.» 88, is dean of students at Suffolk University.

Not every one of the students at this year's conference had a mentor with them, but every student left with at least one mentor of sorts.

The program starts groups of students at College for America at the same time and requires them to spend 12 hours a week with classmates and coaches in a study space.

She has boosted the confidence and performance of students at both ends of the academic spectrum.

K - 5 inquiry - based science teacher Jodie West calls all of her students at Washington Accelerated Elementary School engineers — and she encourages and appreciates their «awesome disasters» as well as their successes.

The researchers compared cohorts of students at the same school in years when the school was at a critical performance level on the math test with years when they were not.

This may be because such a large proportion of students at the school were deemed «failures» by the system and so the parents were happy to see a system that encouraged a sense of eddicacy in their children.

Most states now have such information in their longitudinal databases, but no published studies have used these data to compare the achievement growth of students at virtual schools with demographically similar students at carefully selected comparison schools.

That same month, 70 percent of students at Loyola University of Chicago voted to increase their student fees to fund scholarships for DREAMers.

Figure 2 shows the changes since 2001 in the performance of students at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles in their initial 3rd - grade year.

But weighting each district by its enrollment shows that an estimated 21 percent of all students at these districts opted out.

Ratings of SEL skills and character can be used as early indicators of students at risk or who may be able to serve as positive role models and resources for their peers.

Ninety percent of the students at the school are Latino, 73 percent qualify for subsidized lunch, and 65 percent arrived lacking credits they would need to graduate on time.

For example, this method would compare the test scores of students at a middle school that had a 7:30 start time from 1999 to 2003 to the scores of students at the same school when it had an 8:00 start time from 2004 to 2006.

On the day of the Rush Ranch visit, WIT students shoot video footage of the students at the site for the purpose of creating a Web site similar to their site for the Sonoma Mission.

Fortunately, parents of students at Stuyvesant and the other exam schools were able to persuade two obscure state legislators from the Bronx to intervene.

Again, this seems obvious, but it isn't, because we see new teachers ham - fistedly asking questions of students at any and all levels of the ladder but focusing on higher rungs.

Spending: Colorado ranks 28th among the 50 states and the District of Columbia on the spending index, a comparative measure that describes both the percent of students at or above the national average in funding and how far the rest fall below that average.

The teacher had been one of her students at the National Teachers» College in Nairobi, Kenya, where she was working as an English lecturer.

achievement standards that describe the quality of learning (the depth of understanding and sophistication of skill) expected of students at points in their schooling

«NAPLAN data and the My School website enables schools to compare the results of students at their school against national results for the overall population and for schools with students from the same socio - educational backgrounds.

At the end of the second (or third) year in the pattern, the children move on to a new teacher while the looping teacher receives a new group of students at the lower grade level.

I really appreciate my classroom teachers» knowledge of the students at this point and ask them to pair the kids up.

Encarta Schoolhouse One of the most comprehensive of those is Encarta Schoolhouse — a great place to find a large number of lesson plans that are sure to capture the interest of students at almost every grade level.

«This needs - based funding is making a real difference to the outcomes of students at the local level,» Ms Berejiklian said

Research from 2013 showed that 87 per cent of students at Honywood found learning easier because of their tablets, while 72 per cent felt that their work had improved as a result of using 1:1 mobile technology.

Although most of the students at my school come from economically disadvantaged households, I found that the vast majority of them had some kind of a computer at home that was hooked up to the Internet; they simply weren't using it for anything other than games.

But while she was teaching to a classroom of students at one time in a conventional school, she said, «I felt I was just talking to myself.»

Sue Thomson: PIRLS is, as you said, the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study and it's a study of reading literacy of students at Grade 4 level.

A credible measure of the effectiveness of a virtual school would compare the achievement growth of students at that school to the performance of students in the schools those students would have attended otherwise.

Reflect on whether you believe this is an accurate representation of students at your school.

I pull up a chair and join a group of students at their table.

At 2:30 on weekday afternoons, more than one in three of the students at Chicora Elementary School, in North Charleston, South Carolina, scampers into the cafeteria.

While such action is rare, the Glenridding Beck case illustrates the need for group leaders to consider the safety of students at all times, even if this means abandoning a planned event.

Some of the work satisfied me because I saw myself working with hundreds of students at a time instead of the 90 students as a classroom teacher.

They share the following: Leander ISD implemented a new tool designed to increase the safety of students at all its elementary campuses.

The ideas, problem - solving approaches, and knowledge of these students at UWC Atlantic College is akin to what we would expect to see at undergraduate level, and in some instances, even postgraduate level.

Eighty - nine percent of students at Linked Learning sites agreed that their school was preparing them for success in career, while 49 % indicated that «helping others in the community» is «very important» compared to 35 % of a national sample.

Most states realize that the reforms of the 1990s, while necessary, were by no means sufficient to achieve our goals of all students at proficiency.

«I had expectations of what the parents were supposed to do,» says Melissa Bryant, a math teacher and dean of students at D.C. Scholars Stanton Elementary, a novel partnership between the Washington, D.C., public schools and Scholar Academies, a charter operator.

It's important because feedback is critical to student learning; it's challenging because of time constraints and the number of students at varying levels in our classes.

The control groups consisted of students at the same levels in the regular program from EC's schools in Manchester and LA.

The FM sector is expected to continue to grow and therefore it is important that MITIE is looking to «home grow» their future workforce and invest in the education and training of students at some of the schools where they operate.

It is a 6 page mini-guide in PDF format and relevant for teachers of students at KS2, 3, 4 and 5.

Fame Rated PG for thematic material including teen drinking, a sexual situation and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray This update of the original 1980 film follows the lives of a group of students at the New York City High School of Performing Arts as they go through their Freshmen through Senior years.

Other nice people are... EVERY STUDENT in the speech class taught by Julia Roberts, the L.A. scooter club that recruits Crowne, the Marine owner of a diner who hires Crowne, the lottery - winning neighbors of Crowne and the dean of students at the community college.

This is next class of students at Xavier's school for gifted youth.

Gillian Jacobs («Community», «Don't Think Twice») gave me a few details about the film back in 2016, «I play one of the students at the college.