Sentences with phrase «on boosting student»

Smaller class sizes have a significant impact on boosting student achievement, according to new Australian research.

Despite these tensions, Association members maintain their focus on boosting student achievement and creating professional learning environments.

Not exact matches

Here, for instance, is an NPR article explaining «a study that found cocoa flavanols can help boost mood and sustain clear thinking among adults who are engaged in intense mental efforts — like students cramming, or journalists on deadline.»

The meta - analysis, published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluded that teaching approaches that turned students into active participants rather than passive listeners reduced failure rates and boosted scores on exams by almost one - half a standard deviation.

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The goal: to provide hands - on learning and career - boosting opportunities for students, while helping Canadian companies stay competitive in the global economy.

It wasn't a ton of money, but it gave me a boost to pay off my student loans and increase my savings on top of my engineer's salary.

This structure will allow the department to form a multi-layered method to the talent evaluation and recruiting processes, increase its emphasis on both student - athlete and coach development and retention, and provide a boost in resource allocation and generation.

For this school year, in a bid to boost participation in its lunch program from its paying students, the district will now offer them the choice of two entrees and a self - serve salad bar available on Tuesdays and Thursdays for students in grades three to five.

A group of Manhattan middle schoolers is leaving a mark on NYC government — coming up with a bill to give a boost to school groups that aid gay students.

Speaking through the State's Deputy Governor, Dr.. Mrs. Idiat Oluranti Adebule, who led other top government officials on the tour, Governor Ambode recalled that at the end of last year, the State Executive Council approved N10billion for the rehabilitation of existing schools as well as the construction of eight new ones, including three model colleges to boost learning experience of students in the State.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the consideration of race in college admissions, rejecting a white woman's challenge to a University of Texas program designed to boost the enrollment of minority students.

Tennessee Sen. Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump to hold Nashville rally amid efforts to boost GOP Senate hopeful Kim Jong Un surprises with savvy power plays Tax reform postmortem reveals lethal dose of crony capitalism MORE, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Indiana Gov. Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceAnti - Maduro Venezuelans not unlike anti-Castro Cubans of yore Congress is still doing nothing to save Christians in the Middle East Liberal students, colleges should learn from Liberty University's civility MORE and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich all met with Trump as he weighed his choice, before deciding on Pence.

The enrichment programs offer incoming middle and high school students an intensive, hands - on academic boost to ensure a smooth transition into the next phase of their education.

Unions and parents groups rallied last April when New York became the second state to begin testing based on the Common Core, a set of learning standards that aim to give students a deeper understanding of material and boost skills necessary for the modern job market.

We are are very grateful to Senator Klein for his work with Project BOOST and his efforts on behalf of all students across the Bronx and New York State.»

«This funding has given us the opportunity to offer new music and arts programs that boost student engagement and further encourage hands - on learning.

Project BOOST (Building Options and Opportunities for Students) is an enrichment program that serves both elementary and middle school students, focusing on providing academic, cultural and community service learning opportunities fStudents) is an enrichment program that serves both elementary and middle school students, focusing on providing academic, cultural and community service learning opportunities fstudents, focusing on providing academic, cultural and community service learning opportunities for kids.

In a positive sign for efforts to boost U.S. competitiveness in science and technology, a new study finds that courses that engage college students in conducting scientific research early on can dramatically increase students» odds of completing a science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) degree.

Schools ply students with calories on test days in hopes of boosting scores, a new report suggests

The students say that for heavy vehicles such as Hummers, the system can boost fuel efficiency from 2 to 10 percent, depending on the terrain.

But some perennial topics have acquired a different focus; for example, the question about the internet has shifted from ensuring access to cybersecurity and privacy, and the question dealing with education now focuses on attracting more women and minorities into the scientific workforce rather than on boosting overall student achievement.

The creation of a «data science for all» ecosystem is the goal of a new initiative at Purdue University that will make data science education part of every student's learning experience on campus while also boosting research and partnerships to help grow the data - driven economy.

The partnership will create new opportunities for students and boost research on textiles and apparel.

It contains a glossary of all mathematical terms on the syllabus to help students become familiar with terminology and boost literacy skills, a test on the essential skills they will use in KS3 Maths as well as a handy formulae sheet for areas of 2 - D shapes and properties of a circle.

Clinton Challenges Nation to Improve Math and Science Education On March 16, President Clinton President challenged the education community to take the steps necessary to boost student achievement in math and science.

Education took center stage in Iowa's 2006 legislative session, resulting in measures to boost teacher salaries, start a pilot program that bases teacher pay on student achievement, expand preschool, and establish statewide graduation requirements.

Literacy coaches are there to support you and to work with you to boost student achievement, not to evaluate or judge you based on what you may or may not know.

Students get a metacognitive boost by pausing to think back on how and why they performed learning tasks.

A 2007 study of the AP incentive program in Texas found that participating schools not only boosted AP enrollment but also reported an approximate 30 percent increase in the number of students scoring 1100 and higher on the SATs and about an 8 percent increase in college matriculation.

In the first year of the program, the bonus program boost to math scores was, by our estimates, 3.2 points on the New York state test, or 0.08 student - level standard deviations.

And it put a special focus on ensuring that states and schools boost the performance of certain groups of students, such as English - language learners, students in special education, and poor and minority children, whose achievement, on average, trails their peers.

By giving students the opportunity to get hands - on with a 4K professional display, they can boost content where it matters most — like medical and engineering courses.

A composite measure on teacher effectiveness drawing on all three of those measures, and tested through a random - assignment experiment, closely predicted how much a high - performing group of teachers would successfully boost their students» standardized - test scores, concludes the series of new papers, part of the massive Measures of Effective Teaching study launched more than three years ago.

Building on the success of youth - focused, anti-tobacco campaigns that expose industry tactics, educators can also boost school efforts to prevent underage drinking by having high - school students use the site to research the «tricks» of the alcohol industry.

On the surface, this might seem like a strategy that would boost accountability ratings without affecting students» overall performance.

As educators search for ways to boost perennially low levels of student achievement, many are zeroing in on what they consider a root cause of poor performance: the lack of students» motivation to learn.

If you engage your students with a variety of activities, provide personal feedback on assignments, boost your curriculum by taking advantage of the internet tools and resources, and provide safe places for formative assessments (such as practice tests), lots of visuals and a clear direction for success, your body language says: I care about you.

A few studies do show some preliminary evidence that teachers who receive high - quality feedback subsequently go on to boost student performance.

Hoover Institution scholar Eric Hanushek built on Miller's remarks by reporting that, according to work he did with University of Munich economist Ludger Woessmann, the United States could boost its annual GDP growth rate by more than 1 percentage point annually by raising student math performance to levels currently attained in countries such as Canada and Korea.

Most of the boost in adolescent test performance that we observe when students have more daylight in the morning is due not to the amount of daylight before school on days when children take tests, but rather to the amount of daylight before school experienced across the school year.

Mayor Bloomberg is justifiably proud of the big gains New York City made in boosting the high - school graduation rate on his watch, with about two - thirds of students now graduating in four years, up from half a decade ago.

The President called on the nation to move forward on his plan to improve American education and issued new challenges to boost student achievement in math and science.

But if school leaders adopt blended learning merely to increase out - of - district enrollments, increase course offerings, boost credit completion rates, lower staffing costs, or decrease the demands placed on teachers, then blended - learning technologies will become increasingly cheap, convenient, engaging, and easy to use without necessarily improving students» academic or life outcomes.

High - school transcripts, which the schools used to hold on to and sometimes alter to boost graduation rates, are being centralized and scrubbed (the audit found that one - third of students weren't taking the classes they need to graduate).

The basic problem with the teacher professionalism agenda, as currently constructed, is that it rests on a shaky evidentiary and research base concerning its ability to boost student learning or to address either the quality or quantity challenges of the current teaching force.

A new research center at Rutgers University intends to build on evidence that well - equipped school library media centers can boost student achievement.

Students who do well in school also tend to go on for further schooling, which provides an additional boost to their earnings.

That has left unions ill - prepared to respond to current demands on teachers and schools to boost test scores, increase graduation rates, and better prepare students for success in college or on the job.

In the Fall 2008 issue of Education Next, economist C. Kirabo Jackson reported that the Advanced Placement Incentive Program, which pays both high school students and their teachers for receiving passing scores on AP exams, boosted AP participation rates in participating schools (no big surprise!)