Sentences with phrase «on rural students»

The resulting study focused on rural students in middle or junior high school and measured outcomes before the course started and then one year later.

Learn more about the issue of the Peabody Journal of Education we edited, and see our related blog posts on rural students and STEM in Washington state and on ways to help teachers feel successful (and stay) in rural Alaska.

Finally, there are many studies that inquire into the factors that correlate with post-secondary retention in general, and with STEM attrition specifically but few that focus on rural students.

Not exact matches

According to Mother Jones, the director of a rural Vermont district where 43 percent of the students are on free or reduced lunch said he «had no problems whatsoever implementing the new changes.»

A rural Upstate New York school district that installed Wi - Fi on its school buses has seen improvement in students» behavior.

About one - third of children in rural districts and about 37 percent in New York City were considered proficient in the skills they need in English and math, while just an average of 16 percent of students in upstate city schools performed well on the tests.

In appreciation of the kind gesture, Professor Kwawukume, President of Family Health Group, indicated that the bus will enable the hospital and medical students to embark on free medical outreaches to rural communities.

The last administration swapped the allowance system with the students loan scheme and embarked on massive infrastructural development in the education sector with many new secondary schools built to increase enrollment especially, in our rural communities.

► As part of this week's Science special issue on forensics, Lizzie Wade told the story of how José Torero, a world expert in the forensic science of fire investigation, has shed a light on — or perhaps, added to the mystery of — «a crime that shocked the world: the disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School, a rural teacher's college near Tixtla, Guerrero,» in Mexico in September 2014.

After traveling to learn techniques at leading labs in the United Kingdom and France in the 1990s, Jedryczka and her students have been asked to pass their knowledge on to colleagues in Russia, Sweden, Portugal — and China, where Jedryczka has been awarded a «Friendship Award» for her work with rapeseed farmers in the rural Anhui region.

In this rural county, where school buses still sometimes travel on dirt roads, the Flat Stanley Project allowed students «to see things they would never see,» says Pat Hendrickson, a district technology coach.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

But still, as a pupil in the rural area of Thuringia in the 1980ies, he could hear a lot of antisemitic, facist and racist statements of peer students on the schoolground, often in form of «jokes «like «Ich bin hungrig / mir ist kalt — ich will zurück nach Buchenwald «(I am hungry, I am cold — I want to go back to Buchenwald «-RRB-.

The critical - thinking gap between field trip students from rural and high - poverty schools and similar students who didn't go on the trip was significantly larger than the gap between affluent students who went and affluent students who didn't go.

It's still going strong, supporting remote, rural students who are transitioning to further education or employment on the mainland.

During two years of doing research, Chenoweth identified 15 schools representing a mixture of grade levels and urban, rural, and suburban settings where students were excelling despite poverty and other obstacles — and where kids were not spending endless hours on reading and math drills.

Trying to put their fingers on how the school makes students so enthusiastic about learning, visitors from other schools have mused that the small size, rural setting (New Orleans is 30 minutes away but worlds removed), or old - fashioned church values students absorb at home might be responsible.

In 2015, Brazil's school assessment exams, the National Education Evaluation System (SAEB in Portuguese), will provide the first data on how schools in Amazonas have fared since receiving the IDB loan, and while this will be a useful tool for evaluating the performance of rural students compared to their urban counterparts, Perez says the exam may not be an entirely accurate measurement of the success of PADEAM and the Media Center.

A 450 - student school district in rural East Texas last week canceled plans for its annual day on which girls dress as boys and vice versa, after a parent complained that the event smacked of promoting homosexuality.

The student group will host a number of events on campus that explore a variety of challenges unique to educating in rural settings.

Zurawka spends one week each year with her students at Old Quasset School, located on the Woodstock campus in their rural dairy - farming community of 7,750.

Teaching English for the three years on the Laguna Pueblo reservation and in Aztec, New Mexico, she became distinctly aware of the unique problems faced by rural schools and enrolled in the Learning and Teaching (L&T) Program's Instructional Leadership Strand seeking ways she could be of greater help to her students.

Six weeks in to the project, Rural Fire Service (RFS) staff visited the school to provide expert opinions on the students» progress.

First, we know that in the instruction of world languages, there are not enough teachers, so using technology to give students access to teachers proficient in other areas and other disciplines will be one way we get at the question, particularly in rural communities, on how we teach these subjects to all children.

For Terry Lamberson, who teaches second grade at Lacy Elementary School, in rural Hopkinsville, Kentucky, the Oreo project was a chance to supplement a lesson on marketing and expand students» knowledge of the Internet.

Figure 2 shows that the achievement of rural students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) gets worse the farther from a population center they live.

An Indian teacher trainer, and HGSE alum, I heard speak a few months back recounted how after a very successful program on exploratory, student centered education, one of the teachers in his class invited him back to her rural classroom.

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We also know very little about how those needs change depending on students» developmental stages (e.g., pre-K, middle school) and the teaching context (e.g., urban, suburban, rural).

And they can cater to constituencies — students who are gifted, live in rural or inner city areas, need extra credits for graduation, and so on — that are underserved by the current system.

A business studies teacher, Ayub is focused on helping rural students improve skills such as innovation, design and creativity.

Read on to learn how rural students can take advantage of online learning resources to fill gaps that brick - and - mortar schools can't always cover.

«Our evidence suggests that, on average, students do worse academically when they attend middle schools than when they attend K — 8 schools — and that this is true in urban, suburban, and rural settings.

06, a current doctoral student working on research in U.S. rural areas, particularly the rural South, and an editor of the Harvard Education Review.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

In fact, our last tour to South Africa — which incorporated a visit to The Goedgedacht Trust, a charity providing real solutions to tackle poverty amongst rural children and youth — had such an impact on three of our students that on their return to England they independently organised and completed a charity cycle ride.

When faced with soaring transportation costs and students on buses for as long as four hours each day, some rural school districts pared the fifth day of instruction into fourths and tacked this time onto the end of the remaining four weekdays, creating a four - day school week.

Their summary of the sector's academic outcomes, which draws heavily on a series of studies by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, is likewise relatively uncontroversial: there is a positive achievement effect for poor, nonwhite, urban students, but suburban and rural charters come up short, as do online charters, about which the authors duly report negative findings.

To the contrary, rural students consistently do less well in college on a variety of outcomes (readiness for credit - bearing courses, grades, rate of progress, graduation) than urban students from similar income groups.

On a steamy September morning, 23 of America's 12 million rural public school students sit in second period world history at Vardaman High, a one - story red - brick building just off Sweet Potato Avenue.

Based on this information, Kissam makes several recommendations that could not only help to close the attainment gap between rural Hispanic students and their white peers but could also improve outcomes for all rural students:

This paper, written for the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, offers policymakers and philanthropic leaders a set of recommendations to capitalize on the potential of technology to serve students: expand broadband access to schools lacking it, create an elite corps of proven teachers who would be made available to students across the state, and provide districts and schools with the flexibility to develop new models of staffing and technology and to achieve the most strategic combination of personnel, facilities, and technology.

While rural students are likely to graduate from high school, they lag far behind on every college indicator — applications, admission, attendance, readiness, grades, persistence, and graduation.

He supplements this analysis with insights from focus group discussions with rural Hispanic students in Idaho to better understand why these students are falling behind their peers on the path to college and career.

The October 2014 issue of RPM examines the Seattle - area school shooting in light of other information on school violence; delves into a raft of research on college - going rates; considers new information on student well - being in the U.S.; examines education issues in next month's elections; and shares information about initiatives in which the Rural Trust is involved.

On the other hand, research indicates that rural students who live a long way from their school face significant time and transportation barriers to extracurricular participation.

Player also found that while rural schools employ fewer black and Latino teachers on average, when controlling for student demographics, these schools employ a greater percentage of black teachers than urban and town schools and a greater percentage of Latino teachers than suburban and town schools.

To help rural districts overcome these challenges, FRS developed a research - based framework and five - step planning process to guide schools and districts as they transition to a personalized learning model centered on individual student learning and facilitated by innovative instruction accelerated by the smart integration of technology.

High - needs urban and rural schools, on the other hand, offer their teachers extremely challenging students, unusually poor working conditions, and compensation unresponsive to market conditions even within the teaching profession.

Some rural charter schools target well - defined niche markets; for example, the Nah Tah Wahsh Public School Academy in the Upper Peninsula focuses its curriculum on Native American students.