Sentences with phrase «on students of all grades»

A longitudinal study [17] considered the effects of SET on students of all grades (junior and senior) during the first 2 years of programme implementation.

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Note: The Co-op program is a course for which students obtain a grade of «CR» (completed requirements) or a grade of «F» (fail) based on a satisfactory work performance, performance evaluation and a passing grade for their work - term report.

He is the co-founder of Edison Universe, a non-profit organization focused on fostering the next generation of innovators (future Thomas Edisons) in the K - 12 grade level and using tools like creativity, collaboration and immersion to prepare students to identify new opportunities and create solutions around the opportunities.

God's Not Dead, the tale of a college professor who grades his students based on whether they'll write «God is dead» in their notebooks, is not an example of high quality movie making.

Never Whitehead's student in the technical sense, he graded papers for him, attended his lectures, and began an in - depth study of his writings about the same time as he was working on the Peirce papers.

(This, by the way, is one sign of a good professor... to grade based on research and thought, not based on whether or not the student agrees with the professor.)

Education is essentially competitive, not cooperative, as illustrated by the common practice of grading on a curve, or the fact that students getting together to cooperate on their work are said to be «cheating» — so highly are the communal virtues regarded in our schools.

Skwisgaar Skwigelf: Before you go calling someone out on their intelligence you might want to look at your own... your spelling is that of a 1st grade student..

Grading on a curve is the main instrumentality for sharpening the competitive spirit at MIT, and while this institution holds up the communal ideal and explicitly tries to foster it through student activities and the like, it is the skills of the solitary predator that count for survival — for faculty as well as students.

Parents and / or teachers of students in grades 1 - 3 who would like to participate in the program can visit the «Just for Kids» section on www.idahopotato.com.

A good student — «though football was all I thought about from the seventh grade on» — Smith went to Princeton, where he was president of his class in his sophomore, junior and senior years, captained the football team and in 1952 and 1953 was named All - East and All - Ivy League at single - wing fullback.

We are a complete basketball training academy that provides instruction and coaching focused on basketball and student / athletes of all ability betwwen grades 3rd and highschool.

At Castilleja, the only prize you get for a senior talk or 8th grade speech is flowers — flowers and the comments of teachers and students alike who will tell you «congrats on your speech» and «great speech,» whether you have spoken to them before in your life or not.

Refrain from grading the first assignment (s) each semester; write comments, mark incorrect answers, and allow for revisions, so that students focus on the learning instead of just the grade.

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

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.

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine studied eighth grade math students and found gum chewers scored 3 percent better on standardized math tests and achieved better final grades (Wrigley Science Institute, 2009).

[When he] started to grade these tests, the first one he picked up he noticed that the student had written on top of it: «Can't think.

What brings Jeff to PMWS is the emphasis on imagination for the pre-school and kindergarten classes and the comprehensiveness of the curriculum for the grade school students.

Regardless of the grading system that your child's school uses to report on student learning, there are some universal truths about modern student report cards that every parent needs to know.

«I look at the teachers who have helped show me that it's not all about grades,» she says, «and I'd like to be that kind of influence on other students.»

At the Waldorf School of Baltimore, students use fountain pens from fourth grade on.

Entrusted with the essential task of accompanying their students on a several - year journey, Waldorf grades 1 - 8 teachers have a role analogous to that of effective parent, guiding the children's formal academic learning while awakening their moral development and increasing their awareness of their place in the world.

The study, analyzing data on almost 5,000 students in 8th - grade in the Los Angeles and San Diego areas, found that higher risks of substance abuse occurred in two - parent as well as single - parent households and in affluent as well as poor homes.

The addition of the upper school, which opened programming to students in grades 10 - 12 for the 2015 - 16 school year, makes Hershey Montessori School the first in the world to fully implement Dr. Maria Montessori's vision for educating children from birth through 18 years, with an adolescent residential program on a working farm.

Not just the hope that they'll keep those grades up and do good on those student loans, but that they'll behave responsibly, keep the partying to a minimum, and of course not violate one another.

Research conducted last year by my former graduate student, David Yeager [now a professor at the University of Texas], on 18,000 students entering ninth grade, shows us that students who took growth - mindset workshops are seeking more challenges.

One is the «10 - minute rule,» which recommends multiplying students» grade level by 10 to get the number of minutes they should be spending on homework each night.

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Last school year, more than 4,600 CPS students scored below the 24th percentile on a portion of the Illinois Standards Achievement Test and were required to attend summer school before moving to the next grade level.

From fourth grade on, the teacher assesses the students in the writing of their own compositions and, starting in sixth grade, in the integration of science experiment write - ups in their main lesson books.

Last spring, a class of fifth - grade students from Bancroft Elementary School in the District descended on the South Lawn of the White House to help us dig, mulch, water and plant our very first kitchen garden.

Capacity: The new two - story facility, with a capacity of 1,600 students (an increase of 400 from the former campus), allows for the standard middle school configuration of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as well as 30 additional minutes of instructional time each day, compared to an elementary schedule.

In 2009, 82 % of students in grades three to eight had supposedly performed at grade level on the math tests; but on the 2010 tests, that number fell to 54 %.

Students of second - grade classes from PS 330 (Astoria), PS148 (East Elmhurst), and PS 112 (Long Island City) who won the NYC Ferry vessel - naming competition took a celebratory ride on May 10 aboard an NYC Ferry vessel, the Owl's Head.

At least 50,000 students statewide in grades three to eight, including about 20,000 on Long Island, opt out of spring testing.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on New York's congressional delegation to prevent the U.S. Department of Education from carrying out a threat to sanction New York schools as punishment for the hundreds of thousands of students who opted - out of grades 3 - 8 Common Core standardized tests this month.

The movement has had a stark impact on the number of students in grades 3 - 8 in Nassau and Suffolk counties taking state tests since 2012 — the last year that non-Common Core tests were given.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to stop intimidating New York parents and school districts with threats of pulling funding from schools with high percentages of students who opt out of grades 3 - 8 Common Core standardized tests — in essence, telling them to stop trying to «kill the messenger» for their introduction of a flawed system.

Dr. King, the state commissioner, said the disturbing nature of these records was part of the reason he and other state education officials recently recommended a ban starting next school year on the longstanding practice of teachers» grading their own students» tests and would urge districts to improve monitoring on test days.

Students must maintain a 2.3 to 3.0 grade point average, depending on the type of college and program enrolled in and the extra aid lasts for only four years for students in a bachelor's degree program, in order to ensure on - time graStudents must maintain a 2.3 to 3.0 grade point average, depending on the type of college and program enrolled in and the extra aid lasts for only four years for students in a bachelor's degree program, in order to ensure on - time grastudents in a bachelor's degree program, in order to ensure on - time graduation.

Ms. Moskowitz and her allies like to point instead to Success» successes on standardized tests, with almost two - thirds of students performing at grade level — more than twice the rate of the public schools.

Beginning next spring, students in grades three through eight will spend two days instead of three on each of the annual math and English assessments given statewide.

The high school programs that faced the highest number of complaints — five each — were Rockland Boces in West Nyack, in Rockland County, which had one verified, two unverified and two open allegations; Susan E. Wagner High School on Staten Island, with three verified and two open allegations; and Fayetteville - Manlius High School near Syracuse, where all five allegations related to the same incident, in which several students were arrested in 2007 for allegedly hacking into computer systems to change grades.

They also pointed out how the education department has made recent adjustments to standardized testing, such as reducing the number of questions and testing time on state assessments for students in grades 3 through 8 this school year, and receiving a federal waiver to stop «double testing» in math for seventh and eighth graders through a combination of state and federal testing.

No consequences for teachers or principals related to student scores on state tests in English language arts and math given in grades 3 - 8 until the start of the 2019 - 20 school year.

Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia's report came on a day when large numbers of students in some parts of the state were expected to once again boycott the required third - through eighth - grade math tests.

A Newsday survey conducted Friday on the last day of state math testing in grades three through eight found that 52.8 percent of eligible students in Nassau and Suffolk counties refused to take the assessment.

In math, students will be introduced to some of the higher mathematical concepts at an earlier grade level, though they will not be expected to fully master them until later on.