Sentences with phrase «only about grades»

It's producing kids who care only about grades and test scores.

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According to The News & Observer, Wednesday's report «found a new culprit: the Academic Support Program for Student - Athletes... The report describes a fairly broad group of academic and athletic officials who knew about athletes getting better grades in classes that only required papers, yet taking little or no action.»

With the S&P 500 within about 8 % of its highest level in history, with historically reliable valuation measures at obscene levels, implying near - zero 10 - 12 year S&P 500 nominal total returns; with an extended period of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions replaced by deterioration in market internals that signal a clear shift toward risk - aversion among investors; with credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in only about 9 % of history.

Last month, Ells said only about half of his stores merited a «good» grade.

I'll say that you're about a 22 - year old muslim student (and that's being generous,) but the only «rank» you ever held was more related to odor than pay - grade.

On a question about premarital sexual intercourse, I found that I was generally giving higher grades to students who took the position that for Christians sexual intimacy is to be entered upon only after marriage.

Having the indwelling Spirit is the only way to endure — however, forget about perfection — that's above all of our pay grades.

So I am deeply concerned about the impact the Supreme Court's ruling might have on faith - based or other educational institutions — including schools from grades K - 12, colleges, universities, theological seminaries and graduate schools — that hold to natural or conjugal marriage, which has only come into question within the past decade.

It seems logical that if Ralph Houk grabs up Mr. Brosnan he would not only get grade - A relief for his bull pen, but it would be very probable that the Yankees would also get a book, with Brosnan's unique style, about Yankee clubhouse life.

Six years later, his weight has ballooned, injuries have mounted, and the only thing that remains is the raw power which doesn't play at all because he's rocking about a 30 - grade hit tool.

Now, the timing of this signing may only increase worrying about Eaton's abilities to play defense, but should there be legit reason to fret, the situation is better than it was, as Jackson is an MLB - grade defender, and Eaton's bat can play anywhere.

thinking about wengers comments regarding not signing players in jan is really going to divide opinion again on these pages.for me its a massive error.wenger does nt like the jan window and is often quick to remind us of the fact.he is loyal to his players yes but at times its his undoing.he hates to break up his squad becuase he is so determined for this particular group to win something but how long is he going to persist.im a firm beleiver that every player has a price and there are not many players in the world who would turn arsenal down.we have the cash and the players we need are very much out there.the problem wenger has is numbers.we have 2 pretty poor keepers that he has held onto for too long.we have 4 recognised CBs with only one (TV) being deemed good enough at present.wenger bought 2 defenders in and they havent really made the grade but he obviously cant admit that and buying a CB would be that admission, we have up to 6 players who can play up front with only 1 really playing in form (chamakh).

This leads to an environment in which we only care about grades and college admission instead of learning.

We're not talking about examples of helicopter parenting run amok such as parents of college - age kids calling professors to argue about grades; but not supervising 9 - year - olds at all to the point that parents don't know who their friends are or what they are doing is not only opening a child up to potential risks and bad choices, but making them stressed as well.

Fourth grade teacher Kara Davis says that not only were her fears about «a big ol' mess» were not borne out, and in fact the program has had benefits she could not even begin to anticipate.

i am a firm believer in BREAST IS BEST!my daughter is now 9 mths and goin strong!she is so healthy - from birth she was 10lbs2oz - now she is around 22 lbs and 30in tall and almost walking!i started gvin her a little bit of baby food around 5 mths (she actually wasnt impressed!she prefers bits of table food) but she really only wants to nurse!i plan on nursing her untill shes ready to quit - despite my moms jokes about me in the future sitting in her 1st grade class and nursing her in the back!i actually plan on becoming a breastfeeding advocate and supporter for new moms that really want to breastfeed!i try to encourage any pregger (even strangers) and i cant wait to gain more knowledge so i can really help others!ther is such a special connection that i feel as i nourish my child and she stares up into my eyes!and its so convinent - its the all - in - one fix!

Don't worry, says this seasoned teacher / blogger, it's only a phase, and fourth grade is right about when reading tastes start to change, evolve, and expand.

It was announced on Wednesday that Felder secured some $ 200,000 in discretionary funds for «education access» programs for Agudath Israel, the lobbying force that helped fight state efforts to impose instructional standards on yeshivas... What secular education young boys receive typically ends at the equivalent of about seventh grade, with only minimal English and reading studied after that.

Sincerely, it's actually not about good grades only for me; it's always been about being a great doctor.

The math and English scores for grades 3 through 8 in the exams tied to the Common Core show slight improvement, but only about a third of the students are considered proficient.

Only about a third of New York state's third through eighth grade students met the new tougher standards from April's round of state mandated English and math tests.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

The cells that make the grade are still rare: Only about 20 % of those injected into the animals developed into motor neurons.

About 17 percent earned grades of «average» or better and only one in six has ever been updated.

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And there are only about 12 celebrities that you can play, and most of them are B - grade celebrities anyway.

The movie opens with fifth - grade - schoolers George Beard and Harold Hutchins showing off the comic book they created about a world called «Underpanty» where people only wear underwear.

In a post by user Yo - Han7 about receiving common loot when the patch notes said that only rare, epic and legendary grade loot would be in the mode, an Epic employee responded letting everyone know that this was indeed a bug and, «we are working on a fix.»

For example, the English - only students can attempt to write a paragraph in Japanese and give it to the student from Japan to grade and make suggestions about.

That is, as Anderson recognizes, «a very lofty aspirational goal, considering that we have about a third of our kids reading at grade level by the 3rd grade, and that we graduate about 55 percent of our kids, and only 23 percent of those do so by passing high - stakes tests.

Illinois scores above the national average on only one of the graded policy categories in Quality Counts, although its overall performance across the four areas is about average.

Rather than relying only on a numerical index or an A-F grading system that would obscure the critical information needed for improvement, the measures above should be part of a dashboard that informs educators and the community about progress in each area and allows for analysis of what's working and where attention is needed.

Only about 220 students, almost all of them boarders, attend grades 9 through 12.

There are approximately 1.7 million teachers at grades K - 8, but only about 150,000 high school science teachers and about the same number of high school mathematics teachers.

Because only about 15 percent to 30 percent of teachers instruct in grades and subjects in which standardized - test - score data are available, some states and districts have devised or added additional tests.

The magnitudes are not trivial: they imply that students who take only online courses would have grade point averages about ten percentage points lower in the distribution than those who took only face - to - face courses, all else equal.

And only about 25 percent of charter school students were enrolled in a secondary grade during the 2003 — 04 school year.

In contrast, school populations closer to the high end of the performance spectrum were only about 5 percent African American, 10 percent Hispanic, and 16 percent poor, with a mean cohort size of only 114 and a mean pass rate of 84 percent on the 8th - grade math exam.

Do not expect that students only will talk about the lesson, class assignment, project, or other school related topics while you sit back at your desk doing paperwork or grading.

It appears high school students (grades 9 - 12) spend only about half the recommended time on homework.

About half of new schools run at breakeven during their first year of operation, although school - level deficits are common in the first three years of operation for those schools that begin with only one or two grade levels.

For example, both surveys find that about 50 % of Americans give their local schools a grade of A or B, but only about 20 % give the nation's schools as a whole one of those two grades.

Charlie only cares about studying and getting good grades but is thrilled to win and hopes to get a few more books from Mr. Wonka.

At that point, public evaluations edged downward, with only about 44 % willing to give their local schools an A or a B in the PDK poll, comparable to the 43 % assigning schools one of these two grades in the EdNext poll of 2007.

Only about half of teachers like the idea of continuing the federal requirement that all students in certain grades be tested.

But, the level of progress is varied between the subjects, with pupils improving on average by about two - thirds of a GCSE grade in maths, but only one - third of a grade in English.

The initial government evaluation gathered data through 2008 - 09, so the graduation rate analysis is only based on about 300 students (as compared to 1,300 students from multiple grades included in the test - score analysis).

As Winters, who teaches eighth - grade history, explains: «We hope that by participating in past events, students will learn not only about their historical figures» lives and achievements but also about the times when those people lived.

And only about one in four young Singaporeans currently qualifies for the «junior colleges» (basically grades eleven and twelve) that are the usual path into the country's four universities.

Fifth - grade entrants comprise only 13 percent of CCSF's total admittees and only about 6 percent of the admittees in our analysis, which excludes applicants from private schools and does not include charter schools that are in their first year of operation.