Sentences with phrase «over ability grouping»

The tension between class and classification is nowhere more evident than in the continuing discussions over ability grouping versus mixed grouping in the schools.

Not exact matches

It might have been in almost any other sport, but a year ago he sat down with his dad and they went over his talents, one by one by one by one, etc., and decided that he was farther ahead of his age group in his ability to «move water» than in anything else.

Verses Australia in Holland's next match, Robben again showed his almost unmatched dribbling ability to speed into the opposition box and finish again with his left — helping Holland qualify from Group B. Again he impressed in Holland's 2 - 0 win over Chile, before winning the crucial penalty against Mexico in the Last 16, following clever dribbling in the box — that saw Klaas Jan Huntelaar bag a last minute winner from the spot.

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The report comes as government reform groups and some media organizations are urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign a bill that would bolster the ability of plaintiffs in FOIL cases to be awarded attorneys» fees when they are successful in suing over access to government records.

The group was «disheartened» that the Republicans» changes surfaced just two hours before the Rules Committee was scheduled to meet, and also sided with the Democrats on the effort to end LG Bob Duffy's ability to break a tie over who the chamber's temporary president should be.

The police have come under fire for their handling of the splinter groups, with questions raised over the Met's ability to maintain order during the Royal Wedding.

Privately, members of NYCLASS — led by parking garage magnate Steve Nislick — have grumbled about the mayor's deliberative pace: with the ability to unload six figures on television ads, as they did a year ago, and to deploy dozens of unusually ardent protesters at the gates of Gracie Mansion and elsewhere, the group has at least some leverage over the mayor.

Dr. Smith and colleagues, including Dr. Stephen Rao from the Cleveland Clinic, tracked four groups of healthy older adults ages 65 - 89, who had normal cognitive abilities, over an 18 - month period and measured the volume of their hippocampus (using structural magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI) at the beginning and end of that time period.

The bulk of evidence over the last century «suggests that academic acceleration and most forms of ability grouping like cross-grade subject grouping and special grouping for gifted students can greatly improve K - 12 students» academic achievement.»

People with low cognitive ability tended to express prejudice towards groups perceived as liberal and unconventional (e.g., atheists, gays and lesbians), as well as groups of people perceived as having low choice over group membership (e.g., ethnic minorities).

Using only the classroom sounds, DART could classify the audio into three categories — single voice (traditional lecture with question and answer), multiple voice (student interactive group work), or no voice (student thinking, writing or individual problem solving)-- with over 90 percent accuracy, which matched the ability of the human evaluators to correctly classify the classroom environment.

The NBAS report, Improving the Nation's Ability to Detect and Respond to 21st Century Urgent Health Threats, is the second by the group originally assembled by former President George W. Bush over fears about bioterrorism.

For the study, Baron performed an analysis of data from a 2010 clinical trial (by the same group of Northwestern researchers on the current paper) that demonstrated the ability of aerobic exercise to improve sleep, mood and vitality over a 16 - week period in middle - age - to - older adults with insomnia.

Over three weeks, the MIT engineers, along with groups from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Australian Center for Field Robotics, the University of Rhode Island, and elsewhere, tested several classes of AUVs, and their ability to work cooperatively to map the ocean environment.

The group includes biologist Duncan Irschick, a functional morphologist who has studied the gecko's climbing and clinging abilities for over 20 years.

Recently, researchers from the Copenhagen City Heart Study, which tracked runners of different abilities over 27 years, found that the people who participated in the fastest, longest, and most frequent running had a higher mortality rate than the moderate group and were no different from the couch potatoes!

Local Muscular Endurance (anaerobic): The ability of a given muscle group to continuously generate peak (or optimum) force over a brief period of time.

It was a very interesting group of women who came from all over the world and who all brought in grace and ability and all of that.

The debate over tracking and ability grouping has gone on for nearly a century.

These 6 cross-curricular maths activity sheets easily last a lesson each and have been designed to give your class a fun, engaging and independent learning experience, that is super-easy to teach and leaves minimal to no marking - all you need to do is print and hand it over to mixed ability groups!

This activity works best over a whole lesson and I like to put the children into mixed ability groups.

Amid this unprecedented enrollment surge (an increase of some 2.3 million students over 1930), education leaders once again argued that the intellectual abilities of the new high - school entrants were weaker than those of previous groups of students; and these new students needed access to less - demanding courses.

Logic, emotion, and research often clash in the longstanding debate over the advantages and disadvantages of ability grouping (tracking).

Thanks to Giroux and others, the contemporary classroom - even if it falls short of the critical pedagogues» ideal - increasingly is a block - scheduled site presided over by a teacher who, at least concerning academics, is the guide on the side, eschews grades in favor of portfolios, minimizes ability - grouping, and, rather than being a content provider, is a manager of peer editing, team building, and other processes.

That's a procedure designed to reinforce the power of the very small group of people with information and control over the bill text, and to blunt the ability of the people out here in the hinterlands to communicate with our representatives about whether we think the good in this bill outweighs the bad and therefore merits a vote for or against.

Dr. Catterall's team followed the schools for two and a half years, administering surveys, conducting focus groups, and observed and participated in LAA + professional development, and conducted over 50 classroom observations to assess the impact LAA + training had on teachers» understanding of arts integration and their ability to utilize it as an instructional strategy.

Research over the past few decades has shown that these factors are more likely to impact groups often identified as the most vulnerable in our schools: students of color, students living in low - income household, students with disabilities and students with limited English speaking abilities.

In spite of this evidence, over this same period, the vast majority of teachers and administrators have enacted practices that separate students by ability; their argument is that homogeneous grouping produces greater learning by allowing for the concentration of instructional resources on the same set of learning problems.

We have a Democratic Governor proclaiming, with pride, that he will veto any «education reform» bill that doesn't give that same Commissioner the ability to take over 25 schools, fire the staff, ban collective bargaining and turn the schools over to some group of unnamed third - party entities who will then be exempt from Connecticut's laws on bidding and the use of consultants.

At any point over at least the last 50 years, a synthesis of available empirical evidence would have suggested, quite unambiguously, that students having difficulty at school, especially those disadvantaged by their socioeconomic backgrounds, learn more when they are working in heterogeneous rather than in homogeneous ability groups (e.g., Oakes, 1985; Yonezawa, Wells, and Serna, 2002).

CAEP's standards for admission require that the average GPA of a program's accepted cohort of candidates meets or exceeds 3.0, and the group average performance on nationally normed ability / achievement assessments such as ACT, SAT or GRE is: in the top 50th percentile, increasing to the top third over time..

This is the reason why it is developing synergies with the Premium brands of the Fiat - Chrysler Group, and Maserati in particular, which adds the strength of its history, its ability to innovate and its fame the world over.

Love Automotive Group has been in the area for over 50 years thanks to our ability to recognize the customer \ \ \'s needs by tak...

The Quantitative Rating is an extension of the Morningstar Analyst Rating for funds, which provides an analyst's forward - looking assessment of a fund's ability to outperform its peer group or a relevant benchmark on a risk - adjusted basis over a full market cycle.

The fund's ranking was based on its ability to provide superior consistency and risk - adjusted returns over a 10 - year period against a group of similar funds as of November 30, 2012.

«As DC plans evolved over the past 30 years, it became clear that many workers often lack the time, willingness, or ability to be their own investment manager,» explains Martha King, managing director of Vanguard's Institutional Investor Group.

They are a recent addition to the AKC herding group; some Aussie breeders fear AKC recognition may create undue emphasis on appearance over ability.

Our ability to provide exceptional care to ill and injured animals has advanced over time through the efforts of many groups and individuals with a passion to improve veterinary care.

Combat here is largely in real - time with your group of up to four heroes having a maximum of three special skills mapped to their little sections of the screen at any given time, but you can also access these by holding a key while hovering over an enemy or friendly to bring up a contextual radial menu that will display defensive abilities or offensive ones based on what the cursor is above.

Battles, by the way, work by encountering a group of enemies, then choosing your commands — attacks, special abilities, items, and so forth — until one party keels over.

In Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars Peach is shown to have impressive healing abilities like Therapy and Group Hug, and this ability is seen again in Paper Mario: The Thousand - Year Door when she overcomes the Shadow Queen's mind control over her to heal Mario and his party.

UPDATE: GAME Group has issued a note to shareholders in an attempt to calm concern over its ability to stock new games.

Because they are easily undermined by a more coordinated «marketing campaign» that is highly funded by very serious self - interest groups and self - opinionated elites with an over inflated view of their own abilities, insights, and wisdom.

(a) Sufficiency: The question of sufficient occupation must account for both the common law perspective (which may encompass lands used and over which effective control is exercised)[36] and the Aboriginal perspective (including the group's size, manner of life, material resources, technological abilities, and the character of the lands claimed).

Another nice feature of Voxgov is the ability to compare how any two parties, groups or people dealt with an issue over a specified timeframe.

«Many of today's most promising and innovative commercial drone operations require the ability to fly over people,» said Matt Clark, senior associate in Hogan Lovells UAS practice group.

Self - government agreements give Aboriginal groups greater control and law - making ability over their internal affairs, and greater responsibility and autonomy over the decision - making that affects their communities.

Given Kik's focus on teenagers, it's sort of surprising that it took this long to get the ability to make video calls, but many chat apps with more than 100 million users have rolled out a video chat or group video chat option over the course of the last year.

Speaking on the announcement, Sudhin Mathur, Managing Director, Motorola Mobility India and Country Head, Lenovo Mobile Biz Group, said, «According to the reports fewer people are expected to upgrade to smartphones because of concerns over price, need and ability to use.