Sentences with phrase «percent academic instruction»

Consider another example: the Progressive Education Association officially expired in 1955, yet 20 years later many schools were still providing the curriculum recommended by its Life Adjustment subsidiary - that 20 percent of high - school students should receive vocational training, 60 percent a «general» curriculum, including such courses as «marriage and the family,» and the remaining 20 percent academic instruction.

Not exact matches

Fifty percent of Finnish students receive academic interventions before 10th grade, adolescents study courses in social needs, all grades break for physical activity after 45 minutes of instruction, all school meals are free regardless of income.

Two decades of surveys by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) suggest that the typical teacher spends only about 68 percent of classroom time on instruction related to core academic subjects, with the remainder consumed by administrative tasks, fund - raising, assemblies, socialization, and so forth.

In a recent Sloan survey of chief academic officers, 34 percent judged online education to be inferior to face - to - face instruction; 17 percent registered the opposite view.

George L. Stephenson, chairman of the schools math department, reported that 55 percent of students showed significant improvement in academic performance after this brief smattering of chess instruction.

For example, the percent of academic leaders who say that online education is the same or superior to face - to - face instruction dipped to 74 percent from 77 percent.

(In the 2009 - 10 academic year, 78 percent of candidates passed the state's basic skills assessment, and 81 percent of applicants passed the reading instruction exam.)

Ninety - one percent of parents cited concerns about the environment of public schools, 77 % cited moral instruction, and 74 % expressed concerns about the academic instruction.

Despite local and state governments devoting considerable resources to these programs, only about 25 percent of the students enrolled in them earn a high school degree, and because the programs typically emphasize process (attendance and following instructions, for example) rather than academics, virtually none of the graduates acquire the learning typically expected of high school graduates.

But when it comes to average daily attendance (ADA)-- the total days of student attendance divided by the total days of instruction — a score of nearly 95 percent means millions of lost dollars and lost academic opportunities.