Sentences with phrase «place students far»

These chronic circumstances are likely to create conditions that place students far behind in their academic progress.

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While DeVos enumerated the ways in which the DCL «comes up far too short for far too many students,» she did not announce any new initiatives to take its place.

She also points to the revolutionary educational possibilities: «Other applications involve things in the classroom, where students are able to not just see a picture of Niagara Falls or some alien world like Venus — we have maps from our various spacecrafts of Mars and Venus that would allow students not just to hear about far - off places, but will allow them to scroll around the world at will.»

First, discussion of Intelligent Design's argument against neo-Darwinism is out of place in a high - school science classroom because most scientists working in the area do not accept the Intelligent Design criticism of neo-Darwinism and because understanding the scientific issues involves sophisticated arguments far beyond the capacity of nonspecialists, let alone high - school students.

«It is my desire and my purpose to further the education of the people of Texas and elsewhere in wildlife conservation, in the knowledge of the breeding and living habits of our wild creatures and in the relationship of wildlife to domesticated livestock on our ranches and farms; to afford students and others interested in wildlife betterment and propagation and in the raising of wildlife along with domesticated animals a place for research and an opportunity for the study thereof; and to develop scientifically methods of increasing the wildlife population of the state and nation for the benefit of future generations... who may not have the opportunity to know and appreciate our wildlife, as I have, unless methods of increasing and conserving our wildlife are scientifically developed.

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The school is eligible to receive millions of dollars in federal money to improve its performance, but Dr. Tisch said its problems ran so deep — students read far below grade level, and there was little instruction taking place — that money alone might not be enough to solve them.

Buhari said his government was committed to the fight against terrorism and insurgency, adding, «The security services have since been directed to put in place further measures around all schools vulnerable to attacks to ensure the safety of our pupils / students and teachers and school workers.

Speaking to journalists on the modalities put in place to prevent further abduction of students from schools, the Borno State Commissioner of Education, Inuwa Kubo, said all female boarding schools except those in Maiduguri and Biu, had been closed.

in mechatronics is by far the most popular program in engineering at the FH Ravensburg - Weingarten: More than 140 students from all over the world compete for one of 15 study places each year.

They also encounter a more thoughtful objection, which goes something like this: American students are tested so much already — far more often than students in other countries, such as Finland and Singapore, which regularly place well ahead of the U.S. in international evaluations.

She is helping to organize the Center for Education and Civil Rights» «Furthering Diversity in K - 12 Schools Through Student Assignment» conference, taking place June 1st at the Georgetown Law Center in Washington, D.C..

The students travelled through Nepal, gathering stories from far - flung places which are rarely accessible to journalists reporting during a moment of crisis.

A further understanding of cognitive development in young students, Orosco said, both by researchers and educators working with English - language learners, could ultimately lead to better reading instruction for all students, improved measurement processes and fewer students unnecessarily being placed in special education classes.

Any discussion regarding a student's disability should take place far away from friends and peers.

Their use of technology goes far beyond the level of student engagement with computers that has been in place in most U.S. schools to date.

For the second year, Inspiration (designed to help students plan and organize projects) has nabbed first place, and the ubiquitous Microsoft Office is again not far behind.

Now they can teach students living in far off places through web based learning and educational materials.

While so far the whole process has taken place in a «safe» environment, where the teacher has advised them about difficulties or errors, now the student must learn to accept the feedback received by an «anonymous» audience and turning it into changes in approach, solution or characteristics of its proposal.

Reworking school systems to reflect the vision of the recent Harvard report demands «exponentially» more expertise of counselors, and necessitates placing that support far earlier in students» lives, he says.

Reflect With Your Students After the Interview: Big Picture students have one - on - one meetings with their advisors to let them know what they've learned, what the interview was like, and whether or not it's a place they want to explore Students After the Interview: Big Picture students have one - on - one meetings with their advisors to let them know what they've learned, what the interview was like, and whether or not it's a place they want to explore students have one - on - one meetings with their advisors to let them know what they've learned, what the interview was like, and whether or not it's a place they want to explore further.

I hear that many of the best colleges are now placing far greater emphasis on student maturity, our independence of thought, and our breadth of potential talent than on test scores.

Students, most of them young children living in far flung places in India or Africa, have to walk miles to get to schools.

Ultimately the film provides an opportunity to teach or remind students that origin stories from places «far, far away» are to be celebrated, multiculturalism and multilingualism are to be celebrated, and superheroes — and communities — don't need to look alike in order to get along.

Despite making far larger test - score gains than students attending open - enrollment district schools, and despite the emphasis their schools place on cultivating non-cognitive skills, charter school students exhibit markedly lower average levels of self - control as measured by student self - reports (see Figure 2).

We have placed far too much faith in data systems, and far too little in the capacity of our teachers and students in responding to the learning challenges they face.

Over the remaining few days before school started, a transformation took place in Taylor's classroom: A friend painted the walls bright green and blue, and Gee put his desk in the far corner, situated toward the door, and students» desks in a semicircle facing the whiteboard.

After Scottish Qualifications Authority results were released across Scotland at 09:30 yesterday, UCAS has confirmed that so far 28,700 Scottish students have had their places in higher education confirmed.

This strategy — which has so far been replicated nationally in eleven states, plus the District of Columbia — includes placing as many visits as possible during summer and fall to parents of teens entering high school — a critical transition point for many students — to begin building a net of support and to connect parents to the new school.

The capture of the risk factor data is part of a comprehensive intake process that also involves determining how far a student is from graduation based on the number of course credits they arrive with, and every student is placed into classes based on their competency level as determined by pre-enrollment testing.

For further support see the Unit of Work Getting started with Place Value which contains a series of lessons and more students activities.

Already our Sport Makers progamme — part of Places People Play — has had 17,000 people sign up to make sport happen for their friends, neighbours or colleagues, and we want these same principles applied across further education colleges in England where 150 College Sport Makers will delivering new sporting opportunities for students.

Big assessment decisions will hit the states The past year saw states ramping up for a new reality under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which places far greater leeway and oversight in state's hands rather than residing with the feds.

Under this model, the school's funding is based on students» successful completion of their courses, a step that places far more pressure on FLVS to ensure its students» success than exists in traditional public school systems.

Students who were placed directly in college - level statistics did far better than their counterparts in remedial classes, regardless of their score on the placement test.

Connected learning is a huge focus for libraries, as they've become places for students to Skype, blog, work on Minecraft challenges, or team up with peers near and far.

Further, there is currently no provision in any state's laws or at the federal level for students to attend cybercharter schools that are out of state in the sense of having no physical place of business within a state.

We find that the students placed directly in college - level statistics did far better than their counterparts in remedial classes, even when students in remedial classes were also given extra support.

It works with schools and places of further education to forge stronger links between education and industry helping to give students the widest choice when deciding upon their future career.

It was identified that to generate further success and improve upon processes already in place, that it would be imperative to conduct a preliminary session for students.

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You can get your students to extend their answers further by prioritising the problems by placing them into their order of importance.

Although the feds have so far been coy as to exactly what these must contain, how they will be reviewed and judged, and what exactly will be done to assure compliance, the concept is that states must henceforth ensure that their best teachers are placed in schools with their neediest students.

Several promising «whole school reform» models, such as «Modern Red Schoolhouse» and «Atlas Schools,» both the products of intense R&D efforts, have been placed on the market, but thus far their record in boosting student achievement has been pretty mixed.

With these characteristics in place, students are far more likely to respect classroom rules and procedures, respect adult authority, have positive peer interactions, and learn in our classrooms.

In extreme cases, however, attendance zones are deliberately drawn to exclude poor students from affluent schools.60 However, gerrymandering attendance zones is far less common than drawing zones that merely reflect the characteristics of the local area.61 Most school assignment systems sort students based on their place of residence, mimicking patterns of housing segregation.

Further, it entitles students to be placed in the least restrictive setting in which it is possible to serve their educational needs.

The 172 existing students will be guaranteed places, while a further 115 places are available to new applicants - with priority for those with siblings at the school and 20 % of the remaining places allocated to children from some of the town's most deprived areas.

In this lesson plan, second - grade students further develop their understanding of place value by identifying what each numeral of a three - digit number stands for.

TEDed's tool for finding and «flipping» videos for students allows you to add questions, further resources, and even create a place for discussion.