Sentences with phrase «positive grades from»

Nearly all of the family values studied in the survey received positive grades from the respondents — «opposition to abortion» was 27th on a very warmly received list (in fact, it fell just three places behind «helping your community or neighborhood»).

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Despite positive performances from both of you, there is a chance you may not make the grade.

She started with some universally acknowledged positive academic outcomes for students: getting good grades, graduating from high school, and earning a college degree.

Denise Pope, a professor at Stanford and founder of Challenge Success, which helps kids redefine success away from just grades and college admissions, agrees that we need to arm kids with positive coping strategies for stress.

«In contrast, students with poor grades and test scores suffered from a decline in positive emotions and an increase in negative emotions, such as math anxiety and math boredom.

For just the second time since we started grading the studios in these annual report cards, one of the six majors finished the year with an average Metascore of 61 or higher (the cutoff we use to indicate generally positive reviews from critics).

But, though we graded Lionsgate a «D» in 2015 — a year in which just three of its films received positive reviews from critics — the quality of the studio's output actually appears to be increasing, albeit slightly.

A relatively old - fashioned PG - rated movie that relies heavily on sumptuous costumes and sets, «Cinderella» received mostly positive reviews from critics and an A grade from moviegoers in CinemaScore exit polls.

The correlations between our measures of fluid cognitive skills and 8th - grade math test scores are positive and statistically significant, ranging from 0.27 for working memory to 0.53 for fluid reasoning.

The figure documents clear positive movement across the test - score distribution for the first cohort of students that needed to reach a minimal score on the FCAT exam in order to be promoted from the 3rd to the 4th grade (2003).

In Chicago, however, we could not run similar analyses because grade configuration is too strongly correlated with charter status; we therefore can not rule out the possibility that positive results in Chicago could be partly attributable to eliminating the transition from middle school to high school.

In the experimental evaluation of the initial DC Opportunity Scholarship Program that I led from 2004 to 2011, the number of students in testing grades dropped substantially from year 3 to year 4, leading to a much noisier estimate of the reading impacts of the program, which were positive but just missed being statistically significant with 95 % confidence.

Reports from nine pilot schools that got the laptops in the spring of 2002 and the rest of the state's seventh grades that got them in fall 2002 indicate positive results.

Reality Check: Brooklyn fifth - grade teacher Sarah Button uses exercises and simulations from the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program with her students, helping them learn empathy, cooperation, positive expression of feelings, and appreciation of diversity.

In our two years of working to implement PBL, we have fielded a multitude of questions ranging from positive support to queries about the efficacy of policies that we feel best support PBL (grading for mastery, group work, etc.).

How do we sustain positive outcomes for children from preschool programs into the elementary grades and beyond?

Still, Mr. West noted that it's not certain whether the false positives come from mistakes that make sense in context — for example, a high - performing student who gets chicken pox and misses two weeks of school — or the effect of interventions to help at - risk students in later grades.

Research shows that among students from grades 5 — 12, positive emotions such as hope, wellbeing, and engagement account for 31 percent of the variance in students» academic success.

We find that students who will enter a middle school in 6th or 7th grade have positive achievement trajectories in math and reading from 3rd grade to 5th, relative to their counterparts who will never enter a middle school because they attend a school that continues through 8th grade.

Two students and two eighth grade teachers from Durham Middle School in Acworth, Georgia worked together to bring positive character to their state.

If educators are empowered to incorporate lessons about the positive impact of reflecting on their learning and using specific strategies to improve academic performance from the early grades on, students will be better equipped with the skills they will need to thrive in school, in their personal lives and in the working world.

Positive family - program connections have been linked to greater academic motivation, grade promotion, and socio - emotional skills across all types of young children, including those from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.Sandra L. Christenson, «Families and Schools: Rights, Responsibilities, Resources, and Relationships,» The Transition to Kindergarten, ed.

At this point, study results show a positive trend from ninth to tenth grade in favor of the treatment group, particularly on measures of student attendance and achievement on state academic assessments.

Doug, the younger grades test ability and studies show focusing on education from a very young age has a very positive impact on children's intellectual, emotional, psychological and creative development.

So, student achievement in grades 6 - 8 represent positive transfer to middle school resulting from the implementation of the Science IDEAS model at the upper elementary grades 3 - 5.

«What we know from the research is that students get better grades, and have a more positive attitude and approach to learning new things when parents engage in learning with them at home,» said Dr. Mapp.

«But I do think the signs seem fairly positive that if we can take kids from kindergarten and take them through 12th grade, I think we can get there.»

Many research studies demonstrate that students benefit from SEL programming and these programs can lead to better grades, higher attendance rates, and increased positive behavior.

The event, held at the Rubin Museum in Manhattan, honored five people who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to enacting positive change in education: Tanell Pendleton, an English teacher who has worked at Bronx Haven High School for eight years, and Michael Wolach, founding teacher and instructional coach at Jill Chaifetz Transfer School, both of whom have worked with Eskolta on multi-year projects on topics ranging from developing students» academic mindsets to implementing outcomes - based grading; Cristal Cruz, a graduate of Brooklyn Frontiers High School, who, after facing significant challenges during school, graduated as salutatorian, enrolled in college, and is now working at Good Shepherd Service to support students in the same way she was supported; and Jeff and Tricia Raikes, co-founders of the Raikes Foundation and part of the founding team of Microsoft, who have become champions of school improvement by establishing national initiatives such as the Mindset Scholars Network and the Student Agency Improvement Community.

From this pattern one might conclude that homework has a positive effect across all grade levels when student achievement is measured by unit tests covering the content actually taught.

The Brown Center report used state - level data from the NAEP to describe a positive association between tracking in eighth grade and larger percentages of high - scoring AP test takers.

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has released the findings from four programmes aimed at improving pupil grades — with only one resulting in positive progress.

Extending our unique, values - based learning experience from nursery through twelfth grade — emphasizing our positive school culture, unique educational philosophy, and outstanding academic preparation — will advance the school's mission «to discover and develop what is finest» in our students.

In his article Golden Rules for Engaging Students in Learning Activities, author Nicolás Pino - James, PhD lists five ways teachers can encourage student engagement: making learning activities meaningful, fostering a sense of competence, supporting autonomy, collaborative learning, positive teacher - student relationships, and mastery orientations (positioning learning as steps towards reaching a goal of learning, rather than simply seeking a reward such as a grade or approval from parents or peers).

The tweetstorm singled out teachers like Jessica Harris, who built Jefferson's band program «from the ground up,» and Ashley Shepherd and Britany Locher, who not only teach students ranging from a first - to eighth - grade reading level, but also «maintain a positive classroom environment focused on rigorous content, humor, and love.

Education Commissioner Mark McQuillan said, «This year's test results show that from 2006 to 2010, there is a positive trend of improved student achievement across all six grades and academic disciplines, which is encouraging.

This report makes the case that effective parent engagement during the span from preschool through the early grades is a key contributor to children's positive academic outcomes.

In 2011, the findings that K - 3 Plus associated with positive student outcomes in literacy and numeracy from the New Mexico Standards Based Assessment data for third grade, resulted in a new legislated funding formula that assigns a percent of the school year unit or «per pupil» value to support K - 3 Plus.

More important from a policy perspective, Bernardy also examined several programmatic and methodological issues frequently cited as explanations for why Head Start's positive effects fade after students enter regular grade school.

Early study results showed a positive trend from ninth to tenth grade in favor of the treatment group, particularly on measures of student attendance and achievement on state academic assessments.

This fourth - grade team received such positive comments from their changes, not only did they repeat the practice in the spring, but other grade levels at the school asked them how they could alter their practices.

We've just received new photos from classes ranging between 6th to 10th grade and are extremely excited about the positive response from students.

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Since it's been published, it's been picked up to read to a sixth grade class, I've gotten many positive reviews from both adults and kids who love the story, and it's a story that can be marketed again as a summer story — with no worries that it will be off the shelf by then.

For the previous week, Lipper data reported positive flows into investment - grade corporate bonds (June 3, 2015), which appeared to be buying on the dip, as the index moved from a Read more -LSB-...]

Some of the more encouraging news from the survey was that 60 % of Americans said they had good or very good credit; the same number said they do not have too much debt; 58 % said they had retirement accounts; and 81 % gave themselves a positive or very positive grade on dealing with day - to - day matters such as checking accounts, credit and debit cards, and tracking expenses.

For the previous week, Lipper data reported positive flows into investment - grade corporate bonds (June 3, 2015), which appeared to be buying on the dip, as the index moved from a yield of 2.89 % on May 29, 2015, to the June 3, 2015, level of 3.10 %.

«Aside from the generally positive credentials like a degree from a prestigious law school, top grades and clerkship experience, Pacific Northwest firms place a high degree of emphasis on having local ties and / or extensive familiarity with the region,» he continues.

And if there are differences, it allows the students to discuss the merits of different approaches.117 Providing sample or model email responses for students to review after class can allow students to self - assess their work and to improve for future email tasks.118 But students may struggle to understand what separates the quality of their work from the quality reflected in the model.119 So giving students multiple, annotated responses that highlight the positive aspects of the model and giving students the chance to review the model answers in groups can maximize the chances that students can learn from model answers.120 And a checklist or grading rubric can be another useful tool — either for the professor to effectively and efficiently assess student learning outcomes or for students to self - assess their own learning.121

Fidelity Life Association has been awarded the grade of an «A -» from the most trusted independent rating agency, A.M. Best meaning it is financially strong and sound, with a positive outlook in the coming years.