Sentences with phrase «problems than other students»

Children who feel that they belong at school are happier, more relaxed and have fewer behavioural problems than other students.

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Hilary Stout illustrated this problem in The New York Times in June: «After all, the millennial generation has less wealth and more debt than other generations did at the same age, thanks to student loans and the lingering effects of the deep recession,» she wrote.

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The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

In other words, having a drink was less strongly correlated with alcohol problems than posting about alcohol use was — though clearly students with alcohol problems were drinking alcohol.

«While 62 per cent of our students performed better in collaborative problem solving than was expected based on their reading, Maths and Science scores, a focus on one skill shouldn't come at the expense of the others,» he said.

Kenyan teachers are trained and certified, but they don't typically speak the mother tongue of their students — a problem faced in other countries, Hayba says (see sidebar)-- and they are much more expensive than teachers culled from the ranks of the Somalia refugees.

To be sure, it is a real problem when students in one state learn very different things than those in other states, and in particular when students from some states lack the skills needed for our modern economy.

A larger percentage of students in Connecticut than in other states attend schools where an administrator reports that absenteeism, tardiness, classroom misbehavior, and lack of parent involvement are not problems or are only minor problems.

But then one would recall that other public functions exist, such as health, transportation, and higher education, that make large and urgent claims on the budgets of state governments; that problems other than a lack of money afflict the schools, such as students who arrive unprepared for learning or life in a classroom; and that evidence for the efficacy of money per se is at best mixed.

But controlling for other factors that might put students at risk for problems at school, Paul Morgan and George Farkas find that minority students are actually less likely to receive special ed services than similarly situated white students.

Evaluations of any educational technology program often confront a number of methodological problems, including the need for measures other than standardized achievement tests, differences among students in the opportunity to learn, and differences in starting points and program implementation.

The playlist includes: • Link to a practice activity • Links to three instructional videos or texts • Definitions of key terms, such as horizontal and Pythagorean theorem • Explanations and examples of how to solve complex problems using the Pythagorean theorem Accompanying Teaching Notes include: • Links to additional resources for extra practice • Links to video tutorials for students struggling with certain parts of the standard, such as making errors locating the third point somewhere other than the intersection between two rays For more teaching and learning resources on standard 8.

There are no graphics (other than occasional cartoons pertaining to the lesson at hand), no spreadsheet problems, and no problems asking students to use a calculator to find the mean number of dogs in a U.S. household.

According to the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), there are more than a dozen other nations where, by the time children reach 15, math problem - solving scores are higher than for white students in the United States.

On the other hand if a negative competitive environment is set up, this might cause problems amongst your students, turning the learning experience into an unpleasant experience - for example, in a negative competitive environment users might start paying more attention to badges than to learning for the sole purpose of «beating» their colleagues.

STANFORD — Children exposed to domestic violence not only have more disciplinary problems at school, they perform considerably worse in math and reading than other students.

Whether we are strictly teaching the «canon» that is almost exclusively White or using examples in math or science problems that are more accessible to White and / or wealthy students than others, White teachers inject Whiteness into our classrooms all the time.

Rather than assuming students will naturally develop the necessary skills to attain these standards for college and career readiness, explicit instruction is instrumental in guiding students to learn to become critical thinkers and problem solvers, to communicate and work productively with others, and to know when, why, and how to wield metacognitive and cognitive strategies to enhance learning.

Rather than trying to build a single test that will cover content and other cognitive competencies, Mr. Pellegrino envisioned, for example, giving teams of students a series of challenging mathematics problems to tackle as a group, and then observing both their ultimate answer and how they collaborate to solve it.

The Problem Study after study has shown that Black students are two to three times more likely to be issued school suspensions than other students, and there is no evidence that this gap is due to higher rates of misbehavior.

Know Your Rights to Special Education Special education can provide extra support to students who need it because of a learning problem or other disability, but sometimes special education harms students more than it helps.

Since some students finish quicker than others, I had an extension problem for them to complete or, in some cases, these students assisted classmates who were struggling.

«Obviously, a child considered poor in the United States may be regarded as relatively wealthy in another country,» he wrote, «but the fact that the perceived problem of socio - economic disadvantage among students is so much greater in the United States — and in France too — than the actual backgrounds of students also suggests that what school principals in some countries consider to be social disadvantage would not be considered such in others.»

For example, when a group of juniors at Manhattan Bridges High School helped assess their school's climate, they discovered a number of problems and needs: too few counselors, unclean and crowded bathrooms, less - than - appetizing food in the cafeteria, a lack of engagement from parents, bullying from students at other schools on campus, and unequal levels of respect among students and between students and teachers.

Read says poverty often drags with it problems such as mobility — the disruption when students move or are homeless, and parents preoccupied with items other than their children's schooling.

This situation of working with actual students on the same problem would likely motivate prospective teachers to perform at their best for this data point, more so than for other data points.

That more than 80 percent of those closures are for reasons other than academic performance raises concerns — among charter advocates and opponents alike — that authorizers are not holding poorly performing charters accountable for student learning; however, Consoletti argues that financial and operational problems often appear before academic data can be gathered.

Why might it be better for students to help each other compensate for problem behaviors than expecting a discipline code to handle classroom problems?

«One of the things I hear a lot from students that go to other countries is that for all the problems — and they all have problems — they seem to buy into school a little more than kids back home,» said Ripley.

On top of all their other problems, colleges are competing for 2.4 million fewer students than there were five years ago.

But that's a Band - Aid, she said, for the state's problem with recruiting and retaining qualified teachers, which affects low - income students more than others.

Rather than challenging our conceptions of transfer, the finding simply represented a puzzle: Why did students not transfer the problem - solving strategy from one situation to the other and how could teachers have taught the strategy differently to promote such transfer?

Plus, they often face the added problem of attracting a majority of students who come to their school only as a last resort (having practically dropped out of other schools) rather than those who would be attracted to the school because of its philosophical beliefs.

Gifted education - special education partnership is constructed in a way that students could teach each other and have the same eye - level in solving the problems together rather than having teachers to counsel through an adult point - of - view.

The Pennsylvania legislature recently passed a bill that will ensure borrowers are up - to - date on their student loan debt.The average Pennsylvania college student graduates with $ 35,000 in student loans, which is higher than any other state in the U.S. And within three years of graduation, 10 percent of Pennsylvania student loan borrowers default on their debt.In order to combat this problem, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would ensure students stay informed about how much debt they are accumulating.HB 2124 would require all colleges and universities to provide annual notices to students about their outstanding student...

Other versions of this same problem include using home equity to finance consumer purchases, and using student loans on expenses other than educaOther versions of this same problem include using home equity to finance consumer purchases, and using student loans on expenses other than educaother than education.

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* opportunities for students to address alone and in teams complex, fact - intensive problems as they arise in the world (rather than digested into legal doctrines in appellate opinions) and to generate and evaluate solutions through private ordering, regulation, litigation and other strategies;

This is different than the problem of just not wanting to deal with the hassle of creating a budget — they just think that with their student loans, auto loans, mortgages, and other debts, they don't have extra money to put aside.

The body of the document had many other problems, including a format that «screamed» entry - level candidate, content that emphasized job responsibilities rather than accomplishments, and data that was working against the newly graduated student, actually helping employers to screen the resume out rather than in.

Notably, students reported that their parents were much more tolerant of their substance use than of other problem behaviors such as rudeness to adults and minor acts of delinquency.