Sentences with phrase «problems than students»

In fact, my T.C. students had fewer discipline problems than my students at the Catholic school in Rochester, N.Y., where I'd previously taught.

Students who started school later had more behavioral problems than students of average age, especially when they hit adolescence, the study showed.

Failure - friendly teachers know that a group of students has a much better chance of successfully tackling wicked problems than a student working solo (regardless of her smarts) because of the synergy of multiple viewpoints — all thinking about the same problem.

Not exact matches

«The [trend] we found is that students who go it alone run into [problems] more than students who approach [things] as a team,» says Jay Kayne, chair and professor of entrepreneurship at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

(See Making Student Debt Less Sticky) While the very uniqueness of each loan and each employee's situation makes it inefficient and uneconomical for any one business to take on the problem, in the aggregate this problem is a large source of growing concern for more than 40 million student and parent debtors (as well as their emplStudent Debt Less Sticky) While the very uniqueness of each loan and each employee's situation makes it inefficient and uneconomical for any one business to take on the problem, in the aggregate this problem is a large source of growing concern for more than 40 million student and parent debtors (as well as their emplstudent and parent debtors (as well as their employers).

It's a problem that has reached record levels in this country, with more than $ 1.3 trillion in student loans outstanding.

Instead, we're teaching those students that we still think of schools as industrial - style factories with a premium on rote memorization and repetition rather than rigorous reasoning and problem solving.

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.

Another possible problem provision is one that would exempt colleges from a new endowment tax if they have fewer than 500 students paying tuition.

Since you can't spend more than you've already loaded on the card, students would obviously run into problems once they've drained their funds.

There's no reason to believe an arts student will be any more imaginative than a civil engineer when it comes to solving problems.

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...

Combined, the percentage of auto, credit card and student loan delinquencies and rate of default is as big or bigger than the subprime mortgage problem that led to the «Big Short.»

Private school students, teachers and administrators all report fewer racial problems than in public schools.

Or am I contributing to the problem by helping support this institution - one that has some amazing people but are dedicated to teaching students more about how evolution is wrong than in following the call of Jesus to love your enemies.

I can't imagine a policy more irrelevant to the problems facing our society than bathroom privileges for transgender students.

That people were essentially a problem, even a pollutant, rather than a resource; that social, political, economic, and ecological catastrophe was right around the corner, unless drastic steps were taken to stabilize and then reverse world population trends - these were the themes, familiar to even the most casual student of the American anti-natalist lobby, that set the agenda for Budapest and Mexico City.

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.

Yet, there are students who are more clever than their teachers, and it's entirely possible for a student to show another way to solve a problem.

The problem of setting pastoral priorities, of keeping spiritually alive while ministering to the needs of people, is much greater than seminary presidents and professors of pastoral theology ever reveal to their fledgling students.

Some students prefer to use «problem drinking» rather than alcoholism in describing this non-addicted excessive drinking, since there is apparently no loss of the ability to control the intake of alcohol.

Several students of the problem have said that women alcoholics show much greater personality abnormality than do male alcoholics.

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

My son's school has little problem with unpaid balances as less than 5 % of students would pay full price for meals (and why kids eating all three meals at school is not uncommon).

And the widespread implementation of swipe cards has apparently also contributed to the problem, in that parents and students sometimes treat them like credit cards, rather than debit cards.

* Health Issues Consequences — Many students wrote that homework causes them to sleep less than they should and leads to «headaches, exhaustion, sleep deprivation, weight loss and stomach problems» as well as a lack of balance in their lives.

The plain fact is that «Making» students take either a fruit or veggie is not going to solve any problems and in fact it actually makes more problems than solves.

It's important to note that the study did find that «high levels of fruit and vegetable waste continued to be a problem — students discarded roughly 60 % -75 % of vegetables and 40 % of fruits on their trays,» but the authors conclude that this finding means that districts must «must focus on improving food quality and palatability to reduce waste,» rather than seeking to roll back the new meal standards.

And in today's classroom, where teachers must compete with digital distractions for their students» attention while trying to satisfy increasingly demanding academic standards, it is more important than ever that educators be able to combat apathy, instill vital problem - solving skills, and create a climate that maximizes learning.

Students miss more than 51 million school hours per year * because of dental problems or related conditions.

MORE THAN 2 MILLION POSITIVE DISCIPLINE BOOKS SOLD The Positive Discipline method has proved to be an invaluable resource for teachers who want to foster creative problem - solving within their students, giving them the behavioral skills they need to understand and process what they learn.

In my particular locale, the problem is mainly caused by purchasing typical family homes and then converting them to multi-occupancy short - term lets suitable for students (who typically are willing to pay much higher rents per room than somebody looking for a family home), leaving a massive shortage of traditional housing.

And that problem goes far deeper than angering the many student voters they relied on to win university seats, including Mr Clegg's own seat of Sheffield Hallam.

Foreign students are included in net migration numbers, making them seem like a problem rather than a benefit.

It focuses more on grooming students for the next stage of study rather than solving problems.

More than 500 students at Brooklyn's PS 335 and MS 584 were screened for vision problems, and over 120 were found to need glasses.

Despite evidence that environmental factors contribute to many health problems, medical students report fewer than six hours of environmental health training, according to University of Texas School of Medicine researchers.

A second study found that students with fixed mindsets devoted less attention to difficult problems and, consequently, displayed more overconfidence than those with growth mindsets.

To my surprise, I actually benefited a lot more from studying in groups than picking up information in the lectures because students were swapping ideas and strategies about how to approach and tackle problems.

«We wanted to better understand students with Problematic Internet Use,» Snyder said, «those who reported spending more than 25 hours a week on the Internet on non-school or non-work-related activities, and who experienced Internet - associated health or psychosocial problems.

In a 2005 study of 454 undergraduates, psychologist Sari Gold of Temple University and her colleagues revealed that students who had experienced nontraumatic stressors, such as serious illness in a loved one, divorce of their parents, relationship problems or imprisonment of someone close to them, reported even higher rates of PTSD symptoms than did students who had lived through bona fide trauma.

They were up against 196 of the very best high school math students in Mexico, taking tests in a completely unfamiliar setting and trying to comprehend, in Spanish, complex problems that generally require more than an hour to solve.

Their common feature is that, rather than listening passively, students spend class time engaged in answering questions, solving problems, discussing solutions with their peers and reasoning about the material they are studying, all while getting regular feedback from their teacher.

When faced with a story problem, many students ignore the story and look for key terms such as «more than» and try add the numbers.

A University of Texas at Dallas graduate student, his advisor and industry collaborators believe they have addressed a long - standing problem troubling scientists and engineers for more than 35 years: How to prevent the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope from crashing into the surface of a material during imaging or lithography.

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.

Research from North Carolina State University and Ohio University finds that having an «alcohol identity» puts college students at greater risk of having drinking problems — and that posting about alcohol use on social media sites is actually a stronger predictor of alcohol problems than having a drink.

Of the approximately 4,000 who were identified as at risk for mental health problems and offered the ten - session group intervention during second grade, those who participated in a greater number of sessions showed significantly greater improvements in third - grade outcomes than did the at - risk students who participated in fewer sessions.

A significantly greater number of students fail science, engineering and math courses that are taught lecture - style than fail in classes incorporating so - called active learning that expects them to participate in discussions and problem - solving beyond what they've memorized.

«Rather than focusing on preventing psychological problems in a few students, this programme aims at strengthening the psychological resilience of all children,» said Dr Pluess.