Sentences with phrase «raise the grade of»

Athletics had traditionally been valued above academic success, and coaches had routinely pressured teachers to raise the grades of star players to maintain their eligibility.

An alliance of schools, teaching unions and councils wants the court to raise the grades of exams taken in June.

Not exact matches

He raised $ 6 million from investors, including Silicon Valley's Band of Angels, and used the money to launch a recycling operation that now turns out about 500,000 pounds of different grades of plastics a month.

State - owned producer Saudi Aramco on Wednesday raised the June price for its Arab Light grade for Asian customers to a premium of $ 1.90 a barrel to the Oman / Dubai average, the highest since August 2014.

In addition to raising a total of $ 22.6 billion in high - grade bonds for Apple and T - Mobile USA last year, Deutsche served as the go - to bookrunner for the multibillion - dollar bonds deals of Italy, Spain other beleaguered European governments — and even the European Financial Stability Facility.

Despite their diversification rule, dollar - denominated high - grade bonds offer low yields and a great likelihood of capital losses this year as the Federal Reserve (Fed) raises interest rates.

I was raised Lutheran, had many Catholic friends, and one of the most influential man in my life was my grade school principal, who was Jewish.

My first awkward Sunday School moment happened in first or second grade when I raised my hand and asked why, in Noah's flood, God would drown all of those innocent animals when it was the humans who were being disobedient.

MILLIONS of parents whose faith placed them in the position of not just asking, but demanding under pain of grounding or even corporal punishment, that their grade school children abstain from what others are enjoying, have still raised well adjusted kids who've gone on to be productive, contributing members of society.

In spite of challenges they face, today's parents give themselves good grades overall for the job they are doing raising their children.

The third grade class trip takes the children to a working farm where they observe and participate in the work of raising plants and tending animals.

By: Joe Newman A third - grade teacher was teaching a lesson with the children sitting on the floor in front of her when Josh raised his hand.

5 Steps to Raising a Happy Eater is for parents of children ages 2 through first grade who want to know how to raise healthy, happy eaters.

Raised by a single mother without a lot of money, she moved around a lot, spent some time homeless and got into lots of trouble as a kid — you know, acted out, got put in the «slow» class in sixth grade.

I had a butterfly assignment in the first grade while attending Ivy Hill School where we had the chance to raise butterflies and it kind of stuck with me as something really interesting.»

The board also raised school lunch prices from $ 1.55 to $ 1.75 in grades 1 through 6 and from $ 1.60 to $ 1.80 for grades 7 and 8 to cover the cost of the program.

Third - grade children in Missouri are selling raffle tickets for an AR - 15 rifle, the weapon used by the killer last week in the Florida school shooting and in a number of other mass shootings, to raise funds for their baseball team.

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

In the latest storm the damage done to the city was chiefly in the business section, north of Broadway, where the plan of grade raising has never been carried out.

Further understanding how land formation techniques (leveling, grading, and raised - bed construction) for improved water and nutrient management and efficiencies affect soil structure and the behavior of nutrient and water dynamics is required to develop refined and integrated management practices and realize the potential of high - value non-rice crops.

My family has raised puppies since I was in 6th grade, and also participated in the breeding program — having 2 litters of Labrador Retreiver pups right in our computer room!

They work with products from the happiest cows raised on purely organic pasture, wet milled coconut oil, and pharmaceutical - grade MCT oil in all of their products.

And it's important to realize that a lot of these are a little bit different than what you'll get if you are to say like go to your local medical supply store and get the old band socks like a lot of the compression socks and especially the ones that have shown or hinted at any benefit in raising or in a lab were at over 25 what's called millimetres or mmhg of pressure and in many cases were this graded compression socks, they get like tighter at your ankle and then decreases as they move toward your hip.

Due to the speech concerns and the limited soundfield, I felt the audio only deserved a «B - ``, though the solid quality of the music almost raised my grade to a «B».

Kubrick and Nabokov (who adapted is own novel) raised the age of the grade school «temptress» and left most of the seduction to suggestion, and still made a more provocative and sensitive film than the 1997 remake.

Tag (June 15): Ed Helms, Hannibal Buress and Jeremy Renner are friends who've been playing a game of tag since first grade, raising the stakes into middle age.

Inspired by true events, A Boy Called Po is the story of a widowed father struggling to raise his sixth - grade autistic son.

Given the concerns raised by the Klein study regarding the validity of the TAAS exams in Texas, I decided to use the same analytical technique as Klein: comparing results on the FCAT with results on low - stakes standardized tests given at around the same time and in the same grade.

Some in the education community complain that every time they achieve the results expected of them, we raise expectations and school grades drop as a result.

Grades, he found, were almost completely relative — when one student achieved more, it «not only raise [d] his position, but in effect lower [ed] the position of others.»

You might have heard of or considered some of these ideas, but others might be just the ticket to raising funds to reach grade - level or school - wide goals.

Our first grade students led a schoolwide campaign to collect plastic bags to help raise awareness of the impact that plastics have on our environment.

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

Among the reform milestones they achieved were a new requirement that 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based on student achievement; raising the charter school cap from 200 to 460; and higher student achievement goals on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 4th grade and 8th grade reading tests and Regents exams.

To her office troop hordes of angry parents, insisting that she raise their child's grade - point average by a fraction of a point or that she classify their daughter as learning disabled so she can have extra time on the SATs or that she push their son to apply to the father's alma mater even though the boy lacks the grades to get in.

There is a pattern of practices in schools with lagging performances, says the report «Raising the Bar in the Middle Grades: Readiness for Success.»

Getting good grades and into college does not in itself fulfill the demands of purposefulness; even the desire to achieve these ambitions so as to make a good living and raise a family, while better, does not fully qualify.

Houston's charter schools were funded just 2 % below their TPS, and earned the only grade of A in the study, in part because they were able to raise almost $ 900 per student in nonpublic revenue.

While the demands of the federal No Child Left Behind Act have some districts fighting to raise the achievement of students who aren't performing at grade level, the 185,000 - student Philadelphia district plans to expand greatly the number of enrichment programs for its students.

This raises the possibility that the measured effects of attending a charter high school on educational attainment could simply reflect advantages of grouping middle and high school grades together, thereby creating greater continuity for students and eliminating the disruption often associated with changing schools.

A translation of the results in a way that reveals the effects of peer achievement provides a different perspective: being surrounded by peers who score 1 point higher on average raises a student's own score by 0.3 to 0.5 points, depending on the grade.

The researchers point out that this raises the possibility that the positive effects of attending a charter high school on educational attainment could simply reflect advantages of grouping middle and high school grades together, thereby creating greater continuity for students and eliminating the disruption often associated with changing schools.

The results of these moves have been at odds: while Hawaii's increased alignment with NAEP raised its grade from a B + in 2007 to an A, South Carolina dropped from an A to a C -.

Although much of the debate surrounding Common Core has focused on the nature of the curriculum for each grade level, proponents have also sought to raise the proficiency level on tests that assess student learning.

For the best principals, the rate of teacher turnover is highest in grades in which teachers are least effective, supporting the belief that improvement in teacher effectiveness provides an important channel through which principals can raise the quality of education.

The odds that a child of non-English-speaking immigrants with seventh - grade educations, a child raised by factory workers in a low - income community, a child who was pregnant at 15, would now have a doctorate from Harvard?

This has raised concerns that this is causing anxiety for pupils in light of what has been put on social media and therefore this year's boundaries will be posted the same day that pupils get their grades.

Professor Kurt Fischer played a key role in last week's launch of LearnNow, a free site for parents, educators, practitioners, and researchers in search of information about raising and educating today's children from birth all the way to 12th grade.

Using the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) as our measure, we found some states had raised the achievement of economically disadvantaged students the equivalent of a full grade level or more in just eight years, 2003 - 2008 — this at grades four and eight and in reading and math.

First, Jay argues that «many credible people have raised strong concerns about the rigor and soundness of the proposed national standards,» even though we at Fordham gave them «passing grades.»