Sentences with phrase «rate in any given school»

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To give you an idea of the training required for this designation, «the pass rate for the exam to become a CFP certificant is about the same as the pass rate on the bar exam that law school grads are required to take in order to practice law,» she explains.

«The drop in the participation rate has been centered on younger workers,» said Mr. Shapiro, «many of whom have given up hope of finding a decent job and are instead continuing in school and racking up enormous amounts of student debt, which has contributed to the recent surge in consumer credit outstanding.»

In a study by Thomas H. Holmes and Richard H. Rahe of the University of Washington medical school, surveying the opinions of 394 individuals on the amount of readjustment required to meet life events, the death of a spouse had been given the highest rating.

The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, up for a vote as early as today, would attempt to fix some of these problems through a variety of means, including allowing schools in high - poverty areas to offer free meals to all students without any paperwork, making foster children automatically eligible for free meals, and giving incentives to states that improve their certification rates.

Some schools have a portion of their budget set aside for staff training and may have a rate that they offer to professionals coming in to give talks.

Given the low rate of inflation in recent years, school districts and local governments have chaffed under caps that have been largely under 1 percent allowances.

Michael Gove was told that his free schools programme was «out of control» today, after a damning Ofsted report found the Al - Madinah Islamic school in Derby was given the lowest possible rating in every single category.

As a result of that decision, schools were to have received a 13 % increase in funding this year, a rate that Cuomo says is «unsustainable» given the state's dire financial plight.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaced No Child Left Behind, gives states considerable flexibility to craft their own accountability systems — in the process asking states to make crucial decisions about what it means to be a successful school, what rate of academic progress is acceptable, and...

«The STEM Incentive awards not only give this state's top high school students access to a first rate education, but it ensures that they and their talents remain in New York to help build our burgeoning high tech economy,» Governor Cuomo said.

The redesigned School Quality Reports give high marks to schools with pass rates in the single digits because the administration would rather give parents a falsely rosy picture than admit schools are not performing.

In an unprecedented reversal for the Bloomberg adminsitration, Schools Chancellor Cathie Black stepped down this morning just after several of her top deputies resigned and a poll gave her a failing approval rating.

Interestingly, parents of children in the often maligned New York City public school system gave Mayor Bloomberg a more positive rating, with 46 percent saying he'd succeeded and 48 percent saying he'd failed, according to the paper.

Speaking to congregants at Wayside Baptist Church in Brooklyn, de Blasio said mayoral control had given his administration the ability to launch the city's Universal Pre-K program, and played a role in driving up high school graduation rates over the past 15 years.

Other budget provisions: The budget agreement also includes: an expansion of the state's Tuition Assistance Program for college students and their families; a 12 percent increase in aid to cities and local governments; a $ 3.8 billion transportation bond act; an increase of $ 1.1 billion in aid to schools; and an expansion of the EPIC program, which gives seniors access to reduced - rate prescription drugs.

The scores of last year's MCAS tests given to Springfield school students rose across the board at a higher rate than the gain recorded by school districts statewide, and the dropout rate has fallen more than any other school system in the state.

Victor C. Strasburger, MD, a professor of pediatrics at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, in Albuquerque, N.M., would like the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to give an automatic R - rating to movies that show smoking or violence.

Rated by creators as GB - 7, as they warned audiences that episodes might be too spooky for kids under seven, the anthology series gave kids in the 90's some after - school special scares that even as adults many still can't shake (Slappy the Puppet gives me recurring childhood nightmares in my mid twenties).

The Award for Outstanding Progress for a Primary School was awarded to Bourne Westfield Primary Academy, where teaching, pupil achievement, and behaviour and safety were all given a top rating in this year's Ofsted report.

Given the emerging national market — with providers like K12 and Connections Academy present in dozens of states — it would be feasible to focus not just ratings, but in - depth analysis on just a dozen or so providers that serve tens of thousands of students, rather than the thousands of schools that sites like GreatSchools need to populate ratings for.

A tour company will offer a quote but sometimes offer a lower rate to win the booking without making the school aware that it can only offer a lower rate because they will force drivers to share a room or give the drivers some of the worst rooms in the hotel as they are not seen as paying guests.

While the B&B: 08/12 cohort will be surveyed a final time in 2018, given high rates of graduate school enrollment, even a ten - year follow up may not fully capture the long - term consequences of racial debt disparities.

Teachers who were given a rating of «satisfactory» in the prior academic year were 22.1 percentage points more likely to be dismissed than teachers in the same school who were given the highest rating, «superior.»

Given recent school - related political conflicts in Wisconsin, it is of interest that only 42 percent of that state's white students are proficient in math, a rate no better than the nation as a whole.

Given recent school - related political conflicts in Wisconsin, it is of interest that only 42 percent of that state's white students are proficient in math, a rate no better than the national average.

When rating the nation's schools, only 18 percent of those surveyed in both polls gave the nation's schools either an «A» or a «B» and, more than a quarter gave the schools a rating of a «D» or an «F.» In both polls, grades are roughly the same as those reported by Ednext and PDK in 200in both polls gave the nation's schools either an «A» or a «B» and, more than a quarter gave the schools a rating of a «D» or an «F.» In both polls, grades are roughly the same as those reported by Ednext and PDK in 200In both polls, grades are roughly the same as those reported by Ednext and PDK in 200in 2009.

Of the elementary and middle schools the survey respondents rated, 14 percent received a grade of «A,» 41 percent received a «B» grade, while 36 percent received a «C.» Seven percent were given a «D» and 2 percent an «F.» These subjective ratings were compared with data on actual school quality as measured by the percentage of students in each school who achieved «proficiency» in math and reading on states» accountability exams during the 2007 - 08 school year.

It examines a large sample of monozygotic twins in Denmark to see if their cultural activity was related to their teacher - given GPA, exam - based GPA, and rate of completing secondary school.

These subgroup ratings weigh heavily in the overall performance rating for a school or district because the rating given by the state is based on the lowest performance on any single criterion (TAAS, dropout rate, attendance rate) for any subpopulation.

I gave higher service and atmosphere ratings to schools in which children were assigned some clean - up duties, encouraged to recycle utensils, and disciplined to keep lunchrooms orderly and clean.

The new policy allows states to average participation rates for a given school over two or three years if that school misses the federal threshold in its most recent testing.

Other projects created during the class include an organization that will provide free public libraries in India; an online platform to help students make more informed decisions when applying to college; an app that gives students fun, game - based content that shows what real scientists are like; a cellphone - hosted service for rural teachers in the Philippines that provides direct training and tips; and a nonprofit that will train and employ parent liaisons to develop stronger bonds between families and middle schools in an effort to improve dropout rates.

Actually, that's what many people on the left do claim, and that was the basis for the Obama Administration's 2014 Dear Colleague Letter on the topic, which gave the Office for Civil Rights (and Justice Department) the authority to investigate school districts based on racial disparities in discipline rates alone.

There are 1.9 million more children in good or outstanding schools than in 2010, 9 out of 10 schools were given this rating at their last inspection and our recent rise up the international rankings for reading and literacy puts England's achievements on a global scale.

School systems minister Lord Agnew said: «Academic standards are rising, with 1.9 million more children now in good or outstanding schools than in 2010 and nine out of ten schools given this rating at their latest inspection.

Teachers are more than twice as likely to assign their public schools a D or an F as they are to give this rating to the post offices or police in their communities (Q. 3, 4).

Teaching, pupil achievement, and behaviour and safety were all given a top rating in this year's Ofsted report, with the schools aim to provide a «fun, caring and inspirational environment» for pupils.

The underwhelming state of graduation rates, especially for disadvantaged students, has been the single largest indicator that America's schools are failing to give every student an equal chance at success in life.

One option, given the high rate of students from low - income families in CEP schools, is to simply consider all students in these schools to be from low - income families for accountability purposes, including eligibility for supplemental educational services and school choice priority, where relevant.

Among the most important questions to ask to understand whether a state accountability system is designed to promote opportunity and achievement for all groups of students are: Do all groups of students matter in the ratings given to individual schools?

The long period of stagnation in graduation rates between 1970 and 2000 is especially puzzling given that the financial rewards for completing high school rose sharply during these years.

Chronic absence is feasible for inclusion in California's accountability measurement system using the state's approach for rating school achievement based on outcome and improvement, or alternatively through an approach that simply looks at performance in a given school year.

Each day, students in the School of One are given a unique lesson plan — a «daily playlist» — tailored to their learning style and rate of progress that includes a mix of virtual tutoring, in - class instruction and educational video games.

So the story of a group of very successful Jewish lawyers in New York not only points to the period when they were born, a time of low birth rates, which meant that the New York City public schools they attended were uncrowded and gave a good education, but also to a Jewish propensity to seek out and seize opportunity.

This was, perhaps, a remarkable show of support given the fact that, in 1998, over one - third of Chicago's elementary schools had retention rates between 6 and 16 percent and another one - third between 16 and 33 percent.

In a district like mine, with high poverty and minority representation in the schools and terrible academic outcomes, it is an unfortunate given among those middle class people who have succeeded in school (or think they have) that the only reason that the district has such lousy test scores and graduation rates is «the parents.&raquIn a district like mine, with high poverty and minority representation in the schools and terrible academic outcomes, it is an unfortunate given among those middle class people who have succeeded in school (or think they have) that the only reason that the district has such lousy test scores and graduation rates is «the parents.&raquin the schools and terrible academic outcomes, it is an unfortunate given among those middle class people who have succeeded in school (or think they have) that the only reason that the district has such lousy test scores and graduation rates is «the parents.&raquin school (or think they have) that the only reason that the district has such lousy test scores and graduation rates is «the parents.»

Putting aside the fact that NCLB requires assessments to be given to all students and even dings schools in its accountability requirements if they have low participation rates (after all, the law could change), sampling would make it more difficult to produce usable achievement data for individual districts and schools, especially in small schools or rural areas.

To test the hypothesis that publicly available information has an impact over and above direct observation of school performance, we can compare the ratings given by respondents whose schools were very close to the cutoffs in the point system used by Florida to assign school grades.

Fewer than one - fifth of the teachers surveyed gave the top rating to their schools in preparing students to learn.

Indeed, Matthew Chingos, Michael Henderson and I have shown that, within a given state, the grades citizens assign to specific elementary and middle schools are highly correlated with state proficiency rates in those schools.