Sentences with phrase «school exam day»

On law school exam day, there is going to be a lot on your mind.

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School is in session every day but exams tend to come in a cluster, which brings to mind a Bill Parcells quote: «This is what you work all season for.

For example, school would still be in session on these days, but teachers could be instructed not to have exams, quizzes, or projects due that day that would put an Islamic student at a disadvantage if he / she chose to stay home.

For example, the school system could build in some flexibility to reasonably accommodate the minority's religious needs by allowing exams to be written on alternative days, or permitting extensions on assignments if the due dates fall on holidays etc..

Schools could keep track of all important holidays and avoid scheduling exams and such on those days.

While it's probably acceptable that public schools should go out of their way to blacklist MAJOR religious holy days from exams or deadlines (some kind of authoritative national list would be required, but I'll bet even with community involvement it won't please everyone, sheesh) I don't buy having our public school system bend over backwards for religion.

So if the public schools don't by default give the days off, parents should talk to the school (principals, teachers) about not having exams on days they plan to have their kids miss school.

Four years ago while still in school and preparing for a career in the pharmaceutical industry, one of my professors scheduled a rather large and important chemistry exam for the day after Halloween.

For one day, a Denver - area school serves as a clinic where youngsters can get screened, have an eye exam, shop for frames and receive new glasses in roughly an hour.

For one day, a Denver - area school serves as a clinic where students can get screened, have an eye exam, shop for frames and receive new glasses within an hour.

Rather than present the critical exam as an extracurricular pursuit, the school - day SAT exam heightened inclusivity.

More than half of Long Island students eligible to take the state Common Core test in English Language Arts refused to take the exam this week, according to a Newsday survey of public school districts ending Thursday, the third and final day of the assessment.

A fourth - grader at Ulysses Byas Elementary School in Rooosevelt takes the Common Core math exam on the first day of three days of mathematics testing, on April 13, 2016.

Her comments follow a 30 - day ultimatum issued to the Independent Examination Board (IEB) by the SRC of the Ghana School of Law to re-mark the scripts of students who failed the exams.

If parents don't send a child to school on the day of testing to boycott the exams, the child will then be forced to take a makeup test.

In his State of the State speech on Jan. 9, Gov. Cuomo announced an ambitious education agenda for 2013 that includes full - day pre-kindergarten in the poorest areas, community schools such as those being piloted by the UFT this year, and a «bar - like exam» to qualify future teachers that was first proposed by the AFT.

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My son is sitting his mock exams this week, so I am driving him to and from school everyday as the journey takes 3 hrs out of my day it actually doesn't leave much time for doing anything else.

My bestie just took the BAR exam a few days ago so I've learned a lot about the process of law school the past few years.

Luckily or not, more snow days followed after our exam review period, so we created what we called Protocol B, designed to replace a regular school day.

One newspaper even reported that a school in Scotland had its fire alarm maliciously activated 15 times in two months interfering with important exams on consecutive days (Source: Daily Record, 2016).

Most of the 2,000 pupils facing exams who were affected by the closures are among those heading back to the classroom, after two days away from school.

Students want to pick up their exam results at midnight and begin their morning's work on the bus, before the school day even starts.

NB: The feast day is usually celebrated during the school summer holidays on July 31st, however, the resource has been designed to fit to be taught towards the end of the school year, in the period after exams (June - July).

According to RAD exams director Andrew McBirnie, before 2013 ballet exams could be run «during the school day and the student was able to leave a class at say 10 o'clock, do their exam and be back by lunchtime - and that seemed to be a perfectly legitimate activity that the student might be doing as part of their all - round education.

In India about 20 students kill themselves every day due to the stress related to exams, wanting to secure seats in prestigious schools, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.

Do these results reflect the cumulative effect of more sunlight over the course of the entire school year, or do they just reflect alertness on the day of the exam?

36 American Heart Association warns kids should have heart exam before ADHD drugs; schools fight stigma of free lunch; performance improves when breakfast served in classroom; ideas for fantastic field days.

After two years, the schools were no longer required to hold weekly meetings for their planning teams; instead, unsuccessful algebra teachers (those whose teaching allowed fewer than 15 percent of their students to pass the end - of - course exam last year) would be pulled out of their classes for eight days of in - depth training.

There should also be a national strategy for teacher recruitment and retention that recognises teachers as high - status professionals and guarantees enough teachers for every school; fair methods to hold schools to account, recognising that test and exam results are only part of the picture when judging a pupil's success or a school's effectiveness; and a broad range of subjects in the school day so opportunities are not limited.

In the bad old days, before statewide standards, affluent communities tended to ask their kids to shoot for the moon (or at least 3s, 4s, and 5s on a battery of Advanced Placement exams), while too many schools in low - income neighborhoods were happy with basic literacy and numeracy.

Some schools spent 13 days just giving ONE computerized end of course exam this year.

Despite the significant number of students who refused the exam or were listed as absent on test days, state data show most Illinois schools and districts saw nearly all of their students take the test.

Test - Refusal Movement's Success Hampers Analysis of New York State Exam Results New York Times, 8/14/15» «I remember the bad old days when achievement gaps between groups of students or between schools and school districts were hidden as if they were a dirty secret,» Thomas Kane, an economist and professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said in an school districts were hidden as if they were a dirty secret,» Thomas Kane, an economist and professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said in an School of Education, said in an email.

Wake County school officials say they expect to have details soon on which school sites will be open May 16 to provide meals to students and how school bus service will be provided to high school students who will take exams that day.

• High - school sophomores who showed up to take the computerized exam Tuesday — the first day of testing — could not access the test because of a programming glitch.

A sample of 36 Great Expectation model elementary schools were matched with 556 Oklahoma non-Great Expectations elementary schools based on the following variables: ethnicity, free and reduced lunch eligibility, school size, average number of days students absent, percent of parents attending conferences, percent of teachers with advanced degrees, percent passing third grade reading test, district population size, unemployment rate, average household income, teachers per administrator, percent of student's in special education, instructional support budget, and district percent passing Algebra I. Five years of pass rates on third grade reading and third grade math state exams were examined.

A woman whose daughter had been to collect her exam results at the school said: «It's been a crazy day».

It calls for making teacher preparation programs more selective, requiring licensing exams to be more relevant, increasing teacher salaries, paying better teachers more, making tenure more meaningful, and reorganizing the school day so that teachers have more time to plan.

There are only 13 school days left - they will be busy as we wrap up end of year projects, benchmarks, AP exams, and finals.

As schools battle to avoid a «mad dash» of revision and catch - up sessions, one London boys» school has extended the day for year 11 pupils to provide extra time for revision, coursework and exam preparation.

Many parents don't like the idea of their already over-tested children taking even more exams, particularly in subjects like art and gym, which are usually thought of as relaxing breaks in an otherwise stressful school day.

But often these free exams, offered on select school days, do not include the optional essay - writing sections still required by some highly selective universities.

School network organisation The PiXL Club advised its 1,300 - plus members to enter pupils who were unlikely to get five GCSEs, and said schools could prepare for the exam in just three days.

School partnership network The PiXL Club advised its 1,500 - plus member schools to run three days of intensive classes to prepare pupils for the ECDL exam.

Three years after closures, the public - school students had gained, on average, what equates to 49 extra days of learning in reading — gaining more than a year of achievement growth, as measured by state reading exams.

Geoff Barton (pictured), the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said it was «not uncommon» for schools to make the day longer especially for year 11s working towards exams.

Members were told that some schools were planning to run a three - day intensive course to prepare pupils for the online exams, once their other GCSEs were completed.

With days remaining before Illinois schools can administer a new state - mandated test, Chicago Public Schools remains in a tight spot over the potential consequences of its decision to spurn the exam, officials acknowledged Wedschools can administer a new state - mandated test, Chicago Public Schools remains in a tight spot over the potential consequences of its decision to spurn the exam, officials acknowledged WedSchools remains in a tight spot over the potential consequences of its decision to spurn the exam, officials acknowledged Wednesday.

PiXL said schools planned to run three days of intensive classes to prepare pupils for the exam.