Sentences with phrase «small cohort of students»

Additionally, this teacher will serve as an Advisor to a small cohort of students to facilitate the school's program in social - emotional learning and mentorship.

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Friesen says, «Freshman Academy allows students to go through their classes in a small cohort with the support of their professors, a faculty Learning Coach, and their classmates.

In 2006, a U.S. Department of Education report noted that black graduates were more likely to take on student debt, and in 2007, an Education Sector analysis of the same data found that black graduates from the 1992 - 93 cohort defaulted at a rate five times higher than that of white or Asian students in the 10 years after graduation (Hispanic / Latino graduates showed a similar, but somewhat smaller disparity).

The hope is that the students, clustered in small groups of only 25 each year, will build a cohort for life, a close network of leaders who are ready and equipped to transform the education sector as superintendents, chief academic officers, chiefs of staff, commissioners, executive directors, and more.

Ravitch found that during Klein's five - year tenure academic gains have been smaller than during the previous five years and that the reading scores of cohorts of students are actually declining as they progress through the system.

In the program's first year, the bonus program boost to math scores was 3.2 points on the New York state test, or 0.08 standard deviations, in schools with small cohorts of teachers with tested students (approximately ten or fewer such teachers in elementary and K - 8 schools and five or fewer such teachers in middle schools).

Each student is part of a small cohort that stays together throughout their four years at Urban Prep.

Throughout their four years, each Urban Prep student is part of a small cohort known as a Pride.

Most of the 11 states want to focus on low - performing students as a whole — a U-turn from the NCLB law, in which poor performance by a small cohort of at - risk students could sink a school's rating.

«The findings imply that students placed in relatively small cohort groups for long spans of time experience more desirable outcomes» (Alspaugh, 1998, p. 25).

In his classroom, Joshua has three skill - equivalent cohorts of students rotating through four different stations: • self - paced online work on the LMS Blendspace, • independent reading, • collaborative project - based learning, and • small group instruction.

A policy brief released in 2014 updated MDRC's previous research on small schools, updating high school graduation effects with an additional fourth cohort of students.

An updated MDRC policy brief revealing the effects of small high schools on an additional cohort of students.

Graduation rates among English Language Learners, Special Education students, and students who are economically disadvantaged tend to be lower, so if the District's adjusted cohort were to have a smaller share of these students, the graduation rates would go up just because of this change.

Shares of English Language Learner and Special Education students [4] in the adjusted cohort have increased by small amounts of 2 percentage points and 1 percentage point, respectively.

Of particular note, NCSEA connected Fayetteville Technical Community College with Everblue, a certified Veteran - Owned Small Business that will provide photovoltaic (PV) training for the students and FTCC instructors for the first three program cohorts.