Sentences with phrase «small number of students»

The message was clear: The new reforms will affect all city students, not just 4 - year - olds or the relatively small number of students who attend struggling schools.

Plus, a relatively small number of students of color enroll in teacher education programs each year.

Nonetheless, a very small number of students will need more intensive intervention in order to meet their learning goals.

Small number of students help the teachers to focus on each child individually.

For book buddies, they say, take small numbers of student / elder pairs and provide books of different levels in a space that offers some privacy and a library - like environment.

These statistics reflect the fact that sixth forms and colleges are finding it increasingly difficult to run courses where there are relatively small numbers of students because of severe funding pressures.

With budget cuts and smaller numbers of students ~ I am wondering if schools will be moving back to a modified self - contained class for 5th and 6th graders.

And then, back inside the school again, class formation, designing learning programs with small numbers of students across a wide range of grade bands or year levels.

Both spent a year in their respective schools listening in on classes, conducting interviews, documenting key events, and following small numbers of students and teachers.

Finally, in regard to whether any students with IEPs should be excused from screening, there are a very small number of students with severe and profound disabilities who will not be functionally able to complete the screening assessments.

In a recent opinion piece for Education Week, Arthur Wise of the Center for Teaching Quality writes that current mainstream ideas on how to improve American public schools will result in «at best, a marginal improvement for small numbers of students.»

And there's the difficulty of drawing the right conclusions about teacher performance from very small numbers of student test scores, an especially tough challenge in elementary schools, where teachers typically work with a single classroom of students every day.

One of the most stimulating and pleasing roles I have, is to be involved with very small numbers of students on Kingston University's Publishing Masters» degree, as a supervisor of dissertations and on the advisory board for the course.

Supporters of de Blasio note that credit - recovery problems have been at play in city schools for years, if not decades, and that there are a relatively small number of students involved.

It's also worth noting that because many of these schools serve far smaller numbers of students, the decline in percentage of schools offering AP classes does not represent a proportionate decline in the number of overall students able to access AP coursework.

Among the G8 economies, the U.S. assessed the second smallest number of students for PISA and collected the least contextual information, limiting the inferences that can be drawn for states and the usefulness of PISA for policy.

It is unlikely that Louisiana's other two school choice programs — special needs program (342 students participating in 2015 - 2016) and tax credit scholarship program (781 students participating in 2015 - 2016)-- have a major impact on participation by private schools due to the relatively small number of students participating in these programs

As Leslie Thatcher reports, those out of district students only make up a very small number of the student population.

Given the relatively small number of students moving back and forth between charter schools and district - managed schools, it is unlikely these students would have a large impact on the overall graduation rate.

The data show that more than half of ACT - tested 2013 graduates who intended to pursue an education career switched to another major within their first two years of college, while a slightly smaller number of students who had planned another type of career switched to an education major.

The upshot was that a relatively small number of students received a disproportionately high amount of the teaching and resources available.

Only a relatively small number of students who learned to read advanced to the next stages of education, where they were taught by grammarians, teachers who were proficient in letters (grammata)-- that is, literature.

In particular, special education teachers, who often teach small classes of students with the most severe disabilities, may have very small numbers of students with which to calculate value - added; they may even have fewer than the minimum required by the state.

Small numbers of students tested in several MassInsight award - winning schools suggest that MCAS score gains may reflect little more than variations in the testing pool.

Charter school attendance also appears to have a modest positive effect on reading scores, though this estimate falls short of statistical significance due to the relatively small number of students in our lottery sample.

Except for a very small number of students with severe and profound disabilities, all students should participate in universal benchmark screening so that teachers can learn each student's current skills in relation to grade level expectations.

Our estimates of the effects of voucher use after three and four years are based on a relatively small number of students: fewer than 200 in year four, as compared to roughly 3,000 in year one and 1,700 in year two.

«We want to have a small, massive impact,» Flombaum says, contrasting the approach of attempting to change the lives — and career paths — of a small number of students at a time to that of online education, which can reach a lot of people, but is likely to have just a small affect on each one.

The groups which represent the smallest number of students COULD be overwhelmed if another group so desired.

The fee hike will affect a small number of students who pay to ride the school bus.

In other words, is it easier to do what you do because you're working with a small number of students compared to a huge urban district like mine here in Houston?

The State Education Department's grades 3 - 8 assessment vendor, Questar Assessment, Inc., experienced a data breach affecting a small number of students registered for computer - based testing (CBT) in spring 2017, Commissioner MaryEllen Elia announced today.

At the same time, several new free schools have very small numbers of students (one reportedly had only eight), often at considerable cost per place.

Unfortunately for him, this entailed a ballot of university staff, registered alumni and a small number of students in representative positions.

A small number of students actually transferred to another school in the process of closing.

There was an excellent case for certain subjects, like applied maths, but we obviously didn't have the resources to provide them at every school to a small number of students.

Unfortunately, the subject only interests a small number of students so many schools can not afford to provide such classes.

Thus, many of the schools that were aspiring to a Recognized rating could achieve it by affecting the scores of only a small number of students.

The designation of low - scoring students as eligible for special education was more common in schools where a small number of students had failed the 8th - grade exam, making it easier for educators to target specific students.

In the schools included in this study, teachers never had more than four attainment groups in their classroom and the group with the smallest number of students was always the low - attainment group.

Looking back at the history of FLVS, securing a sustainable part of the annual budget was one of the key factors that helped FLVS move from being an interesting pilot program that served a small number of students to a transformative set of offerings that could reach students not just in Florida, but anywhere in the world.

States can vet vendors, making them start slow, on a trial basis, with small numbers of students to ultimately prove themselves worthy of making it onto a state - approved vendor list.

It's probably easier for the teachers who have a small number of students with similar issues who are just building skills - not preparing for exams - rather than trying to suit hundreds of students.

They can learn more deeply as well if they're also not being impacted upon by repeated disruptions from, again, those small number of students that might be in your classroom.

(Reliable information for the small number of students attending schools in districts with enrollment below 300 is unavailable for the years prior to 2000.)

But the treatment and control groups for this small number of students do not survive the equivalence test mentioned in item one; interpreting the results is therefore inappropriate.

Realistically, when you're talking about students in particular, remember it's really a small number of students who cause the most disruption.

With a smaller number of students at any one time, teachers can focus on pushing the ratio of higher order thinking through Socratic seminars and other targeted strategies of instruction only possible in a small group setting.

Despite efforts like these, the middle school principal worries that they still aren't effectively reaching a small number of students (he estimates 3 to 5 percent).