Sentences with phrase «small numbers of students on»

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.

This is new — after the budget cuts, LAUSD could only enroll a small number of students on a priority basis.

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«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.

In response, a number of reform efforts are focusing on creating small schools or schools within schools where students are known and valued as individuals by other students as well as by teachers and staff.

DCPS teachers are not evaluated on graduation rates, but principals can base a small portion of their teacher ratings on the number of students passing courses, and a few have.

Affordable Primary Tuition recruits university students and recent graduates, and trains them to offer one - on - one and small - group tuition in schools serving large numbers of disadvantaged pupils.

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.

Then to the hypothesis on the cover: The key element of a school's organization is the number of students that a teacher regularly sees (TSL), and if this number is small (say, 80), achievement will be high.

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.

School of One places students in larger classes or smaller groups or in a one - on - one instruction situation, either by a tutor or online, depending on the number of others in the class who are at a similar price point and share interests.

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.

Rather than having regular check - ups on student progress, with relatively low stakes on those results, we'd have much higher stakes attached to a smaller number of test scores.

Though vague on how the city's choice system had contributed to the problem, the report implied that because a small number of schools were serving a disproportionate share of «high need» students, their likelihood of failure had increased.

While the small number of students entering charter schools in midstream grades, like grades 6 through 12, precludes our estimating effects for them, the resulting focus is on the whole desirable.

For example, the Gates Foundation's small school reforms were widely panned as a flop in early reviews relying on student test scores, but a number of later rigorous studies showed (sometimes substantial) positive effects on outcomes such as graduation and college enrollment.

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However, it is important to realize there is uncertainty in VA measures, which are estimates that may be based on only a few classrooms of students, so the gains from removing teachers identified as ineffective based on a limited number of years of data are smaller.

Nonetheless, a number of small - scale studies have identified positive impacts of interactive teaching styles on student learning.

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.

The small number of students and the isolation on their island home on the Outer Banks foster a close relationship between the school and community.

There's no doubt that teachers and parents prefer smaller classes, but what would the impact on student learning be of increasing class size by this modest amount in order to make a large increase in the number of days students spend in school?

With an enrollment of only 10 students, McGowan says they purposely keep the number small so students can focus intensely on their own research and receive in - depth feedback from classmates.

The small number of students and their isolation on their island home on the Outer Banks foster a close relationship between the school and community.

Eighteen - year - old Sahmina Rahman, the U.S. - born daughter of immigrants from Bangladesh, is one of a small number of South Asian high school students here who have joined protests against federal proposals to crack down on illegal immigration.

«For every one percent of a public school's students who leave for a charter,» concludes Mr. Winters, «reading proficiency among those who remain increases by about 0.02 standard deviations, a small but not insignificant number, in view of the widely held suspicion that the impact on local public schools... would be negative.»

By comparison, two moderately effective schools operated a one - on - one nationally disseminated intervention for a relatively small number of students in grade 1.

That number is small compared to the Atlanta and Philadelphia scandals, yet with more state policies — like teacher evaluations, merit pay, and takeovers of schools with poor ISTEP + scores — riding on students» scores on state tests, state officials, education experts, and parents told StateImpact Indiana they see these pressures to get results as incentives for teachers who can't hack it to bend the rules on state tests.

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

That number sounds small, but if you could calculate which of the three school leaders is most responsible for boosting the number of college - ready D.C. students from tough neighborhoods, my money would be on Schaeffler.

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Even as it advocated more inclusiveness for students with disabilities, the report also noted that «once most schools have become Opportunity Schools, IPS may continue to operate a small number of schools and provide special education on those campuses.»

Mississippi's law does exactly that, but it also provides accountability for the small number of students who still can not read on grade - level before fourth grade.

Because the oTPD program also focused on teacher inquiry and students with learning disabilities, teachers were frequently required to interview a small number of struggling students after they engaged with the PD activities.

It's administered to a random sample of students with each student assigned only a small number of the questions, because the goal is to get a snapshot of student progress based on where they live and their racial and socio - economic backgrounds.

We have summarized the research on how well value - added measures hold up across years, subject areas, and student populations, but the evidence is based on a relatively small number of studies.

The study also found schools that serve many current and former English learner students tended to offer fewer advanced courses compared with schools that serve only a small number of English learner students — even when holding constant characteristics such as size and students» performance on state assessments.

So, there are a number of trials, albeit much smaller than this EEF trial, which suggest that a Lesson Study approach can have significant, positive impact on student outcomes, but only when the content is of high quality.

Students held small signs with numbers on them in front of their faces to represent that they are individuals, not a percentage or number.

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

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.»

This decision impacts a small number of schools (6) but has significant impact on students in those schools being able to access all the benefits promised by the tax measure.

The Chicago Teachers Union and a parent group pressed the Chicago Board of Education for clarity on its decision to have students at only a small number of schools take the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers exams in reading and math.

However, in East Palo Alto schools, which serve primarily low - income students, only a small number of students are currently on track to graduate ready for college.

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.

In the past, preparing students to graduate from high school and move on to college used to involve preparation in terms of a relatively small number of skills.

But she failed to note that the top Hartford students, who were the top before Sheff, are now the ones in these choice / charter / magnet schools, so all the State of Connecticut is shamelessly doing is moving some students around, spending money on a small number of schools, and only integrating if wealthy and non-integrated suburban students can benefit.

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