Sentences with phrase «small subset of students»

Such an educational experience can have a truly profound impact on the trajectory of a student's life, and it is not one that should be reserved for only a small subset of students with access to good teachers.

From the school's perspective, this dissection of growth creates disincentives for focusing on a small subset of students whose performance hovers just below a single threshold.

This explanation would be plausible if a teacher's class were composed of a small subset of students who gained considerable skill during the prior year and a larger subset of students whose previous gains were modest.

The accountability systems encouraged all manner of dubious practices, such as focusing teacher effort on a small subset of students at risk of failing the exams rather than advancing every child's learning.

I piloted ahead of time using a small subset of students.

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It also might suggest that the benefits of school choice are limited to students attending a small subset of schools that admit few voucher students.

With passage of the Local Control Funding Formula, California became the first state to require schools to consider how best to serve a small subset of at - risk students: youth in foster care.According to 2016 California Department of Education data, in English language arts, 56.2 percent of foster students did not meet standards on the Smarter Balanced tests (compared to 30.5 percent of non-foster students) and for mathematics, 64 percent of foster students did not meet standards (compared to 37.3 percent of non-foster students).

Small high schools send larger shares of students to college, new study says ChalkbeatNY: The multi-year study examines a subset of 123 «small schools of choice» that opened between 2002 and 2008 with private funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and support from former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administraSmall high schools send larger shares of students to college, new study says ChalkbeatNY: The multi-year study examines a subset of 123 «small schools of choice» that opened between 2002 and 2008 with private funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and support from former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administrasmall schools of choice» that opened between 2002 and 2008 with private funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and support from former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration.

On any given day, based on the data, teachers may gather an entire grade or a subset of students, sometimes in groups as small as one or two.

I appreciate that this president is at least trying to make some effort when it comes to student loan debt, but this measure will help a small subset of borrowers, and will be a small help at that.

Post-Graduation Goals According to the ABA law graduate employment data, more than half of employed law students choose to work at law firms, and I would assume that only a small subset of the 14.6 % who choose to go into «Business & Industry» are entrepreneurs.