Sentences with phrase «student retention efforts»

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Implemented in 2003 as part of an ambitious academic reform effort in Division I, the Academic Progress Rate (APR) holds institutions accountable for the academic progress of their student - athletes through a team - based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student - athlete for each academic term.

Numerous federal agencies that historically have focused their minority recruitment and retention efforts on universities, including NSF, NIH, and the Department of Education, are now implementing or expanding programs to fortify science education at community colleges, to facilitate 2 - year students» transfer to universities, and to encourage those students to continue toward advanced degrees.

Among the findings: (1) art activities can be integrated into classroom content and used to encourage rehearsal - type activities (such as songs) that incorporate relevant subject matter, (2) incorporating information into story, poem, song, or art form may place the knowledge in context, which can help students remember it, especially if the students are creating art that relates subject matter to themselves, (3) through artistic activities like writing a story or creating a drawing, students generate information they might otherwise have simply read, which will very likely lead to better long - term retention of that information, (4) physically acting out material, such as in a play, helps learners recall information, (5) speaking words aloud results in better retention than reading words in silence, (6) increasing the amount of effort involved in learning new information (such as being asked to discern meaning from an ambiguous sentence or to interpret a work of art) is positively associated with its retention, (7) emotionally charged content is easier to remember than content linked to events that are emotionally neutral, and (8) information presented as pictures is retained better than the same information presented as words.

I was pleasantly surprised at the cooperative efforts between students during the WebQuest, and at the retention and application of information when the WebQuest was completed.

In response to a serious shortage of women in computer science and information technology, GirlTECH works to promote participation by girls and women through K - 12 student and teacher programs, university - student admission and retention programs, and national outreach and awareness efforts.

The policy's greatest benefits could result not from retention itself, but rather from increased efforts on the part of teachers and even students to avoid being retained in the first place.

A selection of activities that make links to other literature texts whilst studying the poetry in an effort to help student retention of previously studied texts.

The 1999 results showed that more than 75 percent of teachers and almost 90 percent of principals indicated that they «felt supported in their efforts to help students who had been retained and who were at risk of retention.»

On top of this, as Richard Price wrote for the Christensen Institute, «From a university's perspective, re-enrolling students who have dropped out are often seen as generating lower returns on investment than first - time enrollment and retention efforts.

And, a growing body of empirical research shows that positive school climate improvement efforts increase academic achievement, reduce bully - victim - bystander behavior as well as student dropout rates and increase teacher retention rates.

As Oklahoma continues to lose its teachers to surrounding higher - paying states, students see a revolving door of educators entering and leaving their school — a process that research shows hurts student achievement.56 Instead of loosening requirements for entry into the profession to solve this problem, the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) assembled a Teacher Shortage Task Force to implement changes that would strengthen the teacher pipeline, thereby bolstering recruitment and retention efforts in the state.

What to know: The Mississippi Department of Education's (MDE) plan stands out for aligning its teacher recruitment and retention efforts with its ambitious goals for increasing student academic achievement by 2025 and clearly stating its role in supporting districts to address equity concerns.10 The MDE recognizes that in order to reach its stated goals — which include a proposed graduation rate of 90 percent for all students by 2025 — they must also support districts in recruiting and retaining teachers of color who are prepared to improve student outcomes.

Maxwell will also support the coordination of parent volunteers at the campuses, lead new efforts to enhance student retention, and establish new partnerships with community - based organizations to expand resources for parents.

Founded in October 2010 within the California State University (CSU) system, the Asian American and Pacific Islander Initiative is a concerted effort to improve college access, retention, and graduation rates for AAPI students from underserved communities.

«Our goal in considering a new LMS was to improve student engagement, retention and outcomes while advancing our effort to deliver a more mobile - ready curriculum,» explained Lynda Cloud, Executive Vice President of Products at K12 Inc. «After thorough evaluation, K12 chose D2L to power K12's next - generation online high school and middle school.

In most states, there is a large and growing gap between the percentage of students of color1 and the percentage of teachers of color.2 Efforts to increase teacher diversity have led to marginal increases in the percentage of teachers of color — from 12 percent to 17 percent from 1987 through 2012 — but this positive statistic obscures other troubling facts, such as the decline in the percentage of African American teachers in many large urban districts and the lower retention rates for teachers of color across the country.3

Turning around the declines will need to include reexamining how students are recruited to education colleges as well as retention efforts aimed at teachers in their first few years in the classroom.

Any 2018 education agenda should focus on restoring adequate funding to our schools, increasing efforts to improve the recruitment and retention of educators, and providing the necessary supports to give low - income students the tools needed to succeed.

To elicit the effort and energy needed for long - term retention, I have students try to memorize a set of five of their unmastered facts, reciting the prompt and the product together.

These efforts, combined with better recruiting, retention, and dismissal policies, could put a top teacher in charge of nearly every classroom, reaching all students, not just a lucky few.

Research and evidence from the field show community schools help ensure students enter school fully prepared to learn; develop improved work habits, efforts, and attitudes toward learning; improve grades and test scores; bolster retention and graduation rates; and provide society with a strong return on investment.

These retention and persistence realities deeply hamper the ability for schools, particularly high - poverty schools, to initiate and sustain school improvement efforts necessary to achieve real gains for students.»

Requires applications to include a student recruitment and retention plan and allows SBE to deny a charter renewal when a school made insufficient efforts to effectively attract, enroll, and retain students from among the same educationally needy populations.

Foster care agencies know that retention efforts are critical to prevent negative outcomes for former foster care students.