Sentences with phrase «students achieving on»

But what if those odds could be reduced so significantly that they led to many more students achieving on a regular basis?

A student achieves on the summative assessment, but because of a mediocre performance on the formative assessments, they get a lower grade.

Common Core Standards thus infuse classes at the school, and helping students achieve on high - stakes tests is a priority.

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This all comes from a misguided belief that gifted students will achieve on their own — even in spite of a strict educational system that doesn't serve them well.

To achieve this, the panels pointed to the importance of increasing dialogue between academia and business on the development of curricula to have business people teach classes but also to give students chances to experience business life through internships.

«We worked with Free The Children to create the It All Adds Up program to provide students with practical, hands - on advice and tools to help them manage their finances and achieve their goals,» said Jennifer Tory, group head, Personal & Commercial Banking, RBC.

This set of borrowers — who had an average of $ 49,041 in student loan debt — achieved interest rate reductions of 1.36 percentage points, on average.

As a CMO and ever - lasting student of marketing, these disciplines help you focus on achieving specific outcomes.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley on Wednesday proposed using federal money to help states freeze and eventually reduce tuition rates at universities — part of a broader effort to help students achieve debt - free college education within five years.

He is a prominent figure in the world of self - driving vehicles, having worked on the technology for more than a decade and achieving some degree of renown as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004, when he designed a self - driving motorcycle that was entered in the Pentagon's first contest for autonomous vehicles.

The degree to which the goals of religious education are achieved depends, to a large extent, on the quality of the student - teacher relationship.

The Elector was pleased with the good intake of students being achieved, and was placing no opposition in the way of the formation of a new policy which was generally accepted now that Karlstadt had come round to it, and a formal set of Theses on the subject had been successfully defended.

That effort, largely led by Sohn, achieved its fulfillment on May 7, 1988, when a $ 22,000, 6» 5 bronze statue of Trice depicted as a student reading his famous letter was dedicated on campus in a ceremony attended by several of his relatives.

On 6th May 1954, Roger Bannister, a young medical student, achieved the unthinkable when he ran the first ever sub-four-minute mile at the University's running track on Iffley RoaOn 6th May 1954, Roger Bannister, a young medical student, achieved the unthinkable when he ran the first ever sub-four-minute mile at the University's running track on Iffley Roaon Iffley Road.

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The students who used the «study drug» were academically diverse: from high - achieving, AP and Honors students looking for a fast alternative to balance their schedules while maintaining a high GPA, to students struggling to keep a minimum GPA to play on a sports team.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine studied eighth grade math students and found gum chewers scored 3 percent better on standardized math tests and achieved better final grades (Wrigley Science Institute, 2009).

The School Nutrition Foundation focuses on providing the resources that educate and empower SNA members to provide high - quality, low - cost meals to students across the nation to foster an environment where children achieve overall wellness and lifelong success.

A new study shows that students who achieve the highest gains on standardized tests do not show improvements in their cognitive skills.

For example, research has found homeschoolers generally score 15 to 30 percentile points above public school students on standardized tests and they're achieving above average scores on the ACT and SAT tests.

RCLC focuses on setting students up to achieve both academically and socially by providing children the tools necessary for successful entry into their chosen school.

Some of these students may go on to change the world and I look forward to seeing what they will achieve.»

According to her, the school was able to achieve that feat based on hardworking and discipline of students, staff, and management.

To help achieve the Governor's goal of encouraging efficiency and results, the Executive Budget allocates $ 250 million to be awarded on a competitive basis to school districts that demonstrate significant improvement in their student performance outcomes and another $ 250 million to be awarded on a competitive basis to school districts that undertake long - term structural changes which reduce costs and improve efficiency.

Ms. Moskowitz proudly touted the success of Success, noting with real joy how three students at the school in Bed - Stuy had achieved a perfect score on an international math test «out of 30 or 40 worldwide» and taking particular pride in how many of the schools» high achievers are «black and brown» and from neighborhoods that face enormous disadvantages.

The IDC, meanwhile, plans to focus on making it easier to vote, expanding pre-kindergarten in New York City for 3 - year - olds, and achieving student loan forgiveness to combat teacher shortages.

But reformed GCSEs will no longer set an artificial cap on how much pupils can achieve by forcing students to choose between higher and foundation tiers.

Buffalo had performance increases measured in students achieving proficiency or higher on both ELA and Math from the 2015 - 16 to 2016 - 17 school year.

Maxwell said he will look to achieve that goal by focusing efforts on Say Yes to Education — a local, community - wide partnership that supports Syracuse students in school and through college — and career and technical programs.

Gibson offered a brief outline of his platform, stating, «I believe our state can rally around four points: growing the economy through meaningful tax cuts and policy changes, achieving excellence in education by returning power to parents, students and teachers, cleaning up corruption and restoring our faith in our ability to be self - governing and protecting our freedoms while improving on the safety and security of all New Yorkers.»

Still suffering from last year's school budget cuts and with the mayor threatening more to come, UFT members at high - achieving Leon M. Goldstein HS for the Sciences in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, rallied and leafleted faculty, staff, students and members of the community on Nov. 17 with the message «No Budget Cuts — Save Our Schools.»

WILLSBORO — Willsboro Central School teacher Ashley Hooper gave her students a challenge in October: If 60 percent of the class achieved mastery on the Living Environment Regents Exam, she would allow them to cut her long hair.

The two - day programme, on the theme: «Achieving the Health Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through Effective Stakeholder Engagement,» was attended by health professionals and students, metropolitan municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs) and the media.

Whether it is expanding the community schools model so more schools provide students the support they need to succeed, or front - loading services to children age five and under so they are ready to learn once they get to school, Bill Thompson is focused on getting kids what they need to achieve — in school and in life.

It is widely recognized as the first step toward ambitious national standards in science for all students and a major influence on current efforts to reform science education in the U.S., including the National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieve in 2013.

Whether these schools draw students from around the country or just from their regions, the opportunities to make an impact on their students» lives, and to watch motivated students achieve, is one of the job's key rewards.

This is the result of the shortcomings of the Italian undergraduate education system: 88 % of students take longer than the scheduled 4 or 5 years to achieve a laurea (on average they need 2 or 3 more years), and over 60 % of freshmen drop out (1998 figures).

This is achieved for the first time on a chip,» said Semere Tadesse, a graduate student in the University of Minnesota's School of Physics and Astronomy and the first author of the paper.

«We instructed volunteers to walk or jog on the treadmill at a speed which they felt corresponded to the «light,» «moderate» and «vigorous» intensity descriptors used in the physical activity guide, yet they underestimated how hard they should be working to achieve moderate and vigorous intensity,» lead researcher and graduate student Karissa Canning says.

«Many cities have outlined goals to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions, and obviously tree - planting is one way to achieve that goal,» said Chang Zhao, a graduate student in the Geographical and Sustainability Sciences department at the UI and corresponding author on the paper, published in the journal PLOS One, «but our study shows it plays a minor role and that we need to focus on reducing carbon emissions over removing them.»

About 7 to 10 days before each class exam, students in the intervention group received a survey that asked them to write down the grade they wanted to get on the exam and rate how important it was to them to achieve that grade and how confident they were that they would meet this goal.

Acceptance into veterinary school was more difficult to achieve than acceptance into medical school: It depended, among other things, on the student's state of residency at the time the application was submitted.

On a positive note: «Our research indicates that if a student can structure a consistent schedule in which class days resemble non-class days, they are more likely to achieve academic success,» said study co-lead author Aaron Schirmer, an associate professor of biology at Northeastern Illinois University.

«While achieving the spontaneous assembly of nanoparticles into a hierarchy of scales in a polymer host has been a «holy grail» in nanoscience, until now there has been no established method to achieve this goal,» says Dan Zhao, Kumar's PhD student and first author on this paper.

«College Selectivity and Degree Completion,» by Scott Heil of the City University of New York (CUNY), Liza Reisel of the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, and Paul Attewell of the CUNY Graduate Center, is the first study on this topic to use nationally representative data and to account for the higher graduation rates of highly selective institutions in terms of their ability to attract and enroll higher achieving students.

He also said the plan has not achieved significant representation of African Americans on campus, with them accounting for just 4.4 % of the student body in 2014 - 2015.

Deian Stefan, lead PhD student on the project at Stanford, said: «What we've achieved in COWL is a system that lets web developers build feature - rich applications that combine data from different web sites without requiring that users share their login details directly with third - party web applications, all while ensuring that the user's sensitive data seen by such an application doesn't leave the browser.

A student mathematician said to me, for example, that people «ought to be grateful» for what science has achieved on their behalf.

I heard the news of the first landing on Mars, achieved by Viking 1, as an oceanography student out at sea in 1976.

Having proved that group emotional intelligence helps not only to achieve better results but also to improve student well - being, it may be interesting to implement a programme to work on it.»