Sentences with phrase «students are in schools»

It may be that control group students are in schools that will fare as well or better on test score measures.

Fifty - five percent of public school students are in schools in which over 90 percent of all students are white or minority.

NOTE: If you have a Parent PLUS loan, repayment begins once the loans are fully disbursed, unless you postpone your payments while you or your dependent student is in school.

In the endless, exhausting chase to meet standardized testing pressures, graduation rate pressure, and attendance pressures (in which funding is tied to students being in school, not what, how or if they learn), there so much more that is sacrificed than just nutrition.

«We feel student achievement is at a higher rate when students are in school regularly,» said Beth Shields, deputy superintendent for instruction in the School District of Hillsborough County, Florida.

These data often provide a better measure of academic gain than do state test results, and they accurately reflect the period of time the student was in school.

In making our estimates, we take into account differences between countries in their level of income, the average number of years students are in school, and population growth rates.

«They have so many students it doesn't matter if your student is in school or not,» Ortiz said.

«I'm happy with the outcome that schools have started, and the vast majority of students are in school and they are not in the streets,» Dr. Ala «din Alwan said last week, two months into his job, in one of his first interviews with a U.S. reporter.

«The drop in student engagement for each year students are in school is our monumental, collective national failure,» said Brandon Busteed, executive director of Gallup Education.

After all, students are in school, they are learning skills, and conducting a student - led conference is a skill that must be taught... We start prepping about a week before conferencing, and we practice 10 - 15 minutes per day.

The idea was to add roughly 30 to 90 minutes to each day that students are in school, then on the fifth day (usually Friday) to assign projects and encourage parent and community groups to organize study halls and enrichment activities.

Not exact matches

The schools that would be taxed have at least 500 students and more than $ 500,000 in endowment per student.

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When students at an international school in China were asked to delve into the question «How does an iPad know where it is?»

Blocking is how students are typically taught in schools and how employees are taught during training, if only because those sessions are easier for a school or company to schedule and administer.

The policy was implemented in response to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 students and staff members.

Students from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. have organized gun protests and been joined by millions of Americans that have railed against gun violence, assault rifles, and the NRA.

It's a question parents, teachers and students have been urgently asking since the latest school shooting tragedy in Parkland Florida that left 17 dead.

The school is also set to play host to the Stu Clark Investment Competition in March 2017, with teams of graduate students competing for cash prizes and a spot at the 2016 Global Venture Labs Investment Competition at the University of Texas at Austin.

When MBA administrators at Laurentian University learned they had the highest proportion of female students of any business school in Canada, they were shocked.

Once clients sign up, they stick around — many have been students at the school since it opened, and children often stay in music school until they go to college.

Started in 2005 as a school project by University of Waterloo engineering students, Miovision's main product is Scout, a camera system that counts cars at intersections.

He said in contrast to «flavor - of - the - month» technology solutions in education, The Flatiron School is «bringing technology to service that relationship and not reinvent it in a way that is both compelling and effective for students, teachers, and employers.»

After watching 17 of their classmates and teachers be shot dead in just minutes, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas — and other schools around the country — taught us all a lesson in leadership.

Public schools are continually reducing their commitment to art and music classes for students, so you can try to work with the public school system to supplement their efforts in those areas.

Once an optional stop on the career path, internships are increasingly becoming de rigeur for young people — often high school, undergraduate, and graduate students — looking for hands on experience in a wide range of fields.

It's not surprising that Haskayne is the go - to school for students eager to work in the energy industry.

With more MBA programs than ever before serving a record number of students — about 10,000 students are registered in Canadian MBA programs this year, up from 4,800 in 1998 — specialization has become a defining trend, helping schools compete for the best students, and graduates compete for the best jobs.

China's testing was limited to Shanghai students, a narrow scope Lusardi likened to the U.S. testing only students in Washington, D.C. Still, China and other Asian countries typically rank among the top five for other school subjects — and OECD data showed some positive correlation between financial literacy skills and high performance in mathematics and reading.

The program is capped with a business trip abroad, where students meet and learn from local executives, tour businesses in a number of economic sectors, and participate in a consulting project with classmates and students from international host schools.

«Turkey's strong STEM universities are churning out high - quality technical talent, and Turkish students from top - tier global schools are keen to return to their bustling hometowns,» says Cem Sertoglu, a partner at Earlybird Venture Capital who invested in Yemek Sepeti and GittiGidiyor.

In particular, when Grant interviewed for his first teaching job after grad school, he was told that he wasn't capable of teaching MBA students.

It's a school designed for students who want to work in the film, game, broadcast and media industries and who are in a hurry to get started.

At a Thanksgiving dinner party in 2012, four Harvard Business School MBA students had a plan: Rather than spend their upcoming summer interning at big corporations or traveling the world, they were going to drive around the United States consulting entrepreneurs with a social purpose on key business issues.

Like, for instance, when he mentions that he was the first New Zealander to be selected as a Fulbright Scholar in entrepreneurship, or tells you he once spent two weeks in a coma after contracting malaria in Indonesia, or says he was among the highest - scoring secondary - school students on a national math exam.

The pair's solutions to the alleged problems of CEO - speak are greater government control of markets, more bureaucracy in the private and public sectors, an end to CEOs» duty of care to shareholders and — get this — more snore - inducing courses on critical textual analysis in business schools so students can know exactly how many times a CEO says «our company» versus «the company.»

Notably, many of her students are millennials who have worked for a few years and are back in school before returning to the workforce, Weiss explains.

«In high school, I was one of the top students.

On Friday, a group called «Student Walkout Against Gun Violence,» which appears to have been launched in response to the Florida shooting, said it is planning a nationwide walkout sometime next week in schools across the country to demand action.

I often say that if selling was so easy we'd be paying high school students minimum wage to do it instead of investing millions in training and methodology development, not to mention incentivizing our sales teams with highly leveraged, lucrative compensation plans.

Even though Pioneer is considered a «high - needs school» and enrolls a large number of English language learners and children of immigrants, every student gets a chance to learn in Jones» high - tech classroom.

When Joe Landolina was just a 17 - year - old high school student he developed a lifesaving compound from algae that stops bleeding in just seconds.

A thin, tiny island off the southeast tip of Texas, connected to the mainland by a highway, South Padre Island is a popular spring break destination among students who attend schools in the south.

An example Bloom offered Tremonti was the stuffed animals that flooded Newtown, Connecticut after a gunman killed 20 students and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.

John Payne, a professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, said the financial decisions being revealed in the CNBC Millionaire Survey reflect a basic behavioral finance lesson he has been drumming into the heads of business students for years.

The decision came as Jennifer Campisi was taking her 9 - year - old son E.J., a transgender student, to the first day of school in the Dallas - Fort Worth area.

It is the construction industry's fastest growing high school mentor program, reaching over 8,000 U.S. students in the 2016 - 2017 school year alone.

The ACE Mentor Program of America Inc. is a high school mentorship program for STEM students who are interested in construction, architecture and engineering.

«A ruling by a single judge in one circuit can not and does not undo the years of clear legal precedent nationwide establishing that transgender students have the right to go to school without being singled out for discrimination,» said a statement from five groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), that have filed «friend of the court» briefs on behalf of transgender students.