Sentences with phrase «students at a certain school»

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So if participation in high school sports is good for students, at a certain level it makes sense that as many students as possible should get that opportunity — but if the same group of athletes hogs three sports» worth of spots, then opportunities are lost for others.

At their schools, they typically rewarded students who had straight A's or who had GPA's above a certain cut - off point.

At the same time that she was ingesting all this psychological research about motivation, Farrington was also studying the related sociological literature, which was concerned with how institutional structures affect individual behavior and, specifically, how certain educational structures — like school funding mechanisms, teacher contracts, or patterns of segregation — might incline students toward success or failure.

I do wish his parents will put some boundaries and expectations in place instead of telling him that he does not need to do well to go to college as it is a government requirement that all students stay at school till a certain age.

However, at a certain point, if your school food service top folks are taking the attitude that they can't afford to provide enough fresh fruits and veggies to meet student demand, parents and other advocates will need to push back.

At 1:30 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on New York City Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless students.

Jordan Matsudaira, a management and policy professor at Cornell University, has helped resurrect an old research tool and has employed it to look at the usefulness of summer school and the effect of funding from Title I, a federal program targeted at schools with a certain percentage of low - income students.

The names, logistics, and availability of such courses vary: Heil's doctoral summer school was only open to Ph.D. students at certain European institutions, for example, while others are open to applicants at various career stages from around the world, and many U.S. universities offer boot camps and bridge programs as part of their doctoral programs.

I was lucky enough to sit at some amazing shows, visit my favourite French brands, and wear pieces from their new collections — the former wide - eyed fashion school student within me felt a certain «pinch me» moment each passing day.

School districts around the country are experimenting with programs that allow students to home school for part of the day but take certain classes at the local public sSchool districts around the country are experimenting with programs that allow students to home school for part of the day but take certain classes at the local public sschool for part of the day but take certain classes at the local public schoolschool.

Students at seven middle schools received the phones in February, and they collect talk minutes, ringtones, and music downloads by meeting certain benchmarks, such as turning in homework and participating in class.

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

To move their 765 - plus students onto a more promising track, like their counterparts at other YES Prep campuses, educators at North Central run the school day from 7:30 to 4:30, Monday through Friday, and hold sessions on certain Saturdays for community service and extra instruction.

Even sending students home, I remember when I was at school, sometimes the teachers would send students home with cassette tapes to listen to of certain things.

But the team at CAST started thinking that the problem was not with the students but with the school curriculums and the barriers they placed in front of anyone who didn't learn in a certain way.

Winters looks at data on all elementary - school students in certain years from New York City's and Denver's charter and district schools.

As Alfred Blumstein, a criminologist at Carnegie Mellon University, told the San Francisco Examiner: The presence of metal detectors at certain schools, searches of students and lockers, and other security moves have helped combat crime in our nation's schools.

Teacher specialization, a model in which teachers specialize in certain subjects and teach them to a rotating group of students, has a negative effect on student scores, attendance, and behavior in an elementary school setting, according to a new working paper by Fryer, a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Educschool setting, according to a new working paper by Fryer, a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of EducSchool of Education.

Some schools set IB entrance requirements — a certain grade point average or standardized test ranking — in the belief that a student must show at least some academic commitment and competence to succeed.

Schools need low - burden strategies that are easy to implement but that still promote caring and inclusive schools and classrooms, develop key emotional and ethical capacities in students, and inspire interest in deeper and more comprehensive efforts to promote SEL and ethical capacities — practices that can easily be scaled and may achieve certain goals as effectively as comprehensive programs at far lesSchools need low - burden strategies that are easy to implement but that still promote caring and inclusive schools and classrooms, develop key emotional and ethical capacities in students, and inspire interest in deeper and more comprehensive efforts to promote SEL and ethical capacities — practices that can easily be scaled and may achieve certain goals as effectively as comprehensive programs at far lesschools and classrooms, develop key emotional and ethical capacities in students, and inspire interest in deeper and more comprehensive efforts to promote SEL and ethical capacities — practices that can easily be scaled and may achieve certain goals as effectively as comprehensive programs at far less cost.

Looking at school uniform policies, there's a middle ground where schools do allow normal clothing, but maintain restrictions over, say, certain brand labels or styles of dress; BYOD could achieve a similar balance between opening the door to more diverse devices and limiting certain features to prevent them from setting some students apart from their peers.

This article looks at how certain French schools have started to allow students to smoke on the premises after the November terrorist attacks in Paris and the state of emergency, alleging that students would be safer smoking at school than outside.

Although one can not copy and paste Finland's educational system (or anyone else's) here in United States, there are certain concepts we can learn to become better at infusing more school trust, teacher / leader autonomy and student - centered offerings in today's American school.

With this metric, educators can track the percentage of students in a class, school, or district who are «proficient» (scoring at or above a certain designated baseline), with hopes that this percentage will eventually rise to 100.

In the background questionnaire, students will be asked to report how familiar they are with global issues; how developed their linguistic and communication skills are; to what extent they hold certain attitudes, such as respect for people from different cultural backgrounds; and what opportunities they have at school to develop global competence.

Put aside the crystal clear anecdotes that go beyond the on average results — something education researchers are not good at doing — that show that for certain students in certain circumstances, full - time virtual charter schools are absolutely the best place for them to learn and that these students have not only been successful in these environments, they have also thrived in ways they would not have in traditional brick - and - mortar schools.

With 20 years of experience, Clare Forseth, a 5th - and 6th - grade mathematics teacher at Marion Cross School in Norwich, Vt., could be expected to be fairly certain about how she teaches math to upper - elementary students.

The crushing defeat of the charter referendum in Massachusetts is at least partially explained by the political foolishness of narrowly focusing the charter movement on a certain type of school to serve disadvantaged students.

I am, however, certain that if conservatives are not hypocrites, they will insist that Cleveland's suburban schools open — rather than, as they have close — their doors to the students whose vouchers, at conservatives» behest, Zelman upheld as constitutional.

For students of a certain era, it would be hard to forget the metal lunchbox banging against their hips on the way to school, flipping open the top at noon to find a squashed peanut - butter - and - jelly sandwich, a shiny red apple, and — for the lucky — cookies.

«We want to make certain that our students that leave school are academically achieving at their highest level of ability, but also their mental health is actually taken care of and they've got the skills and strategies to live a wonderful flourishing life,» Principal Warren Symonds says.

Or, if we look at grammar schools or independent schools, many of which are not only selective but also more academic and less vocational which in itself can close off certain avenues for students.

Instead, the OSSI defines certain attributes a recipient school should have, such as a student body of 400 or less, and an atmosphere in which each student is known well by at least one adult.

In addition, the counselors reported that certain barriers to taking AP courses have been removed; at one high school, there used to be a minimum class rank that a student had to have in order to take AP courses, but after adoption of APIP, any interested student was allowed to take AP courses.

For example, High Storrs School in Sheffield refurbished certain areas of the Grade II listed building with their original fixtures and fittings in order for students to be able to better understand how previous generations of students and staff taught and learned at the sSchool in Sheffield refurbished certain areas of the Grade II listed building with their original fixtures and fittings in order for students to be able to better understand how previous generations of students and staff taught and learned at the schoolschool.

We use value add, and if the student is present for a certain amount of time at a school, their data will count for the school.

Maurice Van Lowe, a 4th grader at Burning Tree Elementary School in Bethesda, Md., reads in his classroom using Bookshare, a nonprofit electronic service that converts books into more accessible formats for students with certain kinds of disabilities.

After some research, Wilson was certain the annual Iditarod sled dog race would provide a sled - ful of ideas she could use to teach skills such as math and teamwork to her students at Applegate Elementary School in Portland, Oregon.

As S Wagstaff, head of music at Southbank International School, says: «the use of music technology software aids to remove certain barriers to learning for students.

Certain techniques were flagged up «no hands rule; use of mini-white boards, Kagan, learning environments that are supporting; bolstering self - esteem; positivity; curiosity; creativity; identify students to lead plenary at end of lesson at the beginning; Get class blogging — quadblogging; tallies for whole class rewards; encouraging independent learning; wait time when questioning; talk about their thinking and reasoning; conversational learning; talk with learning partners before answering any questions; pair and share; Glazer learning model structure for lesson delivery — a good mix of interaction and independent work; offering choice to pupils; cross class working; allowing time to play; list / describe / explain / evaluate; new audiences beyond the school; project based learning and philosopy; swapping age - groups; cross-curricular working; read to them every day; invite varied guests in; learning by discovery using pupils» interests; stand back and watch with purpose.

Still, Mr. West noted that it's not certain whether the false positives come from mistakes that make sense in context — for example, a high - performing student who gets chicken pox and misses two weeks of school — or the effect of interventions to help at - risk students in later grades.

To make adequate yearly progress, or AYP, under the federal law, schools and districts must meet annual targets for the percentage of students who score at least at the proficient level on state reading and mathematics tests, both for the student population as a whole and for certain subgroups of students.

Indeed, in a certain sense, special ed vouchers have already existed nationwide for some 35 years under the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act, which allows special ed students to attend private school at public expense.

By shading each of the dates a certain colour (e.g. green represents a day when both students and staff are present at school)- the model will calculate how many of each day are present in the academic year.

As governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007, Mr. Huckabee supported a proposal that would have given undocumented children who had lived in Arkansas for a certain amount of time and graduated from a public high school in the state the same chance at an academic scholarship to state institutions as other students.

For decades, educators have been concerned mainly with certifying that students have obtained certain academic, career, and social - emotional competencies at school.

Many charter leaders also argue that weighted student lotteries, which allocate an admissions preference to certain student groups in order to increase their likelihood of admittance, maintain a balance between low - income and higher - income students in a school population.88 Blackstone Valley Prep, for example, reserves at least half of its seats for low - income students, ensuring its student body reflects the level of income diversity in northern Rhode Island.89

While the school is not a boundary school, where students are granted priority spot if they live in a certain place, the school does hold a preference for students that attend the preschool, students who live in The Villages of East Lake and East Lake and Kirkwood neighborhoods, and students with siblings at the school, which means regardless of the demand for seats from surrounding communities, the school will continue to primarily serve low - income families in the East Lake community.

But some public charter schools and certain charter management organizations do not enroll new or replacement students at all or not at certain times — for example not in any grade with state testing requirements (gr.

As described in an earlier brief, some research provides evidence that value - added measures — at least those that compare teachers within the same school and adjust well for students» prior achievement — do not favor teachers who teach certain types of students.