Sentences with phrase «students at age»

This manual aims at introducing concepts, exercises and good practices on disaster preparedness and response, particularly for students at age 11 - 18.

It is an eye - opener for all of the students at my age and for those who are interested in stocks.

My students at the age of nine are handling this workload just fine.

The ads based that portrayal on America's rankings on the PISA, another international exam that tests students at age 15, whose most recent administration found that out of 34 countries, the U.S. ranked 14th in reading, 17th in science and 25th in math.

Math word problems are challenging for students at any age, but particularly for second graders who have barely mastered their reading skills.

What kinds of parent involvement work best with students at this age of growing independence?

If early - elementary - age students had more opportunities to experience success and parity with peers (particularly in areas other than math and reading, where large performance gaps between students at this age are common), they would be less likely to give up on school learning.

Exposure to language arts, math, social studies, science, music, and art still make the most sense for all students at this age.

In England, for example, students at age 16 are expected to take «ordinary» or «O» level exams in several subjects.

NAEP was administered to U.S. 8th graders in 2005, while PISA 2006 was given one year later to students at the age of 15, the year at which most American students are in 9th grade.

«If you put pressures on students at this age to attain speed and accuracy, I think you will be doing kids a big disservice,» said Carla Cruzan.

The analysis, from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics, also found the teaching method has large, initial benefits for all students at age five and age seven.

Back in 2000, U.S. and German students at age 15 were performing at roughly the same level on international tests in reading, math, and science, and shortly thereafter, a spirited school - reform movement was launched in both countries.

The loss was equal to about 15 percent of the expected gap in test scores between black and white students at that age.

But the performance of students at age 17 has shown virtually no improvement since nationwide testing began in 1969.

Over that same period, achievement levels for students at age nine showed a moderate increase.

Results of new study led by Linda Pagani, professor at the University of Montreal's School of Psychoeducation, show that young children who watch too much television are at risk of victimization and social isolation and adopting violent and antisocial behaviour toward other students at age 13.

To support success for students at every age.

History, science, physics, math, foreign languages, music, art, fitness and outdoor education programs, are all designed to excite the imaginations of students at these ages and be relat able for them at their life stages.

I am crazy enough to decide after many years of work for the same company that life is about making dreams come true - which led me to becoming a film school student at the age of 30; — RRB - This is what I am actually loo..

There is sufficient research which supports the premise that all students at all ages, regardless of abilities, can benefit from explicit instruction in phonemic awareness (See Shaywitz, 1999)

Teachers work as teams to create lessons that will challenge students at all ages and levels and provide an understanding of the practical application of skills at the earliest age.

Just because college isn't for a student at the age of 17, that doesn't mean it won't be for them at 25 or 32.

NAEP results are based on representative samples of students at grades 4, 8, and 12 for the main assessments, or samples of students at ages 9, 13, or 17 years for the long - term trend assessment.

I should point out that I'm not an English teacher, however, the promotion and reinforcement of literacy should be, in my opinion a priority across the whole educational diet of every student at all ages.

For some, you have the right to turn over management to the student at the age of majority, which is between 18 and 21, depending on the state.

The competition is open to any student at the age of majority who in enrolled in high school or a post-secondary institution for any amount of time between September 1st 2017 and December 31st 2017.

Pillay, who joined the CCLA six years ago and worked closely beside Borovoy, recalls how, as a young articling student at the age of 23, she found herself working one weekend on a freedom of the press matter related to the barricades during the Oka crisis.

I am a full time single mom and college student at the age of 46.

Not exact matches

Virgin entrepreneur Richard Branson's commercial acumen was honed at a young age with his student magazine

At a rare press conference following Bo Xilai's dismissal, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao warned that without further reform China risked plunging into another «tragedy» like the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, when an aged Chairman Mao Zedong rallied peasants, workers and students to upend the social order as a way to vanquish his opponents.

Tutor Doctor franchisees, who manage a team of professional tutors, benefit from our successful one - to - one tutoring model that provides at - home service to students of all ages.

Lynda Weinman, a self - taught web and motion graphics designer, originally started the site at the age of 40 with her husband Bruce as a way to communicate to the students in her very successful web design class.

«One of my most valuable failures came at an early age, when I failed to convince a major publishing house to buy out Student magazine,» Branson recalled.

As a junior in college — and at the age of 20 — he took his student loan money and bought a nearby campus bar.

Further explaining the company's diverse portfolio, Sethi told that Quest Alliance is also making an effort for a responsive education system and help students develop a career mindset at an early age.

«If all the signs are pointing a major pivot, then do so, but stay true to yourself,» says Matthew Gross, CEO and founder of Newsela, a news - gathering platform that delivers articles at multiple levels to help students of all ages become advanced readers.

A survey published earlier this year by Junior Achievement and PwC found that 24 % of students aged 18 to 29 believe that their loans will be forgiven at some point.

Hilary Stout illustrated this problem in The New York Times in June: «After all, the millennial generation has less wealth and more debt than other generations did at the same age, thanks to student loans and the lingering effects of the deep recession,» she wrote.

«Those with significant student debt are much less likely to own a home at any given age than those who completed their education with little or no student debt,» William Dudley, president of the New York Fed, told reporters on Monday.

The average student age at the UNC - Tsinghua program is 41.

As another school year begins, artistic - minded students (and their parents) are once again wrestling with the age - old question of whether one should indulge an enthusiasm for music, literature or other fine - arts subjects at school, or instead study something more... shall we say... employable?

Kalin says 95 % of Etsy sellers are women (average age, 33), mostly stay - at - home moms and college students looking to supplement their income rather than make a full - time living.

However, if the child is still a full - time student at a secondary (or elementary) school at age 18, benefits will continue until the child graduates or until two months after the child becomes age 19, whichever is first.

His ability to eliminate his student loans and grow that business has allowed him reach financial independence at the young age of 32.

In its early years, a number of her students in the program were teenagers who had come to the country, unauthorized, at a young age and finished high school, but then could not obtain citizenship or receive any state or federal funds for college.

BACKGROUND: Marc Benioff started his first software company at the age of 15 while he was a student at Burlingame High School in California.

At Audubon Park Elementary in Orlando, Florida, fifth - grade students will observe a moment of silence for the Parkland victims; younger students will participate in age - appropriate observances, and their parents will write letters to Congress and the White House.

You can never bankrupt student loans, and no one tells you when you sign up for them at the ripe old age of 18 that you are going to be paying more than your mortgage for your education for at least a decade after...

if you pay attention to discussions of higher education funding, one of the memes that inevitably pops up revolves around the notion that higher education has been under some brutal, neo-liberal assault since... well, I'm not sure, but probably since 1995 at least, and everything is being defunded, laid on the backs of students, it's the end of civilization, dark ages ahead, etc., etc..