Sentences with phrase «students get low grades»

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Studies suggest that hunger is directly related to the ability to learn — and we wonder why our schools are getting low marks and our students lower grades?

Unfortunately, most districts and unions across the state set the bar so low that nearly 60 % of teachers got the highest rating when only a third of students read and do math at grade level.

In the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets in.

In the state of Oklahoma, low - income high school students who agree to make good grades in a prescribed curriculum, attend school, and stay out of trouble can get free tuition at public and private colleges in the state.

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

While there will always be some students who struggle or who don't put in the work to get a good grade, a high number of students getting lower than expected results could highlight a problem with your content rather than the blame falling on the students.

Because University Park uses low - stakes writing assignments as a tool to help build student understanding around a concept, they're not being graded on getting correct answers but on the effort they put into understanding something new.

If you start bringing in college representatives during freshman and sophomore years, your students can introduce themselves one - on - one, explain that they may have lower tests scores or GPA, and the college representatives can give them advice on ways to increase their scores and grades, what they can write about in their essays, and «what they can actually get in the habit of doing in hopes of getting accepted into their college,» says Cole.

Young adolescents entering high school look forward to having more choices and making new and more friends; however, they also are concerned about being picked on and teased by older students, having harder work, making lower grades, and getting lost in a larger, unfamiliar school (Mizelle, 1995; Phelan, Yu, & Davidson, 1994).

And while grades may motivate high - achieving students to get higher marks, there is little evidence that they prompt kids at the lower end of the performance spectrum to try harder.

Similarly, initially low - achieving students are challenged more to get a good grade with tough teachers, but particularly when they are among the weakest members of a class.

In 2006, Ed Next published a study by Marcus Winters and Jay Greene, «Getting Ahead by Staying Behind,» that reviewed the efforts of several states and school districts to end social promotion and analyzed the impact of Florida's policy of requiring low - performing students to repeat a grade.

Then there is North Carolina, which expects that its districts will get only 61.7 percent of black students in grades three - through eight toward reading proficiency in 2012 - 2013, while expecting only 64.7 percent of Latino and 65.2 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native kids to become proficient in reading; by 2014 - 2015, far lower than the proficiency rates for white and Asian peers; Tar Heel State leaders expect districts bring black, Latino, and Native students to proficiency levels of 69.3 percent, 71.7 percent, and 72.2 percent, respectively, by 2015.

In another school, a lower score on the 8th grade WCAS for a student with a string of behavioral issues might flag them for additional counseling resources and get them signed up for an after - school tutoring group during their first year of high school.

To get a sense of how many students could become newly «invisible,» consider public elementary schools in Washington, D.C. Applying the same minimum group size currently used for entire schools to the fifth grade only, about half of the city's 119 elementary schools with fifth graders taking math tests would not be held accountable for the progress of low - income or African - American students, because there aren't enough of them in that grade to constitute a reliable sample size.

For example, we know that young students who get a good start in kindergarten and the early grades have lower rates of involvement with the justice system and higher rates of high school graduation.

In the lower grades, teachers get on the floor with their students to work with brightly colored blocks and chips to assess their mathematical thinking and problem - solving strategies.

Unfortunately, most districts and unions across the state set the bar so low that nearly 60 % of teachers got the highest rating when only a third of students read and do math at grade level.

We got an interesting email in response to our post about LAUSD's low math scores from a Cochran Middle School math teacher named Rustum Jacob, who offers two additional reasons why scores are as low as they are: more 9th grade students being placed into Geometry, and no real alternatives for 9th graders who aren't...

«We need to lower the class sizes so that each student can get that one - on - one attention that they need,» says a second - grade teacher.

While they redo their work, their classmates are getting a reward — like playing dodge ball against the teachers, throwing pies in the face of the principal or running through the hallways while the students in the lower grades cheer.

«Some of our highly rated schools got low grades with school report cards, because there wasn't sufficient progress, because students are already highly graded, so the amount of growth they could make was limited.»

If students do not get their work done, they will not get credit for their project, which is far more significant than just getting a lower grade in the class.

Unfortunately, GCSE students with higher levels of test stress and anxiety get lower grades than their less anxious peers.

«We got some preliminary data back from the district that shows our students that are involved in after - school programs have a higher attendance, higher grades and lower office discipline referrals,» Racine said.

The report's author, Dr Jonas Vlachos, an associate professor of economics at Stockholm University, found that students who entered gymnasium [sixth form] from free secondary schools on average went on to get lower grades over the next three years than those who had entered with the same grade from municipal secondary schools.

Most schools try to persuade students to get out of bed in the morning by lowering their grades or giving them detention when they don't, but Maya Angelou Public Charter School is one of a small but growing number of schools that have a different approach to the problem.

Professor Elsie Talfa says that people tend to associate cheating with the «slacker» students who get low grades, but she says higher achieving students are more apt to cheat and it's a mirror of what's happening within our society.

Book / movie review is very similar to an essay; however, they differ and due to the fact that not many students know how to write reviews they end up running into trouble and get low grades.

However, it is saddening that many students lack these skills and as a result, they get low grades in their papers which match their poor essay writing skills.

The last hurdle a student faces plagiarism in the content as it is a risk for a student because if any plagiarism is detected in the student's assignment, it could not only lead to low grades but also could get the student expelled from the college.

Oftentimes, students either omit or take this step lightly and get low grades.

After getting such important and helpful guidelines, many of the students feel unsafe while writing an Essay, because there is fear of getting low grades.

Not all students pay close attention to what they are writing and end up getting low grades, so here are some Paper Writing Service tips on grammar which will help you to do better on your next assignment.

They will end up with plagiarised content and will fail to meet the expectations of their respective professors as they will be awarded low grades and also the image of a student get demoted in front of their teachers.

Many articles tell students what to do with the thesis to make it look better, but not many resources describe things you should avoid in thesis writing so not to get low grades.

Many students put a lot of effort in hope that their thesis paper will get an «A», but some of them get disappointed, because committee gives them low grades.

What do you think of Sander's argument that that affirmative action is causing black law students to get lower grades and pass the bar less often than their white peers?

Students with good grades in college usually tend to get lower auto insurance premiums compared to students who don't have excellentStudents with good grades in college usually tend to get lower auto insurance premiums compared to students who don't have excellentstudents who don't have excellent grades.

Student drivers get lower premiums with good grades.

Because statistics show that students who get good grades are less likely to get into a car accident, car insurance companies see them as lower risk and, in turn, offer savings on their rates.