Sentences with phrase «students in a particular year»

In other words, the curriculum is developed not simply as a top - down specification of what somebody believes students in a particular year of school should be learning, but as a description and picture of how long - term progress in an area of learning typically occurs in practice.

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And, as Zapolsky was no doubt aware, no organization had been more dogged in raising those concerns than New America — and, in particular, a 28 - year - old law student named Lina Khan.

Having taught a number of years at an undergraduate institution within the evangelical world, I observed on more than one occasion students who wrestled with the particular brand of Christianity in which they had been raised.

After a year of campus protests, none of us in the seminar — except perhaps the international students — could avoid guilt when someone quoted François's statement that «it may well be impossible for people who have lived and prospered under a given social system to imagine the point of view of those who feel it offers them nothing and who can contemplate its destruction without any particular dismay.»

At that time, of course, he knew nothing in particular of Lewis, but over the next three years as student» and more years after that as friend and....

Late last year Moskowitz organized tens of thousands of Success parents and students to rally in a show of strength for then - candidate Bill de Blasio, who promised to give charters — and Moskowitz in particular — less favorable treatment than the Bloomberg administration had.

A final - year Italian Ph.D. student in materials surface science, Erik Vesselli describes how the presence of many big institutions in Trieste, in particular the synchrotron radiation facility at ELETTRA, have contributed to offer him a dynamic, international, and creative scientific environment.

We also have a major new educational initiative underway, First Two, which works to increase retention of STEM students in their first two years of college, with a particular focus on first generation college students.

My response to a student who would ask if he / she would ever be able to do a particular asana, would be practice from the heart with compassion, diligence and persistence and ask me that question in another 20 years.

A pair of Wisconsin convicts gain local fame for almost escaping prison using dental floss; high school students pose for smiley yearbook snapshots, which capture nothing of the drama in their lives; a man with a 30 - year obsession with one particular bird unveils the grainy, Big Foot - style video evidence that he actually saw it.

First year anatomy students remark on the difficulty they have in dissecting two things in particular: genitalia and hands — and indeed, Audiard recognizes the erotic «godliness» of the human hand.

«Take a group of students who are arbitrarily assigned to spend a year with a particular teacher, who probably had no choice in selecting the students, and make them get along well,» says former HGSE associate professor Hunter Gehlbach (now at University of California Santa Barbara).

Staff members visit colleges several times a year to check in on alums and steer students to particular services or resources.

Students practice teamwork and graph interpretation skills as they study a graph showing 100 years of hurricane data, and then predict what types of hurricanes are most likely to hit a particular area in the future.

In learning areas for which we have good measures (in particular, reading and mathematics), the most advanced 10 per cent of students begin each school year five to six years ahead of the least advanced 10 per cent of studentIn learning areas for which we have good measures (in particular, reading and mathematics), the most advanced 10 per cent of students begin each school year five to six years ahead of the least advanced 10 per cent of studentin particular, reading and mathematics), the most advanced 10 per cent of students begin each school year five to six years ahead of the least advanced 10 per cent of students.

While this particular idea was too difficult to implement in advance of the trip due to our tight timeframe, next year's students plan to roll it out much earlier in the year to maximise its earning potential.

«Take a group of students who are arbitrarily assigned to spend a year with a particular teacher, who probably had no choice in selecting the students, and make them get along well,» says Associate Professor Hunter Gehlbach.

In particular, Smith says she has one big goal: for every student — but particularly low - income, minority, and first - generation college students — to have adequate preparation in high school for college, and for them all to have the opportunity to go to four - year colleges without incurring significant debt, if that is what they desirIn particular, Smith says she has one big goal: for every student — but particularly low - income, minority, and first - generation college students — to have adequate preparation in high school for college, and for them all to have the opportunity to go to four - year colleges without incurring significant debt, if that is what they desirin high school for college, and for them all to have the opportunity to go to four - year colleges without incurring significant debt, if that is what they desire.

On Day 1, students begin by using the The Rewriting History Student Printable and / or doing additional Internet research in order to uncover (1) the true circumstances surrounding a particular historical accomplishment, (2) who, if anyone, actually achieved the feat and (3) why the accomplishment has been erroneously reported for many years.

She adds when she started working with Do, they deliberately selected topics that weren't specifically highlighted in the curriculum or assigned to a particular year group to allow teachers more of a «sense of creativity» and get them to think of mathematics more broadly — and in turn encourage students to think creatively.

Often located on college campuses, early - college high schools are designed to enable disadvantaged students, in particular, to earn two years» worth of college credits or associate's degrees along with their high school diplomas.

Because the performances of all students would continue to be reported on the current NAPLAN score scale, it would still be possible to calculate year level averages, to show how students perform in relation to their year group, and to identify levels of proficiency that, ideally, all students should reach by particular times in their schooling.

If it takes longer than a year, in most cases you then have to account for a whole pile of new variables to do with the assignment of students and teachers to particular classes, the effects of other teachers and the effects of the curriculum.

This resegregation is happening despite the nation's growing diversity, in particular the rapid growth of 245 % in the Latino student population over the last 30 years.

A question of particular interest was whether schools that failed to make AYP in the previous school year responded strongly to the incentive to target instruction to students at risk of falling just short of the proficiency threshold.

Geoff Masters: «When we think of teaching as... primarily the delivery of the curriculum for a particular year level and we think of assessment as the process of judging how well students have learnt what we've just taught, there is a problem because students don't start the year at the same point in their learning.

Do you know that 22 % of University students won't finish the course they started in a particular year?

A team - oriented approach to teaching, one that encourages educators to think about the success of a student well beyond the year they spend in a particular classroom, is a vital part of education, agreed panelist Tim Daly, president of the education nonprofit TNTP, which addresses issues of teacher quality.

In particular, he overlooked the Chinese hukou, an internal passport system that culls migrant children from Shanghai's student population as they approach the age for PISA sampling, fifteen years old.

The Greater Manchester Challenges was a three - year initiative to improve the performance of over 1,000 schools, focusing in particular on students from low - income families.

Average Year 9 reading results for schools in three ICSEA groups (2009 to 2013) Of particular concern is the observation that, since 2000, between - school differences in student performance in PISA have been increasing.

If the curriculum makes clear what all students are to be taught and should learn by particular times in their schooling, for example, by the end of Year 6, and if all teachers and students are held accountable for meeting these time - based expectations, then overall levels of achievement should improve.

Many students in the early years of schooling struggle with the place value of two digit numbers and, in particular, recognising and understanding that a number like 23 represents 23 ones as well as two tens and three ones.

Tracy, a classroom teacher for over 13 years, has a particular interest in technology - supported second - language classrooms, student agency, and helping students find the wonder in the every day.

is a year - long intensive program for students who wish to study a particular field in education, acquire a general theoretical background for understanding past and future field experiences, or develop skills for use in professional work in education.

There's random error in student test scores; there's random variation in the particular group of teachers who complete a program in a given year; there's random variation in where those teachers end up working; and there's random variation in how responsive their students are.

By improving the country's inventory of sports facilities, including those found in schools, the Foundation is ensuring that participation in the sport maintains its high levels all - year round and that students in particular can fulfil their potential both physically and academically.

These involve recent LEA boundary changes that have not yet been incorporated into the Census database for LEAs (which usually takes two to three years), charter schools that are treated as separate LEAs under the laws of some states but are not in the Census LEA database (because they are not based on exclusive geographical boundaries), and some special purpose LEAs that provide particular educational services (such as vocational and technical education or education for certain students with disabilities) to multiple «regular» LEAs in certain states.

Illegal drug use among junior high and high school students — and the use of marijuana in particular — increased last year after decreasing for several years, a study released last week concludes.

The working plan was that a new student assessment, likely aligned with Common Core State Standards, would create three years of data — the 2013 - 14, 2014 - 15 and 2015 - 16 — with which administrators could judge the progress of a student in a particular teacher's classroom.

To compare achievement in states with each other and with other countries, we use newly available data for student mathematics and reading performance in U.S. states from the 2011 TIMSS and 2012 PISA, as well as several years of data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).4 In particular, we use information on mathematics and reading performance of 15 - year - olds from the PISA data, information on mathematics performance in 8th grade from the TIMSS data, and information on mathematics and reading performance of students in 4th and 8th grade from the NAEP datin states with each other and with other countries, we use newly available data for student mathematics and reading performance in U.S. states from the 2011 TIMSS and 2012 PISA, as well as several years of data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).4 In particular, we use information on mathematics and reading performance of 15 - year - olds from the PISA data, information on mathematics performance in 8th grade from the TIMSS data, and information on mathematics and reading performance of students in 4th and 8th grade from the NAEP datin U.S. states from the 2011 TIMSS and 2012 PISA, as well as several years of data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).4 In particular, we use information on mathematics and reading performance of 15 - year - olds from the PISA data, information on mathematics performance in 8th grade from the TIMSS data, and information on mathematics and reading performance of students in 4th and 8th grade from the NAEP datIn particular, we use information on mathematics and reading performance of 15 - year - olds from the PISA data, information on mathematics performance in 8th grade from the TIMSS data, and information on mathematics and reading performance of students in 4th and 8th grade from the NAEP datin 8th grade from the TIMSS data, and information on mathematics and reading performance of students in 4th and 8th grade from the NAEP datin 4th and 8th grade from the NAEP data.

Apart from our academic results, we are also proud to share that our stability rate (the number of students who stay enrolled in a particular school until the end of a school year) has consistently been higher than the state average and that our chronic absenteeism is well below state averages.

The maximum CRI value is 100, which means that every 12th - grade student during the 2014 - 2015 academic year in a particular school took and passed at least one AP test before or during his or her senior year.

The study found that students from particular demographics were even less likely to use a voucher: just over half (51 percent) of high school students awarded a voucher used it the next year, and only 63 % of students from «schools in need of improvement» (the target students for the program) who recieved a voucher used it the next year.

Students might fall anywhere within a range of three years in one particular class.

Students are evaluated based on expected developmentally appropriate progress at that particular point in the school year.

It identifies student progress levels with regard to the standards and identifies areas of strength and weakness where additional time and effort are needed to meet expectations at a particular point in the school year.

As a classroom teacher who taught in Aboriginal communities for many years and then as a researcher working with minority language students, I have long questioned why particular groups of minority students tend to under - perform in school.

For the first two reporting periods, students are evaluated based on expected progress at that particular point in the school year.

A teacher's value - added score is intended to convey how much that teacher has contributed to student learning in a particular subject in a particular year.