Sentences with phrase «students in the program performed»

The study also determined that the study results can not be dismissed with claims that the students in the program performed worse because they were adjusting to a new school: «There was no statistically significant association between changing schools and student achievement in reading and mathematics.»

Students in the program performed better in six categories of literacy and critical thinking skills — including thorough description, hypothesizing and reasoning — than did students who were not in the program.

Results indicated that students in the program performed somewhat better in the core academic subjects as evidenced by their grades.

Parents should now be given information on how all students in the program performed and provided with individual school results where there are at least 10 students in a school that have taken the state tests.

Not exact matches

But it is how many of these students performed once they entered their programs that made them the best in their classes.

• You are serving in a medical or dental internship or residency program and meet requirements • The total amount you owe each month is 20 % or more of your total monthly gross income, for up to three years • You are serving in an AmeriCorps position for which you received a national service award • You are performing teaching service that would qualify you for teacher loan forgiveness • You qualify for partial repayment of your loans under the U.S. Department of Defense Student Loan Repayment Program • You are a member of the National Guard and have been activated by a governor, but you are not eligible for military deprogram and meet requirements • The total amount you owe each month is 20 % or more of your total monthly gross income, for up to three years • You are serving in an AmeriCorps position for which you received a national service award • You are performing teaching service that would qualify you for teacher loan forgiveness • You qualify for partial repayment of your loans under the U.S. Department of Defense Student Loan Repayment Program • You are a member of the National Guard and have been activated by a governor, but you are not eligible for military deProgram • You are a member of the National Guard and have been activated by a governor, but you are not eligible for military deferment

- Two College of Du Page student choirs will perform a mixed program of choral music at 8 p.m. Friday in Theatre 2 of the Arts Center, 22d Street and Park Boulvard, Glen Ellyn.

In addition, this report informs about the School Breakfast Program's benefits and how it works; explains how to offer breakfast at no charge to all students, potentially through community eligibility; describes breakfast after the bell models; highlights top - performing school districts; and provides school breakfast funding information.

Oneida County Youth Bureau Director Robert Roth said youth volunteers from The Boys and Girls Club of the Mohawk Valley, Compeer of the Mohawk Valley, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Center for Family Life and Recovery, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, Utica Municipal Housing Authority, Utica Safe Schools / Healthy Students / Underground Café and the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley performed community service that included assisting in a bicycle giveaway program for Utica children, collecting and distributing clothing to the children who reside in Utica's Municipal Housing Authority locations, soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Multiple Sclerosis Walk and the American Cancer Walk, collecting food, preparing and serving meals at local food pantries, collecting donations and goods to aid animals at the Stevens Swan Humane Society and other community activities.

The administration has also already announced a $ 51 million plan to expand Advanced Placement courses, with full implementation at high schools expected by 2021 and a $ 15 million program called «Single Shepherd» to hire guidance counselors for each middle and high school student in low - performing school Districts 7 and 23, which will be fully implemented by next fall.

Last year, both schools launched their own versions of the Meyerhoff program, which seeks out high - performing students who intend to pursue a Ph.D. in science or engineering.

Well grounded in math, Possingham began constructing models that performed cost - efficiency analyses of different conservation schemes, ultimately encoding his work into Marxan, a software program written by a Ph.D. student named Ian Ball and first released in 1999.

In line with the results of the new studies, Weiner found that scores on the general GRE exam and undergraduate GPA did not distinguish between high - and low - performing graduate students in his prograIn line with the results of the new studies, Weiner found that scores on the general GRE exam and undergraduate GPA did not distinguish between high - and low - performing graduate students in his prograin his program.

One highlighed the Dawn mission using an activity developed for NASA's Discovery and New Frontiers Programs, Art and the Comic Connection, in which students used the elements of art to perform visual analysis of images of giant asteroid Vesta and create an individial piece of art.

The goals of the program include increasing interest in biological sciences and medicine among high school students, helping students to understand how scientific research is performed and increasing diversity of students and researchers in the sciences.

As a new extension of our CLOµDS teacher professional development program, we've recently initiated a club at Trenton Central High School that gives students the opportunity to build an experiment that will be performed in microgravity.

While Sprint 8 has been the featured cardio program in award - winning Vision Fitness cardio equipment for several years, Sprint 8 can be performed in a classroom by students.

An ad was placed in the newspaper, 24 Stanford students were chosen to be part of the paid program, a coin was flipped to decide which young man would be a guard, which a prisoner, and the group was given two weeks to perform their duties & receive their salary.

He joined a theater arts program in high school and was signed after a local agent came by to watch the students perform monologues.

In addition, it wasn't particularly well aligned with the district's other main accountability program, school probation, which focused on second - quartile students rather than the lowest - performing students in a schooIn addition, it wasn't particularly well aligned with the district's other main accountability program, school probation, which focused on second - quartile students rather than the lowest - performing students in a schooin a school.

SYK has approximately 1100 students in grades 3 - 12, and offers a high - performing International Baccalaureate program.

A growing number of states, including Georgia, Michigan, New York, and Massachusetts, have established programs that provide financial rewards in the form of merit scholarships for college for students who perform -LSB-...]

The results showed that students who participated in the program performed at significantly higher levels in reading than the students in an experimental control group.

On average, participating low - income students are performing better in reading because the federal government decided to launch an experimental school choice program in our nation's capital.

Even so, we find that a majority of enrollees in the online program are on track to complete their degrees and perform as well as or better academically than students who enroll on campus.

By the end of two years of the program, students in incentive schools performed significantly better than those in control schools.

This analysis (again the Newspeak) builds on a large body of program evaluations in Louisiana, Indiana, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., all of which show that students attending participating private schools perform significantly worse than their peers in public schools — especially in math.

The typical incentive program for teachers is pay - per - performance: teachers are promised money if their students perform in certain ways on an exam.

Conversely, the program may find that the student is slated to fail the test overall, but does not note that the student performs exceptionally well in one area.

When the cast performed at the White House in spring 2016, President Obama praised the educational component of the program for giving students a «deeper understanding of our nation's founding.»

On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at public schools attended by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»

The Louisiana Scholarship Program provides low - income students in low - performing public schools with public funds to enroll in local private schools.

Even if government accountability is not the norm for government programs, some people may still favor requiring choice schools to take the state test and comply with other components of the high - regulation approach to school choice, such as mandating that schools accept voucher amounts as payment in full, prohibiting schools from applying their own admissions requirements, and focusing programs on low - income students in low - performing schools.

The college - level studies find «no significant difference» in student performance in online courses versus traditional face - to - face courses, and in particular programs that students learning online are performing «equally well or better».»

In fact, there have been seven scientifically valid random - assignment analyses of voucher programs, and all seven found either that all voucher students perform significantly better than their nonvoucher contemporaries, or at least that most of them do (in some studies the results for black students, the majority of participants, are positive, while the results for other students fail to achieve statistical significanceIn fact, there have been seven scientifically valid random - assignment analyses of voucher programs, and all seven found either that all voucher students perform significantly better than their nonvoucher contemporaries, or at least that most of them do (in some studies the results for black students, the majority of participants, are positive, while the results for other students fail to achieve statistical significancein some studies the results for black students, the majority of participants, are positive, while the results for other students fail to achieve statistical significance).

Now, coming back to the issue of whether gifted students should remain in a program if they fail to perform is interesting when you look at how the U.S. Department of Education and the NAGC consider giftedness.

U.S. students perform significantly worse than students in many developed countries, according to the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), and other international comparisons, trailing the leaders by more than half of a standard deviation.

Chief among our core elements are: our college - prep curriculum in the liberal arts and sciences that fosters in students the desire and capacity to learn independently, think critically, and communicate proficiently; our supportive school culture in which students are given tools to develop character, gain confidence in their ability to learn, take responsibility for their own learning, and both support and feel supported by the entire community; and a strong co-curricular program in athletics, performing arts, and a host of after - school clubs that pique and develop students» interests.

Through the state grant, Wolcott was able to link the Endowed Student Program with professionals in the fine and performing arts.

Sessions on day one included staff at Dakabin State High School sharing details of their pedagogical framework and explicit instruction guide known as «The Hive» model, an update on a student voice program at Pakuranga College in New Zealand and a case study on collaborative professional learning at Campbelltown Performing Arts High School in New South Wales.

So, outcome - based monitoring should be directed at whether the evaluations that IDEA requires are performed on time, by competent and disinterested people, in an unbiased way, and with resulting application to the student's educational program and placement.

In the future, a students» performance across a variety of programs and platforms will likely give us a much richer picture of how that student is performing against state standards, as compared to a once annual high stakes test.

The even better news is that, from a US point of view, high - performing nations include Australia, alongside Finland, Sweden, Japan, South Korea and Singapore — whose students perform well on international measures such as the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).

Inspired by a book of photographs of the amazing dance troupe Pilobolus, students from the Maywood Fine Arts program in Maywood, Illinois performed acrobatic feats to become a human alphabet.

A 2004 NCREL meta - analysis of 116 effect sizes from 14 web - delivered K — 12 distance - education programs between 1999 and 2004 found «no significant difference in performance between students who participated in online programs and those who were taught in face - to - face classrooms... in almost every comparison, students in distance education programs performed as well as students in classroom - based programs.»

The Colorado Opportunity Contract Pilot Program, enacted in 2003, established a voucher program for a limited number of low - income, low - achieving students who had attended schools in any of 11 poorly performing school disProgram, enacted in 2003, established a voucher program for a limited number of low - income, low - achieving students who had attended schools in any of 11 poorly performing school disprogram for a limited number of low - income, low - achieving students who had attended schools in any of 11 poorly performing school districts.

The use of interdistrict - choice programs is unlikely to increase most students» educational opportunities significantly, a new report concludes, despite recent attention to the idea as a means of reducing economic and racial segregation and giving students in low - performing public schools a chance to find a better school.

In an analysis of the program, political scientist William Howell wrote that RttT encouraged applicants to develop «common core state standards,» design a teacher evaluation plan based in part on the performance of their students, ensure «successful conditions for high - performing charter schools,» and numerous other reforms (see «Results of President Obama's Race to the Top,» research, Fall 2015In an analysis of the program, political scientist William Howell wrote that RttT encouraged applicants to develop «common core state standards,» design a teacher evaluation plan based in part on the performance of their students, ensure «successful conditions for high - performing charter schools,» and numerous other reforms (see «Results of President Obama's Race to the Top,» research, Fall 2015in part on the performance of their students, ensure «successful conditions for high - performing charter schools,» and numerous other reforms (see «Results of President Obama's Race to the Top,» research, Fall 2015).

Inspired by the Clinton Administration's national - service initiative, Wesleyan University has announced a new fellowship program for high school students who perform community service in their hometowns.

Louisiana appears on track to enact a private - school - voucher plan for New Orleans that borrows from choice programs elsewhere in several respects, from its focus on a single city and its means - testing of families to its targeting of students enrolled in low - performing public schools.