Sentences with phrase «students meet that bar»

However, in requiring that all students meet this bar, it also communicates that the administration believes every student is capable of reaching this standard, and it obligates the school to provide the tools and support for students to succeed.

Is it reasonable to hold schools and educators responsible for ensuring that students meet that bar?

When students meet that bar, they — and their parents — will demand that higher education recognize their accomplishment in a meaningful way, both by guaranteeing them placement into credit - bearing courses and by ensuring that those introductory courses build on what they have learned in high school.

At the other end of the spectrum, three high - poverty DCPS schools had no students meet that bar in English, and eight had none who reached it in math.

Not exact matches

(Trump's recent executive orders targeting immigration largely from Muslim - majority countries were met with uproar on many U.S. college campuses, where international students feared they would be barred from completing their education here, let alone staying afterwards.)

One evening, after attending a UH event, a male student went to a nearby bar and met a female student for the first time.

In October, the Boston - area research university had barred the group from using Tufts in its name, receiving student activity funds, or reserving campus meeting spaces because TCF required its leaders to adhere to its statement of faith.

Following this approach, we might exclude parochial schools but not nonreligious private schools from a school - voucher program, or bar religious student groups but not chess clubs and neighborhood - watch associations from meeting in public school classrooms.

As students have become more aware of the salad bars, Beegle and her staff have incorporated more offerings beyond the fresh fruits and veggies, including quinoa and hummus, both of which were met with enthusiasm.

To meet nutritional goals of the reimbursable program, students are required to take two salad bar items.

The salad bar assists in meeting the vegetable subgroup requirement, it offers that coveted «student choice» we always talk about, and it's a great marketing asset.

The salad bar assists in meeting the vegetable subgroup requirement, it offers that coveted «student choice» we always talk...

A Queens student barred from having the name Malcolm X imprinted on a school sweatshirt met his namesake's daughter Saturday in a powerful show of solidarity.

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Aria met Ezra at a bar and informed him she was a college student, but found out about her lie in school the next day when she saw him as his English teacher!

A bar in the Sinchon district of Seoul (a favorite place for university students to play) has added a new twist by fusing aspects of the social media and «meet a guy in a bar» dating scenes.

The central conundrum is a corker: suppose you're a time - traveller and you fetch up in a bar in Austria in 1909, where you meet a perfectly pleasant and hitherto harmless art student called Adolf Hitler.

It determined that a successful school district was one in which all students meet the full Regents Learning Standards, a much higher bar that moved the 80 percent pass rate to 100 percent.

However, in the quest for higher standards and achievement, these programs may offer some hope for students struggling to meet the bar.»

In March 2010, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan accused educators of having «lowered the bar» so they could meet the requirements set by the federal education law, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), which requires that all students be proficient in reading and math by the year 2014.

Should states adopt a two - tiered diploma, in which students who pass internationally aligned Common Core exams at a career - and college - ready level receive an «academic» diploma, while students who fail to meet that bar receive a «basic» diploma?

People see that even as we are raising the bar, our students are meeting the expectations.

In an Education Next forum, three authors debate another proposed solution — whether states should adopt a two - tiered diploma, in which students who pass an exit exam at a career - and college - ready level receive an «academic» diploma while students who fail to meet that bar receive a «basic» diploma.

But at the same time, those numbers are tainted by some districts who, under pressure to meet federal standards, simply lowered the academic bar to help more students reach it.

Description: An article co-written by Robert Lenz, cofounder and CEO of Envision Schools and Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former West Virginia governor, for the Huffington Post about how all students can meet the deeper learning bar set by Common Core.

Never in a million years were we going to see forty - five states truly embrace these rigorous academic expectations for their students, teachers, and schools, meet all the implementation challenges (curriculum, textbooks, technology, teacher prep, etc.), deploy new assessments, install the results of those assessments in their accountability systems, and live with the consequences of zillions of kids who, at least in the near term, fail to clear the higher bar.

So even in the most extraordinary academic environments, disadvantaged students may need many years to draw even with their peers (and perhaps longer to meet a high college - ready bar).

The Education Department expects the state to use student test results from last school year to determine which schools are meeting the bar.

What educators need is a comprehensive plan to give them the support, training and materials to help their students meet this higher bar.

The standards have come under fire for their inconsistent implementation, which has left many teachers feeling they lack the training necessary to help their students meet the higher bar.

They needed to establish a high bar for meeting the new education standards, yet at the same time protect current students, who haven't had much Common Core instruction, from punishment.

In his speech he said: «Firing teachers and closing schools if student test scores and graduation rates do not meet a certain bar is not an effective way to raise achievement across a district or a state... Linking student achievement to teacher appraisal, as sensible as it might seem on the surface, is a non-starter... It's a wrong policy [emphasis added]... [and] Its days are numbered.»

Easily accessible by clicking the Reports tab from the top navigation bar in your Insight Dashboard, the report allows you to assess at a glance an individual student's learning progress, so you can better understand if he or she is on track to meet their learning goals.

Meet the HealthierUS School Challenge Gold Award Level requirements for food and beverages sold in vending machines, cafeteria a la carte lines, school stores, and snack bars or foods and beverages provided for school fundraisers, and student rewards.

«Teachers in LAUSD have uncovered the unanswered question about Common Core implementation — how do we raise the academic standards for all students when our most vulnerable children, those in special education and our English Learners, have historically struggled to meet the lower bar set by previous standards,» said Ama Nyamekye, executive director of Educators 4 Excellence - Los Angeles.

If school districts could meet that bar by demonstrating success with impoverished students, they might be able to participate, as well.

«Virginia's new SOL tests — which emphasize the application of content knowledge and critical thinking — set a higher bar and the students in these schools are better prepared for having met it.»

«The student outcomes here have not met the high bar we expect of them.»

Passing algebra in 8th grade is a critical first step on a track to college, but only 29 percent of low - income students met that bar in 2013.

In 2014 - 15, only 17 % of students met or exceeded standards in English and only 12 % met that bar for math in Ravenswood City School District, which serves East Palo Alto students in grades K - 8.

Revere High School offers a respectful and safe environment for its diverse students — more than 12 percent of whom are immigrants and one - third who come from low - income families — with a Newcomers Academy, its own «genius bar,» culturally responsive instruction and other innovative programs designed to provide a personalized, rigorous and purposeful education while meeting the complex needs of the diverse student body.

«I don't want to get there by having students punished by not meeting that bar.»

Our team knows how to move educators past what the Standards are to how they can be implemented to meet expectations for rigor and reach a higher bar for student achievement.

This year, just under 20 % of students met the PARCC bar in either subject.

In short, Relay would lower the bar for teacher preparation in Connecticut, increasing the likelihood that students in districts such as Hartford, Bridgeport, and New Haven would receive teachers who have not met the same standards of preparation as those in more affluent districts.

One of her centers — the teacher center (blending with students)-- appears to actually meet the AP bar of teaching to subgroups of students with different needs and interests (dramatic centers, phonemic awareness center).

In addition, our efforts focused on showing the detrimental impact of a shortsighted, stick - driven approach to accountability on schools, which did nothing to uphold schools that were showing student progress, but not meeting arbitrary bars.

A year later, ITT Technical College met a similar fate when it announced it was closing more than 100 colleges after the federal government barred it from allowing any new students to use federal aid to pay for their tuition.