Sentences with phrase «students of a particular school»

Like school libraries that are used only by faculty and students of a particular school, special libraries are often used only by certain groups of people (such as company employees who are the only users of its corporate library).

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In particular, when Grant interviewed for his first teaching job after grad school, he was told that he wasn't capable of teaching MBA students.

Irene Lanzinger, president of the BC Teachers Federation, echoed the call for public investments and stricter regulation of banks, and added particular concerns about schools, women and students.

The March for Our Lives is a direct response to the Parkland shooting, which inspired Gonzalez and other student survivors to launch a movement in hopes of convincing lawmakers to address the issue of gun violence and, in particular, school shootings.

The state, and the republican school in particular, must play its role in transmitting this inheritance to each new generation and to immigrants by assuring mastery of French language, literature, and history, and socializing students into the French way of life.

Wrenn, if you're still watching this particular post, I'm curious about your opinion on my thought of students claiming «financial discrimination» if private schools stopped accepting Pell grants.

The court opined (contrary to all the evidence) that the «pervasively sectarian» atmosphere of the parochial schools might cause remedial teachers, either «subtly or overtly,» to begin to «indoctrinate the students in particular religious tenets at public expense.»

This statement comes from one of my ninth graders in response to yet another lecture of mine on how important it is for students to bring their literature books to class — a particular hurdle in my case because I teach at a military school....

Of particular interest is the way in which the religiously pluralistic character of student bodies, including those of many denominationally affiliated schools, is being addresseOf particular interest is the way in which the religiously pluralistic character of student bodies, including those of many denominationally affiliated schools, is being addresseof student bodies, including those of many denominationally affiliated schools, is being addresseof many denominationally affiliated schools, is being addressed.

In addition, schools should be able to gauge the particular needs of their student populations on a case by case basis to determine which dates are ideal for scheduling major academic programs in the first place.

In particular, such stressors compromise the higher order thinking skills that allow students to sort out complex and seemingly contradictory information such as when the letter C is pronounced like K (what psychologists call «executive functioning»), and their ability to keep a lot of information in their heads at once, a skill known as «working memory» that's crucial to success in school, college, and work.

Waldorf is dedicated to providing its middle school students with an academic curriculum with rigor and purpose — one that is creatively designed to meet the particular needs of middle school students — along with exceptional teachers, regular class travel, a no - cut athletic program, and fine arts and performing arts courses.

Camp counselors are often high school or college students who supervise a group of children or direct a particular activity.

«We had a group of students at one elementary school in particular who petitioned the superintendent and the administration to reconsider.»

Another important factor to consider when comparing your school or district with another one is how many students are qualified for free and reduced price lunch in each, and what percentage of the cafeteria volume is represented by paying students; note that the percentage of students in any category eating in the cafeteria is not the same thing as the number of students who are classified as being in that particular category.

A dramatic spike in the use of a particular type of electronic cigarette among middle and high school students has local parents, educators and activists, clamoring for action.

One of her websites, the Partnership Educational Justice, says its goal is to help students, and their families «advocate for the great public schools they deserve,» with a particular focus on low income students.

Ms. Moskowitz proudly touted the success of Success, noting with real joy how three students at the school in Bed - Stuy had achieved a perfect score on an international math test «out of 30 or 40 worldwide» and taking particular pride in how many of the schools» high achievers are «black and brown» and from neighborhoods that face enormous disadvantages.

Principals of participating schools get to choose the community - based organization they partner with to address the particular needs of their student body, New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariñschools get to choose the community - based organization they partner with to address the particular needs of their student body, New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen FariñSchools Chancellor Carmen Fariña said.

Each map, such as those for Natural Selection and Statistical Reasoning, shows how students» understanding of a particular topic might progress from the simplest ideas in kindergarten to more sophisticated ideas in high school.

The joint NSCL / JINA program, the Physics of Atomic Nuclei, is for both high school students and science teachers and designed to get them excited about science and, in particular, nuclear astrophysics.

In particular, Shah and her colleagues — her student Been Kim, whose PhD thesis is the basis of the new paper, and Cynthia Rudin, an associate professor of statistics at the MIT Sloan School of Management — were trying to augment a type of machine learning known as «unsupervised.»

Outreach is the process by which the excitement and importance of the research we do in Auger is presented to the general public, and in particular to (high --RRB- school students.

The result is a little like knowing the number of students and distribution of grades in a particular school, but having no idea if the student who sits in the third row actually likes math.

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.

This leads me to wonder whether students of classical music, who show particular promise, are encouraged to apply for scholarships at specialist schools, as the state system is simply not tuned up to provide the high - level teaching required for the most talented?

A primary role of school systems, states, districts, and charter - management organizations, the pair write, «is to create the conditions in schools through which teachers can become experts at teaching the curriculum they are using and adapting instruction to the needs of their particular students.»

In particular, it is not known whether teachers leave schools with high concentrations of disadvantaged and low - achieving populations for financial reasons or because of the working conditions associated with serving these students.

Of particular importance here is how policy might induce students to enroll in lower - quality schools.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

... But elements of the flipped classroom, where you're just identifying things in your teaching and learning practices in the classroom... perhaps maths is a great example even in primary school, where a lot of students just require a particular maths example to be explained over and over and over, using different examples.

A review of curriculum resources at one particular school revealed that on average, a student would complete as many as 6,000 «do nows» over the course of a single year.

In light of this analysis, the Sutton Trust is calling for a renewed effort to close the attainment gap, recommending that: - Schools implement targeted improvement programmes for those students at particular risk of falling behind, including white working class children.

Rather, we found that the particular charter schools in the Boston area (especially those that were part of the lottery study) seem to be having large impacts on student achievement.

In particular, we take advantage of the lottery - based admissions process for charter schools to compare the academic performance of two groups of students: those who wanted to attend a charter school and were randomly admitted and those who wanted to attend but were not admitted and remained in traditional public schools.

What complicated the matters even more in the eyes of ths particular student population was that George Bush had attended my high school.

For students of color, in particular, this means that attendance at a desegregated school tends to make them more likely to enter and persist in white - dominated or racially diverse settings when they perceive opportunity there.

An income desegregation program that involves all students may avoid the concentration of children with fewer family resources in particular schools.

Murphy imagines a hypothetical model program called Administrative Leaders for Learning — ALL for short — that would be organized to spotlight and connect three overlapping domains of knowledge: instructional practice and learning theory, with a particular focus on high achievement for all students; the education sector, with a particular focus on schooling in context; and matters of leadership and management.

Note: Apparent Retention Rates are an approximation of the proportion of a student cohort which commences secondary schooling and is retained until a particular grade (e.g. grade 7 through to grade 12).

Schools were assigned an overall rating based on the pass rate of the lowest - scoring subgroup - test combination (e.g., math for whites), giving some schools strong incentives to focus on particular students and suSchools were assigned an overall rating based on the pass rate of the lowest - scoring subgroup - test combination (e.g., math for whites), giving some schools strong incentives to focus on particular students and suschools strong incentives to focus on particular students and subjects.

Boston's oversubscribed charter schools are of particular interest, as multiple studies have exploited the lottery admissions process to document the schools» effectiveness in raising student test scores (see «Boston and the Charter School Cap,» features, Winter 2014).

With micro-chartering, one or more classrooms or individual teachers could receive a charter to provide course access to students beyond the walls of a particular school — or to incubate new charter school models on a small scale before growing them.

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 students.

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.

Both for primary and secondary school students, the resources aim: • To deepen students» understanding of the continent of Africa • To experience African school culture • To be aware of the work of Jesuit Missions in Africa The resource contains: • A Scheme of Work and Lesson plan • A PowerPoint • A PDF with example African playground games NB: This resource has been designed for Jesuit (and Catholic) schools in particular, however, it is perfectly adaptable to suit the needs of any school.

«In history,» high school Webmaster Fred Holmes said, «a teacher might assign students to research different areas of a particular subject.

In particular, independent research — once viewed as controversial but now increasingly acknowledged by elected and appointed officials in the highest levels of government — has revealed a state of affairs in which three in ten students fail to finish high school with a diploma and in which barely half of historically disadvantaged minority students graduate.

Too often urban schools in particular fall into disrepair, and the air of neglect radiates to students, teachers, and passersby.

We are slowly moving beyond the idea of an expectation for particular levels for each year level of school, which can miss the challenge level, the ZPD required by individual students completely.