Sentences with phrase «students of the same gender»

Here students will have shared rooms with other students of the same gender.

Not exact matches

Although I strive to use gender - inclusive language wherever possible and appropriate, and I ask the same (with explanation) from my students, your own extensions of the basic insight or sentiment are debatable enough, I believe, to summon up my misgivings of yesteryear.

Because Mona Lisa Smile is Dead Poets Society with women, it's set in an exclusive same - gendered school in a sepia Fifties past where lockstep cardboard student types get a moment in the sun before succumbing to the role of helpmeet for the bohemian professor, too good for the best and too young to die.

Some of what I attribute to the 8th grade might have occurred in previous years, if the student had had multiple years of schooling from a teacher of the same gender.

The overall results — the average for the three subject areas — indicate an average positive impact on student achievement of 4 percent of a standard deviation whenever the teacher - student gender was the same (see Figure 3).

Some may therefore find in these results a strong case for a particular form of single - sex education, where teachers and students share the same gender.

The majority of arguments for single - sex schools and classrooms focus on the effects on interactions among students, but they also present the possibility of greatly increasing the number of students with teachers of the same gender.

Still, to double - check this possibility, I isolate those situations where students of different genders had the same teacher.

Because teachers were considering intangible factors, even when race, gender, family income, and academic achievement are the same, there was no way to isolate the effect of being held back, much less to make reasonable conclusions about the effects of retention on a student's academic achievement or the probability of his dropping out of high school.

To eliminate the effects of any chance differences in performance caused by other observable characteristics, our analysis takes into account students» age, gender, race, and eligibility for the free lunch program; whether they had been assigned to a small class; and whether they were assigned to a teacher of the same race — which earlier research using these same data found to have a large positive effect on student performance (see «The Race Connection,» Spring 2004).

In addition, we control for determinants of student achievement that may change over time, such as a teacher's experience level, as well as for student characteristics, such as prior - year test scores, gender, racial / ethnic subgroup, special education classification, gifted classification, English proficiency classification, and whether the student was retained in the same grade.

«The district created a series of student focus groups, organized by gender and cultural background, and we gave all of them the same message,» explains Debra Duardo, director of DPR.

Billy Ball at NC Policy Watch reported earlier this year that one school that qualifies to receive the taxpayer - funded vouchers, Lee Christian in Sanford, requires students and parents to sign a «lifestyle statement and covenant» agreeing that «gender confusion» reflects a state of depravity and that sexual relationships between people of the same sex are «sinful and immoral.»

In that same spirit, we urge you now to consider the voices of thousands of educators from across the country who are committed to ending racial and gender discipline disparities in our schools through evidence - based strategies aimed at addressing the root causes of student misbehavior.

The technical explanation, in part, is that test designers try to build questions that avoid Differential Item Functioning (DIF)- items in which students from different groups (commonly gender or ethnicity) with the same underlying achievement levels have a different probability of giving a certain response on that particular item.

Students at Minneapolis College of Art and Design criticized their Estrogen Bomb poster campaign, describing it as insensitive towards transgender people since it ties the female gender to estrogen, the same sort of essentialist link the Guerilla Girls aim to critique.

The Casebook also includes court decisions from Canada: Haig v. Canada (1992)(omission of sexual orientation in the Canadian Human Rights Act is discriminatory); Egan v. Canada (1995)(whether exclusion of same - sex relationships from the definition of common law spouse violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Section 15 prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation); Vriend v. Alberta (1998)(college laboratory instructor dismissed because of his homosexuality); Hall v. Powers (2002)(student refused permission to attend a prom at a Catholic high school with his boyfriend); Halpern et al. v. Attorney General of Canada (2003)(whether denial of marriage licenses to same - sex couples based on the common law definition of marriage was discriminatory under the Charter; a postscript indicates that the 2005 Civil Marriage Act provided for gender - neutral definition of marriage).