Sentences with phrase «students reach levels»

And yet only one - third of our U.S. students reach levels of proficiency that predict successful lifelong learning.

Another possibility is that schools help students reach levels of high accomplishment if parents are providing the necessary support.

An exemplary yoga teacher can help their students reach levels that the learners themselves are not even aware of.

The results confirm a strong positive impact on the share of students reaching level 3 in English.

Results he provided for Del Pino had 54 % of her history students reaching those levels, doubling her success rate from two years before.

«Why are there disparities in student results, why aren't more students reaching levels of proficiency and excellence, what can schools and communities do to help all students succeed?»

«Teachers must make sure their students reach a level of understanding that enables them to evaluate their own work and come up with remedies and solutions as needed.

That's still below the designated «proficiency» level for the nation of 280 and while California's average scores for white and Asian students reach that level, those for black and Latino students are about 30 points lower, a gap that is fundamentally unchanged over the last 10 years of NAEP testing.

Not exact matches

College Board President David Coleman said the partnership aims to level the college admissions playing field by putting high - quality training within easy reach of students without the funds for commercial test - prep services or the family support often needed to stick with a self - paced practice book.

It's a problem that has reached record levels in this country, with more than $ 1.3 trillion in student loans outstanding.

But student loans can become a problem when they reach high levels that aren't easily repaid by a borrower.

In my time at DTS, though, I have only come across a handful of students who have reached this level of classroom etiquette.

In all facets of school life, students are encouraged to reach beyond their comfort level, and while this sometimes means they may stumble along the way, it always means that they are building valuable life skills.

Their enthusiasm and consistent benchmark of excellence has resulted in countless student - athletes reaching the highest level of individual athletic achievement, while establishing a critical foundation for personal life - long success through sport.

By delaying a child's exposure to mass electronic media until the student's will and feeling life have reached a certain level of maturity, we hope to encourage an enlightened, inquiry - based relationship to technology.

National studies show that students who eat school breakfast are more likely to: reach higher levels of math achievement; score higher on tests; have better concentration, memory and alertness, improved attendance, behavior, and academic performance; and maintain a healthy weight

The state's new Excelsior program is out of reach for many students because of the scholarship's credit accumulation requirements, which are set at elite levels, critics note.

«We want to be able to address improper behavior before it reaches a higher level, and to do that we are focused on providing strong student support services coupled with parent involvement.»

Legislative Column from Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb (R - Canandaigua) College costs and student debt are reaching crisis levels.

Those policies include a ten - year plan, $ 81 million to make computer science a requirement in city schools, and a $ 75 million annual commitment to hire reaching specialists to get all students up to reading on their grade level by the end of second grade.

College costs and student debt are reaching crisis levels.

In mathematics, for example, 27 % of them reached Level 6, defined as capable of advanced mathematical thinking and reasoning, versus 3 % of the students from OECD countries and 2 % of U.S. students.

Specifically, «[s] he said that when students, faculty, or staff move from one university to another, the new university should be alerted if the person was found to have violated provisions of a 1972 federal law targeting gender discrimination in higher education, commonly known as Title IX,» «[b] ut legal experts say it could prove tricky to craft a congressional response that reaches down to the level of university labs,» Cornwall wrote.

These decisions are seemingly out of reach for student representatives acting on the local and state level around the country.

As a founding member of Indiana University East's RN to BSN program cooperative program with Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana she teaches post R.N. licensed students to reach higher educational and skill level.

Mula Bandha and Uddiyana Bandha aren't even mentioned until students have reached the most advanced levels of practice.

«We wanted to reach kids who might not be interested in the higher - level classes and might not be going to college,» she said, since the values and lessons of community service benefit all students.

The academy, with 150 freshmen, will share a building with two other Renaissance 2010 schools on the former Austin High School campus on the city's West Side, adding a grade level and an additional 150 students per year until it reaches a maximum of 600.

In honor of W. E. B. Du Bois, I like to refer to the students who can reach the highest levels of accomplishment as the «talented tenth.»

Among those reaching this level of mastery are many Hispanic students and others who come from homes where the primary language is not English: they acquire early reading skills on par with their peers.

Washington — Although the federal Chapter 1 program bypasses some schools with high poverty rates and some students with low achievement levels, it generally reaches the disadvantaged children it was meant to benefit, a new Education Department study concludes.

«Schools in which significant proportions of children do not reach criterion on these [Year 1] measures should be offered appropriately tailored supports, at teacher and student levels,» the report notes.

Understanding grit at a deeper level will help teachers empathize with those students who are having a hard time reaching their goals.

Despite commitments to improve reading and mathematics achievement, states are still not making enough progress in helping all students reach grade - level standards in those subjects, concludes a report that examines reading and math achievement in all 50 states.

She suggests schools take advantage of the expertise available from adult literacy and military educators who have developed programs for older, at - risk students in public schools who reach the secondary level without basic skills.

But she acknowledges reaching the president's college - graduation goals will take considerable efforts, with low - income students among those targeted for increased achievement on the higher - education level.

On the other hand, implementing reaches up into the metacognitive level and demands that students be able to apply learned skills to a task that initially appears to be an unrelated to prior learning experiences.

What students are expected to know in order to reach proficiency levels on exams in some states may be as much as four grade levels below the standards set in other states, according to a study by the American Institutes for Research that uses international testing data to gauge states against a common measuring stick.

The original legislation called for major increases in education spending to offset the cost of reaching NCLB's ambitious goals for student achievement, but federal spending never reached the lofty levels outlined in the law.

Arising at a time when the disparity of test scores, college attendance, and graduation rates between wealthy and poor students is reaching an unprecedented level, this volume urges that the problem of educational inequality be addressed and that changes be made within the educational system.

The BESA Leadership Briefing report showed that 38 per cent of primary school pupils and 20 per cent of secondary - level students will continue to suffer from poor internet access in 2016, meaning that a great deal of superb and helpful resources for computing, such as Espresso Coding, 2Simple's 2Code and J2e's J2Code will remain out of reach no matter what they cost.

Although in theory I believe all students should have to reach the basic academic levels required by the test, in reality these goals are unattainable for some.

The issue with that is that if we have students in a classroom who are ranging from below Low, barely able to read and make sense of their text, to students who are reading at this Advanced level, it is very difficult for a teacher to be able to teach to a class with that wide a variety of literacy levels, and the problem is that these children who are not reaching the Low benchmark or are at the Low benchmark are, if you like, starting the race quite a long way behind all of these other kids.

Unlike conventional arts education, student work in integrated classrooms reaches a higher level because students are encouraged to master real arts skills, while engaging the world and the other subjects through their art.

Although Tennessee and Missouri established the same expectations as Massachusetts, somewhere between 10 percent and 25 percent fewer students in the «Volunteer» and «Show Me» states reached the proficiency level, the exact percentage varying with the subject and grade level being tested.

Being able to visually represent concepts, brainstorms, and related bits of information graphically reached students at a deeper level than simply using text - based descriptions.

And how do you support students who may not have reached a higher level of abstraction yet?

Greene and McGee reported that in 17 states they were unable to find a single district that performed at levels comparable to those reached by students in the world's leading countries.

Students in rural areas have to travel farther to reach school than their urban counterparts — a commute of several hours by boat is considered normal — and many of their parents may not have the education level necessary to help with high school homework.

If CCSS works as its proponents expect, higher proficiency standards could drive schools and students to reach international levels of performance.