Sentences with phrase «students take less time»

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- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Albany, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)- New York public school students will spend less time taking the unpopular Common Core assessments that have been boycotted by large numbers of parents in recent years.

Recreational use of the drugs, such as taking them with alcohol to prolong the amount of time a student can party, is less prevalent but extremely dangerous.

Our students have carved out a particular amount of time to practice, and taking more or giving less is just not fair.

The content may take more less time to cover depending on the ability of your students, I do cover two sub-topics in one lesson on a few occasions.

The teacher wins because going deeper on a few topics generally takes less time than marking everything, and students win because they get clear, quality feedback that does a better job of teaching them the most important lessons.

One stated objective was to address the «disparate impact» of policies that might lead to racial minorities taking fewer challenging classes than their peers, totally ignoring the obvious fact that African American and Hispanic students are, on average, much less prepared for AP courses by the time they reach 11th and 12th grade.

For green conscious schools who invest a lot of time and effort into teaching students to use less electricity, walk to school instead of driving, and take shorter showers (all great initiatives), this information may come as a surprise.

As teachers, we are often asked to «do» a lot more than necessary: memorize standards, plan lessons, prepare for various assessments, call homes, provide a warm environment for our students (and visitors), attend faculty meetings with varying effectiveness and relevance, grade mounds of papers, and take what little time we have left to eat and sleep, usually less than we should.

If this program increases a student's likelihood of attending college, elevates the quality of college attended, and reduces the time it takes to graduate from college, the costs of the program on a per - student basis would be far less than the average increase in lifetime earnings.

According to interviews with more than a dozen teachers and school administrators in five different districts, students in New York are taking more practice tests, and they're spending more time on math and reading — and less on other subjects — since Common Core was put into place.

With less than two months of instruction time left before summer vacation for most California schools, roughly half of the 3.2 million students expected to take the first online tests aligned with the Common Core State Standards have begun to do so, the California Department of Education reported Monday.

Additionally, CAT is proven to have greater reliability for students, takes less time to complete than paper - based tests, and improves the quality of assessments.

It's cold outside which means less time to take the students outdoors.

FastBridge recommends using student login accounts because they take less time on the testing day.

While rates vary depending on the source, on - time completion rates of students who take remedial classes are consistently less than 10 percent.

The new Wisconsin Forward Exam from Data Recognition Corporation (DRC), a Minnesota - based testing company with a Wisconsin office, is expected to be shorter and less costly than the Badger Exam that students took this spring for the first and last time.

If students know the system and you follow it each and every day then it will take up less of your valuable teaching time and give students less time to misbehave while you are otherwise occupied.

The new state test Wisconsin students will be given this month will take far less time to complete than originally envisioned.

Under the older, truancy - based approach, educators would not take note of absences - much less intervene - until students had missed a significant amount of instructional time.

This usually involves some trial and error, which can take different amounts of time depending on the student, but it is no less valid a process if it takes longer.

Taking less time for testing provides more time for instruction and student learning.

Students need to spend more time learning and less time taking these unnecessary standardized tests.

If teaching students to become «little test taking machines» does not require deep knowledge, meaningful experiences, and professional discernment, then it really does not matter if preparation to teach requires less time than obtaining a cosmetology license.

DETROIT (AP)- Education officials say students will be spending less time taking the Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress, or M - STEP, this spring.

Students spend, on average, 1.6 percent of instructional time or less taking tests.

But we recognize that it may take some students more time (or less time), or different methods, to get there.

At some universities, a score between 3 and 5 on an AP exam can translate directly into college credit for a student, allowing them to take more advanced classes or take less coursework overall during their time in college.

Middle school was described as the time when history became more of the focus of social studies, and their roles as students became less active as they learned how to take notes and started taking tests.

Compared to coursework tuition, custom writing help is far much cheaper and takes up less of the students» time.

This makes the credit particularly helpful to graduate students, students who are attending school less than half - time and those taking classes to improve or acquire job skills and not necessarily to get a degree.

There are two approaches to mitigating the burden of higher education costs: Saving now and taking out less in student loans or if you have to take out loans, paying them back more efficiently when the time comes.

If you have less - than - perfect credit, you may need to take some time to work on it, or secure a cosigner with a positive credit history in order to qualify for optimal student loan refinance rates when you start the process.

Keep tabs on your student loan accounts as well — it may take some time for the new payments to go into effect, and you don't want to accidentally miss a payment or pay less while your request is processing.

Because law degrees take less time to complete than medical or dental school degrees, more private student loan lenders offer students options for financing their law school education.

Most full - time students take a year or less to complete a veterinary assistant program.

In most cases, these programs take less than a year for a full - time student to complete.

A veterinary assistant program will generally take no more than a single year, and may take less time, depending on the student's schedule and the nature of the program.

«Machu Picchu Calicanto» is a brand new program which motivates Peruvian and foreign students to discover Machu Picchu, taking advantage of the itineraries of lesser demand, of the local train between Ollantaytambo and Machu Picchu Pueblo and vice-versa, which allows them to remain more time in Machu Picchu, so as to visit archaeological complexes, such as Wiñaywayna, the Temple of the Moon and others yet, that can not normally be appreciated on a short visit.

One co-author of the report, Hannah Barkley, a graduate student at WHOI, had noticed that a direct flight back from Honolulu to the east coast of the US took far less time than expected, and asked Dr Karnauskas why he thought that might be.

The timing for this final workshop was no coincidence: the students have faced their first midterm exams a few weeks ago and experienced their own reactions to this stressful moment, they have just received their grades for those exams, and are starting to prepare for the final exams that will take place in less than one month.

Finally, to some, a Flex Time cohort within at least the First Year program will appear less a flexible or elastic model of legal education, but just a differently rigid option, with specific times and modes within which required courses must be taken — this is just as likely as the full - time model to work for some but not others in a diverse group of studeTime cohort within at least the First Year program will appear less a flexible or elastic model of legal education, but just a differently rigid option, with specific times and modes within which required courses must be taken — this is just as likely as the full - time model to work for some but not others in a diverse group of studetime model to work for some but not others in a diverse group of students.

Any student renter, family leader or senior citizen can get online and do a renters insurance comparison in less time than it might take to update your social networking accounts.

The idea behind the staff selfies was that if students see staff taking selfies then they may think it is «less cool» to do, therefore discouraging them from doing it, but at the same time demonstrating that selfies can be fun — if they are healthy.

In a world where many young people are becoming more anxious and less able to cope with life and school stressors, it is important that schools take time to teach their students how to increase their social and emotional competence and become more resilient.