Sentences with phrase «students than their capacity»

And the schools that were slated to close were either underperforming, underutilized (schools that have far fewer students than their capacity allows) or both.

And the schools that are slated to close are either underperforming, underutilized (a school that has far fewer students than its capacity allows) or both.

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When a student has FAFSA independent student status, the federal government considers the student's financial capacity to meet the obligations of paying for college rather than those of the parents.

The work of the Tertio Millennio Seminar is to equip our participants with the rich resources of Catholic social teaching, and to do so in a setting that underscores both how high the stakes are (one would be hard pressed to find anywhere a more poignant reminder of man's horrific capacity to abuse himself than in the rubble of the Birkenau crematoria, which our students visit), and, more importantly, the realistic hope that mankind can, and must, do much better.

Sonoma State University Wine Spectator Learning Center Wins «Top Real Estate Projects» Award The new home for Sonoma State University's Wine Business Institute includes the Wine Spectator Learning Center, a state - of - the - art facility with classrooms and outdoor space that have capacity for more than 300 students, venues for public seminars and events, and technology to showcase the business of wine and hospitality...

The capacities that develop in the earliest years may be harder to measure on tests of kindergarten readiness than abilities like number and letter recognition, but they are precisely the skills, closely related to executive functions, that researchers have recently determined to be so valuable in kindergarten and beyond: the ability to focus on a single activity for an extended period, the ability to understand and follow directions, the ability to cope with disappointment and frustration, the ability to interact capably with other students.

«When we came into office we found that the thirty eight colleges of education were in fact operating at less than 40 % of their capacity while 1000s of eligible students sat at home.

The new center will more than double the college's on - site child care capacity and expanding opportunities for TC3 students in the Early Childhood Education program.

«Most of the boroughs are below capacity, but we exceed capacity at 108 percent on average,» Katz said of the more than 238,000 students enrolled in Queens schools.

While two of four elementary schools — P.S. 261 and P.S. 287 — are currently under capacity, by 2017 the neighborhood is expected to absorb more than 4,000 newly occupied apartments and 1,164 new students, leaders said.

The most overcrowded high school in New York City is Francis Lewis High School in Fresh Meadows, whose student population now more than doubles the school's maximum capacity, Katz said.

In their study published online May 9 in the journal Oncogene, scientist Saraswati Sukumar, Ph.D.; her graduate student Wei Wen Teo; and their colleagues show that cells without HOXA5 have an increased capacity to renew themselves and are more invasive than normal breast cells — in short, they become more tumor like.

Support (rather than help) underscores our belief in our students» capacity to improve their own lives.

This is a much more positive and optimistic view of learners» capacities for learning than past views that individuals differed markedly in their ability to learn and that part of the role of schools was to identify these differences and to sort students accordingly.

Mastering these ideas gives students the capacity to create and exploit future digital technologies to their fullest potential, rather than simply consume them.

This means that by the end of our next phase of growth, partnerships will have added more than 3,000 students to our overall enrollment capacity.

CPAHS has consistently used AL to build teachers» understanding and capacity across more than 25 projects on a range of new and emerging pedagogies to deepen student engagement and improve learning outcomes for students.

Rather than painting boards and their members with a broad brush, Shober and Hartney spend time defining different types of capacity — possessing accurate knowledge about a district, focusing on student learning, and adopting effective work practices.

She has worked in higher education for more than 10 years in various capacities including outreach, admissions, student affairs, and development, most recently at the MIT Sloan School of Management, overseeing class and reunion giving.

Academic outcomes, of course, but IDEA addresses more than the cognitive capacities of students.

Similarly, while teachers report that developing students» capacity for care is more important than their achievements, youth are much more likely to view their teachers as valuing their achievement over their caring.

«The other reason we need to raise money is for a school's start - up years, when the school has many fewer students than it will have at capacity.

Do high grades encourage them to do better than they otherwise would do, or do such students do worse because they live in a fool's paradise, ignorant of their true capacities?

The report explains that an important difference between students at Level 3 and those working at Level 4 and above is the capacity to plan and execute a task, rather than just follow completion instructions.

We want to open people's minds to this notion that, «Wow there is much more capacity to students than we thought.

Ironically, the expansion of student legal rights, rather than enhancing youth outcomes, has increased the extent to which schools have relied on authoritarian measures, decreased the moral authority of educators, and diminished the capacity of schools to socialize young people effectively.

Educational Institutes can honor this desire by creating learning opportunities that allow students the capacity to develop their skills as agents of change, rather than spectators.»

The two storey nature of the school buildings allows for a greater student capacity than was available previously, and also plays into the treehouse concept envisaged by the students.

One school increased school meals turnover by more than # 12,000 in the six months after starting to make little changes — such as buddy systems to help younger students feel more confident in the dining area, re-arranging tables to improve capacity and allowing packed lunch students to sit with school lunch students.

The greatest insight we have gained in our work with school districts across the continent is that organisation that take the plunge and actually begin doing the work of a PLC develop their capacity to help all students learn at high levels far more effectively than schools that spend years preparing to become PLCs through reading or even training.

He has worked directly with more than 25 schools in Illinois, Maryland, Florida, and Texas, working directly with teachers in their classrooms and grade - level teams on capacity building, differentiated instruction, student learning outcomes, and data analysis.

Since the school has just 90 students so far, the teachers have lots of time for each kid - more time than they're likely to have when the school is at capacity with 300 students.

He previously served as New Jersey's Commissioner of Education, in which capacity he oversaw 2,500 public schools, 1.4 million students, and 110,000 teachers across more than 600 school districts.

Rather than simply dumping learning responsibilities directly on students right away though, teachers should gradually and increasingly invest in student capacity in order to ensure their knowledge and skills.

Senior Corps» Foster Grandparents program provides an opportunity for volunteers age 55 and older to serve as mentors and tutors for students.39 In 2016, an estimated 24,000 Foster Grandparents volunteers served approximately 200,000 students.40 Similarly, in 2016, AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers were approved to provide capacity - building assistance to more than 2,900 education - related project sites.41 Cutting funding for the CNCS would mean eliminating a substantial amount of necessary support for traditional public and public charter schools and would hurt low - income students across the country.

It also meant accepting hundreds more students than Locke had capacity for, a reality regularly forced on public schools.

Tier 3 service capacity is no more than 5 % of student population.

This is a capacity that has developed over time, and the results can be seen at the transfer schools (small, academically rigorous, full - time high schools for students who have been enrolled in high school for at least one year and are far from promoting on grade level), which often have higher graduation rates than regular schools.

◦ Increase its student enrollment once per school year by up to 15 % more than the capacity identified in the charter

Rather, local variances in system capacity, resources and student demographics make different reforms more or less urgent — and plausible — in some places than in others.

The back - to - basics charter schools will serve more than 5,000 students once at capacity.

More than 185,900 students have enrolled in charter schools this year, with tens of thousands more waiting to attend schools at capacity.

Drawing from Carol Dweck's «mindset» approach, Crocker suggests that teachers focus on praising effort and affirming students» capacity to learn, rather than viewing them as «smart» or not.

This essay argues that money could be better spent putting technology in the hands of the students rather than making use of federal subsidies to increase capacities that do not aid everyday educational activities.

Capturing the power of bullying requires a innate belief that all students, not just the nice or conveniently well - behaved ones, have the capacity to be more than we can imagine.

This is particularly true in central and near northeast Denver, parts of far northeast, and southwest, where capacity will be far greater than the number of students.

Operating at less than 14 percent capacity in a 217,700 - square - foot building, district academic data show a quarter of students dropped out in 2014.

For example, rather than talking about what a teacher decided to do in a lesson, the coach asks the teacher to describe his or her belief about teaching, student learning, and student capacity to learn.

Data for Action 2013 Data Quality Campaign States have more capacity than ever to use secure education data, but they need to place a greater focus on using the right data to answer the right questions to improve student success.

This article examined the relationship between working memory and math anxiety and showed, perhaps counterintuitively, that math anxiety impacts students with high working memory more than it does those with relatively lower working memory capacity.