Sentences with phrase «students up to the standards»

The quality of postsecondary education in America continues to attract the best and brightest from around the world, but we have a serious national security problem when we can not bring nearly enough of our own students up to the standards necessary to succeed at an internationally competitive postsecondary readiness level.

We should expect regular schools to do better and bring students up to their standards, rather than washing their hands of their charges and sending them to last - chance academies such as Crescent.

Not exact matches

Consolidated federal student loans may have a standard repayment plan term of up to 30 years depending on the amount of the loan.

Those who graduate under higher standards, however, are more likely to make on - time payments and keep up with their bills, and they understand how to manage those obligations better than students who were not exposed to personal finance and economics in school, the data show.

«As a former dinner lady, I know how much it helps that these new school food standards — which all schools, including academies, will be called on to meet — have been made simpler so that Cooks have some room to be creative in coming up with nutritious menus that students will enjoy.

But if the story is trumped up and misleading, it only does damage to the many, many school districts out there working hard to implement the new meal standards — and gain student acceptance of healthier food.

As students get back to work in classrooms, Congress is rolling up its sleeves to debate new rules involving the Child Nutrition Act, which sets standards for 30 million school lunches a day and is scheduled to expire later this year.

SNA is specifically asking Congress to revert back to 2010 standards that require only half of all grains offered to be whole - grain rich, leave sodium levels where they are until research proves further reductions benefit children and do away with the requirement that forces kids to take the half cup of fruit and vegetables with every meal, since most students end up throwing them away.

Teams of students from across the country have traveled to Washington in recent years to compete in Cooking up Change, a national contest that challenges high school students to create meals that meet nutrition standards and can be easily replicated in schools.

The school has also not been able to raise the standard of teaching and learning over a number of years, which has left up to about 80 percent of second and third - year students unable to properly...

The Education Enrichment Fund (EEF) Advisory Committee invites applications for mini-grants of up to $ 1,000 to support initiatives that enrich student learning, instructional programs and learning tools, encourage innovative professional development, and promote the standard of excellence in the Niskayuna Central School District.

The National Union of Students jumped on the figures to claim university vice-chancellors had failed to improve standards, despite trebling top - up fees since 2006.

Under the proposal, half of the expected 300 students would have to meet the higher performance standards while the others — who could be admitted by taking a school tour or signing up for information at a fair, for example — could gain entry based on less stringent criteria, the notice stated.

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As New York state leaders work to fix the much - maligned Common Core education standards, one group with a seat at the table says standardized tests are causing anxiety among students — and now there's data to back it up.

In Croatia, the average salary for a graduate student like Van Dam is a mere $ 650 per month, whereas an assistant professor can hope to push this up to about $ 900 — hardly sufficient for maintaining a decent standard of living in the eyes of most Croatian researchers.

In one of Cunningham's activities, designed to fit the standards, elementary students clean up a hypothetical oil spill much the way an environmental engineer would: by proposing solutions and conducting hands - on tests.

They up the ante from previous iterations of science standards by integrating engineering ideas into math and language arts classes and applying engineering skills to real - world scenarios so students are better prepared for such experiences outside of school.

Pushing this as the «gold standard» can be a diservice — as many will always need to bend the knees on the way up and down — I see many many students who hyper - extend their legs when performing sun salutes, in the effort to keep the back «flat».

The Strangers In about as simple a horror film premise as a high school screenwriting student might come up with, this night out with Scott Speedman («Felicity,» «Anamorph») and Liv Tyler («The Lord of the Rings» series) hits the standard horror buttons to ensure a spectrum of shocks so that inveterate genre fans won't won't be demanding their money back.

There's always something special about a large group of students uniting under a single cause, even if it holds no political motivation (sigh... we'll never live up to the standards of Egyptian youth).

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These students needed me and I was not living up to my personal standards.

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They make up a long — and sometimes growing — tail of underperforming students, many of whom continually fail to meet minimum standards of achievement.

Chenoweth: I think Congress should continue to demand that schools teach all their students to state standards and report the results of state testing, but at the same time, Congress needs to tighten up some of the loopholes that states have been able to drive trucks through.

They tell where we must look and what we must look for to determine if student work is up to standard.

Starting with the class of 2005, students can be awarded up to $ 500 more if they meet or exceed state standards on two of the four MEAP exams in 7th and 8th grade as well.

We still are concerned about immigrants coming in, and students not being up to standards.

CFA students wind up with 15 college credits, on average, before completing high school, versus 4.5 credits for students who go the standard community - college route; of nine students in the CFA pilot program, six are on track to graduate high school next year already having earned associate's degrees.

The teacher can then clean up the formalization of those standards with direct instruction after comparing their circles to the students».

«We support the standards, but have major, major problems with the implementation» really means «Damn, we asked for the Common Core but we don't like all this talk about evaluating teachers based on student performance and this was the best line our beltway consultants could come up with to get us out of this jam.»)

In his eight years as Minnesota's governor, Tim Pawlenty's «push against the teachers union grew stronger,» Sherry writes, and he called for tying teacher pay to performance, bringing up the state's standards, and urging state lawmakers to authorize the use of a transparent growth model to see how well schools are really doing to improve student achievement.

School financing policies should be driven by an analysis of what it costs to raise the bar and close the gap in student achievement, bringing teaching and learning opportunities in all schools up to a high standard.

If they do, more of their schools will be identified as failing under NCLB rules, and states will then be required to take corrective actions to bring students» performance up to the higher standard.

The reforms seem to have moved the average student up by 0.2 to 0.4 standard deviations and boosted rates of high school graduation and college entry.

NCLB has a fairly simple structure: states were required to develop learning standards along with consistent assessments of student accomplishment of these standards; schools were required to be on a glide path to get all of their students up to a state - defined proficiency level by 2013; and the federal government established a series of corrective actions — including provision of supplemental services, broad student choice, and reconstitution — that were required of individual schools after continual deviation from this glide path.

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Officials call up sets of student papers to make sure performance standards are high and that scoring is consistent.

«The extraordinary demands of educating disadvantaged students to higher standards, the challenges of attracting the talent required to do that work, the burden of finding and financing facilities, and often aggressive opposition from the traditional public education system have made the trifecta of scale, quality, and financial sustainability hard to hit,» concludes the report, «Growing Pains: Scaling Up the Nation's Best Charter Schools.»

Building on Sir Ken Robinson's Changing Education Paradigms argument of «waking [students] up to what is inside themselves», and influenced by Wiggins (1998) and the work of his colleagues in the development of assessment standards, at the beginning of the school year I informed staff that the program would allow the school to generate data that was personal, informative, trackable, accessible and transferable.

«Teachers need to develop a standards - based essential question, then open the conversation up to students,» says Cunat.

That may explain why, on the very first day of the school year, the students begin by reading and discussing the standards, and then turn to their main activity of circling and looking up words.

But when students are learning skills and concepts from grade levels that are different than their enrolled grade, state assessments — which largely focus on grade - level standards — are far less likely to pick them up.

Planning is when students set up their goals and standards to be achieved in a certain task, session or course.

Because all learning is competency - based and student - centered, Build UP apprentices will have individualized instruction plans that map the academic standards they need to learn in any given day and week, which then dictates the apprenticeship hours they can spend in worksites.

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The second is that the Common Core movement muddles through, meaning that we end up, eventually, with a nearly national set of standards for what students need to know and do at each grade, high quality assessments aligned to those standards, cut scores for proficiency on those assessments that are challenging and equal across the nation, and a set of meaningful carrots and sticks for holding educators accountable for preparing all their students for success.

Did we end up with higher, shared standards across the states and a way to compare student performance from state to state?

The PPT leads up to a past GCSE exam question (can easily be edited for AS standard) and helps students understand the various pros and cons of both monopolies and competitive markets.