Sentences with phrase «than advancing student»

There are some groups that have different priorities than advancing student achievement and providing students and their parents with more education choices that meet their needs.

While 8th graders performing at or below basic in math on the 2011 NAEP were more likely than advanced students to receive seven hours of math instruction a week or more, the researchers found that more than half of 8th graders performing below basic in math received less than an hour of math each day on average.

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On the other hand, more than 90 percent of the students in parochial schools, drawn from the same underclass population, go on to college or other advanced training.

How many Muslim students are here now learning engineering more advanced than our scientists did decades before?

Aimed at advanced students in ethics, the readings more than repay the effort.

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I, for one, respect the students whose decisions are not influenced by the multiplier or others» perceptions: they are much wiser and more successful than those enrolled in advanced courses in which they lack interest and time.

Students in many schools, especially very competitive ones where lots of Advanced Placement classes are offered, often do much more than that.

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CDC: The typical academic laboratory employs «agents» with a wide range of expertise and experience, from the unmotivated undergraduate student who understands little about the work, to the experienced technician who is, in effect, the lab's Chief Operations Officer, to the advanced postdoc who may know more about the work than the «principal» and will be running her own laboratory in a year or two.

Laila Noli, first author and PhD student from King's College London said: «Having two distinct ICMs within a single embryo of which one was bigger and more developmentally advanced than the other was an unexpected finding.

This concrete and explicit intention to help — rather than simply to advance knowledge or technology — exerts a powerful draw for women students and makes biomedical engineering the most heavily female engineering specialty, according to engineering educators I've spoken with recently.

The researchers also monitored the advanced math and science courses that students chose to take in high school, concluding that the girls who had been discouraged by their elementary school teachers were much less likely than the boys to opt for advanced courses.

For starters, there's the fact that 70 % of middle school students possess no more than a «basic» understanding of what they need to know to do well in the subject, and only 2 % perform at an «advanced» level.

Because she would receive more pay as a laboratory employee than as a graduate student, she never pursued an advanced degree, instead taking a succession of technician jobs in academic laboratories (including Baltimore's) and the biotech industry.

On average across all the studies, a little more than one - third of students in traditional lecture classes failed — that is, they either withdrew or got Fs or Ds, which generally means they were ineligible to take more advanced courses.

The event's popularity has expanded rapidly — about 325,000 students from more than 100 countries registered to compete this year (with 400 students advancing to this week's finals).

The 2016 cohort of interns joins the more than 400 students since 2001 who have spent a summer learning advanced techniques in molecular biology, genomics and bioinformatics at BTI, while making life sciences discoveries and exploring new careers in research.

Collectively, the association employs more than 27,200 professionals and offers training for advanced students and investigators.

Although the participation of Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans in advanced high school mathematics classes increased between 1982 and 1994, their scores in standardized mathematics tests were still lower than those of other students, and the discrepancy did not diminish between 1990 and 1996 (NCES, 1996).

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Advanced standing does not guarantee that the student will complete the program in less than four years.

It recalls The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964) but rather than just letting the idea of a mishap giving a college student special powers run its course through episodic fare, Computer actually has a plot and an engaging and consistently advancing one.

For example, a recent study conducted in urban middle schools found that there were more similarities than differences in the reading profiles of struggling students from non-English-speaking and English - speaking households, and that low academic vocabulary knowledge, a major component of advanced literacy skills, was a shared source of difficulty.

During his last two years in Chicago, Palmer - Klein's biology students passed the Advanced Placement exam at a rate higher than the national average.

«I have a feeling that VOISE students are going to be able to advance so much faster than other students because they will have had their individual needs met.»

Unfortunately, the United States educates only a little more than 6 percent of its students to an advanced level in math according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a small percentage when compared to the proportion in many other countries that score at a comparable level on the international PISA test.

Support for allowing students who fail a course to retake it online is approximately 8 percentage points higher among both parents and teachers than among the public as a whole, and support for taking advanced courses online is 5 and 6 percentage points higher, respectively.

The school's percentage of students proficient or advanced in math has grown four times more than the state's over the same period, and five times more in reading.

And, rather than expecting all students to master the same curriculum content and to be at the same point in their learning at the same time, excellent learning progress (or growth) is an expectation of every learner — even those who begin the school year at more advanced levels of attainment.

Huge numbers of middle school students are rushing to take geometry and advanced algebra when their abstraction level is so developmentally inappropriate that these courses are belittled to nothing more than regurgitation and back - of - the - bookishness.

In a speech that triggered advance controversy — and logistical headaches for school officials — President Barack Obama today urged America's K - 12 students to study hard and stay in school, saying, «What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country.»

They suggested that, rather than measuring academic achievement based on proficiency rates alone, states should either look at scale scores or some sort of an index providing partial credit for getting students to a basic level (and additional credit for getting students to an advanced one).

DPS has more than doubled the number of students taking and passing Advanced Placement courses, and black students now take advanced math classes at the same rate as whites (Hispanic students lag by only 1 percentageAdvanced Placement courses, and black students now take advanced math classes at the same rate as whites (Hispanic students lag by only 1 percentageadvanced math classes at the same rate as whites (Hispanic students lag by only 1 percentage point).

Concerned more with inclusiveness, validation, and graduation than with college preparedness, administrators encourage teachers to, for instance, consider pupil effort in their grading, and push students to take advanced courses for which they have the ambition but not the readiness.

For example, each intermediate unit or district of more than 50,000 students might be required to create math and science academies, which offer a portion of their instruction online, with in - person practical application or advanced work.

In these places, accelerated students are learning more and learning faster than they were 10 years ago — tackling more - complex material than many people in the advanced - math community had thought possible.

The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) is currently running the STEM Video Game Challenge for students, which may be the answer for those whose computer skills are not much more advanced than our students.

The board — which oversees the country's largest standardized - testing programs, including the Scholastic Aptitude Tests, the Achievement Tests, and the Advanced Placement tests for high - school students — is a membership organization of more than 2,500 colleges, schools, school systems, and education associations.

The annual average increase in the rate at which Houston's Hispanic students took Advanced Placement exams was five times greater between 2009 and 2012 than that of their peers in the 75 other urban districts vying for the Broad Prize.

The most advanced students in Year 7 have significantly higher levels of mathematics proficiency than the average Year 10 student, and the least advanced students in Year 10 have significantly lower levels of mathematics proficiency than the average Year 7 student.

In addition, more than one - third of students have taken Advanced Placement exams, with at least 95 percent receiving a score of three or higher.

This highly successful program is modeled on the French immersion schools of Canada, which have a long - proven record of success in supporting students to become bilingual, interculturally aware, and cognitively more advanced than their monolingual peers.

Studies show a familiar pattern: middle - income black and Latino students faring worse than their white counterparts with respect to grades, enrollment in advanced courses, and performance on standardized tests.

With less than 7 percent of students performing at the advanced level, New York and California rank 31st, just ahead of Turkey and Greece.

Yes, I know, there are other factors that contribute to their better score on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)-- longer school days, advanced science and math starting earlier in elementary school rather than high school, extra tutoring in Korean hagwons, less to learn with a more focused curriculum, no non-essential learning activities such as sports, home ec or computer applications courses.

Although the test is difficult, and less than one - fifth of applicants are admitted each year, it is perplexing that no Success students, many of whom scored at the advanced level on the state exams, made the cut.

A 2007 U.S. Department of Education report indicated that more than 25 percent of high school students attend schools that make no advanced courses available to them at all!

As Andrew Mollison shows (features, p. 34), the Advanced Placement test is a good beginning, but until more than 10 percent of all public school students take that test, it is not going to have broad impact.

The state - funded Florida Virtual School currently offers students more than 90 online courses (ranging from GED to Advanced Placement courses).