Sentences with phrase «than grades when»

In the last decade, at least 15 state legislatures and boards of education have adopted policies incentivizing their public schools to prioritize measures other than grades when assessing students» skills and competencies.

Not exact matches

Cons: The primary negative associated with investment grade floaters is that when issued they generally offer current yields that are significantly lower than a typical fixed rate bond of the same maturity offered by the same issuer.

When we graduated, some of us applied for the same job at a local company, and even though my grades were worse than some of my white friends, I got hired.

Look the person in the eye, consider their story and background and that they more than likely didn't dream of this life when they were on the grade school jungle gym.

I would like to also note that this makes way better tacos than those lunchables did when I was in grade school.

When prepared just with hot water, Latte grade tastes a bit stronger (astringent or bitter) than Ceremonial grade.

XTECH pads are made in a small warehouse in New Jersey and fashioned out of military - grade, water - resistant foam, which makes them lighter than standard shoulder pads when soaked with sweat.

When I'm saying Denzel Ward is a better prospect than Vita Vea, I am just relying on my film study and my experience in grading, of course...

Maybe, but Hadl is tougher than a boiled combat boot; he last sat out a game with an injury when he was in the eighth grade.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

I lasted until third grade, when my propensity for shoving and inability to run for more than 45 seconds at a time forced me to leave o jogo bonito behind and take up hockey.

When I ask my peers how they feel about a class, they tell me about their grades rather than the in - class experience.

Your grade - schooler may seem to have more stamina than he did when he was little, but it's still vital to make sleep a priority.

Some parents worry that accelerating their child in earlier grades will lead to their child not fitting in when they reach puberty or have growth spurts later than their peers.

When it comes to grades, show interest in a particular topic and the work — more than just the grade.

But when we realized that 3rd grade math homework could take more than an hour we met with the teacher and discussed accomodations.

It is very important to use a hospital - grade pump when you are unable to nurse, because it is much more effective than a commercial grade pump.

District officials were alarmed last year when preliminary data collected by school nurses showed that Chicago children, from preschool to 3rd grade, have higher levels of obesity than the general U.S. population.

Governor Cuomo has questioned why more than 95 % of teachers last year were rated adequate or above average, when two thirds of schoolchildren in grades 3 to 8 were found in standardized tests not to be meeting the new requirements.

New York's overall D - is actually worse than the last time the states were assessed on their integrity in 2012, when the state government earned a «D» grade.

Using bacteria to extract metals from low - grade ores could be a solution: mining firms are using simple microbes that can extract up to 85 percent of metal in an ore and obtain metals when the concentrations are lower than 1 percent.

Ispa's study, which included more than 2,000 mothers and their children, measured maternal directiveness — or the extent to which mothers controlled activities — in play when children were 2 years old and then during a discussion about areas of disagreement when the children were in the fifth grade.

Spider silk is already among the best spun polymer fibres when to comes to its tensile strength (actually higher than that of high grade steel) and strain, and especially toughness modulus.

Everything from batteries to solar panels need to be made with this natural high - grade flake graphite because what is the point of powering your home with the sun or charging your car if the products themselves do more harm than good to the environment when produced.

«When I was younger,» she says, «I had always bad grades in school because I was more passionate about watching animals outside than doing homework.»

This study shows that the scars of people recovering from surgery heal faster when Manuka honey is part of the post-operative process than when it's not, and other research points to medical - grade Manuka honey as a powerful antibacterial agent, one that has «bactericidal activity against antibiotic - resistant bacteria» that pose a danger to humans.

I felt better than I ever had before, but at the same time, I noticed certain withdrawal issues, which surprised me -(low grade headaches, some dizziness, and the fact that all other food tasted much better than before): in short, the same feelings one has when one cuts out sugar.

▻ matcha is a type of green tea that is grown in Japan ▻ matcha is technically a «loose - leaf» tea, but it's different than other standard teas because the tea leaves that have been ground into a powder ▻ because the entire tea leaf is consumed, you get more nutritional benefits than regular steeped tea (like vitamins, minerals & antioxidants) ▻ matcha has less caffeine than coffee and the effect is said to be gentler and more gradual on the body ▻ when making matcha, make sure you select a high quality, ceremonial grade matcha that is shade grown from Japan

I have some on - going low grade infections that flare up every so often and rather than consume sugar when I want something sweet, I would rather use this organic stevia powder from sweet leaf, which is made with inulin, a prebiotic.

It was two years later when I got my first job in 9th grade (other than babysitting) and saved all my money up for anything paisley printed from Benetton — remember all their gorgeous items?

Being on Spring Break and in full blown «project mode» (you know, that feeling you get when you have freedom to do anything other than plan, teach, grade and sleep?)

I have been getting my hair colored since I was in like the 7th or 8th grade I feel like & no one loves a good blowout more than this girl, but when it comes to me having to take the reins, it never turns out the way I want it to.

Back when the Fast & Furious series first began, it was more about racing, heisting and vigorous male bonding than, say, landing a truck on a military - grade drone at 150 miles per hour.

When in Sword mode, your attacks won't bounce off of anything 2 grades of sharpness higher than whatever level your weapon is currently at, and you can perform a nasty explosion similar to a Gunlance's wyvern fire.

Moreover, reading a classic on your own time can be a bigger intellectual adventure than reading it for college credit, when you know you'll be graded on having learned the book's standard interpretation and the professor might be pouring that conventional wisdom into your head before you've even finished the text.

When grade seven social studies teacher Eugene Simonet (Kevin Spacey) challenges his class to think of a way to change the world and put it into action, Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) takes the assignment to heart more than any prior student.

This is critical for teachers to understand when they attempt to teach grit — and especially for those who are required to grade it — because being gritty is something that you are rather than something you obtain.

«It's a lot more work than when I first started teaching 28 years ago,» said Carol Perkins, a fourth grade teacher at Four Corners.

Although that standard may seem low, it is considerably more stringent than the standards that existed prior to 1990, when no state had a test reaching even the 9th - grade level.

In the Loop: Students and Teachers Progressing Together Looping — when a teacher moves with his or her students to the next grade level rather than sending them to another teacher at the end of the school year — was initially advocated by early 20th - century Austrian educator Rudolf Steiner and since has been used successfully for years in Europe.

This second quarter, my students» writing portfolios included six essays with revised rough drafts — but, unlike last quarter when I graded all six essays equally, I had students select one essay to be graded more thoroughly than the others.

When we look at the results of a test, rather than focusing on the final grade with our students, we should ask:

Finnish children attend kindergarten and pre-school until the age of seven, when they enter comprehensive school, which covers Grades 1 to 9; therefore they are at least a year older than Australian children when they start school.

While girls do as well as or better than boys when teachers assign grades in all three subjects, they score significantly lower on both the math and

But the proportion of unsatisfactory ratings that Kraft and Gilmour found is about three times the rate before the introduction of the new grading systems, when evaluations were infrequent and typically amounted to nothing more than quick classroom visits by principals wielding simplistic checklists that stressed comportment over quality instruction and student learning.

«When I switched from teaching tenth grade to teaching sixth grade, I soon learned that sixth graders» thinking capabilities were more concrete than abstract,» said Crossley, who teaches at Aledo (Texas) Middle School.

When rating the nation's schools, only 18 percent of those surveyed in both polls gave the nation's schools either an «A» or a «B» and, more than a quarter gave the schools a rating of a «D» or an «F.» In both polls, grades are roughly the same as those reported by Ednext and PDK in 2009.

Unfortunately, they are often seen as the adversary themselves...» Students know that there is subjectivity inherent in teachers» grading systems, which supplies students with the ready excuse that when they perform poorly in a class, they can blame it on the teacher for being too hard or unfair, rather than taking responsibility for their own needs for improvement.

For example, when Massachusetts began to require passage of a 10th - grade exam for a regular diploma, the percentage of African American and Hispanic students passing more than doubled.

We looked at whether 7th graders in a particular school performed better than the same school's 8th graders (relative to the national average for their respective grades) when, on average, the 7th - grade classes were smaller than the 8th - grade classes.