Sentences with phrase «than grading student»

Many of our teachers now spend more time planning instruction than grading student work, a practice that emphasizes the shift from quality control to quality assurance.

Not exact matches

Women are also taking longer to pay off student debt, according to a report completed this year by the American Association of University Women, despite being more likely to enroll and earning higher grades than most of their male peers.

A study by Dan Ariely and Klaus Wertenbroch bears this out: They found that students who turned in work at regular intervals during the semester got higher grades than those who chose to turn in all their work on the last possible day.

And it's hardly racially balanced: Black students are three times more likely to be suspended or expelled than white students, according to the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, and research in Texas found students who have been suspended are more likely to be held back a grade and drop out of school entirely.

I'll say that you're about a 22 - year old muslim student (and that's being generous,) but the only «rank» you ever held was more related to odor than pay - grade.

Republican professors allegedly give more grades at both ends of the spectrum than do their Democratic counterparts, and also seem to give marginally lower grades to African - American students.

◾ The average GPA for students who were frequently physically harassed because of their sexual orientation was half a grade lower than that of other students.»

Further, older students are more than twice as likely as younger students to have attended a vocational or technical high school or a two - year or community college, and much less likely to have attended a private, nonreligious grade and high school.

Younger entering students have significantly higher grade - point averages than older students have.

That means, according to Shakeshaft, that «of the approximately 45 million students attending public and private K - 12 schools, more than 3 million will have been the target of physical sexual exploitation by an employee of the school by 11th grade.»

These students bristle at structure and deadlines (such things are for lesser students); regular attendance (they have more pressing obligations); and real, rather than inflated, grades (they received straight As in college, so why should they be getting Es now?).

The meta - analysis I conducted indicates that students with high Bible literacy earn a grade point average that is about one point higher than that of students with low Bible literacy.

The issue, then, is deeper than a student's grade, a distinguished preacher's embarrassment, an undistinguished preacher's pretensions, or a homiletics professor's pedantry in drawing a crooked line of definition between plagiarism and legitimate borrowing.

Proceeds will benefit the more than 29,000 students in Grades K - 12 in TVUSD schools by providing funding for curriculum support grants and programs.

And there is certainly an argument to be made that, with as much as the students they're grading are paying in tuition, TAs produce way more value than they're paid for either way.

Eastern Christian was established six months ago, and with less than three weeks until the start of the academic school year, 54 students are enrolled in grades six through 12.

In a second, parallel study in which all students were required to revise their paper, the black students who received the «high expectations» Post-it were graded more than two points higher, on a 15 - point scale, on the revised essay than the ones who got the plain - vanilla «feedback» Post-it.

In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeed.

In math: rather than a grading scale, ask students how many questions they believe they need to get right in order to feel they've mastered a particular skill.

Unsurprisingly, this was received with criticism among my athlete friends at Princeton, who by my knowledge, received average or better - than - average grades than the regular student body.

A majority of the more than 1,385 high school students, 3,600 parents and 520 teachers of all grade levels who returned a questionnaire after this change was piloted in Palo Alto said, «If I controlled the school calendar, I would want first - semester finals to occur before winter break»; this included more than 85 percent of the high school students, according to Challenge Success.

Second largest in the nation, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) enrolls more than 640,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade, at over 900 schools, and 187 public charter schools.

Established in 1956, Clark County School District is the fifth largest school district in the country, educating almost 75 percent of all students in Nevada with more than 320,000 students enrolled in kindergarten through 12th grade.

In addition, the early middle school grades typically provide less independence to students than do the upper levels of elementary schools.

Bullying tends to peak in 6th grade, and many students find that the academic challenges of middle school are far more difficult than in elementary school.

Rather than using standardized textbooks, Waldorf Grades students create their own main lesson books — writing text and illustrations from their classroom learning and sometimes outside research.

Our students in grades one through eight experience — rather than being told about — confidence, conflicts and their resolution, and respect for the world and all its creatures within an enduring relationship with their classmates and teacher.

Still, some students stand out more than others, getting better grades and grasping material more deeply.

In fact, students who excel in ninth grade are far more likely to graduate high school, enroll in college and remain in college beyond their freshman year, than are students who struggled through their first year of high school.

According to numbers she compiled while assigned to the cafeteria, somewhat fewer than half the 170 students in seventh grade bring lunch from home.

I work at a school that has a split lunch schedule more due to efficiency than anything else — the cafeteria can't hold all students of one grade at a time.

Last school year, more than 4,600 CPS students scored below the 24th percentile on a portion of the Illinois Standards Achievement Test and were required to attend summer school before moving to the next grade level.

Belluck has used his own Twitter handle in recent days to dog the State Education Department over the results of third - through eighth - grade English and math test scores that showed charter school students performing slightly better than their public school counterparts.

In April, parents across New York pulled more than 200,000 students in grades three to eight out of state tests in English language arts and math.

During annual spring testing, more than 200,000 students in grades three to eight opt out in the nation's largest such boycott.

Ms. Moskowitz and her allies like to point instead to Success» successes on standardized tests, with almost two - thirds of students performing at grade level — more than twice the rate of the public schools.

Studies indicate most students will lose about two months of a grade level in math skills and low - income students lose more than two months in reading.

He also plans to re-open Rogers Elementary as a «Success Academy» complete with 11 service providers, like mental health professionals, for the more than 280 students in grades five through to 12 skipping school.

In April, parents statewide pulled more than 200,000 students in grades three through eight out of testing in English Language Arts and mathematics.

She gives the example of a school with five fifth grade classes, where students in one classroom score much better on the math tests than the other four.

If you do anything other than «teach» (i.e. grading, reading student work, etc.) you don't get paid even minimum wage.

In the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets in.

Moreover, a subsequent report issued by FES charged that less than 1 in 10 students met «grade - level benchmarks for reading and math.»

Less than one - third of students in the third through eighth grade, around 31 percent, passed the new math and English exams given for the first time this year, says Regents Chancellor Merrill Tisch, who made the announcement on a conference call.

Less than one third of students in the third through eighth grades, around 31 %, passed the new math and English exams given for the first time this year, says Regents Chancellor Merrill Tisch, making the announcement on a conference call.

The news was grim: Statewide, less than a third of the students in third through eighth grade were proficient in math and English.

The four - story brick school — which forms the base of Frank Gehry's rippling 76 - story apartment tower — will open its doors in September with more than 200 students from pre-K to second grade.

His reasoning is that even though large majorities of students are failing the new assessments, less than 1 percent of teachers are getting bad grades.

With the beginning of the school year only a little more than a month away, thousands of New York City public school students remain unsure whether they'll be promoted to the next grade in the fall.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew urged New York City to embark next September on a long - term initiative that will lower class size in the public schools to no more than 15 students in kindergarten through third grade.