Sentences with phrase «than high school science»

One does not need more than high school science education and common sense to question the scenarios claimed by the Advocates to become the consequences of greenhouse gases generated by human activities.

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Last June, the internet giant debuted its Made with Code campaign in an effort to get young women excited about computer science — a field that less than one percent of high school girls think of as part of their future.

The majority of WashU's more than 6,800 undergraduates study in the arts and sciences school, while nearly 1,000 students enroll in the university's high - ranking undergraduate business program at Olin Business Sschool, while nearly 1,000 students enroll in the university's high - ranking undergraduate business program at Olin Business SchoolSchool.

but still Faith based Parochial school students often test higher in math and science than those in public schools.

read the introduction in any high school science text book - congratulations, you now have more knowledge than is in all of the bible.

The head of the science and agriculture department at Queanbeyan High School, just outside Canberra is Ian Crabb, who's taught ag for more than 30 years.

Fewer than 25 percent of high school students take any family and consumer science classes, formerly known as home economics, and those classes are often the first to go when school budgets are trimmed.

«It's easier to go to the taxpayers and get them to support more science labs or classrooms than one big cafeteria,» said Paul Gillette, associate principal at Barrington High School, where lunch starts at about 10 a.m.

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Young women hold their own in high school in science, math, and technology, achieving higher grades than men but scoring lower on math SATs.

«Potential interest [among Ph.D. s] in careers in secondary school science and mathematics education is much higher than the 0.8 % of Ph.D. s who currently work in K - 12 education,» says a 2000 report by the National Research Council called Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D. s to Secondary School Educschool science and mathematics education is much higher than the 0.8 % of Ph.D. s who currently work in K - 12 education,» says a 2000 report by the National Research Council called Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D. s to Secondary School Eduscience and mathematics education is much higher than the 0.8 % of Ph.D. s who currently work in K - 12 education,» says a 2000 report by the National Research Council called Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D. s to Secondary School EduScience and Mathematics Ph.D. s to Secondary School EducSchool Education.

Researchers surveyed 66 head soccer and basketball coaches from 15 Oregon high schools and found that only 21 percent of the coaches were using an injury prevention program, and less than 10 percent were using the program exactly as designed, said the study's lead author, Marc Norcross, an assistant professor of exercise and sport science in OSU's College of Public Health and Human Sciences.

Since the beginning of the Eleventh Five - Year Plan, the school has adhered to major strategic demands of national defense, constantly condensing the direction of the frontier research, focusing on improving the capability of independent innovation, undertaking major national science and technology research and a large number of research projects such as the National Defense Program 973 (which is called the National Basic Research Program of March 1997), Program 863 (which is known as the High - tech Research Development Program carried out by Deng Xiaoping in March 1986), and national defense pre-research and models, winning more than 260 provincial and ministerial awards.

Camp noted that a National Center on Education Statistics study predicts that more than 125,000 high school and middle school science teaching jobs will open up in the next few years.

STEM - focused high schools are important because they constitute the first U.S. science and mathematics reform that requires whole - school transformation rather than tinkering with peripheral components of an outmoded educational system or serving just a small, select segment of the public school population.

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.

The competitors, announced on Jan. 29, represent the cream of more than 1,500 high school seniors who submitted their original research in biochemistry, mathematics, physics, behavioral sciences, and other scientific fields.

This year more than 70 current and recent college students and almost 20 high school and college instructors participated in a CSEE program, working with Berkeley Lab researchers on science projects spanning from cancer research to cosmology to biofuels.

For more than 30 years, the lecture series has attracted hundreds of science enthusiasts ranging from high school students to retirees, who climb out of bed early on cold winter mornings to hear lectures from top scientists from Princeton University and around the country.

The first review period for the K - 12 Computer Science (CS) framework - developed by Code.org, the Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Association for Computing Machinery, along with more than 100 advisors within the computing community - begins February 3 with the release of the high school (grades 9 - 12) layer of concepts and...

Family Science Night is also an important part of the curriculum for the more than 40 high school and undergraduate participants in the MDI Biological Laboratory's summer fellowship programs.

Categories include early education, elementary school, high school, higher education, science, medicine, trades and occupations, information technology, more than thirty languages, and miscellaneous.

• No less than a whole new curriculum was envisioned for high schools, one that would be stringent across the board, but particularly so in areas critical to the national interest - mathematics, science, foreign languages, and computer science.

Yet according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, high - school seniors perform no better today in math, reading, or science than they did when Carter held office.

High school teachers are far more reluctant than their colleagues in the lower grades to embrace new teaching techniques, the National Science Foundation survey found.

In the fall, a month into the school year, only the preliminary MCAS scores were public, but Qazilbash says that the fifth - graders scored higher in math and science than any fifth - grade class that came before them in what was then South Lawrence East Middle Sschool year, only the preliminary MCAS scores were public, but Qazilbash says that the fifth - graders scored higher in math and science than any fifth - grade class that came before them in what was then South Lawrence East Middle SchoolSchool.

In fact, he shows that student non-response on surveys in grades 7 - 9 is more strongly predictive of graduating high school and completing a bachelors degree than math and science standardized test results.

Nothing is more tragic than the virtual abdication by the American high school of its responsibility for the mathematical and scientific education of the next generation, leaving U. S. 15 - year - olds below the industrial world average on math and science tests.

For example, the ACT reports that just 46 percent of high school graduates taking its college entrance exams in 2012 met college - readiness benchmarks in math; fewer than one in three did so in science.

A teacher in an area with a high degree of private school choice is 10 percent more likely to have majored in math or science than a teacher in an area with minimal private school choice.

I've been teaching science at Sammmamish High School for 17 years now... and enjoy it more than ever.

Dede has been studying immersive technology and issues at the juncture of science, education, and technology for more than three decades, working with students from public schools, the military, higher education, and the corporate world.

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.

The proportion of instructors with Ph.D. s in exam schools is higher than the norm, and many have had experience teaching at the college level or working in fields related to the disciplines they teach (e.g., engineer - turned - science teacher).

More than 25 percent of high school math teachers and 20 percent of high school science teachers lack even a minor in their main teaching field, according to the report.

Add to this nebulous college entrance environment the challenge presented by the proliferation of four - year high schools, whose numbers skyrocketed from 2,526 in 1890 to 10,213 in 1910, and it is easy to see why the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation felt the need to define college: «An institution to be ranked a college must have at least six (6) professors giving their entire time to college and university work, a course of four full years in liberal arts and sciences, and should require for admission not less than the usual four years of academic or high school preparation, or its equivalent, in addition to the preacademic or grammar school studies.»

«How Schools Shortchange Girls» concluded that female students receive less attention from their teachers than boys do, are less apt to see girls and women reflected in their study materials, and are often not expected or encouraged to pursue higher - level mathematics and science.

The Urban Academy and more than 30 other alternative high schools that are part of the New York Performance Standards Consortium have adopted these rigorous performance assessments as an alternative to the Regents Exams, which high school students throughout New York State are required to pass in English, math, history, and science in order to earn a diploma.

According to a 2009 study by ACT, a nonprofit assessment organization, less than one - quarter of graduating high school seniors nationwide are college ready, based on English, math, reading, and science scores.

Shaira Ahmed, who'll be attending the Bronx High School of Science, alma mater to more Nobel Prize winners than any high school in America, credits Icahn's small size and clasHigh School of Science, alma mater to more Nobel Prize winners than any high school in America, credits Icahn's small size and clSchool of Science, alma mater to more Nobel Prize winners than any high school in America, credits Icahn's small size and clashigh school in America, credits Icahn's small size and clschool in America, credits Icahn's small size and classes.

So, an art initiative and a science initiative between the Elementary School, the Middle School and the High School where there are kids P / K -12 working together and learning together in probably more of an authentic way than happens sometimes traditionally in the classroom.

HGSE Lecturer Victor Pereira, who taught high school science for more than a decade before becoming the master teacher in residence (science) in the new Harvard Teacher Fellows Program, knows the challenges firsthand.

To quote Scholars» Academy science teacher Anna Bulatewicz, it is difficult to find scientific articles, rather than «articles about science,» at the right level of complexity for high school students.

Getting into a charter school doubled the likelihood of enrolling in Advanced Placement classes (the effects are much bigger for math and science than for English) and also doubled the chances that a student will score high enough on standardized tests to be eligible for state - financed college scholarships.

Beatty, who has been using and studying CRS products for more than a decade, acknowledges that the language and purpose of the question cycle, which he says is «to form habits of mind and find the limits of knowledge,» sound more ivory tower than AP Bio, but he contrasts the current norm — the quick and shallow recall of facts required of American high school science and math students — with his larger objective: renouncing the myth of coverage, the idea that what a teacher covers in class matters.

At a forum on science and technology here last week, more than two dozen educators and community leaders gathered at Patrick Henry High School to put one of Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's signature policy initiatives into action.

We are a comprehensive co-ed school and honestly if it wasn't for our international students we would struggle to have more than one or female students in any higher HSC science class.

And even though half the early college high schools claimed to have a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) focus, the high school math scores of the early college students were no different than the math scores of the traditional high school students.

The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History / Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects are states» efforts to ensure that all students are college and career ready in literacy no later than the end of high school.

Forty - three percent of districts responded that teachers of color were «very difficult» to hire, more so than special education teachers, teachers of English Language Learners, and high school science teachers.