Sentences with phrase «than other student groups»

Update (April 18): The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Snow College has settled its lawsuit with Solid Rock Christian Club, which sued the school last winter claiming «that the school's policy unconstitutionally treated student groups affiliated with religious institutions differently than other student groups.»

Not exact matches

Counseling, chaplaincy and other forms of ministry to groups and organizations are also attractive, and more than a quarter of entering students are headed for teaching, social service or administration.

Even though many women, African - Americans and Asians are older than other students, there are no significant differences between them and other groups on various measures of academic performance.

In many other cases resourcing has become little more than a placement service for students seeking employment as Christian education directors, youth workers or student pastors, and for local churches seeking to book a contemporary singing group for the annual youth Sunday.

The band plays at important matches, little groups of Denison fans turn up at away games and more students watch lacrosse than any other sport.

For group lessons we try to keep student / instructor ratio low with no more than seven other people in your clinic.

He says the New York State Board of Elections alone has registered more than 500 high school students across the county, and there are also other organizations like the League of Women Voters, as well as candidate groups, that are working to get first time voters registered.

But between the two interviews, unbeknownst to the counselors, the students received help: One group watched videos of interview advice, while a second group had a practice session with the MACH simulated interviewer, but received no feedback other than a video of their own performance.

Establish a minority support group or other cultural outlets, since some minority graduate students drop out of graduate school because of dissatisfaction with the social life rather than the intellectual environment.

He hopes that the graduate school community will recognize the need to prepare some equally talented graduate students for jobs other than doing «big research in big groups.»

This audience is very different from the graduate students, faculty, researchers, and policymakers with whom I regularly interact, but in many ways, my discussion of the importance of college had a greater impact on them than on any other group that I address.

The two groups of students are assumed to be identical in all respects other than admission to the program, allowing for a precise identification of the effect of attending a school for high - achieving students.

CPAHS has an enrolment of 1100 students from Years 7 - 12, with approximately 35 per cent coming from a language background other than English across 56 language groups.

For example, Smarter Balanced's «Bias and Sensitivity Guidelines» point to the word foyer as unfair: «assuming a student knows what a «foyer» is would be unfair because the term: 1) is more likely to be known by some groups of students than by other groups of students, 2) is not required by the Common Core State Standards, and 3) is not likely to have been routinely used in the classroom.»

They were controlled by powerful interest groups who cared about things other than student learning.

To take an example, imagine that a particular sub-group of students do more poorly than expected (based on their performance on other questions testing the same math skill) on a math item that uses the word «foyer,» while other groups of students do just as well as expected.

Yet Coleman also noted that the composition of a student's peer group was more important for learning than any other school - related factor, a finding used by the Johnson and Nixon administrations to reinforce their strenuous desegregation efforts in southern states.

James J. Kemple, the executive director of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, who conducted a study comparing the city's school reform efforts to a «virtual» control group modeled from other urban districts in the state, including Buffalo, Yonkers, Syracuse, and Rochester, «found New York City students improved significantly faster than the control group on both the New York state assessments and the National Assessment of Educational Progress during the reform period, from 2002 to 2010.»

Additionally, students can ask him no more than two questions during the group test, a practice that Chan says forces them to rely on each other.

When evaluating the size of this «overprediction» for learning - disabled males, the majority panel noted that it was smaller than the overprediction for other groups of students, such as African - American males.

The students in the smaller classes continued to achieve at higher rates than their peers in the other groups even after they returned to normal - sized classrooms in grades four and beyond.

Writing about Illinois» newly approved NCLB waiver, it breathlessly reported that, «Under a dramatic new approach to rating public schools, Illinois students of different backgrounds no longer will be held to the same standards — with Latinos and blacks, low - income children and other groups having lower targets than whites for passing state exams, the Tribune has found.»

(We realize, of course, that some within this group may have acquired knowledge about student performance independently from sources other than our survey questionnaire.

The Act needs to be amended and a clause may be appropriately added to Section 26 providing that every school and any other institution, whether government or non-government, aided, unaided or autonomous, shall admit in every class such percentage of disabled students as prescribed, not less than five percent, reserving at least one seat for each of the groups with: (i) blindness or low vision; (ii) hearing impairment; (iii) locomotor disability or cerebral palsy.

Then of course there is the environment effect, which we do know about — the lack of support, a school culture which may require early career teachers to teach out of field (and we know that more early career teachers teach out of field than any other group), student behaviour, the workload, administration workload, all of those kinds of things are clearly issues.

Minority students in New Zealand are actually more likely to attend an out - of - zone school than other groups, a reverse of the situation under zoning.

Some examples of systemic intolerance and institutionalized racism include the disproportionate number of African American or Latino students who are suspended and expelled, or when the academic proficiency standards for certain ethnic groups are lower than others, as is true in Florida and Virginia.

In addition to the Buffett interview, other summit sessions that NBC recently confirmed include: The Changing Face of Education — More than one in five students in the nation's public schools are Latino — constituting the largest, and fastest growing, minority group in our education system.

And one reason may be that black students are more likely than students in any other racial or ethnic group to attend schools with police, according to the analysis of 2013 - 14 civil rights data, the most recent collected by the U.S. Department of Education.

Now teachers and safeguarding leads will be able to extend their safeguarding provision to a wider group of students, as the packs allow them to see and monitor phonetic representations of what students are typing in languages other than English; alerting them to activity by any student who is potentially open to physical or emotional harm — and allows them to take the appropriate action.

But Latinos also have the lowest student achievement levels, with less access to early childhood programs, lower reading and math scores, a higher chance of dropping out of high school and worse odds of attending college than any other group.

CPS, in fact, has a disproportionately high percentage of students categorized as learning disabled, and African - American students are more likely to be placed in special education than any other racial or ethnic group, state data show.

schools that fail to make AYP for every accountability group, except the all students group, within an accountability performance criterion for which there are at least two accountability groups other than the all students group; or

The executive director of Smarter Balanced, a consortium of states developing the new Common Core assessments, said he supports California's decision to give the field, or practice, test in the new standards to all students next spring, rather than limit the pilot to a small test group as other states are doing.

In contrast, WKCD set out to celebrate and support youth as collaborators in our books and other publications (e.g., our «Fires» series); in survey projects nationwide; in more than 75 grants to student research groups across the globe; and in the feature stories we produced for this website.

The small number of specially qualified teachers — and the fact that they must work their schedules around literacy blocks, lunchtimes, and other set schedules — forces many schools to group special - needs students rather than to spread them out evenly among all the classrooms.

The Mathematica researchers draw on other studies to try to estimate the potential peer effects, but clearly the best way to resolve the issues of self selection, attrition and replacement would be for KIPP to run a substantial number of «conversion» charter schools — schools in which KIPP educates students who happen to live in a particular neighborhood, rather than a self - selected group of students.

At Ohio State University, which annually graduates more new teachers than any other institution in America, a 12 - member «technology» group within the education faculty is working to develop courses and programs that will introduce students to the theory and operation of computers as teaching devices.

Another author in the book, [Rutgers Graduate School of Education Assistant Professor] Beth Rubin, discusses how racially patterned tracking «teaches» students the same false lesson: that some «race groups» are smarter than others.

That is, if the average teacher's SAT score at highly selective colleges is consistently 50 points lower (or higher) than that of the average student at such colleges, and a similar consistency holds for the other groupings, then we have a good measure of changes in the aptitudes of those entering the teaching profession.

And black students» first choice high schools have lower reading scores and are more racially segregated than the first choice schools of other groups of students (self - sorting).

School systems should know that if they are treating students fairly, the federal government will have their backs — even if some groups of students are suspended at higher rates than others.

It found that, because they got a voucher, parents «were more likely to be actively involved in their children's schools, parent - teacher organizations, and other education groups» than parents of students at traditional district schools with a similar demographic profile.

Partner Reading Rather than reading independently, students can be divided into pairs or small groups and read the text aloud together or take turns reading aloud to each other.

The other good long term news is that Black and Hispanic students, who usually have much lower test scores than white students, are making greater long - term progress than whites — shrinking the achievement gap between whites and the other two groups.

«Gifted» refers to students who achieve, or have the ability to achieve, significantly above average compared with other students in their year group in one or more National Curriculum subjects other than art, performing arts or physical education.

Now into my second year as a blended - learning history teacher — meaning I have a group of students in my classroom every other day, assigning them to work online, at home, on the «off» days — I've found the scary parts less frightening than most fear, with far greater benefits than I expected....

The multiple linkages model asserts a prominent role for «situational variables» — the size of the work group, organizational policies and procedures, the prior training and experience of members — which mediate what the leader is able to do.131 For example, the size of the school will have a significant effect on how well teachers know other teachers; it also will affect the way in which teachers form workgroups or departments to talk about their work.132 The fragmented nature of professional communities, rather than size per se, becomes a constraint on how principals try to organize professional communities to focus on instruction and student learning.

Rather than trying to build a single test that will cover content and other cognitive competencies, Mr. Pellegrino envisioned, for example, giving teams of students a series of challenging mathematics problems to tackle as a group, and then observing both their ultimate answer and how they collaborate to solve it.

Last month, an opinion piece on Bloomberg.com encouraged the DoE to withdraw their guidance and let schools and districts manage their discipline policies without oversight — despite clear evidence that prior to the 2014 guidance, African American students and other groups were (and in many cases still are) more likely to receive heavier punishment for the same offenses than white students, and to be suspended at a higher rate.