Sentences with phrase «than other students do»

It showed that low - achieving students prioritize schools that are geographically closer to their homes than other students do.

Terri said it was clear that her daughter picked things up much faster than the other students did — especially in math.

For example, after we helped a middle school assess its school climate, we learned that 6th graders felt dramatically less safe in school than other students did.

Not exact matches

But more American students fell on the lowest end of the scale than in other nations: 17.8 percent did not reach basic proficiency versus 15.3 percent globally.

Hilary Stout illustrated this problem in The New York Times in June: «After all, the millennial generation has less wealth and more debt than other generations did at the same age, thanks to student loans and the lingering effects of the deep recession,» she wrote.

And a new report finds that while many low - income students fall behind and fail to graduate on time from U.S. colleges, the University of California system supports them significantly better than other schools do.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

«I've been in education for more than 30 years, and we teach our students to do what you can to help other people, don't just think about yourselves, so that's what I wanted to do,» said Sister Margret.

Very few other authors, with the exception perhaps of Schmalhausen and a few of his students, have done anything more than pay the merest lip - service to the idea that selection operates on phenotypes.

The question I am asked more than any other when I speak to high - school students about these things is — but what can I, as an individual do?

Players do have a brain afterall and what Wenger does is encourage them to use it rather than just instruct them like most other managers do, now when it all comes together, we go a whole season unbeaten, when it fails, we go a decade without a trophy all in it is why a large number of former Wenger students and players have gone on to greater things within and beyond football, Even Guardiola took a chunk of his coaching badges under Wenger even after playing under Fergie just before hanging up his boots, Viera went on to a senior role at Man.

In other words, the fact that double the number of private school students go on to complete college degrees has more to do with who attends private school than what the private school is actually doing for the child's college prospects.

Psychologist Angela Duckworth, a protà © gà © of Seligman's, has done a range of studies — on college students with low SAT scores, West Point plebes, and national spelling bee contestants, among others — and has found that a determined response to setbacks, an ability to focus on a task, and other noncognitive character strengths are highly predictive of success, much more so than IQ scores.

First did you identify any particular population of students that is lacking these healthy non-cognitive skills more than others?

Extensive drill does nothing, other than making students angry and bored.

Success Academy's students, most of whom are black or Hispanic, performed better on this year's state reading and math tests than did students in any other district in the state.

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

@blip Since students have no credit record or collateral, what does the due diligence involve other than perhaps a guarantor.

It did, however, note that by its calculations, New York spends more per student than any other state in the country, even as performance on standardized testing continues to lag.

Lebron, a student at Bronx Community College, doesn't think that he was less qualified than other applicants.

Right now, 12,700 Bronx families are still on waiting lists for seats in public charter schools, and the Bronx has fewer gifted and talented programs than any of the other boroughs, with less than four seats for every 1,000 students.Two of our school districts — District 7 in the South Bronx and District 12 in the central Bronx — don't have a single gifted and talented program, and together they educate more than 45,000 students.

But they did a bit better than other failing students statewide who got the same scores the year before, officials said.

SPECTRUM NEWS VIDEO: Most districts will put forward budgets Tuesday that don't cut student programs or services, but some are struggling far more than others.

A new study suggests that charter school students are more likely to do well at college and earn significantly more than their counterparts at other schools.

Further, the graduate education system does not typically expose students to careers other than research.

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.»

Although students said they did not personally mock the system, paradoxically, they reported that they mocked the system less than they had prior to the event; they also reported hearing less disparagement from others after the emergency.

I can not fully account for the difference between the paper and electronic logbooks, but I suspect that it has to do with (a) the fact that students read each other's entries and saw how much their colleagues progressed, and (b) the fact that I naturally respond at greater length when I type than when I scribble in the margins.

The scholar was visiting his department to give a talk in an area with seemingly very little connection to Reddi's expertise, but he cornered him nonetheless, because «as a doctoral student I had made it an issue to attend talks in areas other than mine and to cultivate learning from people who didn't speak the same language as I do,» he recalls.

An important reason for this is the current setup of most university programs: Although German students experience great latitude during their university educations, they study much longer than do their competitors in other countries.

For today's early - career researchers — students, postdocs, faculty members, and staff scientists — doing science in countries other than their own is an increasingly common experience.

The paper showed that elite male scientists do a significantly worse job than other men and elite women at hiring women as postdocs and graduate students.

A survey by Roach and Sauermann of more than 400 graduate students at three Research I universities shows that some of the aspiring researchers do strongly possess what Sauermann and other researchers call «a taste for science,» which they define as a desire to do basic research, to determine the direction of one's projects, to publish in peer - reviewed journals, and to participate actively in the scientific community.

In late June, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published an article showing that elite male scientists hire fewer women (as postdocs and graduate students) than other male scientists or elite women do.

The lab - grown mini-brains, which researchers say are truer to life and more cost - effective than similar research models, came about thanks to the son of two Johns Hopkins scientists and two other high school students who were doing summer research internships.

When Corrie Painter was diagnosed with cancer six years ago, she did what any other doctoral student in biochemistry would do: She looked up her disease on PubMed, the giant online database of more than 26 million medical papers.

«Our final image should show us a companion 100 times fainter than any other white dwarf orbiting a neutron star and about 10 times fainter than any known white dwarf, but we don't see a thing,» team member Bart Dunlap, a graduate student from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said in a statement.

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).

I centralize most work from the pelvic floor on up... always starting class with ab work on the floor or the roller, having student feel their transverse abdominis as well as the complex muscles of the pelvic floor as stabilizers (allowing other body parts to move safely and with ease) rather than doing crunches.

This was particularly the case because many societies remain highly segregated: the average American public school student has less than one interracial friend, and around 90 % of people who attend religious services do so only with others of their own race.

«Christopher Mintz - Plasse didn't even need to be in this film, as his character offers very little to the plot, other than another teen hero we can recognise in the large mass of drunken students.»

And my teacher said, «Without a light meter you managed to do better than most of my other students do with a light meter.»

Doing anything else other than dwelling on one's failure can help students to have a clearer vision of their experience with failure and recovery.

You have to help all the stakeholders far more than you think: like parents, other teachers, and some students who don't have access elsewhere.

Rather than saying that PBL raises or does not raise student achievement compared to other approaches, the most defensible stance from our research is that PBL can raise student achievement in high - poverty communities.

Kenyan teachers are trained and certified, but they don't typically speak the mother tongue of their students — a problem faced in other countries, Hayba says (see sidebar)-- and they are much more expensive than teachers culled from the ranks of the Somalia refugees.

Most students had nothing to do other than to chase each other and fight over the four or five balls.

Snow and her colleagues carried out a quasi-experimental study comparing nearly 700 sixth - to eighth - grade students in five Word Generation schools to more than 300 students in three other Boston Public schools that did not choose to implement the program.

While the rationale is perhaps a bit misguided (some evidence suggests that our students already experience as much instructional time as their peers ~ and other research confirms that teachers in the United States spend more time on instruction than teachers in other nations do) ~ there are certainly reasons to focus on the issue ~ not least of which is the summer learning loss that disproportionately impacts our nations most disadvantaged youth.

Beginning in the 1990s and through the 2000s, analyses of year - to - year student - test data consistently showed that some teachers helped their students learn significantly more than did other teachers.