Sentences with phrase «than track student»

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CT closely tracks Christian student groups and how they fare on campus, including InterVarsity's key victory at Tufts, Alec Hill's response to the Supreme Court's Hastings decision and its aftermath, and the 15 Christian student groups that left Vanderbilt rather than open up leadership roles to non-Christians.

Ministry in a congregation or parish is the primary goal of less than one - third of master's - level students and of only half of students in master of divinity and other ordination - track programs.

There is on one side of this coin the students» tendency to attend lectures which they need for their examinations; on the other side is the fact that there is strong political support for Küng among the students (there was a huge rally and torchlight parade last December on the night following the Roman edict to withdraw his missio canonica), and for many students, both Protestant and Catholic, the issues in the Küng case are larger than the man himself, Küng's status at the university is not dependent on the number of students who come to his lectures (nor on the number of his doctoral students), but the fall semester will be some index of the viability of this new «third track» in theology.

On track to start educating students in fall 2018, the new school will occupy a historic property on more than 200 acres in Northfield, Massachusetts, 90 miles northwest of Boston.

The Unified races will be one of the many highpoints of Bay Area Games as more than 500 Special Olympics Northern California special education student - athletes compete in track & field events on Tuesday at Acalanes High School in Lafayette.

«I taught thousands in undergraduate and graduate [tracks], and had the opportunity to teach many outstanding students,» said Dr. Stitt, who also directed numerous masters theses while publishing more than two dozen papers herself.

The program, called PARK Kids, is aimed at providing elementary and middle school students with structured programs that offer more than traditional park fare, such as basketball or track.

It is highly unfair to perpetuate this fast - track award merely on the assumption that a BA (Hons) from Oxford or Cambridge Universities justifies a complimentary equivalent award, for no reason other than the student in question attended the institution, and has stayed alive for a few years after completing the BA — nothing more is needed for them to be given an MA and so a significant advantage in the jobs market.

Cameron's old mate robustly defended the government's track record on supporting teachers by paying off some of their student debt in bursaries and pointing out that teachers repay their debt more slowly than higher earners.

The number 8th point in the recommendations — creating an Ombudsman for Education, is an essential one but the powers should be wider than the one cited in the recommendation particularly as it relates to tracking funds for programs serving Latino students.

The 2005 report included responses from 88 of the 140 graduate training programs that were members of the ANDP and indicated that women comprise more than 60 percent of the graduate students in neuroscience but approximately 25 percent of tenure - track faculty, a number that has changed little since 1998.

Veliz and colleagues analyzed data from more than 13,088 adolescents in the 2016 Monitoring the Future survey, a national study by U-M funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse that tracks U.S. students in grades 8, 10 and 12.

Before the agents pounded on his door and turned his life upside down, Xi oversaw a team of 10 graduate students, one undergraduate, three postdocs, and two non — tenure - track faculty at Temple and received more than a million dollars a year in research funding.

Although both categories of «non-tenure-track faculty» — full time and piecework — receive lower pay «than tenured and tenure - track faculty, part - time faculty are customarily paid significantly less than even full - time non-tenure-track faculty for the same work,» write Adrianna Kezar, Daniel Maxey and Lara Badke in a report from The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success.

With 82 tenured / tenure - track and 40 additional full - time faculty, 1,300 undergraduate students, 700 graduate students and more than 23,000 alumni, we are working to leverage our partnerships with academic and industry partners — across disciplines and across the world — to contribute to solving the greatest global challenges of the 21st century.

In addition to a significant jump in math test scores, students receiving tutoring and mentoring failed two fewer courses per year on average than students who did not participate, and their likelihood of being «on track» for graduation rose by nearly one - half.

IFA Director Guenther Hassinger wrote «Jabran has the strongest proven track record of completing a PhD project from observation to publication than any graduating student in our history of approximately 200 PhDs awarded.

The researchers used a data set involving more than 200 University of Rochester students, who in the 1970s and 1980s had been asked to keep daily diaries tracking their social interactions for two weeks, once when they were about 20 years old and again when they were about 30.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

What if encouraging students to take a shot at the college track — despite very long odds of crossing its finish line — does them more harm than good?

When diverse schools institute rigid academic tracking that places students of color in low - level classes or employ harsh discipline policies that exclude students rather than providing support, they are not truly integrated.

Even so, we find that a majority of enrollees in the online program are on track to complete their degrees and perform as well as or better academically than students who enroll on campus.

The results are worth the effort: When I surveyed students who were tracking their data, they were substantially more likely to respond that they were trying their hardest and felt in control of their learning than students in other classrooms.

Over the last eight years, the district has spent $ 32 million on the hardware systems necessary to track student demographic and performance data districtwide, and another $ 2 million on additional computers that allow teachers to access the system; much of this funding has come from the federal E-Rate program, which has allocated more than $ 10 billion toward Internet infrastructure in K — 12 schools and libraries since 1996 (see «World Wide Wonder?»

Several years ago Greg Forster and I addressed this in our Teachability Index, in which we tracked 16 indicators of the advantages or disadvantaged that students bring to school and found that overall students are somewhat less challenging to educate now than they used to be.

New York — Addressing the federal group charged with recommending ways to improve American education, two researchers last week urged that elementary and secondary schools make tougher academic demands of students and experiment with new tracking systems, while another argued that such in - school factors were more important than has been commonly held in recent years.

They're more likely to transfer in and out and take courses piecemeal than students in brick - and - mortar schools, which makes keeping track of them more difficult.

Rather than drilling students into compliance around the critical components of SLANT (Sit Up, Listen, Ask and Answer Questions, Nod your head, Track the Speaker), a blended - learning environment will hopefully create the conditions where students will want to be more fully present through individualized learning and targeted small - group engagement.

By numbering the steps, the student knows there are more than one and can keep better track of them.

More analysis needs to be done here, of course, because the kids aren't identical and it's possible that student characteristics and school selection effects rather than instructional effectiveness explain much of the achievement track record.

Twenty years after students participated in the program, John Holbein, a researcher at Princeton and the new study's author, matched Fast Track participants — now adults — to state voter files and found that those in the intervention group voted at a rate 11 to 14 percentage points higher than their peers in the control group, a significant boost considering that get - out - the - vote programs typically boost turnout by only 1 to 4 percentage points.

Such volatility notwithstanding, a track record of achievement gains is a more reliable predictor of the gains of future students than classroom observations or student surveys.

In many school districts, fewer than one - quarter of teachers work in grades and subjects where student achievement gains are tracked with state assessments.

The Baltimore Education Resource Consortium tracked a Sixth Grade Cohort in Baltimore City Public Schools from 1990 - 2000 and showed that severely chronically absent students (more than forty days) had a 56.3 % rate of withdrawal from school or likely dropped out.

A 1993 book, «Genius Revisited: High IQ Children Grown Up,» which tracked 20 years of graduates, concluded that Hunter alumni were no different than similar students, their life results mapping onto a normal bell curve.

Building a climbing wall, lazy river, or laser - tag area for students to enjoy in their downtime, for example, probably has a different impact than spending the same amount to hire more tenure - track faculty.

However, according to Loveless, «If tracking and accelerated coursework in eighth grade represent the beginning of a pipeline for promising young stars in mathematics or literature, that opportunity is more open to white and Asian students in suburban schools than to disadvantaged youngsters in schools serving students of color.»

Moreover, when we compare students around the cutoff at the tracking schools with students of similar ability at the nontracking schools, we find that students at the tracking schools score higher at the end of the intervention than the comparable students in the nontracking schools.

In fact, students initially scoring low who were assigned to contract teachers benefited even more from tracking than students who initially scored high.

For these student publishers, who are now busy tracking sales and creating press kits, their project's professional aura and public audience mean more than any A on a report card.

The need for a method of reporting to parents that serves the purpose of «tracking a student's development in an area of learning over time» (Forster, 2005) has been under discussion for more than a decade and has gained much traction among educators in recent years.

Taking the average of students» scores on math and literacy exams, we find that students in tracking schools scored 0.14 standard deviations higher than students in nontracking schools overall.

Even so, the test scores of students in tracking schools remained 0.16 standard deviations higher than those of students in nontracking schools overall (and 0.18 standard deviations higher with control variables).

A large - scale study tracking the progress of more than 270 000 students has concluded that teaching reading through a synthetic phonics programme has long - term benefits for children from poorer backgrounds and those who do not speak English as a first language.

In other words, any negative effects of being with lower - achieving peers were more than offset in tracked settings by the benefit of the teacher being able to better tailor instruction to students» needs.

It's been more than a decade since the 73,500 - student district opened its first early - college high school, giving it one of the longer track records for the model.

Students like the wiki because it helps them keep track of their class work, they enjoy working on computers, and they often feel more comfortable participating in discussions online than in class.

While opponents said that vouchers had no track record of improving student performance, supporters countered that no alternative could be worse than Washington's public schools, which in any case were in line to receive more federal aid.

The significant changes in Pell Grant take - up rates, eligibility rules, and enrollment patterns over time make the Pell proxy extremely unreliable for tracking changes in low - income student enrollment over more than a few years.

Chetty's team tracked down 95 percent of those tested to see if students who scored well on kindergarten tests were earning more than their classmates by the time they reached their mid-20s.