Sentences with phrase «tracking students who»

Fourth, the researchers carefully tracked the students who left the Milwaukee voucher program and even published an article in the top education journal about it.

(It would help, for instance, to track students who went through Singapore's program through their 8th - grade tests to ascertain how well they were prepared for algebra.)

In July 2009, the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University released a study that tracked the students who graduated from Boston Public Schools in 2007.

We only track students who enrolled in Florida public colleges and universities, where 79 percent of all first - time undergraduates from Florida matriculate.

The contract also mandates that states track students who receive alternative credentials like GEDs and follow students who graduate in five, six, and seven years.

The reasons that dropouts go uncounted range from deliberate falsification of data to the genuine difficulty in tracking a student who leaves a school.

Four researchers affiliated with the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning, a Chicago - based organization that promotes social and emotional learning, analyzed 82 studies that tracked students who had participated in youth development programs that included social and emotional skill - building.

Not exact matches

Authorities tracked down the seller, a university student in Bologna, who had in turn purchased the rare book from one of Turin's major book dealers.

So Schnidman Medbery, who studied computer science at Columbia University before spending two years with Teach for America in rural Arkansas, decided to create software to help teachers track and analyze student performance.

Ida - Gaye Warburton, who worked on Malvo's defense team while a law student at Washington & Lee University, said being able to track down both expert and character witnesses, who knew Malvo independently of Muhammad, was key to the defense.

But managers who think the point of electronic tracking is to police their employees are being as shortsighted as teachers who think the point of the Internet is to make it easier to catch students who plagiarize.

So the school started giving out micro-grants to help students who were on track to graduate but had run into minor cash - flow problems.

Investments in education, college readiness, and technology for schools College Track is the education nonprofit Powell Jobs co-founded in 1997 to support teens who hope to be the first college students in their families.

Borrowers who have withdrawn from their retirement accounts to repay student loans for parents need to play catch - up to get back on track.

We saw the names of some who had been students at the local high schools and community college; we saw the names of friends with whom we had grown up, members of our track teams and little league; some of us saw the names of family members.

Selective preschools, tracked classes, small schools within schools and enrichment programs are presented as open to all students but in reality are open only to the children of the most savvy parents — that is, to the children of rich white parents who possess the social and cultural capital to manipulate the institution to serve their needs.

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.

Nicola Byrom, an Oxford graduate student who carried the Torch around the track after Sir Roger, said of the experience: «It was completely overwhelming.

This wasn't an overnight development; according to data compiled by the Southern Education Foundation, the percentage of American public school students who are low income has been rising steadily since the foundation started tracking the number in 1989.

Drawing material from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS - 88) and tracking a representative sample of students who were in 10th grade in 1990 and 12th grade in 1992, to see what was happening in their lives in 2000, the following was discovered in comparing high school athletes to non-athletes.

With the help of GSC, schools can get on track to transition to scratch - cooking operations to reap the benefits: healthier students with full bellies who are ready and able to learn, a stronger local economy, and a future of healthy eaters.

Sometimes students who start out strong get sidetracked while other students just aren't motivated to stay on track.

«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.

Around the same amount said they are not confident that Common Core will result in better preparing students to be college or career ready as those who say that the new learning standards are on the right track.

The Siena College poll finds voters are divided over the program, with around the same amount saying they are not confident that Common Core will result in better preparing students to be college or career ready, as those who say that the new learning standards are on the right track.

This is based on the number of students tracked through the system who no longer have the right to remain in the UK, but are not yet recorded as having left.

He expects the town will have to go through high school yearbooks to track down generations of the students who left and didn't return to see if they are suffering any ill effects.

The person who runs the student union, then goes to a think tank, then becomes a special adviser, and then gets fast - tracked.

Cuomo, who initially backed the fast track implementation of Common Core, withdrew his support as criticism mounted from parents, students and teachers at meetings all across the state.

The state also began tracking the graduation rate for students who graduate in August after their fourth year of high school in 2008.

The most intense course of study, which Shenoi calls the «MacGyver Track,» imparts hardware, software, and foreign - language skills to students who intend to join the intelligence community.

Second, he believes that each postdoc should have «a committee similar to the one we have for our graduate students... three or four faculty who track their progress all the way through their career.

Its presence has been confirmed in Florida, and the critters could spread to other southern states, says Brittany Campbell, a graduate student at the University of Florida in Gainesville, who led a new study that tracked down the pests.

«We now have better information sharing between federal agencies and systems to track whether students and researchers have changed their fields of study,» says C. Stewart Verdery, outgoing assistant secretary for Border / Transportation Security Policy at the Department of Homeland Security and one of the officials who worked on the extension.

Of the 99 students who tracked patients, 17 (17.2 percent) students had ethical concerns about it, primarily whether it was appropriate to access patient records when they were no longer directly involved in the care, according to the survey results.

«Third - party tracking started quite early in the history of the web,» said Adam Lerner, a graduate student in the UW Department of Computer Science & Engineering who presented the team's findings at the conference.

The Department of Education, for example, tracks what happens to students who have received the money but can't identify which ones are veterans.

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.

But unlike thorium, it dissolves into water, where scientists can track the sources, amounts, rates, and direction of its flow, said Kipp, who is lead author of the study and a graduate student in the MIT - WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography.

There are strong competing effects such as changes in the large - scale atmospheric circulation, sea surface temperature changes like El Niño and La Niña and the dynamics of westerly storm tracks that all interact at the mid-latitudes,» said Stanford co-author Matthew Winnick who contributed to the study with fellow doctoral student Daniel Ibarra.

Furthermore, middle and high school students spend their school day with multiple teachers and adults, making it difficult to find a single adult who can easily track their behavior and report it accurately.

«We use commercially available eye - tracking glasses,» explains Christian Lander, a doctoral research student who works at the DFKI's Innovative Retail Laboratory and is supervised by Professor Antonio Krüger.

Researchers who tracked flu symptoms in the friends of a group of college students during the 2009 H1N1 «swine flu» pandemic predicted the flu outbreak in the general college population with at least 2 weeks» advance notice.

The findings suggest that athletes who don't receive immediate treatment for concussion risk further insult to the brain and may take longer to recover, said Breton Asken, the study's lead author and a student in the neuropsychology track of the clinical psychology doctoral program at the College of Public Health and Health Professions, part of UF Health.

We specifically acknowledge high school student Aditya Gande, who wrote the code for automated tracking of insect flight.

A team led by Richard Miech, of the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, tracked the responses of nearly 15,000 students who took part in a 2015 U.S. nationwide survey.

For instance, researchers who tracked brain activity in high - school students as they drank chocolate milkshakes found that high - sugar shakes stimulated pleasure centers in the brain that play a role in compulsive eating.

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.

A surprise awaits three college students who think they have tracked a rival computer hacker to a shed in the Nevada desert.

Track down some students who are performing a dark ritual and join them in completing it.