Sentences with phrase «used last academic year»

The NPP Government surreptitiously used last academic year's GES approved fees of 1,022.20 for boarders and GHS 560 for day students in order that it can beat down the actual cost of Free SHS.

Not exact matches

If that hypothetical student borrowed using a federal direct loan for graduate school, which had a rate of 5.84 percent last academic year, she would have accrued $ 1,682 in interest during the grace period.

But last year, academic and consultant Kevin Timoney argued that the rising use of in situ methods has outpaced Alberta's ability to understand and manage what's happening underground.

When, in the last year of his Ph.D., Thales decided to build a prototype based on his experiments, Schwartz moved over to his academic lab to work on a related but more fundamental project focused on the use of atoms — instead of photons — to detect movement.

Last year, for instance, several of my introverted American history students worked diligently on an academic debate in which they passionately defended President Truman's decision to use atomic warfare to end World War II.

Google Certified Teacher Tara Linney used the tool last school year when winter storms caused her faculty and staff to miss four academic days.

The petition tracks language adopted unanimously by the Knox County School Board, which passed a resolution last week opposing the use of student test scores in teacher evaluation for this academic year.

Over the duration of the last academic year I have been studying this theory, using learning observations, meetings with teachers, student voice, book looks and learning walks (supportive strolls) as sources of information from which I could hopefully draw some conclusions.

Lawmakers threw out the model state officials used to calculate last year's grades during the last legislative session, rejecting the notion that state officials should compare a student's academic growth to the growth of her peers in determining a school's grade.

Last year, California passed legislation to allow students» academic performance to be used to evaluate teachers and principals in California.

The paper, by Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman of Harvard and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia, tracked 2.5 million students over 20 years, and using a value added approach, found that teachers who help students raise their standardized test scores have a lasting positive effect on those students» lives beyond academics, including lower teenage - pregnancy rates, greater college matriculation and higher adult earnings.

The term, once used by academics, entered the mainstream last year thanks to former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.

Cardano, a project of IOHK, was designed by leading experts in academics and cryptography over the last couple years and draws from various features of existing cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ripple and Ethereum, but uses a proof - of - stake / security model as opposed to proof of work.