Sentences with phrase «weighed against a student»

Factors like performance and portability are weighed against a student's daily needs on campus.

Not exact matches

DeGioia has weighed in on recent campus political controversies, defending the decision to invite Sebelius - saying «we are a university, committed to the free exchange of ideas» - and defending Fluke against attacks from Limbaugh, which the college president described as «as misogynistic, vitriolic, and a misrepresentation of the position of our student.»

New York's first - in - the - nation free college tuition plan was enacted just weeks before the May 1 deadline for most students to decide where they will matriculate, a choice that for many families involves weighing one school's financial aid package against another's.

Where I will weigh what I should say for my students, my niece, for every woman, against what damage I may do to my career.

Policymakers must weigh these costs against the substantial educational and economic benefits such systems can create for successive cohorts of students, both through avoiding the career - long retention of the lowest - performing teachers and through broad increases in performance in the overall teaching workforce.

Tasked with deciding whether to close schools due to bad weather, superintendents must weigh concerns about student and staff safety against the loss of student learning time.

In a recent conversation at my school, a student cautioned me against teachers weighing in too heavily.

Federal civil - rights officials are weighing a complaint that the test all Texas students must pass to get a high school diploma unfairly discriminates against minority youths.

DeVos Non-committal on Banning Discrimination Against LGBTQ Students in Private Schools (PBS News Hour via The Associated Press) Marty West weighs in on President Donald Trump's education budget and the difficulties it may face when it comes to being passed by Congress.

By mid-October they were haggard, shell - shocked, and sleep - deprived, weighing the cost of their immortal souls against the benefit of getting their students to listen, follow directions, and complete an occasional assignment.

But they say the rarity of deadly school incidents must be weighed against the likelihood that an influx of officers will raise the stakes on school discipline and funnel students into...

This loss of privacy has to be weighed against the deterioration in learning that the other students suffer if laptop use is freely allowed.

Researchers used composite achievement results from the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA, as the performance metric, and weighed those scores against 63 «inputs,» or factors that could influence educational outcomes, such as teaching materials and technology, the quality of school buildings, and teacher training.

When we weigh the lost class time due to regular pull - out sessions with a counselor against the loss of learning that results when students are chronically absent due to a lack of support, the choice is clear.

The case, brought forward two years ago by Silicon Valley entrepreneur and education activist Dave Welsh, challenged the court to weigh teacher job protections against a student's constitutional right to equal access to a quality education.

But it costs thousands of dollars per student, and charter schools must weigh that against the chance that those students will move to another charter school before they enter testing grades, according to researchers.

In short, by responding to actual student writing, comparing their responses to those made by a member of their professional community, weighing his commentary on computerized grading against their own evaluations, and responding to this issue from a professional standpoint, teacher candidates using this path are invited to frame teacher response to student writing in the context of the current professional issue of machine scoring.

We need to carefully weigh the quality of each Charter School against the resources available within the district, recognizing that some students will do better in a smaller setting.

For teachers, the professional practice rating will be determined by evidence from observations, a student voice survey, professional growth plans and self - reflection, and district - determined sources weighed against components and indicators of educator effectiveness in four domains: planning and preparation, classroom environment, instruction and professional responsibilities.

It's little wonder that confusion has resulted, and, when looked at carefully, there is no avoiding the fact that the changes are minimal at best when weighed against the enormity of the student loan debt issue in this country.

If you need to borrow for graduate school, weigh the flexible repayment terms of the Federal Student Loans against the low interest rates of private loans.

The benefits of refinancing student debt with RISLA must be weighed against the drawbacks, the most apparent being the cost of the new loan.

Graduates should carefully weigh the value of their student loan repayment against the added value of retirement investments.

If you're considering refinancing federal student loans with SoFi — or any other lender, for that matter — you should carefully weigh the benefits against the risks.

The assets are put in the student's name and weigh heavily against financial aid eligibility, leading to my next point...

Married student loan borrowers must try to weigh the value of tax benefits against student loan benefits.

One would think that many looking to have a career in law would weigh the expense (in many cases student loans) against the pay back (a job that enables one to pay back those loans).

Federal student loan interest rates are fixed for all student borrowers regardless of their credit score or history, so the main factors to consider when taking on student debt, whether it's subsidized, unsubsidized, Perkins or Stafford loans, is to weigh the amount borrowed and terms of your loans against the current standard interest rates, which have remained low — 3.76 % undergraduate, 5.31 % graduate unsubsidized, 6.31 % graduate PLUS.