Sentences with phrase «whether students who»

Most of the discussion has centered on whether students who use laptops in class are distracted from the learning process by e-mail or online surfing.

We won't have the definitive answer to that question until states have implemented the standards and collected evidence to determine whether students who meet them can function successfully in postsecondary education and in the workplace.

Debate persists, meanwhile, over whether students who lack English fluency and those with disabilities are better served by district or charter schools.

Our current assessments can tell us whether a student has arrived, but they don't tell us whether the students who haven't arrived are on their way, made a wrong turn, or have a flat tire.

For example, schools should watch to see whether students who have more access to technology outside of school than others display an advantage over students who have less, she said.

«The big debate really is whether students who are receiving vouchers who have never attended public schools, whether they would have attended public schools if it weren't for the voucher or if their parents always intended to send them to private schools, figured they'd find a way to pay for it and now here's a voucher so they're doing it,» Hinnefeld says.

In a recent investigation of the program, NPR found some private schools turning away children with disabilities and LGBTQ students, but it was impossible to say, at the time, whether those students who are using vouchers are any better off academically.

The university is unclear if students will be forced to pick up the voice, text and data bills after the free period ends in a few months, or whether students who already own mobile phones will be required to take and eventually pay for the Windows devices.

A new study evaluates whether students who are the oldest in their class have an advantage over their younger peers.

However, the sample size for this part of the study was too small to determine whether students who participated in Reading Recovery sustained their gains on state reading tests in 3rd grade.

His high school is now engaged in a battle over whether students who attend Christian high schools will be given the same opportunity as their public school counterparts to attend California's state universities.

That is, we compare students with the same demographic characteristics, the same test scores in the current year and in a previous year, the same responses to the surveys for other social - emotional measures collected by the district, and within the same school and grade, to see whether students who look the same on all of these measures but have a stronger growth mindset learn more over the course of the following year.

We wanted to know whether the students who participated in CTE — and especially those «concentrating» by taking a sequence of three or more courses aligned to a career in a specific industry — were achieving better outcomes than their peers.

We were also able to examine whether students who meet designated standards on the tests («proficient» on MCAS and «college - ready» on PARCC) are likely to be prepared for college as indicated by their need for remedial coursework and by their ability to earn «C» or «B» grades in college.

Whether students who earn their computer - science master's degree online are perceived as similar in quality to their in - person counterparts will have broad implications for the evolving role of online coursework in the postsecondary sector.

Jones said it would be difficult to say whether a student who signed OneWheaton's statement would be in open disagreement with the covenant, though he is not aware of any student who has left or been dismissed over involvement with the group.

While those students must normally pass the STAAR math and reading exams to be promoted to the next grade level, the commissioner granted leeway this year, making a third test administration optional and allowing local discretion on whether a student who fails the exams should advance.

SB 463 by Sen. Kel Seliger / Rep. Dan Huberty revises the law passed in 2015 that allows individual graduation committees (IGCs) to determine whether a student who has failed up to two end - of - course exams will be allowed to graduate.

Not exact matches

There are some who say students should be willing to repay the loans, regardless of whether private companies like National Collegiate can produce the documentation.

BI: Harvard has agreed to hand over years of confidential applicant records to the DOJ, who will then decide whether they've been discriminating against Asian - American students.

Whether it's class size and composition issues, downloaded costs to school boards without the extra funding to cover them, or public sector workers who previously accepted «net zero» or cooperative gains settlements, a balanced budget might be hard to achieve while keeping educators, parents, and students happy.

She did not say whether any of the student activists who have been critical of Mr. Trump were invited to the White House.

Dan Allan, the Director of the Student Budget Consultation Program, who works with students entering college or university, believes for many young Canadians their biggest concern is whether the cost of education is worth the burden that comes with studentStudent Budget Consultation Program, who works with students entering college or university, believes for many young Canadians their biggest concern is whether the cost of education is worth the burden that comes with studentstudent loans.

Although school officials, students and others who knew him were aware that something was off with Cruz, it is unclear whether anyone had a full picture of what was building within him in recent months.

The point: Whether you agree with the cause of the students who marched in D.C. (or Boston or Florida or wherever) this weekend, don't ignore them because of their youth.

Matthews, the student who came out at Wheaton in 2010 — he now teaches middle school science in Connecticut - wrestles with whether the group OneWheaton will be an effective network since its views are far from the college's stance on sexuality.

So whether you're a student looking for a church in your new college town or a longtime member of one church who is considering leaving, don't be intimidated by the change.

Whether or not school is open isn't important, what IS important is if the schools accommodate students who celebrate the holiday.

God's Not Dead, the tale of a college professor who grades his students based on whether they'll write «God is dead» in their notebooks, is not an example of high quality movie making.

The retreat of the humanities into the religious sector, important though it is, would mean abandoning too many students who yearn (whether they know it or not) to be more than cultural tourists.

While few of us who were seminarians and graduate students in the late «50s and early 60s are still Barthians, many of us, were then, and whether we stayed with Barth or, more commonly, departed from him, the in - depth exposure to his Church Dogmatics left its mark.

In a desire to permit his listeners that freedom of choice which is essential for the birth and exercise of faith, he may become guilty of equivocation It may be with the minister as with the student who, unable to remember whether a word is spelled with ie or ei, forms both letters the same, places the dot between them, and leaves the instructor the freedom of choice!

The student then meets with the complex director and the university's Native American cultural adviser, who decide whether to approve the request.

Convergence ecumenism came to dominate the ecumenical establishment (by which I mean those who to one degree or another are professionally engaged in ecumenism, whether as students, teachers, bureaucrats or active participants in relevant meetings, commissions and assemblies).

For teachers and students, and for the graduate student teaching assistants who were organizing as well, the issue was whether, in the event of a strike, classes should be moved off campus, so that no one would be crossing a picket line.

I shall be reflecting largely from my own experience, as process thought enables and indeed requires us to do; but the nature of that experience is essentially that shared by all who nurture — whether, for example, single social workers, middle - aged adoptive parents, teachers who care about their students or, I suspect, those artists and poets who cherish and give birth to the world.

Whether in the classrooms on this campus or the lecture halls of other colleges, I have found that surprising numbers of white students (who are nothing if not middle class) are deeply interested in the study and application of religion.

Whether you're a college student, pastor or someone who works business hours in order to pursue a writing or acting career on the side, sleep seems like a guilty pleasure to a lot of us.

In spite of the fact that Socrates studied with all diligence to acquire a knowledge of human nature and to understand himself, and in spite of the fame accorded him through the centuries as one who beyond all other men had an insight into the human heart, he has himself admitted that the reason for his shrinking from reflection upon the nature of such beings as Pegasus and the Gorgons was that he, the life - long student of human nature, had not yet been able to make up his mind whether he was a stranger monster than Typhon, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, partaking of something divine (Phaedrus, 229 E).

We want to encourage all those who wish to engage with sport to do so, whether they are an elite athlete or an amateur enthusiast; we want to be able to support them in achieving their goals and fulfilling their sporting dreams; we want to enable our students and local community to lead active and healthy lives; and we want to provide an inclusive and accessible home for all our sports clubs — now and in the future.

At Castilleja, the only prize you get for a senior talk or 8th grade speech is flowers — flowers and the comments of teachers and students alike who will tell you «congrats on your speech» and «great speech,» whether you have spoken to them before in your life or not.

Four events held over two days last week drew hundreds of families with students who also filled out surveys on whether or not they liked the 20 items sampled.

If we do eliminate the a la carte options that kids so love and introduced a single, healthful menu for all students, I wonder whether students on open campuses (i.e., most high schools) who previously had the money to buy those foods would simply leave the program altogether and go elsewhere for their pizza and fries (as many already do).

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

... Students who do well on AP exams tend to do better in college and have higher graduation rates, but it is unclear whether this is a direct result of the AP program.

When writing your cesarean birth plan, you can choose whether to elect a c - section ahead of time, who you want in the room with you and whether you want any medical students in the room with you.

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You also, I think it's really good point to bring up that you should whether or not your photographers is going to be along on the shoot or if they're going to bring in assistant, if they're going to have a student with them, so that you know who you're going to be in front of I guess.

Composition: Each member of the committee shall be a current Active member and a former Post-Doctoral Student member of AAPD who has completed training in pediatric dentistry within the past ten (10) years; this time period shall also serve to define whether a member is a «new pediatric dentist.»

The governor, who has said in recent months that he wants to break the public education monopoly, says New Yorkers have concerns about the quality of the schools and whether they are adequately preparing students.