Sentences with phrase «whose teachers ranked»

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At Paris's Opera Populaire in 1870, a young, clear - voiced soprano named Christine Daaé (Emmy Rossum) leaps from the ranks of Madame Giry's (a somber, heavily French - accented Miranda Richardson) ballet chorus to the center stage spotlight, thanks to the tutelage of a mysterious teacher — the titular Phantom (Gerard Butler), a musical genius whose facial disfigurement keeps him living behind a mask and deep in the tunnels underneath the opera house.

Di, whose gimlet eyes calculate the precise rank of each girl in the St. Mathilda's social hierarchy, is too besotted with Miss G to notice that the teacher's tales of adventure sound a little off.

It does so by boosting the ranking of teachers who are assigned more students whose family backgrounds and language and disability statuses are associated with lower academic achievement — much like the standard practice for scoring competitive diving, in which the raw score of the judges is multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive.

The impact of even a slightly better - than - average quality teacher — one whose effectiveness ranks at the 60th percentile, for example — still has significant economic results, raising an individual student's lifetime earnings by $ 5,300, or a class of 20 students» aggregate lifetime earnings by a total of $ 106,000.

Then we can supplement their ranks with kids whose promise is spotted by their teachers.

He's right, of course, that both are «interest groups,» but does he not see a massive difference between an entity that is devoted to getting more kids addicted to deadly cigarettes so they'll be lifelong clients and a group representing rank - and - file teachers whose life's work is educating children?

Using Factor 1, we created a ranking of all 127 principals in whose buildings their teachers completed the survey.

The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News and others are seeking the value - added rankings of about 12,000 teachers in grades 4 through 8 whose students took state English and math tests.

The tests to assess mastery of this arbitrary content are meaningless hurdles whose function is to produce scores by which schools, teachers, and students are ranked.

We are opposed to assessments whose data is used to determine school ranking, teacher effectiveness, or any other purpose other than for the individual classroom teacher's own use to improve his or her instruction.

The public shows far greater tolerance for tests whose scores may yield things we crave — admission to the college of one's choice, for example (SAT, ACT), even advance credit for college work (AP)-- than for the kind whose foremost purpose is to rank schools or teachers and give distant officials data by which to fine - tune their policies.

The other interesting thing is that Asian countries, whose students top the international charts on PISA tests, don't rank highly on this teacher salary chart.

The activity set off by the contest has enabled Schnur's network to press as never before its frontal challenge to the teachers» unions: they argue that a country that spends more per pupil than any other but whose student performance ranks in the bottom third among developed nations isn't failing its children for lack of resources but for lack of trained, motivated, accountable talent at the front of the class.

But it worked out well for the CTA, whose ranks and coffers were swelled by all those new teachers.