Sentences with phrase «with academic progress»

«She is so happy with his academic progress as well as behavioral progress.

Released in the wake of last week's report about charter schools in New York City, the study found that compared with the academic progress that students made in regular public schools, students in charter schools in Massachusetts gained an additional one and a half more months of learning per year in reading and an additional two and a half more months of learning per year in math.

Parental engagement in school: Parental involvement in children's schooling has been shown to relate positively with academic progress.

Although IQ is often associated with academic progress, social intelligence is a key element in a comprehensive education.

But when a kid consistently has a hard time understanding or completing homework, broader issues (such as learning disabilities, ADHD, or vision or hearing difficulties) might be interfering with academic progress.

Not exact matches

While Deaton impressed, his early academic career was not an unchecked ascent; he sometimes became frustrated with his perceived lack of progress.

For example, one woman reported that she had been aided in integrating academic study with ministry through the support of a sponsor in her church who regularly monitors her progress.

Child Mind Institute Summer Program teachers will help children maintain academic progress to prevent lag and provide parents with guidelines for how to help children continue to succeed after the program has ended.

Amaro's work illustrates how a handful of academic labs and small companies are making progress with a fresh approach to targeting p53: rescuing it when it's sick.

Still, an academic career will involve interacting with people, particularly if you progress into holding a lectureship — in which you'd be involved in teaching and departmental administration — or into running your own research group — where you would direct the work of students and postdoctoral researchers.

As well as the core tasks of overseeing copyediting, proofreading, and putting issues together, a great deal of my time is spent communicating with authors, freelancers, typesetters, printers, academic editors, and internal colleagues: answering their queries, dealing with any problems that arise, supplying feedback, reporting on progress.

If some of these people have the power to influence your academic progress, impress them instead with the caliber of your scientific presentations.

As his career progressed, Dr. Keck was part of a business development team, making presentations to potential corporate partners and interacting with collaborators in industrial and academic centers.

Moreover, other research has revealed that children from poor families often start school with inadequate social - emotional skills, which can stymie academic progress.

Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.

We work through partnerships in both the public and private sectors, with individuals, research organizations, academic institutions, funders, policymakers and others around the world to make progress in TB vaccine research.

These two rulings along with progress over the past two years give young academic scientists a foot in the door, but we will only realize their full potential if we are able to successfully advocate for the opportunities they present.

Aiming towards innovation, progress and scientific interaction, Biomedcode has invested over the years in forming productive collaborations both with academic institutes as well as with pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

The theoretical impetus behind the rise of the natural science think tanks is the belief that science progresses when everyone can buy the type of science they like, dispensing with whatever the academic disciplines say is mainstream or discredited science....

In addition, it found that beginning teachers require guidance to develop the ability to effectively communicate with students and their families, particularly with regard to a child's academic progress.

The reasons why were simple: we were not making Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) and we wanted to make significant academic gains with our students.

To begin tackling this problem, CMU backward - mapped from the ACT's definition of college readiness to establish grade - level achievement targets for grades 2 — 8 that can be used with Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) or the Performance Series by Global Scholar.

The strategies of that era — including high academic standards for all students, measuring academic progress, improving teaching, and introducing school choice to a monopoly system — found reinforcement in federal law with the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001.

So now, here we are, barely ten years into this huge reform, with our little platoon of teachers and administrators and parents fighting feverishly on the front, beginning to make some progress on test scores and feel some confidence about improving our kids» academic opportunities — and I look up from my trench and, instead of seeing the school house door thrown open with garlands of WELCOME signs, I see teachers back to cheering from the windows as the reform generals scurry away, white flags in hand.

But it can be hard for schools with high academic achievement (typically those with affluent populations) to show much progress over time.

While schools often look to parents to help with fundraising activities, they often forget to provide information that will help them understand their children's academic progress.

With the difficulties disabled students face and the highly varied goals and criteria for success that may be appropriate for each student, state accountability testing is not always helpful in assessing the academic progress of individual special education students.

In this country, most of our elementary and middle schools offer resources to help special - needs students deal with whatever obstacles lie in the path of their academic progress.

«Under her guidance, the Ed School has progressed toward a core curriculum, reorganized its master's degree programs and its academic areas, redoubled its efforts to contribute to the improvement of K - 12 education, and worked to strengthen its relationships both with other Harvard schools and with the broader community of professional educators.

The states that made the most progress after allowing for other factors — Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Georgia, to name the top five — have taken steps, in various ways, to raise academic standards and back them up with rigorous assessments, implement tough but thoughtful accountability systems, and strengthen human capital practices to attract, develop, and retain educators who can deliver on high standards.

While this approach allows us to control for many of the circumstances that are associated with both maltreatment and educational outcomes, it can not account for harder - to - observe factors that could nonetheless play a significant role in a child's academic progress.

A shift in college requirements away from traditional remediation to this new, evidence - based, strategy of placing students into college - level courses with concurrent support «could positively affect the academic progress of hundreds of thousands of college students each year,» the authors report, and «the benefits of a college degree are considerable and wide - ranging.»

The proposal being designed by the panel's Republican leaders would share a central feature of the Clinton Administration's Goals 2000 strategy — a requirement that states and school districts adopt challenging academic - performance standards and assessments with which to measure students» progress toward meeting them.

It also gave school administrators the opportunity to discuss the incident, and usually the student's general lack of academic progress, with the parent.

However, with regard to adequate yearly progress, state officials do not expect a great deal of flexibility from federal officials and have conceded that their current accountability measure, the Academic Performance Index, is not likely to meet federal regulations.

The state's overall academic performance lags national averages, with its students scoring in the bottom quartile in both reading and math on the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress results.

Additionally, the Alumni Program works to build and sustain invaluable partnerships with college administrators, enabling us to closely track our alumni's academic progress and proactively identify and overcome potential barriers to post-secondary support.

Because Indiana public and private schools use the same assessment in grades 3 — 8, we could identify public - school students who shared similar achievement trajectories and demographic characteristics with these voucher students at baseline (the year prior to a student switching from a public to a private school) and track both groups» academic progress for up to four subsequent years.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, when you start to think about pressure associated with your academics, we want you to realize that we recognize that you, just like us, are a «work in progress.»

Meeting or activity shall mean those school - initiated meetings or activities attended by parents or persons in parental relationship who are hearing impaired, which are specific to the academic and / or disciplinary aspects of their child's educational program, including, but not limited to, parent - teacher conferences; child study or building level team meetings; planning meetings with school counselors regarding educational progress and career planning; suspension hearings or any conference with school officials relating to disciplinary actions.

The best course of action is for high schools to reinstate truly rigorous academic courses, but to differentiate among students with respect to the extent and rate of progress through the sequence of courses.

I conduct academic reviews with senior students and provide feedback on their progress.

Most notably, schools with higher levels of per - pupil GCSE arts entries got above average results in the EBacc, Progress 8 and Attainment 8, suggesting that the best state secondary schools in England are those that combine high expectations in a core of academic subjects with a strong focus on the arts.

Kevin Huffman is a Chief In Residence at Chiefs for Change, a Fellow with the New America Foundation, and the former Tennessee Commissioner of Education, where he was responsible for the academic progress of nearly one million public school students.

«This law calls for a well - rounded education and a shifting away from the narrow focus on academics,» said Ulrich Boser, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress (CAP), which hosted a panel discussion at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., to coincide with the release of the reports.

The bill replaces AYP standards with a requirement for states to annually measure all students and individual subgroups by: (1) academic achievement as measured by state assessments; (2) for high schools, graduation rates; (3) for schools that are not high schools, a measure of student growth or another valid and reliable statewide indicator; (4) if applicable, progress in achieving English proficiency by English learners; and (5) at least one additional valid and reliable statewide indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.

the progress your students have made compared with students across the country, shown separately for A levels, academic, applied general and tech level qualifications

After collecting a century's worth of academic studies, summer - learning expert Harris Cooper, now at Duke University, concluded that, on average, all students lose about a month of progress in math skills each summer, while low - income students slip as many as three months in reading comprehension, compared with middle - income students.

Second, the tracking of academic progress of students with disabilities, especially those with intellectual or communication disabilities, is done poorly in Australia.

One study, by Tom Loveless of the Brookings Institution, predicted that the standards would have little or no effect on academic achievement; he noted that «from 2003 to 2009, states with terrific standards raised their National Assessment of Educational Progress scores by roughly the same margin as states with awful ones.»