Sentences with phrase «with changing student populations»

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«This is particularly important when you want to look at a species» ability to cope with change,» said Jennifer Pistevos, a master of research student at the Marine Biological Association, who studied clone populations of Celleporella hyalina, a tiny organism she found to have an amazing ability to reproduce in both more acidic and warmer water conditions.

«Recent changes in the federal laws guiding special education programs have made it much more difficult to be in simple compliance with student discipline, meeting paperwork requirements, and dealing with providing for the needs of what appears to be a growing population of students who qualify for special services.»

If we examine national trends alone, we conflate changes in educational progress with fluctuations in the student population.

With a population of approximately 1,500 students, 60 percent of whom are of color and 71 percent of whom are low - income, RHS is a national example of the type of programmatic systems change needed to move our schools forward.

While there has been an overall rise in the number of trainees this year, a growing student population and changes in the curriculum mean numbers have fallen short of targets, with only three subjects: History, English and PE, reaching its set goals.

When the $ 62 million facility opened in 2006 with a relatively small student population, a computer - based curriculum delivered with the latest technology tools, and a unique partnership with corporate giant Microsoft, it set out to upend a secondary school model that had changed little since the industrial era and had spelled failure for too many students here and in cities...

From the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 1975 to its more inclusive follow - up in 1997; from the cry for attention from those lobbying for gifted students to calls for greater sensitivity to the learning styles of all student populations; from the initial proficiency tests of the early»90s to their high - stakes, pass - fail descendants; from the rise of bilingual education in some parts of the country to its demise in other regionspublic education has been a veritable vessel of change.

As with the national data, we should be mindful that demographic changes can affect achievement trends, especially as Hispanic students make up an ever - larger proportion of our population.

Changes in historical shares of Catholics in the population that are associated with a 10 - percentage - point increase in the private school share today lead to a $ 3,209 reduction in cumulative spending per student, or 5.6 percent of the average OECD spending level of $ 56,947 (see Figure 3).

Interact with the charts below to see how graduation rates for U.S. students, and different student populations, have changed over time and how your state's graduation rate compares.

However, with the increasing diversity in student populations and rapidly changing technology, defining and supporting learning styles for all students is becoming more challenging.

While there's no doubt that climate change, artificial intelligence, automation, technologies and the need to accommodate an ever - expanding global population will remain key issues, it's hard to foresee what else we'll be dealing with by the time today's school age students enter the workforce.

You would repeat this cycle with the new population of students making adjustments to reflect the change in your student population.

San Francisco — Secondary - school principals, challenged by dramatic changes in the character of their student populations, appear to be increasingly concerned about improving their schools and dealing more effectively with student «learning styles.»

However, our schools have struggled to keep pace with the sheer numbers of children and rapid changes to the student population — changes that require different support structures for students and teachers alike.

The reason has to do with dramatic changes in the racial / ethnic composition of the U.S. student population during the past few decades.

Along with changing demographics of the student population, academic performance within the district gradually worsened.

Before changes made in the late 1990s, special education funds in California were distributed on a cost - based» model but the Legislature moved to a census - based» approach beginning in 1998 - 99 on the theory that the educational costs of students with disabilities would be spread somewhat evenly throughout the overall student population, according to a report from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst.

For another, Quitman's student population is rapidly changing: There was an influx of children with special needs when their school closed last academic year, and meanwhile some of the highest - performing students are being recruited away by well - regarded charter schools.

A change in the 2015 - 16 State Budget now allows for schools that serve a population with 55 percent or more free and reduced price meal (FRPM) students to be eligible for this program.

Even if we were confident that the test score gains in New Orleans are not being driven by changes in the student population following Katrina (and Doug and his colleagues are doing their best with constrained data and research design to show that), and even if these test score gains translate into higher high school graduation and college attendance rates (which Doug and his colleagues have not yet been able to examine), we still would have no idea whether portfolio management and other high regulations in NOLA helped, hurt, or made no difference in producing these results.

The student population is changing, and teachers need new tools to help their ELL students If you started this school year with one or more English...

By 2012, though, things had changed for the better: Sanger Unified ranked third in achievement gains among California districts with high populations of minority, English language learners and disadvantaged students.

Yet many suburban districts now rival urban districts in the challenges they face, having experienced dramatic population changes in just the past decade, with fast growing numbers of English Language Learners and students living in poverty attending Read more about Suburban Schools: The Unrecognized Frontier in Public Education -LSB-...]

Students use growth data from loblolly pine forests to identify genetically different populations and project where trees with certain characteristics are likely to thrive in changing climatic conditions.

Therefore, while Mrs. Blake's opinion of the white population is negative, she is willing to make changes to the school system in the form of integration and representation if it means Hartford students, including her own children, are provided with a rich, thorough, engaging, and sustainable schooling.

The results are most useful when they are considered in combination with other knowledge about the student population and the educational system, such as trends in instruction, changes in the school - age population, and societal demands and expectations.

It didn't take long for my students to debunk the myths that sometimes go along with the idea of teaching the gifted population, and it took an even shorter amount of time for me to change my ideas about teaching gifted learners.

To make this change happen, HISD partnered with Catapult Learning to provide a flexible and targeted tutoring solution for 1487 Title I students in 19 HISD schools serving this largely at - risk student population.

However, with a decreasing comparative investment in public education, a poor record for teacher wages, and an increasing public school student population, a growing number of policy - makers, advocates, families, and researchers must be invested in making changes in Colorado schools using creative and collaborative ways.

Special education advocates are angry about the change, claiming that the cost of services for students with disabilities rarely decreases and that lowering such spending puts an already vulnerable population even more at risk.

Half of gifted students were in schools that served just 18 % of the population, a proportion that changed dramatically with universal screening.

Boston, Massachusetts, which had a particularly contentious relationship with court ordered integration, saw the percentage of white students in public school plummet by more than 40 points between 1970 and 1990, a change that can not be explained by simple increases in the minority population:

Teachers find it hard to develop and sustain direct positive engagement with all parents when the student population changes frequently.

Volunteerism Stand Up For Kids (New York, NY) 02/2008 — 3/2011 Co-Executive Director • Reestablished an all - volunteer organization focused on assisting and advocating for homeless youth in New York City • Coached over 25 volunteers in the mission of SUFK and techniques to effectively work with the homeless population • Coordinated Thanksgiving dinner that served over 30 homeless youth in Midtown Manhattan • Drove successful partnerships with corporate sponsors to acquire donations and publicity to expand reach of the mission • Lobbied successfully for changes in administration of Regent's testing for students in shelters and / or unstable situations • Participated in national advertising campaign with Stand Up For Kids» partnership with Jedidiah Clothing Company

Analyses were carried out with 2312 students in Grade 7 (mean age = 13.22; SD = 0.61) and 2421 students in Grade 9, the marginal difference in sample sizes being caused by a change in student population, due to absenteeism at one measurement point.

The Health Psychology Section of APA Division 17 is dedicated to the science and practice of counseling psychology in health related contexts either through research with medical, rehabilitation, or related populations, direct service to individuals across their lifespan (e.g., prevention, adjustment to and recuperation from illness, healthy lifestyle changes, psychological concomitants of medical illnesses), teaching and training of graduate students or the education of other health care professionals, or involvement with health policy.