Sentences with phrase «with high achieving students»

There is also concern that some parents may have difficulty accepting Common Core's requirement that teachers go slow and develop a much deeper understanding of basics — like addition and subtraction — even with their high achieving students.

The actions of school districts with high achieving students operated in five critically different ways.

For example, a student who is achieving at a low level may or may not benefit by transferring to a school that is producing high gains only with high achieving students.

In some cases, the dashboard gives schools with lower overall performance better ratings than schools with higher achieving students.

Ashley has worked with our highest achieving students as well as many of those who struggle with mathematical understanding.

The movie touts the benefits of fast track and direct entry to teaching programs such as Teach for America, but the country with the highest achieving students, Finland, also has highly educated teachers.

Not exact matches

He compares it to the way teachers motivate students; grades based entirely upon the final exams are usually enough to incentivize the best students to go above and beyond to achieve high marks, but many students perform better when faced with regular testing throughout the school year.

Students at these high - achieving schools can be ranked in the bottom quartile even with excellent grade point averages, and consequently feel «dumb» and «less worthy» compared to the majority of their peers.

If you work in a North Carolina school or district with a high free - and - reduced rate student population, but you're struggling to achieve good participation at school breakfast, The Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom can help.

The Waldorf School of Baltimore is a member partner school with B.E.S.T. BEST spectrum of services begins with the identification and recruitment of high - achieving African American students in Baltimore who have the potential to thrive in an independent school environment but lack the financial resources necessary to enroll.

With our qualified team instruction and rigorous academic curriculum, students achieve high scholastic goals.

Do you work in a Missouri school or district with a high free - and - reduced rate student population, but you're struggling to achieve good participation at school breakfast?

Do you work in a Nebraska school or district with a high free - and - reduced rate student population, but you're struggling to achieve good participation at school breakfast?

Ms. Moskowitz proudly touted the success of Success, noting with real joy how three students at the school in Bed - Stuy had achieved a perfect score on an international math test «out of 30 or 40 worldwide» and taking particular pride in how many of the schools» high achievers are «black and brown» and from neighborhoods that face enormous disadvantages.

In 2007, the overall A * - C pass rate for all UK entries increased from 62.4 per cent to 63.3 per cent, with one in five students achieving the highest A grade.

Still suffering from last year's school budget cuts and with the mayor threatening more to come, UFT members at high - achieving Leon M. Goldstein HS for the Sciences in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, rallied and leafleted faculty, staff, students and members of the community on Nov. 17 with the message «No Budget Cuts — Save Our Schools.»

With this in mind, I've long supported opportunity scholarships, which allow students transfer from underperforming schools to higher achieving schools where they can take advantage of the best our education system has to offer.

There are hundreds of students across the country with the skill set to be successful in high - performance computing, but the only way to achieve success or reach this potential is to «get in the game.»

Gustafsson and graduate student Hesper Rego had achieved higher - resolution SIM with a variation called saturated depletion non-linear SIM, but that method trades improvements in spatial resolution for harsher conditions and a loss of speed.

Many teachers in top - achieving schools with high levels of collective efficacy talked about how they used social persuasion to enforce norms of high expectations for student success.

The majority of minorities entering science and engineering are from the middle - and upper - income families, but considerable debt and modest earnings (compared to business, law, and medicine) may deter even some high - achieving minority students from choosing these fields.1 Up to 25 % of academically qualified low - income students either do not apply to college2 or drop out, unable to keep pace with escalating prices.3

Together with Persson, Berkeley Lab scientist Gerbrand Ceder, postdoctoral associate Miao Liu, and MIT graduate student Ziqin Rong, the Materials Project team investigated some of the more promising materials in detail for high multivalent ion mobility, which is the most difficult property to achieve in these cathodes.

WEST ORANGE, N.J. January 7, 2016 — Kessler Foundation awarded a two - year, $ 500,000 grant to Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago to launch the Realizing Education and Advancement for Disabled Youth (READY) Program — a transition program for high school students with disabilities in Chicago, Illinois, so that they can achieve economic independence after graduation.

Schools that had received D grades and were close to the failing grade that could precipitate vouchers» being offered to their students, by contrast, appear to have achieved somewhat greater improvements than those achieved by the schools with higher state grades.

Get your students to achieve the high marks with these intensive revision sessions.

In particular, it is not known whether teachers leave schools with high concentrations of disadvantaged and low - achieving populations for financial reasons or because of the working conditions associated with serving these students.

Benefits to School Life Looking at the lasting impact of LOtC experiences in terms of academic performance, Learning Away's recent research found that school trips resulted in higher academic achievement, with 61 per cent of students achieving higher than their predicted grade following a school trip based on the subject area.

Embracing different languages while helping students achieve high grades and test scores leaves teachers with a conundrum.

Moreover, a 2014 Public Health England report found that the amount of moderate to vigorous physical activity students engaged with at 11 years of age had an effect on academic performance across English, maths and science, including final GCSE exam results, with active students found to achieve up to 20 per cent higher results than non ‑ active students.

A new poll has revealed that high school students with a desk in their bedroom get better grades in exams, as 51 % of parents with children that achieved five or more A * to C graded confirmed that their child's bedrooms were equipped with desks or dedicated study areas; compared to just 18 % of those who failed their GCSE's having a desk.

The teacher will have a thorough material on marketing, that will let him or her achieve a significant improvement of the student's knowledge on this area, and additionally is a material cumulated during my last 8 years teaching the subject, fundamental on achieving classes with high grades as per our IB international standards.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

She has helped to restore hope, dignity, and purpose to students who are scholastically challenged and provide them with a proven pathway to help them achieve academically at their highest learning potential.

«PIRLS 2016 shows that 81 per cent of Australian Year 4 students are achieving at or above the Intermediate benchmark — the proficient standard for Australia — compared to 76 per cent in 2011, with more students achieving at the High or Advanced benchmark,» Dr Thomson said.

The most significant improvements were found in low - achieving students, with no significant impact on high achievers.

This article glosses over (ignores) any negative effect on higher achieving students by having lower achieving students present who strike out behaviourally when confronted with learning environments beyond their capability.

«There are always caveats with this type of analysis, but the results suggest that students participating in the Silver CREST Awards achieve about half a grade higher on their best science GCSE result on average compared with a statistically - similar control group.

The partnership with Vivo means that teachers subscribing to Mobento's school accounts can now achieve a higher level of engagement, motivating their students to use multi-media content, with Vivo's gamification and system of rewards.

These students achieve high grades on year - level expectations; and parents, teachers and students themselves are generally satisfied with this result.

Fourth, I decided to put at least five high - speed networked computers with a printer in each classroom and more if necessary to achieve a student - computer ratio of 5 to 1.

You either hold back students and give them extra help to achieve the level, allow high achieving students to acquire other skills while the rest catch up, allow the higher achieving students to skip grades with scaffold testing or some more complex version of them all.

Put differently, a black student with straight As is no more popular than a black student with a 2.9 GPA, but high - achieving whites are at the top of the popularity pyramid.

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Our research begins to fill this gap with two studies of the G&T programs available to high - achieving middle - school students in a large urban school district in the southwestern United States which, to preserve anonymity we shall refer to as LUSD.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Studies of two middle - school programs for high - achieving students — known as gifted and talented (G&T) programs — show that being placed in programs with academically strong peers does not boost students» achievement over and above what is learned in a regular classroom from the start of 6th grade to mid-way through 7th grade.

And of the students who score well on the PSAT / NMSQT, indicating a 70 percent likelihood of thriving in an AP course, of those students, six out of ten Asians will take an AP course, [compared with] four out of ten white students and two out of ten African American students... In other words there is a racial break among kids who could achieve at a high level and are being propelled into more challenging academic experiences; that data needs to be understood.

(Btw, some argue that students with relatively mild disabilities are achieving well in charters, but I'd love to see more hard data proving that in charters kids at risk for special ed are not being labeled, and / or they're being exited from sped at higher rates after meeting grade level standards.)

«The objective is to apply state education clauses as a mandate to better ensure that high - need programs possess the means to provide all students with adequate opportunity to achieve to at least the minimum standards.»

Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach for America and a personal hero of mine, speaks of the ingredients (frequent assessment, high energy, vision, etc) teachers need to achieve great success with poor, urban students, yet there is nary a mention of special ed in her latest book.

The practical implication of this policy change is that high achieving students now regularly attend classes with low - achieving peers.