Sentences with phrase «worse than students»

Finally, we were scared that the education we received would be worse than students at seventy - two other schools, and as a result maybe we wouldn't be able to keep up in our (hopefully forthcoming) jobs.

That's despite an American Federation of Teachers study released last month that found charter school students nationwide performed significantly worse than students in regular public schools.

Unfortunately, looking at the spring 2010 test scores, voucher students performed much worse than students in the New Orleans RSD — both its traditionally run public schools and public charter schools.

The district level is adjusted a second time based on the extent to which the U.S. does better or worse than students in a set of countries with developed economies, as measured by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA).

On the Algebra I test, Maryland students scored worse than students in Massachusetts and New Jersey, but better than students in New Mexico and Arkansas.

[2] Online students did substantially worse than students in the same face - to - face course: They earned lower grades, were less likely to succeed in subsequent courses, and more likely to drop out.

She describes research conducted at West Point that found that students taking an introductory economics class where laptops or tablets were allowed performed substantially worse than students in classes where electronics were not allowed.

U.S. students perform significantly worse than students in many developed countries, according to the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), and other international comparisons, trailing the leaders by more than half of a standard deviation.

Seems like a no brainer, but there's nothing worse than a student in the back row of a large yoga room who has to strain to hear you because you're not loud enough.

They perform a bit worse than their student demographics would suggest, and certainly do not produce superior achievement.

The study of charter schools in 15 states and the District of Columbia found that, nationally, only 17 % of charter schools do better academically than their traditional counterparts, and more than a third «deliver learning results that are significantly worse than their student [s] would have realized had they remained in traditional public schools.»

A study conducted at Stanford University's Hoover Institution presents evidence that students in only 17 percent of charter school show greater improvement in math and reading than students in similar traditional public schools, whereas 37 percent, deliver learning results that are significantly worse than the student would have realized had they remained in public schools.

Not exact matches

For example, behavioral economist Dan Ariely [pdf] found that students who had longer to finish three papers performed worse than those who had externally imposed or self - imposed deadlines that were evenly spaced and earlier.

I know people with worst gpa than mine and who are international students who are receiving job offers left and right.

They remembered the courage and determination of the young civil rights workers («The real heroes were the black «Snick» [SNCC, or Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] personnel, who faced the worst dangers and took more than their share of the violence.

their relatives now say «Mark after Islam is better than Mark before Islam» — if some students are bad you don't blame the teacher or whole class..

If from the beginning of the year the classroom is stable and reliable, with clear rules, consistent discipline, and greater emphasis on recognizing good behavior than on punishing bad, students will be less likely to feel threatened and better able to regulate their less constructive impulses.

Probably because that kind of change is hard, and demonizing the little guy — the local student nutrition director and local radio DJ last year, or the small restaurant operator and local school superintendent this year — is easier and less risky than taking on the real «bad guys» — the elected officials, the giant Agribusiness players, the networks that broadcast all of those fast food and junk food ads to our kids and also, oh yes, broadcast Jamie Oliver's shows....

Time and again he ran into the stupid requirements, including the requirement to provide flavored, sugar loaded milks because the powers that be felt bad milk was better than the students not drinking milk at all.

Researchers at Princeton report that students who took notes on laptops performed worse on conceptual questions than students who...

Specifically, in the Munster, ID and Caroline County, MD school districts where percentages dropped off after the prices went up — Did those students switch to a la carte and spend less than $ 2.72 on food that was nutritionally worse?

Is what Shah wrote on Twitter and Facebook really worse than comments by Malia Bouattia, the newly elected president of the National Union of Students?

I think it's far worse than that, with shades of Gentile's corporatism); that it has continued the conversion of competing and / or divergent centres of power into a recursive bureaucratic autarchy, emptying out the wider polity of any sort of dialogue or dialectic, shades of Gentile again, and that socially and fiscally it has been profoundly regressive, continuing the marketisation of the severely wounded NHS and of education, also badly bleeding, treating school and university students as «product», not as people; adopting a broadly Powellite attitude to migrants (useful economic fodder, mustn't change the culture, «British jobs for British people»); devising the catastrophe of PFI / PPP within a broader neo-liberal agenda, and so on.

Morale among teachers in Buffalo is worse than usual, according to union president Phil Rumore, because of this spring's evaluations of students and teachers.

His reasoning is that even though large majorities of students are failing the new assessments, less than 1 percent of teachers are getting bad grades.

The graduation rate in the Syracuse City School District continues to be one of the worst in the state, with less than half the students getting their diplomas after four years of school.

Students who said they felt threatened by their teachers» messages that frequently focused on failure reported feeling less motivated and scored worse on the exam than students who said their teacher used fewer fear tactics that they considered less threatening, the studStudents who said they felt threatened by their teachers» messages that frequently focused on failure reported feeling less motivated and scored worse on the exam than students who said their teacher used fewer fear tactics that they considered less threatening, the studstudents who said their teacher used fewer fear tactics that they considered less threatening, the study found.

«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for high school graduation than their peers in traditional charter and traditional public schools,» said McEachin.

Bad teachers, for example, could benefit from feedback from students, but are much less likely to pore over teaching ratings than skilled teachers.»

The paper showed that elite male scientists do a significantly worse job than other men and elite women at hiring women as postdocs and graduate students.

Students could do worse than get a crash course in Freud via the text and cartoons in the reissued Freud For Beginners, which was first published 10 years ago.

More than 80 per cent said students struggled with algebra; and 75 per cent said students were worse now at trigonometry and calculus.

It's usually bad business to admit more than one or two or at most three new students to your class at any given time.

Actually, the mathematical model they used did a worse job of predicting attraction than simply taking the average attraction between two students in the experiment.

A U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Vérité Filmmaking was presented to: The Bad Kids / (Directors: Keith Fulton, Lou Pepe)-- At a remote Mojave Desert high school, extraordinary educators believe that empathy and life skills, more than academics, give at - risk students command of their own futures.

If you pay attention, you'll soon discover that the actions of a student — good, bad, or indifferent — are nothing more than good, bad, or indifferent attempts to get his needs met.

Students end up performing worse than officials expected.

The report found that students who use computers moderately at school tended to have better learning outcomes than students who rarely used them, but the worrying discovery was that students who use computers «very frequently» at school do much worse, even after accounting for social background and student demographics.

According to the authors, minority students, with the exception of Asian students, fare worse on the eighth - grade MCAS than their white counterparts.

In fact, that's what those data suggest — unfortunately, still, those students who use computers most intensively in schools are actually doing a lot worse than those [students] who use them moderately.

Students of teachers who were too unselfish performed worse than those who moderated their attention to others, the research found.

This analysis (again the Newspeak) builds on a large body of program evaluations in Louisiana, Indiana, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., all of which show that students attending participating private schools perform significantly worse than their peers in public schools — especially in math.

Special education students with more than one teacher did even worse, as did students taught by inexperienced teachers.

In what's described as the broadest look at childhood obesity to date, a study shows that 40 percent of Arkansas students are overweight, suggesting that the problem may be worse nationally than previous estimates indicated.

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Unfortunately, student achievement in many affluent suburban districts is worse than parents may think, especially when compared with student achievement in other developed countries.

[xii] The patterns are similar in the private sector too: On average, as found by Bettinger and collaborators, DeVry University students perform worse in online settings than in face - to - face instruction.

To this end, the input - based metric of weekly student access to the learning plan ought to be removed, not because it is bad per se, but because it is more likely to encourage compliance - driven plans rather than thoughtful ones based on a coherent program.

I explain that 25 years of research has shown that score inflation is common, that it is often very large, and that the limited research on its distribution suggests that both inflation and bad test preparation affect disadvantaged students more than others.