Sentences with phrase «writing and math before»

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Please, take 5 mins and do the bloody math before you write an article that misleads the public.»

Instead of giving first priority to teachers who were at the school before Katrina and hiring them based on seniority, as the union contract would have dictated, the charter school group asked each teacher applicant to take a short test of math and writing skills.

George Weber of the Council for Basic Education wrote afterwards that when you consider that these innovative national curricula math and in the social studies «not only didn't deliver what was promised» but instead may well have «even left us worse off than we were before,» there is natural proclivity on the part of the public to say, «We've been conned.»

Students who attended the summer program before kindergarten performed significantly better on tests of kindergarten readiness in expressive vocabulary, letter - word identification, applied math problems, and writing, but not in social skills or receptive language.

Physics of Learning Doug Smith was an engineer before he became a teacher and writes about science education, math curriculum, and thoughts on effective instruction.

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When reform - friendly commenters and cheerleading journalists write about the NOLA transformation, it's become de rigueur to offer a standard qualifier — words to the effect of, «We still have a long way to go, but...» In this formulation, poor overall reading and math proficiency based on standardized test scores is a mere speed bump before long and laudatory discussions of the remarkable growth demonstrated by the city's charter schools and students since Katrina.

Smarter Balanced performance tasks include 30 - minute classroom activities — one for the math section and one for the English section — in which students, for example, learn about and discuss nuclear power before they start the writing assignment.

According to Bridget Brown, Orleans Parish School Board's accountability and assessment specialist, the problems at Karr included a test administrator allowing students to use an unauthorized protractor during the math session and distributing reference materials before students started a writing section.

And that doesn't count the sales of Twilight as «manga» — Since it's just the two books I'm probably going to change methodology next year, but I'd already done all of the math and created the charts before I started writing the piece this year and seeing how inconsistent this makes me with the James Patterson booAnd that doesn't count the sales of Twilight as «manga» — Since it's just the two books I'm probably going to change methodology next year, but I'd already done all of the math and created the charts before I started writing the piece this year and seeing how inconsistent this makes me with the James Patterson booand created the charts before I started writing the piece this year and seeing how inconsistent this makes me with the James Patterson booand seeing how inconsistent this makes me with the James Patterson books.