Sentences with phrase «are rural students»

Facts and Figures About College Enrollment for Rural vs. Urban Students Question: Are rural students more or less likely than their urban peers to attend college?

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SokoText, from students at the London School of Economics, has been testing similar technology in Mathare Valley, Nairobi, by sending text messages from small - scale rural farmers to individuals in slums who want to secure wholesale prices for healthy produce once it arrives at a market.

He read the Billings Gazette and the St. Paul Pioneer Press to figure out which high school students were putting up big points in rural parts of the country.

A small, rural school district in southwest Texas is introducing what may be the first wind turbine technician program for U.S. high school students,...

Most of these agricultural parables that have to do with nature are concentrated in the Gospel of Mark.6 Biblical students generally acknowledge that Mark perhaps is the closest to a rural setting among the four Gospels.

This is especially true in small, rural churches, which can provide none of the kinds of support most seminary students have become used to.»

I student taught in a rural area of central Illinois - a school with two people who were black (and that was it for the racial diversity) so they created their own minorities thorugh religion.

I recall some twenty - three years ago when, as a young seminarian serving a congregation of tenant farm families in rural Virginia, one of my duties was to teach a class for high school students each Sunday morning.

• The Rural Technology Fund, founded by a tech executive who had limited access to computers when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technoRural Technology Fund, founded by a tech executive who had limited access to computers when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technorural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technorural communities who hope to pursue careers in technology.

Our small school district in rural Nebraska does breakfast before school, and although my girls do not go, I would say that it is a nice blend of students (not just economically disadvantaged kids) and works fairly well.

Each student has a 3 - foot by 3 - foot area of land at the rural Lawrence school, and they are completely in charge of it.

More than half of public school districts in the United States are in rural communities where millions of students struggle with poverty and hunger.

Are effective for racially and ethnically diverse students from urban, rural and suburban settings across the K - 12 grade range.

According to Mother Jones, the director of a rural Vermont district where 43 percent of the students are on free or reduced lunch said he «had no problems whatsoever implementing the new changes.»

The Democratic Party is no longer the center left party, the patriotic party, and the pro worker party of John F. Kennedy, or Franklin D, Roosevelt, it is now the party of George Mcgovern, community organizers, hippies, free traders and globalists, dumb college students, flag burners, advocates for the legalization of all drugs and the banning of all firearms, and those who think that rural America is full of dumb idiots who are not enlightened enough to understand the benefits of free trade, who believe in the stupid idea of the nation state or stupid to not vote Democratic.

Christina Alexander was the president of the sophomore class at Sherburne - Earlville Central School in rural Chenango County when the student body decided to retire its Indian mascot, while leaving the team's name - the Marauders — unchanged.

About one - third of children in rural districts and about 37 percent in New York City were considered proficient in the skills they need in English and math, while just an average of 16 percent of students in upstate city schools performed well on the tests.

Levels of gang activity in a school are also closely related to its safety, and some schools may be safe for some students and not for others (e.g. a gay student is at higher risk of personal safety concerns in many schools, and black students are at higher risk of personal safety concerns in many rural predominantly white schools).

The least poorly funded schools tend to be rural schools in low income rural areas with an insufficient local tax base to support them and with high costs associated with a lack of economies of scale and large transportation costs for students.

Identifying poverty and a race - wide issue, not just affecting inner - city or minority communities, as it was mentioned 62 percent of poverty in Erie County takes place outside the City of Buffalo; with the Rural Outreach Center (ROC) having been established in East Aurora as a central area of assistance; to go along with the Department of Social Services utilizing University at Buffalo student interms to assist those in the community.

After traveling to learn techniques at leading labs in the United Kingdom and France in the 1990s, Jedryczka and her students have been asked to pass their knowledge on to colleagues in Russia, Sweden, Portugal — and China, where Jedryczka has been awarded a «Friendship Award» for her work with rapeseed farmers in the rural Anhui region.

The findings indicated that student perceptions concerning rural practice and lifestyle changed favorably, with 72 percent agreeing they were more interested in rural medicine than they were before.

The Summer Community Program is part of MU's Rural Track Pipeline Program, which places students in rural communities for part of their medical traiRural Track Pipeline Program, which places students in rural communities for part of their medical trairural communities for part of their medical training.

John Krumme, a fourth - year MU School of Medicine student completing a rotation in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, is considering a rural practice after his involvement with the Summer Community Program.

For this study, sixth grade students were selected to participate, broken into four categories: low - income rural, low - income urban, high - income rural, and high - income urban.

Still other grants are designed to benefit specific audiences — rural communities, continuing education for medical professionals, K - 12 teachers, or students, for example — that may or may not be your intended target.

«Cities tend to be warmer than their rural surroundings; they retain more heat,» says Jason Schatz, a graduate student in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and affiliate of the Water Sustainability and Climate (WSC) project, who co-authored the study with WSC lead investigator, Chris Kucharik.

Torero, who was born in Peru and now teaches at the University of Queensland (UQ), St. Lucia, in Brisbane, Australia, had come to investigate a crime that shocked the world: the disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School, a rural teacher's college near Tixtla, Guerrero.

In 1969, during the Culture Revolution in China, Dongxian, like many students in big cities, was sent from Shanghai to a rural village to be «re-educated» by farmers.

One of our working groups is developing a rigorous educational research project that can advance understanding of the factors affecting rural students» entry into and persistence in STEM career pathways.

Finally, there are many studies that inquire into the factors that correlate with post-secondary retention in general, and with STEM attrition specifically but few that focus on rural students.

In addition, medical students are encouraged to gain primary care experience in both rural and urban settings.

I am a student & artist from a rural background, with a variety of interests and passions.

Photo: thaifriendly is popular among students, especially from the rural areas.

Students from rural areas and high - poverty schools, as well as minority students, typically show gains that are two to three times larger than those of the totalStudents from rural areas and high - poverty schools, as well as minority students, typically show gains that are two to three times larger than those of the totalstudents, typically show gains that are two to three times larger than those of the total sample.

Robinson is coordinator of student teachers at the University of Northern Iowa and a member of the National Rural Education Association panel currently studying the rural teacher shorRural Education Association panel currently studying the rural teacher shorrural teacher shortage.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

But still, as a pupil in the rural area of Thuringia in the 1980ies, he could hear a lot of antisemitic, facist and racist statements of peer students on the schoolground, often in form of «jokes «like «Ich bin hungrig / mir ist kalt — ich will zurück nach Buchenwald «(I am hungry, I am cold — I want to go back to Buchenwald «-RRB-.

Every student experiences commonality and difference — what's shared (a student needing knowledge) and what's distinct (urban, rural, white, black, male, female).

These are always welcomed by the students, however there is a significant and ever growing cost to a school and parents; costs for cover of teachers attending the excursion, expensive transport costs, early departures and returns require parent transport outside school hours, especially for regional and rural schools.

Among rural students, the increase is much larger: 22 percent of a standard deviation.

Not only can it be demoralizing for a community, but in rural areas, there would be no place to move displaced students.

«The bottom of the pool surface is very rough,» explained Barbara Spieler, the director of business services for the 3,800 - student Fillmore, Calif., school district, 55 miles north of Los Angeles in rural Ventura County.

The critical - thinking gap between field trip students from rural and high - poverty schools and similar students who didn't go on the trip was significantly larger than the gap between affluent students who went and affluent students who didn't go.

This is exacerbated in rural and remote areas, and contributes in part to the low achievement levels of students from Indigenous and disadvantaged backgrounds in science.

To me, the biggest issues are the achievement gaps, as you said, and the achievement gaps are still there, according to socioeconomic background — disadvantaged students are still achieving at a much lower level than advantaged students or affluent students — and Indigenous students are still performing at a much lower level than non-Indigenous, and rural and remote students are still not achieving at the same levels as metropolitan students.

High school students in this computer lab in rural Idaho are taking online courses in subjects they wouldn't otherwise be able to access.

So if we have Indigenous students who are from a low socio - economic background, as we know about 55 per cent are, that are living in rural and remote areas, they're three times behind the eight ball.

It's still going strong, supporting remote, rural students who are transitioning to further education or employment on the mainland.

Consequently, it is likely that Indigenous students within both urban and rural settings will require some degree of emotional support.