Sentences with phrase «as average education»

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With the mean time from funding to exit for a startup increasing from 2 - 5 years in the early 2000s to an average of 6 - 10 years today, an employee may hold illiquid stock for quite some time while undergoing major life events such as marriage, birth of a child, home purchase, or graduate education.

While property taxes in the state serve as an important source of revenue for local governments and public services (including public education) the average Alabama homeowner pays just $ 550 per year in property taxes.

Not surprisingly, data released this month from the the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's Investor Education Foundation, which seeks to promote financial literacy, reveal high school students who are required to take personal finance courses have better average credit scores and lower debt delinquency rates as young adults.

New opportunities for recreation, as well as for travel, education, and entertainment, have become available chiefly because of the continued increase in the average American's purchasing power.

We choose to source fair trade certified organic ingredients wherever possible as part of our internal social justice policy to ensure there is no child labour used, above average wages paid, and education and health care benefits provided to provided to farmers.»

Sharing our vision of a «whole child» approach to early childhood education, in which play and social / emotional development are fully integrated into academic programming, Santa Barbara County preschools achieved national accreditation at eight times the California average as of January 2015.

On the whole, however, I would strongly recommend home education as the best way of encouraging gifted children to develop in the way that suits them best — which often bears little relation to the «average» classroom approach.

Estimating the national average of years of compulsory education as 12 years, a reference site places the United States among those countries with the greatest compulsory education requirements.

The Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin studied 100 participants, including a mix of varsity and junior varsity boys as well as female athletes with an average age of 15.

In addition, hospital - based providers have seen hundreds more births than your average CPM, and would have more education and practical experience in how to, for example, get a baby with shoulder dystocia out faster and with as little damage as possible.

As I understand it, European Jewish culture also places a higher than average emphasis on education due to historical reasons.

New York, NY — As the school year comes to a close, a shocking new report released today by leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY, The Graduation Facade: How New York City's Diploma Mills Mask College Readiness Crisis, exposes the problem of Diploma Mills — schools where the graduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after high school.

An analysis by AQE found Cuomo's proposed cuts in operating aid average $ 773 per pupil in the 30 urban and suburban school districts classified as «high - need» by the State Education Department that have the greatest concentration of black and Hispanic students.

In urban central cities, funding levels per student tend to be at least average, but student needs (e.g. for special education for students with learning disabilities and for general support for very poor students such as homeless students) tend to be much greater.

For instance, the texts were analyzed with regard to how many different words are being used, the average number of words per sentence, grammatical structures, how often the genitive — an indicator for high education in German — is used, or the number of connectors, meaning words that signal semantic relations such as «however» or «instead.»

They measured total socioeconomic adversity by weighing factors such as average parental education, family economic hardship, family make - up and employment status.

As a global average, education accounts for 51 percent of the decline in mortality — the biggest influence by far — according to a study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

Americans give relatively low marks to public K - 12 education in STEM subjects compared with other developed nations; 43 % rate it as average, 30 % as below average, and 25 % either as above average or the best in the world.

Americans» views of higher education in STEM are more favorable by comparison, but there, too, fewer than half consider undergraduate education (35 %) or graduate education (38 %) in STEM fields as at least above average compared with other developed nations.

Most Americans rate K - 12 STEM education as average or worse compared with other developed nations, so do those with an advanced degree in STEM.

«Our findings indicate that sexual minorities living in communities with higher levels of prejudice die sooner than sexual minorities living in low - prejudice communities, and that these effects are independent of established risk factors for mortality, including household income, education, gender, ethnicity, and age, as well as the average income and education level of residents in the communities where the respondents lived,» said Dr. Hatzenbuehler.

PolicyWorks has reported that graduates have gone on to hire education and full - or part - time employment; full - time employees are earning an average of $ 80,000 and receiving health insurance as well as other benefits.

The different arms of the trial were very well - matched as regards age (average age ≈ 55 y, ± 5 - 7 y depending on subgroup), education, time from onset of disease, and MDS - UPDRS scores at onset; the only evident differences were a higher number of males and higher body weight in the low - dose treatment group.

The study found that in a sample of 460 people aged between 22 and 35, people with more education, better physical endurance, above - average memory, and other «positive» traits seem to have more strongly - connected brains than people with «negative» traits such as smoking, aggressive behavior, or a history of drug use.

While at odds with scientists over several issues, the public agreed on the last point, with most respondents on both sides rating science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education in the U.S. as merely average, according to the poll released on Thursday.

Todd Rose and Ogi Ogas at Harvard's Graduate School of Education maintain that concepts like grit and hard work are based on averages across populations or occupations, such as tennis or chess.

The most confident conclusion that can be drawn from this literature is that unions increase the costs of education, apparently by an average of 8 to 15 percent - and without (as far as can be determined) a corresponding increase, or any increase at all, in school quality.

The average debt - to - income ratio for 17 - 24 year olds now stands at nearly 70 % and serves as a stark reminder of the need for improved financial education for young people in the UK.

The 309 schools included in the study differed from other city schools in the following ways: They had a higher proportion of English Language Learners (ELL), special education, minority students, and students eligible for the Title I free or reduced - price lunch program, as well as lower average math and reading scores.

And it put a special focus on ensuring that states and schools boost the performance of certain groups of students, such as English - language learners, students in special education, and poor and minority children, whose achievement, on average, trails their peers.

«It is better able to judge the quality of education provided by a school than the New Schools Network which, as its press release demonstrates, does not appear to understand the meaning of an average and recognise that some schools will be above and below average.»

Does a person who majored in education possess the same skills as the average college graduate, much less one who majored in engineering?

This program may yet lift the performance of our pupils as they go through the school system, although problems remain: out of Australia's total expenditure on early childhood education in 2010, parents contributed almost half the cost and only 56 per cent was met from the public purse — compared with an OECD average of 82 per cent public funding — and the rest was from private sources, probably parental pockets.

Indeed, all of the demographic characteristics considered in our report, as well as the lack of pre-primary education, increase the probability of low performance by a larger margin among disadvantaged than among advantaged students, on average across OECD countries.

A Primer for Mark Zuckerberg on Personalized Learning — by Harvard's Howard Gardner Washington Post, 12/2/15 «Even if there were such an entity as the «average person,» it's clear that many of us are not average; a generic approach to education will only suit a small minority of learners.

In May, lawmakers passed a bill that sets up forgivable loans for students who have declared mathematics or science education as their major, who meet the state requirements for need, and who maintain a 3.0 grade average.

The other is that, even among the disadvantaged, those with higher levels of education are more likely to go private (although I should emphasize that, because disadvantaged people are so interested in going private and because they are poorly educated as a group, the aggregate effect of choice is to lower the average education levels of private - sector parents, not to raise them).

Classroom «Crisis»: Many Teachers Have Little or No Experience MSNBC, September 26, 2011 «While education experts caution that lack of experience isn't necessarily an indication of a teacher's ability, student achievement scores do show that on average a first - year teacher is not as effective as a third - year teacher, said Susan Moore Johnson, an expert on teacher recruitment and retention at the Harvard Graduate School of Educatioeducation experts caution that lack of experience isn't necessarily an indication of a teacher's ability, student achievement scores do show that on average a first - year teacher is not as effective as a third - year teacher, said Susan Moore Johnson, an expert on teacher recruitment and retention at the Harvard Graduate School of EducationEducation.»

It is often not regarded as a privilege to receive an education and education is not seen as an opportunity to reach one's potential - which, I am sure is inculcated into the average Chinese student.

Operating from a network of local offices and depots across the UK, Norse is today recognised by the education sector as a safe pair of hands; a reputation clearly justified and evidenced by the group's 96 % client satisfaction, high business retention and staff retention, all well above the national averages for the industry.

A: The workforce as a whole has on average only 7 years of education.

(The average national pass rate on the Praxis is difficult to calculate, because ETS provides such information largely on an institution - by - institution basis, and passing scores vary by state; some education colleges do better than Western Governors, some not as well.)

A study by University of Pennsylvania researchers, which has been used to counter arguments that America's public education system is not working as well as it should, found that the U.S. was generally a bit above average when compared with other industrialized nations and in the middle in the important subjects of math and science.

When provided with a list of possible items and services, and asked to state how much they estimated that they spent during the course of their child's primary and junior education, the top five most expensive items and services were revealed as: • School uniform - # 1,110 (average spend per respondent)

Research conducted by the Boston Consulting Group in 2003 for the then Victorian Department of Education and Training found that up to 30 per cent of teachers are considered by school principals as being either below - average or significantly underperforming, yet, as Jensen notes, «nearly all Australian school principals report that they would not take steps to alter the monetary rewards of a persistently underperforming teacher.»

Surprisingly, only the director - level positions in education (K - 12 and higher ed) required an ID degree and / or an advanced degree; all other positions required an average of eight years as an ID consultant or agency owner, or someone who has managed multiple clients and projects while being responsible for revenue goals.

Confidence in gross findings can be developed by replication, by averaging results over several time periods, and by using several measures of the development of human capital — not tests alone, but also attendance rates, dropout rates, and promotion rates (a very high - quality assessment will track indicators of human capital such as post-secondary school earnings and higher - education outcomes as well).

Despite a teacher pay freeze for the first three years of the Coalition Government, followed by just a one per cent rise after this, when taken as a whole education jobs have fared better than average overall.

But in 1985, starting in Minnesota, states began looking at dual enrollment as a way to prepare even average students for college and to move nonacademic - minded kids into career and technical education.

In fact, the current average length of displacement is 25 years — three times as long as it was in the 1990s, and far longer than the duration of most children's education.