Sentences with phrase «students with high grade»

In addition, aid from the government, merit aid from universities and private programs increasingly provide more benefit for wealthier students with high grade - point averages and top scores on entrance exams.

Students with high grade point averages might look like they're learning, but the stress of maintaining a high academic performance level may be causing them mental and physical distress that actually interferes with learning.

Due to the competition caused by lack of funding, universities are taking students with the highest grades first, which quickly fills their quotas.

He's right that even students with high grades fail to have a job.

Colleges could shift their financial aid away from students with high grades and test scores and base grants exclusively on students» financial need.

Even though blacks make up only 1 or 2 percent of law students with high grades, they make up 8 percent of large law firm hires.

In my experience, most large firms wanted students with high grades but little in terms of actual experience.

While in law school, Bogdan was the recipient of various awards and recognitions including the prestigious Trial Practice Book Award, which is given to a law student with the highest grade in the class.

While traditional recruitment methods might uncover the smartest students with the highest grades, these methods are not the best at identifying creativity, problem solving skills, innovative thinking, resourcefulness, or social skills that a law firm might also want to foster within its walls.

The Good Student Discount is offered to adult full time students with high grades.

This is extended to students with high grades in school.

This is because, they believe that students with higher grades are more responsible and are not reckless when driving their vehicles, thus they give discounts to them.

BC Assessment Valuation Award $ 1,000 (may vary) A prize awarded annually by BC Assessment to the student with the highest grade achieved in a combination of BUSI 330 and BUSI 344.

Since 2003, the college has been rewarding academic performance by granting scholarships for excellence to students with the highest grade point average.

Not exact matches

With a 1.7 high school grade point average and unable to get admitted to any degree - granting institution, Kalin faked an MIT student ID and then used a letter of recommendation from a professor he met there to get himself admitted to NYU.

«College students who reported positive fantasies tended to report putting less effort into their coursework; this was, in turn, associated with lower grades and higher depression scores,» reports the release, though the study's authors caution more research is needed.

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.

It is probably the largest network of private primary and secondary education with over 7,000 schools in the US alone educating over 2 million grade school and high school students in 2009/2010.

The meta - analysis I conducted indicates that students with high Bible literacy earn a grade point average that is about one point higher than that of students with low Bible literacy.

The GPAs of African - American and Hispanic students with high Bible literacy were about one grade point above those of students with low Bible literacy.

I am a student from a higher grade dealing with a younger one for whom one needs to simplify, with whom one has to speak «at his level.

Open to Student - Athletes, 8th grade and incoming freshman, this is for young players with aspirations to play High School baseball.

She started with some universally acknowledged positive academic outcomes for students: getting good grades, graduating from high school, and earning a college degree.

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.

Second grade elementary students from Statham Elementary partnered with high school students at the Sims Academy of Plant Sciences Program for a live streaming event in which Academy students gave the second graders a virtual tour of their greenhouse.

(A parental dispensation only possible for kids who haven't entered the high - school pressure cooker where — as with Sara Notte — summer homework is graded and can directly affect a student's chances to enter a top - tier university.)

A student struggling with algebra in high school or middle school needs some gentle guidance in the right direction to avoid failing the class, bring up their grade, and maybe even actually enjoy math.

For lunch, students should be offered two ounces on most days for all grades, with more flexibility for higher grades.

Involvement has been shown to increase grades, leads to more consistent homework completion, improve student behavior at school, increase high school graduation rates, reduce school drop - out rates, increase college attendance, and lower rates of experimentation with tobacco, alcohol, and recreational drugs.

With a total enrollment of around 5400 students from pre-school to eighth grade, Gadsden will be serving breakfast - in - the - classroom in all nine of its schools: six elementary schools, two junior highs, and a pre-school.

I routinely speak with students that feel compelled to personally end hunger in Rwanda while they must also score high grades in several advanced placement classes, excel in multiple extracurricular activities and maintain a slender figure.

The institute drew particular attention to plans to allow universities to recruit as many students with AAB grades at A-level as they like, a plan which it found would entrench social divisions in the higher education sector.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to stop intimidating New York parents and school districts with threats of pulling funding from schools with high percentages of students who opt out of grades 3 - 8 Common Core standardized tests — in essence, telling them to stop trying to «kill the messenger» for their introduction of a flawed system.

The high school programs that faced the highest number of complaints — five each — were Rockland Boces in West Nyack, in Rockland County, which had one verified, two unverified and two open allegations; Susan E. Wagner High School on Staten Island, with three verified and two open allegations; and Fayetteville - Manlius High School near Syracuse, where all five allegations related to the same incident, in which several students were arrested in 2007 for allegedly hacking into computer systems to change grahigh school programs that faced the highest number of complaints — five each — were Rockland Boces in West Nyack, in Rockland County, which had one verified, two unverified and two open allegations; Susan E. Wagner High School on Staten Island, with three verified and two open allegations; and Fayetteville - Manlius High School near Syracuse, where all five allegations related to the same incident, in which several students were arrested in 2007 for allegedly hacking into computer systems to change graHigh School on Staten Island, with three verified and two open allegations; and Fayetteville - Manlius High School near Syracuse, where all five allegations related to the same incident, in which several students were arrested in 2007 for allegedly hacking into computer systems to change graHigh School near Syracuse, where all five allegations related to the same incident, in which several students were arrested in 2007 for allegedly hacking into computer systems to change grades.

Aside from lowering the voting age by a year, the bill would also require all pupils in the ninth grade or higher to receive at least eight full class periods of civics education and mandate that every New York high school provide each student with a voter registration form the year they turn 17.

Barron spent the day in East New York visiting polling stations and also found time to speak to the 8th grade graduates of George Gershwin Junior High School with his wife, Inez, where the two later rapped some words of wisdom to the students while the marching band played behind them.

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.

At 12:10 p.m., Rep. Chris Gibson will meet with seventh grade students and deliver presentation on citizenship and government, Shaker Junior High School, Watervliet Shaker Road, Latham.

Gianna Serro, a 12th grade student at North Bergen High School in New Jersey, had traveled to the protest with two classmates.

The 4 +1 option would apply beginning with students who first entered ninth grade in or after September 2011 and thereafter or who are otherwise eligible to receive a high school diploma in June 2015 and thereafter and have passed four required Regents exams (or Department - approved alternative assessments) in English, mathematics, science and social studies.

The tournament is open to area students from kindergarten through high school with sections organized based grade.

A follow - up audit conducted by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office found lingering problems with the grading of Regents examinations for high school students.

Fourteen percent of the high school students transferred to other schools, with more than half ending up at another school with a grade of C or lower on its School Progress Report.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — With the new school year underway, Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino today re-issued his challenge to all Westchester County students in grades 6 through 12: Win a free season pass to Playland by earning high achievement in the classroom.

Anthony Greenwald, a psychologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, says the study fits in with his own research showing that high grades influence student ratings.

«Students with higher intelligence had better grades and test scores, but those who also enjoyed and took pride in math had even better achievement.

The results were clear: Students who strategically reflected on how to use their resources to learn effectively ended up with higher grades at the end of the semester, outperforming their classmates by an average of one third of a letter grade.

«And a student with the most helpful personality will score a full grade higher than an average student in this regard.»

The researchers chose two high schools in two different school districts, focusing on five students that were in 10th or 11th grade, who were identified with a specific learning disability and required modifications and accommodations in their classrooms.

Participants included undergraduate college students with a grade point average of 3.0 or higher who are majoring in computer science, computer engineering, math, physics, or electrical engineering