Sentences with phrase «achieving students from»

The members of Essex Court Chambers have for a number of years supported the Social Mobility Foundation («SMF»), which provides assistance and guidance to high - achieving students from low income backgrounds seeking access to top universities and career opportunities.

By 2013, a very different picture emerged: only 43 % of high - achieving students and fewer than 30 % of low - achieving students from the bottom quartile were enrolled in a baccalaureate program.

Interestingly, more low - achieving students from the top SEQ (58 %) entered into such programs by 2013 than did high - achieving students from the bottom quartile.6 Of course, not all students enroll in college immediately upon the close of high school, and it is possible that these gaps close in the years following the end of their secondary education.

Leaders at High Tech High realized they needed to offer honors classes so that students could have the weighted grade point averages that selective colleges look for in admissions, but they did not want to separate the highest - achieving students from their peers.

While most higher - achieving students from lower - income families do go on to college, only 54 percent complete a bachelor's degree, as compared to 78 percent of higher - achieving students from higher income families.

Wyner, Joshua S., John M. Bridgeland, and John J. DiIulio Jr. «Achievementrap: How America is Failing Millions of High - Achieving Students from Lower - Income Families.»

The highest achieving students from Generation Z anticipate building careers in STEM fields and healthcare, and they aim to do it with advanced degrees and studies abroad.

Achievement Trap: How America Is Failing Millions of High - Achieving Students from Lower - Income Families, in Gifted Education and Proficiency Testing

Others argue that failing an exit exam discourages low - achieving students from staying in school.

He says that, «LAUSD has a large population of high achieving students from low socioeconomic backgrounds.»

Early concern was that the creation of charter schools would lead to «cream skimming» of whiter, wealthier and higher achieving students from the traditional public school system.

The state's low - income voucher students «appear to be lower - achieving students from the public sector,» they write, «and enter private schools substantially behind their private school peers.»

First, the finding that charter schools are not drawing the highest - achieving students from traditional public schools can help alleviate some of the concerns held by policymakers.

The social benefits of the ECO-C Intervention are harder to define in dollar terms, but they are the benefits associated with increased income and sociodemographic mobility for high - achieving students from low - income families.

The findings might have been strengthened if measures of teacher ability had been included in the analysis, because the alternatively certified teachers in the study, from Teach For America (TFA) and the NYC Teaching Fellows program, represent high - achieving students from the nation's elite universities.

States are especially at risk of a lawsuit if they hold students and districts accountable for meeting the standards — by, for example, preventing low - achieving students from graduating or taking over low - performing districts — without allocating resources adequately or equitably.

«The Australian Research Council's Federation Fellowships scheme, for example, encourages Australian researchers working overseas to bring their skills back into Australian science, while scholarships offered under the Endeavour Programme allow high achieving students from around the world to undertake study or research in Australia.»

Not exact matches

This all comes from a misguided belief that gifted students will achieve on their own — even in spite of a strict educational system that doesn't serve them well.

The Success Principles is a roadmap for anyone — from marketing professionals to small business owners, and from teachers to students and parents — striving to achieve their professional and personal dreams and goals.

Taking a step back from the specific question of what the Parkland students achieved, it's clear from the polling data that support for increased gun control remains high and has steadily increased in recent years.

Our paramount goal is to provide our students with a working knowledge of the myriad of factors that play a role in determining how retirees can achieve the maximum benefit available to them from Social Security and, in so doing, provide a solid foundation upon which an overall retirement income plan can be built.

After learning of some surprising realities about the level of misinformation being disseminated about Social Security, Cheryl has made it her goal to provide students with a deep understanding of the multitude of factors that play a role in determining how retirees can achieve the maximum value available to them from Social Security.

By the time he retired from football after the 1986 season, however, he already was achieving success in the restaurant business after introducing University of Alabama students to Buffalo wings in 1981 with the Wings & Things concept.

Customized Private Lessons at No Extra Cost Unlimited Group Classes Certified and Professional Instructors Most extensive curriculum in the area Authentic Choy Li Fut descended directly from the Founder, Chan Heung The one - on - one training method allows students to excel and achieve their goals.

The students who used the «study drug» were academically diverse: from high - achieving, AP and Honors students looking for a fast alternative to balance their schedules while maintaining a high GPA, to students struggling to keep a minimum GPA to play on a sports team.

We aim to inspire generational change by reaching students from disadvantaged homes so they can experience the happiness that can be achieved by being a kind and caring person.

The Waldorf School of Garden City provides students from around the globe with the complex skills required to achieve in a complex world.

Pope, the co-founder of Challenge Success, said that research from that group found that high school students from high - achieving schools average more than three hours of homework each night, and middle school students average about 2.5 hours.

The statistics from 2016 report that 84 % of Birth Boot Camp graduates achieved a vaginal birth, and only 16 % of students delivered their baby by Cesarean section.

But even apart from the ethics of the Millbank violence - and it was simply a matter of luck that nobody, a policeman or student, was killed by the fire extinguisher being chucked - I am not convinced by the argument that violence has achieved positive outcomes in Britain and that other forms of political activity have not.

«Why would you pull the rug out from under a school whose students are achieving?

It took 9,000 signatures from an online petition set up by NUS Black Students to achieve the climbdown, however.

Ms. Moskowitz proudly touted the success of Success, noting with real joy how three students at the school in Bed - Stuy had achieved a perfect score on an international math test «out of 30 or 40 worldwide» and taking particular pride in how many of the schools» high achievers are «black and brown» and from neighborhoods that face enormous disadvantages.

NYC students who struggle the most with state reading and math tests are unlikely to achieve mastery of the subjects while enrolled in the city schools, according to a new report from the pro-charter group families for Excellent Schools.

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.

Buffalo had performance increases measured in students achieving proficiency or higher on both ELA and Math from the 2015 - 16 to 2016 - 17 school year.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

A total of 60 students (including three with distinction) have completed ADIT in the last year, including the first students to achieve ADIT from Bulgaria, Qatar and Slovakia.

I'm proud that our Governor sees the state as «One New York» and shares a vision with the Independent Democratic Conference to save our taxpayers from irresponsible tax policy in Washington, to pass the DREAM Act to help students achieve their full potentials, to protect our unions and collective bargaining and to fund sorely needed repairs to the MTA without delay.

Still suffering from last year's school budget cuts and with the mayor threatening more to come, UFT members at high - achieving Leon M. Goldstein HS for the Sciences in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, rallied and leafleted faculty, staff, students and members of the community on Nov. 17 with the message «No Budget Cuts — Save Our Schools.»

Frazer is one of seven low - achieving schools the district hopes gets a boost from a $ 31.5 million grant that will allow new and radical solutions to the persistent problems that have traditionally held students back.

Whether these schools draw students from around the country or just from their regions, the opportunities to make an impact on their students» lives, and to watch motivated students achieve, is one of the job's key rewards.

Sometimes students have to separate needs from wants and recognize that some wants will have to be sacrificed in order to achieve goals that will serve them a lifetime.

With this in mind, I've long supported opportunity scholarships, which allow students transfer from underperforming schools to higher achieving schools where they can take advantage of the best our education system has to offer.

Achieving diversity does not involve recruiting students and faculty members from abroad in an attempt to have some semblance of diversity.

Most ethical, policy and media discussions about synthetic biology start from the assumption that these aims have already been achieved: that biology has become easy to engineer for whatever ends we choose, that the toolbox is available to any student or potential terrorist, that dangerous organisms and powerful bioweapons are easy to make, and that no effective regulation is possible.

They may have intellectual independence, and small grants from different foundations can help them achieve some financial independence, but it is still difficult to assemble a team because such grants are not substantial enough to pay postdoc, or even student, salaries.

Deian Stefan, lead PhD student on the project at Stanford, said: «What we've achieved in COWL is a system that lets web developers build feature - rich applications that combine data from different web sites without requiring that users share their login details directly with third - party web applications, all while ensuring that the user's sensitive data seen by such an application doesn't leave the browser.

The majority of minorities entering science and engineering are from the middle - and upper - income families, but considerable debt and modest earnings (compared to business, law, and medicine) may deter even some high - achieving minority students from choosing these fields.1 Up to 25 % of academically qualified low - income students either do not apply to college2 or drop out, unable to keep pace with escalating prices.3

After taking into account their parents» income and education — factors that are known to affect exam scores — the highest - achieving students were more than three times more likely to suffer from the mental illness than their average peers.