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Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

The debate has sparked all sorts of potential solutions such as the push to introduce free college and aggressive student loan forgiveness options to name a couple.

With the job market more competitive than ever and college grads burdened with astronomical levels of student loan debt, it's easy to see why millennials may choose to take a less aggressive approach when it comes to managing their savings.

In one study of college students suffering «an enduring, significant negative outcome» from encounter groups, it was found that groups with most of the severe problems had had aggressive, confronting, authoritarian leaders.4

At the same time, attempting to fill the ideological vacuum left by the decline of the old liberal - Protestant consensus is aggressive pluralistic secularism, growing out of the 1960s and flourishing as students of the 1960s become the tenured scholars of the 1980s and 1990s.

«College Kickoff» is one of many aggressive initiatives aimed at preparing students for college and career options beyond high school.

«In terms of the food security of the first food, the global breastfeeding movement continues to call for greater vigilance around the more aggressive marketing of baby and toddler foods, using new promotional avenues on the internet, especially social networking, via mothers» clubs, educational foundations targeting students, and as business interest NGOs etc..

The members seeking a change in leadership argued that Iannuzzi wasn't aggressive enough in fighting the policies of Governor Andrew Cuomo and education commissioner John King, such as a teacher - evaluation system that includes student scores on state exams.

These threats were an aggressive assault on freedom of speech and the fact that they led to the cancellation of our talk was severely disappointing for all of the religious and non religious students in the room who wanted to engage in debate.»

If we ignore the power inequality between Greer and student trans rights activists - or even assume the students are the more powerful actors - allowing Greer to speak on campus is a neutral act and no - platforming her is an aggressive use of force.

The city school system — the largest of its kind in the country — is on the verge of dramatic change, and Gov. Cuomo has bet his second term on an aggressive campaign to transform a system he claims has failed more than 250,000 students over the past decade while state bureaucrats twiddled their thumbs.

On Saturday, February 11, VID put together a solid group of supporters for the Rally Opposing the NYU2031 Plan, NYU's aggressive, tower - heavy 20 - year construction proposal to jam our low - rise community with structures of inappropriate size, height and bulk (including a huge hotel), which will mean the takeover of public space and the influx of a concentration of more thousands of students, staff and faculty.

«Of the 211 student veterans who participated in our study, we heard the stories of 23 veterans who struggled with the aftermath of trauma exposure, and suffered from sleep disturbance, hypervigilance, irritable or aggressive behavior, and difficulty concentrating,» said Ann Cheney, an assistant professor in the Center for Healthy Communities in the School of Medicine and a coauthor on the studOf the 211 student veterans who participated in our study, we heard the stories of 23 veterans who struggled with the aftermath of trauma exposure, and suffered from sleep disturbance, hypervigilance, irritable or aggressive behavior, and difficulty concentrating,» said Ann Cheney, an assistant professor in the Center for Healthy Communities in the School of Medicine and a coauthor on the studof 23 veterans who struggled with the aftermath of trauma exposure, and suffered from sleep disturbance, hypervigilance, irritable or aggressive behavior, and difficulty concentrating,» said Ann Cheney, an assistant professor in the Center for Healthy Communities in the School of Medicine and a coauthor on the studof trauma exposure, and suffered from sleep disturbance, hypervigilance, irritable or aggressive behavior, and difficulty concentrating,» said Ann Cheney, an assistant professor in the Center for Healthy Communities in the School of Medicine and a coauthor on the studof Medicine and a coauthor on the study.

«Mantis shrimp, or stomatopods, are well known for aggressive temperaments and complex visual systems, but until now we've known very little about whether and how they use color to communicate with other mantis shrimp,» said Amanda Franklin, a Ph.D. student in the biology department of Tufts University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the first and corresponding author on the paper.

Students were primed at some point with the word «gay» to see how that impacted the amount of aggressive words used.

Maybe students could get away with a little passive aggressive resistance to this false dogma by giving the required answer to pass the class but writing in reference citations in the margins of the exam paper pointing to the correct answer.

Director Abel Ferrara applies his eccentric vision to the vampire genre with this cerebral «Art» film about graduate philosophy student Kathleen Conklin (Lili Taylor), who is bitten by an aggressive female vampire (Annabella Sciorra) and soon spirals into a nightmarish world of blood addiction and existential angst.

Not even the no - nonsense headmistress (Nicole Kidman) is completely immune to the flattery of their male charge; her wistful, lonely teacher (Kirsten Dunst) and the imperious oldest student (Elle Fanning) all fall under the sway of the charming soldier, who delights in the newfound upheaval in power dynamics and the passive - aggressive sniping on his behalf.

States should insist that districts take aggressive action to turn around dropout factories and schools where the vast majority of students are demonstrably not on track for success.

It's all part of an aggressive effort to turn the schools — 1,456 of them serving 1.1 million students — around.

When people come here from outside they often say the atmosphere of the school is very open and friendly, [the students are] not aggressive or bored.

You might conclude that a student's aggressive behavior warrants separating him from the rest of the class, either to send him a strong message that what he did merits a serious consequence or to protect the other students.

The agency has put in place a permanent team to oversee the changes, new internal measures to keep track of funds, and a more aggressive approach to tracking down collections of defaulted student loans, the officials said.

In addition to the curriculum - reform recommendations, the Elementary Grades Task Force suggested more aggressive efforts to consider ethnic background in hiring teachers, expanded social services within schools, and performance - based assessments that, in the case of limited - English - proficient students, would be given in their native language.

Classroom Problem Solver: Preventing Student Aggression Aggressive students can engender a climate of fear in the classroom, creating anxiety among other students and distracting them from their schoolwork.

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The state's «aggressive agenda» would «strain the capacity of any state attempting to do so much for so many students in so many districts,» the reviewer continued, «but the applicant appears to have both the existing capacity and the political and bureaucratic will to re-organize and re-focus.»

(Sometimes students suggest quiet or instrumental music, but a significant number endorse the stress - reducing qualities of blasting loud, aggressive rock or rap.)

«The extraordinary demands of educating disadvantaged students to higher standards, the challenges of attracting the talent required to do that work, the burden of finding and financing facilities, and often aggressive opposition from the traditional public education system have made the trifecta of scale, quality, and financial sustainability hard to hit,» concludes the report, «Growing Pains: Scaling Up the Nation's Best Charter Schools.»

This is not to say we won't encounter problems here in the Help Desk room, but we will be more aggressive in seeking out the problems and needs of our faculty and students.

NEW YORK — Roman Catholic schools should launch an aggressive campaign to educate the «worst» students in every community and seek public and private funding once those students graduate, Secretary of Education William J. Bennett proposed here last week.

«Schools have told me consistently that they see a dramatic decrease in peer - to - peer aggressive behavior within three to five weeks of implementing a school - wide behavior rubric, as young people get the message that discipline interventions for aggression will be inevitable, fair, and escalating for all students and in all areas of the school,» says Stan Davis, author of Schools Where Everyone Belongs: Practical Strategies for Reducing Bullying.

In judging the seriousness of a student's action, consider his age, his history of aggressive behavior, and his ability to follow through with the threat.

Aggressive Incidents (Prevention) Aggressive students can engender a climate of fear in the classroom, creating anxiety among other students and distracting them from their schoolwork.

Another method many schools employ is teaching conflict resolution — a method of resolving conflict rationally — in order to avoid aggressive and disruptive interactions among students.

As Gelbach points out, «If a teacher handles [the problem] in an aggressive, confrontational kind of way, they are modeling behavior for the other 24 students in the class as much as they are handling the one student who has been misbehaving.»

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Students showed significant improvements in positive approach - coping, caring - cooperative behavior, suppression of aggression, and consideration of others but no changes in aggressive - antisocial behaviors.

Mr. Look, 37, must steer his 82 - year - old high school on the far west side of this river city through an aggressive, federally mandated effort to reverse a decades - long decline in student achievement that has given Shawnee the label of one of Kentucky's worst...

The effects of city - wide implementation of «Second Step» on elementary school students» pro-social and aggressive behaviors.

A survey conducted by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) revealed that over a quarter of school and college staff had dealt with physical violence from a student and just over a third had been confronted by an aggressive parent or guardian.

The superintendent and chief technology information officer for the 215,000 - student Houston Independent School District have established a working relationship that balances an aggressive vision for digital innovation with a realistic sense of what schools can do with the resources they have.

The new law is easily the most aggressive school choice laws to date, leapfrogging Arizona's 2011 program, which still restricts access to certain categories of students.

Advocates for school integration — including parents, students and City Council members — are pressing the Department of Education to take a more aggressive approach to make schools welcoming to children of different races and ethnicities.

Higher education reformers are keen to find fixes for remedial education, some of them aggressive state policies, because students who are assigned to the courses are unlikely to make it to graduation.

Calling the program «possibly the largest, most aggressive overhaul of teacher induction in the country,» researchers at the New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, praised the 1.1 million - student district for spending $ 36 million to put experienced teachers on the job as full - time mentors, able to give new teachers at least 1 1/4 hours a week of individual coaching.

The Internet and an aggressive network of education entrepreneurs have exploded the monopoly that teachers and textbooks have long held over students» access to knowledge.

School districts in some Southern states are taking aggressive measures to protect students from being bitten by disease - carrying mosquitoes because of increasing fears of the West Nile virus.

Brazil introduced an aggressive conditional cash - transfer program (Bolsa Escola) that increased primary and secondary school attendance and reduced dropout rates, while Chile implemented a number of compensatory programs that improved student achievement in the lowest - performing and most - disadvantaged schools.