Sentences with phrase «among groups of students in»

The Rural Schools Network (RSN) Alliance is studying how college enrollment and persistence rates vary among groups of students in RSN schools.

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Those who share in the criticisms but believe that they can be internalized into Christianity are in the minority among the academic students of religion and are often ridiculed and ostracized by the dominant group.

Students need to hear, in a positive way, of the good works done by the Church and community groups, among whom Catholics areconspicuously present.

In a recent discussion with a group of seminary students, I was struck by the apparent confusion over the nature of ordination among young persons about to enter professional ministry.

The condition is common among African - Americans like Beckwith, as well as Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans — groups that make up 91 percent of students in the Chicago Public Schools.

In her current role as senior child nutrition policy analyst, she works with a diverse group of national and state partners to expand the use of the School Breakfast Program among low - income children and increase the number of schools offering breakfast in the classroom free to all students in target states, school districts and schoolIn her current role as senior child nutrition policy analyst, she works with a diverse group of national and state partners to expand the use of the School Breakfast Program among low - income children and increase the number of schools offering breakfast in the classroom free to all students in target states, school districts and schoolin the classroom free to all students in target states, school districts and schoolin target states, school districts and schools.

But among African - American students, the difference was stark: 72 % in the «high expectations» group revised their papers, compared to 17 % of students in the control group.

Stephen Amoah, was among the huge number of various groups in the Asante region such as, the Ashanti Youth Association, Kumasi Youth Association and Asante Students Union, as well as a retinue of chiefs, politicians and heads of the security services, who had lined up at the airport to welcome Otumfuo.

These have long been left for well - meaning civic associations and nonpartisan groups, but were taken up again and pursued with considerable energy and finesse by the Bush campaign among conservative Christians in 2000 and 2004, and by the Obama campaign among African Americans, Latinos, and college students in 2008 on the basis of new forms of political targeting.

Basically, a new committee of teacher volunteers from across the state would review all exam questions after the items had been tried out on a pilot basis in «field tests» conducted among sample groups of students statewide.

Education commissioner John King and Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch told reporters in a conference call from Albany that a working group recommended the graduation requirements delay, among other tweaks, in reaction to concerns pouring in across the state from parents, teachers, students and lawmakers over how implementation of the Common Core is being executed statewide.

They also found that parental involvement in monitoring internet activity is low among this group with about a third of middle school and 17 % of high school students reporting that their parents monitor their internet.

In each case, an expert group calls for, among other things, supporting more postdocs and graduate students on training grants and fellowships instead of on professors» research grants, employing more staff scientists in permanent posts and fewer temporary trainees to do scientific work, providing higher pay and better working conditions for postdocs, and publishing information on the career outcomes of departments» and labs» graduate students and postdocIn each case, an expert group calls for, among other things, supporting more postdocs and graduate students on training grants and fellowships instead of on professors» research grants, employing more staff scientists in permanent posts and fewer temporary trainees to do scientific work, providing higher pay and better working conditions for postdocs, and publishing information on the career outcomes of departments» and labs» graduate students and postdocin permanent posts and fewer temporary trainees to do scientific work, providing higher pay and better working conditions for postdocs, and publishing information on the career outcomes of departments» and labs» graduate students and postdocs.

Not only did they find that students in public pre-K were significantly more likely to take the gifted and talented test, regardless of demographic background, but they also found that attending public pre-K may play an important role in helping to reduce test - taking disparities among different groups of children.

Using portable EEG to measure brain activity among groups of students, researchers were able to record from multiple people simultaneously to study social interactions in real life.

The experiences also foster a sense of belonging to the discipline and have been found to improve retention among minority students and women, groups historically underrepresented in science and engineering.

Professor Milica Radisic (IBBME, ChemE), graduate student Boyang Zhang and the rest of the team are among those research groups around the world racing to find ways to grow human tissues in the lab, under conditions that mimic a real person's body.

«Although electronic alcohol screening and brief counseling interventions may have effects on participants among subgroups of university students or among other groups, the results of this study and others suggest that the effect of this type of intervention among university students is modest at best,» write Timothy S. Naimi, M.D., M.P.H., of Boston Medical Center, Boston, and Thomas B. Cole, M.D., M.P.H., of JAMA, Chicago, in an accompanying editorial.

A 2009 investigation led by psychologist Amy B. Brunell of Ohio State University at Newark found that narcissistic individuals readily emerged as leaders in group discussions, and among students enrolled in a graduate business program, narcissists were likely to rise to top positions.

The researchers surveyed two groups: 333 college students from an introductory psychology class at a Midwest college and 437 adults participating in Amazon's Mechanical Turk workforce database, an online database of individuals who often participate in social science research, among other tasks.

The KITPC outreach develops a series of scientific activities including public science lectures and science research group classes in order to popularize natural science, arouse interest in science and improve the scientific research abilities among the students and teachers of Universities and high schools.

The Vienna Doctoral School «Molecules of Life» fosters education, cooperation and interaction among students and group leaders from different backgrounds and disciplines in an open and creative environment.

The 31 - year old doctoral student is among a team of seven researchers in the «Smart Nanoplasmonics» research group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart.

My research students and I are particularly interested in understanding the energetic cost of development, role of dissolved organic materials as a nutritional source for developing invertebrates, and variation in maternal contribution to offspring among groups.

For those who are serious students of nutriton, please note that the bar above Figure 2 at 0:41 of this video that states «vegan» was not in the original paper and the actual experimental group used a whopping 3 grams of fish oil daily, among many other lifestyle changes.

Some of the schools I work with in Oakland, California, are aspiring to this description of academic discourse in the classroom: «Conversations in whole and small group settings are facilitated by students and consistently involve all students in academic discourse among students.

Notably, among students most at risk, 79 percent of academy students stayed in school through spring of senior year, compared to 68 percent of the control group.

Or it may be that demographics matter because changes in the demographic composition of local school districts increase the desire among families to sort students into similar peer groups.

While one finds some evidence that high - achieving students are more popular among students of other ethnicities, the increment is not enough to offset the decline in popularity within their own ethnic group — a predictable finding, given that black and white students have only, on average, one friend of another ethnicity, and Hispanics just one and a half.

Among 4th - grade students in the lowest decile, there was an astonishing 13 - point gain from 2000 to 2003 pre-NCLB; the same group saw a gain of only five points from 2003 to 2007.

She is getting her Ph.D. in education policy, evaluation, and reform at Claremont Graduate University in California, where she's among a group of four undocumented students who support each other.

Among students who had fun with their family most days, the likelihood of being in the group with higher life satisfaction was much greater if students also reported that a teacher or another adult at their school believed that they would be a success.

Opposition among antipoverty groups is building on two grounds — that charter schools are done to, not by, families in big cities; and that transfers of funds to charter schools hurt students in district - run schools.

In 1960 my world changed radically when, as a 2nd grader at P.S. 121 in East Harlem, I learned that I was among a group of students who would help fulfill the integration mandate of the Brown v. Board of Education decisioIn 1960 my world changed radically when, as a 2nd grader at P.S. 121 in East Harlem, I learned that I was among a group of students who would help fulfill the integration mandate of the Brown v. Board of Education decisioin East Harlem, I learned that I was among a group of students who would help fulfill the integration mandate of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

This struck me as a triple win: the students had a high - quality learning experience, the teacher had a rewarding professional experience, and the burden of creating the unit was shared among a group of teachers rather than each teacher laboring in isolation.

Although among the group only Utzinger had any prior fundraising experience, they decided to issue a «cohort challenge» to their Ed.D. peers with the goal of convincing every member of the first - year cohort — 32 in total — to contribute to the HGSE Fund, which seeks to raise resources for many areas of the Ed School including financial aid, Gutman Library, and faculty and student support services.

As part of the previous study in which we randomly assigned school groups to tour an art museum on a field trip, we found a significant increase in tolerance among students who toured the museum.

Among this latter group of students, a mere 14 percent of the total — and only one in four of those who planned to as sophomores — had earned a college degree by 2014.

The blended - learning environment in Los Altos schools allows for seamless targeted intervention and flexible groupings, as well as real collaboration among students — all of which allows them to exercise their own student voice and choice.

Schools and communities need to devise strategies for managing high school students» asthma, a federal report says, in light of the significant incidence of the chronic respiratory disorder among that age group.

The report findings suggest that opportunity to study different religious faiths and traditions help promote understanding among students of different religious groups, that «carrier» subjects such as history, second or foreign languages and the social sciences, as well as physical education and art are also critical to the fostering of LTLT competencies in these countries.

Since 2010, the civil rights office has issued detailed directives on eliminating racial disparities in school discipline; the allocation of school resources among racial groups; schools» responsibility for preventing bullying; the use of race - based assignments to achieve diversity; achieving gender equity in intercollegiate and interscholastic sports, and support for pregnant and parenting students.

With a revolving door of superintendents being the norm for large city school systems, as well as dissension among community groups and low or stagnant student performance, the adjective «outstanding» is warranted in Payzant's case.

For instance, a 2015 study of a privately funded voucher program in New York City found that being offered a voucher to attend a private school increased college enrollment rates among black and Hispanic students by 4.4 percentage points, a 10 percent gain relative to the control group, and also increased bachelor's degree completion rates among black and Hispanic students by 2.4 percentage points, a 27 percent gain.

For the past 16 years, the Puente program has strived to boost the academic achievement of underserved Latino high school students, who have the highest dropout rate and lowest college attendance among all racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

Maria Izolda Cela Coelho, the secretary of education of Ceará State in Brazil, says the seminar was an excellent opportunity for her to reflect on relevant issues of public education improvement, such as the promotion of high - quality learning among students, performance gap reduction between different social groups, and the implementation of curricula focused on the development of 21st - century skills.

For example, in READ 180 classrooms, «Each period begins with a 20 - minute shared reading and skills lesson, and then students in groups of five rotate among three activities: computer - assisted instruction in reading, modeled or independent reading, and small - group instruction with the teacher» (p. 19).

The second group, Focus schools, consists of schools in which the gaps in achievement or graduation rates among student subgroups specified in the ESEA statute are greatest or the achievement or graduation rates among these subgroups are lowest.

Among the most important questions to ask to understand whether a state accountability system is designed to promote opportunity and achievement for all groups of students are: Do all groups of students matter in the ratings given to individual schools?

For several years, data suggested that the city had seen improvements among all ethnic groups, including in graduation rates, which have risen about 14 percentage points for black and Hispanic students since 2005, and a national standardized test given every other year to a sampling of fourth and eighth graders.