Sentences with phrase «among school populations»

At the same time, public schools in poorer districts are being asked to do more and more to help address the broader social and economic problems manifesting themselves among school populations.

Not exact matches

The schools» long record of success among low - income and minority populations has not gone unnoticed by such non-Catholic philanthropists as Peter T. Grauer: «I'm not....

Statistical studies of the frequency of sexual abuse of minors in the general population as well as statistics about abuse among other groups such as public school teachers lend support to MacRae's point.

Planning for both of these meetings, within the UN bureaucracy and among the thousands of NGO activists who participate in UN-sponsored programs, was dominated by strident doomsayers and hard - core population controllers of the Garrett Hardin / Paul Ehrlich («the battle to feed all humanity is over») school.

Essentially two schools of thought emerged among the Jewish population.

I agree we should not give junk food companies «the opportunity to instill on a daily basis lifelong brand loyalties among a highly impressionable population, i.e., school children.»

Aregbesola who described the quality of his projects like roads, schools among others as enduring said his government through the construction of roads, has provided for future population explosion in the state.

A recurring complaint among attendees was the East Ramapo School Board, which many agreed was not reflective of the student population and indifferent to the interests of non-Jewish students and parents.

«Veterans with PTSD had a very high sleep disorder prevalence of 16 percent, the highest among the various health conditions or other population characteristics that we examined,» said Principal Investigator and senior author James Burch, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina.

For the first time, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health studied the effects of gestational weight gain on childhood obesity risk among a multi-ethnic urban population.

«Minority physicians and scientists have been inadequately represented among medical school faculty when compared with their representation in the U.S. population.

He developed an outreach program to educate the South Asian community about diabetes risk and preventive measures during a recent Bridging the Gaps Community Health Internship Program sponsored by the School of Public Health at the Shri Krishna Nidhi Foundation, an organization based in Hillsborough that promotes wellness among New Jersey's South Asian population.

In the years to follow, sociologist Julie Logan of Cass Business School in London showed that there is a higher incidence of dyslexia among entrepreneurs than in the general population.

John Strasswimmer, MD, PhD, of the department of dermatology and cutaneous surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Florida, and colleagues conducted the survey to identify gaps in education on sun protection and find ways to spread awareness among these populations.

Although differences in the environments in which people live often are suspected when asthma risks among populations differ, the new findings illustrate the importance of also considering genetic differences among ethnic groups in diagnosing and treating disease, said Esteban Burchard, MD, professor of bioengineering for the UCSF School of Pharmacy and the senior scientist for the study.

Barlow, an associate scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a leader in behavioral and mental health research, has devoted more than 25 years to addressing health disparities among American Indian populations.

One hundred percent of its 10th grade alumni passed the 2004 and 2005 MCAS in English and math, and among BIFF's 2006 high school graduates who applied to college, a whopping 92 percent were accepted in their first - choice college — and this from a population of kids who hadn't much chance of graduating high school, let alone considering something beyond.

Two of the network's Tier - 1 schools (Congress Heights and Shaw) place among the top five charters for reading growth scores, and both serve overwhelmingly low - income African American populations.

Among the study population of charter 8th graders, students who attended a charter high school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to attend college than similar students who attended a traditional public high school.

Among the study population of charter 8th graders, students who attended a charter high school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to attend college than similar students who attended a traditional public high school (see Figure 1).

In Chicago, the gap in college attendance is smaller but still sizable: among the study population of charter 8th graders, 49 percent of students at charter high schools attended college, compared to 38 percent of students at traditional public high schools.

In Florida, among the study population of charter 8th graders, 57 percent of students attending a charter school in 9th grade went to either a two - or four - year college within five years of starting high school, whereas among students who started high school in a traditional public school the college attendance rate was only 40 percent.

This leader's team would need to include additional organizers who could focus on implementation issues in targeted schools or student populations, and each of these people would need to be accountable for learning success among their assigned students.

The result of that survey is the National Education Technology Plan, which highlights the challenge of improving test scores among an increasingly tech - savvy student population while using traditional teaching methodologies, and emphasizes what it calls «e-learning» and virtual schools.

David Berliner (2007, as cited in Rodriguez & Fabionar, 2010) argues, «Without careful attention to the social conditions beyond schools, we will continue to encounter limitations in advancing educational equity and high achievement among diverse student populations within schools» (pp. 58 — 59).

Educators have developed 6 models for blended learning, and teachers and / or schools select from among them based upon their unique student populations.

Particular emphasis was placed on how inequitable funding for public schools can hamper efforts to boost academic outcomes and improve achievement among vulnerable student populations, as well as on exploring what could be done to change it.

Important differences, meanwhile, are observed among public school employees and the rest of the population.

Support for school choice in all its forms and for NCLB appears to be somewhat weaker among voters in school board elections than among the population as a whole.

Dr. Weast led Montgomery County Public Schools — 16th largest school district in the nation — to achieve both the highest graduation rate among the nation's largest school districts for four consecutive years and the highest academic performance ever in MCPS at a time when the non-English-speaking student population more than doubled and enrollment tipped toward low socioeconomic demographics.

For states that use alternatives to Census poverty estimates to allocate Title I funds among their small LEAs (total population below 20,000), USED's March 2015 policy guidance provides two options in cases where those states use school meals data in their formulas.

Among the undocumented students at the school, there's a wide range of beliefs, opinions, and approaches to the situation, Mr. Bisese says, noting that the population contains both Democrats and Republicans; activists and those who would rather stay out of the political fray entirely.

The National Board urges that applied studies be done that look deeply into the effects of these tests in school systems, school districts, and individual schools, among different student populations, and on different curricula.

Nonetheless, it underestimates the diversity in culture and values of the American population to take it as a given that we will not see among schools of choice a number that will outrage even the most fervent advocates of the freedom to choose one's school and one's education.

For this reason, we also examine two U.S. subgroups conventionally thought to have better preparation for school — white students and students from families where at least one parent is reported to have received a college degree — and compare the percentages of high - achieving students among them to the (total) populations abroad.

High school students with jobs, students with behavioral issues, students needing to catch up on skills, and students struggling with learning disabilities were among those in the larger district student population who found it difficult to complete their high school requirements and obtain a diploma.

Broward last year had the 10th - largest charter school population among districts in the nation.

Schools serving students from lower socioeconomic and diverse linguistic backgrounds experience retention problems among teachers and administrators, and often transiency within the student population as well.

As a selective enrollment school, Jones draws students from every part of the city and has the most ethically and socio - economically diverse student population among the top CPS high schools.

The larger a school's at - risk population, the more likely it was to have lower scores — though there were plenty of exceptions, especially among charter schools.

Attracting new students is an urgent priority for the nation's Catholic schools, which have suffered a steady enrollment decline in recent decades due to changing urban demographics and a declining church population, among other factors.

As we've previously discussed in our ongoing teacher diversity series, there is credible evidence that minority teachers can boost a range of minority student outcomes, yet minorities are underrepresented among the population of public school teachers.

Student population: 4,500 students among five schools to be launched over the next seven years.

Schools with the largest immigrant populations, in fact, have been among the hardest hit.

Among them were new superintendent Walter G. Amprey, who promoted school - based management and independence from traditional bureaucratic control, and the school's selection as a Maryland site for the Carnegie Corporation's Middle Grade School State Policy Initiative.1 As the new principal, I had distinct ideas about how to help transform Canton, a school with a racially mixed population of 800 students: about 57 percent white, 38 percent African American, and 5 percent Native American or Hisschool - based management and independence from traditional bureaucratic control, and the school's selection as a Maryland site for the Carnegie Corporation's Middle Grade School State Policy Initiative.1 As the new principal, I had distinct ideas about how to help transform Canton, a school with a racially mixed population of 800 students: about 57 percent white, 38 percent African American, and 5 percent Native American or Hisschool's selection as a Maryland site for the Carnegie Corporation's Middle Grade School State Policy Initiative.1 As the new principal, I had distinct ideas about how to help transform Canton, a school with a racially mixed population of 800 students: about 57 percent white, 38 percent African American, and 5 percent Native American or HisSchool State Policy Initiative.1 As the new principal, I had distinct ideas about how to help transform Canton, a school with a racially mixed population of 800 students: about 57 percent white, 38 percent African American, and 5 percent Native American or Hisschool with a racially mixed population of 800 students: about 57 percent white, 38 percent African American, and 5 percent Native American or Hispanic.

This ought to be of special interest to everyone in Utah, and especially among school districts in rural areas dominated by Native American populations.

It includes examples of attendance initiatives from communities across the U.S. showing that how chronic absence can be turned around, even when it reaches high levels in a school or district or among a particular student population.

Census data indicate that Illinois ranks fifth among states in the size of the public school population that has limited English speaking proficiency.

Like the rest of Saginaw, Arthur Hill High School experienced widening economic inequalities among its student population, as well as significant changes in student demographics.

As repeatedly confirmed by empirical studies, it permits fair comparisons among teachers, schools, and school systems that serve differing student populations.