Sentences with phrase «as an average student»

Students in the FTC program, despite coming from low - income families, enrolled in Florida public colleges at almost the same rates as the average student in Florida, regardless of income.

• «The amount of homework for high school seniors has decreased... and grades have risen as average student achievement has been declining.»

With this being the push, special education students typically do not do as well on standardized tests as the average student.

At nearby Kalama Beach Park, surf instructors from Maui Waveriders gave lessons on long boards that were twice as tall as the average student.

Not exact matches

But for all the big talk, Ivey has a lot of walk.MBA graduates, according to the school's owndata, can expect an average starting salaryof over $ 98,000 a year upon graduation.Every class evolves from students tacklingreal - world problems on their own, to doing so in groups, then as an entire class.Outside the classroom, the school offersscores of special projects, internationalinternships and one - of - a-kind programs, like the Ivey Consulting Project, the largestand longest - running Canadian programpairing MBA students with real - world businessesin need of help.

While he could be described as an above average student, Einstein was quiet and often withdrawn from his peers.

Most of you are familiar with Barbara Corcoran from the TV show Shark Tank, but one thing you might not know is that she described herself to me during our interview as «a below - average reader and an insecure student.»

Students of geography will recognize this as a map of Canada; I've added in average download and upload speeds from Ookla's Net Index.

As of 2014, the average student graduating with debt had borrowed $ 28,950, up from $ 18,550 a decade earlier, according to The Institute for College Access and Success.

The average cost of one year at a public university in the United States costs twice as much: More than $ 20,000 for in - state students, according to College Board.

As you can see, the average student loan interest rate has been following a downward trend over the past several years.

The government requires students to maintain at least a C grade - point average, but some schools have their own standards as well.

This paper examines the day of the week effect in the crypto currency market using a variety of statistical techniques (average analysis, Student's t - test, ANOVA, the Kruskal - Wallis test, and regression analysis with dummy variables) as well as a trading simulation approach.

While a shortage of workers is pushing wages higher in the skilled trades, the financial return from a bachelor's degree is softening, even as the price — and the average debt into which it plunges students — keeps going up.

[4] The average student loan debt carried by students graduating in the class of 2015, as calculated by Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of Edvisors.com.

In addition to more borrowers, the average student loan debt per senior increased at an alarming rate as well.

Not surprisingly, data released this month from the the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's Investor Education Foundation, which seeks to promote financial literacy, reveal high school students who are required to take personal finance courses have better average credit scores and lower debt delinquency rates as young adults.

The average monthly student loan payment for borrowers aged 20 to 30 years is $ 351, which is enough to keep many of them from being able to afford the common trappings of post-graduate life, such as homeownership.

Although there are few statistics on average annual costs for books and supplies, some sources place it as high as $ 1,200 per term, according to an NBC News report.Understandingly, the high cost of textbooks has students wondering if they can apply their student loan money toward the cost of supplies.

Today those percentages have grown to 16 percent (for staff) and 35 percent (for students), which compares favorably with the national average of 27 percent of all college students who identify themselves as ethnic minorities.

Children could also be held partially responsible for disrupting family - time as the poll revealed 72 % of students spent between three and ten hours on - line on an average day during weekends and holidays.

Yet another sign of the flourishing of AATS - member graduate professional schools in the United States was the astonishing — from the vantage of the 1990s — statistic that despite the intervening economic depression they averaged three times as much endowment per student ($ 6,103) as all privately controlled academic institutions ($ 2,040), and more than ten times as much as publicly controlled institutions ($ 455).13

The average fifth - grade student received five times as much instruction in basic skills as instruction focused on problem - solving or reasoning, Pianta and his coauthors reported; in first and third grades, the ratio was ten to one.

But preliminary results already show powerful gap - closing effects for Educare students: If disadvantaged children enter Educare before their first birthday, they usually are, by the first day of kindergarten, essentially caught up with the national average on tests of basic knowledge and language comprehension, as well as on measures of noncognitive factors like attachment, initiative, and self - control.

Popular children were similar to average children, except that their peers perceived them as being better students than the average kids.

It's important to note that your child doesn't need to be «popular» to be perceived as a strong student - neglected children actually were highly academically motivated and liked by teachers, and average children did just fine.

WHEN I WAS 20 I was establishing my confidence and identity as an overachieving college student after rather average (sometimes sub par) performance in high school.

In addition to demanding academic, work and social schedules, our college student leaders dedicate on average 10 - 15 hours / week to Camp Kesem as they commit to a year - long position managing every aspect of their camp including:

The survey found that nutrition directors used an average of five and as many as 17 strategies to maintain or increase student participation in meal programs during the transition to healthier national standards.

Kids on average finished about three - quarters of each fruit serving in 2014, the same as in 2012, but the share of students selecting fruit with lunch rose 12 percent.

At present, the average number of students per lecturer in sub-Saharan Africa is twice as high as the international average.

But Walcott and other officials questioned the report's math, arguing that the new schools, on average, serve as many or more minority students and students with disabilities than the schools they replaced.

Statewide, more than 75 parochial schools have closed in just the last five years, and average tuition can reach as high as $ 8,500 per student annually.

Today's students are, as he says: «highly anxious about taking on an average of # 44,000 worth of debt in an uncertain job market where nearly half of employed recent graduates are in non-graduate jobs.»

New York, NY — As the school year comes to a close, a shocking new report released today by leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY, The Graduation Facade: How New York City's Diploma Mills Mask College Readiness Crisis, exposes the problem of Diploma Mills — schools where the graduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after high school.

The 30 districts classified as low - need, with the fewest concentrations of non-white students, averaged $ 333 per student.

An analysis by AQE found Cuomo's proposed cuts in operating aid average $ 773 per pupil in the 30 urban and suburban school districts classified as «high - need» by the State Education Department that have the greatest concentration of black and Hispanic students.

Ossining for Fair Funding Communications Director Jessica Vecchiarelli said: «With significant enrollment growth and substantial increases in student needs, we are simply asking that Ossining be put on a path to being funded at the same percentage level as the average district in New York State, at least 80 % of the fully phased - in Foundation Aid.

In urban central cities, funding levels per student tend to be at least average, but student needs (e.g. for special education for students with learning disabilities and for general support for very poor students such as homeless students) tend to be much greater.

«As a result of this work, average class size across the city has decreased from 26.4 students per class in the 2015 - 16 school year to 26.1 this year,» he said.

«Perhaps it is not so surprising that on average male doctoral students co-author one more paper than female doctoral students, just as, on average, male doctoral students can probably run a mile a bit faster than female doctoral students,» the reviewer added.

She calculates that postdocs cost on average just $ 16.50 per hour, as compared with approximately $ 30 per hour for staff scientists and between $ 21 and $ 34 for graduate students.

The results were startling: almost 75 percent of students today rate themselves as less empathic than the average student 30 years ago.

The study also found that as the average percentage of African American teachers in schools increased, students» delinquent behavior scores decreased.

Surprisingly, as schools» average perceived peer inclusion increased, so did students» delinquent behavior scores.

For example, students rated how much they agreed with statements such as: «The average person can live a good enough life without religion» or «Families work best when women do the work at home and men do the work outside the home.»

But the real dearth — the lack of clear pathways into careers that could enable today's generation of gifted young Americans to become the researchers who make tomorrow's great discoveries — is convincing more and more of the nation's best students not to seek careers in fields such as law, finance, medicine and other fields that offer much better short - and long - term career prospects instead of dedicating an average of seven years to PhD study plus an additional five years or more of postdoctoral training now considered necessary to compete for an academic career in many scientific fields.

On the other hand, «historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) such as Howard, Fisk and Clark Atlanta» enroll students who are «on average significantly weaker academically than the black students at Dartmouth and the other Ivies,» the book states.

Input variables were the total number of faculty members and incoming graduate students» average GRE scores, which were used as a way of measuring of students» capabilities.

As part of the formula, the students looked at S (the susceptible population), Z (the zombie population) and D (the dead population), suggesting that the average lifespan of a zombie would be S to Z to D.