Sentences with phrase «as disadvantaged students»

Specifically, the United States had the largest increase — 12 percentage points — in the percentage of «resilient» students, defined as disadvantaged students who perform better than predicted by their socioeconomic status.

While the overall U.S. performance fell far behind top performers, such as Singapore, Japan, and Canada, the United States made the biggest improvement in equity from 2006 to 2015, increasing its percentage of «resilient students» — defined as disadvantaged students who perform better than predicted by their socioeconomic status — by 12 percentage points, as shown in the below image from the report.

There's no prohibition on combining that money with other funds as long as disadvantaged students benefit proportionately.

Not exact matches

They believe too that a voluntary military and civilian national service program for young people would help alleviate the social disruption and teach important new skills and provide tutoring to disadvantaged students, help for the elderly, and improvements of public spaces such as parks and playgrounds.

According to Asuza Pacific University president Jon R. Wallace, the bill «significantly reduces religious freedom» and «would effectively eliminate faith - based institutions as a choice for California's most disadvantaged students.»

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.

Last week I volunteered, as I do every month, with a group of fourth grade students at an economically disadvantaged elementary school participating in Houston's Recipe for Success program.

But other schools, as MSNBC describes in its story today, instead offer a bare - bones «alternative meal» to non-paying students in hopes that this practice will create an incentive for financially disadvantaged families to finally fill out their paperwork.

'' [T] he research offers no reason to believe that students in high - quality classrooms whose teachers give little or no homework would be at a disadvantage as regards any meaningful learning.»

Showing growing concern over the rising tide of religious extremism, students suggested a wholesale reform of the Pakistan's history curriculum to eliminate discrimination against minorities and other disadvantaged groups so as to undertake a holistic and long - term effort to eliminate the scourge of intolerance from society.

As a record number of students fight for university places ahead of the increase in fees next year, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published new analysis of the recent higher education white paper highlighting tuition fees» effect on relative disadvantage.

And if you factor in the student loan, the housing ladder and so forth then the fees hike may well have the effect (since the NPV of a degree isn't all that impressive as it is, as far as I'm aware) of disadvantaging some groups relative to, say, plumbers or junior bankers in a way that won't be helpful to society as a whole.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher said cuts to programs that help disadvantaged high school students gain the opportunity to attend college, as well as reductions to federal college aid and cuts to medical research, including cancer research, would have a huge negative impact on New York's colleges.

As the program was coming to a close, Legislator Lorigo met with Felissa Masumbuko, 4 - H Youth CAN Teen Leader Intern and Global Concepts student, to learn more about her internship with Legal Services for the Elderly, Disabled, and Disadvantaged of WNY.

At 6 p.m. Tuesday, the Brennan Center for Justice will hold a book talk with MSNBC's Zachary Roth on the quieting of voices of people of color, students, and other disadvantaged groups through means such as gerrymandering and Supreme Court Decisions.

Sullivan County's student population is 9,574, of which 5,119 are classified as «economically disadvantaged.»

While different states weigh and conduct the components differently, they, like New York, tie teacher performance only to student growth, not raw test scores, so as not to disadvantage teachers whose students hail from challenging socioeconomic backgrounds versus teachers in wealthy districts.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher says cuts to programs that help disadvantaged high school students gain the opportunity to attend college, as well as reductions to federal college aid, and cuts to medical research, including cancer research, would have a huge negative impact on New York's colleges.

You may be the only «non-traditional» student in your incoming cohort (I was), but don't think of this as a disadvantage.

It is ironic that many graduate students plan to have a career in academia but enter the job market with a major disadvantage: In many, perhaps most, cases the only formal training in teaching they receive is a short stint as a teacher's assistant (TA).

Although in some professions a Ph.D. might be considered a disadvantage, I ensured that my experience as a Ph.D. student was not underplayed.

As another way to avoid the trade - off between race - blind policies and student diversity, some have suggested race - neutral «class - based» admission policies — targeted at low - income and disadvantaged youth (9 - 11).

It isn't just a lack of financial capital that puts many working - class students and faculty at a disadvantage; they lack social and cultural capital as well.

First - generation college students, pupils from public (as opposed to elite private) high schools, and students from financially disadvantaged families are all underrepresented in the undergraduate population.

- Challenge pre-eminent scientists and engineers (starting with the more than 2,000 members of the National Academy) to take specific actions that will help achieve his goal, such as mentoring teachers and students in disadvantaged schools, starting a Science Festival in their city, or encouraging their university to create special programs that allow students to get a STEM degree and a teaching certificate at the same time.

As Clifford Houston, UTMB's associate vice president for educational outreach, points out, «The whole idea is to bring in students who have been ignored or disadvantaged.»

As a child of Jamaican origin growing up in the British city of Nottingham, Mark Richards experienced firsthand the disadvantages that can accrue to ethnic - minority students.

The points discussed in this article are meant as a guide, and depending on who you are as student or postdoc, some of the items given as disadvantages may actually be advantages for you (and vice versa).

Critics assert that efforts to push disadvantaged students into elite institutions, such as Posse, amount to only a drop in the bucket for overall college admissions.

In addition, some subject choices seemed to disadvantage certain students — those taking law, for instance, were more likely to be at universities that scored lower on league tables if they had A-level law rather than a subject such as maths or science.

Yet the data that emerge from disaggregated tests can serve as a tool for policymakers to do right by their most disadvantaged students.

They commonly serve disadvantaged students; they are all under pressure to attract parents and to satisfy a small number of authorizers; one school may deliberately imitate another by adopting a policy that seems to be working in the other school; schools may also imitate one another unconsciously (as when teachers who have worked at one school are hired by another and bring their knowledge with them).

But, to the extent that other characteristics of schools where disadvantaged students are found — such as safety and disciplinary problems, more bureaucratic rules, poor leadership, greater student turnover, or a greater distance to work — are important elements, improving these working conditions could mitigate the turnover problem we have identified.

«These students have as much right [as handicapped and disadvantaged recipients of federal aid] to developing to full fruition their capacities,» he said, adding that assistance for...

«For many economically disadvantaged students, you could imagine a gap year as being a bridge year, where they're doing some academic or service work and they're also getting some preparation for college, so that when they actually get there, they're more likely to stay,» Weissbourd says.

LBD students also learned science content as well as or better than students engaged in traditional learning methods, with the largest gains among economically disadvantaged students (Kolodner, Camp, Crismond, Fasse, Gray, Holbrook, Puntambekar, & Ryan, 2003).

The effect for this first visit is roughly twice as large as that for the overall sample, just as it is for disadvantaged students.

There is considerable evidence that during the past decade in Texas the needs of minority students have received increased attention as a result of an accountability system that demands that a school show not only overall progress, but also progress among its most disadvantaged charges.

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Options that don't end in a bachelor's degree will fail to help disadvantaged students see themselves as college material, and predictably channel them into less promising options, forming an «educational caste system,» according to Kati Haycock, the president of the Education Trust, a Washington group that presses for better opportunities for low - income and minority students.

As regards access to tertiary education, they are treated as if they are international students who are required by immigration policy to be self reliant and economically independent.9 South African social justice policies focus primarily on advancing the historically disadvantaged and such focus has an implication of excluding refugees from benefiting from socio - economic schemAs regards access to tertiary education, they are treated as if they are international students who are required by immigration policy to be self reliant and economically independent.9 South African social justice policies focus primarily on advancing the historically disadvantaged and such focus has an implication of excluding refugees from benefiting from socio - economic schemas if they are international students who are required by immigration policy to be self reliant and economically independent.9 South African social justice policies focus primarily on advancing the historically disadvantaged and such focus has an implication of excluding refugees from benefiting from socio - economic scheme.

The report says: «Principals judged student - related behaviours, such as truancy and skipping classes, to occupy their time and hinder instruction, particularly in the Northern Territory and in disadvantaged schools.»

Equity - oriented groups that want as many students from disadvantaged groups as possible included in the accountability system, including the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Education Trust, have advocated for states to adopt a minimum n - size of 10, whereas since revoked Obama - era accountability regulations allowed states to choose any n - size up to 30.

Online coursework has been heralded as potentially transformative for higher education, including by lowering the cost of delivery and increasing access for disadvantaged students.

«As the inquiry's report states: «Unless governments and schools can make long - term decisions and target those groups of students most in need, the gap between the disadvantaged and the advantaged in the Australian school system will increase.

To me, the biggest issues are the achievement gaps, as you said, and the achievement gaps are still there, according to socioeconomic background — disadvantaged students are still achieving at a much lower level than advantaged students or affluent students — and Indigenous students are still performing at a much lower level than non-Indigenous, and rural and remote students are still not achieving at the same levels as metropolitan students.

In particular, independent research — once viewed as controversial but now increasingly acknowledged by elected and appointed officials in the highest levels of government — has revealed a state of affairs in which three in ten students fail to finish high school with a diploma and in which barely half of historically disadvantaged minority students graduate.

Patrick Wolf explained that «private - school - choice programs disproportionately attract students from disadvantaged backgrounds,» noting that the choice participants are «considerably more likely to be low - income, lower - achieving, and African American, and much less likely to be white, as compared to the average public - school student in their area.»

While the rationale is perhaps a bit misguided (some evidence suggests that our students already experience as much instructional time as their peers ~ and other research confirms that teachers in the United States spend more time on instruction than teachers in other nations do) ~ there are certainly reasons to focus on the issue ~ not least of which is the summer learning loss that disproportionately impacts our nations most disadvantaged youth.

Passed in 1965, it created a clear role for the federal government in K - 12 policy, offering more than $ 1 billion a year in aid under its first statutory section, known as Title I, to districts to help cover the cost of educating disadvantaged students.