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However, other factors at the secondary level such as higher number of students and growing prevalence of standardized tests for secondary students could strengthen the value - added measure at the secondary level.

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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.

A top student and football star in South Central L.A., Kitam Hamm is one of a growing number of high school athletes who face life - and - death decisions every day as they try to survive in gang - infested communities

Mountain biking is surging in popularity among high school students in Northern California, as evidenced by the growing number of high school mountain biking teams.

Berger, who spent 25 years working as a public school teacher and educational consultant in rural Massachusetts before joining Expeditionary Learning, clearly feels a special connection with those EL schools, like Polaris, that enroll high numbers of students growing up in adversity.

Researchers at the University of Chicago looked at the predictive value of a student's freshman year of high school as it relates to a number of future outcomes.

Students at Stuyvesant High School, justifying and rationalizing what was described as a culture of «low - level cheating» there to a New York Times reporter, could not have been more preoccupied with numbers.

In 2003, according to a report by the Trust for America's Health, Kentucky had the third highest level of overweight high school students, as well as the third highest number of low - income children between two and five years old in the country.

Districts with high numbers of students from traditionally lactose - intolerant population (like Asians) can offer soy milk as an alternative, but the cost of individual cartons of soy milk is more than twice the cost of dairy milk, and eats up about half of the approx.

Schools with closed campus generally see higher numbers of students eating in the cafeteria (as opposed to bringing lunch from home.)

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

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 disadvaHigher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published new analysis of the recent higher education white paper highlighting tuition fees» effect on relative disadvahigher education white paper highlighting tuition fees» effect on relative disadvantage.

c) The «speakers» sound ridiculous because their message is empty: there is no credible strategy on offer as to how to fund the massively (and unnecessarily) increased numbers of students entering a dumbed - down higher education system.

The measure also comes as school districts across the state on Tuesday reported high numbers of students choosing to opt out of the current round of English Language Arts standardized tests that will run for the next two weeks.

In the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who getsHigh School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who getshigh schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets in.

The UFT is calling on the state Legislature to enact legislation that will require taxpayer - funded charters and charter chains to accept and keep comparable numbers of high - needs students as traditional public schools.

While the number of graduate students supported by research grants has been higher than the number supported on training grants since the early 1980s, the gap steadily widened as NIH's research budget grew — then shot up in the early 2000s when NIH's budget doubled over 5 years (see graph below).

Most institutions responding to the survey expect the number of students seeking postgraduate study in England to plateau or even decline as a result of the high undergraduate fees introduced in recent years and increasing global competitiveness.

Because of the tough economic climate and rising cost of higher education, the site has announced that it is seeing a spike in the number of female college students who are signing up to be «sugar babies» as they're called in hopes of paying off their loans.

With nearly 6.3 million students, California is still far from being able to provide a laptop for everyone, as the state of Maine, with its total number of 189,000 students, was able to do for its seventh and eighth graders (as of fall 2009, about half of Maine's high schools had laptops for each student).

As test - preparation materials leap off the printed page and onto the Web, an increasing number of states and districts are turning to online test - prep programs to help raise student scores on high - stakes assessments, Advanced Placement tests, and college - entrance exams.

But turnaround high schools have yet to make significant inroads with academics and face hurdles such as declining enrollment, lack of rigorous curricula and a disproportionate number of students with special needs.

Instead we need to be doing what an increasing number of schools like another Arizona - based school, the Carpe Diem Collegiate High School and Middle School, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a student - centric system — not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports — but to use existing resources to prioritize student learning and achieve great results.

Between 2002 and 2008, the number of high schools in New York increased from just over 250 to nearly 450, even as the number of high school students in the system remained the same.

Studies show that more than one - third of all first - year college students are required — as a result of placement tests — to take some form of remedial coursework in either English or mathematics; the number is far higher at some institutions.

Wilson notes the dramatic withdrawal from arithmetic in the elementary grades that has occurred over the past two to three decades, reflecting the mistaken but increasingly popular view that learning whole number operations (such as the multiplication tables) to the point of instant recall is bad for a student, not necessary to higher math, and impedes students» ability to understand mathematical principles.

As of 2010, 45 states had joined either PARCC or the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium that was likewise developing new assessments seeking to better gauge students» higher - level thinking skills, but the number of states participating in both consortia has since fallen.

Mr. Kerr, 47, the new communications director for city Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein, has taken on one of the highest - profile school public relations jobs in the country, just as the 1.1 million - student system is working through a number of...

At Harvard College, since 2005, the number of applicants have gone as high as 366 students, or 18 percent of the class in 2011, according to Robin Mount, Ed.M.»

Posner says research has found that high schools with screening programs can detect double the number of at - risk students as other schools.

Natasha Patterson School Leadership Program Current City: Chicago Current job: Assistant principal, Chicago Public Schools Career highlights: Serving as school director / principal of UCSN — Rogers Park for the 2013 - 2014 academic year and earning a Level 1 + on the SQRP; securing a partnership with the David Lynch Foundation and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to bring Transcendental Meditation and the Quiet Time program to the students and staff of Gage Park High School, a valuable tool in helping teachers and staff deal with stress and trauma; increased the number of 2016 Gage Park High School graduates earning early college and career credentials.

Washington — Students from 30 U.S. high schools and a like number of Soviet schools will travel to each other's country early next year as the first participants in a new exchange program, officials announced last week.

After dispensing with Greek and Latin early last century, progressives campaigned relentlessly to discredit all the basic components of liberal education, condemning modern languages, history, geography, literature, higher mathematics, and laboratory sciences as elitist, inappropriate, and even damaging for all but a small number of college - bound students.

New York State Commissioner of Education Thomas Sobol has proposed doubling the number of students who master three years of high - school mathematics as one of 12 strategic objectives for the year 2000 designed to raise academic expectations in the Empire State.

And I'm not just talking about sticking them in some suspiciously named Acme - Higher - Learning - A + - Little - Stanford Academy that offers math and test prep and reading comprehension practice in a windowless room, taught by someone who makes commission on the number of As your student returns with on one test or another.

Online education has become a growth industry, as a rapidly increasing number of high school and college students are taking some of their courses over the Internet.

A number of studies have found a higher incidence of identified disabilities in those states that provide districts with additional dollars for each student diagnosed as disabled.

Starting in the 1980s, states increased the number of courses required for high school graduation, and began mandating students take additional courses in core academic areas such as math, science, social studies and foreign language.

In some states, there are concerns that charter schools are increasing segregation, but as Scharfenberg notes, some of the charter schools in Massachusetts that serve large numbers of minority students are among the highest - performing charter schools in the nation.

That decision by the state board of education, made Jan. 12, comes as a growing number of states are grappling with whether to hold firm on high school graduation requirements even as many students fail to pass graduation exams.

Under her leadership, three times as many students are taking AP English Language and Composition and KIPP Academy Lynn Collegiate has the highest number of students pass the 2016 exam in the entire KIPP network.

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual students are two to three times as likely to be bullied as non-LGBTQ peers, and they're more likely to miss school and almost five times as likely to attempt suicide — the number is even higher for transgender people — according to a major survey of 15,600 high school students by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Although the UK does not have the same gun laws as the USA, it still has high numbers of knife crime and assaults, meaning students and staff are still at risk of an attack from dangerous individuals.

Moving up the rankings By electing to treat students as customers and adopting a commercial market approach to customer service, Edge Hill University's in - house FM team not only saw the institution leap nine places on the higher education rankings table within a year — from 95th place to 84th — but also made a number of cost savings.

Doing so would have a number of positive benefits, including 1) making sure that the taxpayer dollars devoted to this purpose are being spent on those most able to benefit, 2) encouraging students to work harder during high school to prepare themselves for college, and 3) increasing what students actually learn as opposed to the amount of seat time they acquire.

SDP's analyses identified students at risk of dropping out of high school as early as ninth grade, allowing the district to identify schools with high numbers of students in need of intervention.

And even as we watch in wonder as high - performing urban charter schools send increasing numbers of low - income minority students to college, it is hard not to be discouraged by the many more who remain trapped in schools that simply do not work, left to wander through the same opportunity void as their parents before them.

So, as much as we may want ever - increasing numbers of students to graduate high school ready for college and career, amping up the criteria for attaining the general diploma to such a high degree, at least too quickly, is neither the right thing to do, nor is it practically or politically sensible.

To supplement the Basic Grant, the Concentration Grant was added in 1978 as part of an effort to focus funds on districts with higher numbers of low - income students.

The numbers edge higher as kids get older, too: Almost 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent, compared to 12 percent of middle - schoolers and 10 percent of elementary - school students.