Sentences with phrase «average than other students»

Students may pay more for their education on average than other students in other states, but they will be assured of an enjoyable experience and solid knowledge base from which to launch their careers as medical assistants.

Last year, our diverse, low - income students had a six year graduation rate of 70 percent — a significantly higher average than other students in Arizona.

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The Pennsylvania legislature recently passed a bill that will ensure borrowers are up - to - date on their student loan debt.The average Pennsylvania college student graduates with $ 35,000 in student loans, which is higher than any other state in the U.S. And within three years of graduation, 10 percent of Pennsylvania student loan borrowers default on their debt.In order to combat this problem, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would ensure students stay informed about how much debt they are accumulating.HB 2124 would require all colleges and universities to provide annual notices to students about their outstanding student...

◾ The average GPA for students who were frequently physically harassed because of their sexual orientation was half a grade lower than that of other students.»

Private school students, on average, score better than public school students in reading, math and a host of other subject areas, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Up from 23.4 % in 2007, in 2017 40.6 % of students now spend 3 or more hours each day (on an average school day) playing video or computer games, or using a computer, smartphone, or tablet for something other than school work.

While there are some other, ahem, mature students in my classes, on average I am much older than my classmates.

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.

New York spends more on education per student than any other state in the nation, roughly twice the national average.

The fact is that New York spends more on education per student than any other state in the union — an average $ 18,126 each, according to the latest federal data.

The average student is younger, less biased, more curious, and more critical than other members of society are; they are also not yet so imprisoned by status - oriented professional or financial interests.

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.

This was particularly the case because many societies remain highly segregated: the average American public school student has less than one interracial friend, and around 90 % of people who attend religious services do so only with others of their own race.

Other researchers have found that white students in charter schools transferred from schools that, on average, had a higher proportion of nonwhite students than their new charter school.

In other words, these schools typically received 1 to 4 percent more than the district average, or $ 15,000 to $ 60,000 per school of 500 students in a district where the average school expenditure is $ 3,000 per pupil.

Both student and teacher attendance is higher than at other local schools, with the student attendance rate surpassing that of every other middle school in the district (and significantly better than the citywide average).

While the 42 percent rate of math proficiency for U.S. white students is much higher than the averages for students from African American and Hispanic backgrounds, U.S. white students are still surpassed by all students in 16 other countries.

We estimate that an 8th grader who attends school with 200 other 8th - grade students will score 0.04 standard deviations lower in both math and English than he would if he attended a school with 75 other 8th graders, the average cohort size for a K — 8 school.

In other words, students in this school were 63 times more likely to be average on nothing than average on everything.

The annual average increase in the rate at which Houston's Hispanic students took Advanced Placement exams was five times greater between 2009 and 2012 than that of their peers in the 75 other urban districts vying for the Broad Prize.

Fifteen - year - old U.S. students ranked lower, on average, than their peers in 16 other countries, including those in Finland, Canada, Japan, the Czech Republic, and Ireland, out of 30 total industrialized nations, on the 2006 Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA.

At West Point, only 17 percent of students are female compared to more than 50 percent of students at other four - year schools nationwide, on average (see Figure 1).

The other East Asian countries also feature large classes, with an average of more than 30 students.

When asked where the U.S. ranked relative to other countries in math, the average answer made by a nationally representative sample of Americans surveyed by Ednext was 19, a pretty good guess and barely higher than the official estimate offered by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), which reported that the United States stood somewhere between 22 and 28.

We find that, on average, KIPP middle schools admit students who are similar to those in other local schools, and patterns of student attrition are typically no different at KIPP than at nearby public middle schools.

In other words, black students left graduate school with an average of $ 15,009 more in debt borrowed to finance that education than white students did (see Table 1).

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At the average college or university, only 51 percent of Hispanic students graduate within six years, while the typical six - year graduation rate for white students is 59 percent, says a new report that explores why some schools are more successful than others at graduating Hispanic students.

That amounts to $ 6,439 per student this year, or about $ 2,000 less, on average, than at other Nevada public schools, which receive money from federal poverty and special - education programs.

These recruiting institutions, as measured by rankings, graduation rates, and average SAT scores published by Barron's Profiles of American Colleges, are more competitive, on average, than other, non-recruiting four - year institutions attended by Hispanic students who fall just short of qualifying for the NHRP program.

Some countries, such as Portugal and Kazakhstan, recorded higher proportions of students who very much like reading, while others, including countries who performed higher on average than Australia, had much lower proportions of students who very much like reading compared to Australia.

Minnesota and Massachusetts charter schools enroll a larger percentage of LEP students than the average of other public schools in their states.

They found that students check their phones and other digital devices in class more than 11 times a day on average.

[iii] In addition to enrollment, I also use IPEDS data on net price for low - income students (tuition, fees, room, board, and other expenses less grants and scholarships for dependent students from families making less than $ 30,000 per year), the share of in - state students, and average SAT / ACT scores.

One in four students at Marshall is enrolled in special education — more than twice the district average, and more than in all but five other CPS high schools.

He did not specify how long that school year should be, however he noted that U.S. students attend classes, on average, about a month less than children in most other advanced countries.

Hispanic fourth - graders read better than the average of all students in 31 other states.

The middle schools in which ELL test - takers are concentrated have, on average, significantly higher student - to - teacher ratios than other public schools in the state.

In Florida, which tests students more frequently than most other states, many schools this year will dedicate on average 60 to 80 days out of the 180 - day school year to standardized testing.

In the elementary grades 3 through 5, students of new Teach for America teachers gained an average of 5.8 percent of a standard deviation more on the TAAS reading exam than did students with other new teachers, a difference that fell just short of statistical significance (see Figure 2).

For example, AltSchool is a micro-school network in San Francisco with tuition that is 10 to 15 percent cheaper than the average for other private schools in the city --- and it hopes to scale its model such that the price falls over time to the point that it is only marginally more than the cost of educating a public school student.

Since the grades assigned vary much less across classrooms than does students» performance on standardized tests, high - achieving students should be more likely to earn high grades in classrooms where the other students, on average, do not perform well on external assessments.

That is, if the average teacher's SAT score at highly selective colleges is consistently 50 points lower (or higher) than that of the average student at such colleges, and a similar consistency holds for the other groupings, then we have a good measure of changes in the aptitudes of those entering the teaching profession.

«Gifted» refers to students who achieve, or have the ability to achieve, significantly above average compared with other students in their year group in one or more National Curriculum subjects other than art, performing arts or physical education.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Two independent studies recently released provide new evidence that, on average, the students of National Board Certified Teachers learn more than students in other classrooms.

In all countries, students in the upper tercile of reading achievement answered more science questions correctly, on average, than students in the other two terciles.

Since its inception in 2000, the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)-- an international test of reading, math, and science — has shown that American 15 - year - olds perform more poorly, on average, than 15 - year - olds in many other developed countries.

«New York spends more per pupil than any other state and double the national average, and yet we still fail to give students in Brownsville quality teachers who are supported and have the proper tools to succeed.»

Though they are public school students like any other, each public charter school student is given, on average, $ 2,800 dollars less per year than their peers in traditional public schools.

... IPS has almost four times as many administrators per 1,000 students than the average in other districts in Marion County, and it has nearly twice as many as the average district in the state.»