Sentences with phrase «bringing middle level students»

He is currently the regional director for a non-profit organization called PLAYSMART, which focuses on bringing middle level students together from rural, suburban, and inner city communities to build leadership.

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And at the postdoctoral level, NTU is working through the SINGA Scheme with A * STAR to recruit candidates from Eastern Europe, Russia and Ukraine, and the Middle East as well as to bring in Singaporean students.

Since 2007, the proportion of D.C. students scoring proficient or above on the rigorous and independent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) more than doubled in fourth grade reading and more than tripled in fourth grade math, bringing Washington up to the middle of the pack of urban school districts at that grade level, while the city's black students largely closed gaps with African American students nationwide.

One out of every five suburban fourth grade young men from middle - class backgrounds were reading Below Basic in 2011, according to Dropout Nation «s analysis of NAEP data, just three points better than levels of illiteracy four years earlier; big - city districts brought down the levels of illiteracy for their middle class students by four percentage points in that same period, with nearly as many students from those backgrounds struggling with reading.