Sentences with phrase «departments with a higher percentage»

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A group of researchers from Monash University's Department of Gastroenterology in Australia first came up with the idea that FODMAPs were the underlying cause of irritable bowel in a high percentage of people who had been labelled with the syndrome.

A record number of city high - school juniors took the SAT exam last year — with black and Hispanic kids posting the biggest percentage - point gains, according to the NYC Department of Education.

The research group of Computational Intelligence Group (CIG) from the School of Computing at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), in collaboration with a veterinary student from Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio and the Department of Ethology from Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest have carried out a research on canine behavior showing that gender, age, context and individual recognition can be identified with a high percentage of success through statistical and computational methods of pattern recognition applied to their barking.

«Within the same university and department,» Tanyildiz wrote in the paper, «the percentage of students from a specific country of origin [is] higher in labs with a faculty member from the same country of origin, compared with labs that are directed by native [i.e., American - born] directors.»

Bilingual program administrators in districts with high percentages of English learners — such as Fresno Unified, Los Angeles Unified and Santa Ana Unified — plan to apply for the competitive grants once details are issued by the state Department of Education.

The study — funded by the Department of Education and the National Institutes of Health — found first - grade teachers with a higher percentage of students with math difficulties in their classrooms were more likely to use student - centered instructional methods (such as the use of calculators, or movement and music to learn math) that have not been associated with achievement gains.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, the higher percentage of dropouts from large schools are associated with serious, additional societal costs such as crime and lifetime earnings.

Following the summer break, the department will recognize the top 10 schools with the highest percentage of participation.

Through the West Virginia Department of Education's Summer Learning Reading and Math Challenge, the schools with the highest percentage of students who pledged to read over the summer could win their choice of reading programs, including Achieve3000.

The analysis from the charter school association, which used data collected by the Michigan Department of Education, concluded the largest gaps were found in the MEAP reading scores — as high as 9.3 percentage points difference in eighth grade; with 43.6 percent proficient for black urban students in charter schools, compared to 34.3 percent proficient for black urban students in traditional public schools, said Buddy Moorehouse, spokesman for the state's charter school association.

With other types of rewards cards, you might earn a higher percentage for groceries, gas, dining, travel or department store spending, and those categories may or may not change.

The states with the highest percentage of electricity coming from coal, according to the Department of Energy, are West Virginia, Wyoming, Ohio, North Dakota, and Illinois.