Sentences with phrase «disproportionately high numbers of students»

Nationally, schools like Marshall — in the bottom 5 percent in a state — enroll a disproportionately high number of students in special education.

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When discussing student performance on achievement tests, Barton notes that private or religious schools account for a disproportionately high number of National Merit Scholars and says that is because «one school utilizes religions principles and one does not.»

Attorney Richard Washington, student Tyler Anderson of the Debate League and Paul Nichols argued that the numbers and percentages of investigations run suspiciously and disproportionately high among minority legislators.

Unqualified and inexperienced teachers are disproportionately concentrated in schools with the highest number of low - income students and students of color.

The upshot was that a relatively small number of students received a disproportionately high amount of the teaching and resources available.

A June 2014 report released by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) claimed that, «When teachers are absent 10 days, the decrease in student achievement is equivalent to the difference between having a brand new teacher and one with two or three years more experience... Worse yet, a number of studies have found there to be a disproportionately high rate of teacher absenteeism in schools serving low income and minority students, providing yet another obstacle to closing the achievement gap.»