Sentences with phrase «dropped out of the student»

However, 113 students dropped out of the student cohort between first and second grade because of grade retention or because they moved to another school.

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especially students who are about to drop out of school.

Mark Kantrowitz, an expert on student aid and publisher of the Edvisors Network, believes students should receive better counseling about their loan repayment options — especially students who are about to drop out of school.

The free - flowing capital also renews old questions about the school's role in luring bright students to drop out of school for the next big thing.

The findings are skewed by the high numbers of students who enroll in for - profit schools and end up dropping out before they finish their programs.

Critics argue that students who drop out of school lack the well - rounded approach to innovation and discovery; Thiel disagrees.

Our preliminary data already show the importance of certain beliefs for success in physics courses and a student's inclination to continue in or drop out of physics, and it shows that most teaching practices have a detrimental impact on all of these critical beliefs.

Some programs, like the Thiel Foundation, encourage students to drop out of school to start a company.

1) 50 % of students drop out of college so those students have similar payments without the commiserate increase in compensation.

When I was teaching at the New School already 50 years ago, graduate students were dropping out of the field because they couldn't fit reality into the curriculum.

Students who want to drop out of college ask me all the time now what they should tell their parents.

And it's hardly racially balanced: Black students are three times more likely to be suspended or expelled than white students, according to the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, and research in Texas found students who have been suspended are more likely to be held back a grade and drop out of school entirely.

By his way of thinking, the most pressing problems include a dramatic drop in college and university endowments, an ever increasing number of graduate students and recent PhDs who will likely never secure full - time academic jobs, and a graying, backward - looking professoriate that refuses to get out of the way.

Colleges may still have to certify they do not discriminate in order for their students to be eligible; and the threat of liability from private lawsuits may be just as effective as an agency decision in driving the college either to drop out of the grant program or to violate its religious tenets.

We hear it whenever a high school drops its traditional pre-football game prayer out of respect for those students who may be Jewish or Muslim or non-religious.

By the way, to their credit, over the years I don't know of a single conservative student who has dropped out.

Although Malcolm was an outstanding student and extremely popular among his peers, he dropped out of school when his white eighth grade English teacher discouraged him from becoming a lawyer and suggested carpentry as a more «realistic goal for a nigger.»

Mark Callendar, a student who had mysteriously dropped out of Cambridge to work as a gardener, has committed suicide; his father, Sir Ronald, asks Cordelia to investigate the circumstances.

For me they include drop - outs who have dropped back into life, students who were almost total failures in their first years of study who, given another chance, made good.

Johann Lang, in a letter to Spalatin in March 1516 (shortly before he was appointed to Erfurt) referring to the large numbers of students who were dropping out of the courses on scholastic philosophy and theology, and explaining the rebirth of biblical studies (he used the Renaissance type word reviviscere) and the new Strong interest in antiquae scriptores, identified the phenomenon by pointing to the international influence of Reuchlin and Erasmus, «men of great erudition and integrity».

The Depression cut college enrollments in the fall of 1932 — about one student in every 15 dropped out for money reasons or was unable to matriculate — and the survivors began to think of themselves as a rather more «serious» generation than their predecessors.

Talking in front of some Florida students recently, Jim McElwain dropped a «We're headed to Dallas here in a couple weeks to go beat the heck out of Michigan!»

Last week the Associated Press ran a widely disseminated article indicating that: some schools around the country are dropping out of the healthier new federal lunch program, complaining that so many students turned up their noses at meals packed... [Continue reading]

Based on Mathematica's prediction within this narrow price range, Food and Nutrition Services extrapolated its own formula in order to respond to the Senate committee's request for an estimate: For every cent the price of lunch increases, students who pay full price will drop out at a rate of.11 percent.

It would be really good to know if students who «drop out» of the lunch program are spending more or less money for their lunch.

In Horwood's long - range study that followed children from birth to 18 years or the completion of high school, breastfed children were rated as more cooperative and socially better students the longer they were breastfed.17 When drop - out rates were calculated, the rate was higher among children who had been bottle - fed and lowest among those who had been breastfed equal to or longer than eight months, even when data were adjusted for maternal demographics.

Domino's, Schwan's and General Mills all increased their K - 12 food service sales last year even through more than a million students have dropped out of the National School Lunch Program since nutrition changes kicked in.

The USDA, which manages the NSLP, could not provide specific information about districts participating leaving program, but most that have come out publicly about dropping the program have predominantly white populations of students and have a very low percentage of students receiving free or reduced - price lunches.

Involvement has been shown to increase grades, leads to more consistent homework completion, improve student behavior at school, increase high school graduation rates, reduce school drop - out rates, increase college attendance, and lower rates of experimentation with tobacco, alcohol, and recreational drugs.

TLT Kid - and - Food hero Janet Poppendieck cites in «Free for All» that as a result of this legislation, «Nearly 2,700 schools dropped out of the program, and as lunch prices jumped in schools across the nation, participation by full price students declined from 15.3 million in 1979 to 11.2 million in 1983.

Richer institutions in the Russell group of elite universities can afford to pay out annual bursaries of # 1,791 to students, but less well - funded universities are forced to drop their offers to around # 680.

The victims mostly farmers, traders, drivers, teachers, festish priests, and small scale miners have been excrutiatingly affected by the collapse of the leading to some deaths, students dropping out of children, and collapse of businesses.

Cafeteria Chats and Student Journals are part of American Graduate — Let's Make It Happen — a public media initiative to address the drop out crisis, with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to help local communities keep more students on the path to graduation.

Her schools have endured scathing reports on disciplinary procedures and attacks from teachers» unions and rival charters, noting that Success Academies rarely refill the seats of students who drop out or are expelled, leading to far smaller class sizes.

A program continues to rescue students who are «at - risk» of dropping out at some of Buffalo School District's lowest performing schools.

Every year, over 1.2 million students drop out of high school in the United States alone.

Opponents of free higher education cite «record numbers of working class students» attending university, but what good is that when eight percent drop out just like I did?

It is also to enable students dropping out at the SHS who otherwise would have continued to acquire functional skills, as well as increase the chances of students from poor background accessing high education to reduce the cost of education of many households.

According to Nana Addo, since the introduction of the policy, the number of students who would have missed out on Senior High School education has dropped by more than 30 percent.

One commonly used definition of a «good» school is one that has high academic outcomes in absolute terms - its students don't drop out, frequently go to college, frequently go to selective colleges if they do go to college, frequently find decent jobs if they don't go to college, perform well on standardized tests, take more advanced classes such as advanced placement, international baccalaureate, honors and college classes, etc..

Of the 569 students who attended the four closing high schools during the 2010 - 11 school year, only 47 percent graduated with a local or Regents diploma (lower than the citywide average by 15 percent) and 22 percent of them dropped out or were discharged (more than twice the citywide averageOf the 569 students who attended the four closing high schools during the 2010 - 11 school year, only 47 percent graduated with a local or Regents diploma (lower than the citywide average by 15 percent) and 22 percent of them dropped out or were discharged (more than twice the citywide averageof them dropped out or were discharged (more than twice the citywide average).

According to the concerned residents, the emerging illegal mining in the community has led to pupils and students dropping out of school.

The State University of New York is asking the state to help it expand a pilot program meant to get students with student loan debt who drop out of college help in finishing their degree.

This is the result of the shortcomings of the Italian undergraduate education system: 88 % of students take longer than the scheduled 4 or 5 years to achieve a laurea (on average they need 2 or 3 more years), and over 60 % of freshmen drop out (1998 figures).

Among the old - for - grade students, the likelihood of dropping out and being convicted of a serious crime is 3.4 times greater for those born to an unwed mother and 2.7 times greater for those whose mothers were high school dropouts.

The old - for - grade students are more likely to drop out and be convicted of a felony before age 20.

This means that for every 10 students who enter the College of Natural Sciences and participate in FRI, two will graduate who would have otherwise dropped out or taken longer than six years to get an undergraduate degree, and almost three more students will wind up with a STEM degree, as opposed to changing majors, because they participated in FRI..

Establish a minority support group or other cultural outlets, since some minority graduate students drop out of graduate school because of dissatisfaction with the social life rather than the intellectual environment.

«The study, which tracked the students for 6 years, found an attrition rate of 48 % for STEM majors (20 % dropped out and 28 % switched to a non-STEM major).

«Substance abuse is the topic of high public interest, yet little attention is given to the experiences of college students with disabilities,» wrote the study authors Steven L. West et al. «Given that binge drinking is highly correlated with academic failure, drop - out, and an increased risk for various negative health conditions, such use by students with disabilities may place them at extreme risk for various negative outcomes.»