Sentences with phrase «education than the other students»

The double dipping — once from taxes, and again from the Indian Affairs budget — doesn't give Indian children a better education than the other students in the classroom.

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«I've been in education for more than 30 years, and we teach our students to do what you can to help other people, don't just think about yourselves, so that's what I wanted to do,» said Sister Margret.

In many other cases resourcing has become little more than a placement service for students seeking employment as Christian education directors, youth workers or student pastors, and for local churches seeking to book a contemporary singing group for the annual youth Sunday.

In our new aims of education for the 1980's and beyond, therefore, we shall have to dedicate ourselves to bringing back, among other things, the civilized use of language (both written and oral), a sensitivity to beauty, powers of analytical reasoning, the intellectual vision of ourselves as historical creatures, the ability to cognitively articulate ideas rather than let communication skills courses degenerate into merely «touchie - feelie» experiences of «affirming the other,» and finally, a sensitivity to the nuances, complexities, and ambiguities of meanings.7 In this way, and only in this way, our educational system will equip its students for the future with an intellectual vision comprised of both knowledge and foresightful adaptability to environmental changes.

Education can be a major driver of tourism because friends and relatives of students have more of an incentive to visit Australia than other Chinese residents.

The research also shows that an EL education has a greater positive impact on low - income students than on other students.

He further noted that under the free SHS policy, all fees approved by the Ghana Education Service (GES) Council for first year students other than Parent - Teacher Association (PTA) dues, would be absorbed by the government through settlement of the «onetime fee» for all first years — whether day or boarding.

New spending on schools includes $ 107 million in capital and operating funds to provide all schools with gyms or other physical education facilities and more than $ 10 million to offer more students free lunches.

Under the Tennessee Promise program, more than 16,200 students were enrolled in the 2015 - 16 school year at 41 institutions across the state, including at 13 community colleges, 27 colleges of applied technology and other eligible institutions offering an associate's degree program, according to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.

New York spends more money per student than any other state in the country, and yet its schools yield mediocre education outcomes, such as test scores and graduation rates.

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

We are seeing increasing number of students coming from other West African countries to come and study here in Ghana because our education system is much better and is performing well than the system in their country,» he said.

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 NYC Department of Education has been trying to recruit and retain teachers of color, bilingual teachers and male teachers in an effort to have the adults in the classroom look more like the students, who are overwhelmingly students of color with many speaking a language other than English at home.

Going forward, we must work to ensure that all students — regardless of the region of the state or the wealth of the district — have access to a rich array of course opportunities in the humanities, the STEM fields, the Arts, Career and Technical Education, and languages other than English (LOTE),» said Commissioner King.

Education Week is reporting on an Empire Center's report that says over the past decade «public schools hired nearly 15,000 teachers and almost 9,000 administrators, guidance counselors and other support workers over the last 10 years as enrollment dropped by more than 121,000 students.

Over the last 15 years, spending on education in New York has more than doubled, from $ 28 billion to $ 58 billion, and we spend more per pupil than any other state in the nation, yet our students remain in the bottom half when it comes to results.

Further, the graduate education system does not typically expose students to careers other than research.

Another fallacy is that students entering higher education courses in physics and engineering are poorer in quality than students in other subjects.

An important reason for this is the current setup of most university programs: Although German students experience great latitude during their university educations, they study much longer than do their competitors in other countries.

If that's the case, she said, it's still important to boost STEM education for students — if for no other reason than the wide and flexible range of employment options such training gives students — but the situation may be far less dire than many within industry predict.

«Scholarships give our students the gift of freedom: to make career choices based on purpose and passion, rather than the price of education; to use time to study, explore science, and volunteer to help others, rather than working to make ends meet; and to succeed because someone who never met them saw enough potential to invest in their dreams,» said Catherine Lucey, MD, vice dean for education at UCSF's School of Medicine.

Students aged 18 and older, black students, and students with parents with lower education levels were more likely than others to report no nonmedical amphetamine use, despite reporting nonmedical Adderall use, the studStudents aged 18 and older, black students, and students with parents with lower education levels were more likely than others to report no nonmedical amphetamine use, despite reporting nonmedical Adderall use, the studstudents, and students with parents with lower education levels were more likely than others to report no nonmedical amphetamine use, despite reporting nonmedical Adderall use, the studstudents with parents with lower education levels were more likely than others to report no nonmedical amphetamine use, despite reporting nonmedical Adderall use, the study found.

The Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) serves as a voice for professionals, parents, and others interested in the educational and developmental More than 200 student organizations, a variety of activities and events, resource and support services, and exciting athletic events all add up to many

Accountability has been a central theme of education reform for almost two decades, driven by the unchallenged central finding of James Coleman's seminal 1966 study: Although some interventions are demonstrably more effective than others, there's no direct link between what goes into a school by way of resources and what comes out by way of student learning.

Instead, the special education gap begins in kindergarten, when students classified at a young age as having a speech or language disorder are less likely than other students to apply to charter schools.

«China presently has 31 million students enrolled in higher education and produces more Ph.D. s than any other country.

In the last decade, at least 15 state legislatures and boards of education have adopted policies incentivizing their public schools to prioritize measures other than grades when assessing students» skills and competencies.

In schools that had a chance to achieve a Recognized rating, low - scoring students who were not designated as eligible for special education in 8th grade were 2.4 percentage points more likely to be newly designated as such in 10th grade, an increase of more than 100 percent relative to the 2 percent designation rate in other schools.

So he exhorted lawmakers to consider «chartering,» as a way to allow entities other than school districts to establish new public schools that would be open to students regardless of where they lived, thereby beginning to withdraw the monopoly school districts held over the provision of public education.

New research by Morgan, Farkas, Hillemeier and Maczuga once again finds that when you take other student characteristics — notably family income and achievement — into account, racial and ethnic minority students are less likely to be identified for special education than white students.

But then one would recall that other public functions exist, such as health, transportation, and higher education, that make large and urgent claims on the budgets of state governments; that problems other than a lack of money afflict the schools, such as students who arrive unprepared for learning or life in a classroom; and that evidence for the efficacy of money per se is at best mixed.

Since the state department of education not only designs tests but constructs numerous other policies that affect operations both in New York City and elsewhere in the state, it is of interest to learn whether New York City students do as well or better than students across the rest of the State of New York.

In other words, we don't just want to know if black students are more likely to be in special education than whites; we want to know if black students are too likely to be in special education — or, as it turns out, not likely enough.

To find out, we at the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance have asked nationally representative cross-sections of parents, teachers, and the general public (as part of the ninth annual Education Next survey, conducted in May and June of this year) whether they support or oppose «federal policies that prevent schools from expelling or suspending black and Hispanic students at higher rates than other students.»

Using the B&B: 08/12 data, we examine total debt - to - income ratios for individuals who are employed full - time in 2012 and not currently enrolled, and find that black students with graduate degrees have debt - to - income ratios that are 27 percentage points higher than white graduate degree holders (even after controlling for other characteristics such as parental education and income).

In answering that, let's embrace the complexity of compliance and begin by bearing in mind that the defederalization of education that began in the Reagan administration has had serious consequences: the federal agency charged with monitoring the states is hard - pressed to monitor by any means other than to determine whether the state and local education agencies dotted each «i» and crossed each «t» in a student's educational plan.

The Philadelphia School District now spends close to $ 100 million a year on instruction for more than 27,000 special - education students in full - day and part - time classes, more than the total number of students in any other school district in Pennsylvania except Pittsburgh.

They discuss the Coleman Report's finding that family background explained more about student achievement than factors within the control of the school or other things that education policy can influence.

Results were statistically analyzed, finding that the program increased students» awareness and knowledge of their natural environments more than other outdoor education or community service activities.

Education Department spokesman Jim Bradshaw said that all student records, other than campus - crime records, are protected under FERPA.

A Department of Education 2008 report determined that students who seek to master an academic topic with mastery - oriented goals show better long - term academic development than do their peers whose main goals are to get good grades or outperform others, thus the value of including feedback other than formal grades and of metacognition.

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).

While students in Catholic schools (the most common form of private education) and secular private schools are more politically tolerant than students in assigned public schools, the 2 percent of America's students in other religious schools - an amalgam of schools sponsored by many different faiths - score lower on the political tolerance index.

Throughout the analysis, except where noted, I adjusted the data to account for a variety of factors that might influence students» civic education and knowledge other than the kind of school they attend.

Research shows that racial and ethnic minority students are less likely to be identified for special education than white students when you take other student characteristics into account.

As the secretary of education for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Professor Paul Reville oversaw a system of reforms that produced better student - achievement results than any other state in the country.

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.

In a «Dear Colleague» letter released last year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (ED) issued guidance for schools on avoiding discrimination against students on the basis of race when administering school disciplinary policies, and warned that if minority students are subject to disciplinary actions at a higher rate than other students, schools could be faulted for civil - rights violations.

Officials from National - Louis University's college of education said the 7,500 - student university grants more master's degrees in education annually than any other public or private institution in the United States.