Sentences with phrase «even higher numbers of students»

With the state English and math tests looming next month, opt - out movement advocates are predicting even higher numbers of students who take a pass than last year.

«The expansion of places for AAB students will lead to an even higher number of students from privileged backgrounds at our most elite institutions,» said University and College Union (UCU) general secretary Sally Hunt.

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Even though Pioneer is considered a «high - needs school» and enrolls a large number of English language learners and children of immigrants, every student gets a chance to learn in Jones» high - tech classroom.

Worries about debt cause untold numbers of students to pursue safer, but limited career paths, or even skip higher education entirely.

And even if very athletic kids need an usually high number of calories, should their unique needs dictate calorie limits for the rest of the student population, which is unfortunately quite sedentary?

The number of students eating free and reduced - price school lunches edged higher in many local districts last year, and appear on pace to climb even more this fall.

It's important to know these numbers, because a school or district with a substantial number of students on «paid» status may be generating a significant portion of their revenue from the paid price for meals, especially if they are charging a paid price around $ 4 or even higher.

If you discount parts of districts that include the University at Albany, where students are not around in great numbers during the June - July petitioning period, that percentage could be even higher.

Most institutions responding to the survey expect the number of students seeking postgraduate study in England to plateau or even decline as a result of the high undergraduate fees introduced in recent years and increasing global competitiveness.

Between 2002 and 2008, the number of high schools in New York increased from just over 250 to nearly 450, even as the number of high school students in the system remained the same.

Indeed, when minority students reach the very highest levels of academic performance, even the number of cross-ethnic friendships declines.

After dispensing with Greek and Latin early last century, progressives campaigned relentlessly to discredit all the basic components of liberal education, condemning modern languages, history, geography, literature, higher mathematics, and laboratory sciences as elitist, inappropriate, and even damaging for all but a small number of college - bound students.

Our sample contained a large number of drama and Advanced Placement (AP) English students, whose knowledge of the plots and vocabulary from these plays may have been relatively high even without seeing a live production.

The student decided that he didn't care for a particular teacher, even though that teacher secured the highest number of votes, and fixed the voting results so that a different teacher won the contest.

Beyond the fact that large numbers of high - school teachers are teaching subjects in which they have neither a major nor a minor, even teachers who do have strong academic credentials are often clueless about how to teach their subjects to students from diverse backgrounds and abilities.

That decision by the state board of education, made Jan. 12, comes as a growing number of states are grappling with whether to hold firm on high school graduation requirements even as many students fail to pass graduation exams.

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual students are two to three times as likely to be bullied as non-LGBTQ peers, and they're more likely to miss school and almost five times as likely to attempt suicide — the number is even higher for transgender people — according to a major survey of 15,600 high school students by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The program is not associated with improved high school graduation rates or increases in the number of students taking college entrance exams, suggesting that the APIP improves the outcomes of high - achieving students rather than those students who may not have graduated from high school or even applied to college.

And even as we watch in wonder as high - performing urban charter schools send increasing numbers of low - income minority students to college, it is hard not to be discouraged by the many more who remain trapped in schools that simply do not work, left to wander through the same opportunity void as their parents before them.

New technologies and staffing strategies allow rural schools to increase the number of students receiving high - quality instruction, even when the supply of local teachers remains limited.

There are fewer Indigenous students in higher ed, even though they have been gains in recent years in terms of the number of Indigenous people coming into universities.

But we see similar patterns in charter schools too: a number of studies have shown that charter school students have a higher chance of high school graduation or college enrollment even when their test scores do not differ on average from their traditional public school counterparts.

And even before California recently revamped its statewide K - 12 funding formula to concentrate more funds in schools with high numbers of ELLs and other vulnerable students, the district was targeting extra money to schools with the greatest number of poor students and English - language learners, he said.

Even if we hadn't introduced a greater number of weaker students into the mix, the scores of our high school students would still be stagnant.

Students of color are even more underrepresented among graduates with education majors, at least 82 percent of whom are white.65 This disparity could be related to a number of factors students of color face, including negative experiences with the public education system; 66 the additional costs and time involved for teacher credentialing; 67 or pressure from their families to seek out higher - earning and higher - status jobs and career tStudents of color are even more underrepresented among graduates with education majors, at least 82 percent of whom are white.65 This disparity could be related to a number of factors students of color face, including negative experiences with the public education system; 66 the additional costs and time involved for teacher credentialing; 67 or pressure from their families to seek out higher - earning and higher - status jobs and career tstudents of color face, including negative experiences with the public education system; 66 the additional costs and time involved for teacher credentialing; 67 or pressure from their families to seek out higher - earning and higher - status jobs and career tracks.68

Research suggests that cutting the number of high school dropouts by even a quarter could contribute more than $ 12 million to the economy for each graduating class — and as much as $ 5 million more if those students go on to college.

Operating mostly in Memphis with mixed results, ASD has selected two middle schools in Nashville, Madison and Neely's Bend, for potential takeover even though data shows the number of students scoring proficient or advanced at the schools are nearly seven points higher than the ASD average.

In a relatively short time, a stunning number of accountability - based leaders have been forced from office on a tide of voter resentment even while, as documented by historian Diane Ravitch, the likes of Gates, Broad, and hedge fund billionaires continue their corporate - style push toward school closures, choice, data - driven student and teacher evaluation, and high - tech innovation.

For students, the number is even higher: fully 95 % of all teens 12 - 17 are online, and 81 % of those use some form of social media.

Many traditional high schools and private schools also grade themselves by calculating the number of their graduates accepted into colleges — but then rarely follow up to ensure that those students even enroll in their freshman year of college, let alone complete their studies to earn degrees.

Given the recent research showing that being suspended even once in ninth grade is associated with a twofold increase in the likelihood of dropping out, from 16 % for those not suspended to 32 % for those suspended just once (Balfanz, 2013), the high number of students suspended, as presented in this report, should be of grave concern to all parents, educators, taxpayers, and policymakers.

Or we could just use the High School equivalent of «My professor sucks.com» and whoever gets the most «5s» — even if these exceed the numbers of students in the class — will get to keep their job.

Even with the high numbers of scholarships and grants available, students often find themselves struggling to pay for school and make a living after graduation.

At Walter L. Cohen College Prep High School, the incoming ninth grade students were far lower than expected, about 121 instead of the 175 budgeted for or even the traditional number of around 140.

The true number of students who transferred to charter schools, however, is even higher than shown in the chart.

According to this number, Mission High is a «low - performing» school even though its college enrollment, graduation, attendance rates and student surveys are some of the best in the country.

CCSA advocates for rigorous academic accountability so that chronically underperforming charter schools are closed and higher performing charter schools can help even greater numbers of students achieve academic success.

Even larger gains occurred in schools with high numbers of poor students, and in schools that had 100 percent black enrollment, lowering class size resulted in 14.7 percent more students exceeding the national median in math, and 18.4 percent more in reading.

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