Sentences with phrase «fifth of students»

Furthermore, approximately one - fifth of students graduating in 2016 carried private student loan debt.

A teacher who wants to read Edgar Allen Poe's «The Tell - Tale Heart» on Monday can only print copies for one - fifth of his students and will have to forgo a printed homework assignment.

A large share of undergraduates at four - year institutions — 40 percent — do not complete their degree in six years, and less than one - fifth of students at community colleges that offer only two - year degrees complete their degrees within three years.

It comes in the wake of a rebellion by parents against testing; one - fifth of students did not sit for the state exams this year, a fourfold increase from the previous year.

For example, although about a fifth of all students in Newark were in the charter sector, almost half of students in «beat the odds» schools were in the city's charter sector (in math).

More than 46 per cent of pupils also said they revise for five or more hours every week, and one - fifth of students said they don't feel supported by teachers.

So that's really important for us in Australia to understand that a fifth of our students might actually be disengaged and not causing any problems, yet we don't really put any resources into those students, or into teachers, to reengage them or find other ways of dealing with them.

On average with active learning, a little more than one - fifth of students failed.

Around one fifth of students statewide did not take the math and English tests required for third through eighth graders.

It led to a boycott movement for the third - through eighth - grade standardized tests that resulted in about one - fifth of students opting out last year.

But nearly one - fifth of students across New York state opted out of taking the English exams when they were given last week, and more plan to skip the math tests.

Dissatisfaction with Common Core and its related tests has led to one - fifth of students boycotting the third through eighth grade math and English exams last spring.

It's unknown whether the retreat from the most controversial effects of the Common Core standards will quell a boycott movement that led to one fifth of students skipping the third through eighth grade standardized tests earlier this year.

It comes in the wake of a rebellion by parents against testing; one - fifth of students did not sit for the state exams this year, a fourfold increase from the previous year.

The increased reliance on the standardized exams in New York led to a boycott of the tests by one fifth of students last spring.

Schools across New York were shaken this spring when nearly one - fifth of students opted out of the required English tests for the third through the eighth grades.

But nearly one fifth of students across New York opted out of taking the English exams when they were given April 14 and 15, and more plan to skip the math tests, which are administered to third to eight graders.

The teachers union rebelled, with protests, and one fifth of students statewide opted out of the exams.

Statewide, more than one - fifth of students skipped the test during the past two years.

Dissatisfaction with Common Core and its related tests has led to one fifth of students boycotting the third through eighth grade math and English exams last spring.

But nearly one fifth of students across New York opted out of taking the English exams when they were given April 14 and 15, and more plan to skip the math tests, which are administered to third to eighth graders.

Harassment & Violence ◾ Nearly a fifth of students are physically assaulted because of their sexual orientation and over a tenth because of their gender expression.

(Three - fifths of the students in the study were low - income, and their scores improved just as much as the scores of the students who were above the low - income cutoff.)

A district student counts as one student, while a charter elementary school student and charter high school student count as nine - tenths and six - fifths of a student, respectively.

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Everyone in the program completes afour - month internship with an area business — important local experience for thethree - quarters of the student body thatcome from abroad — and most complete anapplied business project, a group businessanalysis assignment based on the real - worldexperience gleaned through the internship.Those with an interest in finance can forgothe independent project and instead bolton an optional fifth semester that givesadditional weight to securities, derivativesand investing, covering topics like the mutualfund industry and real estate investing.

Furthermore, college graduates under the age of 35 with student loans are spending nearly one - fifth of their salaries on student loan payments, a Citizens Financial Group debt study revealed.

At Audubon Park Elementary in Orlando, Florida, fifth - grade students will observe a moment of silence for the Parkland victims; younger students will participate in age - appropriate observances, and their parents will write letters to Congress and the White House.

Aaron Cho is a fifth - year co-op student at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business, focusing his studies on finance and human resources.

Now, with this essential funding commitment from the Province, We for She 2018 will continue to bring together women and B.C. students for a fifth annual one - day forum, with the ultimate goal of making gender equality in leadership a priority,» said Iain Black, CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

Bahareh Jokar is a fifth - year political science student and vice-president external affairs of the Alma Mater Society of UBC Vancouver.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the ruling on Friday, saying the family had not persuaded the three - judge panel «that the individual prayers or other remarks to be given by students at graduation are, in fact, school - sponsored.»

Nevertheless, in almost a fifth of our seminaries such instruction reaches only a meager number of students or none.

On this variable, younger theological students closely resemble law students, about four - fifths of whose fathers also have education beyond high school.

We must accentuate the positive of high art, telling our students and kids and friends not «The music and movies you consume are junk,» but «Today, let's try The Magnificent Ambersons, not Breaking Bad,» or «Let's listen to Mahler's Fifth, not Classic Rock — just for a change.»

I bet that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals of Texas would reverse their reversal if an Islamic student cmae up with the same request.

The Boy Next Door — a fifth - rate sleazefest in which an English teacher played by Jennifer Lopez gets «involved» with one of her students — was too dumb to generate much attention when it released last week (its Rotten Tomatoes rating sits at a dismal 14 percent) but it does feature one moment of such straight - faced outlandishness, such eye - popping ludicrousness, that it must be considered worthy of whatever the opposite of an Oscar is.

The Boy Next Door — a fifth - rate sleazefest in which an English teacher played by Jennifer Lopez gets «involved» with one of her students — was too dumb to generate much attention when it...

Ratio Christi's Fifth Annual Symposium and Student Retreat Charlotte, NC October 17 - 18 Join us for a banquet and lecture by Dr. George Yancey, Professor of Sociology at the University of North Texas, following the National Conference on Christian Apologetics.

This year is the fifth anniversary of Rum & Rhythm as a benefit for the CTO Foundation, a charity which offers scholarships and study grants to Caribbean students pursuing studies in tourism and hospitality and related subjects.

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

Now in its fifth year, Fuel Up to Play 60 will select a new class of Hall of Fame inductees each spring — a great incentive for student leaders!

Established in 1956, Clark County School District is the fifth largest school district in the country, educating almost 75 percent of all students in Nevada with more than 320,000 students enrolled in kindergarten through 12th grade.

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

Early planning also allowed plenty of time to identify obstacles and find solutions; at Wascher, this meant relocating garbage cans, a slight adjustment to the custodial schedule, and creating a leadership team of students — fourth - and fifth - graders who would be in charge of delivering breakfast to the classrooms in the morning.

During each lunch period for fourth -, fifth - and sixth - graders, a group of at least 10 students stood in front of Van Wey's table while she quizzed them on what vegetables she brought and handed out tiny plastic cups filled with samples of everything she and her husband, Matt Van Wey, grow at Quackenbush Farm, 2112 N.E. 189th St.

Fifth grade students are asked to examine in depth a societal issue of their choice, and also take an «action» to help ameliorate the problem.

This action was taken despite the fact that our state ranks fifth in the nation for obesity among high school students, and despite public comments reportedly opposing the TDA's plan by an astounding margin of 105 to 8.

And GLSEN's 2015 National School Climate Survey found that over one third of LGBT students said they avoided physical education or gym classes (31.9 %), and more than one fifth avoided school athletic fields or facilities because they felt unsafe or uncomfortable.

She and friends Lizzy Hucker and Ivy Moore, all fifth - graders at Roslyn Road School, also pointed out the relatively high sugar content of beverages such as fruit juice and Gatorade, which students were bringing from home.

KidsQuest KidsQuest is a CDC website designed for students in fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, to get them to think about people with disabilities and some of the issues related to daily activities, health, and accessibility.