Sentences with phrase «generation students going»

«For some students — especially first - generation students going to college — they may not have the vocabulary and skills to start the college application process,» says McCombs.

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In fact, these days, the students are more quickly becoming the teachers as companies going through the millennial workplace revolution are getting their 18 to 35 - year - old employees to teach generation Xers and baby boomers a thing or two about integrating tools like social media and crowd sourcing into their modus operandi.

This means the 10 % of income going towards student loans for 10 - 20 years after school will massively reduce discretionary spending for 20 - 40 year olds compared to prior generations.

For example, our Institute for Sustainable Investing helps develop the next generation of long - term - oriented business leaders, in partnership with INSEAD and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, challenging teams of graduate students from around the world to demonstrate how investing can go hand - in - hand with positive social impact.

I believe that the contemporary student generation's concern for freedom in higher education and their recognition of the slavishness of much of what goes by the name of liberal studies points toward the need to restore the lost element of leisure in the life of learning and to renew the conviction that understanding contains its own rewards.

And Placher specifies some of the authors his generation of graduate students at Yale were moved by their mentors to go beyond.

As the class discussion went on I became aware that Coffin's theological posture, though the core of a robust political ethic, was not fully connecting with the new generation of theological students.

By going meat free once a week at lunchtime, and participating in lessons which address the issues behind MFM, students will learn what it means to be more responsible global citizens and will better understand how the choices they make today will affect them and future generations.

Yet still more are first - generation fans, having gone to their first games as college students.

She was key in providing support for hundreds of students that earned college degrees and in many cases those student went on to become role models for the next generation.

Yet, here they are today fighting for their fellow youth, for other kids whom they have never met, that they never have to go through what the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas went through.These kids are simultaneously dealing with personal trauma, and trying to save strangers, future generations.

He expects the town will have to go through high school yearbooks to track down generations of the students who left and didn't return to see if they are suffering any ill effects.

And one of the main aims I have really in these countries is to find young, local people that are enthusiastic about being out, that go with me, work with me, and then, one hopes continue, on in this work and WCS has been funding some of these people and now we are already in the third generation of some of whom that started out with me, went onto become professors, and have their own students doing the same thing.

The Gallows DVD Review by Kam Williams Horror Flick Features 2nd Generation of Grisly Goings - on at Haunted High School Back in 1993, a student accidentally died onstage during the opening night performance of «The Gallows,» a macabre play being staged at Beatrice High.

In the absence of proactive outreach to and support for low - income and first - generation students, many bright, resilient students who have worked hard to get to college and ardently want to go may fail to do so as a result of the behavioral obstacles they encounter.

I hold certain identities near and dear to my heart — as a 1.75 - generation immigrant from Peru; the oldest of six children; a child of a low - income, single - parent family; a first - generation college student — the list goes on.

But those enthusiasts are outliers in education, for Direct Instruction, however effective, goes against the grain of generations of teachers trained and flattered into the certain belief that they alone know what's best for their students.

«The majority of our students are first - generation college goers,» says Marcario Hernandez, Trinidad Garza's assistant principal.

A common presumption has been that low - income, first - generation students don't possess college - going aspirations, or that they lack information about what is required and necessary.

In particular, Smith says she has one big goal: for every student — but particularly low - income, minority, and first - generation college students — to have adequate preparation in high school for college, and for them all to have the opportunity to go to four - year colleges without incurring significant debt, if that is what they desire.

Whether today's students go on to be artists, doctors or politicians, we know that the challenges their generation faces will demand creative solutions.

What students love most about this game is that it is competitive and they love watching other populations go extinct while they continue to survive each generation.

Going forward, though, how a more robust federal partnership might yield the next generation of benefits, especially to raise students» capacity to read and reason, is the pressing question.

The phenomenon is even more pronounced for lower - income and first - generation college - going students, who often lack the supports of their higher - income peers.

«I founded WEF with the mission of restoring and replicating this extraordinary experience for future generations of students whose enormous potential will go untapped if they remain in traditional schools,» Wild says.

So the idea behind Digital Equalizer is to target students who would otherwise have no choice but to go into the same low - paying sectors their families have been working in generation after generation.»

A whole generation of students has come and gone, yet our nation's key education law remains the same.

«This helps students see themselves on a college journey even if they may be the first generation of their families to have the option of going to college.

But active learning made all students perform better than in lectures, halved the achievement gap for black students, and completely closed it for first - generation college goers.

During the pilot year, students were part of program for first - generation college - goers.

On next - generation assessments: PARCC [the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Career, the assessment consortia to which Louisiana belongs] is going to affect the number of students completing tests successfully.

He spent nine years teaching math as a founding teacher of the New York Harbor School, an innovative public high school where he also worked closely with teachers, families, and college admissions offices directing the college access process for first generation college - going students.

College Matters: Supporting Low - Income and First Generation Students What does it take to get to college, especially if you are the first in your family to go?

Community colleges are full of students who are a lot like the students at YES Prep and the other urban charter schools Duckworth is studying: first - generation college students from poor families who have to balance work and family while going to school.

It's a similar premise to EcoMUVE, EcoLearn's first - generation program, but now students can go beyond making observations to actually conducting simulated experiments, and they have a much larger, more varied ecosystem to analyze.

YES reports a six - year graduation rate of 41 %, which is four times the national average for demographically similar students (97 % of YES Prep students are Hispanic or African - American, and 90 % would be first - generation college - goers).

The mission of the Michigan College Access Network (MCAN) is to increase college readiness, participation, and completion in Michigan, particularly among low - income students, first generation college - going students, and students of color.

College matters for young people of all backgrounds, and especially for first - generation college - goers and minority students.

Recipients of the Star Award go above and beyond to help students, particularly those that are low - income, first - generation students, gain access to higher education.

About Michigan College Access Network As the leader in the state's college access movement, MCAN's mission is to increase Michigan's college readiness, participation and completion rates, particularly among low - income students, first - generation college going students, and students of color.

As the leader in the state's college access movement, MCAN's mission is to increase Michigan's college readiness, participation and completion rates, particularly among low - income students, first - generation college going students, and students of color.

About Michigan College Access Network As the leader in the state's college access movement, MCAN's mission is to increase college readiness, participation and completion rates in Michigan, particularly among low - income students, first - generation college - going students and students of color.

These LCANs coordinate programs, services and resources that lower the barriers preventing students - particularly low - income and first - generation college - going students and students of color - from pursuing postsecondary educational opportunities.

Like Gonzalez herself, many of IDEA's students are first - generation college - goers.

This conflict should be avoided with the Common Core State Standards because an equal amount of effort is going into the development of next generation, computer - adaptive student assessment systems that will more robustly measure student learning against the standards.

UPCOMING AYPF EVENTS Webinar — Moving the Needle for First - Generation College Students: Innovative Strategies to Support Completion (Monday, December 19, 3PM - 4:00 PM ET) Nearly one - third of college - going students each year are first - gGeneration College Students: Innovative Strategies to Support Completion (Monday, December 19, 3PM - 4:00 PM ET) Nearly one - third of college - going students each year are first - genStudents: Innovative Strategies to Support Completion (Monday, December 19, 3PM - 4:00 PM ET) Nearly one - third of college - going students each year are first - genstudents each year are first - generationgeneration.

Watch this brief video to learn more about how charters are helping more students - including thousands of minority, low income, and first - generation college - going students - be prepared for college, apply to college, be accepted to college, and attend college.

In fact, a recent study by CCSA revealed that charter schools are helping to increase access to college for thousands of historically disadvantaged youth in California, including minority, low income and first - generation college - going students.

Support the «Advise Michigan» program to recruit, train, and place recent college graduates as college advisers in high schools that serve significant members of low - income and first - generation college - going students.

Overview Nearly one - third of college - going students each year are first - generation.