Sentences with phrase «give the incoming students»

I tell the students to list a couple of tips that they'd like to give the incoming students about my social studies class and how to be...

I tell the students to list a couple of tips that they'd like to give the incoming students about my social studies class and how to be successful.

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For every paid membership, we give a free one to a low - income family, teacher, student, or veteran, because we really want everyone to have access, regardless of wealth.

- The Student Debt Repayment Assistant was launched to give borrowers information on whether they qualify for income - based repayment, deferments, and alternative payment programs.

In 2010, HBS became her first customer, buying bottles to give out to all incoming students.

To improve the quality of incoming classes, Booth shifted its policy, giving money to highly desirable students who might otherwise have gone elsewhere.

Income - driven repayment plans are only available for federal student loans (except for loans given to parents), and they reduce your monthly payment to a certain percentage of your iIncome - driven repayment plans are only available for federal student loans (except for loans given to parents), and they reduce your monthly payment to a certain percentage of your incomeincome.

Higher prices in the «real» economy may help maintain the circular financial flow, by giving borrowers more current income to pay their mortgages, student loans and other debts.

When you refinance your federal student loans, you are giving up repayment options, including the options to defer payments or enroll in an income - driven repayment plan.

Hogan's budget, analysts said, would expand a statewide program that gives students from low - income families money to attend private schools.

So, the government encourages spending by giving you tax breaks on debt (i.e. mortgage interest deduction, student loan interest deduction), but they tax you for savings (i.e. capital gains, interest income, etc..)

What they gave the USDA was a modeled prediction based on all sorts of data the firm collected from 2,314 students at 398 schools that year, including the types of food served, the amount of time kids were given to eat, prices charged, and interviews with children and their parents revealing what the kids typically ate in the course of a day and family income.

St. Louis financial planner Chad Slagle recommends determining how much coverage to get this way: «Add up all your debt — autos, house, credit cards, outstanding student loans — and calculate how much insurance would pay off that debt and then give you enough interest income to cover your expenses while staying home to take care of your family.»

His first book, «Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America,» gave him an appreciation for Canada's efforts to change outcomes for low - income students in New York City.

With public financing and the alignment of the governor with the legislature, Connecticut passed mandatory paid sick days, increased the minimum wage, adopted an Earned Income Tax Credit, passed in - state tuition for undocumented students, and reversed a nearly 30 - year trend that gave bottle deposits back to distributors and redirected the money to public programs.

Amid calls for more integration in New York City's public schools, 19 schools will give priority in admissions for next fall to low - income students or English language learners, joining seven already in a «diversity in admissions» pilot project.

He wants to give low - income students more access to a higher education.

Community colleges give placement exams to decide whether incoming students need remediation, but in some instances those exams test things that were never taught in high school.

But Benjamin cautioned that members of the black and Latino caucus are very much opposed to the idea of untethering SUNY from the Legislature's control, in part due to a concern that tuitions would rise out of the reach of low and middle - income students, but also simply because lawmakers don't like the idea of giving up control of anything.

«To sponsor the Ghana Premier league with capital injection of one million dollars each season, to remove Airport Taxes, to remove utility bills paid by university students living on campus, to increase and give Ghanaians high quality infrastructure nationwide, loans from Western World will be abolished, Woyome will pay back our money, continuation of Mahama projects and we will use our oil wealth income to clear all Ghana's debt.»

Simply giving more financial aid fails to directly address the lack of access most low - income students have to elite schools.

Given the lengthening time - to - degree for graduate students and the increasing time spent in postdoc positions, for many, stipends might constitute 25 % to 30 % of a young scientist's lifetime income!

If you want to teach one - on - one to college or university students who don't have any expendable income yet, you might be of greater service offering your sessions at a lower price point, offering group sessions that are more affordable, or create an online program or subscription model your chosen perfect client can afford, will be happy to pay for and will give them the most possible benefit.

I agree that giving low - income students just 12 percent more funding in an ESA program is not enough, but it's important to note that few people balk at students in communities such as Incline Village receiving some 60 percent more funding than average.

And we know that many low - income students — especially strivers and high achievers — are not well served in classrooms with students that are three, four, or five grade levels apart at any given time, or that are overseen by administrators unwilling to enforce discipline standards.

Giving low - income students the chance to be in an environment with high academic and behavioral standards strikes me as a victory for equity, not a loss.

For instance, the Cleveland Scholarship Program gives enrollment preference to low - income students, but includes students of all income levels.

Given the growing importance and benefits of higher education to so many facets of society, one might believe that providing access to college for low - income students would be a top governmental concern.

A new scholarship program launched this summer gives bright, low - income rural students the chance to take part in a challenging summer program at sites across the country.

The lottery process for oversubscribed grades gave preference first to students who previously attended the school and their siblings, then to low - income students applying to schools that previously did not have a majority of low - income students, and finally to students applying to a school within their «choice zone» (which would guarantee them access to district - provided transportation).

Stanford economist Caroline Hoxby has shown, for example, that talented students from low - income families are more likely to select elite universities if they are given specific information about the costs of attending them.

This finding is especially distressing given that lower income students are likely to benefit more than their higher income peers from receiving individualized attention ~ particularly as regards to college and career readiness.

With Yoni Ki Baat, we gave space to stories often seen as taboo within South Asian culture; Blasian Narratives brought a multi-racial perspective; and the Pan-Asian graduation allowed Asian students who are first - generation college students from low - income backgrounds a place to have their accomplishments acknowledged and affirmed.

Early College high schools — a nationwide model to help low - income and minority students become college ready — are giving underserved students an opportunity to better their lives and the lives of their families and communities.

A more realistic form of targeting is the method actually pursued by CMS, giving preference to low - income students within the lottery system.

The actual CMS lottery system gave preferences to low - income students who applied to schools with a low fraction of low - income students.

In cases where schools were oversubscribed, the CMS lottery system gave preferences to low - income students who applied to schools with a low fraction of low - income students.

Charters that succeed with low - income children go full bore: all - out culture building in the classroom, students and staffers willing to endure longer school hours, bright teachers willing to adapt to precise training regimens and relinquish a fair amount of privacy (giving out their cell - phone number for afterschool homework questions, for example).

To make sure students met California state standards, Carpenter adopted a curriculum from the Global Education Partnership, a nonprofit organization that gives students in low - income communities access to educational resources with a business focus, in 2001.

Districts with higher opt - out rates tend to serve fewer disadvantaged students and have somewhat higher test scores (which is not surprising given the correlation between family income and test scores).

In theory, giving low - income students a head start at age four will help them become better readers and better learners.

If poor families were given vouchers redeemable at the schools of their choice, and the achievement of some students rose, it would call into question Rothstein's notion that income is the master variable.

School choice programs seek to address this inequity by providing low - income students with access to educational options that best meet their individual needs, giving them the best chance to succeed in life.

This is not surprising in some ways, given problems in current educational practice: we tend to provide less funding, have fewer outstanding teachers and principals, and require less rigorous coursework in schools that serve lower - income students.

Those students will cheer, give high - fives, and otherwise congratulate the incoming underclass.

«Folks that were using it told us they felt giving just the one - time snapshot of the incoming grade - nine students wasn't enough,» says Jenny Curtin, coordinator for high school graduation initiatives in the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

There is no doubt that Uncommon Schools has given thousands of low - income students throughout the Northeast great options since the charter management organization (CMO) was created by Norman Atkins in 2005.

While it's undoubtedly provided resources to low - income schools, given the persistent underperformance of countless of its recipients, there are legitimate questions about how effective it's actually been at improving student learning.

Pisces also gave about $ 35 million to fund the national expansion of the instructionally demanding Knowledge Is Power Program charter schools, which serve mostly low - income students.

In other words, should students from low - income families or families that speak English as second language be given some leeway when it comes to testing cut - off scores?