Sentences with phrase «high numbers of students from»

«Throughout my work on this bipartisan bill, I've fought hard to make sure schools serving high numbers of students from military families get the resources they need, and for the first time the bill will help shed a light on how they are doing in the classroom,» Murray said in a statement.

Districts with high numbers of students from traditionally lactose - intolerant population (like Asians) can offer soy milk as an alternative, but the cost of individual cartons of soy milk is more than twice the cost of dairy milk, and eats up about half of the approx.

«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.

At a time when many schools throughout the nation, particularly those serving a high number of students from low - income families and students of color, are struggling to find and keep teachers, the leadership of a strong principal takes on added import for student success.

Not exact matches

One trend is the increasing number of students in institutions of higher learning who return to school or enroll for the first time later in life — a far cry from the typical stereotype of undergraduates.

There are indications that an increasing number of seminary students are coming from larger private and state institutions of higher learning and also that the ministry is attracting a growing number of high caliber students.

High school sports are valuable not because of newspaper stories or scholarship offers or the number of students who watch from the pool deck, but rather for what the process of playing at a competitive level teaches those who compete.

Student musicians from Worcester State University and a number of area high schools will also perform.

The restaurant will shift from the east side of the property to the west side and a 10 - foot - wide sidewalk also is being added to accommodate the large number of students from Buffalo Grove High, 1100 W. Dundee Road in Buffalo Grove, who go across the street to visit the McDonald's.

A number of the top - performing school districts — Los Angeles Unified School District and San Antonio Independent School District, among others — serve a particularly high proportion of students from low - income households.

Schools with closed campus generally see higher numbers of students eating in the cafeteria (as opposed to bringing lunch from home.)

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.

A record number of NYC high - school students took and passed at least - one college advanced - placement test last spring — although the percentage of those passing fell slightly from 2016, according to the Department of Education.

Clegg has a 15,284 majority, although the seat includes a high number of public sector managers and students from the city's two universities and three teaching hospitals.

«THE STUDY FOUND THAT BLACK AND LATINO STUDENTS HAVE HALF THE NUMBER OF ADVANCED PLACEMENT CLASSES compared to their white and Asian peers, according to data from 353 high schools in the 2011 - 2012 academic year.

Institutions running more popular courses, on the other hand, can expect a higher number of capable students, chosen from a larger pool of applicants.

From 2001 to 2002, Great Britain saw dramatic jumps in the number of students coming from China (up 71 percent) and India (55 percent), according to England's Higher Education Statistics Agency (Cheltenham, From 2001 to 2002, Great Britain saw dramatic jumps in the number of students coming from China (up 71 percent) and India (55 percent), according to England's Higher Education Statistics Agency (Cheltenham, from China (up 71 percent) and India (55 percent), according to England's Higher Education Statistics Agency (Cheltenham, UK).

Dewasha is convinced that more emphasis should be placed on educating and directing young aboriginal people into high - demand areas and that increasing the number of aboriginal students in science and technology is an important step toward the community's transition from being social dependents to contributing to the economy.

The inadequacy of wet - lab training has, he notes, led «a number of prescient community colleges» to conduct «a «baccalaureate retread» business, allowing undertrained students to become competitive with students from more industry - responsive higher educational institutions.»

Marist is partnering with the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies to host a pilot project aimed at increasing the number of local high school students from underrepresented groups entering STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) careers.

The report from the coalition of 15 business groups calls the decline in the number of U.S. students pursuing higher education in those subjects «a national problem that demands national leadership.»

The upcoming EPE Research Center report examines a number of key issues facing students with disabilities ranging from the demographics of the population, educational settings, overrepresentation of certain student groups, achievement, high school completion, and transitions to adulthood.

Looking at high school graduates, a number of recent state and national reports — including a report from the United States Chamber of Commerce — estimate that in around half of all states, at least 40 percent of higher education students are taking remedial courses, a clear sign that many high school graduates are unprepared for post-secondary work.

During the past 12 years, the period in which inclusion has been used more extensively, the number of students with disabilities who have graduated from high school has tripled; the number attending college has doubled.

One in five students in Australian higher education in 2011 were from overseas, the highest proportion among all OECD countries and against an OECD average of only 7 per cent, which means Australia attracts almost 20 times more international students than the number of Australians who go abroad to study.

With nearly 6.3 million students, California is still far from being able to provide a laptop for everyone, as the state of Maine, with its total number of 189,000 students, was able to do for its seventh and eighth graders (as of fall 2009, about half of Maine's high schools had laptops for each student).

While this number was, and essentially remains, twice the national average of high school graduates who graduate from a four - year college, we were concerned because although nearly all of the students who left our school were college - bound, we suspected we had missed the mark of college readiness for some of our students.

The number of students in each lottery is relatively small, so my analysis combines data from all of the middle - school and all of the high - school lotteries.

For example, there were few differences by age (over or under 30), highest degree attained, the length of time a teacher had student - taught, the number of teaching methods courses taken, grade level taught, community type, and whether a teacher had ongoing guidance from a mentor.

One hundred eighty - seven CSU faculty members from 19 colleges worked with teachers at the 172 high schools in the state with the largest number of students who need remedial help when they get to one of the 23 CSU colleges.

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.

Wilson notes the dramatic withdrawal from arithmetic in the elementary grades that has occurred over the past two to three decades, reflecting the mistaken but increasingly popular view that learning whole number operations (such as the multiplication tables) to the point of instant recall is bad for a student, not necessary to higher math, and impedes students» ability to understand mathematical principles.

It's Valentine's Day, and your high - spirited students are more concerned with how many cards they've received — and from whom — than with the number of elements in the periodic table or with memorizing multiplication tables.

One superintendent of a large, urban school district said that low - income high - school students in his district were beginning to take MOOCs in greater numbers than students from more privileged backgrounds.

Washington — Students from 30 U.S. high schools and a like number of Soviet schools will travel to each other's country early next year as the first participants in a new exchange program, officials announced last week.

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.

Bloomberg turned nearly all the city's high schools into schools of choice, increased the number of charter schools from 22 to 159, instituted a grading system for schools, and closed those that were failing to educate their students.

KH: Over the past 10 years, the total number of students attending schools run by high - performing CMOs increased at least tenfold, from approximately 10,000 students in 2000 to more than 100,000 students today.

Finally, WGU offers only a select number of high - demand degrees, including education, which allows it to gain the benefits of scale from the large number of students in each program.

In effect, the nation's urban high schools, which served increasing numbers of young people from poor and immigrant families, were arguably providing the best academic and, for a smaller number of students, vocational education available in the United States at that time.

Their quarrel centers on high school exit exams: the tests that an increasing number of states are requiring students to pass before they can graduate from high school.

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.

But the reality was that soon the number of students aged 14 — 17 attending high school soared, rising from 359,949, less than 6 percent of the age group, to 4,804,255, almost 51 percent of the age group, between 1890 and 1930 (see Figure 1).

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.

There are a number of research - based SEL programs that enhance students» competence and behavior in developmentally appropriate ways from preschool through high school (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, 2013, 2015).

«Although the number of students from disadvantaged backgrounds entering higher education has reached record levels again this year, there are early signals that the good progress made in recent years may be slowing down.

Although the UK does not have the same gun laws as the USA, it still has high numbers of knife crime and assaults, meaning students and staff are still at risk of an attack from dangerous individuals.

The research, which comprised feedback from undergraduate and postgraduate students, also revealed that the highest number of students seeking help fell into the 30 to 39 - year old and 40 to 49 year - old age categories, with 27.6 per cent and 26.3 per cent respectively.

Moving up the rankings By electing to treat students as customers and adopting a commercial market approach to customer service, Edge Hill University's in - house FM team not only saw the institution leap nine places on the higher education rankings table within a year — from 95th place to 84th — but also made a number of cost savings.

A report by the Australian Council for Educational Research shows a promising outlook for employment growth over the coming years, with a spike in demand for secondary teachers expected from 2018 due to a large number of high - school teachers reaching retirement and a growing population of school students [1].