Sentences with phrase «high numbers of students who»

In cases where achievement is weighted heavily, as with the current formula, schools with high numbers of students who perform as above on state tests have lower school performance grades of C, D, or F. By simply shifting the formula to 50 - 50, many of those C schools would earn a B, and D schools would move to C, and so on.

The findings are skewed by the high numbers of students who enroll in for - profit schools and end up dropping out before they finish their programs.

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.

Some of the districts» top - performing public high schools were among those with the highest number of students who didn't take the exams: Northside College Prep and Lane Technical High School on the North Side and Lindblom Math & Science Academy, a selective - enrollment school located in the West Englewood neighborhood.

LCFF gives more funds to districts that have higher numbers of students who are low - income, English learners, homeless, and foster youth and gives districts more flexibility in spending.

We had some significant areas of deficiency, where there were a high number of students who were not successful.

«By introducing these Board Examination Systems in pilot high schools in these states as early as the 2011 - 2012 school year, we will begin a process that will ultimately prepare dramatically more students for college success and greatly reduce the high number of students who now take remedial courses in college,» said Tucker.

Not exact matches

Certain countries, for example, in the past have set quotas on the numbers of students who pursue higher education in certain disciplines based on workforce demands.

In its early years, a number of her students in the program were teenagers who had come to the country, unauthorized, at a young age and finished high school, but then could not obtain citizenship or receive any state or federal funds for college.

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.

A top student and football star in South Central L.A., Kitam Hamm is one of a growing number of high school athletes who face life - and - death decisions every day as they try to survive in gang - infested communities

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.

Berger, who spent 25 years working as a public school teacher and educational consultant in rural Massachusetts before joining Expeditionary Learning, clearly feels a special connection with those EL schools, like Polaris, that enroll high numbers of students growing up in adversity.

«Overloaded and Underprepared» joins an increasing number of voices expressing concern about the future of the stereotypical high school student of today — the one with the non-stop schedule who is overstressed, anxious, not getting enough sleep and locked into rigid definitions of success that don't leave room for genuine engagement, critical thinking skills and creativity.

Interesting article:» «Overloaded and Underprepared» joins an increasing number of voices expressing concern about the future of the stereotypical high school student of today â $ «the one with the non-stop schedule who is overstressed, anxious,» Anxiety is comorbid with suicide, and yet PAUSD teachers criminalize anxiety through everyday worst practices in the classroom: excessive homework, test stacking, project stacking, inflexible deadlines, and uncaring response to pleas for relief.

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.

If the number of kids who are eligible for free meals is high enough — and if a high percentage of the student body meets the criteria for other social services — that school may be eligible for free universal breakfast and lunch for all students.

Dr. Opoku Prempeh, who took his turn at the «Meet the Press» series in Accra, indicated that a number of students had been placed by the Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) but could not enroll in Senior High Schools due to the lack of finances.

But that number includes students who will not end up going to SUNY, or the City University of New York, or the community colleges that, together, make up the state's public higher education system.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, between 2011 and 2016, the number of high school students who reported smoking tobacco in the last 30 days declined by more than 15 percent to about 8 percent.

The number of candidates who wrote the 2015 BECE represented an increase of 15,084 over last year's figure of 422,946 final - year junior high school (JHS) students who registered for the examination.

In the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who getsHigh School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who getshigh schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets in.

According to Nana Addo, since the introduction of the policy, the number of students who would have missed out on Senior High School education has dropped by more than 30 percent.

However, Stephen Kelly, the University of Southampton PhD student who ran the model simulations, said «There was a high level of variation between different scenarios, depending on a number of factors.

Because of the tough economic climate and rising cost of higher education, the site has announced that it is seeing a spike in the number of female college students who are signing up to be «sugar babies» as they're called in hopes of paying off their loans.

A recent investigation revealed that several high schools in Washington, D.C., skirted district rules to graduate large numbers of their students who didn't meet the standards for earning diplomas.

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.

The students had the option of not answering the questions on self - harm, however, and about five per cent took that option, meaning that the number of young people who had self - harmed could be higher than indicated.

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.

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.

If we know that not all students learn at the same pace and may not process skills and concepts in the same way, then differentiation is the solution to maximizing the number of students who can apply their understanding of standards on high - stakes tests.

Increasing the number of Hispanic students who complete high school and college by linking families to academic and community resources is the goal of the ENLACE Initiative.

Expressing concern about the number of high - school graduates who require remedial education in college, the North Carolina State Board of Education has approved a $ 100,000 study of the students» educational history to determine «where things went wrong.»

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.

The goal of the ENLACE Initiative, a project funded by the philanthropic W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is to support Hispanic students» academic efforts and increase the number of Hispanic students who complete high school and college.

A better denominator would be the number of students who had enrolled in high school four years ago, when most students will not have reached the age at which they legally can stop attending school.

While there will always be some students who struggle or who don't put in the work to get a good grade, a high number of students getting lower than expected results could highlight a problem with your content rather than the blame falling on the students.

Many of these schools had higher proportions of students living in challenging circumstances: high poverty and low parent education, or high numbers of students whose first language was neither English nor French and who were struggling with academic language proficiency.

Or look at Niobrara County's Wyoming Virtual Academy, which receives a high number of high school transfer students who are behind in credits and not on track to graduate.

The school characteristics include whether it is in an urban area, grade level (e.g., high school), the number of students enrolled, student - teacher ratio, the percentage of students who are eligible for the free or reduced - price lunch program, the percentage of minority students, and measures of student achievement in reading and math.

Program Links Hispanic Families to Education Resources The goal of the ENLACE Initiative, a project funded by the philanthropic W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is to support Hispanic students» academic efforts and increase the number of Hispanic students who complete high school and college.

Health - care costs are highest for those with the least education, so the brief calculated savings by looking at lifetime Medicaid costs and health expenditures for those without insurance and the number of students who drop out of high school.

School districts certainly don't have any incentive to limit the number of students who take the SAT with extended time, since higher scores look good to parents, taxpayers, and real estate agents.

New York State Commissioner of Education Thomas Sobol has proposed doubling the number of students who master three years of high - school mathematics as one of 12 strategic objectives for the year 2000 designed to raise academic expectations in the Empire State.

And I'm not just talking about sticking them in some suspiciously named Acme - Higher - Learning - A + - Little - Stanford Academy that offers math and test prep and reading comprehension practice in a windowless room, taught by someone who makes commission on the number of As your student returns with on one test or another.

No matter how well prepared the majority of students are when they enter high school, there will always be those students who don't fit the program — for any number of reasons.

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.

50 percent: That is the extraordinary number of minority students in the United States who do not finish high school on schedule.

NPR looks into the «summer melt» phenomenon — the large number of poor high school students who say they are continuing on to college but fail to show up in the fall.

Though justified by claims that these curriculum changes increased equal opportunity of education, in reality they had a grossly unequal impact on white working - class young people and the growing number of black students who entered high schools in the 1930s and 1940s.