Sentences with phrase «high percentages of high»

Districts with both low and high percentages of high - need students were more likely to have smaller changes in the share of students meeting the standards when comparing the SBAC and the CST (approximately a 50 % lower share).

Good places to start include HBCUs and Hispanic - serving institutions; high schools and colleges with high percentages of high - achieving students of color; and community or faith - based groups.

He critiqued the city for overspending on the Renewal Schools program and the «politically massaged» school results delivered by the administration, noting that a high percentage of high school graduates are not ready for college coursework.

Across the city, zoned schools in heavily chartered neighborhoods have higher percentages of high - needs children than a decade ago; far higher, in fact, than the surrounding charter schools.

In California, both NME and pertussis clusters were associated with factors characteristic of high socioeconomic status such as lower population density; lower average family size; lower percentage of racial or ethnic minorities; higher percentage of high school, college, or graduate school graduates; higher median household income; and lower percentage of families in poverty.

Since 1998 our union has asked its members what they thought about incentives for «teaching at schools with the highest percentage of high - need students.»

A sampling of the findings suggests that high quality preschool results in fewer years of special education, less grade retention, a higher percentage of high school completion, decreased chance of being arrested or spending time in jail, fewer sexual partners and abortions, higher adult monthly earnings, and less time spent on welfare.

The answer to that puzzle is actually quite simple and has little to do with the fact that Phillips compares average student performance while our study focuses on advanced students: many OECD countries, including those that had a high percentage of high - achieving students, participated in PISA 2006 (upon which our analysis is based) but did not participate in either TIMSS 2003 or TIMSS 2007, the two surveys included in the Phillips studies.

In general, the subject tests are taken by a higher percentage of high - achieving students than the regular SAT.

SAT Subject Test scores aren't comparable to general SAT scores because the Subject Tests tend to be taken by a higher percentage of high - achieving students than the SAT.

This is because the subject tests are taken by a higher percentage of high - achieving students than the regular SAT.

In school districts with higher percentages of high - need students, smaller shares of students meet or exceed either the new Common Core standards as measured by the SBAC, or the old standards as measured by the CST.

SAT Subject Test scores can't be compared to general SAT scores because the subject tests are taken by a higher percentage of high - achieving students than the regular SAT.

Set to underpin more than half of all Volkswagen models by the middle of the decade, the highly flexible structure makes use of a higher percentage of high - strength steel than its predecessor, the PQ35 platform, leading to a 81.6 - pound weight reduction for the platform alone.

The chassis improves significantly with a much higher percentage of high - strength steel — up to 53 percent from just 21 in the last generation Elantra.

Spitzer sent letters of inquiry to mortgage providers including Citigroup Inc, HSBC Holdings Plc, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Wells Fargo & Co in response to data he said appeared to show a significantly higher percentage of high - interest home mortgage loans issued to black and Hispanic borrowers than to white borrowers.

The District of Columbia is one of the most polarized urban areas in the nation when it comes to income, which explains why it has a higher percentage of high - income households than San Jose despite a significantly lower average pay.

ADVERSE SELECTION Occurs when plan enrollees include a higher percentage of high - risk individuals than are in the average population, resulting in the potential for greater health care utilization and, therefore, increased costs.

Not exact matches

Alternative lenders tend to charge much higher interest rates than banks do — sometimes on the order of 50 percent annual percentage rates or more.

That may be one of the reasons many veterans opt to start their own business; in fact, a higher percentage of veterans than nonveterans are self - employed.

Nothing speaks to this more than the fact that Tesla has the highest customer satisfaction levels and the highest percentage of customers who say that their next car will be a Tesla in the entire global auto industry.

There was some positive news last year: Women - led companies made up 4.94 % of all VC deals in 2016 — the highest percentage in the past decade.

First, the encouraging news: A record 86 % of U.S. employees say they are satisfied in their current jobs, the highest percentage since 2004, reports the Society for Human Resource Management.

Financial analytics website SherpaShare says Uber drivers everywhere (except New York City where rates are highest) make in the range of $ 8.80 to $ 11 per hour gross before Uber's percentage is taken.

I certainly want to see a higher percentage of investments for minority - owned startups and women - founded startups.

But Mattel employs a high percentage of seasonal, hourly workers, driving their median employee pay down and causing the ratio to increase.

High percentages of those polled also believe A.I. can make significant advances in eradicating cancer and diseases, developing clean energy, improving education, and boosting global health and well - being.

As high as that percentage might seem to some, the results mirror those of other years in the Kaiser tracking poll.

The bonds of iHeartMedia have long been in the basket of «distressed debt,» meaning their prices have fallen so far to where their yields are at least 10 percentage points higher than equivalent Treasury yields.

Most companies experience cash flow challenges within the first few years of operation and, for a large percentage of those businesses, the obstacle of high operating expenses and compounding debt proves to be too much -LSB-...]

«A very high percentage of designers continue to work with clients for years after the initial contest,» says Doug Beech, co-founder of HiretheWorld.

It's ranked number one for healthcare services out of 150 large American cities, and it has the fourth - highest percentage of residents aged 65 and older.

«The small number of venture firms with female founders and / or an unusually high percentage of female partners invest at elevated levels in female entrepreneurs,» according to a 2016 CrunchBase report on venture capital funding.

In James» 15th season, at age 33, he has scored slightly better than his career average, averaged a new high in assists per game, and posted the third - best True Shooting Percentage of his career.

The disintegration of investment in nonresidential structures and machinery and equipment subtracted almost a full percentage point from GDP; only 2009 and 1982 were worse in that regard, and neither of those years stand out as high points in Canada's economic history.

Most companies experience cash flow challenges within the first few years of operation and, for a large percentage of those businesses, the obstacle of high operating expenses and compounding debt proves to be too much to handle.

An extremely high percentage of successful businesses require advanced technology to compete in the modern economy.

In some industries, such as semiconductors, the percentages were much higher: Immigrants founded 35.2 % of startups.

«A very high percentage of designers

You won't be alone in retiring here — of 150 large U.S. cities analyzed, Cape Coral has the third - highest percentage of residents aged 65 and older.

The top three happiest countries, Norway, Denmark and Iceland, are all among the highest taxed countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in terms of total tax revenue as a percentage of GDP.

Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

And polls with a high percentage of potential voters who are undecided can lead to more uncertainty.

«Even if the evidence allowed that drivers were not obliged to accept all trips, the very high percentage of acceptances required justified the [lower tribunal's] conclusion that, once in the territory with the app switched on, Uber drivers were available to [Uber] and at its disposal.»

According to the most recent Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index, big banks are granting a higher percentage of loan requests than at any time since the mid 2000s.

The percentage of Americans living in poverty has fallen for the second year in a row, but is still slightly higher than in 2007 and still 1.4 percentage points higher than in 2000.

But once the fairy tale has devolved into the routine of everyday life, the fact remains that 50 percent to 55 percent of all first marriages end in divorce; the percentage is even higher for second marriages.

Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

By analyzing data and employing A / B testing to decipher, for example, how its opening in Miami differed from its opening in Atlanta, the company quickly identified key indicators that a market was a good fit, namely cities with «significant population density, restaurant density... and a high percentage of independent restaurants,» says Zabusky.

Las Vegas has the honor of the highest percentage of venture - backed companies with at least one female founder: 26 percent.