Sentences with phrase «high percentages of students from»

While this is a reasonable approach, given the high percentages of students from low - income families in CEP schools, such a policy tends to conflict with the heavy emphasis placed by the ESEA on measuring achievement gaps between students from low - income families and other students in establishing performance consequences for schools.

As can be seen in Figure 1a, states with higher percentages of students from low - income families report lower average scale scores in 8th - grade math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

However, both parents and the general public give lower grades to schools with a high percentage of students from poor families.

Across the country, charter public schools are serving a higher percentage of students from low - income backgrounds than district - run public.

And the reality is that, with the exception of students with disabilities, charter schools generally have a higher percentage of students from demographic subgroups that lag academically behind their more advantaged peers.»

Oklahoma schools would have faced similar restrictions on about $ 29 million in federal funding through Title I funding of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which distributes money to schools and school districts with a high percentage of students from poor families.

«Effective Schools» are high achieving schools with a high percentage of their students from low - income families and a high percentage being children of a color other than white.

Levine, Sato, Hashimoto, and Verma (1995) found that only a very few university students from Hong Kong (5.8 %) would agree to marry without being «in love» compared to a higher percentage of students from England (7.3 %).

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* Cities are ranked from highest to lowest student loan & housing costs as a percentage of monthly income (i.e. highest to lowest student loan and housing costs burden).

But you can also read that a higher percentage than ever of students have basically technical majors — from pre-med to exercise science to marketing or public relations to turf management — than ever.

The most recent statistics from the National Athletic Training Association suggest that almost 4 out of 10 U.S. high schools still do not have access to an athletic trainer (although this statistic may be somewhat misleading, as the percentage of high school students with AT coverage is higher, perhaps as high as 70 %, due to the fact that larger high schools in more densely populated states are much more likely to have one or mor athletic trainers on staff), and the likelihood that trained personnel will be present during games or practices at the youth level is low).

According to the 2012 YRBS survey results, the percentage of D.C. high school students who are obese significantly decreased from 17 % in 2007 to 15 % in 2012.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to stop intimidating New York parents and school districts with threats of pulling funding from schools with high percentages of students who opt out of grades 3 - 8 Common Core standardized tests — in essence, telling them to stop trying to «kill the messenger» for their introduction of a flawed system.

Herzek's positive statements on the proposal and access to higher education generally, and his statistic about the percentage of low - income students attending his college, appear verbatim in his endorsement from the governor's press release.

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.

And while the CDC reported that the percentage of middle and high school students who smoke declined from 2011 to 2015, it also said the use of electronic cigarettes in those populations has increased nearly tenfold over that period of time.

An increasing percentage of GM's new hires are selected from its Student Programs, such as the College Co-Op, High School Intern, and College Intern Programs.

The research group of Computational Intelligence Group (CIG) from the School of Computing at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), in collaboration with a veterinary student from Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio and the Department of Ethology from Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest have carried out a research on canine behavior showing that gender, age, context and individual recognition can be identified with a high percentage of success through statistical and computational methods of pattern recognition applied to their barking.

«Within the same university and department,» Tanyildiz wrote in the paper, «the percentage of students from a specific country of origin [is] higher in labs with a faculty member from the same country of origin, compared with labs that are directed by native [i.e., American - born] directors.»

The researchers found that the percentage of high school students who were enrolled in a STEM program or had earned a STEM degree 5 years after graduation dipped only slightly between 1972 and 2000, from 9.6 % to 8.3 %.

Lynch says he's proud of the fact that the schools he's worked in — which have tended to serve working - class students — have had good records and that «a high percentage of the students got jobs; some of them have done quite well from an academic point of view.»

The survey sought to identify issues and successful practices in «inclusive» STEM schools — schools that serve students from groups historically under - represented in STEM fields and with a higher percentage of students who qualify for a free or reduced - price lunch (which is linked to family income)-- as opposed to «selective» STEM schools, which recruit students who have higher levels of prior achievement.

Highlights of this year's NAPLAN results include: • There is evidence of movement of students from lower to higher bands of achievement across year levels and most domains over the last 10 years • Year 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year levels

Despite serving a substantially greater proportion of students from low - income families and minorities than district schools, a higher percentage of CMU schools (86 percent) made AYP in 2010 - 11 than did public schools statewide (79 percent).

The students involved in the project attend two Title 1 schools from Sparks, Nevada — Sparks Middle School and Sparks High School, both with high percentages of students on free and reduced - priced lunch — and Cottonwood Elementary School, a K - 4 school in Fernley, NevHigh School, both with high percentages of students on free and reduced - priced lunch — and Cottonwood Elementary School, a K - 4 school in Fernley, Nevhigh percentages of students on free and reduced - priced lunch — and Cottonwood Elementary School, a K - 4 school in Fernley, Nevada.

A midrange estimate derived from this literature is that about 10 percent of voucher - using students from low - income families in big cities would have attended private schools anyway (the percentage is higher for one - year attendance and lower for more sustained attendance).

The success has been astounding: over the past decade, the percentage of students meeting provincial standards in the annual literacy and numeracy tests for grades 3 and 6 has risen from 54 % to 71 %, and the high school graduation rate has grown from 68 % to 83 %.

Despite widening gaps between highest - and lowest - scoring students, average scores in reading and mathematics were essentially flat from 2015 to 2017, with the exception of eighth - grade reading scores, where the percentage of proficient students increased by two percentage points.

In just one year — from 2009 to 2010 — the percentage of Americans who think that high school students should be given credit for courses taken online has jumped from 42 percent to 52 percent.

Concerned about the absence of black and Latino students in the field of computer science, Margolis launched a three - year study of students» computing experiences at three high schools in Los Angeles — one with a predominately African - American student population, one with a largely Latino student body, and a third with a significant percentage of white students from wealthy families.

When informed that 75 percent of students graduated from high school, the public took that as neutral to mildly good news, as the percentage giving schools an «A» or «B» increased by a trivial 2 points and the percentage getting a «D» or «F» dropped by 1 point (both statistically insignificant changes).

The report examines graduation - rate data from the seven states with the highest percentage of students who are American Indian and Alaska...

And around 4 per cent of students — roughly one per class — reported that they are hit or pushed at least a few times per month, a percentage that varies from 1 per cent to 9.5 per cent across countries, with Australian students (at 6 per cent) at the high end as well.

As we work with states in developing these systems, one of the key components is making sure the information is translatable for parents, that they can understand what percentage of students in that school who are mastering standards and achieving grade - level expectations and whether or not those students are going to be ready to graduate from high school and be successful in college.

And since 1990, the percentage of high school students completing a statistics course grew from 1 percent to 11 percent.

We find that the offer of a voucher increased college enrollment within three years of the student's expected graduation from high school by 0.7 percentage points, an insignificant impact.

In a society where a high percentage of new jobs are in STEM fields, I have to provide students with opportunities to develop the practical science skills that prepare them for these types of positions — that help them become creative thinkers who are able to explore solutions from different perspectives.

Of particular significance in this study was the high percentage of culturally diverse and low income students who were unprepared for college - level reading, including 79 percent of black students, 67 percent of Hispanic students, and 33 percent of students from families with annual incomes below $ 30,00Of particular significance in this study was the high percentage of culturally diverse and low income students who were unprepared for college - level reading, including 79 percent of black students, 67 percent of Hispanic students, and 33 percent of students from families with annual incomes below $ 30,00of culturally diverse and low income students who were unprepared for college - level reading, including 79 percent of black students, 67 percent of Hispanic students, and 33 percent of students from families with annual incomes below $ 30,00of black students, 67 percent of Hispanic students, and 33 percent of students from families with annual incomes below $ 30,00of Hispanic students, and 33 percent of students from families with annual incomes below $ 30,00of students from families with annual incomes below $ 30,000.

Students from high schools with the highest concentrations of Hispanic students and those located in rural areas, as well as students whose parents have less formal education, experience the largest increases in four - year bachelor's degree completion (4 to 8 percentage points) and in the likelihood of attending a college with a Barron's ranking of «most competitiveStudents from high schools with the highest concentrations of Hispanic students and those located in rural areas, as well as students whose parents have less formal education, experience the largest increases in four - year bachelor's degree completion (4 to 8 percentage points) and in the likelihood of attending a college with a Barron's ranking of «most competitivestudents and those located in rural areas, as well as students whose parents have less formal education, experience the largest increases in four - year bachelor's degree completion (4 to 8 percentage points) and in the likelihood of attending a college with a Barron's ranking of «most competitivestudents whose parents have less formal education, experience the largest increases in four - year bachelor's degree completion (4 to 8 percentage points) and in the likelihood of attending a college with a Barron's ranking of «most competitive.»

Still, some of the variation is interesting, particularly when it comes to the percentage of students classified as special - education (from a low of 6 percent to a high of 15 percent).

About one - third of Saint Martin's $ 6.6 million annual budget comes from the two voucher programs, putting the school in a unique category among schools in Ohio with a high percentage of voucher students: unlike other such schools, the state does not pay the bulk of Saint Martin's bills.

In 2013, Maryland's scores were found to be inflated after it was determined that the state excluded high percentages of special education students from the reading exam.

LEAs may choose to provide higher grants per child from a low - income family to schools with higher percentages of such students.

The school districts in New Orleans beat the state average with 77.8 percent, a staggering 25 percentage points above the 2004 rate, when only 54.4 percent of students graduated from high school.

As the percentage of students reading at grade level changes little between 8th and 12th grades, it means that more than 90 percent of Black students in these states are unlikely to graduate from high school college - and career - ready.

Maryland's scores on a national reading test may have been inflated because the state's schools excluded a higher percentage of special - education students than any other state, according to data from the U.S. Department of Education.

If a Title I school has a percentage of students from low - income families that is 40 percent or higher, the Title I program may be operated on a schoolwide basis, meaning services may be provided to all enrolled students.

New Orleans beat the state average with 77.8 percent, a staggering 25 percentage points above the 2004 rate, when only 54.4 percent of students graduated from high school.

While many LEAs allocate the same amount of Title I funds per student from a low - income family to each school chosen to participate in the program, others allocate higher amounts per low - income student to schools with higher percentages of such students.

Paul Peterson and Marty West discuss a new study that examines how high - achieving math students in the U.S. trail those from other countries and what could be done to boost the percentage of high performers in the U.S.