Sentences with phrase «high percentages of students in»

Other options include lengthening of the school day and / or school year or more selective hiring and better training of teachers in those schools with high percentages of students in need of accelerated progress.

Taking the growth percentiles as a valid measure of teaching would have you believe that the distribution of ineffective teachers in New Jersey just happens to directly concentrate into schools with high percentages of students in poverty and low overall proficiency levels on standardized tests.

As mentioned, receiving an A does not indicate that a high percentage of students in a state are proficient.

A higher percentage of students in West Virginia attend small schools at all three levels — elementary, middle, and high school — than in most other states.

The study includes a high percentage of students in their first year in an online school.

In general, the higher the percentage of students in a school eligible for Free Lunch, the lower the percentage of students who score proficient or above on state tests.

A significantly higher percentage of students in the traditionally structured algebra credit - recovery classes earned a grade of C or higher (44 percent) than in the online classes (about 30 percent).

Here are the 10 school systems with the highest percentage of students in charter schools.

This then changes the denominator in the percentage formula so that LEA units serving exactly the same number of students, now serve a higher percentage of students in the EC program.

Public charter schools in Indiana served a higher percentage of students in special populations when compared with traditional public schools in 2012 — 13 (14 percentage points more).

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The result: Stanford tends to attract a very high percentage of prospective students who want to do their own thing and, once in Silicon Valley, the school serves up enough opportunities to push the odds in their favor.

Today the city schools have the highest percentage of ESL students in Virginia.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

An article about salary and bonus data at top business schools highlights Tuck as the school with the highest percentage of students receiving signing bonuses among those ranked in the top 10 by U.S. News & World Report.

In WILTW May 26, 2016, we pointed out that more Americans in the 18 to 34 - year old age group were more likely to be living with their parents (32.1 %), the highest percentage since the 1930s, as opposed to living with their spouse or partner in a separate household (31.6 %)-- the unfortunate result of too little high - wage job creation and too much student loan debIn WILTW May 26, 2016, we pointed out that more Americans in the 18 to 34 - year old age group were more likely to be living with their parents (32.1 %), the highest percentage since the 1930s, as opposed to living with their spouse or partner in a separate household (31.6 %)-- the unfortunate result of too little high - wage job creation and too much student loan debin the 18 to 34 - year old age group were more likely to be living with their parents (32.1 %), the highest percentage since the 1930s, as opposed to living with their spouse or partner in a separate household (31.6 %)-- the unfortunate result of too little high - wage job creation and too much student loan debin a separate household (31.6 %)-- the unfortunate result of too little high - wage job creation and too much student loan debt.

We need to take the general ministry of the church, the ministry of Word and sacrament, to campuses where it is absent and where a high percentage of the students will not seek it out but may be receptive to it in their midst.

In North America and Europe, a large percentage of the people who read my site are High School and College students.

And in truth he is something of a student of rebound angles and high - percentage shots («When you're off - balance or in doubt go for the glass because there's a wider margin of error to work with,» he says).

In a recent study, WalletHub examined 100 of the most populated U.S. metro areas across 12 key metrics, including the percentage of adults and high school students who are obese and the percentage of people who are physically inactive.

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).

In addition we had a high percentage of students who qualified for free & reduced meals and selling a la carte foods was taking food off of the dinner table at home.

Learn how the Community Eligible Option (CEO) works to provide universal free meals in schools with high percentages of low - income students, while reducing administrative requirements and increasing participation.

Having my superintendent and my board understanding the importance of breakfast, and promoting it, and making sure it was being implemented in my schools by each principal has really made a difference; I'm reaching a higher percentage of students than I was before.

The Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom worked in conjunction with the Ohio Education Association, Ohio Association of Elementary School Administrators, School Nutrition Association of Ohio, and Children's Hunger Alliance to identify schools that had a high percentage of students who qualify for free or reduced - price meals and wanted to increase their daily participation in the school breakfast program.

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.

More than 220,000 students in New York didn't take the tests last spring, by far the highest percentage of any state in the nation.

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.

Farina declined to speak with reporters Monday but during her appearance before the Assembly committee she spoke of the city's efforts to care for homeless students, including putting libraries in some shelters and food pantries and laundry services in schools with high percentages of homeless.

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.

This year, a slightly higher percentage of students skipped the tests — 22 percent, compared to 20 percent in 2015.

Students in schools with high percentages of students of color were almost four times as likely to be taught by a U-rated teacher as students in schools with low percentages of students oStudents in schools with high percentages of students of color were almost four times as likely to be taught by a U-rated teacher as students in schools with low percentages of students ostudents of color were almost four times as likely to be taught by a U-rated teacher as students in schools with low percentages of students ostudents in schools with low percentages of students ostudents of color.

If you discount parts of districts that include the University at Albany, where students are not around in great numbers during the June - July petitioning period, that percentage could be even higher.

In addition, the children of higher income parents will now be eligible for Bafoeg, a recommendation that Bulmahn estimates will raise the percentage of students receiving Bafoeg to over 20 %.

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 say that changing computer science stereotypes to make more students feel welcome in high school classrooms would help recruit more girls to the field, which has one of the lowest percentages of women among STEM fields.

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 %.

In her view, if an institution is starting with a really selective group of students (that is, those who come in with really good preparation as evidenced by high GPA and SAT scores) they should graduate a larger percentage of these studentIn her view, if an institution is starting with a really selective group of students (that is, those who come in with really good preparation as evidenced by high GPA and SAT scores) they should graduate a larger percentage of these studentin with really good preparation as evidenced by high GPA and SAT scores) they should graduate a larger percentage of these students.

Before then, the high school dropout rate was almost 16 percent; the percentage of our elementary students meeting national norms on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in reading was less than 37; the percentage of our students testing in the bottom quarter was about 32.

Their statements were substantiated by the collected learning data, as well as the percentage of students who graduated to a higher course level compared to their peers in a regular class.

While states under ESSA need to identify for intervention only the lowest performing 5 percent of schools, high schools with graduation rates under 67 percent, and some unspecified percentage of schools in which at - risk subgroups are underperforming, the National Governors Association reports that «40 percent of all students and 61 percent of students who begin in community colleges enroll in a remedial education course at a cost to states of $ 1 billion a year.»

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.»

In Denver, in 2012 13, the percentage of special - education kindergarten students was 1.8 points higher in district schools than in charterIn Denver, in 2012 13, the percentage of special - education kindergarten students was 1.8 points higher in district schools than in charterin 2012 13, the percentage of special - education kindergarten students was 1.8 points higher in district schools than in charterin district schools than in charterin charters.

No other public or charter high school in the state with similar percentages of low - income and ESL students even approached these rates.

In fact, because the letter grade is based on the percentage of students scoring above certain thresholds and not on the average score in each school, the high - scoring F schools actually have slightly higher initial reading and math scores than do the low - scoring D schoolIn fact, because the letter grade is based on the percentage of students scoring above certain thresholds and not on the average score in each school, the high - scoring F schools actually have slightly higher initial reading and math scores than do the low - scoring D schoolin each school, the high - scoring F schools actually have slightly higher initial reading and math scores than do the low - scoring D schools.

We chose three urban districts with high percentages of minority and low - income students (at least 60 percent on both counts) in each region (Northeast, Midwest, South, West).

Districts that are higher performing by this indicator actually spend, on average, no more than the lower performing districts (after adjustment for differences in family income, special - education placements, and the percentage of students who are of limited English proficiency).

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

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.