Sentences with phrase «high school data»

Within Classroom Peer Effects and Tracking: Assessing the Impact of Classroom Peer Variation and Ability Tracking with Disaggregated High School Data

A decisive element was added when U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings followed with a mandate that states had to report their high school data using that definition.

In my happy place, we one day figure out how to use relevant and available high school data to project certain types of college success.

Not exact matches

China's testing was limited to Shanghai students, a narrow scope Lusardi likened to the U.S. testing only students in Washington, D.C. Still, China and other Asian countries typically rank among the top five for other school subjects — and OECD data showed some positive correlation between financial literacy skills and high performance in mathematics and reading.

Other companies now use OkCupid's vast trove of social data, and Yagan, a self - professed introvert who is married to his high school sweetheart, stands as the foremost authority in a fast - growing $ 2 billion industry.

She grew up in Dallas, by way of Jackson, Miss., and dropped out of high school, embarking on an almost comical series of jobs — from data entry to pizza joint manager to concert tour manager.

U.S. News chief data strategist Robert Morse says he has seen no evidence of a Jesuit conspiracy in voting for the specialty rankings, but U.S. News hasn't probed the relatively high rankings of Jesuit schools in those rankings.

According to data released by the OECD, the starting salary for a high school teacher with no experience in the country is about $ 79,000.

To understand how education affects Canadian attitudes toward Asia, data from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada's 2016 National Opinion Poll was analyzed based on three education categories: those with some high school, a high school diploma, or equivalent; those with a college diploma or university certificate below the bachelor's level; and those with a bachelor's or post-graduate degree.

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.

Diverse data: In a briefing with reporters, NIH officials said they are focusing on gathering health and genetic data from diverse and historically underrepresented groups — including ethnic and sexual minorities, as well as people with disabilities, with less than a high school education, and with income below the poverty level.

Requires a high school diploma or equivalent and 1 - 3 years of data entry or payroll processing experience.

Not surprisingly, data released this month from the the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's Investor Education Foundation, which seeks to promote financial literacy, reveal high school students who are required to take personal finance courses have better average credit scores and lower debt delinquency rates as young adults.

Those who graduate under higher standards, however, are more likely to make on - time payments and keep up with their bills, and they understand how to manage those obligations better than students who were not exposed to personal finance and economics in school, the data show.

Over at PWC, Alex Gaffney crunched the data to see exactly how many high schoolers are dying by guns.

The data on education and sex also indicate that the overall effect of higher education is to move persons into the middle range (eleven to thirty partners) of promiscuity, whereas persons with only a high school education are somewhat more likely to be at the extremes (zero or 101 +).

The reasons for the association of Bible literacy with higher academic outcomes are many, but the data remind us that America's schools can not claim that their graduates are well educated unless they have knowledge of the Bible.

The data reinforce the recognition, which has grown over the last twelve to fourteen years, that in order for American high school students to be considered educated, they must have knowledge of the Bible.

But this makes little sense given the data they present: U.S. workers with less than a high - school degree had relatively little access to traditional pensions before the shift away from pensions to defined - contribution plans.

More often than not, only programs that employ ATs, such as colleges, professional teams, and well - funded high schools, are able to collect this data.

Their 2013 study used 2008 and 2009 Rivals.com data on 1,006 high school football players who did not play multiple positions and went on to power - conference college teams.

Analyzing data from 2009 to 2014, researchers found that cheerleading ranks 18th out of 22 high school sports studied in terms of injury rate, but, ranked second - behind only gymnastics - in the proportion of injuries that resulted in an athlete being benched for at least three weeks or for the entire season.

Facebook, when not stealing your data to help the Russians tell you that Hillary Clinton is selling uranium to children in the basement of a pizza place, is a great place for the people from your high school who used to smoke things they found in ditches to scream about wisdom.

«I have great respect for the researchers at Harborview and think this was a good study, and was great to see somebody providing data on youth younger than high school age,» said Dawn Comstock, an epidemiologist at the Colorado School of Public Health who has studied extensively sports injuries at the high school school age,» said Dawn Comstock, an epidemiologist at the Colorado School of Public Health who has studied extensively sports injuries at the high school School of Public Health who has studied extensively sports injuries at the high school school level.

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

In the case of the Newcastle High School football program that we featured in The Smartest Team, the athletic trainer had a student assistent monitor the data coming in from the sensors in players» helmets so that he could continue to keep his eyes on the field.

Since data from youth soccer is mostly lacking, we can look to high school and collegiate soccer for guidance.

According to state data, high school obesity rates have oscillated between 13.9 percent in 2005 and 15.7 percent in 2011.

This curriculum for middle and high school students includes classroom activities, identification sheets and a dichotomous key for identifying salt marsh plants, and data sheets for salt marsh field trips utilizing lessons developed by Kristen Grant and the salt marsh science protocols developed by Dr. Robert Buchsbaum and Dr. David Burdick.

Examining data from 100 nationally representative high schools on injuiries during the 2005 to 2007 school years, researchers at the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital's Center for Injury Research and Policy in Columbus, Ohio also found:

Once the students start high school they have ways of checking and verifying data and records without your presenting that to them but it's certainly always good to have a resume as a back up but know that those websites are very heavily watched by the college coaches.

«The committee made this rules change after reviewing data from multiple states regarding the frequency of helmets coming off during live - ball play,» said Julian Tackett, chair of the Football Rules Committee and commissioner of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association.

To determine which type of football helmets and mouth guards are associated with a lower incidence and severity of concussions in high school football players, McGuine and his colleagues worked with certified athletic trainers (ATCs) to collect data on 2,288 players at 36 public and private high schools in Wisconsin during the 2012 and 2013 football seasons.

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preveSchool of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preveschool lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

One significant victory in that battle was last year's passage of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act which, among other things, uses Medicaid data to directly certify children for free and reduced price meals; helps states improve the certification process for school meal aid; allows universal free meals for students in high poverty communities; and expands USDA authority to support meals served to at - risk children in after school programs.

In a 2012 study, [8] researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) measured before - and - after data from the brains of a group of nine high school football and hockey players using an advanced form of imaging similar to an MRI called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).

While less than 50 percent of U.S. high schools have athletic trainers, «this data shows the valuable role that they can play in preventing, diagnosing and managing concussions and other injuries,» said Cynthia LaBella, MD, FAAP.

Combined with data showing that a substantially higher percentage of hits to the helmets of youth players are to the side of the helmet - which the researchers attributed to a differences in the styles of play between the different age groups, as well as the fact that youth players have a tendancy to fall to the side when tackled - these factors may result in a youth player being more susceptible to impacting his head on the ground while being tackled than a high school or college player, knowledge, they said, that could aid in the design of better youth - specific football helmets.

Based on data showing that, while youth football players sustained concussions at about the same rate in practice and overall as high school and college athletes, they were injured at a rate 3 to 4 times higher than older players during games, the UPMC researchers predicted that Pop Warner's new rules «may not only have little effect on reducing on reducing concussions but may also actually increase the incidence of concussions in games via reduced time learning proper tackling in practice.»

According to 1990 census data, more than one - third of all Arlington Heights residents have completed high school and have received a bachelor's degree from college.

Plants that sell frozen beef to the National School Lunch Program violated food safety rules at rates higher than the industry as a whole, according to the Tribune's computer analysis of Agriculture Department data.

The School District's Class of 2016 earned an average total score of 1577, up from 1560 last school year, which is the 3rd - highest score out of 180 school systems in the State of Georgia, according to data released today by the College School District's Class of 2016 earned an average total score of 1577, up from 1560 last school year, which is the 3rd - highest score out of 180 school systems in the State of Georgia, according to data released today by the College school year, which is the 3rd - highest score out of 180 school systems in the State of Georgia, according to data released today by the College school systems in the State of Georgia, according to data released today by the College Board.

Yet, according to national transcript data, the average high school grade point average is between 2.95 and 3.0.

The researchers analyzed data from a sample of 100 U.S. high schools that have one or more certified athletic trainers on staff.

In Horwood's long - range study that followed children from birth to 18 years or the completion of high school, breastfed children were rated as more cooperative and socially better students the longer they were breastfed.17 When drop - out rates were calculated, the rate was higher among children who had been bottle - fed and lowest among those who had been breastfed equal to or longer than eight months, even when data were adjusted for maternal demographics.

Researchers collected data from 100 high schools and found that two years after a reported concussion, female athletes reported more drowsiness and sensitivity to noise than male athletes.

The individual outcomes have been determined in line with the principles set out in high needs place change request process: technical note 2016 to 2017 and the data published in high needs student numbers recorded in the 2014 to 2015 ILR R14 return (post-16 only) and spring 2015 school census (pre-16 and post-16).

District officials were alarmed last year when preliminary data collected by school nurses showed that Chicago children, from preschool to 3rd grade, have higher levels of obesity than the general U.S. population.

According to the latest USDA data, over 93 % of schools are currently meeting the higher nutrition standards that were implemented as part of the Healthy, Hunger - free Kids Act of 2010.

The high school graduation rate in New York State barely budged last year, inching up just half a percentage point, according to data released by the state Education Department.