The phrase
"higher proportion" means that a larger amount or greater percentage of something is present compared to something else.
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In sum, when schools with
high proportions of Black and Latino students close, Black and Latino teachers bear a disproportionate impact of these closures including loss of jobs.
For example, on the first round of benchmark testing this fall, a
much higher proportion of students demonstrated mastery of the material.
We came to explore TIP in education because we have a
very high proportion of students with a refugee background.
Generally, consolidation loans should only be considered by people with good credit histories and a
relatively high proportion of high interest debt (such as store and credit cards).
The company supplies electricity entirely from renewable sources, with a very
high proportion coming from wind power.
Many pay
out high proportions of their earnings — it is just that, because their share price is not depressed, their dividend yields are not high.
A very
high proportion wishes that there was, that they could believe, that there was something more after they died.
Provided that players spend 55 minutes on games each day on average, this will be a
rather higher proportion of time devoted to games.
(I had no idea at the time how much the ocean is warming and
how high a proportion of the warming goes into the ocean).
And, in the states with the nation's highest rates of incarceration, an
exceptionally high proportion of the people are impacted by the criminal justice system.
The researchers found that students in countries
with higher proportions of children enrolled in private schools score higher on internationally comparable exams.
He can also eat some foods — notably those rich in protein — in
much higher proportions than would be healthy for you.
Most magnesium supplements have a low absorption and an
even higher proportion of those do not even make it into the brain.
In previous years, females accounted for a
far higher proportion of public liability awards made than men.
What this means is that a
particularly high proportion of the fat lost on a low - carb diet is the dangerous and disease promoting abdominal fat.
Both of these grant programs provide relatively more money to districts with
higher proportions of low - income students, which also tend to be lower - performing districts.
The second study found that a biopsychosocial model accounted
for high proportions of variance in body dissatisfaction and disordered eating.
«This month, we also observed more out of the ordinary trends
including high proportions of math and science professionals, as well as Baby Boomers in each of the fast moving markets.
Meanwhile, German households picked up the growing bill for the wholesale subsidies for renewables that German industry enjoys, accounting for 18 percent of the average price that consumers paid for electricity last year — twice
as high a proportion as in 2010.
The data can't tell us exactly which aspects of Wilson HS or the surrounding area pull families to its in - boundary schools or neighborhoods, but this analysis shows that the «Wilson effect» is strong even when we control for academic performance of in - boundary schools, suggesting that the schools that feed into Wilson HS
draw higher proportions of in - boundary students for reasons other than high test scores.
(Very low percentage of foreign - born individuals until 1970, followed
by high proportions in the post-1980 period.)
«Unintended pregnancy remains a major health problem in the United States, with
higher proportions among teenagers and women with less education and lower economic status,» Peipert said.
Nevertheless, the U.S. and CT Departments of Education have sought to penalize schools and districts
where high proportions of parents boycott the tests.
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