Sentences with phrase «incoming class of students»

What better way to stay connected to Cooper than by getting to know the incoming class of students?

Parents planning to send their children to the second incoming class of students at Lycée Français de la Nouvelle Orléans may have to wait until January to apply, after state officials insisted the school reject all applications for the next three months.

Indeed, colleges and universities are even frequently evaluated on the racial, geographic, and socioeconomic diversity of each incoming class of students, and affirmative action policies in admissions are based on the rationale that the presence of campus diversity enriches the learning environment.

Indeed, colleges and universities are even frequently evaluated on the racial, geographic, and socioeconomic diversity of each incoming class of students, and affirmative action...

A new building for University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine, is expected to be completed in December and will house an incoming class of students for the semester commencing January 2018.

«There is strong evidence that changes in colleges» quality - of - life and academic reputations affect both the number of applications that colleges receive and the characteristics of their next incoming classes of students,» said Reback.

Not exact matches

To improve the quality of incoming classes, Booth shifted its policy, giving money to highly desirable students who might otherwise have gone elsewhere.

The university expects more than 800 students to get free tuition in each incoming class of freshmen.

After accounting for the impact of IQ - level and class background, researchers found that «rule - breaking and defiance of parental authority» was the best predictor of which students ended up making higher incomes.

Boys Basketball Beginner (incoming 6th - 9th): This class is for student - athletes who are either interested in learning more about the game of basketball or have recently been introduced to basketball and are looking to improve on their basic skill - set.

Boys Basketball - Advanced (incoming 6th - 9th): This class is designed for student - athletes who are already playing basketball competitively and have a solid foundation of beginning basketball skills.

And while the Science authors found instruction to be basic and repetitive even in American schools with a mostly middle - class or upper - middle - class student population, they found that the situation was considerably worse in schools that enrolled a lot of low - income children.

The researchers set out to look at the relationship between homework load and student well - being in the upper middle class advantaged communities (where median household income is more than $ 90,000, and 93 percent of students go to college) because it is there that homework is largely accepted as having value.

I teach a nutrition education class to grade school students in low income areas and for one of their «tastes» we do fruit parfaits using yogurt, pureed fruit, and graham crackers as the sprinkles.

While most U.S. schools offer meal programs, many students do not participate in cafeteria - based school breakfast programs because of bus schedules, late arrivals to school, pressure to go directly to class or reluctance to be labeled as «low income.»

Each new student was matched up with a «guardian,» an older child from class 6 who acts sort of like a big brother or sister for the incoming kids.

Many of the students in my classes are low income, young, or otherwise «high risk» mothers and their families.

«Working collaboratively with the Broome County Promise Zone, those interested in serving as mentors will be matched with children in schools that are part of CCPA's University - assisted community school effort, which aims to level the playing field for students from low - income families who lack some of the supports for academic success from which children from middle - class families benefit,» Bronstein said.

Sanders said Cuomo's plan will permit students who work hard «to get the college education you need to make it to the middle class regardless of your family income.

He's also in favor of free tuition to CUNY colleges for low - and middle - income students, smaller class sizes in the city's public schools, and desegregation of the school system, which he noted is the «third most segregated in the nation.»

Sponsored by Assemblymember Carmen De La Rosa of Manhattan, the measure would allow students brought into the country as children to seek state financial aid for higher education, including the Excelsior Scholarship program that makes tuition at state colleges free for low - income and middle - class students.

According to the study, 50 percent of the wealthiest students with a learning disability reported receiving accommodations; only 30 percent of low - income, working - class, and middle - class students with a learning disability said they received extra help.

Integration of low - income and middle - class students remained stable as well,» Frankenberg explained.

The number of applications and the academic competitiveness of a school's incoming class were increased by making the lists for Happy Students (2.9 percent increase) or Most Beautiful Campus (2.3 percent increase), whereas applications and competitiveness were negatively affected by being on the Least Happy Students (about a 5 percent decrease) or Unsightly, Tiny Campus lists (5.2 percent decrease).

«They just don't know how the game is played,» said Thomas Mortenson, a policy analyst for the Council for Opportunity in Education, about the lack of experience many lower - income families have in dealing with financial aid.7 Many «high - income high schools» help students apply to college - entrance preparation classes at top universities, and they sometimes provide private admissions counselors.8

Perhaps surprisingly, SeekingArrangement said many of its student members do not, in fact, hail from low income families: 56 percent come from middle and upper - middle class families, while 20 percent are from high income families.

If the same approach is applied to the STAR sample to adjust for the fact that some students did not enroll in the class they were assigned to - and a comparable sample of low - income black students is used - the gains in test scores after two years of attending a small class (average of 16 students) as opposed to a regular - size class (average of 23 students) is 9.1 national percentile ranks in reading and 9.8 ranks in math.

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

Before each school year begins, classroom teachers and the school nurse from McIlvaine Early Childhood Center visit the homes of incoming students to identify potential health risks to students and talk with parents about how they can help their children be successful in their new classes.

As he explains in his testimony, the mission of Match Beyond «is to help students from low - income households earn quality college degrees at affordable prices and to leverage those degrees into career - track, middle class jobs.»

However, in recent years, class gifts have been designated for unrestricted financial aid for incoming students, one of Dean Kathleen McCartney's top priorities.

Virtual field trips debuted in the early days of the Internet with an awesome promise: They'd take students to exotic places no school bus could, they'd be a boon to low - income classes without a travel budget, and nobody would get stuck in the car listening to the umpteenth verse of «99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall.»

Therefore, any negative peer effects associated with being in classes with large shares of black students largely reflect the impact of being exposed to low - income students.

Two - thirds of low - income students at community colleges start in remedial classes that earn them no degree credit.

There are myriad recommendations in the book, which Mike boils down into three major themes: First, balance our fixation on college completion with renewed attention to career and technical education; next prioritize the needs of «strivers» — the low - income students who are working hardest to make it to the middle class; finally, encourage all students to follow the «success sequence» — including delaying parenthood — as the surest means of avoiding pitfalls that push kids off the path to upward mobility.

We demonstrated that a regression - based statistical correction for the proportion of the students in each teacher's class that are English - language learners, have education disabilities, are from low - income families, and so forth, wrings most of the bias out of classroom observations.

Ninety - five percent of students at Redwood City's Hoover School, in San Mateo County, come from low - income and working - class Latino families, and nearly all start school as English language learners (ELLs).

Many of these new schools are focused on solving one of our society's most intractable problems: how to close the achievement gap between low - income minority students in our nation's inner cities and their white middle - and upper - class contemporaries in the suburbs.

This has profound implications: Chetty and colleagues estimate that replacing a teacher whose value added is in the bottom 5 percent of the distribution with an average teacher would increase the present discounted value of students» lifetime income by more than $ 250,000 for a typical class (of 28 students).

Estimates by Raj Chetty, John Freidman, and Jonah Rockoff based on New York City teachers and students show that a top teacher can add a quarter of a million dollars to the future incomes across her class.

Those of us who primarily serve low - income and working class black, Latino, Asian, and Native American students can not avoid confronting the issues of race and class.

Each summer most youth lose about two months» worth of math skills, while low - income students also lose morethan two months in reading achievement despite the fact that their middle - class peers make slight gains over the summer break.

The Korean government funded roughly 600 admissions officers to join universities and select 15 percent of the incoming college class — roughly 50,000 students — based on a more holistic look at the students, not just based on their KSAT score.

I tell the students to list a couple of tips that they'd like to give the incoming students about my social studies class and how to be...

For example, Delpit sees a problem when a typical white, middle - class teacher uses a passive communication style with her low - income black students, such as asking them to take their seats instead of telling them to take their seats.

The scholarship was available to students from low - and middle - income families who finished in the top 10 percent of their graduating classes and enrolled at a college in Washington State.

ESSA wisely eliminates cost - by - cost testing for SNS, a practice which discouraged schools from spending Title I funds on comprehensive services and perversely encouraged spending on add - ons (like pulling students out of academic classes to work with paraprofessionals) that met compliance standards but were not necessarily helpful in improving educational outcomes for low - income students.

«The income - integration model,» she writes, «has significant practical shortcomings, the most important of which is demography... The obstacles to shifting students out of low - income schools to more middle - class settings are formidable.»

Ultimately, Wax says, «proponents of income integration must deal with the cognitive dissonance created by the model's foundational premise, which is that disadvantaged students» habits and attitudes are deficient and will be improved by immersion in a superior environment, [versus] discomfort with the idea of class - based cultural differences.»

According to a 2002 study of children in Dane County, Wisconsin, by urban - policy consultant David Rusk, low - income children at schools with a middle - class majority scored 20 - 32 percent higher on standardized tests compared with what their scores would be at schools with a lower percentage of middle - class students.