Sentences with phrase «less student mobility»

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Proved to be the best way of getting good results from a low cost and best at social mobility — getting students from non traditional and less privileged backgrounds into elite universities and courses.

Bologna was intended to improve mobility, yet squeezing more material and more exams into less time could instead make it more difficult for students to study abroad.

Since teachers with fewer than two years of experience tend to be less effective than more experienced teachers, existing mobility patterns in Texas are likely to adversely affect the achievement of disadvantaged students.

Similarly, in our analysis of student mobility, we see that low - scoring students are less likely than high - scoring students to migrate toward schools with high scores.

We avoided schools with low mobility rates among students, enrollments less than 350, or grade ranges smaller than K - 5.

By making almost $ 150 billion in cuts to grant aid, student loans and work study, the budget would increase the debt of millions of students and make it harder for many to repay — thereby further reducing college access and upward mobility for college graduates, particularly those who come from less affluent families.

Among the district's 17 schools, only three buildings have mobility rates — the percentage of students who attend different schools within the same school year — of less than 10 percent.

The document stated Einstein's transportation practices also affect students with special needs, like wheelchair mobility, who will be less likely to select Einstein schools because of its lack of school bus service.

Neelys Bend and Madison Middle Schools both struggle with high mobility rates, with more than two out of five children spending less than the whole year at the schools last year, statistically hurting those students» academics.

The researchers in the district tested three theories about the negative impacts and found that only one of them may explain some of the learning loss experienced in voucher schools.46 More specifically, they investigated the possibilities that control group students were in higher - performing public schools; that voucher schools continue to offer less instructional time than public schools; and finally, that student mobility — the fact that a student is moving and adjusting to a new school — may be the underlying cause of the negative impact.47

Students who moved from one school to another, in other words, were less likely to attend higher education than non-moving peers — a finding which contradicts the very premise of choice that enhanced student mobility will improve educational outcomes.

We are part of the Legal Social Mobility Partnership, a collaboration of law firms, their partner clients and commercial organisations, who work together to provide school - aged students from less privileged backgrounds access to a Work Insight and Skills Programme (the «Programme») with the ultimate aim of broadening access to the legal profession and developing students» career aspirations.