Sentences with phrase «likely than other students»

They are more likely than other students to come from poor families (in California, 85 percent of English learners live in low - income households) and they tend to start school behind their English - speaking peers.

In an annual survey of more than 7,000 students ages 13 - 21, the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) found that transgender students were more likely than any other students to have negative experiences at school and were more likely to have felt unsafe and to experience victimization based on their gender identity or expression.

Because scores on alternative assessments may not be comparable to scores on the regular assessment, students with disabilities are more likely than other students not to have test scores that can be used for value - added calculations.

A majority (59 %) also say they are very concerned that students in lower - income areas are less likely than other students to be ready for college when they finish high school, and half (51 %) say they are very concerned that English Learners score lower on standardized tests than other students.

We focus on secondary schools because children of color and students from other historically disadvantaged groups are far more likely than other students to be suspended out of school at this level.

Prior analyses of assessment data uniformly indicate that ELL students are much less likely than other students to score at or above proficient levels in both mathematics and reading / language arts.

Facing History students are 94 % more likely than other students to report that their class motivated them to learn.

One reason may be that African - American students are more likely than any other students to be in schools with police.

First - and second - grade students in 1993 who had been kept out of kindergarten until they were older were less likely than other students to draw negative feedback from teachers about their academic performance or conduct in class.

In particular, black students are far more likely than other students to have been in a classroom of a teacher who received a layoff notice.

For example, in a seniority - based system, black students are far more likely than other students to have been in a classroom of a teacher who received a RIF notice.

Instead, the special education gap begins in kindergarten, when students classified at a young age as having a speech or language disorder are less likely than other students to apply to charter schools.

However, Ray said, women of color are more likely than other students to report having secondary advisers who respect their ideas and teach them how to navigate academia.

Not exact matches

Examination of data from the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances — the central bank's effort to examine the financial conditions of American families — by two Northeastern University scholars shows that households with more student debt are less likely to start businesses than other households.

Though younger students are much less likely to be married than older ones — and although marriage in this and other Auburn studies is closely and positively associated with students» economic comfort levels — younger students are much more likely to be full - time students.

A Gallup study of student leaders in the nationally recognized Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership seminar found them three times more likely than other teens to express feelings of loneliness.

The schools they attend are likely to be segregated by race and class and to have less money to spend on instruction than the schools well - off students attend, and their teachers are likely to be less experienced and less well - trained than teachers at other schools.

Students from authoritative families were more likely than others to say that their parents — not their peers — would influence their decisions (Bednar and Fisher 2003).

Yes Madison just called a key platform of the Dems, student loan forgiveness, a wicked project] for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union than a particular member of it; in the same proportion as such a malady is more likely to taint a particular county or district, than an entire State.

Labour targets Corby, Croydon Central, Plymouth Moor View, Morley and Outwood, Derby North, Gower, Thurrock and Telford all have smaller Conservative majorities than the additional number of voters since 2015 - although in these seats, with much smaller student populations and in some cases many elderly voters, other factors are likely to play a far bigger role in determining the outcome.

Our Rochester city students are less likely to go to college or graduate from college than other students in New York State.

Female geoscientists are less likely to be described as excelling beyond other students than their male counterparts are, according to a study of recommendation letters for highly selective postdoctoral fellowships published today in Nature Geoscience.

Their online questionnaire of 758 students, 563 of whom owned dogs, revealed owners of vicious dogs were significantly more likely to admit crimes such as vandalism, illegal drug use and fighting than other dog owners and those without dogs (Journal of Forensic Sciences, DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2009.01001.x).

A new study suggests that charter school students are more likely to do well at college and earn significantly more than their counterparts at other schools.

► «[A] novel analysis finding a link between how U.S. graduate students in the biomedical sciences are funded and their first job after earning their Ph.D. turns one piece of conventional wisdom on its head: Students supported on a research grant are more likely to take a research job than those funded by other mechanisms,» including training grants and individual fellowships, Jeffrey Mervis wrotstudents in the biomedical sciences are funded and their first job after earning their Ph.D. turns one piece of conventional wisdom on its head: Students supported on a research grant are more likely to take a research job than those funded by other mechanisms,» including training grants and individual fellowships, Jeffrey Mervis wrotStudents supported on a research grant are more likely to take a research job than those funded by other mechanisms,» including training grants and individual fellowships, Jeffrey Mervis wrote today.

U.S. graduate students in the agricultural sciences are more likely than those in other fields to carry out interdisciplinary research, according to a first - ever analysis of the issue by the National Science Foundation.

«It's not surprising, then, that postsecondary students with LD take longer to earn a degree and are more likely to leave postsecondary schooling without earning a degree than other students,» the researchers note.

Students aged 18 and older, black students, and students with parents with lower education levels were more likely than others to report no nonmedical amphetamine use, despite reporting nonmedical Adderall use, the studStudents aged 18 and older, black students, and students with parents with lower education levels were more likely than others to report no nonmedical amphetamine use, despite reporting nonmedical Adderall use, the studstudents, and students with parents with lower education levels were more likely than others to report no nonmedical amphetamine use, despite reporting nonmedical Adderall use, the studstudents with parents with lower education levels were more likely than others to report no nonmedical amphetamine use, despite reporting nonmedical Adderall use, the study found.

However, full - time college students were less likely than others their age to believe there was great risk of harm from monthly cocaine use (59 percent versus 64 percent), trying heroin once or twice (about 77 percent versus 80 percent), and trying LSD once or twice (about 50 percent versus 58 percent), the findings showed.

Other research indicates that low - income students in particular benefit from college, becoming nearly three times more likely to make it into the middle class than their peers who earn some (or no) college credits.

One study found that career academy students from a large district who entered a local university were more likely to complete their bachelor's degrees than other students from that district.

Willingham states how the theory of mind that Gardner presents is more than likely incorrect and the implications for educators, «the daring applications forwarded by others in Gardner's name (and of which he apparently disapproves) are unlikely to help students».

In schools that had a chance to achieve a Recognized rating, low - scoring students who were not designated as eligible for special education in 8th grade were 2.4 percentage points more likely to be newly designated as such in 10th grade, an increase of more than 100 percent relative to the 2 percent designation rate in other schools.

The results are worth the effort: When I surveyed students who were tracking their data, they were substantially more likely to respond that they were trying their hardest and felt in control of their learning than students in other classrooms.

• A 2014 study by Goldrick - Rab, Kelchen, and Houle and a 2015 report by Demos show that black students borrow more than other students for the same degrees, and black borrowers are more likely than white borrowers to drop out without receiving a degree.

New research by Morgan, Farkas, Hillemeier and Maczuga once again finds that when you take other student characteristics — notably family income and achievement — into account, racial and ethnic minority students are less likely to be identified for special education than white students.

But controlling for other factors that might put students at risk for problems at school, Paul Morgan and George Farkas find that minority students are actually less likely to receive special ed services than similarly situated white students.

Gifted students in LUSD are far less likely to be economically disadvantaged and more likely to be white or Asian than other students in the district.

In other words, we don't just want to know if black students are more likely to be in special education than whites; we want to know if black students are too likely to be in special education — or, as it turns out, not likely enough.

Students are more likely to trust other students since their opinion is more valuable thaStudents are more likely to trust other students since their opinion is more valuable thastudents since their opinion is more valuable than yours.

Judge Robert B. Freedman agreed with the plaintiffs in Valenzuela v. O'Connell that students who have failed the test — especially English - language learners — have not had a fair chance to learn the material because they were more likely than others to attend overcrowded schools and have unqualified teachers.

For the subset of teachers who can be linked to their students, we find that teachers who received a layoff notice are more likely to be teaching poor, non-white, and lower - scoring students than other teachers.

For example, Smarter Balanced's «Bias and Sensitivity Guidelines» point to the word foyer as unfair: «assuming a student knows what a «foyer» is would be unfair because the term: 1) is more likely to be known by some groups of students than by other groups of students, 2) is not required by the Common Core State Standards, and 3) is not likely to have been routinely used in the classroom.»

Research on teacher quality, charter schools, school leadership, class size, and other factors in school quality is likely to be as or more important than research on race - specific policies for reducing gaps in student achievement.

In other words, students in this school were 63 times more likely to be average on nothing than average on everything.

Nonetheless, U.S. students are not likely to complete more schooling than those in a significant number of other developed and developing countries.

Students in secular private, Catholic, and other religious schools are more likely than students in assigned public schools to have confidence in their ability to exercise civic skills if called upon tStudents in secular private, Catholic, and other religious schools are more likely than students in assigned public schools to have confidence in their ability to exercise civic skills if called upon tstudents in assigned public schools to have confidence in their ability to exercise civic skills if called upon to do so.

They tell us students with access to NBC Learn videos are more likely to use them as research and source information than YouTube videos or other videos of less - known provenance — and cite them correctly.

However, students in both Catholic and other religious schools are more likely to engage in community service than are students in assigned public schools.

Research shows that racial and ethnic minority students are less likely to be identified for special education than white students when you take other student characteristics into account.