Sentences with phrase «low numbers of enrolled students»

The study found a serious shortages of new doctoral graduates compared with the number of available faculty positions in the field due to relatively few doctoral programs and low numbers of enrolled students.

Not exact matches

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

As Jon East explained in, «The estimating conference went even further, combining American Community Survey data from 2005 - 09 with private school enrollment data to make projections about the actual number of low - income students enrolled in each grade level in private schools in 2012.»

He finds that Chile should expect a 20 percent decline in the number of low - income students that enroll in universities relative to the number enrolled before gratuidad, as upper income students crowd them out of the admissions process.

For example, if one university's Pell Grant students are mostly middle - income and a second university's Pell Grant students are entirely low - income, the Pell proxy would inaccurately treat the two institutions as enrolling similar numbers of low - income students.

Similarly, the share of funds to be used by each recipient LEA to serve educationally disadvantaged students attending private schools is determined on the basis of the number of low - income children enrolled in private schools and living in the residential areas served by public schools selected to receive Title I grants.

Determination of the aggregate number of students from low - income families enrolled in individual schools, as well as the identification of individual students from low - income families, are important elements of Title I. Concentrations of students from low - income families are used as a proxy for identifying schools with large proportions of students with low achievement levels, and Title I funds are targeted on these schools.

And a report from the Southern Regional Education Board, which supports increasing the number of middle students taking Algebra I, found that among students in the lowest quartile on achievement tests, those enrolled in higher - level mathematics had a slightly higher failure rate than those enrolled in lower - level mathematics (Cooney & Bottoms, 2009, p. 2).»

The school district still has the ADA for whatever number of students the district has enrolled in whatever low performing school.

Despite that data constraint, many schools can still be identified as a high - or low - rate suspension school based on the number of African - American students enrolled at the school.

For instance, schools participating in the Carnegie Foundation's Student Agency Improvement Community, a network of researchers and practitioners applying the science of learning mindsets to daily classroom practice, have seen stronger outcomes among low - income black and Latino students since implementing interventions focused on learning mindsets.34 Equal Opportunity Schools, a national nonprofit organization, has also partnered with school, county, and district leaders to increase the number of black and Latino students enrolled in advanced placement courses and has seen gains in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.36

Low - income students are determined by the number of students enrolled in the free and reduced lunch program.

Charter schools have a lower cost per pupil than traditional schools: Based on an analysis of relevant school costs and the number of enrolled high school students, the data shows the per pupil per pupil costs for Alliance charter high school students to be $ 10,649 per year, compared to $ 15,372 per year for students at traditional public high schools within LAUSD, that is, we find a per pupil cost differential of 44 % in favor of Alliance charter schools.

Minority students in New Zealand, including indigenous Maori, are concentrated in the nation's poorest schools, while fewer than 1 percent of students of European descent are enrolled in schools with the highest number of low - income students.

The districts were also promising to lower the number of students enrolled necessary to trigger special disaggregated reporting for sub-group status from 100 to 20, which was seen as an important protection for minority or historically marginalized student groups.

Charter school leaders, however, say they are aggressively recruiting students with the lowest skill sets and note they have had success in other areas, such as enrolling high numbers of black and Latino students.

As Jon East explained in RedefinED, «The estimating conference went even further, combining American Community Survey data from 2005 - 09 with private school enrollment data to make projections about the actual number of low - income students enrolled in each grade level in private schools in 2012.»

To that end, we support organizations across the United States that work to increase the numbers of low - income students who are ready for, enrolling in, and finishing college with a bachelor's degree.

In Florida, Bailey found, participation in dual enrollment was positively associated with students» success in earning a high school diploma, enrolling in college, earning higher college grades, and earning greater numbers of college credits, and these relationships were particularly strong for low - income students and males.

Remondi also used the interview to defend Navient's successes with student loan borrowers, saying it leads the industry in number and percentage of borrowers who are enrolled in income - driven repayment plans, has the lowest level of severely delinquent borrowers, and the lowest level of defaults in the industry at a rate that he says is 31 percent lower than peers.