Sentences with phrase «lower academic ratings»

Poor student - teacher relationship quality, in turn, is associated with lower academic ratings.

Not exact matches

Lower levels of binge drinking and participation in the hookup culture may also lead to higher graduation rates and a more academic atmosphere on campus, increasing prestige, which boosts enrollment.

Even as you have done away with the recreational - education and physical - education majors in which football players were often stashed, an enhanced academic support system has helped the team's graduation rate climb steadily, topping out in the respectable low 70's the last time the NCAA checked.

British women have the lowest breastfeeding rates in the world because they are being put under pressure to resume their old routines as quickly as possible after birth, a leading public health academic has said.

They tend to have better academic results, fewer emotional and behavioral problems, and lower rates of incarceration as they mature.

(That's probably one of the reasons why simply eating dinner together has been linked to so many benefits for kids, including better academic performance, lower risk of obesity, and lower rates of substance abuse and depression.)

panel, where panelists discussed all of the great things about serving breakfast in the classroom: improved academic performance, reduced tardiness and absences, lower obesity rates, opportunities for growing school food programs, and most important of all: it's the right thing to do.

Again most analysts and academics know that if anyone wanted to demonstrate the strange hypothesis that multiple and widely divergent exchange rates do not affect foreign investment, he could cite the evidence of more recent years, but that obviously not being consistent with the facts, our economist then went over two decades back to 1994 to cite an exception, a single investment in an environment of otherwise grossly low investment, in a sector where people invest even in times of war, to justify a faulty hypothesis!

So what ideas exist to help more students with similar stories and how does that happen in a district that maintains low academic standing and graduation rates along with many other challenges?

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown is distancing himself from the school board and its fight with State Education Commissioner John King over poor academic performance and low graduation rates.

Those who do not master the language and remain English learners tend to score lower on academic tests and graduate high school at lower rates than their native - English speaking peers.

The numbers reflect similar findings to earlier research from Sugimoto on women and academic publishing, which found significantly lower citation rates for women.

The study showed that patients admitted to academic medical centers that care for more patients with severe sepsis have significantly lower mortality rates than patients cared for at academic medical centers with lower volumes of sepsis patients.

Many business and academic leaders say the low entry and high attrition rates have led to a dearth of tech - savvy workers and a national innovation crisis.

The rate of serious mishaps in industrial labs is lower than that in academic labs, in part because industrial labs are more tightly regulated, according to experts, including James Kaufman, president of the Laboratory Safety Institute in Natick, Mass..

Rates of supine sleeping (being placed on the back for sleep) are as low as 50 percent in some states, according to a study to be presented Saturday, May 3, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The industrial scientists, furthermore, generally belong to professional societies — though also at a lower rate than the academics.

With rates of government grant funding in academia currently lower than 10 percent, no guarantees exist anymore in the academic world.

Early childhood programs have long been known to be beneficial to children from low - income backgrounds, but recent studies have cast doubt on their ability to substantially increase the rate of children's academic achievement.

«The higher rate of twins and preterm birth in ART singletons might have given rise to lower academic test scores.

Reading up on research conducted by renowned academics, I've yet to see any scientific paper (published by an online dating site that claims scientific matching or any related academic) showing how its «recipe» really works, i.e. proving they can offer enduring, long term relationships (or marriage) with low divorce rates.

Thus, although both groups may post lower rates of school readiness, Hispanic children from Spanish - speaking homes face the additional challenge of learning the language of the classroom, making them especially vulnerable to poor academic outcomes.

Five years of research show benefits across the board, he adds, citing stronger academic results, a lower dropout rate, and improved attendance.

A low participation rate will also affect a school's academic proficiency calculation.

President Barack Obama has often noted in speeches the enthusiasm of Korean parents for their children's education, the high quality of Korean teachers, the number of learning hours that Korean students spend, and the outstanding educational achievements these have produced; for example, top rankings in international academic - achievement tests, and low rates of school dropouts and juvenile delinquency.

But if school leaders adopt blended learning merely to increase out - of - district enrollments, increase course offerings, boost credit completion rates, lower staffing costs, or decrease the demands placed on teachers, then blended - learning technologies will become increasingly cheap, convenient, engaging, and easy to use without necessarily improving students» academic or life outcomes.

KKJ: We are proud that our graduation rate of 80 percent is significantly higher than New York City's overall rate of 73 percent, despite our students coming into our schools with lower levels of academic proficiency and higher levels of academic need.

But the strategy has produced steady results: a decade ago, Denver had the lowest rates of academic growth among Colorado's medium and large districts; for the last three years it has ranked at the top.

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

For the past 16 years, the Puente program has strived to boost the academic achievement of underserved Latino high school students, who have the highest dropout rate and lowest college attendance among all racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

On average, those denied drew low ratings on finance and governance plans, while doing only slightly better on academics.

Dr. Weast led Montgomery County Public Schools — 16th largest school district in the nation — to achieve both the highest graduation rate among the nation's largest school districts for four consecutive years and the highest academic performance ever in MCPS at a time when the non-English-speaking student population more than doubled and enrollment tipped toward low socioeconomic demographics.

The UCLA Civil Rights Project (PDF, 30.3 MB) has found that schools with high suspension rates are less safe, less equitable, and have lower academic outcomes.

Rather than lay out the case for the brokenness of the current virtual school model, I would encourage you to simply do a Google search for «virtual schools» and see what results pull up in the News section — academic problems, high attrition rates, low retention rates, etc..

Academics and activists routinely bemoan low college graduation and retention rates and say that something ought to be done about them.

The plan sets a target of 66 % of working - age New Mexicans earning a college degree or post-secondary credential by the year 2030 — a rigorous goal given the current attainment rate of 45 %.1 The plan also sets a vision for New Mexico to be the fastest growing state in the nation when it comes to student outcomes, with a goal to increase the percentage of students who demonstrate readiness to more than 60 % on the state English language arts (ELA) and math assessments.2 These efforts are significant considering New Mexico's historically lower student academic proficiency rates compared to other states and to national averages3, and demonstrate how leaders are driving a sense of urgency to improve.

Like the boys» initiative, the goal is to boost cultural pride and academic performance, lower suspension and dropout rates and create greater understanding of the students» singular experiences and needs.

Yet the students graduate from college at lower rates than would be expected based on their academic preparation.

Commissioned by the Charleston, W.Va. - based Education Alliance, the report found that African - American students rated their schools significantly lower than their white peers did in seven out of eight categories: academic expectations, instruction, course - taking, counseling about education options, respect, mentoring and caring relationships, and fairness.

Research has consistently demonstrated that low - income students who attend smaller high schools have better academic outcomes in terms of achievement, graduation rates, and discipline issues than their peers in larger schools.

Since the start of the Denver Plan, DPS has gone from being the district with the lowest rate of student academic growth among major Colorado districts to the district with the highest rate of academic achievement growth.

Given the relatively low academic skills and high poverty rates of double - dosed CPS students, it is unsurprising that double - dosing improved college enrollment rates at relatively inexpensive and nonselective two - year postsecondary institutions.

Research shows that implementing SWPBIS results in a significant drop in discipline referrals and suspensions, as well as increased academic achievement, lower dropout rates, higher teacher retention, and improved school culture.11

In his article on the high - school graduation rate («Tassels on the Cheap,» Feature, Fall 2002), Duncan Chaplin implies that the General Educational Development (GED) tests represent a lower academic hurdle than graduating from high school.

Each of the applications will be subject to peer review in the context of five priority areas: supporting effective teachers and principals; promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics education; supporting the implementation of high academic content standards and high - quality assessments; turning around low - performing schools; and improving graduation rates in rural schools.

Research shows that when punitive practices such as expulsion and suspension are used too frequently, schools / programs are actually less safe, have lower academic achievement and face increased dropout rates.

«With all things being equal [i.e. controlling for race, socio - economics, and school type],» Black says, «academic achievement is lower in schools with higher suspension rates.»

This brief asserts that students with the highest truancy rates have the lowest academic achievement rates, and because truants are the youth most likely to drop out of school, they have high dropout rates as well.

Early intervention effects include lower rates of retention, higher levels of academic achievement, fewer special education services, and a stronger commitment to graduating from high school (Stegelin, 2004).

Students who are Black, Latino, and English language learners are disproportionately suspended, expelled, and placed into substantially separate special education programs and lower academic tracks at significantly higher rates than their white and Asian, middle class peers.