Sentences with phrase «lowest average student»

For the first table, cities with the lowest average student debt balance received a better ranking.

The following is a list of the colleges in the Rocky Mountain region that posted the lowest average student loan debt per borrower figures.

Meanwhile, Utah has the lowest average student loan debt, with $ 18,810.

Utah claims the lowest average student loan debt and lowest percentage of graduates in debt in the entire county.

Nevada has the fifth - lowest average student loan debt of all states at just over $ 24,000.

Recent estimates conclude that Utah residents had the lowest average student loan debt.

Borg, Plumlee, & Stranahan (2007) claim that schools with larger percentage of students of color will likely continue to have lower average student scores on accountability assessments.

Not exact matches

Schools receive points based on the following weighted ranking: 33.5 % reputation (higher is better), 20.5 % classroom experience (student - teacher ratio and cohort diversity), 13 % average GMAT scores (higher is better), 13 % tuition (lower is better), 13 % required work experience (more is better) and 7 % program length (shorter is better).

Students should also have flexibility to study in the areas they're most interested in, she said, and to opt for the degrees with lower tuition, especially given that the average student will graduate university with $ 28,000 in debt.

Due to the benefits that federal student loans come with and the lower than average interest rates, many experts recommend consolidating federal and private student loans separately.

While federal student loans can have an average student loan interest rate that is lower than private student loans, that is not always the case.

She said that increases in poverty always had serious impacts on B.C. students, and on women, who continue to make lower average wages than male workers.

The report said the low - cost student pass has helped halve average family transportation costs by $ 23 a month.

Not surprisingly, data released this month from the the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's Investor Education Foundation, which seeks to promote financial literacy, reveal high school students who are required to take personal finance courses have better average credit scores and lower debt delinquency rates as young adults.

◾ The average GPA for students who were frequently physically harassed because of their sexual orientation was half a grade lower than that of other students.»

The meta - analysis I conducted indicates that students with high Bible literacy earn a grade point average that is about one point higher than that of students with low Bible literacy.

Students with moderate Bible literacy averaged about 0.4 GPA units (on a four - point scale) lower than did students with high Bible lStudents with moderate Bible literacy averaged about 0.4 GPA units (on a four - point scale) lower than did students with high Bible lstudents with high Bible literacy.

However, some students at Princeton agreed with the article, and cited professors who had complained about the athletes in their classes for bringing down the average grade and for low attendance to lectures.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

According to the Food Research & Action Center's newly released School Breakfast Scorecard, 12.2 million low - income students participated in the School Breakfast Program on an average school day in the 2016 — 2017 school year.

Freshman Academy is a program for students who have not met the requirements for admission into university due to a low grade point average or missing academic courses.

In July 2010, only 15 children received Summer Nutrition for every 100 low - income students who received lunch on an average day in the 2009 - 2010 school year, a significant decrease from 2009's ratio of 16:100.

School Breakfast Participation on the Rise — Average Daily Low - Income Student Participation in the School Breakfast Program

State schools, including SUNY Plattsburgh, have seen tuition increase $ 300 each year, a total increase of 30 percent over the past half - decade (But one silver lining for the North Country: Students here have the lowest average debt load than anywhere in the state.)

By measuring average point scores rather than a single cutoff point, the new measure will also ensure that the achievement of all students is recognised equally, including both low attainers and high fliers.

The 30 districts classified as low - need, with the fewest concentrations of non-white students, averaged $ 333 per student.

Syracuse students» test scores were also low, with 10.4 percent of students» scores in third - through eighth - grade being rated «proficient» versus the state's 39.1 percent average.

Of the 569 students who attended the four closing high schools during the 2010 - 11 school year, only 47 percent graduated with a local or Regents diploma (lower than the citywide average by 15 percent) and 22 percent of them dropped out or were discharged (more than twice the citywide average).

The UFT will present the fact - finding panel with evidence that New York City public school teachers, in addition to having the largest class sizes and the neediest students, are on average the lowest paid in the region.

With that caveat in mind, students in the biological sciences appear to be faring more poorly than those in the physical sciences and engineering: Their average depression score is slightly higher, and their career optimism score is lower (4.1 versus 4.7).

In choosing schools, at - risk students place less weight on academic indicators, and low performing students are more likely to attend a school with low average achievement.

Average student attainment is lower.

Looking further into the future, higher education in Haiti may not involved brick - and - mortar institutions at all, said Attié of HAAST, especially when an average lower - end middle class student has a yearly budget of roughly $ 500 for higher education.

In the second study, 100 Cornell University students were asked to post selfies to a mock social media site, and were then told that their photo had received either a high, low, or average number of likes.

It should also be noted that other studies set the average college student weight at a lower number, around 2 - 3 pounds.

Moreover, the average age the students assigned to the after photos was roughly nine years lower than the patient's actual age when the photo was taken.

With the exception of Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, the lowest ranked Italian school, coming in 44th and 24th place in BoF's BA and MA rankings respectively, the careers departments of the Italian schools scored above average, with students praising their access to quality recruiters and effective careers services.

Nearly every subgroup — ethnic minorities, rich kids, poor kids, middle class kids, top students, average students, low - ranked students — held steady or improved during those years.

UNO's approximately 6,500 students are 95 percent Hispanic, 93 percent low - income, and 38 percent ELL (far exceeding the Chicago school average of 16 percent).

Using student - level data from two states, Harvard Professor Martin West and I found that 40 to 60 percent of schools serving mostly low - income or underrepresented minority students would fall into the bottom 15 percent of schools statewide based on their average test scores, but only 15 to 25 percent of these same schools would be classified as low performing based on their test - score growth.

I agree that giving low - income students just 12 percent more funding in an ESA program is not enough, but it's important to note that few people balk at students in communities such as Incline Village receiving some 60 percent more funding than average.

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.

In fact, because the letter grade is based on the percentage of students scoring above certain thresholds and not on the average score in each school, the high - scoring F schools actually have slightly higher initial reading and math scores than do the low - scoring D schools.

Districts that are higher performing by this indicator actually spend, on average, no more than the lower performing districts (after adjustment for differences in family income, special - education placements, and the percentage of students who are of limited English proficiency).

The economic impact on these students will be much lower than the average difference between graduate and dropout.

As our schools serve greater numbers of Hispanic students and fewer whites, for example, we should expect achievement to decline somewhat because Hispanic students, who are more likely to live in poverty, tend to perform at lower levels, on average, than whites.

A) Mandatory tutoring for any student who shows lower - than - average growth in comprehension skills.

We find that students, on average, experience better outcomes when they are in a grade cohort that puts its school at risk of receiving a Low - Performing rating.

The 309 schools included in the study differed from other city schools in the following ways: They had a higher proportion of English Language Learners (ELL), special education, minority students, and students eligible for the Title I free or reduced - price lunch program, as well as lower average math and reading scores.