Sentences with phrase «lowest grade point»

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.

Those who are most threatened achieve lower grade point averages and are twice as likely either not to finish high school or go on to college.

Stricter attendance policies — with consequences for truancy ranging from lower grade point averages to fines and jail time for parents — are paying off in several school districts Education World contacted.

The immediate consequences of such decisions - higher taxes, more homework, lower grade point averages (GPAs), a greater risk of being denied a diploma - were negative.

A similar study using data on students in Philadelphia found that living farther from school increased absences and resulted in lower grade point averages and test scores.

LGBTQ students nationwide face higher levels of depression and lower levels of self - esteem, lower grade point averages, higher truancy rates and staggeringly high rates of physical violence.

A study of 2,300 middle school children found that victimized students had significantly lower grade point averages than nonvictimized students did; the researchers concluded that «peer victimization can not be ignored when trying to improve educational outcomes» (Juvonen, Wang, & Espinoza, 2010).

There were gender differences on VIEW: males reported significantly lower grade point averages, and were significantly more Explorer and Task - oriented.

A study of 2,300 middle school children found that victimized students had significantly lower grade point averages than nonvictimized students did; the researchers concluded that «peer victimization can not be ignored when trying to improve educational outcomes» (Juvonen, Wang, & Espinoza, 2010).

Not exact matches

«Particularly with oil prices hitting lows at some point in the first quarter... lots of sub investment - grade firms could be under a lot of stress, and for those with stronger balance sheets, those companies could take this as an opportunity to buy and acquire assets,» Deshpande said in a phone interview.

More broadly, he says that while corporate credit may benefit from aspects of tax reform (i.e., better earnings growth from the corporate tax cuts, modestly lower investment grade supply as repatriation becomes reality), he does not see tax cuts at this point in the cycle as a bullish driver of credit spreads.

Small businesses have lower demands and less sophisticated needs, so this is an easier point of entry than enterprise - grade software.

In recent months, the yield on US corporate bonds, especially investment - grade securities, is a little more than 100 basis points compared to the yield on government debt, dropping within striking distance of the lows seen post the 2008 financial crisis.

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.

The GPAs of African - American and Hispanic students with high Bible literacy were about one grade point above those of students with low Bible literacy.

Then deducing whether or not each club is achieving its pre-season goals so far this season, the comparative high and low points so far for each club, expectations for the rest of the season and finally, placing a grade based on all of the aforementioned factors out of ten.

In fact research today points to the fact that chronic, low - grade abnormalities in immune system response set the stage for chronic diseases in general, including OA.

Four children had grade 1 low hemoglobin levels measured at limited time points, one in the 10 µg group a week after the second immunization; and 3 in the 25 µg group occurring on the days of the first and second immunizations and a month after the third immunization, respectively.

A 2013 study in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that teens who went to bed later than 11:30 during the school year had lower grade - point averages and were more vulnerable to emotional problems than those who went to bed earlier.

The concern was that some states would be starting with such low percentages of minority students at grade level that just requiring that as a starting point would subject the law to ridicule for having embarrassingly low standards.

After corrections, the national school finance score becomes 74.4 points out of 100, with the U.S. grade remaining a C. Scores are lower than originally reported for 30 states.

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 magnitudes are not trivial: they imply that students who take only online courses would have grade point averages about ten percentage points lower in the distribution than those who took only face - to - face courses, all else equal.

Among 4th - grade students in the lowest decile, there was an astonishing 13 - point gain from 2000 to 2003 pre-NCLB; the same group saw a gain of only five points from 2003 to 2007.

By the 12th grade, male scores were on average 24 points lower than female scores — and...

Despite widening gaps between highest - and lowest - scoring students, average scores in reading and mathematics were essentially flat from 2015 to 2017, with the exception of eighth - grade reading scores, where the percentage of proficient students increased by two percentage points.

Written on a high third / low fourth - grade level with airy - pages and bullet - point information for easy, independent study, these books, nevertheless, respect teens» maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated, Indicator 13 skills needed for adult independence.

Written on a high third / low fourth grade level, each unit is filled with airy pages and lots of bullet - point facts and information so that reluctant readers can use the program independently.

Written on a high third / low fourth grade level with airy - pages and bullet - point information for easy independent study, these workbooks, nevertheless, respect teens» maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated, Indicator 13 skills needed for adult independence.

For example, in 2012, Long Beach City College (LBCC) in California was one of the first to develop and pilot an alternative placement algorithm based on high school coursework and grades, which increased the proportion of students placing directly into college - level coursework by 21 percentage points in math and 56 percentage points in English, without significantly lowering the average performance of students in these courses.

He also pointed out that University of Virginia researchers studying first - grade classrooms found low - income and nonwhite students were more likely to be in «lower overall quality classrooms» (which isn't quite the same thing as having lousier teachers).

The component workbook is written on a high third / low fourth grade level with airy - pages and bullet - point information for easy independent study, these books, nevertheless, respect teens» maturity and humor while presenting federally mandated, Indicator 13 skills needed for adult independence.

The component workbook is written on a high third / low fourth grade level with airy - pages and bullet - point information for easy independent study, these books, nevertheless, respect teens» maturity and humor while presenting U.S. federally mandated, Indicator 13 skills needed for adult independence.

We found that low - income students who used a voucher to enroll in a private school in ninth grade subsequently graduated from high school, enrolled in a four - year college, and persisted in college at rates that were 4 — 7 percentage points higher than statistically similar Milwaukee students who started in public schools in ninth grade.

A lower grade - point average will limit which schools consider you for admission.

But students at both ends of the spectrum — that is, with either high or low grades — were significantly (about 2 to 4 percentage points) more likely to attend college in 1993 - 94 when they lived in a state with minimum - competency exams.

In particular, schools with 25 percentage points more African American students received ratings that were 15 percent of a letter grade lower, while schools with 24 percentage points more Hispanic students received ratings that were 16 percent of a letter grade lower.

They were not, however, less likely to graduate, and students with low grade - point averages were significantly more likely to go to college.

Schools with 26 percentage points more poor students received ratings that were one - quarter of a letter grade lower.

For his part, Brockman says too many in North Carolina allow the struggles of low - income and minority students to go unnoticed, pointing out two - thirds of the state's African - American students are not performing at grade level.

One final point, researchers at Berkeley surveyed 400 students ages 12 - 14 and found that students «who were more likely to be grateful to others showed higher academic interest, grades, and extracurricular involvement, and had lower interest in risky behaviors.»

Madison's strongest gains were among eighth grade math scores, with the percentage of black students scoring proficient gaining 8 percentage points, Hispanic students gaining 16 percentage points and low - income students gaining 6.5 percentage points over last year.

Given that the one out of every eight white suburban fourth - graders not on free - or - reduced lunch are struggling with reading is equal to the levels in big - city districts — and the rate of black fourth - grade suburban counterparts who are functionally illiterate is only four percentage points lower than that of big - city peers — suburban districts are actually falling down on their jobs.

But the lower levels of eighth - grade achievement serves as evidence of a point Dropout Nation has made over the past few years: That the generation of reforms that culminated with the passage of No Child aren't enough to help children master the knowledge they need — from algebra and statistics, to mastering the lessons from the Wealth of Nations and other great texts — for success in higher education and in life outside of school.

New York's expectations are even higher than NAEP's: Proficiency rates on its 4th grade reading and 8th grade math tests are 3 percentage points to 10 percentage points lower than those rates on the NAEP, Achieve reports.

A Johns Hopkins University study found that low - income and wealthy students» reading test scores over summer breaks from first to fifth grade rose by.26 and 52.49 points, respectively.

Twenty - one percent of Latino eighth - graders read at the highest levels on NAEP in 2015 (unchanged from 2013, but five points higher than in 2002); 44 percent of white eighth - graders read at Proficient and Advanced (two points lower than in 2013, but three points higher than levels 13 years ago); 22 percent of Native eighth - grade students read at the highest levels (three points higher than in 2013, and four points higher than in 2002); and 52 percent of Asian eighth - graders read at Proficient and Advanced levels (unchanged from 2013, but 16 points higher than levels 13 years ago).

By eighth grade, students seemed to have learned some geometry, according to the NAEP results, but the data analysis subsection was still five points lower than two years ago.

In 2015, black students had an average fourth - grade reading score that was 33 points lower than that for white students, and this performance gap was not significantly different from that in 1998 (31 points).

For years, colleges of education have battled reputations of attracting students with low test scores and grade point averages.