Sentences with phrase «majority of high school students»

In every state in the nation, the large majority of high school students never complete a college degree.

It's no wonder, writes James Loewen in Teaching What Really Happened, that the overwhelming majority of high school students rely on their social studies textbooks almost exclusively.

Mayor Dan McLaughlin said it was a matter of civic pride, since the majority of the high school students are Orland Park residents.

Not exact matches

The majority of WashU's more than 6,800 undergraduates study in the arts and sciences school, while nearly 1,000 students enroll in the university's high - ranking undergraduate business program at Olin Business Sschool, while nearly 1,000 students enroll in the university's high - ranking undergraduate business program at Olin Business SchoolSchool.

Students at these high - achieving schools can be ranked in the bottom quartile even with excellent grade point averages, and consequently feel «dumb» and «less worthy» compared to the majority of their peers.

A majority of the more than 1,385 high school students, 3,600 parents and 520 teachers of all grade levels who returned a questionnaire after this change was piloted in Palo Alto said, «If I controlled the school calendar, I would want first - semester finals to occur before winter break»; this included more than 85 percent of the high school students, according to Challenge Success.

Here in Houston ISD, for example, Aramark (our FSMC) has put really lovely «made to order panini bars» in several Houston high schools, but the food is totally out of reach for the majority of our students, 80 % + of whom are F / R.

The majority of the programs focus on in - state high school students and / or adult learners.

A large majority of students at the Leonardo Da Vinci High School in Buffalo walked out of class Wednesday morning.

And Carl Paladino, the former Republican gubernatorial candidate with whom the board's majority typically sides, narrowly held onto his seat by a margin of just 107 votes against union - supported high school student Austin Harig, according to preliminary numbers.

Steven Choi, NYIC Executive Director, said that voting is an important way to engage the city's immigrants in the democratic process, as the majority of New York City high school students are either immigrants or their children.

The majority of the Ph.D. scientists teaching in high schools who answered a survey for Attracting reported being happy with their careers and concurred that a major reason is the pleasure of watching their students discover science.

Online charter school enrollment grew around 60 percent during the period studied, from approximately 22,000 students in 2010 to over 35,000 students in 2013, with high schools making up the majority of online charter enrollment.

If, however (and I'm assuming this is the case for the majority of readers), you are not a leather clad, cigarette - toting 1950's high school student, maybe steer clear.

If, however (and I'm assuming this is the case for the majority of readers), you are not a leather clad, cigarette - toting 1950's high school student, nor a rom com character, maybe steer clear.

The proportion of black students in the majority - black elementary schools has remained consistently high, at 96.7 percent black (as compared with 98.8 percent black in 1985, the first year the district returned to segregated neighborhood elementary schools).

The proportion of students in poverty in the majority - black elementary schools has increased over time, and remains at higher levels (currently at 91 percent poor) than the district's other elementary schools (76.6 percent poor.)

Students were protecting themselves from extra work by ostracizing high achievers, «constraining the fast minority,» and holding down the achievements of those who were above average, «so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.»

The common sense of our present day — that the majority of students in American public schools ought to achieve at reasonably high levels — is unprecedented.

The OECD said that there was «much to be positive about», including: levels of reading and science above international averages; a high level of social inclusion; a drop in teenage smoking and alcohol consumption; and a large majority (nine in ten) of students who feel positive about their school and teachers.

According to a recent survey conducted by the Indiana University High School Survey for Student Engagement, the majority of high - school students spend three hours or less on homework each week, and the majority of those students reported earning As andHigh School Survey for Student Engagement, the majority of high - school students spend three hours or less on homework each week, and the majority of those students reported earning As aSchool Survey for Student Engagement, the majority of high - school students spend three hours or less on homework each week, and the majority of those students reported earning As andhigh - school students spend three hours or less on homework each week, and the majority of those students reported earning As aschool students spend three hours or less on homework each week, and the majority of those students reported earning As and Bs.

Between 2002 and 2005, Match High School reversed student performance on MCAS math: in that time, the majority of sophomores went from struggling to excelling on the test.

We might be concerned that, over time, there will be more private schools with a majority of students on FTC and that these schools might not be the highest quality (as evidenced by the fact that families do not attend if they have the pay the full price).

Driven by escalating concerns that African - American, Latino, American Indian, and some Asian - American students make up the majority of the nation's dropouts every year, the coalition unveiled its «Campaign for High School Equity,» a document that spells out clear policies it believes Congress should pursue to reverse that trend.

A majority favor funding for high schools offering advanced courses for students online and for high schools that offer rural students a broader range of courses online.

Given that the vast majority of high - school students plan to eventually pursue some kind of post-secondary degree, this means millions of kids are being set up for failure.

A majority of high - school students have witnessed or heard about racial incidents with violent overtones, and nearly half would either join in or approve of the action, according to a recent poll by Louis Harris and Associates.

Arnup and Bowles also highlight data from the OECD's Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)-- focusing on lower secondary school teachers and their principals — suggesting «the majority of teachers are satisfied with their jobs, but teaching classrooms with a high proportion of challenging students is associated with lower levels of job satisfaction (OECD, 2014)».

• Students in schools with large majorities of disadvantaged students [who are disproportionately likely to be racial minorities] do poorly on measures of educational achievement, and their schools are likely to have higher rates of disciplinary pStudents in schools with large majorities of disadvantaged students [who are disproportionately likely to be racial minorities] do poorly on measures of educational achievement, and their schools are likely to have higher rates of disciplinary pstudents [who are disproportionately likely to be racial minorities] do poorly on measures of educational achievement, and their schools are likely to have higher rates of disciplinary problems.

Yet, the schools have a 97 percent high school graduation rate, and the majority of students go on to higher education.

No matter how well prepared the majority of students are when they enter high school, there will always be those students who don't fit the program — for any number of reasons.

Kevin Hall: At a minimum, a high - quality charter school produces a vast majority of students who meet or exceed academic standards regardless of their ethnic or socioeconomic background and who are well prepared for postsecondary success.

The overwhelming majority of states provide schools with few incentives to focus on their high - achieving students.

What happens when high stakes are attached to a test score criterion of success that can not be reliably reached by the vast majority of schools and students?

That is, the majority of students are admitted if they rank in the top 10 % of any high school in the state (with ranking determined by student grade point averages).

The majority of SLP students see themselves working as principals or other educational leadership roles in schools or organizations — many in high - need districts.

Though students in small schools are mostly positive about their experiences, the vast majority of students and families aren't ready to let go of their vision of the all - American high school — regardless of how dysfunctional it may actually be.

According to a 2002 study of children in Dane County, Wisconsin, by urban - policy consultant David Rusk, low - income children at schools with a middle - class majority scored 20 - 32 percent higher on standardized tests compared with what their scores would be at schools with a lower percentage of middle - class students.

A majority of the states in our sample have charter sectors that enroll a higher percentage of low - income students than their traditional public schools peers.

Furthermore, schools serving students from neighborhoods with the highest crime rates and the fewest social resources predominantly serve African American students; thus, most of the schools in Chicago where students and teachers report the lowest levels of safety serve a majority African American student population.

The best answer to this latter question, I believe, is no, and it comes in two parts: 1) however much the economy is changing, not all high - school graduates need to be ready for college and career, in whatever way that term is reasonably defined, and 2) practically, since roughly two - thirds of our high schoolers do not graduate college and career ready, today we would deny well over a majority of our students a diploma if we were to impose these more - rigorous requirements on the attainment of a diploma.

Until the majority of the school's teachers are using the digital in their everyday teaching, are of a mind where they genuinely collaborate with the student's homes in the use of the digital, and have a school principal with the means and vision to create the desired digital school, schools have little chance of successfully introducing BYOT and using it to create a higher order ecosystem.

Boston's charter schools also serve a high proportion of black students, even relative to the majority nonwhite BPS district.

A majority of Americans now agree that it is time to cut the volume of standardized testing significantly, end high - stakes uses, and invest in better ways to assess students, teachers and schools.»

The graduation rate is the percentage of the annual graduation rate cohort that earns a local or Regents diploma by August 31st following the third school year after the school year in which the cohort first entered grade 9, except that in a school in which the majority of students participate in a department - approved, five - year program that results in certification in a career or technology field in addition to a high school diploma, the graduation rate shall be the percentage of the annual graduation rate cohort that earns a local diploma by August 31st following the fourth school year after the school year in which the cohort first entered grade 9.

A majority of St. Louis Public Schools students scored below proficient in math and English, but higher scores in the attendance and graduation - rate categories made up for poor results in academic achievement, Emily Stahly, a research assistant at the Show - Me Institute, found in an analysis earlier this year.

I would go as far to say that students in India are more literate in English than the majority of Detroit high school students.

The K — 12 sector has fewer expert reviewers or platforms for user reviews than does higher education because the vast majority of students attend their assigned district school and hence have little need to compare various options.

But even if one school has a student population that is 75 percent black and 25 percent white, and the other has those percentages reversed, there is still no evidence of any form of discrimination if the school with the majority black students has a higher overall discipline rate.

Preliminary data released on Monday by the Department of Education show that high school graduation rates rose in a majority of states and gaps in graduation rates between white and minority students narrowed in most states.