Sentences with phrase «majority student groups»

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The majority opinion, issued by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, said that Hastings College of the Law's «all comers» policy, which required all groups to open all positions to all students, «is a reasonable, viewpoint - neutral condition on access to the student - organization forum.»

Considering all these measures, it can be argued that today's student bodies, with a majority of older students, are less able than they would be if the total group were to include more younger students.

Today women, ethnic and minority groups, all older, constitute the majority of students.

For instance, one study found that Jewish college students» pet dislike was fair - skinned groups with a dominant majority; Catholics disliked non-Christians, particularly Orientals; Protestant students disfavored people in lower status groups.

Entering college as an athlete often means arriving on campus early and having a built - in group of colleagues and companions, even before the majority of students arrive in the dorms.

Prof. You - Me Kim and her student Dajung Jung at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), in collaboration with Prof. Wonhwa Cho's group at the University of Illinois at Chicago, have identified that the majority of human Src homology 2 (SH2) domains not only bind to proteins, but also interact with membrane lipids with high affinity and specificity.

Because the majority of students access Facebook through a mobile device such as a cellphone or iPad, «the class Facebook Group was almost always with them... No student in our class needed assistance using Facebook,» researchers wrote.

Women have a higher success rate than men, and a majority were led by students, found scholars who wrote the study for The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a nonprofit group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that supports economics studies relevant to public policy.

The majority of Les Miserables plays out against the June Revolution, as a group of university students try to lead a revolt against the corrupt government and the settings are both grand and depressing.

We have a majority - minority student population, a large group of English - language learners, and almost 60 percent participation in the free or reduced - price lunch program.

For smaller American Indian / Alaskan Native and Hawaiian Native / Pacific Islander subgroups, the majority of students in the subgroup remain uncovered if only students in that subgroup are pooled: the «super subgroup» strategy of aggregating across racial / ethnic groups is the only way to account for most students in these groups, although their data are not identifiable at the subgroup level.

While 10 percent of students placed in the top levels in math, the large majorities — 83 percent in reading, 81 percent in math, and 100 percent in science — ranked in the middle groups.

They found that minority students performed less well than their majority group peers in all cases.

Do you feel like you spend the majority of your discipline - time handling the same group of students over and over again?

When evaluating the size of this «overprediction» for learning - disabled males, the majority panel noted that it was smaller than the overprediction for other groups of students, such as African - American males.

The majority of communities in the United States have English language learners (ELLs) and consequently, the great majority of teachers are engaged in identifying how to serve this group of students.

I haven't yet found other instructional strategies that bring out the same kind of behaviors from all students — especially from the majority of learners outside the small group motivated by grades and / or college - admission requirements, or the even smaller group motivated by intellectual curiosity.

The results revealed that every student in the test group improved their reading age, with the majority gaining more than a year within the 30 days.

By exploring districts» racial makeups, we see that across the board, Illinois has historically funded student groups in majority - White school districts better than their peers in districts with more students of color.

A 2016 report by the Stanford History Education Group, analyzing the work of roughly 7,800 middle school, high school, and college - level students, found that a majority were unable to tell sponsored advertisements from real articles, or to recognize where information they read was coming from.

The South hit a demographic turning point over the past couple of years, becoming the first U.S. region in which both low - income and minority students constitute a majority of public school enrollment, an Atlanta - based advocacy group says.

In addition, Hannah was an ESL teacher who spent the majority of her day going into other classrooms or pulling students out to work in small groups with her.

Nearly 20 years later, a staggering 93 of CMS» 168 schools served student populations where a majority where considered «economically disadvantaged,» a group disproportionately made up of minority students that qualified for the free and reduced lunch program.

In other words, the new data show that an increasing majority of Arizona's charter school students are comprised of minority student groups.

Many schools «failed» year after year, and as 2014 approached, the majority of public schools in the nation had been declared failures, including some excellent, highly regarded schools (typically, the group that was not making sufficient progress toward 100 percent proficiency was students with disabilities, and the schools that were likeliest to be labeled as failing enrolled high proportions of poor and minority students).

The vast majority of schools use some form of social - emotional and behavioral screening data to identify students in need of individual or small group interventions (at either Tier 2 or 3).

We estimate peer effects in college achievement using a dataset in which individuals are exogenously assigned to peer groups of about 30 students with whom they are required to spend the majority of

The latest installment of the study, released this week by the nonprofit research group MDRC, contains even more impressive news: The disadvantaged students who make up a vast majority of the small - school enrollment are also more likely than those in the control group to enroll in college.

What objectives does the teacher need to re-teach to the whole group (i.e. the majority of students have not mastered)?

The study by the New Jersey Charter Schools Association and two other charter school groups, found a majority of the state's charter schools are «outdated,» most don't have their own athletic fields or access to one that's nearby and many students do not attend class in specialized instructional spaces such as science labs, art or music rooms.

Stations have lots of benefits, one of the biggest being that while the majority of the class is engaged in predesigned work, teachers can meet with individual students or small groups that need targeted support

The majority of articles and studies on gifted minority students have focused on issues of identification, primarily because some minority groups of gifted learners, particularly Black, Hispanic American, and Native American, have been underrepresented in gifted programs.

As explained by Steve Suitts of the Southern Education Foundation, 51 percent of public school students now come from low - income families, and when one group becomes the majority of our students, they define the future.

In spite of this evidence, over this same period, the vast majority of teachers and administrators have enacted practices that separate students by ability; their argument is that homogeneous grouping produces greater learning by allowing for the concentration of instructional resources on the same set of learning problems.

Schools with a majority of Caucasian students were more likely than all other racial / ethnic groups to have daily recess.

And schools could have a majority of their students passing the CMT's or CAPT and still be labeled a failure due to one sub group only.

The vast majority of charter schools also out - performed their host districts with at - risk student groups, including:

Classroom structures may need to be adjusted to accommodate individualized learning — in other words, instead of the traditional rows of desks facing the blackboard, classroom seating arrangements may need to be more flexible, so that the teacher can work with individuals or small groups while the majority of students work independently with a personalized learning software program.

Memphis» dual enrollment program offers authentic college course experiences to high school students, the majority of whom are from groups traditionally underserved in higher education.

Facilitating a series of one - to - one or small group discussions, how members of a particular sub-group of students (the disengaged, high - achievers, young women, young men, or students not from the majority culture in the surrounding community, for example) are feeling about their learning experiences; or shaping a new initiative in the classroom or school.

Our school also has many special education students, and my classroom this year will have 28 children, all who are the majority of the groups above.

In addition, they are identifying processes that successfully prevent inappropriate placement and ensure that the opportunities for educational achievement offered to minority students equal those offered to the majority group.

Conducted by Digital Parenting Russia and Tvidi.Ru, the survey that covered children in the 6 to 16 age group revealed that the majority (75 percent) of the students rely on ebooks for their homework.

Contrarily, since the majority of borrowers in repayment have never claimed the student loan interest deduction to begin with, maybe borrowers as a whole group would be better off letting the government handle all of the saved money under one program to lower the cost of education for a wider net of student debtors.

That group now holds the majority of outstanding student debt owed to the government — about $ 790 billion of the $ 1.4 trillion total at the end of 2017.

Normally classes are Monday to Friday from 9am - 1 pm, but as with most Spanish schools the vast majority of students were beginner or intermediate, so there were no advanced group classes available for me.

Finally, since I feel compelled to complete the trifecta, there's this paper («Understanding Public Complacency About Climate Change: Adults» mental models of climate change violate conservation of matter «-RRB- finding that a substantial majority of intelligent humans (the group studied was MIT grad students) have no grasp of stock and flow.

Although the school's data is allegedly similar to that prepared by the group of parents, Roberts said most of the head injuries reported were minor and the vast majority of District 97 students have not suffered a head injury while at school.

Discussions in this group include a supposed York policy that will expel any student bringing legal action against the school, and how to form a claim against the union with the majority of the membership.

«By far, the large majority of men and women law students believe there's no gender bias, and one reason is they haven't encountered it yet,» explains Laurel G. Bellows, 2012 — 13 ABA president and a principal in The Bellows Law Group in Chicago.