Sentences with phrase «majority students coming»

«While it's wonderful that there are all these new majority students coming to university,» says Ross,» [but] the fact of the matter is that... the percentage of those students earning degrees is much lower than people coming from continuing generation families.»

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The majority of students and parents that this affects come from financially disadvantaged backgrounds.

The vast majority of students at private schools (especially nonparochial ones) come from relatively affluent, educated families.

On teams where abuse occurs, the majority of student - athletes come to believe they deserve to be humiliated and berated.

Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?

«Go to the Ghana Institute of Journalism, GIJ, and look at the students who are coming out, majority of them are females and when you look at it, you will see that it is more of a fashion parade... so when we are talking about quality of journalism, they should tone down on the fashion and get a little bit more serious with the actual content,» he added.

The university has ~ 250 faculty and ~ 2200 full - time students (of whom 10 % are from overseas, with the majority coming from Asia).

Another challenge is that the majority of students come to seminary with a background in the humanities, not the natural sciences.

The majority of my students are new to the practice when they first come to class, and while most of them enjoy it right away, sometimes beginners look at me incredulously at the end of their first class, in a blissed - out - yet - confused sort of way as if to say, what just happened?

Oops, I was only five when «Network» came out so I missed the similarities (luckily the majority of the audience — with the exception of those in the Keaton / Ford demographic or film students — are likely to be in the same boat.)

Although most of the students at my school come from economically disadvantaged households, I found that the vast majority of them had some kind of a computer at home that was hooked up to the Internet; they simply weren't using it for anything other than games.

Before they come to NMSA, the majority of incoming ninth - grade students know that they do or don't like something, but they don't always know why.

Specifically, minorities in majority white schools may feel inferior, become frustrated, or have difficulty interacting with white students who come from different cultural backgrounds.

Coming to consensus, by the way, can be anything from the students running a quick pro / con debate, majority rules vote, or even a rock / paper / scissors smack down.

The students, almost all African American, more than 80 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, came with skill levels all over the map; a majority read at a 5th - grade level or below.

Urban public school systems, no matter their structure, will educate the vast majority of students living in cities for generations to come.

«Our school population has a majority of its students coming from challenged social and environmental backgrounds, so they need much more than what the average public school can provide for them given the legal mandates of what must be taught in these schools,» Johnson explains.

While the vast majority of FLVS students come from district schools (82 percent in 2007 - 08), the school is open to charter, private, and home - schooled students (see «Virtual Schools,» forum, Winter 2009).

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.

The vast majority of students in the city's public schools are low - income and experience a multitude of challenges that come with poverty.

This is a table containing the majority of chemical formulae that students will come across in GCSE.

While a majority of the participating schools in Florida and Indiana told us they plan to increase their enrollment of scholarship students in the coming year, less than a quarter of Louisiana respondents said they plan to increase their enrollment.

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 majority of America's public school students come from households considered poor or low - income.

In an area where the majority of pupils come from ethnic minority backgrounds, the school will provide 750 students with the opportunity to excel academically, and gain skills and experiences needed to make informed choices about their future.

The majority of students come from poor families, and many immigrant students need to learn English.

We are finding that even though the vast majority of our youngest readers can manage simple texts, many students - particularly those from low - income families - struggle when it comes time in grade four to tackle more advanced academic texts.

The majority of students come to this campus by way of Child Protective Services or a Juvenile Probation Department.

«The majority of our students are Hispanic, and a small student population are African - Americans, underserved and socially and economically disadvantaged coming from traditional schools that may have not been able to meet their needs as we do here at Mohan,» Riley said.

A majority of the students were African American and Latino, and many came from single - parent or parentless households.

What is clear is that many charter schools want to claim the mantle of being public schools, but the majority fail to take their fair share of students who need special education services, just as they fail to take their fair share of students who need extra help when it comes to learning the English language.

«One issue came through quite clearly — the idea of starting with the needs assessment, what is our actual student need, didn't happen in the vast majority of districts,» Sapp said.

It comes as no surprise that the majority of states provide fewer dollars per student to their highest - poverty school districts than to their lowest - poverty districts and that most states have funding gaps between the schools that have the most minority students and those that have the fewest.

My students come from varied backgrounds and socioeconomic levels: the majority coming from white or Latino backgrounds, and over half of them qualifying for free or reduced - price lunch.

The report comes at a time when the minority student population has increased substantially, resulting in a majority - minority student population in the nation's schools.

«As far as students coming out of high schools, we really can get to a place where the vast majority of those students are ready to succeed from day one,» Morgan said at a press conference in the state capitol on Wednesday.

The key findings «include an apparent growth in the number of students and schools participating in virtual courses, with the majority of virtual enrollments coming in the core subject areas.

Seattle, WA - A groundbreaking new report provides a sobering picture of the state of urban education in America, especially when it comes to educational opportunities for poor students and students of color, who now make up the majority of America's public school students nationwide.

For the first time in recent memory, a majority of U.S. public - school students come from low - income households.

Zervigon says Audubon is primarily an open - admissions school, because the majority of its students come in kindergarten through second grade.

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.

The proposal would mean that a majority of students at both schools — Frederick Douglass and Leesburg elementaries — would come from impoverished households and about half of each school's population would be English - language learners.

The vast majority of studies that have examined the classroom teacher's impact on student learning have come to a simple conclusion: Out of all aspects of schooling, the teacher has the most positive impact on student learning (for a review of several studies, see Nye, Konstantopoulos, & Hedges, 2004).

Plus, they often face the added problem of attracting a majority of students who come to their school only as a last resort (having practically dropped out of other schools) rather than those who would be attracted to the school because of its philosophical beliefs.

In 2013, 21 states reported that the majority of students in their public schools came from low - income families.

The majority of public school students now come from low - income families, and that number seems likely to grow as the squeeze on the middle class continues.

The majority of my students have come from traditional high school settings that did not work best for them for some reason, but here, at Catapult Learning, I am able to teach in an alternative learning environment specific to each student.

New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, State Senate Leader Jeffrey Klein, Assemblyman Marcos Crespo, and over 1,000 charter school parents, students and teachers from across the state came together in Albany today for the 12th annual Charter Advocacy Day.

For the first time in at least 50 years, a majority of U.S. public school students come from low - income families — meaning that more than half of public school kindergarten students enter the system already trailing their more privileged peers.

As parents are slowly coming understand, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC testing program is intentionally designed to fail the vast majority of children, including a projected failure rate of over 90 percent for students requiring special education services and those that aren't fluent in the English language.