Sentences with phrase «means less student»

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This meant fewer educational opportunities for students and less support for our growing organization.

This means you probably won't have to start repayment until graduation, or you become a student enrolled at less than half - time.

Filing separately won't make sense for all borrowers as it means they will make much less progress on paying back their student loans.

Federal student loan fees are taken as a percentage of the total loan amount and deducted proportionally from each loan disbursement, meaning you'll receive slightly less than the amount you borrow.

Many Americans turn to the private student loan market to find the financial means to further their education.Private student loans often come with higher interest rates and less flexibility than federal student loans, but that doesn't mean you are left stranded.

According to a related survey from the College Savings Foundation, one - third of parents are still shouldering loan student debt from their own college days.3 That means these folks could be paying off (or defaulting on) debt well into retirement, and would therefore also have less funds available to help their children.

Of course, such research invariably means less time in the classroom and mentoring only those few elite students who research alongside the scholars.

Devotion to «diversity» doesn't mean having a faculty or student body with the ideological diversity of our country, a place where more or less half the population unjustly votes Republican.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

Not only does that mean less vegetables getting trashed, but also, and more importantly, it means the students at Cloverleaf Schools are eating more fresh fruits and vegetables every day.

Modern safety precautions also mean that there is less for the student to do and more for the teacher, meaning that much of science is observed demonstrations rather than hands - on experimenting.

Either way, early lunch can mean less nutritious food is consumed by students.

-LSB-...] If You Don't Sell It, Fewer Will Eat It: The Effectiveness of California's Curbs on In - School Ju... — Bettina Elias Seigel, The Lunch Tray Does not allowing schools to sell junk food mean students will compensate for lost calories at home, or will they just eat less junk food?

Now we are seeing many more students eating lunch, and less of the «school food sucks» complaints too, which reinforces my belief that half the time, «school food sucks» really means «the whole experience of getting a free lunch at school, where everyone then knows that you are poor, sucks.»

That is unwelcome news for local school administrators, because it means less money potentially available for improved student services.

For On Point, that means less time finding ways for students to afford college and more time helping them succeed in college and find jobs after.

The many restrictions mean that the Excelsior Scholarship will be much less generous and won't help as many students as Governor Cuomo says.

«It's important to emphasize that the changes in scores do not mean that schools have taught less or that students have learned less, but rather reflect this new standard, the Common Core adopted by 46 states because these standards represent the trajectory to college and career success,» King said, on a conference call.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

The Slovenian students genetically modified E. coli to produce the vaccine, suggesting a less costly means of manufacture and immunization down the road.

This means students can finish the sports medicine degree coursework in less time because the credits are dually - attributed.

In practice this means that less advanced students often struggle with year - level expectations and are judged to be performing poorly — often year after year.

That doesn't mean students care any less about their opinions, but it does help them avoid knee - jerk reactions.»

The Disability Discrimination Act (1995) means that it is unlawful to treat disabled pupils or students less favourably.

What students typically find is that on the second and third attempts at completing a chart, they have more yellow highlighter on their paper and less orange and blue, meaning they've remembered more with their brain and relied less on notes, a peer, or the textbook.

18 School - wide anti-bullying strategies; less milk, sun, and exercise mean more kids at risk for bone disease; district offers free breakfast and lunch to all students; more healthful offerings do nt hurt school - lunch sales.

I can also be precise about what I mean by acting white: a set of social interactions in which minority adolescents who get good grades in school enjoy less social popularity than white students who do well academically.

Calculated at the mean, students are 6.2 percentage points less likely to attend college, though the effect is not statistically significant.

(By disadvantaged,» I mean students whose families have less education and income, two factors that are closely related to student educational outcomes.)

But students in Greece decline much more rapidly across the test, which means that those students are less willing to exert consistent effort.

A host of lesser questions arises, too, such as what's the meaning of an online course in science that affords students no access to or experience in laboratory settings, or in art, music, and myriad «applied» subjects that can not be fully mastered on a computer screen?

It explores the greater and lesser jihad, and gets students to collaboratively piece together what Jihad actually is whilst debunking the myth that it means «holy war».

In teaching reading, inform the student of critical errors, namely those that alter the meaning of the passage, and ignore less important errors.

CAP has praised states in the past for lowering their n - sizes, but their plan to have fewer students «count» toward a school's accountability rating would mean less attention on important subgroups of students.

For many districts, the financial commitment required to give each student a handheld, laptop, or tablet PC means looking carefully at each of the options to see if as much, or more, can be done with less.

«Betsy DeVos has rolled back the practice of probing civil - rights complaints for evidence of larger, systemic violations, which means that students who are harmed by state and local civil - rights violations will be far less likely to see those abuses remedied,» says Jeffries.

For those who are less engaged, highlighting this early in the student's career means intervention can be sought to ensure that is success achieved further down the line.

In primary schools, a crowded curriculum and an increased emphasis on time spent in «on the job» training in schools have meant that students who hope to become music coordinators in primary schools have much less training in actual musical skills.

(Because NAEP employs just a sample of students and schools, it also means less curricular distortion and pressure on teachers.)

But when students drop out, it means less money for public schools from the enrollment - based state aid formula.

In less than two years after the implementation of the new initiative, the average mean percentile test scores of more than a million immigrant students went up by 40 percent.

These changes will likely mean that less students students will receive improved marks through the appeals system.

This means that less advanced students often are presented with year - level material that is much too difficult.

This change means that students who are harmed by state and local civil - rights violations will be far less likely to see those abuses remedied unless they, their parents, or someone else acting on their behalf files a direct and formal complaint.

As national magazines and newspapers debate what it means to be literate in a computer age in which students butcher language in text messages and open books less and less outside the classroom, Greenhow has found a virtual creative writing boom among students spending long hours writing stories and poetry to paste on their blogs for feedback from friends, or creating videos on social issues to bring awareness to a cause.

We should encourage direct learning through movement, gestures, and dance by first making our physical control of students less a priority of classroom management, and secondly, by exploring ways that technology frees us to use gestures and movement as a means for learning.

Settling for less means having to find other ways to motivate students and evoke their concentration, revisions, and best work.

Larger classes mean less individual support for students, and put more pressure on teachers at a time when we desperately need to reduce workload.»

In mathematics, abstract problems become far less abstract as angles, shapes and other geometry topics can take on new meaning for students which will benefit learning.

Online curricula, distance learning, netbooks and cellphones in the classroom, and Web 2.0 tools — think Facebook and Skype — as a means of student collaboration have all gained luster as the drive to do more with less overlaps with the demands of educating a generation of digital natives.