Sentences with phrase «more average schools»

Writing in The Telegraph in November 2011, the Prime Minister, David Cameron, declared that the previous Labour government «set a narrow definition of coasting schools, which allowed many to slip through the net undetected», and that his government was «going to widen it so that more average schools are pressed to do better».

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Of the nine winners who did report challenges building their startups because of student - loan debt, only three left school owing more than $ 35,000, the average amount for class of 2015 graduates (the highest in U.S. history), according to a report by financial aid resource Edvisors.com.

Most parents are aware that over the course of an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $ 1 million less than those with a bachelor's degree and are 50 percent more likely to be unemployed.

As most would guess, kids with more disadvantages, such as poverty and less educated parents, come to school less prepared, which pulls down average test scores at districts where more kids face these challenges.

The only difference is that he happens to jet around the world far more than an average high schooler.

Among the top 20 MBA programs in the U.S., at least four schools — Yale, Harvard, Northwestern, and UCLA — have increased their average scholarship payouts to students by more than 100 % since the 2004 - 2005 academic year.

So were the average GMAT scores of its entering classes, which tended to range near 600, more than 100 points below the best schools, which typically report scores in the 700 - plus range on an entrance test where the highest possible score is 800.

MBAs out of UCLA's Anderson School of Management, with an average burden of $ 88,654, now owe roughly $ 5,000 more than the grads of private Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Schools receive points based on the following weighted ranking: 33.5 % reputation (higher is better), 20.5 % classroom experience (student - teacher ratio and cohort diversity), 13 % average GMAT scores (higher is better), 13 % tuition (lower is better), 13 % required work experience (more is better) and 7 % program length (shorter is better).

After grad school, the couple's student loan burden came to $ 600,000 — more than 27 times the average for college graduates in their 20s.

Overall, higher education still translates into better wages — those with a bachelor's degree, on average, earn more than 30 per cent more than high school graduates.

A higher average could also indicate that schools set higher bars, and can be more selective about who is admitted.

-- Harvard Business School — «The average time it took an unemployed person to find a job — full time, part time or otherwise — in December (2008) was 19.7 weeks» — Department of Labor — «Elite professionals feel least adept at getting meaningful introductions to key contacts (and) more adept at maintaining ongoing contact with key network members.»

It is interesting to note that Private schools had $ 3,603, or 22.81 %, more debt per graduate than Public schools on average.

This brief presents a more complete picture of student loan debt, examining not only average debt of student borrowers, but presenting a full assessment of the distribution of debt and the types of schools.

In 2001, when the class of 1998 was surveyed, the top - earning alumnus group was from the Wharton School's EMBA program at the University of Pennsylvania, reporting an average salary three years after graduation of just more than $ 200,000 (measured in purchasing power parity equivalents).

At Georgetown University's McDonough School, EMBA students are graduating with average debt of $ 112,446, more than double the debt burden of the school's full - time MBAs whose average borrowing is $ 5School, EMBA students are graduating with average debt of $ 112,446, more than double the debt burden of the school's full - time MBAs whose average borrowing is $ 5school's full - time MBAs whose average borrowing is $ 51,750.

At Emory University's Goizueta School, 72 % of the latest graduating class of EMBAs went in debt with the average burden at $ 77,795 — some $ 15,000 more than the 68 % of graduating full - time MBAs who averaged $ 62,716 in debt at the sSchool, 72 % of the latest graduating class of EMBAs went in debt with the average burden at $ 77,795 — some $ 15,000 more than the 68 % of graduating full - time MBAs who averaged $ 62,716 in debt at the schoolschool.

-- Newfoundland and Labrador schools have lost a third of their students since 1996; more people have died than were born in the province for each of the last three years and the average age is almost three years older than the Canadian average of 41.

Male MBAs are hired into higher - level positions right out of school and earn, on average, $ 4,600 more per year in their first job than their female counterparts.

And regardless of social class, the stresses and distractions that afflict unemployed parents also afflict their kids, who are more likely to repeat a grade in school, and who on average earn less as adults.

our sharpest minds would be schooled HARD by a supreme creator... not the other way around... an average joe off the street could write a better, more moral book than the Bible and utterly destroy the god of any of the holy books in a general knowledge debate with ease.

Public schoolteachers in central cities are far more likely than the average central city resident to send their own children to private schools.

If a school were predominantly Muslim, I would expect them to close for the applicable holidays — just like schools in heavily Jewish areas close for more Jewish holidays than the not so much to average Jewish density areas.

And I certainly get how you could listen to the pabulum shoveled out in your average high school biology class and think «That's a load of feces, and no more reasonable (or scientific) than my beliefs.»

Yet another sign of the flourishing of AATS - member graduate professional schools in the United States was the astonishing — from the vantage of the 1990s — statistic that despite the intervening economic depression they averaged three times as much endowment per student ($ 6,103) as all privately controlled academic institutions ($ 2,040), and more than ten times as much as publicly controlled institutions ($ 455).13

The girls are given a more focused education — the classrooms are much smaller than in the coed schools that pack upwards of a 100 students in one room — and they perform, on average, much better than the rest of Kakuma on Kenya's standardized testing for secondary schools.

Both schools pull in more athletic revenue than the majority of front - line Big 12 candidates, but they have way worse men's basketball programs, smaller fanbases, less academic funding, and lower university rankings than the league's averages.

High schoolers are on screens for non-academic reasons for an average of 9 hours a day; this is more hours per day than they sleep!

Children of men 45 + have on average lower IQs and one study found their children are 60 % more likely to fail in school and 70 % more likely to be dropouts.

• If one parent is better - educated than the other, some children may benefit from the better - educated parent undertaking more care: e.g. in Norway, girls (but not boys) have been found to do better at school when a father who was better educated than their mother took longer - than - average leave (Cools et al, 2011.)

We don't believe everyone deserves a trophy, but we have seen the problems associated with a ranking system, and have urged schools to consider other ways to honor their top students — ways that rely less on a grade point average and that are more similar to the MVP status on a sports team - where multiple skills and traits are valued.

If your child is getting below - average grades in school, yells when you ask him to do homework, seldom comes home on time and has lied about where he was, or has even become verbally abusive or intimidating when you tried to give him a consequence, he is going to need more limits and checking - up on to ensure his safety.

Up from 23.4 % in 2007, in 2017 40.6 % of students now spend 3 or more hours each day (on an average school day) playing video or computer games, or using a computer, smartphone, or tablet for something other than school work.

These school districts, which serve more than 10 percent of the nation's school children, charge an average of $ 1.80 for an elementary school meal and $ 2.14 for a high school meal.

[26] A more recent USDA study found that, on average, revenue from the sale of competitive foods during the 2005 - 2006 school year covered only 71 percent of the reported cost of providing such food.

In fact, most homeschool parents pay even more on average for their student's education than those subsidized within the public school system.

Utica Community Schools Enrollment: 27,960 Average teacher salary: $ 80,840 Full - time - equivalent teachers: 1,124.3 Bottom and top of salary scale (2016 - 17): $ 39,310 to $ 101,956 (PhD) Number of teachers earning more than $ 100,000: 18.

Compared with the national average, Maine has more than triple the percentage of schools that have achieved a «U.S. Healthier Schools» designation — meaning schools that served meals well above the federal nutrition mischools that have achieved a «U.S. Healthier Schools» designation — meaning schools that served meals well above the federal nutrition miSchools» designation — meaning schools that served meals well above the federal nutrition mischools that served meals well above the federal nutrition minimums.

There are jobs, meetings, school, homework, conference calls, doctor's appointments, playdates, science experiments, and so much more during the average week.

After years of med school and experience with hundreds of babies, they know more than the average person when it comes to the healt...

adolescent homeschooled students slept an average of 90 minutes more per night than public and private school students, who were in class an average of 18 minutes before homeschooled children even awoke.

Teachers in the district's three schools are paid about $ 12,000 more than the state average, and the schools offer an array of top - notch educational opportunities, including low class size, foreign language instruction, fine arts and orchestra programs, low - cost preschool and a full - day kindergarten, before - and after - school care, and several extracurricular sports teams.

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Each school nurse serves and average of 1,112 students, 48 percent more students than the federally recommended ratio of 1 nurse per 750 students.

So an average school lunch would cost no more than $ 3 or $ 4.

Pope, the co-founder of Challenge Success, said that research from that group found that high school students from high - achieving schools average more than three hours of homework each night, and middle school students average about 2.5 hours.

This is in contrast to the usual ranking of schools by test score averages, which is more of an indication of how affluent the parents are than of how good the school is.

The Touch Research Institute (TRI) of the University of Miami School of Medicine found that massaged preemies, on average, gained 21 - 47 % more weight than those not massaged.

When compared to control group counterparts in randomized trials, infants and toddlers who participated in high - quality home visiting programs were shown to have more favorable scores for cognitive development and behavior, higher IQs and language scores, higher grade point averages and math and reading achievement test scores at age 9, and higher graduation rates from high school.