Sentences with phrase «number of students at»

This, together with the loss of a number of students at follow - up may have led to the limited effects for incidence and recovery from clinical diagnoses at follow - up.

A growing number of students at university are not just concentrating on their degree or their social life, but on...

For example, I know that there is a significant number of students at The U Minnesota Morris, home of the radical PZ Myers who disagree with him, dislike him, and generally work behind the scenes to undo what he does.

``... a surprising number of students at America's finest colleges and universities wish to appear as victims — to themselves, as well as to others — without the discomfort of actually experiencing victimization.

If I count the number of students at Stanford it won't tell me how many students there are at Columbia.

Accompanied by a portfolio of Polk's photographs, the entry began with this quote: «A number of students at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama told The Black Photographers Annual that looking at the works of P. H. Polk was like a study in Black history.»

Chicago renters insurance would have been quite useful for a number of students at the University of Illinois this week.

I capped the number of students at twelve, wanting to keep the discussions intimate and responsive, and the class quickly filled up.

«In Istation, the goal is for all students to be at Tier 1 and, from September to December 2014, the number of our students at Tier 1 increased,» said Longoria.

A number of students at Diego Hills told us they left San Diego Unified high schools when they realized they were too far behind in credits to graduate with their classmates.

That's a large increase over this year's figure of 343, and 582 is greater than the total number of students at some other high schools.

This study is among the very first to demonstrate that early warning indicators can be used within the first year to reduce the number of students at - risk of high school dropout.

Meanwhile, what would we do if one 4th grade class in Meriden has a 7 percent drop in the number of Latino students and sees a 5 percent increase in the number of students at CMT goal, while the same sized class in an elementary school across town has a 10 percent increase in the number of Latino students and the number at goal in that class drops by 2 percent?

Rather, the LCFF defined how the state allocates K - 12 dollars by creating funding targets for a base grant per student to be provided to all California school districts, adjusted for the number of students at various grade levels.

grant per student to be provided to all California school districts, adjusted for the number of students at various grade levels.

In this case, the test results come in and, both classes see a 2 percent increase in the number of students at goal.

Thirty years later and with an increasing number of students at commencement, each graduate still wears the original graduation robe, now heavily stitched and repaired.

And they're doing it with less money than it takes to educate the same number of students at a public school.

The DCPS funding formula does differentiate public funding based on the number of students at each grade level and in different special needs categories, including special education, English language learners, and those «at risk» for academic failure.38 DCPS would not disclose how or if it factors in parental donations when determining school budgets or allocations.39 However, it did report not having a policy to equitably redistribute parent donations or to prohibit these additional dollars from being put toward staffing.40

As for participation and achievement, the addition of one sport increases the number of students at or above academic proficiency by 0.2 of a percentage point.

Leveraging the power of afterschool programs to reduce chronic absence is especially important now given the economic challenges facing communities and schools and the growing number of students at risk of academic failure and dropping out.

During the meeting Mr. Khatri talked about the job of UNESCO with the Ministry of Education in Cambodia, the special programs developed to combat literacy, the law number of students at schools, and also about the future Global Citizenship Education proposed by UNESCO.

With a smaller number of students at any one time, teachers can focus on pushing the ratio of higher order thinking through Socratic seminars and other targeted strategies of instruction only possible in a small group setting.

To see whether this disparity could explain my findings, I adjusted the data to eliminate the effect of differences in the number of students at each school with similar GPAs.

It's important because feedback is critical to student learning; it's challenging because of time constraints and the number of students at varying levels in our classes.

I'm guessing, from watching the show, that a large number of these students at West Adams are on free / reduced lunch program.

Jake supports The Good Food Institute's mission by increasing the number of students at Stanford interested in pursuing clean protein entrepreneurship through maximizing GFI's visibility on campus, planning events, guest lectures, and more.

As a GFI Campus Fellow, your primary goal is to increase the number of students at your university that pursue entrepreneurship in plant - based and cellular agriculture alternatives to factory - farmed foods.

«We want to have a small, massive impact,» Flombaum says, contrasting the approach of attempting to change the lives — and career paths — of a small number of students at a time to that of online education, which can reach a lot of people, but is likely to have just a small affect on each one.

Split - grades have approximately equal numbers of students at each grade level.

That all - or - nothing approach is something King still insists on, Principal Rivas - Garza says, which pushes her to keep increasing the numbers of students at her high school participating in dual enrollment.

Not exact matches

Technologies like DreamBox, a math education software that's used in a number of classrooms across the US, adapts to each student's skill level and lets students learn at a pace best suited to their needs.

At Wharton, Ulrich says, he has seen increasing numbers of students spend their summers in San Francisco developing their startups and then participating in Wharton's Semester in San Francisco during the fall — a program he pioneered a couple years ago to continue the foundation built during the summer.

As Altaf Rahamatulla, a Ford Foundation program associate, recently noted in Fortune, students are protesting these hateful activities with great passion and in huge numbers, as they did this fall at the University of Missouri.

That's now the case for hundreds of students at the University of South China, which according to a number of news outlets has essentially barred those who are in their second year of the school's civil - engineering program from selecting their specialties; the program is broken down into seven of them.

Companies aren't charging students to be interns, like colleges charge them to be students, and at the end of it, an internship will make you far more marketable than an A in any number of classes.

In time, of course, the plan is to grow the number of courses at each Hub to accommodate student demand.

The finance sector's allure has held strong at the University of Virginia's McIntire School, where 47.8 % of students accepted jobs in the field in 2014, nearly the same number as last year, said Tom Fitch, McIntire's associate dean for career services and employer relations.

While there is no evidence that a large number of Chinese students or academics at US universities poses a threat to US interests, the Chinese government uses several education efforts as vehicles for soft power.

In its early years, a number of her students in the program were teenagers who had come to the country, unauthorized, at a young age and finished high school, but then could not obtain citizenship or receive any state or federal funds for college.

Over the years Richard Leblanc, an adjunct at Osgoode Hall Law School and associate professor of governance law and ethics in the School of Administrative Studies at York University, has been struck by the number of students who had difficulty staying awake during class.

Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated the number of students killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in February.

Theresa has worked as a software engineer and a project manager in a number of different countries, and is a doctoral student in marketing in the Division of Industrial Marketing, at the Lulea University of Technology, in Sweden, where she explores the entrepreneurship marketing interface.

HBS said its self - reported student numbers are based on a sample of the class at graduation and «is subject to change until finalized in the fall.»

When you look at that competition, it would be clear that the top ten schools have been able to enroll larger numbers of students.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

The IT staff at Iowa State University discovered that its servers had been hacked and compromised the names, birthdates and social security numbers of approximately 30,000 students.

Rohit Chopra, a senior fellow at the Consumer Federal of America, crunched the numbers on student loan default.

You've probably heard dour statistics about rising tuition costs and rising student debt, which has exploded to more than $ 1.2 trillion.9 At the same time, there has been a decline in the number of pre-retirees saving for retirement — at least according to our RISE surveys over the past two yearAt the same time, there has been a decline in the number of pre-retirees saving for retirement — at least according to our RISE surveys over the past two yearat least according to our RISE surveys over the past two years.

Regarding Schumer's point on enrollments, the number of computer science graduates bottomed out in the 2006 - 07 academic year, with only 8,021 students receiving bachelor's degrees in computer science at the 170 Ph.D. - granting institutions tracked by the Computer Research Association.