Sentences with phrase «number of students do»

This will ensure you actually answer the question being asked, which is something a surprising number of students don't do.

«A significant number of students do not care to be involved in terminal surgery procedures or the use of live animals when there is an alternative,» said Blackwell.

Yet I find an increasing number of students don't see anything wrong with cheating at some level.

The elementary and secondary school system (to name just one Catholic institution affected by the drop in vocations) serves approximately half the number of students it did in 1960, despite the greater presence of lay teachers and administrators.

A fair number of students did have their way paid.

As a result, when she gave a quiz on the book, a number of students didn't do well.

The goal is to develop a hypothesis about exactly why an unexpected number of students did not meet the winter benchmark.

«The English Baccalaureate does not force anyone to do anything but it does reveal the extent to which in the last 13 years we have seen a huge drop in the numbers of students doing modern languages, and overall that the number of students who have got GCSEs in English, maths, a foreign language, science and a humanity is not what it should be.»

We soon realized that a sizable number of students didn't really know how to do the homework, or at least how to do it well enough to get any satisfaction from it.

A number of my students did, too.

Not exact matches

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.

An alarming number of students are Facebook friends with people whom they don't actually know.

This year 17 states require students to take a personal finance course, nearly three times the number of states that did so 10 years ago.

A surprising number of college students don't use the professional - social network.

While the immigration actions include more support for highly skilled foreign students and entrepreneurs, Obama did not expand the number of available start - up or H1 - B visas — a blow to the tech sector in particular.

You don't go to these institutions and feel overwhelmed by the number of black and brown students you see there and say, «Oh, they're taking Asian - American spots.»

The trips include stopovers in major cities where students will learn firsthand what it is like to do business while participating in a number of cultural and tourist activities.

First, private student loans don't usually offer the same number of repayment options as federal loans.

Debt comes in a number of different forms, be it a mortgage, car payment, student loan, or one of those mattresses that you don't have to pay for until 2016.

«There are a number of funerals, and we don't want students and teachers to have to choose between going to a funeral and going to school,» Runcie said.

In fact, we already do that in a number of areas — Pell grants for poor college students, child care to the parent, not a religious institution, and the parent freely chooses a school that is secular, Buddhist, Baptist and so on.

To cite a present - day example: Many people were not at all surprised at the report (in January, 1968; whether the report was correct I do not know) that so noted a theologian as Helmut Thielicke had called on a number of officer - candidates to prevent leftist students from disrupting the worship service at a Hamburg church by their demonstrations.

At the same time, and until this day, a goodly number of its students alleged that they did not want to become «ministers,» but rather were interested in becoming «teachers.»

If they don't mind the impact on applications they can limit visitations in dorms to the point inconvenience alone drops the number of se «xual encounters — it may pis's off the students but is very effective.

According to the findings, 36 percent of U.S. college students don't have enough to eat and a similar number doesn't have somewhere secure to live.

The sheer number of types of critical inquiry guaranteed, on the Wissenschaft side, that no student could be taught to do any of them, which is precisely what the research university model calls for.

When discussing student performance on achievement tests, Barton notes that private or religious schools account for a disproportionately high number of National Merit Scholars and says that is because «one school utilizes religions principles and one does not.»

«We don't target college students but people who work at the university, which is usually a sizable number of people, and maybe graduate students and local residents.

I know a number of University of Michigan graduate students who have done thesis work on coffee farms in Costa Rica, and they have all told me there is very little true shade in the farms.

Players do have a brain afterall and what Wenger does is encourage them to use it rather than just instruct them like most other managers do, now when it all comes together, we go a whole season unbeaten, when it fails, we go a decade without a trophy all in it is why a large number of former Wenger students and players have gone on to greater things within and beyond football, Even Guardiola took a chunk of his coaching badges under Wenger even after playing under Fergie just before hanging up his boots, Viera went on to a senior role at Man.

While some of the high school students joining the trap shooting team have experience with firearms through hunting with family members or shooting BB guns and air rifles for sport, Jenson says that a large number of interested participants have never handled a firearm or ever done trap shooting.

In other words, the fact that double the number of private school students go on to complete college degrees has more to do with who attends private school than what the private school is actually doing for the child's college prospects.

In contrast to these well - adjusted students were the growing number of students on my campus whose parents had done too much of the work of life for them, such that the student was rather bewildered when confronted with choices, problems, or questions they were accustomed to Mom or Dad handling.

«Overloaded and Underprepared» joins an increasing number of voices expressing concern about the future of the stereotypical high school student of today — the one with the non-stop schedule who is overstressed, anxious, not getting enough sleep and locked into rigid definitions of success that don't leave room for genuine engagement, critical thinking skills and creativity.

My mom is an elementary school teacher and I know that every year she has a number of students that don't have all the supplies and she

«You will bring me hard numbers regarding the percentages of EMS [Elizabeth Middle School] students who do eat hot lunches each day.

So we didn't find a «magic number» of AP courses that corresponded with optimal health; it really depends on the individual student, the homework load that s / he can handle given the other courses and extracurricular activities each semester, and what makes sense in terms of challenge levels and individual interests.

Financial struggles at home don't stop at the schoolhouse door, said Keith Pain, superintendent of Frankfort's Summit Hill School District 161, where the number of students eating free and discounted lunches climbed from 162 in August 2008 to 215 in April.

The administration did not immediately provide details about the number of SUNY and CUNY students whose tuition is now covered by public financial aid grants.

New York has nearly 8,600 fewer active educators than it did five years ago, and the number of SUNY students majoring in education has dropped 50 percent since 2007, fueling fears of a looming teacher shortage across the state.

This bill would enable student loan borrowers to refinance at lower rates and increase the number of Pell Grants, which — unlike loans — do not have to be paid back.

But if groups of failing schools are eventually turned into charters, it could give the sector an opportunity to dispel the common criticism charters don't enroll sufficient numbers of high - needs students.

For a number of reasons, the voters didn't feel able to get behind the Liberal Democrats anti-Brexit message - probably because a vote for the Lib Dems felt like a vote for the coalition, student loans and an endorsement of Tim Farron as prime minister.

With a record - breaking number of over 470,0001 students being accepted into UK universities and colleges this year, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) is issuing a five step guide to remind students what they should be doing to look after their belongings.

«In every corner of the state, New Yorkers, after carefully examining the difficult choices made by their school boards, voted «yes» in near record numbers on school budgets to ensure students and education programs did not suffer further harm,» NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi said.

Opponents of free higher education cite «record numbers of working class students» attending university, but what good is that when eight percent drop out just like I did?

While acknowledging that sexual assault was still a problem in the city, Brewer said the numbers indicated that more women were at least coming forward to report crimes, after McCray noted that 90 percent of female college students who experience sexual assault do not report it at all.

You did not acknowledge the number of people on student visas remaining in the country and the abuse of the system.

The report, Safe Havens: Protecting and Supporting New York State's Immigrant Students — released by The Education Trust — New York, Advocates for Children of New York, the New York Immigration Coalition and The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc. — finds that while the New York State Education Department (SED) and the Attorney General's Office, as well as several individual school districts, have taken a number of important steps, there is much more to do.

- 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