Sentences with phrase «numbers of students from»

We recruit diverse attorneys by participating in on - campus interviews at schools with significant numbers of students from underrepresented backgrounds and at various job fairs including the Southeastern Minority Job Fair and the Vault MCCA Legal Diversity Career Fair.

Many law schools have developed programs for study abroad — not just the summer - abroad programs that have been standard fare for decades (that may or may not include instruction in foreign or international law), but also semester - abroad programs, exchange programs with law faculties in other countries, and special legal institutes with a comparative or international focus, including some that are situated in foreign jurisdictions.18 For example, Temple operates year - round programs with full - time faculty in Tokyo and Beijing; as well as a summer program in Rome; exchange relationships with the Universities of Cork, Tel Aviv, and Utrecht; and an Institute for International Law and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culture.20

The platform also calls for charter schools to retain proportionate numbers of students from a range of subgroups, including ELLs, and opposes «high - stakes standardized tests that falsely and unfairly label students of color, students with disabilities and English Language Learners as failing.»

This is remarkable in itself, but even more so given that Linked Learning schools enroll greater numbers of students from groups at risk of not graduating.

Paul Leather, Director of State and Local Partnerships, Center for Innovation in Education, discussed the 4 State Performance Assessment Project which supports the design and use of performance - based assessments across multi-district networks serving large numbers of students from historically disadvantaged communities in California, Colorado, New Hampshire, and Virginia.

About $ 1 billion of the proposed new spending would go to Title I programs for schools with large numbers of students from low - income families, Duncan said.

Schools receive federal Title I aid when they have significant numbers of students from low - income families.

«Throughout my work on this bipartisan bill, I've fought hard to make sure schools serving high numbers of students from military families get the resources they need, and for the first time the bill will help shed a light on how they are doing in the classroom,» Murray said in a statement.

Good private schools are often oversubscribed and unlikely to be able to accommodate significant numbers of students from the public system.

The aim of SFA is to ensure success in reading and language arts skills for all students, with a particular focus on schools serving large numbers of students from low socioeconomic circumstances.

First, the current formulas do not focus on concentrations of poverty; rather, they consider both concentrations of poverty and absolute numbers of students from poor families.

The results offer hope that regular school districts can improve, even those with large numbers of students from low - income families or with low achievement.

Some might try to comfort themselves by saying the problem is limited to large numbers of students from immigrant families, or to African American students and others who have suffered from discrimination.

[C] harter schools are pulling large numbers of students from the private education market and present a potentially devastating impact on the private education market, as well as a serious increase in the financial burden on taxpayers.

For instance, some charter schools are attracting large numbers of students from Catholic schools.

Faced with growing numbers of students from low - income families, schools in Wake County, N.C., last year swung into action.

Posselt writes that, in some cases, including astrophysics and biology, admissions committees made allowances for certain «specific «underrated» universities whose reputations for strong training in the field surpassed their college or university's relatively weak overall ranking,» but she provides no hints about which programs these may be, so it is not clear whether any are at institutions that enroll significant numbers of students from non-elite or minority backgrounds.

Districts with high numbers of students from traditionally lactose - intolerant population (like Asians) can offer soy milk as an alternative, but the cost of individual cartons of soy milk is more than twice the cost of dairy milk, and eats up about half of the approx.

While the number of students from India is small by comparison, the increase has been remarkable, with a rise of more than four-fold in just three years.

The restaurant will shift from the east side of the property to the west side and a 10 - foot - wide sidewalk also is being added to accommodate the large number of students from Buffalo Grove High, 1100 W. Dundee Road in Buffalo Grove, who go across the street to visit the McDonald's.

«Whilst it is encouraging that student numbers have not decreased in our universities, it is extremely worrying that there has been no change in the number of students from the very backgrounds the government is spending considerable sums of money on persuading to apply,» UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said.

As the eviction took place, a number of students from the university gathered at the site to protest against the action.

«The expansion of places for AAB students will lead to an even higher number of students from privileged backgrounds at our most elite institutions,» said University and College Union (UCU) general secretary Sally Hunt.

(BBC) and «Ministers have expressed «disappointment» at statistics showing fewer young people from poor backgrounds are going to university... The data for 2004/05 showed that while the total number of students from all groups rose, the proportion from poorer backgrounds fell from 28.6 to 28.2 per cent.»

The government hopes that changing the system will help get more people from more deprived backgrounds into Britain's top universities, many of which are still taking a disproportionate number of students from the private sector.

Still, the cost of community colleges isn't likely to drop and some counties, including Erie in western New York, have started to apportion their charge - back expenses to the towns and cities in their county, based on the number of students from each municipality who attend.

- 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 University of Michigan argued that to fully reap the pedagogical benefits of diversity, they needed a sufficient number of students from each group, to ensure that students felt comfortable expressing themselves honestly to their classmates.

The programmes are supported by the European Commission by a grant offering scholarships to a limited number of students from the eligible partner countries.

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«We have a number of students from single - parent homes who could benefit from more positive adult interaction,» Auten told Education World.

Meanwhile, within the United States, modest advances in the number of students achieving proficiency have not been accompanied by similar increases in the number of students from all backgrounds achieving at advanced levels.

At the federal level, funding hasn't kept pace with the growing number of students from non-English-speaking families.

For this portion of the study, we compare KIPP students with two groups of district school students: all those attending non-KIPP middle schools in the same district, and a smaller comparison group of students attending middle schools that accepted an above - average number of students from the feeder elementary schools.

It is a welcome move by the Australian Government, as over the past decade the number of students from India coming to Australia has steadily increased.

«Although the number of students from disadvantaged backgrounds entering higher education has reached record levels again this year, there are early signals that the good progress made in recent years may be slowing down.

Online learning is surrounded by numerous myths that sometimes prevented a number of students from enrolling for online education or E-learning.

While funds are allocated among eligible schools in proportion to their number of students from low - income families, the size of the grant per student from a low - income family need not be the same for all eligible schools.

Determination of the aggregate number of students from low - income families enrolled in individual schools, as well as the identification of individual students from low - income families, are important elements of Title I. Concentrations of students from low - income families are used as a proxy for identifying schools with large proportions of students with low achievement levels, and Title I funds are targeted on these schools.

Too many teachers are only successful with a limited number of students from similar backgrounds... these teachers should never be considered highly qualified no matter how many years of experience they have.

The jesting began after a number of students from the Western North Carolina county emailed lawmakers about legislation affecting the state's charter schools and the funding they get from traditional public schools.

For example, in gathering a normative sample for a state assessment a certain number of students from each grade level in each county or school district could be selected.

This dataset provides the number of grade - appropriate students who live in each DCPS boundary, the names of schools attended by students living in each boundary, and the number of students from the boundary who attend each school if there are more than 10 students from that boundary attending a particular school.

Anchored by Flamboyan Foundation, the CollaborativePR aims to improve the number of students from the municipality of Loiza making it to and through college or other post-secondary institutions and attaining a solid, rewarding career.

The Walton Family Foundation's focus is on high - quality, high - potential network and individual school options that will serve a significant number of students from low - income backgrounds, and must draw a majority of its students from one of the Foundation's targeted districts.

Every dropout costs society hundreds of thousands of dollars over the student's lifetime in lost income, and removing a large number of students from school undermines a community's future.

Most studies, however, fail to pull out administrative costs as a separate entity in cost functions, as the cost of running schools are a combination of many factors such as student: teacher ratio, number of students from impoverished backgrounds, number of special education students, rural v. urban locations, labor costs, school size, and district size.

At a time when many schools throughout the nation, particularly those serving a high number of students from low - income families and students of color, are struggling to find and keep teachers, the leadership of a strong principal takes on added import for student success.

For example, a larger number of students from disadvantaged communities can take Advanced Placement courses if they have demonstrated proficient levels of achievement on a test that accurately and fairly measures their academic ability.

We have helped a huge number of students from Brisbane, Adelaide, and many other areas of Australia.