Sentences with phrase «numbers of students going»

Lastly, look at things like graduation rates, job placement rates and numbers of students going on to higher education.

This change is great news for those of us in Grand Island and the Tonawandas because an inordinate number of our students go to Niagara County Community College.

Susannah Chambers, Education Strategist at PrimarySite, explains why a cross-curricular, real - world approach to STEM subjects from an early age is key to breaking down misconceptions about the subjects, and to increasing the number of students going on to pursue STEM focussed careers.

Motivation goes down as the number of students goes up.

A significant number of students go through school without ever experiencing a highly effective black male educator.

In fact, over the three years studied, the number of students going from charters to DCPS was more than 12 times the number who have moved in the opposite direction.

The number of students going to law school, the composition of classes, job opportunities... all have changed a lot in a very short period of time.

Not exact matches

After meeting the scholarship student, the amount of money the average call center employee raised in a week shot up 142 percent and the number of minutes spent on the phone went up 171 percent.

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.»

A September study published by the Brookings Institution found that a large share of the growth in the number of students struggling to pay off their loans over the past several years is tied to students borrowing to go to for - profit schools and to a smaller extent two - year community college.

«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.

Still, as we get into the Phaedo, particularly its claim for the soul's immortality, it dawns on several of my more thoughtful students that the body is merely the temporary repository of a soul that may go on to inhabit any number of other beings (even donkeys!)

«As evangelicals and the main currency of American culture converge, an increasing number of gay students are going to say, «Wait a minute.

For the next seven days, Luther went into the pulpit and spoke to those who could find the time from their daily work together with a fair number of students, university men, priests, as well as many women, and, crucially, his colleagues in the Faculty of Theology.

The Principal of Public School 244 in Queens, New York City, has revealed that his pupils now have longer attention spans, are getting better academic scores, and the number of overweight and obese students has dropped by two percent — all since the school went «Meat Free» back in January.

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.

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.

The right high school for your student goes well beyond statistics available about standardized testing results and the number of advanced or honors level courses offered.

Kids who attend a year - round school go to class the same number of days as students on a traditional school schedule.

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.

It's avoidable, and there are a number of programs proven effective in reducing bullying behavior while also empowering students to take life's punches and keep going.

While the new CT State Law requires all districts provide a number for concussions diagnosed in their students, the Norwalk School Concussion Project is going a step further and shedding the light on the various types of sport and non-sport concussions across our K - 12 schools.

Last year, school nurse Sarah Smith noticed an increase in the number of students visiting her clinic complaining of hunger; Smith brought the issue to her administrators, and grab - n - go breakfast was proposed as a solution.

This is because the unit cost of providing the meal goes down as the number of students rises.

As political scientist Terry Moe has shown, as the number of rules in teacher contracts goes up, student performance goes down, especially that of poor and minority students.

But that number includes students who will not end up going to SUNY, or the City University of New York, or the community colleges that, together, make up the state's public higher education system.

The congresswoman went on to list a number of other concerns, including the proposed elimination of the state and Local income tax deduction (SALT) and the student loan interest tax deduction.

If large numbers of students can't go to school because of a holiday, they should not have to be marked absent.

Yet, as the income gap has grown, there are an incredible number of college students who go hungry.

(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.»

In total, the government is expected to spend at least GH cents 18 million monthly on the projected number of students, with GH cents 9.18 million of the amount going to the trainees in monthly allowances, while GH cents 8.82 million goes to the colleges for feeding and the payment of utilities.

De Blasio said the city got a «consistent funding line» from Albany for his pre-K initiative as well as after - school programming for middle school students, calling it a «victory» because 70,000 kids are going to pre-K and because the city doubled the number of middle school students in after - school programs.

- 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

There has been considerable improvement in statutory education of Muslim pupils and the number of students in higher education has gone up, but when it comes to employment, housing and health, they are still at the bottom of the pile.

«She was coming with us to Albany when there were no cameras,» said Ansari, who runs the New York City office, «and using her celebrity to help elevate the voices and stories of parents and students that, like myself, have been coming up there for a number of years challenging New York State, to say, «When are black and brown kids gonna get their fair share of these dollars?

At Syracuse University, the number of international student has gone up year after year.

Many of them feel that there are more opportunities for them in China than in West and in the United States, but I think the overall numbers still show that most of these students, who go overseas to study, especially in science and technology field end up staying overseas.

Close analysis of cases and literature show that a number of concerned parties avoid responsibility when things go wrong in the supervision of a PhD student.

First, it is a mistake to think that the number of students studying all the sciences up to the age of 16 has gone down.

Likewise, it is wrong to claim that the number of students studying the sciences at A level has gone down.

I have now picked up a good number of skills, often through great personal hardship (like that conversation with my boss), and in hopes that it might help aspiring graduate students avoid some of the pain, I'm going to share a few of them here.

It was a major shift for me to go from a laboratory with a large army of postdocs and students to a unit consisting of a small number of software developers and students.

I'm now benefiting from that because a number of my students that have gone out and worked in other world class groups have had the opportunity to return to the institute as more senior researchers and start to train their own students.

«Increasing the number of serving lines, more efficient cashiers, and / or an automated point of sale system can all lead to enhanced efficiency for students going through lunch lines.»

This half - life existence of graduate students can be minimized in a number of ways; pick a school and department that has a socially active graduate student body; bring a significant other with you to graduate school; attend a school in a major metropolitan area; live in a graduate dorm; find friends in more socially active departments; join a gym or go to the gym on campus; become involved in the surrounding community; suck it up and plan social events yourself for the uninitiated in your department; and finally desperately seek someone — anyone — who will halfway understand your life, i.e., make real friends rather than acquaintances.

First, we were introduced to a number of past students who have gone on to great success in their particular fields.

«I assume that's in response to some of the performance measures you see now with the Ebacc (English baccalaureate), and no doubt there will be a good number of students who are thinking about their futures and where they wish to go to university.»

Also, students will have to order a few numbers that go up to the tens of thousands.

For a number of reasons — limited reliability, the potential for abuse, the recent evidence that teachers have effects on student earnings and college going which are largely not captured by test - based measures — it would not make sense to attach 100 percent of the weight to test - based measures (or any of the available measures, including classroom observations, for that matter).

One in five students in Australian higher education in 2011 were from overseas, the highest proportion among all OECD countries and against an OECD average of only 7 per cent, which means Australia attracts almost 20 times more international students than the number of Australians who go abroad to study.