Sentences with phrase «of groups of students for»

Releasing the ACER report, PIRLS 2016: Reporting Australia's results, ACER Deputy CEO (Research) Dr Sue Thomson said while the results indicate positive changes in Australian students» average reading performance since 2011, they also highlight the existence of groups of students for whom reading comprehension remains an area of great difficulty.

Releasing the ACER report, PIRLS 2016: Reporting Australia's results, ACER Deputy CEO (Research) Dr Sue Thomson said while the results indicate positive changes in Australian students» average reading performance since 2011, they also highlight the existence of groups of students for whom reading comprehension remains an area of great difficulty.

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«An excise tax on the endowments of some private colleges and universities, regardless of how many or how few institutions it affects, is a remarkably bad idea that takes money that would otherwise be used for student aid, research, and faculty salaries and sends it to the Department of the Treasury to finance corporate tax cuts,» said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, a higher education trade group.

Klawe started with the hypothesis that if Harvey Mudd created an environment that was supportive and engaging for everyone; if the school built confidence and community among underrepresented groups; and if it demystified the path to success, a diverse group of students would be attracted to the college and succeed there.

«These are things any great teacher would be able to do for a small group of students in a particular classroom,» Baker says, but D2L can do it on a massive scale.

Everyone in the program completes afour - month internship with an area business — important local experience for thethree - quarters of the student body thatcome from abroad — and most complete anapplied business project, a group businessanalysis assignment based on the real - worldexperience gleaned through the internship.Those with an interest in finance can forgothe independent project and instead bolton an optional fifth semester that givesadditional weight to securities, derivativesand investing, covering topics like the mutualfund industry and real estate investing.

But for all the big talk, Ivey has a lot of walk.MBA graduates, according to the school's owndata, can expect an average starting salaryof over $ 98,000 a year upon graduation.Every class evolves from students tacklingreal - world problems on their own, to doing so in groups, then as an entire class.Outside the classroom, the school offersscores of special projects, internationalinternships and one - of - a-kind programs, like the Ivey Consulting Project, the largestand longest - running Canadian programpairing MBA students with real - world businessesin need of help.

The second group of guinea pigs were college students, half of whom were asked to complete a survey for charity in an overheated room, and half of whom got to do the same task in a nice cool one.

«A ruling by a single judge in one circuit can not and does not undo the years of clear legal precedent nationwide establishing that transgender students have the right to go to school without being singled out for discrimination,» said a statement from five groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), that have filed «friend of the court» briefs on behalf of transgender students.

Each year, a new crop of students is divided into groups, and each is made responsible for managing a $ 250,000 chunk of the fund's assets under management.

Celis became involved with the work of Engineers without Borders Canada, a group of engineers, students and volunteers who use their creativity and problem - solving skills to help communities in Africa, and soon left her job at OPG for a year - long position in Ghana, working with the development systems of local governments.

According to The News & Observer, Wednesday's report «found a new culprit: the Academic Support Program for Student - Athletes... The report describes a fairly broad group of academic and athletic officials who knew about athletes getting better grades in classes that only required papers, yet taking little or no action.»

Federal borrowers facing periods of low or no income can also file for Income Based Repayment (IBR) or Pay As You Earn (PAYE), which cap your monthly payments to a percentage of what you earn, not what you owe, according to Gary Carpenter, CPA and Executive Director of National College Advocacy Group, which supplies information regarding student loans.

This week's easy - to - sell business idea imagined by one of my student groups involved a service that would charge Babson students 99 cents to list textbooks for sale.

With more than 500 clubs and organizations to join, including a capella groups and the student - run newspaper, there's no shortage of ways for Northwestern students to get involved on campus.

I remember a friend told me she was going with a group of students to Oktoberfest for the weekend.

Another national walkout, organized by a different group of students, is planned for April 20, the 19th anniversary of the 1999 attack at Colorado's Columbine High School that killed 12 students and a teacher and left two dozen more injured.

The other founder, Ryan Bubinski, longed for his days at Columbia University, where he taught programming and evangelized the importance of learning to code through a student group he had founded called the Application Development Initiative.

Researchers studied disagreements by teaching two groups of students a card game that contained largely similar rules, except for one key difference — one group was taught aces were the highest card in the game, while the other was taught aces were the lowest, Greer says.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein subjects are given an object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.

Last month the Canadian high - tech lobby group Information and Communication Technology Council along with Music Canada jointly made the case for increased government support of arts education, especially music, on the basis that music students «performed better in general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ,» are more creative and have better social skills.

Hess, for example, recalls feeling defensive when a group of students ripped into Window Depot's website and logo.

For some high school students, after - school activities might consist of rehearsals, study groups, or babysitting gigs.

Thiel made headlines last year when he announced he would fund a group of college start - ups, provided the students left school for two years.

According to the New York Times, black students have never been responsible for mass shootings that drove the national conversation about gun safety and minority schools have never been the targets of such attacks, leaving civil rights groups wondering why black students would be the focus when seeking to address an issue that plagues white, male students.

Following calls by Seattle University student groups for a «physical space for healing,» the school's Office of Multicultural Affairs hosted an event aiming to deconstruct «white feminism.»

As I sat down to record some of the day's happenings there was a small group of students who came outside to watch what was happening in their parking lot as almost 200 volunteers worked together to build a new playground for them.

The Commerce Undergraduate Society («CUS») is the umbrella group for all the student organization in the Haskayne School of Business.

Alexis is Co-chair of the McLennan Ross Insurance & Risk Management Practice Group, Program Coordinator for the McLennan Ross Mentor Program, and Chair of the McLennan Ross Student Hiring Committee for Calgary.

With a clear four - step methodology to help readers move from idea to action, templates for readers to map out their problems and the opposing ideas for solving them, and with practical and memorable stories, from music mogul Jay - Z, to the founder of Vanguard Group, Creating Great Choices was written with MBA students, business managers, non-profit and government agency leaders, teachers, and even elementary school students in mind.

Visit the student clubs page for a full list of industry - related groups at Rotman.

Skeptics of the marches seized on the roles of major interest groups, suggesting that the students were unwitting participants in political warfare that should be reserved for adults.

The group has also partnered with a team of students from the University of California, Los Angeles SupraStudio design and architecture program to create the design for the pods and stations and map out possible routes around the country.

On October 31st to November 4th, 2017, we organized a pilot FinTech training program for a selected group of 30 finance professionals, regulators and students.

The Career & Technical Education (CTE) Working Group is focused on creating public dialogue around programs of study pathways for students interested in entering the STEM workforce.

Younger people are getting the degree today, and it has forced everyone to compete for that same group of students.

For example, the company's employee - initiated group HACEMOS (the Hispanic Association of Communications Employees of SBC), has started an initiative that will link thousands of students across the country via satellite for High Technology Day, which educates students about technology careeFor example, the company's employee - initiated group HACEMOS (the Hispanic Association of Communications Employees of SBC), has started an initiative that will link thousands of students across the country via satellite for High Technology Day, which educates students about technology careefor High Technology Day, which educates students about technology careers.

Things moved pretty quickly for gun - rights advocate and Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Kyle Kashuv after he asked a man he calls his «mentor» — Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative student group Turning Point USA — how many retweets he'd need to convince Kirk to speak at Stoneman Douglas...

The average Class of 2014 graduate with student - loan debt has to pay back some $ 33,000, according to an analysis of government data by Mark Kantrowitz, publisher at Edvisors, a group of web sites about planning and paying for college.

Students at the Florida school where 17 people died last week said Sunday they will organize nationwide marches for gun control next month and try to create a «badge of shame» for politicians who take money from the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups.

KICKICO recently co-organized a cryptocurrency congress in Argentina, which took place from the 6th to the 10th of April in Cordoba and Buenos Aires.The event demonstrated a rapidly growing interest for blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies with a KIKCICO - led group of Russian specialists meeting local students, startups and government officials.

Standing with a group of families who had traveled to the State Capitol from Parkland, an emotional Mr. Scott called the classmates of the slain students and their parents his inspiration, and praised them for helping persuade lawmakers to pass legislation, even if neither they nor he agreed with all of its provisions.

Indivisible, a progressive organizing group founded after the 2016 election, is backing the April 20 walkout and helping Murdock and some of her fellow students organize — and some students indicated that the April 20 event is a bit more of an open political push for gun reform.

While this group is not primarily responsible for student loans, they are at a much greater risk of sharing the burden or picking up payments entirely.

Those calling attention to the disparity in reactions have also highlighted the work of the Dream Defenders, a Florida - based group founded after the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin in 2012, arguing that it helped pave the way for the current student movement for gun control.

Arguably, this has happened in the wake of the Parkland shooting, with high school students becoming a mobilized group in their own right, a group that, like, the NRA, has nonpolitical activities and physical spaces that it can use for networking and organizing.

Strayer appeared to have the worst reviews overall of the for - profit group, with many complaints that they are overly promotional and place pressure to sign up for classes, but abandon students once they have signed up.

In the «university towns» of Waterloo, London and Guelph, private groups have long been interested in building and developing units for students.

This group accounts for approximately 10 per cent of full - time university students across the country.

As students began to flee the carnage, police say Cruz dumped his rifle and bag of extra ammunition and joined «others who were fleeing and tried to mix in with the group... fearing for their lives,» Israel, the sheriff, said Thursday.