Sentences with phrase «of students from»

It is important to note that these figures do not necessary reflect the college enrollment choices of students from each state.

Across the country, charter public schools are serving a higher percentage of students from low - income backgrounds than district - run public.

To address these concerns, I used 1990 census data (the Public Use Micro-Data Sample), which allowed me to construct before - and - after comparisons of students from within the same states.

«Across the OECD, 39 score points separate the mathematical literacy performance of students from advantaged backgrounds (those in the highest quartile of socioeconomic background) and the average student.

«For many weeks we actually thought we weren't going to get anything,» Diez says, citing concerns that some of the students from whom they were requesting submissions were actually on summer break.

«Some of the students from poorer families say that with limited resources, they are glad they didn't have a sibling and now they don't want their child to go without.

Nearly 59 per cent of pupils from the most disadvantaged areas missed their predicted grades, compared to around 48 per cent of students from the most affluent areas.

The annual event, which has become one of the highlights of the school year, sees teams of students from each of the Rossall's eight houses compete to be named the school's best performers.

Test analysis revealed 63 per cent of students from Year 7 to 11 were reading at a primary school level.

«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.

Improvements can be measured in two basic ways: the improvement in performance for a given group of students from one year to the next (known as a value - added approach), or the improvement in performance across different groups of students (which we will refer to as cross-cohort changes).

[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.

Our classroom and visit resources support object - based learning across the curriculum and are designed to meet the varied needs of students from EYFS through to Key Stage 5.

British universities are fundamentally letting down international students due to a lack of writing support, according to new data that reveals the proportion of students from abroad paying for example essays.

That change has resulted in an influx of students from Cleveland public schools who have never attended a private school and who are outrageously behind, some staff members said.

Worth the Money In my work as an education researcher, I've listened to the stories of hundreds of students from all sorts of backgrounds and circumstances.

Coleman and his colleagues were subjected to blistering attacks in both academic journals and the popular press, many of them questioning whether the analysis had adequately controlled for the self - selection of students from more - advantaged families into the tuition - charging Catholic sector.

Offering substantial cash rewards to students and their teachers, the NMSI program has helped hundreds of thousands of students from low - income families succeed in Advanced Placement coursework.

The policies sparked a movement of students from municipal to previously existing private schools as well as the establishment of new institutions.

Until an independent organization is established that disseminates information about which schools are underperforming, which students qualify for choice and supplemental services, and which providers are available, there is little reason to expect that NCLB will induce an exodus of students from underperforming schools.

Impact data for the small group of students from other backgrounds are too noisy to produce reliable evidence.

Of particular significance in this study was the high percentage of culturally diverse and low income students who were unprepared for college - level reading, including 79 percent of black students, 67 percent of Hispanic students, and 33 percent of students from families with annual incomes below $ 30,000.

Schools struggle just to keep track of their students from year to year.

The original evaluation identified, after three years, large positive effects of the voucher opportunity on the test scores of African Americans but not on the test scores of students from other ethnic groups.

Explo attracts a diverse range of students from 40 states and 50 countries to its three - week program offered twice each summer.

The math proficiency of 8th graders from the nation's top - ranked states — Iowa, North Dakota, and Minnesota — is comparable to that of students from the best - performing nations, such as Taiwan and South Korea, reports a federal study to be released this week at the national education summit.

If those programs were the solution, why didn't they lift the achievement of students from low income families?

[19] These universities have high tuition rates, campuses in the more affluent suburbs of Santiago, and larger shares of students from wealthier families.

But, lo and behold, test scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress for students in Washington, D.C. have risen more than those of students from any other participating big city.

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.

Across the OECD, there is a strong relationship between the math performance of students from families with high and with low educational backgrounds.

It can transport a young girl from Topeka, Kansas, to the Louvre and then connect her to a classroom of students from nearly every continent.

In order to see students from diverse backgrounds succeed in their science education, LPS works primarily with schools that have a high - proportion of students from low - income families.

More than 62 percent of students from Massachusetts families with high levels of parental education are proficient in math, placing that state just behind Germany (64 %) and Switzerland (65 %), two of the top - five OECD countries.

Some may wish to take pride in the fact that 12 percent of the students from better - educated families reach the advanced level in math.

With colleagues from the Center for Research on Education, Diversity, & Excellence, a federal research center at the University of California campus here, Tharp has identified five standards that he says mark effective instruction in classrooms with high concentrations of students from backgrounds outside the U.S. cultural mainstream.

Tens of thousands of students from over 100 countries from age 3 to 86 have enjoyed high - quality service of eChineseLearning.

More importantly, wherever I have given this assembly (to a wide - range of students from a wide - range of contexts) it has always gone down extremely well, with students being extremely engaged and informing me of their increased resilience in the months that follow!

The deliberate mixing of students from different schools, socioeconomic backgrounds, and races helps students get out of their bubbles, adds student Angela Lu.

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.

Skeptics have asked whether attrition of students from KIPP schools may explain their apparent success and thereby raised doubts about the prospects for replicating that success at scale.

Madisyn N. was intrigued by the accents in the voices of students from other states, and Libby H. was impressed with the dedication of one cooperating teacher who delayed going to the hospital for treatment of a toe injury until after the class's video conference.

Using the information from their existing MIS system, it will help them to meet the key requirements of the Government's statutory guidance, as well as develop the career aspirations of students from a young age.»

The talented group of students from Leeds City College put on two 30 minute performances in the presence of a director from the National Theatre.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had filed a suit against the state department of education and the district in late August to prevent the dispersal to several other schools of students from the James Lick Middle School, which was one of 18 schools targeted for increased funding and special academic...

Though the university drew many of its students from the local districts, and fed its graduates back into them as teachers, «it was not a good working relationship,» agrees Stan Paz,...

While 42 percent of white students and 50 percent of students from Asian and Pacific Islands backgrounds were identified as proficient in math, only 11 percent of African American students, 15 percent of Hispanic students, and 16 percent of Native Americans were so identified.

But as long as lousy charters are allowed to languish, the many critics of charters — teachers unions and superintendents who dislike the competition — can successfully stave off more charters capable of saving millions of students from academic abysses.

A suit may be brought against a school for not adhering to the public interest (such as not admitting a proper portion of students from low income backgrounds) or to its claim of how it plans to meet the public interest.

About 67 percent of students from both groups attend their first - choice school, according to the study, which was conducted by the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass..