Sentences with phrase «of the student body where»

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The Sudbury, Ont., university boasts an MBA student body that's 60 % women, putting it among just a handful of Canadian business schools where a majority of students are female.
Next year she'll be student body Vice President (where she'll be more of the Dick Cheney power - behind - the - throne Vice President, rather than the Mike Pence step - aside - rather - than - get - mowed - over Vice President, or so she tells me).
Aaron holds a BA in economics and political science from the University of Waterloo, and a J.D. from the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario, where he served as student body president during his final year of studies.
Devotion to «diversity» doesn't mean having a faculty or student body with the ideological diversity of our country, a place where more or less half the population unjustly votes Republican.
This reflected a genuine spirit of pluralism where nearly every tradition imaginable, from Buddhism to the Salvation Army, was represented in the student body.
Under CEP, schools or school districts where 40 percent of the student body directly qualifies for free meals (via food stamps or other nutrition assistance or welfare programs) may offer those meals free to all students.
Zellnor then went to Cornell Law School where he served as student body president, an editor on the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, a constitutional law instructor in prison, and as a Pro Bono Scholar — a position that allowed him to take the New York Bar early and spend his last semester working full - time at Justice 360, a criminal justice reform organization.
Bailey brushed aside a reporter's question about the optics of the secretary making her first school visit in New York City to one that caters to a wealthy student body, out of sync with the city's school system where about three - quarters of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunches.
He studied government at Harvard, where he was elected president of the undergraduate council, the main body of student government, in his senior year.
Take the desperate situation involving the school district in East Ramapo, where a school board dominated by Orthodox Jewish members is at odds with the parents of a student body that is largely black and Hispanic, in a situation that seemed to be crying out for some resolution at the state level.
Kafui is a product of the nationally renowned Meyerhoff Scholarship program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he was conference champion in the long jump, an academic All - American, and student body president.
WEDNESDAY, April 20, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- Eating disorders may be more prevalent at schools where a greater portion of the student body is female, a new study suggests.
I see it in my yoga classes: students visibly in the throes of negative self image, demonstrating very little conscious relationship to where and how their bodies exist in space; others grinding through asana, attached to an idea of achievement that negates their present moment capacity, sometimes to the point of injury.
The 7 Core Cues are based on the understanding of myofascial meridians (the fact that your muscles run in holistic, whole - body lines, not singular muscles as many people think), and unique bone and joint alignment where EVERY student is different, and our standard cueing has to change or we can hurt people, and also the knowledge of Laws of Physics and why we need to use them or our poses get super heavy and joint compressive.
Biracial, militant radical film student Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) hosts a controversial radio show called Dear White People where she routinely calls out the racist practices of her school and its White student body.
Set in the modern - day, this live - action version centers on the social circles of a private New York high school where a supercilious young man named Kyle (Alex Pettyfer) is running for student body president.
A growing body of evidence suggests that providing students with simplified information, reminders, and access to assistance during critical junctures, like FAFSA completion and the summer after high school, can help students navigate challenging bottlenecks and transition into collegiate environments where they've already shown the potential for academic success.
On the other hand, if your course is made up of links to an outside subscription site, where students have to pay as part of their textbook cost, what your online body language is saying is Leave me alone.
Lesson presentation on alcohol and its effects on the body, ideal for Key Stage 3 science, dealing with what alcohol is, where it is found, units of alcohol, effects of alcohol on pregnant women and suggested activities for students to carry out.
While Whitney offers a fine example of what a school can be when it takes advantage of the opportunity provided by a student body that comes to school ready and willing to learn, it provides few guideposts for those working in schools where students are neither so ready nor so willing.
Rather than focusing on where students are in their long - term progress, this approach often treats each new topic (or school year) as a fresh start — a self - contained body of content to be taught, learnt and assessed.
A student at Hanover Elementary works at the light wall to improve her sense of where her body is in relation to other people and objects.
As the executive director and the board chairman of the District of Columbia's independent chartering body, we are often asked whether we favor a «New Orleans» future for D.C., where charter schools eventually serve virtually all public - school students.
Imagine a safe space where students with autism can go to calm their bodies and then get back to the business of learning.
On average, a black student with a black teacher in a school where more than two - thirds of the student - body is black is still more likely to experience exclusionary discipline, compared to a black student assigned to a white teacher in a school where black students accounted for less than a third of the student population.
Fogel is a graduate of the Harvard Business School, where, among other things, he was vice president of the student body and chairperson of the education committee.
Even in large urban school districts, where the student body is largely minority, only about 18 percent of teachers are black and 9 percent Hispanic.
The trend of increasing racial and economic segregation is a nationwide trend — not just in Alabama and other Southern states.55 The South, however, was the only region in the country to see a net increase in private school enrollment between 1960 and 2000, and where private school enrollment is higher, support for spending in public schools tends to be lower.56 A growing body of rigorous research shows that money absolutely matters for public schools, especially for the students from low - income families who attend them.57 What's more, private schools in the South tend to have the largest overrepresentation of white students.58 In fact, research has shown that the strongest predictor of white private school enrollment is the proportion of black students in the local public schools.59
Pamela Grundy lives in Charlotte, North Carolina and is the mother of a fourth grader at Shamrock Gardens Elementary, where in 2009 - 10 the student body was 89 percent poor and 94 percent nonwhite.
They were the only two schools ranked where 80 % of the student body comes from low - income families and receives free or reduced - price lunches, 100 % of their students are going to college.
At the same time, Imagine Andrews plays a valuable role in the larger Prince Georges County community where the base is located, and from which it draws 35 % of its student body.
Understanding where students are on the measurement scale can help teachers understand how well a student understands a body of content covered on a test.
We celebrate global enrichment through the diversity of our student body which makes us the school we are — a place of learning where students regardless of nationality interact with each other in harmony.
All prospective students are advised to visit the Education Resource Organizations Directory (EROD) and to contact the licensing body of the state where they are licensed or intend to obtain licensure to verify that these courses qualify for teacher certification, endorsement, and / or salary benefits in that state prior to enrolling.
Furthermore, 40 percent of the nation's more than 1,700 school districts are hypersegregated, meaning that most low - income students attend schools where 75 percent of the student body is also low - income.
The proposal to put the science - lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High's School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and students who oversee a plan to change the structure of the high school to address Berkeley's dismal racial achievement gap, where white students are doing far better than the state average while black and Latino students are doing worse.
These are schools where more than 70percent of the student body receives free or reduced - cost meals.
Because of its intentionally small student body, Asheville School boasts a magnetic, purpose - driven school community, where every student is known, loved, challenged, nurtured and celebrated.
According to a 2012 study, despite all the choices theoretically available to them, 100 percent of black students in the area attend hyper - segregated schools, where they make up at least 90 percent of the student body.
In the decade since Katrina, New Orleans» teaching force has dropped from 71 percent black to 49 percent black, according to Tulane University's Education Research Alliance — in a city where black children are 85 percent of the student body.
This is the case in Boston, Massachusetts, where the Boston Student Advisory Council is a citywide body of student leaders representing their respective high sStudent Advisory Council is a citywide body of student leaders representing their respective high sstudent leaders representing their respective high schools.
Manor High School, where minorities make up 88 percent of the student body and 81 percent are from low - income families, has also seen some improvement, though just 87.2 percent of the seniors graduated from the school in 2011.
To us, these charter schools offer the right approach because, according to extensive research, students have a better chance of building deep knowledge and honing critical - thinking skills in schools where teachers have voice and student bodies are integrated.
Kristin shares demographic data from the Oklahoma City and Tulsa school districts, where ELLs represent one third and one fourth of the total student body, respectively.
«What's truly noteworthy about Santa Ana students» math proficiency is that we're seeing remarkable results at the scale of a large urban district — not just one high - achieving class or school — where the predominantly Hispanic student body has closed the achievement gap,» said Andrew R. Coulson, President of the MIND Education Division in a written statement.
A large body of scientific research has determined that the average student in a school with an effective SEL program where none previously existed significantly improves a student's:
The student body of Democracy Prep reflects the diverse urban communities where our schools reside.
Because CTL is a non-profit demonstration school, a place where other teachers come to learn about innovative methods, we work hard to attract a student body that represents a diverse range of socioeconomic backgrounds and ability levels, and we fundraise twelve months a year so we can set a tuition rate that's as low as possible.
At DMHS, where he has taught for the past 11 years, Jocz serves as department chair and Associated Student Body advisor, and is a member of the Instructional Leadership Team, which establishes goals to support high - equality education for students.
In every instance except in Wisconsin and Oregon, where the white populations are a supermajority in both district and K12 schools, students of color make up a significantly smaller portion of the student body than white students.
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