Sentences with phrase «percent less class»

With Jefferson's current schedule, students have about 8 percent less class time than peers in other high schools, Ramos said.

Not exact matches

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The acceptance rate of less than 2 percent is lower than Harvard College's 5.9 percent for the coming year's freshman class.

This group of super spenders is expected to see its population double over the next five years to 100 million households, and as an economic force they are poised to eclipse the impact of rising but less - wealthy consumers: Their consumption is currently growing at 17 percent a year, compared to just 5 percent among emerging - middle - class and middle - class consumers.

In other words, the individual stocks, bonds, and funds you choose or when you buy or sell is less important to your ultimate return than the percent allocated to various asset classes.

Not only will they see less income due to the low cap on rent increases, but the billable assessed value for Class 2 buildings, which includes rental buildings, is up 6.84 percent, according to Capital New York.

Or, if they stick with full - class instruction, they pitch much of their instruction to kids in the middle 60 percent or so of the achievement / ability / motivation distribution, doing less for pupils who are either lagging far behind or surging ahead.

Back in the 1980s, according to the American Freshmen Survey, not even 40 percent of them spent less than one hour a week talking to a teacher outside of class, but by the mid -»90s the rate surpassed 50 percent and has stayed there ever since.

What they found was that the students who took remedial classes were 10 percent less likely to drop out of college and nine percent more likely to complete a bachelor's degree within five years.

The Act needs to be amended and a clause may be appropriately added to Section 26 providing that every school and any other institution, whether government or non-government, aided, unaided or autonomous, shall admit in every class such percentage of disabled students as prescribed, not less than five percent, reserving at least one seat for each of the groups with: (i) blindness or low vision; (ii) hearing impairment; (iii) locomotor disability or cerebral palsy.

They amount to less than 1 percent of the Class of 2014 at the selective public school in Fairfax County, regarded as among the nation's best.

In one study, Robert Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, found that in observations of 700 preschool classrooms across 11 states, teachers in less than 15 percent of the classes demonstrated «effective teacher - student interactions.»

Math and science classes are often less advanced than their titles would imply; barely half of rural districts offer any Advanced Placement courses, compared with 97 percent of urban districts, and even fewer offer International Baccalaureate courses.

While rates vary depending on the source, on - time completion rates of students who take remedial classes are consistently less than 10 percent.

The end result of these changes was a 13 percent increase in the share of students from the top third of the SAT distribution; by 2010, this meant that 40 percent of teachers in New York state came from the top third of their class based on SAT scores, compared with less than 30 percent in 1999.

Any student who has less than an 80 percent class average or who receives less than 80 percent on a quiz immediately moves into an intervention cycle in which the teacher regularly «checks in» with the student.

If less than 95 percent of a class take the test, a teacher's evaluation suffers.

Gifted or not, the fact remains that 65 percent of the population consists of visual learners; therefore when teachers lecture, they are reaching less than half of the class.

According to the 2017 poll, 82 percent of Americans support job or career skills classes even if it means some students might spend less time on traditional academics.

Audi has decided to run into the 4 megajoules class of hybrid output for its 2015 race season, which means the revised R18 powertrain will need to use 2.5 percent less diesel per lap.

Ford claims that localisation of the EcoSport has gone up from about 65 percent to 80 percent, while also claiming best - in - class ownership costs with spare parts that are up to 40 percent less costly than its rivals.

It's hard to rationalise such a purchase, when objectively, a Mercedes S - Class could do 99 percent of the job for much, much less money.

For parents who need convincing: Malcolm Gladwell wrote about the utilitarian value in going to the «lesser» school — aka the big fish / small pond effect; your kid will do best at a college where they can be in the top 10 percent, not at the most highly selective school where they may end up in the bottom half of the class.

Other programs, like Digital Direct Access, deliver course materials directly to students on the first day of class up to 60 percent less than traditional print materials.

So, technically speaking, the ratios are the same within the asset classes, but, as a percent of the total, theoretically then, yes, you have less international as your portfolio becomes more conservative.

They cost significantly less at somewhere between 0.1 and 0.5 percent every year and with a universe of over 1,500, you can easily find an ETF to cover your preferred asset class.

Juicy Excerpt: The vast majority of middle - class investors following Buy - and - Hold strategies will earn a return significantly less than the average return of 6.5 percent real.

With bond yields around 2 or 3 percent, and savings account rates at less than 1 percent, does it make sense to assume those asset classes will provide their customary returns of 5 or 6 percent for long bonds and 3 or 4 percent for cash equivalents?

«Regardless of which product was used, whether it was oral, topical or injected, protection against some Dirofilaria immitis isolates from the Mississippi River Valley was less than 100 percent for all active ingredients included in the ML class,» he said.

«So if you're looking for «odds» — in 33 years, figure (conservatively) 100 puppies a year, more than 3,000 puppies — the odds of a puppy getting sick from a well - run training class is virtually nil (less than 1 / 100th percent).

SeatGuru estimates that premium economy fares are «generally» about 65 percent less than business class fares.

Today, despite an octupling of the world's population, mankind has never been wealthier, better fed, less hungry, better educated, longer - lived and healthier; less constrained by caste, class, and sex; and 75 percent of global population is no longer mired in absolute poverty.

The 90 percent of the class that is not in the top 10 percent finds its collective future considerably more narrow, and much less lucrative.

Such class reading supplements represent 2 percent of textbook sales, a «total just less than a quarter of a billion dollars.

Recently led the defense of a health care provider in another FACTA class action and obtained court approval of a settlement of less than 0.25 percent of potential exposure.

On average, these companies spent 10 percent less defending class action lawsuits and devoted 25 percent fewer hours to their management.

Companies that calculated their financial exposure to set their class action reserves spent 36 percent less, per class action, per year compared to their peers who did not.

For a phone of this class and battery capacity, the bundled 9V / 2A quick charger — basically equivalent to Qualcomm Quick Charge 2 — was more than sufficient for speedy refills to the 50 percent mark, and slightly less speedy top - ups to full.

Note that married couples filing jointly can get 100 percent of the American Opportunity Credit if their combined income is $ 160,000 or less, making it widely available to middle - class taxpayers, Labant said.

Generally, they feature high - quality services, amenities, and technology - friendly infrastructures but rent for 30 percent less than comparable new Class A structures.

The ability to deduct the interest paid on a mortgage can mean significant savings, particularly for the primarily middle - class Americans who benefit — 65 percent of families who claim the MID earn less than $ 100,000 per year.

In this environment, paying a premium for a class - A office building in Manhattan, which most people would consider a safe asset, would appear more attractive than putting money into government bonds and earning a return of less than 2 percent, Cooper says.

Realtor.com ® researchers found that the cities where affordability is among the worst for the middle class (with the share of affordable homes at 32 percent or less) are Los Angeles; Toledo, Ohio; and San Diego.

Class C complexes, typically more than 20 years old and less desirable than Class A and B properties, were in the highest demand in the last 12 months — accounting for 85 percent of all recent transactions, Marcus & Millichap said.

With a current Class A vacancy rate of less than 2 percent according to Krumwiede, the Tempe office market is on fire.