Sentences with phrase «percent less students»

With early childhood education, 39 percent more children in poverty would be ready for school at age 5, 19 percent less students would need special education interventions, and 21 percent more impoverished students would graduate high school on time.

A $ 10,000 increase in young adult net worth is associated with 7.6 percent less student loan debt.

Not exact matches

An undergrad who borrows $ 37,000 — and that's less than the national average for 2016 graduates — and has an interest rate of 4.45 percent will pay $ 8,908 in interest over 10 years, according to NerdWallet's student loan calculator.

Under an income - contingent repayment program, borrowers with Direct Stafford loans of any kind, PLUS loans made to students, and consolidation loans have their monthly payment based on the lesser of 20 percent of discretionary income or the amount due on a repayment plan with a fixed payment over 12 years, adjusted for income.

If you can save a 20 percent down payment, your student loans are far less likely to affect your loan process.

Older students are also much less likely to live on or conveniently close to campus (49 percent, compared with 75 percent of younger students) and less likely to say they have adequate time for study.

When students in a college seminar discussed this question, almost all admired the first person more than the second, First, they argued, she had less to give, so her 10 percent was marginally more generous than the 10 percent given by the multimillionaire.

The world students» design - science revolution may possibly result in a general reorientation of world society's awareness, common sense, and intelligence which, just «in the nick of time,» will bring mankind into conscious promulgation of the do - more - with - lessing invention revolution to be applied directly to gaining man's living advantage, which can accomplish the 100 percent physical success of all humanity in less than one - half the time it would take to occur only as the inadvertent by - product of further weapons detouring of human initiative.

[6] African American students, men and women combined, amounted to less than 7.3 percent of the total student population.

In the American classrooms, by contrast, 96 percent of students» time was spent on repetitive practice, and less than 1 percent was spent puzzling through new approaches.

Of that, less than 10 percent of those students chose the nutritionally denser meals, officials said.

When students don't use trays they consume 21 percent less fruits and vegetables (which are mostly hard - to - carry side dishes).

Two other Buffalo Grove High School students also aced the exam, which is a feat less than one percent of all students nationwide can claim.

When the dust settles, 13,660 kids will be kicked back into the regular CPS system, where less than 9 percent of all high students meet college readiness benchmarks on the ACT.

The report also shows that American Indian students, who account for less than 2 percent of the student population statewide, received more than one - third of all corporal punishment in North Carolina public schools, although most of that disparity was driven by one school district, Robeson County.

We've already started to set out some of this, pledging to raise corporation tax by less than 1.5 percent to give an Education Maintenance Allowance to college students and grants to university students so that every young learner can afford to support themselves as they develop skills and get qualifications.

Roberts said the college needed only 65 FTEs (full - time equivalent) students, less than 5 percent of enrollment at the school's Stone Ridge campus, in order to make the satellite financially viable.

New York has one of the lowest school breakfast participation rates in the country, with less than 40 percent of low - income students taking advantage of the meals, which can include yogurt, fruits, juices and breakfast cereals served with low - fat milk.

Afterward, Elia, speaking to reporters, said there is a real threat that the state could lose federal funds if less than 95 percent of students take the tests in April.

The U.S. Department of Education warned states this week that federal school aid may be withheld withheld next year if less than 95 percent of students take government - mandated exams.

Proficiency in math and English Language Arts among students statewide averages less than 35 percent.

The draft bill would also amend the state's education law, requiring that any school in which more than 25 percent of students live on campus must set aside a minimum of 50 beds — or 10 percent of total beds, whichever is less — for substance abuse free living.

He wondered, for example, why teachers» scores were often overwhelmingly satisfactory in the same failing schools where less than 40 percent of the students were found to be college ready.

Less than one - third of students in the third through eighth grade, around 31 percent, passed the new math and English exams given for the first time this year, says Regents Chancellor Merrill Tisch, who made the announcement on a conference call.

It was a reminder that the federal government could withhold funding for disadvantaged students from states with less than 95 percent participation on exams.

The governor said the change is needed because less than one percent of teachers were rated ineffective (the lowest category on the rating system) last year but students continued to «lag behind in performance.»

His reasoning is that even though large majorities of students are failing the new assessments, less than 1 percent of teachers are getting bad grades.

Of nearly 500 high schools in the city, roughly 35 percent currently get less than 87 percent of their Fair Student Formula allocation, according to DOE data.

With the added funding, no school will get less than 87 percent of its «Fair Student Funding» allocation, the mayor said.

Applicants who attended community college after high school before transferring to a four - year college or university were 30 percent less likely to be admitted, compared to those students who never attended a community college or only attended a four - year university to medical school, after adjusting for age, gender, race and ethnicity, parental education, grade point average and MCAT score.

The research also finds that black students are 54 percent less likely than white students to be identified as eligible for gifted - education services after adjusting for the students» previous scores on standardized tests, demographic factors, and school and teacher characteristics.

The results were startling: almost 75 percent of students today rate themselves as less empathic than the average student 30 years ago.

«In the United States, only about 10 percent of physicians practice in rural areas, and less than 3 percent of entering medical students nationally plan to practice in a rural community or small town,» said Kevin Kane, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

Well, a study of 14,000 college students found that today's young people are 40 percent less empathetic than college kids from 30 years ago.

Compared to White students, Latino students were 45 percent less likely to take the test, Black students were 35 percent less likely, and Asian students were 32 percent more likely.

Several recent studies have shown that 70 percent of college students receive less than the eight recommended hours of sleep.

Although teenagers need about nine hours of sleep a night on average, according to the National Institutes of Health, only 3 percent of students reported getting that amount, and 20 percent of participants indicated that they got five hours or less.

According to the Institute of International Education (New York City), the number of foreign students enrolled at U.S. colleges in 2002 - 2003 grew less than 1 percent, following five years in which the annual growth rate was 5 percent.

«Just 3 percent or less of all student - athletes will play professionally or compete in the Olympics,» Beron said.

At schools with a student poverty rate of more than 30 percent, students whose parents are involved in parental networks are up to 5 percent less likely to graduate from high school than students whose parents do not have such connections.

«Making a leap from high - ability high school to college of lesser academic status can be a real downer: Students who are «undermatched» as they shift into higher education show a 27 - percent hike in symptoms of depression.»

Federal programs provide less than 10 percent of the $ 500 billion spent each year to educate the nation's 50 million elementary and secondary school students.

When healthier menu items replaced less healthy items, researchers found the total calories of the students» lunch choices decreased about 4 percent.

However, full - time college students were less likely than others their age to believe there was great risk of harm from monthly cocaine use (59 percent versus 64 percent), trying heroin once or twice (about 77 percent versus 80 percent), and trying LSD once or twice (about 50 percent versus 58 percent), the findings showed.

Before then, the high school dropout rate was almost 16 percent; the percentage of our elementary students meeting national norms on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in reading was less than 37; the percentage of our students testing in the bottom quarter was about 32.

The portion of at - risk students was less than 10 percent at about 15 traditional schools in affluent neighborhoods and greater than 75 percent at more than two dozen schools, mostly in poor neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River.

When 90 to 100 percent of my students are excitedly engaged in their tasks and asking deep and interesting questions, I experience joy, and joy is a lot less tiring than the frustration that comes with student apathy.

More troubling, less than ten percent of those remedial students ever graduate.

Because charter school students are disproportionately likely to be black, they are somewhat less likely to be Hispanic (27 percent versus 39 percent).

Only about 4 percent of U.S. students go to colleges that accept less than 25 percent of their applicants, and most American kids either don't attend or don't graduate from four - year colleges, says developmental psychologist Richard Weissbourd, who studies the social and emotional lives of teens.