Sentences with phrase «portion of the student body»

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.

However, note that the average SAT / ACT score is for all students whereas the mobility rate is for low - income students only (who form a relatively small portion of the student body at most colleges).

For others, the reality of these changes has already manifested in anxious students, nervous parents and decreased overall engagement among portions of the student body.

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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One afternoon Christopher Theall, one of Strausfeld's Ph.D. students, shows me his own experimental setup for tapping into a portion of the cockroach brain known as the mushroom body.

However, among the various influences that schools and policymakers can control, teacher quality was found to account for a larger portion of the variation in student test scores than all other characteristics of a school, excluding the composition of the student body (so - called peer effects).

Those districts in which high - needs students comprise at least 55 percent of the student body will get more money for a portion of those students.

Temple University announced Thursday it is ready to present its plans to construct a $ 130 million football stadium in North Philadelphia to the city's Planning Commission, a decision that largely ignores the sentiments expressed by the surrounding community and even a portion of the school's own student body.