Sentences with phrase «quarter of high school students»

What we may not be aware is that Rhode Island adolescents rank 5 th in the nation in self - reported marijuana use with nearly one quarter of high school students report using marijuana (YRBS 2015 data).

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According to studentsfirst.org, in the United States of America today, more than a quarter of students fail to graduate high school in four years.

Ahok's imprisonment hasn't cooled the archipelago's radical Islamist elements — almost a quarter of high school and college students recently said they would fight to establish an Islamic caliphate in Indonesia.

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.

Statewide, more than three quarters of 4th graders read below grade level, the same share of 8th graders are below grade level in math, and nearly one third of high - school students drop out.

In another Pew study, while nearly three - quarters of high school teachers admit that digital research tools can have a positive impact on student performance, 87 % also say that digital tech has resulted in a generation of teenagers who are far more easily distracted than teens of the past.

Parthenon began gathering data on every student who entered New York City's high schools in 1999, nearly a quarter million of them, and by 2005, as education journalist Sarah Garland reported in a 2010 Washington Monthly story, had accumulated data that were «shocking»: «Nearly 140,000 high - school - age youth in the city were at least two years behind where they needed to be to graduate on time.

Students who scored in the top quarter of the sixth - grade math exam averaged anywhere from 19 to 26 on the high school ACT math test; the variations correlated with the effectiveness scores of their high school math teachers.

Another study found more than three - quarters of students who took Algebra I and Geometry went on to college within two years of high school graduation, while only one - third of students who did not take Algebra I and Geometry courses did so.

Maryland, which ranks 22nd on the nation's obesity scale with 21.9 percent of its population severely overweight, requires a half - credit, or roughly a quarter of a daily class, of its high - school students.

An average of three quarters of students feel they belong at school, and in some of the highest performing education systems, including Chinese Taipei, Japan, the Netherlands, Vietnam, Finland, Korea, Estonia and Singapore that share is even higher.

While some studies suggest that bullying in U.S. schools is on the decline, bullying rates are still high — according to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), between one - quarter and one - third of students say they have been bullied.

The first state standardized test scores are in, and the 11th graders did no better than those at other comprehensive, non-selective city high schools: about one - quarter of the students met proficiency standards in reading and a mere 7 percent in math.

Principals of high schools complained, «with equal truth, that they can not keep students in high schools when they are allowed to enter colleges and universities after completion of half or three - quarters of their high school work.»

One - quarter of the students graduating from public high schools in 2007 took an Advanced Placement (AP) exam, up from 18 percent for the Class of 2002.

For example, high - poverty schools (those with at least 80 percent FRL students) make up just 4 percent of schools in the top one - quarter of all schools based on the SGP approach and 10 percent of top - quarter schools based on the one - step value - added approach.

Although, as the authors note, «most non-urban students do reasonably well in any case,» the causal effect of a year of non-urban charter attendance is a substantial reduction in achievement in all levels and subjects, on the order of 0.16 standard deviations in middle school with almost a quarter of a standard deviation decline in high school math.

On average, only a quarter of students in other CPS high schools spent that much time in separate classes.

«Among the top quarter of these low - income high schools, 60 percent or more of the students went to college in the fall.»

Students now attending Einstein Junior High School in San Diego can be forgiven next fall if they feel like ordering a Quarter Pounder for lunch or if they get the urge to stretch during the seventh period of the schooSchool in San Diego can be forgiven next fall if they feel like ordering a Quarter Pounder for lunch or if they get the urge to stretch during the seventh period of the schoolschool day.

One - quarter of the nation's high school students don't know the name of the ocean that separates the United States from Asia — the Pacific — and 80 percent do not know that India is the world's largest democracy, according to a 2001 study conducted by the Asia Society, a New York City - based organization that promotes an increased understanding of the countries and cultures in Asia.

More than 80 percent of the public support annual student testing, three - quarters favor charter schools, two - thirds favor higher teacher pay, and half are in favor of means - tested vouchers.

• «Too many teachers are being drawn from the bottom quarter of graduating high school and college students....

As a high - school English teacher with a quarter century of experience, I recognize that it would be selfish folly to expect my students to spend years discovering what I labored to learn.

(Va.) Three quarters of the 2016 finalists in the nation's most prestigious science competitions for high school students were children of workers in the U.S. on temporary high - skilled employment visas.

By this score, nearly three - quarters of Milwaukee's low - income students attend high - poverty schools.

Three quarters of students who are poor readers in third grade will remain poor readers in high school (U.S. Department of Education, 1999).

According to CAP's survey, more than three - quarters of Americans agree that school integration will improve the quality of education received by low - income students, but less than half of the public agrees that integration will improve the quality of education received by high - income students.

It may also be difficult to translate work done in this small school, where in any given year a quarter to 40 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, a federal measure of poverty, to larger, urban schools with higher concentrations of low - income students.

Due to concurrent coursework, an average AAEC student earns 40 transferrable college credits, with nearly a quarter of students earning one or more associate degrees before graduating high school.

But among the top quarter of these low - income high schools, 60 percent or more of the students went to college in the fall.

At YES Prep Public Schools» 15 campuses across Houston, for example, most of the students come from low - income families, and the schools report that, not only do their graduates finish high school, nearly three quarters have earned or are working toward college dSchools» 15 campuses across Houston, for example, most of the students come from low - income families, and the schools report that, not only do their graduates finish high school, nearly three quarters have earned or are working toward college dschools report that, not only do their graduates finish high school, nearly three quarters have earned or are working toward college degrees.

Yet, it is a large and broad sample, covering over 3.5 million students from public and private high schools over four years, or more than a quarter of all U.S. high school graduates each year.

This holistic approach has yielded results in places like Putnam City West High School in Oklahoma City, where educators have engaged parents and the community to boost the graduation rate of Hispanic students by 70 percent; and Denver, where the teacher - led Math and Science Leadership Academy is taking a collaborative approach that focuses on mentoring and professional development to boost student achievement; and in Las Vegas, where a teacher empowerment program has led to remarkable gains, including at Culley Elementary School, a «high achieving» school where only five years ago, less than a quarter of students were at grade leHigh School in Oklahoma City, where educators have engaged parents and the community to boost the graduation rate of Hispanic students by 70 percent; and Denver, where the teacher - led Math and Science Leadership Academy is taking a collaborative approach that focuses on mentoring and professional development to boost student achievement; and in Las Vegas, where a teacher empowerment program has led to remarkable gains, including at Culley Elementary School, a «high achieving» school where only five years ago, less than a quarter of students were at grade School in Oklahoma City, where educators have engaged parents and the community to boost the graduation rate of Hispanic students by 70 percent; and Denver, where the teacher - led Math and Science Leadership Academy is taking a collaborative approach that focuses on mentoring and professional development to boost student achievement; and in Las Vegas, where a teacher empowerment program has led to remarkable gains, including at Culley Elementary School, a «high achieving» school where only five years ago, less than a quarter of students were at grade School, a «high achieving» school where only five years ago, less than a quarter of students were at grade lehigh achieving» school where only five years ago, less than a quarter of students were at grade school where only five years ago, less than a quarter of students were at grade level.

The average AAEC student earns 40 transferrable college credits, with nearly a quarter of students earning one or more associate degrees before graduating high school.

More of our high school students now have full class schedules — three - quarters, compared with fewer than one - third in 2011.

In the second story, a team of high school science teachers implemented a requirement that students make presentations once each quarter.

Research suggests that cutting the number of high school dropouts by even a quarter could contribute more than $ 12 million to the economy for each graduating class — and as much as $ 5 million more if those students go on to college.

The average state tracks nearly three - quarters of its high school math students.

Stephanie Jemilo, who left her post as a special education teacher at Marshall High School this summer, remembers the feeling of working in a school built to handle about 1,600 students, which is only about a quarter full thisSchool this summer, remembers the feeling of working in a school built to handle about 1,600 students, which is only about a quarter full thisschool built to handle about 1,600 students, which is only about a quarter full this year.

So, in the minds of the education reformers, the definition of «rather than focusing on mandates from bureaucrats,» is to mandate yet another set of standardized tests that will be given to all students, starting in middle school and then throughout high school, and then using the test, which has shown NO statistically relevant improvement as one - quarter of the entire «School Performance Score» that parents and policymakers are supposed to use to determine which schools are succeeding and which schools are faschool and then throughout high school, and then using the test, which has shown NO statistically relevant improvement as one - quarter of the entire «School Performance Score» that parents and policymakers are supposed to use to determine which schools are succeeding and which schools are faschool, and then using the test, which has shown NO statistically relevant improvement as one - quarter of the entire «School Performance Score» that parents and policymakers are supposed to use to determine which schools are succeeding and which schools are faSchool Performance Score» that parents and policymakers are supposed to use to determine which schools are succeeding and which schools are failing.

Today, American students trail many other nations in reading, math and science, and a quarter of them do not graduate high school on time.

Under new changes approved earlier this year in Fairfax County, VA., middle and high school students will be given «multiple opportunities» to complete assignments before they can be handed a zero at the end of the quarter.

They did so by hiring inexperienced and uncertified teachers, with the result that one - quarter of the black students in high - poverty schools had a first - or second - year teacher, and nearly 30 % had a teacher who was not fully certified.

Student Voices, Collaboration, Real - World Connections The Centennial High School Learning Studio in Howard County completely transformed the idea of traditional teaching and learning with their Quarter 2 project on climate change.

As one of the state's largest institution of higher learning, and one that consistently ranks among the Top 50 schools in the nation, the University of Florida enrolls approximately 60,000 students, over a quarter of which are graduate and professional students.

In California, about three - quarters of community college students are placed into remedial math courses, and about a third of students bound for the California State University system are not considered proficient in math upon finishing high school.

Of the 148 schools where too many students missed the statewide Smarter Balanced Assessment, nearly three - quarters were high schools.

Over the past quarter of a century — and since well before NCLB was enacted — access to arts education in the public schools has become less and less equitable, with minority students and students attending high - needs schools most often shortchanged (Rabkin & Hedberg, 2011; Yee, 2014; GAO, 2009; Stringer, 2014).

Children — nearly three - quarters were black — who moved into and attended schools in more affluent neighborhoods outperformed comparable children who attended schools with higher proportions of low - income students (Schwartz, 2010).