Sentences with phrase «student population at large»

New Mexico's charter enrollment growth, like the growth of its student population at large, has been more modest, but it is still above the national average.

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Chang eventually emigrated to the United States on a student visa and became a minister, co-founding a ministry for Korean immigrants at Wiltshire United Method Church in Los Angeles, home to the nation's largest Korean - American population.

A January 2000 survey by the Panetta Institute found college students are less likely to vote than the population at large.

But SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson, in a hearing on the budget before state lawmakers Tuesday, pointed out that while full - time enrollment may be down at SUNY's community colleges, a large chunk of their population is made up of adult learners, who are far more likely than fresh - out - of - high - school students to study part time and require more services.

For example, New York, with the 10th largest student population enrolled at its four research - intensive public universities, has enjoyed a 72 % increase in per - student funding from the state.

«It hits when the population is at its smallest, and by the end of winter nearly 100 percent of the bats in a cave can be infected, which helps explain why it has such large impacts,» said Kate Langwig, a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz and first author of the paper.

At Georgia State, which has one of the largest populations of low - income students in the nation, Becker reported that 53 percent of all students now complete a degree within six years, up from about 32 percent in 2003.

«The galaxy we have observed, EGS8p7, which is unusually luminous, may be powered by a population of unusually hot stars, and it may have special properties that enabled it to create a large bubble of ionized hydrogen much earlier than is possible for more typical galaxies at these times,» Sirio Belli, a Caltech graduate student who worked on the project, said, in the statement.

The typical school at risk of receiving a Low - Performing rating was large and had a majority nonwhite population, with many students who had previously failed an 8th - grade exam.

Even with those broader classifications, we still are aware of a large population of «at risk» students — those who clearly have challenges, but because they don't fit easily into a diagnostic profile, are left without any assistance whatsoever.

The study employs 200 in - depth interviews with white, Chinese American, and Indian American students and parents in two wealthy suburban communities — one with a large, growing Asian American population — and ethnographic observations and staff interviews at the local high school in both.

ERIC summarizes the findings of that study: «The population studied consisted of 88 first grade students at a Chicago public school, instructed in either a small class of 17 students or a large class of 27 students.

At the same time, new populations exist in cities, in urban school systems — primarily African American and Latino students, and large numbers of immigrants.

Working with a large population of at - risk students, the Big Picture school in Providence boasts a 90 percent graduation rate, and Oakland's MetWest senior class had the highest pass rate on the California High School Exit Exam of Oakland's eighteen high schools.

Dr. Weast led Montgomery County Public Schools — 16th largest school district in the nation — to achieve both the highest graduation rate among the nation's largest school districts for four consecutive years and the highest academic performance ever in MCPS at a time when the non-English-speaking student population more than doubled and enrollment tipped toward low socioeconomic demographics.

In the five states with large ELL student populations, the proportion of ELL students scoring at or above the proficient level on the state mathematics test is often below the proportion of black students scoring at or above the proficient level.

Thus, at least in the years just after the reforms, the factors pushing student outcomes down were at least as large as the population changes pushing them up.

Reasons for the turnover include working with an at - risk student population that sees online learning as their last resort, students who use online as a brief experimentation with a new learning process, and parents not being able to stay home to oversee their children's studies, said Heather O'Mara, executive director of Hope Online, one of the state's largest online programs.

Twenty - four countries have a larger percentage of highly accomplished students than the 8 percent achieving at that level among the U.S. white student population in the Class of 2009.

However, because schools with larger populations of black students have higher average exclusionary discipline rates overall, race - matched students at those schools are not necessarily less likely to experience such measures.

The largest population of students of color are Hispanics, at about 12 percent.

But, despite this breadth of teaching models and outreach to the most vulnerable student populations, and despite the fact that we represent half of the charter schools in NYC, we remain an unknown story within the city at large because our schools do their work diligently and without much fanfare in their communities.

To participate in the home visit project, a school must be eligible under the federal Title I grant — provided to support large populations of disadvantaged students — and at least half of its teaching staff must indicate at least an interest in learning more about the program for the school to be selected, Levasseur said.

EDUCATION A new report by the National Center for Education Statistics found that 94 % of teachers spend an average of $ 479 for classroom supplies per year, with teachers who work at schools with a large population of low - income students spending the most money.

In the face of so many challenges and obstacles — designing new curricula aligned with Common Core, teaching a large population of English language learners and grappling with the reality that 75 percent of their students qualify for free or reduced price lunch — Burton's teachers wanted a protected, regular time slot to come together, look at data and figure out which of their teaching methods worked and which ones didn't so they could bring their students along on a path toward success.

At Jerold Middle School in the Pacific Northwest, the entire student and staff population gathers every morning in a large open space in the center of the building.

As the assistant director / curriculum director of the Montana Digital Academy (MTDA), I'm pleased that a new study from REL Northwest looking at the population of students who take our courses and their rates of success confirms something we've known for a while: Online credit recovery programs bring many efficiencies — particularly to a state as large and demographically dispersed as Montana — but an extremely important element for student success is the personalized support students receive from caring adults on both sides of the computer screen.

Withrow said large portions of the student population at the Tennessee school were «set up for failure» by coming into the virtual school already performing below grade levels.

«While there is reason to believe that Black, Hispanic, and American Indian students would be the greatest beneficiaries of a diverse teaching force, there is evidence that all students — and our democracy at large — would benefit from a teaching force that reflects the full diversity of the U.S. population,» the report says.

The earlier they start foreign - language instruction, the more successful they are at the immersion program, so the ISL board has said that early - childhood education is crucial to its long - range plans of opening more elementary campuses and building a large enough student population to open a high school.

In a three - year pilot study at 20 elementary schools in New York City with a diverse population of children, students using CKLA had significantly larger gains than students in similar schools.

The four universities with the largest enrolled student populations in Arkansas include Arkansas Tech University, Arkansas State University at Jonesboro, the University of Central Arkansas, and the University of Arkansas.

At Sherwood Forest, part of living up to our «Einstein Way» is to not only provide natural academic supports for students on multiple levels, but also to provide targeted instruction to our large population of English Language Learners.

Supporters also claim that many countries ranking at the top also have large immigrant and low - income student populations.

These schools serve a larger population of at - risk students who often have greater needs and require more educational support to ensure they receive a high - quality education.

More than three - fourths of New Orleans schools are at least 95 - percent black, according to New Schools for New Orleans, but those that do draw larger populations of white students often have far fewer black students than the city as a whole — Lycee has 17 percent black students, Lusher has 28 percent, Ben Franklin High has 33 percent, Hynes has 39 percent and so forth.

Both the middle and high school levels of Victory Preparatory Academy earned a Center of Excellence Award for having high rates of student longitudinal growth while serving a large at - risk population.

for having high rates of student longitudinal growth while serving a large at - risk population.

The study also found that teachers in schools with large populations of students who are eligible for free or reduced - priced lunch indicated a greater need for professional development in writing than those at schools serving fewer students in that population.

Danbury's community leaders and families have been integral in supporting the formation of the school, as their student population continues to grow and as the community at large embraces their increasingly diverse population.

At just over 17,000 residents, Beckley is one of the state's larger cities and each fall, the population swells even more as students return for classes at the local campuses of the University of Charleston and Concord UniversitAt just over 17,000 residents, Beckley is one of the state's larger cities and each fall, the population swells even more as students return for classes at the local campuses of the University of Charleston and Concord Universitat the local campuses of the University of Charleston and Concord University.

That is well over the state average of about fourteen percent, but the large student population at the University of Texas probably accounts for some of this.

Carl Hernandez talks about the immigration clinic at Brigham Young University, which is managed mainly by students and meets a great need in the Utah community which has a large immigrant population.

Serving the Underserved: BYU's Immigration Clinic Carl Hernandez talks about the immigration clinic at Brigham Young University, which is managed mainly by students and meets a great need in the Utah community which has a large immigrant population.

That is well over the state average of about fourteen percent, but the large student population at the University of Texas probably accounts for some of this.

Third, participants in this research were undergraduate students, recruited from a single university, thus the sample may not represent the population at large.

Is the representation of low - income students in special education programs larger than their representation in the school population at your child's school?

Same as in Yemassee, there's no functioning passenger depot, but with seven times Yemassee's population and home to 1,500 students, faculty and staff at Randolph - Macon College alongside Railroad Avenue, trains figure large in Ashland life.