Sentences with phrase «students at a significant disadvantage»

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This has been done effectively at local public schools such as PS 396 in the Bronx, where a significant percentage of children have special needs and all of the students could be characterized as economically disadvantaged.

Inadequate resources place students of color in the the poorest schools at a significant disadvantage — a direct consequence of how schools are funded.

Children from low - income households face a broad range of obstacles to classroom learning, which, taken together, place them at a significant disadvantage compared to higher income students.

This study is a comparative case study of ten elementary, middle, and high schools with strong arts programs and significant numbers of economically disadvantaged students (at least 50 percent of the student body qualifying for the federal free and reduced - price lunch program).

The award honors public and private elementary, middle and high schools whose students achieve at very high levels or have made significant progress and helped close gaps in achievement especially among disadvantaged and minority students.

These student populations are making significant gains, especially with economically disadvantaged students and Hispanic students at charters outperforming their district peers in both reading and math since the conclusion of this study.

Since poverty and race are closely tied in the United States, African - American and Latino students are at a significant disadvantage to the White students who tend to live in more affluent communities.

In particular, significant labor market premia can be earned in a variety of more technical certificate and Associate (AA) programs, even for those with weak earlier academic performance, but instead many disadvantaged (and other) students choose general humanities programs at the AA (and even the Bachelor's or BA) level with low completion rates and low compensation afterwards.

More than half.That should mean that we could improve the problem by at least half by providing equal access to summer learning opportunities for disadvantaged students — and yet the creation of effective summer learning programs for lower - income students has not been a significant focus of literacy efforts in the U.S. Let's look at some of the latest facts on summer learning loss:

Today's global society leaves the American student at a disadvantage that can only be remedied by a significant change in the way we structure and approach teaching and learning.

The Blue Ribbon Award designation goes to public and private elementary, middle and high schools whose students achieve at very high levels, or have made significant academic progress and helped close gaps in achievement especially among disadvantaged and minority students.

One thing is for sure, as students, if you and your significant other are applying to the same firm or are both vying for a hire - back at the same firm, advertising the fact that you are in a relationship might put you at a disadvantage.

The Indigenous students in these remote schools often experience significant educational disadvantage, and as a consequence, their English literacy and numeracy skills are at lower levels than other Australian students.