Sentences with phrase «students at high risk»

SRI is evaluating the efficacy of a program promoting school success and completion for students at high risk of school failure and dropout.

SRI is evaluating the efficacy of a program promoting school success and completion for students at high risk of school failure and dropout.

It's important to understand that, while chronic absence can reliably identify students at high risk of failure due to absences, its inverse should not be considered a reliable indicator of students at low risk of academic failure due to absences.

Taken together, these indicators would communicate the level of attendance that gives students the best chance of success and would ensure that students at high risk of academic failure due to their attendance receive the attention they need.

This supports an early warning system for identifying students at high risk of dropping out.

Among male high school students at high risk of criminal activity, winning admission to a first - choice school reduced felony arrests from 77 to 43 per 100 students over the study period (2002 - 2009).

«Double - dose» algebra — providing two consecutive periods of math instruction for under - achieving 9th grade students — is considered a potentially promising alternative to the «algebra for all» policy, which encourages more students to take algebra and at earlier ages, but may put struggling students at higher risk of failure.

Demonstrating the value of such an analysis, ECONorthwest used data from the state's Department of Education to determine that 23 percent of students K - 12 in Oregon were chronically absent in 2009 - 10, with low - income students at the highest risk of missing significant amounts of school.

Not exact matches

Students who rack up a large amount of debt and begin their careers in an entry - level position can be particularly at risk, especially if they owe larger monthly payments on high - interest debt, such as private student loans.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

In his free time, Brent teaches for - profit, social entrepreneurship to low - income, at - risk high school students in the Los Angeles & Bay Areas.

Teachers at the Jesuit high school I attended urged students to protect themselves when they became sexually active, to use condoms to stamp out the risk of contracting a viral sexually transmitted disease that would affect the rest of their lives.

BAM uses group discussions and role - playing exercises to help develop anger - management and self - control capacities in the students, all teenage boys, who are selected for the program because they are considered to be at especially high risk of dropout or of involvement with the criminal - justice system or both.

It is a worry for parents that too many high school students nationwide continue to practice behaviors that place them at risk for serious health problems.

«It has been well established that the risk for ACL tear per athletic exposure is higher in female athletes compared to males,» said lead author Alex L. Gornitzky, a fourth - year medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

One significant victory in that battle was last year's passage of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act which, among other things, uses Medicaid data to directly certify children for free and reduced price meals; helps states improve the certification process for school meal aid; allows universal free meals for students in high poverty communities; and expands USDA authority to support meals served to at - risk children in after school programs.

Hello Bettina, I am a teacher who has attempted to advocate for our at - risk students in requesting that colleagues stop giving candy as a «reward» to our middle and high school students.

School Commissioner Van White says the Freedom School which served as a satellite program to at - risk students at East High School worked when it was first implemented in the district in 2007.

Levels of gang activity in a school are also closely related to its safety, and some schools may be safe for some students and not for others (e.g. a gay student is at higher risk of personal safety concerns in many schools, and black students are at higher risk of personal safety concerns in many rural predominantly white schools).

Many of the students in the BPS are from high risk homes and statistics show that without appropriate guidance, nutrition, development of study habits and exercise from a young age «at risk» students are not given a fair opportunity for education and become doomed to failed lives.

More than 600 teenage girls in the Buffalo will likely give birth this year, and not many of them will finish high school.Five years from now, their children will enter the Buffalo schools as some of the district's most at - risk students.

This drive for academic achievement leads to high attainment in international academic assessments but has contributed to the curtailment of nocturnal sleep on school nights to well below the recommended eight to ten hours of sleep, putting students at risk of cognitive and psychological problems.

During its first year, not only did its students greatly outperform an equivalent group of at - risk high - school students, but they also performed on a par with average Binghamton high - school students on state - mandated exams.

«Substance abuse is the topic of high public interest, yet little attention is given to the experiences of college students with disabilities,» wrote the study authors Steven L. West et al. «Given that binge drinking is highly correlated with academic failure, drop - out, and an increased risk for various negative health conditions, such use by students with disabilities may place them at extreme risk for various negative outcomes.»

These are previously unknown biological mechanisms that can increase our understanding of why both daughters and sons of women with PCOS are at higher risk of developing anxiety in adulthood,» says Maria Manti, doctoral student in Elisabet Stener - Victorin's research group.

«This study demonstrates that a high - risk social environment can overwhelm the protective effect of a genetic variant associated with alcohol - related behaviors,» said Emily Olfson, an MD - PhD student at Washington University School of Medicine as well as first author of this study.

For example, peer tutors were deployed to help at - risk students in «high DFW» courses — those in which more than a third of students received a D or an F, or withdrew.

Prior research suggests that college students, males, and people drinking alcohol at restaurants, bars, and nightclubs are at particularly high risk for driving after drinking.

According to the research, led by Dr. Belle Gavriel - Fried of TAU's School of Social Work and conducted by TAU student Idit Sherpsky, in collaboration with Dr. Israel Bronstein of Bar - Ilan University, the participation of male high - school students in competitive sports is associated with problem gambling and gambling frequency, and female students who participate in competitive sports are at a higher risk of gambling frequency.

«The data also showed that students who go out four to seven nights per week for fun were at high risk for experimenting and for continuing use.

In the April 13, 2007, issue of Science, the research team — led by James C. Lo, an MD, PhD student, in the laboratory of Yang - Xin Fu, MD, PhD, professor of pathology at the University of Chicago — suggest that an engineered protein could keep mice, and possibly humans, from developing high cholesterol and triglyceride levels, a key risk factor for coronary heart disease.

A study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine investigated the incidence of sexual dysfunction in more than 1,000 German medical students and found that those who used hormonal contraception methods, including the pill, were at a significant higher risk of sexual dysfunction.

At a remote Mojave Desert high school, extraordinary educators believe that empathy and life skills, more than academics, give at - risk students command of their own futureAt a remote Mojave Desert high school, extraordinary educators believe that empathy and life skills, more than academics, give at - risk students command of their own futureat - risk students command of their own futures.

Ulaby taught classes in the humanities at the University of Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University and at high schools serving at - risk students.

A U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Vérité Filmmaking was presented to: The Bad Kids / (Directors: Keith Fulton, Lou Pepe)-- At a remote Mojave Desert high school, extraordinary educators believe that empathy and life skills, more than academics, give at - risk students command of their own futureAt a remote Mojave Desert high school, extraordinary educators believe that empathy and life skills, more than academics, give at - risk students command of their own futureat - risk students command of their own futures.

While states under ESSA need to identify for intervention only the lowest performing 5 percent of schools, high schools with graduation rates under 67 percent, and some unspecified percentage of schools in which at - risk subgroups are underperforming, the National Governors Association reports that «40 percent of all students and 61 percent of students who begin in community colleges enroll in a remedial education course at a cost to states of $ 1 billion a year.»

Nearly one in five high - school students have had four or more sex partners, placing them at increased risk of contracting the virus that causes AIDS, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has found.

Those students, who are disproportionately low - income students and students of color are, in turn, at higher risk of not completing college at all.

Most of the contributors to the volume have found evidence that policies that focus on high - stakes testing corrupt educational reform and undermine achievement, especially for at - risk students.

This evaluation confirmed the positive outcomes found in previous studies, especially for students considered at high risk of dropping out when they entered the programs.

As the principal of Black Rock Continuation High School on the edge of California's Mojave Desert, Ms. V — as she's known to her 121 at - risk students — has heard countless stories of personal or familial alcohol or drug addiction, chronic truancy, and physical and sexual abuse.

One hypothesis, for example, is that retesting reduces the pressure to unduly focus teaching effort on the marginal students — students who may or may not pass — in the months before the initial test, and thus teachers can give relatively more effort to the infra - marginal students, including those high - achieving students at little risk of failing.

Figures from the ABA show that LGBT students with a disability and those with SEN are at an increased risk of homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying, although the average of all LGBT students who face bullying it still relatively high, at 55 per cent.

Drawing on a six - year study that closely followed more than one thousand high - achieving fifth - and sixth - grade African - American, Latino, Indochinese, and Caucasian students, Bempechat uncovers the family and school practices and attitudes that contribute to high achievement in at - risk children.

It serves students in Boston's neighborhood schools, which have traditionally had a high percentage of low - income and at - risk students.

Because any intervention aimed at high school students would miss this group altogether, this suggests that high school might be too late for the youth at highest risk of criminal activity.

Students who perform poorly at age 15 face a high risk of dropping out of school altogether.

The final sample (males only, as they are overwhelmingly at higher risk of criminal activity) included 1,014 high school students and 1,081 middle school students.

Students who are not engaged in school are at a higher risk of poor academic achievement, but leaders of after - school programs may not have a good understanding of how to captivate those they serve.

The list includes some good news for education reformers, including an examination of how one state is already seeing positive results from its decision to put a high - quality curriculum at the heart of its reform efforts; a look at how the hottest show on Broadway is inspiring a generation of students to explore American history; and a deep dive into the world of higher education with an array of new experiments that are making college degrees more accessible, especially for at - risk students.