Sentences with phrase «students at higher rates»

Charter schools graduate high school students at higher rates than traditional district schools - 79 % versus 66 % for traditional schools.

The first was asked whether it supported or opposed «federal policies that prevent schools from expelling or suspending black and Hispanic students at higher rates than other students.»

To find out, we asked respondents in both 2015 and 2016 whether they supported or opposed «federal policies that prevent schools from expelling or suspending black and Hispanic students at higher rates than other students.»

To find out, we at the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance have asked nationally representative cross-sections of parents, teachers, and the general public (as part of the ninth annual Education Next survey, conducted in May and June of this year) whether they support or oppose «federal policies that prevent schools from expelling or suspending black and Hispanic students at higher rates than other students.»

«Tying state financing to college «performance» is expected to create an incentive for colleges to produce more degree recipients and retain students at higher rates,» said Hillman.

It is commonly argued that students should attend the most academically selective college possible, since, among other reasons, highly selective institutions graduate students at higher rates.

However Amy Fowler, deputy secretary of the state Agency of Education, said national studies have found schools with resource officers suspend and expel minority and low - income students at higher rates.

An investigation by Schneiderman found the Syracuse City School District suspends students at a higher rate than almost every other district in the country.

In fact, the MDRC report adds to the growing evidence that, while New York City is graduating students at a higher rate than a decade ago, most of these kids are still not ready for college....

The goal of our preK - 12 public charter school is to prepare our students at high rates for success in college and beyond.

It also reclassifies EL students at a higher rate than the district, 19 percent last year compared to 12 percent for the district, with Latino and disadvantaged students increasing their performance in both English and math this year.

Not exact matches

Generally, direct loans to undergraduate students are offered at the lowest rates, while PLUS loans to parents and graduate students are offered at higher student loan rates.

As NBC Nightly News report, parents with high - interest PLUS loans are often able to refinance them with private lenders at lower rates (see, «Parents can refinance student loans they take out for their kids.»)

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

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.

Students in every mainstream macroeconomics class, and that means almost all students, would have predicted, based on the nonsense they were learning, that the high deficits and high public debt ratios in Japan at the time, should have driven interest rates sky high, that bond markets should have stopped buying government bonds, that the government should have run out of money, and all the time that these disasters were unfolding, that inflation should have been be galloping towards hyperinStudents in every mainstream macroeconomics class, and that means almost all students, would have predicted, based on the nonsense they were learning, that the high deficits and high public debt ratios in Japan at the time, should have driven interest rates sky high, that bond markets should have stopped buying government bonds, that the government should have run out of money, and all the time that these disasters were unfolding, that inflation should have been be galloping towards hyperinstudents, would have predicted, based on the nonsense they were learning, that the high deficits and high public debt ratios in Japan at the time, should have driven interest rates sky high, that bond markets should have stopped buying government bonds, that the government should have run out of money, and all the time that these disasters were unfolding, that inflation should have been be galloping towards hyperinflation.

If the student isn't a dependent and is the owner of the 529 account, the account is treated as the student's asset and will generally increase the student's EFC at the higher rate of 20 % of the account's value.

The company, whose best - known subsidiary is The University of Phoenix, has come under government scrutiny on grounds that it recruits under - qualified students who later default at a high rate on their government - subsidized loans.

Cooking for Change will bring together high school students from the food management program at Lima Senior High School and the culinary arts program at Apollo Career Center to design and develop a healthy eating initiative that will reduce obesity rates in Lima and Allen Couhigh school students from the food management program at Lima Senior High School and the culinary arts program at Apollo Career Center to design and develop a healthy eating initiative that will reduce obesity rates in Lima and Allen CouHigh School and the culinary arts program at Apollo Career Center to design and develop a healthy eating initiative that will reduce obesity rates in Lima and Allen County.

Roland Fryer, a celebrated young professor of economics at Harvard University, has spent the past decade testing out a variety of incentive schemes in experiments with public school students in Houston, New York, Chicago, and other American cities that have school systems with high poverty rates.

If you work in a North Carolina school or district with a high free - and - reduced rate student population, but you're struggling to achieve good participation at school breakfast, The Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom can help.

Do you work in a Missouri school or district with a high free - and - reduced rate student population, but you're struggling to achieve good participation at school breakfast?

Involvement has been shown to increase grades, leads to more consistent homework completion, improve student behavior at school, increase high school graduation rates, reduce school drop - out rates, increase college attendance, and lower rates of experimentation with tobacco, alcohol, and recreational drugs.

Do you work in a Nebraska school or district with a high free - and - reduced rate student population, but you're struggling to achieve good participation at school breakfast?

Authors of a recent research study published in the American Academy of Pediatrics, reported that student athletes with access to ATs have lower overall injury rates, lower recurrent injury rates, and higher recognition of concussions.

Research I carried out at college showed that students on EMA had higher attendance rates than those not receiving it.

And while young people in general tend to vote at lower rates than the population as a whole, the signs are that student turnout in 2015 will be high.

The governor says while New York spends more per student than any state in the nation, high school graduation rates ranks at number 38 in the country.

Not only do borrowers face a rising amount student debt, that debt often comes with higher - than - normal interest rates at a time when interest rates are very low.

We have ignored the abysmal rates of admission for Black and Latino students at specialized high schools for far too long.

Unfortunately, most districts and unions across the state set the bar so low that nearly 60 % of teachers got the highest rating when only a third of students read and do math at grade level.

The state's Board of Regents acknowledged that failure rates are running far too high — at 23 percent — on a teacher - licensing exam taken so far by about 22,000 college students and others statewide.

At 11:30 a.m., Farina joins de Blasio for a roundtable with students and a press conference on the city's increased graduation and college readiness rates at the High School for Arts and Business, 105 - 25 Horace Harding ExpwAt 11:30 a.m., Farina joins de Blasio for a roundtable with students and a press conference on the city's increased graduation and college readiness rates at the High School for Arts and Business, 105 - 25 Horace Harding Expwat the High School for Arts and Business, 105 - 25 Horace Harding Expwy.

«Under Mayor de Blasio, graduation rates are at record highs, test scores are up, universal pre-kindergarten is available to every 4 - year - old, and advanced - placement and computer - science courses are becoming available to all students.

White students in Troy were graduating at higher rates than all others until last year, when they were edged out by black and Hispanic students.

The New York State Board of Regents has cleared the way for a new career pathways for high school students aimed at improving graduation rates.

The scores of last year's MCAS tests given to Springfield school students rose across the board at a higher rate than the gain recorded by school districts statewide, and the dropout rate has fallen more than any other school system in the state.

«We recently learned that America's high school graduation rate went up to 83 percent, which is the highest on record,» President Barack Obama said in a speech Monday to cheering students and faculty at a D.C. high school.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley reports a new nation - wide study says there is a high rate of students arriving at school hungry, but the Buffalo Public School District is serving thousands of free meals to city kids.

Goebert says she initiated the study because an internal, anonymous survey of medical students at the University of Hawaii had revealed high rates of depression and suicidal thoughts, as well as a reluctance to seek counseling, despite the availability of a student counseling service.

«The ratings that students give instructors are really important, because they're used to guide higher education decisions related to hiring, promotions and tenure,» says Lillian MacNell, lead author of a paper on the work and a Ph.D. student in sociology at NC State.

Anthony Greenwald, a psychologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, says the study fits in with his own research showing that high grades influence student ratings.

The length of daily exposure to pre-K also matters, with full - time pre-K students having an even higher test taking rate than part - time students,» said Ying Lu, assistant professor of applied statistics at NYU Steinhardt and the study's lead author.

And in those programs, international students at public universities pay tuition rates that are much higher than for in - state students.

The school runs a mentoring effort aimed at reducing the traditionally high attrition rate among undergraduate engineering students, and Sebald views the 22 % women and 13 % underrepresented minorities among the school's 2600 majors as evidence of progress that the CSEM program can build upon.

In addition, the study found the rate of accommodation was higher among out - of - state than in - state students at the various universities studied.

«We want to make some slight modifications and assess the systems with operations that have higher rates of SSI and see if we can have an impact on lowering the incidence of that complication,» according to lead author and second year MD - PhD student Christopher Chermside - Scabbo at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo..

This fact obviously leads to frustration among students: The current dropout rate is remarkably high — 31 % at universities and 21 % at applied science universities (Fachhochschulen).

State higher education performance funding is falling short of its intended goals of raising student retention and degree completion rates at community colleges, according to new research published today in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.

Students who participated in programs graduated from college at a rate 11 per cent higher than peers who did not.