Sentences with phrase «students claim the number»

(The school says only 25 students were punished, but some students claim the number was as high as 60.)

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Still, as we get into the Phaedo, particularly its claim for the soul's immortality, it dawns on several of my more thoughtful students that the body is merely the temporary repository of a soul that may go on to inhabit any number of other beings (even donkeys!)

A number of students — and some parents as well — spoke of intergenerational tensions over how to practice Islam, and indeed over how to understand the claims that Islam made on their lives.

The students, about 200 in number, had documents of placement to buttress their claim of admission to the school but were turned down by the school authorities.

Last week the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills announced it would cut partial grants offered to students from middle - income families in order to compensate for an underestimation of the number of poorer students claiming full grants.

Under the law, the city can not make its offer of space conditional on Success Academy's opening its doors to certain numbers of students with disabilities or limited English proficiency — students critics claim the network has ignored.

Some lawmakers believe a lawsuit could claim that the higher number of failing city schools is in breach of state and federal law which denies each student a «sound basic education.»

The union claims that a 10 % decline in the number of full - time faculty since 1990 — a period during which student enrollment increased by 53 % — is eroding the quality of education, and it wants the university to halt the decline.

At Columbia University, a number of students and faculty could stake a claim to some of the fame.

Likewise, it is wrong to claim that the number of students studying the sciences at A level has gone down.

However, Davenport claims that the universities don't have the money to recruit these faculty members, let alone provide adequate resources for their research activities or the increased numbers of graduate students that are also expected to be moving through the system.

The rise in tuition fees could change this, and also create an outward trend: Many national news reports claim that a growing number of U.K. students are looking to study elsewhere in Europe to escape the rising costs.

As students are claiming their rightful place in today's ongoing dialogues on gun control and school safety — leading powerful demonstrations such as March for Our Lives and National School Walkout Day — there are an increasing number of educators who urge schools to allow students to voice their opinions, and make these conversations a regular occurrence.

For example, some students claimed music helped them concentrate, others were unable to multitask, and it was also found that a large number of the five per cent of students who were «distracted» during lessons were actually «also» doing work.

Though justified by claims that these curriculum changes increased equal opportunity of education, in reality they had a grossly unequal impact on white working - class young people and the growing number of black students who entered high schools in the 1930s and 1940s.

Lawmakers could tailor the tax credit in various ways, such as limiting the number of years teachers could claim it, or limiting eligibility to teachers in schools serving predominantly low - income students.

And there are also a number of federal laws that relate to student privacy, one of which is the 40 - year - old Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which has undergone regulatory changes in recent years that some claimed have weakened it.

As an example, some states show that in the past six years graduation rates for secondary students has dramatically risen from 68 % to 81 % [ii] due to Student Success programs, but the questions that rarely get asked are, do these numbers truly reflect a students» intellect, insight, understanding, values and citizenship, or is it that higher standards with lower expectations has equated to this phenomenon that claims that «Failure is not an option»?

The school claimed to have 168 students; different reports put the number below 50.

He predicts that students whose English is limited will fail in large numbers and claims that the math questions are too difficult.

Merryl claims that the tests are diagnostic tools that are used to inform instruction and curriculum development, to which Diane responds about the inordinate numbers of hours students spend testing and how whatever formative value might come from such tests is grossly delayed whereas teachers do not receive results until well after their students have left their classrooms, which greatly limits formative potential.

Then, the RSD would claim they had improved the school when achievement numbers were released even though those numbers were not from the students who had been attending when the school was taken over.

Proponents of Common Core claim it's needed to reduce the number of college students requiring remediation.

He rests this claim on the fact that, on average, black students in poverty perform eight hundredths of a standard deviations better in math and six - hundredths of a standard deviation better in reading when they are in charter schools, while the numbers for Hispanic students in poverty are, respectively, seven - hundredths and thirty - five hundredths of a standard deviation.

We can split hairs over KIPP's claims that between 9 percent and 13 percent of its students are on special education IEPs and the 5.6 percent reported last year by the OKCPS (KIPP's locally reported numbers are also different than what it reports to the federal OCR), but data on the numbers of students who are tested in the spring explain that sort of discrepancy — and much more.

They therefore claim that the total number of students assigned to a teacher does not matter.

Adamowski's and his supporters claim that during his years in Hartford, the percent of students testing at or above the proficient level went up 12.3 (Column 4: 60.1 — 47.8 percent) and that there was a 9.1 percent increase in number who scored at or above goal (Column 5: 31.8 - 22.7 percent).

On The College Board's college - readiness website, «A Partnership for Student Success» reads like a polished marketing brochure: it promotes a number of claims that are both unproven and lacking in substance.

Many of Edison's own claims for positive trends in student performance at the schools examined are based on a relatively small number of students, Miron notes.

In his March 15 op - ed, «Confronting the Scheme to Gamble With Connecticut Special Education Funds,» Robert Cotto Jr. makes a number of factually inaccurate claims, and uses a «greatest hits» compilation of logical fallacies, to argue against the creation of a Special Education Predictable Cost Cooperative, which will protect students, improve cost predictability, and increase equity for our state's school districts and communities.

Emanuel's rabid support for the charter privatization movement (he claims that Noble charters have the «secret sauce» for school reform) has allowed the continuation and expansion of the kinds of psychological abuse outlines by a growing number of parents and former students.

In Vergara v. California, nine students sued the State of California, claiming that ineffective teachers were disproportionately placed in schools with large numbers of «minority» and low - income students.

The numbers, distributed at recent speeches by Mecklenburg County attorney Richard Vinroot, a former Charlotte mayor and GOP gubernatorial candidate who's a major figure in North Carolina's school choice movement, claim that the state's charters serve a greater percentage of students who qualify for free and reduced lunch as well as special education classes than do traditional public schools.

A June 2014 report released by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) claimed that, «When teachers are absent 10 days, the decrease in student achievement is equivalent to the difference between having a brand new teacher and one with two or three years more experience... Worse yet, a number of studies have found there to be a disproportionately high rate of teacher absenteeism in schools serving low income and minority students, providing yet another obstacle to closing the achievement gap.»

We are proud to have proven these qualifications, and the ever - growing number of our students and clients is a testimony to this claim.

Her main claim is that the Department has not administered anywhere near enough financial aid to affected students numbering nearly 7,000.

For instance, there is no limit as to the number of years parents and students may claim this tax credit.

Green party Presidential candidate Jill Stein calls student loan debt a sign of a human rights crisis and claims that if elected she will pressure local lawmakers to cancel all student loan debt, currently numbering in the trillions.

Gross points out that the program reflects a number of important trends, including (1) A Touch of Conscience (where most companies pay lip service to concerns like global warming or poverty); (2) The New Guilded Age (where fat and happy law firms think nothing of the absurdity of giving students a $ 60 allowance for lunch); (3) Defining Public Service Down (a situation where most people claim interest in community service but don't want the lower incomes that go with it, so they find a win - win situation like doing pro bono at a large firm); and (4) It's Good To Be the King (describing how partners set priorities and realize that the $ 15 lunch is quicker and gets associates back to billing more quickly and spares partners from socializing).

As the research shows, this boils down to a number of issues beyond their control — students finding themselves either ill - equipped or simply overwhelmed to navigate the legal process involved in claiming back a deposit.

2001 — Federal Office of Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada created to manage and resolve large number of abuse claims filed by former students, resulting in 17 court judgments.

Many schools require that international student insurance be purchased from a U.S. based company that has a U.S. claim payment office, a U.S. phone number, and that the plan documents are available in English.

[This claim is available to students on a number of Internet sites.]

At this time, the apartment had numbers posted on the apartment doors, which the student claimed had not been the case when he toured the apartment.

The student filed a small claims action against Sumner, claiming the company had misrepresented the number of bedrooms in the apartment.

And so we are left with an industry that is rife with associations claiming to be the answer to a problem that they can not define; associations selling education that has not been approved by any ministry to unsuspecting students who believe that they are actually buying something of value and organizations that have set their «graduation» requirements so high that they can only be an attempt to limit the number of new inspectors to preserve the market share of older inspectors..