Sentences with phrase «students from disadvantaged»

Many students from disadvantaged backgrounds are keen to learn but face obstacles at home, including lack of nutritious food, transportation, sleep or parental support.

Following discussions with Ratna Dhamija at ACER India, the ACER Foundation is assisting students from disadvantaged areas of Delhi in non-government schools to have access to ACER asssessment instruments.

SEL can help students from disadvantaged backgrounds overcome the cognitive and emotional scars they suffer as a result of their environment.

Description: The Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students program provides funds to schools, which in turn offer scholarships to full - time, financially needy students from disadvantaged backgrounds that are studying professional counseling, amongst other health professions.

Description: The Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students program provides funds to schools, which in turn offer scholarships to full - time, financially needy students from disadvantaged backgrounds who are studying professional counseling (amongst other health professions).

The School Completion Programme aims to help students from disadvantaged areas stay in school to complete their Leaving Certificate.

In placing too much emphasis on UCAS scores, PwC recruiters felt they were missing out on students from disadvantaged backgrounds, who may not have done well at school.

I can understand when this situation arises with students from disadvantaged backgrounds who may not have had early access to technology.

The program's goal is to encourage additional participation by minority students and students from disadvantaged households in environmental law, policy, and management.

The 101 - page report found that law students from disadvantaged groups found fewer and less meaningful articling opportunities compared to others in the profession.

Only five out of 88 respondents who studied for the Legal Practice Course (LPC) had their studies paid for by a firm; two had support from the Law Society through a diversity access scheme for students from disadvantaged backgrounds; seven had scholarships; and one had a grant from a charity for the education of impoverished children.

Early statistics from some of the UK's largest law firms suggest students from disadvantaged backgrounds are up to 50 % more likely to be hired by firms when they are able to consider their performance in the context of their background.

Give to LASALLE and you will provide financial assistance to students from disadvantaged families who might otherwise not be able to pursue their passion in art, design, media, and performance through a strong grounding in contemporary arts training at LASALLE.

In 2015, I worked on a national study for the DfE which set out to identify what distinguishes schools where students from disadvantaged backgrounds achieve as well as, or even better than, students from non-disadvantaged backgrounds.

Second, students from disadvantaged backgrounds are severely underrepresented among those high achievers.

Students from disadvantaged groups experience two to three times the average gains from smaller classes than middle class white students.

For example, a larger number of students from disadvantaged communities can take Advanced Placement courses if they have demonstrated proficient levels of achievement on a test that accurately and fairly measures their academic ability.

According to the Carolina Journal, up to 6,000 eligible students from disadvantaged families may be denied a $ 4,200 voucher if legislators choose to maintain the arbitrary cap on funding currently in place.

TRiO programs are a set of federally funded college opportunity programs that motivate and support students from disadvantaged backgrounds in their pursuit of a college degree.

When teachers protested that students from disadvantaged backgrounds tend not to test well, having not had the benefit of tutors and test - prep programs, GWB said they were making «excuses,» showing «the soft bigotry of low expectations.»

The second category is «Exemplary Improving,» in which schools that have at least 40 percent of their students from disadvantaged backgrounds demonstrate the most progress in improving student achievement levels as measured by state assessments or nationally - normed tests.

Estimating a standard skill production function, we demonstrate a robust positive relationship between university education and extraversion, and agreeableness for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Standardized tests tend, to varying degrees, to be culturally and linguistically biased against English language learners and students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

«We're not going to spend the same on students from disadvantaged backgrounds as students in the suburbs,» says Ulrich Boser, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress who recently led a study called Return on Educational Investment, «but when you look across the U.S., we see that some schools are able to do more with less.

Now, with the new data in the PCSB report, it's also possible to determine exactly which charters are drawing students from disadvantaged areas beyond their own neighborhood or ward.

And the proposal would slash funding by nearly one - third for GEAR UP, which provides money to states and other organizations to help students from disadvantaged schools attend college.

Schools that have at least 40 percent of their students from disadvantaged backgrounds, who dramatically improve student performance in accordance with state assessment systems

NO one seriously disputes the fact that students from disadvantaged households perform less well in school, on average, than their peers from more advantaged backgrounds.

Then, between 2014 and 2017, he headed up Schools Challenge Cymru, the Welsh Government's flagship program to accelerate improvement across the country's schools, focusing in particular on the progress of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

US schools compare very unfavorably to those from other countries, in large part because students from disadvantaged students do so poorly in school, despite the efforts of individual dedicated teachers.

Many say they are rarely engaged in deep or rigorous learning activities — and students from disadvantaged backgrounds are even less likely to say they are challenged in class.

The Scottish Liberal Democrats have also singled out education as an important policy area, calling for a «pupil premium» to commit additional funding to students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Allison Bray and Fiona Dillon Almost one in five students from disadvantaged schools do not progress to third - level education beyond their first year, compared to just one in 10 students who went to fee - paying schools, a new...

The National Blue Ribbon Schools are selected based on one of two criteria: performance on state assessments, or in the case of private schools, performance on national standardized tests; or schools with at least 40 percent of students from disadvantaged backgrounds that raise achievement as measured by state assessments or national standardized tests.

«The fact that, on average, students from disadvantaged households perform less well in school than peers from more advantaged backgrounds has been documented at all levels of education,» said Fiske and Ladd.

In its analysis of the PISA results, the OECD finds that «The share of students from disadvantaged backgrounds in the United States is about average.»

Where the federal government maintains the power of the purse — as it does with Title I programs aimed at supporting students from disadvantaged backgrounds — Congress should direct it to let states use that funding in a flexible manner to meet the goal of the programs.

«It's the capacity of those systems to invest in those students from disadvantaged backgrounds» says Schleicher, the education director for the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), which administers the triennial Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) among its roughly three dozen member countries.

Through guidance — and future legislation — the federal government should also send a clear message that districts ought to align the schedules of schools with the typical work schedule more closely, and they ought to prioritize schools serving students from disadvantaged backgrounds in ways that improve student outcomes.

He said in 2014 the rate of students from disadvantaged backgrounds applying to enter higher education was «at its highest level ever».

They are closing the achievement gap and have shown success in serving students from disadvantaged backgrounds, particularly in our urban communities.

As the lone dissenting committee vote against the Third Grade Reading Bill, Rep. Zemke understood that students from disadvantaged backgrounds may not have a parent or guardian to apply for an exemption from being retained.

Students from disadvantaged communities are more likely to attend schools with substandard Internet connections, according to a November report from the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Leading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) Commission, nonprofit education policy groups.

These 31 districts have received considerably more state aid to cover the extra costs of serving students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Information is provided on programs aimed at improving trust and self - control among students from disadvantaged backgrounds, the benefit of student involvement in school policy - making, and student collaboration in problem solving.

«Futures» is aimed at widening access to higher education for sixth form students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Given the evidence that students from disadvantaged backgrounds lose ground academically over the summer while other students do not, districts that serve large populations of low - income students should be most interested in trading class size for school days as a strategy to improve student achievement.

Second, whatever problems colleges have in enrolling and educating students from disadvantaged backgrounds appear to be driven by issues of class more than by race.

Drop - out rates have risen particularly sharply among students from disadvantaged areas, it emerged.

Private - school - choice programs disproportionately attract students from disadvantaged backgrounds.