Sentences with phrase «students from middle»

Help factor, college students from middle - income families score significantly higher than the college students from low - income families.

The White House Science Fair fulfills a commitment the President made at the launch of his Educate to Innovate campaign in November 2009 to move American students from the middle to the top of the pack in science and math achievement over the next decade.

Istrouma High School, which reopened in August, may add a magnet program next year to sync up with and attract students from a middle school magnet program already in operation.

eScience3000 is designed to help meet STEM objectives to move U.S. students from the middle to the top in science achievement over the next decade.

By making science accessible to all learners, eScience3000 is designed to help meet state standards, STEM objectives, and Next Generation Science Standards to move U.S. students from the middle to the top in science achievement over the next decade.

Today, tenacious parenting still predicts success for students from middle - class or, less frequently, from impoverished households.

To diversify their campuses, these colleges eagerly seek out well - prepared minority students (not just minority students from the middle and upper - middle class who went to suburban or private schools, but urban minority students truly in need of a boost) and are willing to take dramatic steps to ensure their success on their campuses.

This KIPP is the only KIPP High School in New York City so all the students from their middle schools filter into this school.

Even though she now teaches in a school dominated by students from middle - class homes, Kirchner can understand the other teachers» concerns since she worked in high - poverty schools for several years.

As Director of the Kearns Center, she has developed educational pipeline programs that provide educational opportunity to students from middle school through the doctoral degree.

Students from middle - income families will receive smaller scholarships.

In each year from 2000 to 2016, the immediate college enrollment rate for students2 from high - income3 families was higher than the rates for students from middle - income and low - income families.4 In 2016, the immediate college enrollment rate for students from high - income families was 83 percent, compared with 64 percent for students from middle - income families and 67 percent for students from low - income families.

Having more students from middle - class and upper - class families almost always translates to better test scores for everybody.

The reality is that most of us were well - behaved students from a middle class background who found learning interesting enough that we pursued it for a lifelong career.

In February 2013 the Victorian Government launched the Arabic version of the Study Melbourne website which will enable students from the Middle East to learn more about Victoria's broad range of excellent international education options in their own language.

(Just two years earlier, a few months after Edwards started operating on the expanded schedule, two students from the middle school were shot and killed near their homes, one a few days before Christmas, the other a couple of weeks later.)

COMPETES also bolsters this Administration's already groundbreaking activities to enhance STEM education — to raise American students from the middle to the top of the pack and to make sure we are training the next generation of innovative thinkers and doers.

Furthermore, the President will make it a national imperative to dramatically improve student achievement in math and science, and move US students from the middle of the pack to the top on international benchmarks over the next decade by challenging all Americans to dramatically increase support for math and science education.

She frequently volunteers to teach and mentor women and minority science students from middle school through college.

The research centers on MESA, a 48 - year - old enrichment program operating throughout the United States that uses classes, hands - on competitions, academic support and industry involvement to help first - generation, low - income and socioeconomically disadvantaged students from middle school through college become more involved in STEM fields.

After unveiling it in January alongside Senator Bernie Sanders, Cuomo spent months pushing his Excelsior Scholarship program, which would make CUNY and State University of New York (SUNY) tuition - free for many students from middle - class families.

«The new scholarship may contribute to a modest increase in overall enrollment, but we believe it is more likely these funds will supplant tuition dollars already paid by students from middle - income families,» said Moody's Associate Managing Director Susan Fitzgerald.

Also at 9 a.m., parents and students from Middle Village Preparatory Charter School in Queens rally outside the Queens County Courthouse before oral arguments are heard in its case, 88 - 11 Sutphin Blvd., Queens.

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.

«The measures laid out by the government last week will inevitably hit new students from middle income families at a time when they are struggling to cope with the impact of the credit crunch,» Mr Streeting said.

Meta - analyses also indicate that young people of low socioeconomic status benefit more from attending these schools than do students from the middle and upper classes.

Not exact matches

«I would like to create a mentorship program in East Los Angeles so that undergraduate students from local universities could partner with poorly resourced middle schools and high schools to mentor students and coach them in college preparation.

The students are high potential middle managers from 15 companies in CDR's portfolio.

Another 15 percent or so is earmarked to pay other debts: student loans to get the education required for middle class employment, auto loans to drive to work (from the urban sprawl promoted by tax shifts favoring real estate «developers»), credit card debt, personal loans and retail credit.

This rolling application deadline means you can wait to hear back from schools about their various financial aid packages and apply for a private student loan in the middle of a semester.

On March 14, students at Lewis Middle School in Allied Gardens joined hundreds of thousands of other students from across the country in a walkout to protest gun violence in schools following the death of 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School in Parkland, Florida one month earlier.

Other work - from - home ideas include catering services for birthday parties, small weddings and anniversaries; a babysitting service, which may require licensing from local health and child welfare services; a pet - sitting service, which may require approvals from your landlord and potentially your neighbors; and tutoring services for middle and high - school students.

About 200 students from the campus middle and high schools headed toward the school field in silence, a quiet that wasn't planned.

But it's hard to imagine students from the largely white, solidly middle - class Florida suburb being painted as «thugs» or «extremists» for their actions.

Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

Matthews, the student who came out at Wheaton in 2010 — he now teaches middle school science in Connecticut - wrestles with whether the group OneWheaton will be an effective network since its views are far from the college's stance on sexuality.

From a politically independent Anglican middle - of - the - road evangelical seminary student sister in Christ,

For example, in his days as an undergraduate at Oxford Waugh's fellow student Harold Acton used a megaphone to shout out lines from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land from an open window of his upper - storey college suite and was later thrown into a fountain by some drunken students in the middle of the night; while another student, Brian Howard, spoke with a stutter and gossiped his head off: all of which got fused in the character of Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited.

Women, men, children, unemployed people, excluded and oppressed people, workers, landless peasants, communities suffering from racism, impoverished city dwellers, indigenous peoples, students, intellectuals, migrants, small business people, outcasts, declining middle classes - citizens - are asserting their dignity, demanding respect for their human rights and natural heritages, and practising solidarity.

On average, students come from the middle of the middle class.

A couple of months ago, for example, I saw several different students successively one afternoon, one Jewish, several Christian, but also a Muslim student, whose parents immigrated to this country from the Middle East, and a Hindu student whose parents came here from India.

Add to this mix a handful of international students, most likely from a Middle Eastern, Islamic culture or from an Asian society in which people deem it strange to share any religious conviction, and we have an assembly that we could address only if the miracle of Pentecost touched our tongues.

In early 1980s Indiana, middle school student Will Byers leaves from after a night of playing Dungeons & Dragons with his best friends, only to disappear during his bike ride home.

Liberation theologians committed themselves from the beginning to «listening» to the poor and to organizing them (along with students, lawyers, journalists, and others of the middle class) in comunidades de base, or base communities.

I shall be reflecting largely from my own experience, as process thought enables and indeed requires us to do; but the nature of that experience is essentially that shared by all who nurture — whether, for example, single social workers, middle - aged adoptive parents, teachers who care about their students or, I suspect, those artists and poets who cherish and give birth to the world.

And here I am plopped into the middle of a wide range of international students from all over the world: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Bangladesh, China, Korea and Japan, to name a few... and all the religions and philosophies these students represent.

Activists usually are from the middle class; in the United States they tend to be white, from the northeast or from large cities in the west and midwest; women, college students and «modernist» Protestant clergy have been conspicuously represented.

When I teach the Gospel of John, I usually tell my students that a paraclete is the one whose name you call when you are hauled into court on false charges, when the school bully is beating you up on the playground, when you wake up from a bad dream in the middle of the night.

O'Malley has been writing, not about college professors or committed adult Christians (or about those, like myself, who are faithful readers of First Things), but about teenagers» American high school students, primarily those from middle «class and affluent families, who are the objects of Catholic «catechesis.»

For example, Fisk cultivated the attentions of George Bethune English, a former divinity student from New England who had gone to the Middle East in 1818 as an agent of John Quincy Adams, then - secretary of state.