Sentences with phrase «students in majority»

Reduced Classroom Spending: The losers in this mix appear to be taxpayers, teachers and students in a majority of cases.

In 2015 - 16, the latest year available, cyber charter students in the majority of the 14 cyber charters fared worse on state math and reading tests than the statewide average of all public school students.

By the 2015 - 16 school year, students in the majority of states were taught to the Common Core State Standards, or CCSS, or similarly rigorous state standards for at least three years.

Only a small proportion of the children of our college - educated population is equipped to compete with students in a majority of OECD countries.

With the new formula, under - resourced students in majority - minority districts will receive additional funding.

American teenagers scored lower in science than students in a majority of other industrialized countries participating in a prominent international exam, in results that testing officials said they released early after the scores unexpectedly slipped out abroad.

The Student Interaction Plan, which was designed to encourage visits once a month between students in majority black schools and majority white schools, was only implemented for a few years (with minimal participation), and was cut entirely from the budget in 1994.

«Only a small proportion of the children of our college - educated population is equipped to compete with students in a majority of OECD countries,» wrote Eric Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann in their study, «Teaching Math to the Talented.»

The proportion of black students in the majority - black elementary schools has remained consistently high, at 96.7 percent black (as compared with 98.8 percent black in 1985, the first year the district returned to segregated neighborhood elementary schools).

Not exact matches

The majority of the students had not previously discussed the conference topics in their schools.

«Captain Couch gives an amazing insider's perspective into some of the hardest military training in existence today: Navy SEAL «BUDs,» where the majority of elite students won't make it through.

The majority of WashU's more than 6,800 undergraduates study in the arts and sciences school, while nearly 1,000 students enroll in the university's high - ranking undergraduate business program at Olin Business School.

«Anecdotally, it seems the majority of my students expect to complete their undergraduate degree and immediately find a secure job with a salary that would place them in the top 5 % to 10 % of Canadian earners,» she says.

Many of them are taking on thousands of dollars in student loans to earn a degree, but studies show that the majority refuse to carry a credit card.

The majority of private student loans in the United States require the borrower to have a cosigner, unless the borrower is over the age of 25 or has a strong credit history.

For instance, if you've heavily invested in stocks for the majority of your plan's lifetime, you may want to shift to a more conservative portfolio as your student nears college - age.

The analysis, which was done in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the founding of Harvard Business School's African American Student Union, captures the career trajectories of the majority of female black graduates who have earned degrees from the school.

The majority of this debt is in the form of federal student loans, offered by the Department of Education to borrowers in need.However, the amount owed in private student loans is growing as students are in more need of financing for their education than in years past.

After three years at uni, Matthew will, like the vast majority of British students, be around # 30,000 in debt — unless 100,000 people buy my next book.

A majority of students in relationships were not dating recreationally; they were dating with a clear objective in mind: finding a marriage partner.

The result was that the majority of the teachers and students left the school and went to the monastery of Mar Abraham in Mount IzIa which was also an important theological centre; and to other theological institutions in Persia.

This pushes white students — in most cases the campus majority — to the moral sidelines.

Even today, when issues of sexual violence receive considerable media attention, surveys and studies indicate that the majority of ministers and seminary students know almost nothing about the dynamics of sexual and family violence and have little or no experience in dealing with it.

In the era of Woodstock and Port Huron, Haggard was viewed as a kind of counter to Joan Baez, a poet laureate of Richard Nixon's «silent majority» who took a direct shot at the 1960s hippie scene and student protests in his most famous song, «Okie from Muskogee.&raquIn the era of Woodstock and Port Huron, Haggard was viewed as a kind of counter to Joan Baez, a poet laureate of Richard Nixon's «silent majority» who took a direct shot at the 1960s hippie scene and student protests in his most famous song, «Okie from Muskogee.&raquin his most famous song, «Okie from Muskogee.»

I'm quite sure that the vast majority of students admitted to Harvard today merit admission, where «merit» is defined in this way.

For instance, one study found that Jewish college students» pet dislike was fair - skinned groups with a dominant majority; Catholics disliked non-Christians, particularly Orientals; Protestant students disfavored people in lower status groups.

But while 63 percent of full - time faculty at four - year universities and colleges nationwide identify as «far left» or «liberal» and only 12 percent identify as «far right» or «conservative,» Liberty University bucks the trend in attracting primarily conservative students and faculty — no surprise, having been founded by the late Jerry Falwell, Sr., of the (now defunct) Moral Majority.

Even if the ecumenical schools had the capacity to absorb a majority of the 55,000 students in American and Canadian seminaries — and they do not — they should not want to do so.

The issue then centered in Vietnam, the bitter opposition to it and its effects by the vast majority of students, and the role of the chapel as the center of the resistance.

Read the book and cheer for the 25 percent of college students in private schools, but then weep for the majority who attend public universities where Big Questions are largely off the table.

The list becomes longer every day: the landless farmers in Brazil, salaried workers and the unemployed in some European countries, trade unions uniting the vast majority of salaried workers (such as in Korea or South Africa), the young and students encouraging the people of the towns (like in Indonesia), all are involved in the struggle.

That reading Twain — and more specifically, in participating in a class discussion dominated by the interventions of the white majority students in the class — could cause significant discomfort for African American students in the room is certainly an understandable expectation.

In my other life as a PhD student in psychology, I spend the majority of my time researching, discussing, and trying to elucidate around topics pertaining to emotional eating and weighIn my other life as a PhD student in psychology, I spend the majority of my time researching, discussing, and trying to elucidate around topics pertaining to emotional eating and weighin psychology, I spend the majority of my time researching, discussing, and trying to elucidate around topics pertaining to emotional eating and weight.

The majority of the students that get there early to tailgate are in that massive middle area of the fairgrounds lot.

In 1956 when Fletcher was called in as head football coach, the school was called Northern Illinois State College, had an undergraduate enrollment of 3,676 students (a majority of them coeds) and a football team that had won six games and lost 29 in four seasonIn 1956 when Fletcher was called in as head football coach, the school was called Northern Illinois State College, had an undergraduate enrollment of 3,676 students (a majority of them coeds) and a football team that had won six games and lost 29 in four seasonin as head football coach, the school was called Northern Illinois State College, had an undergraduate enrollment of 3,676 students (a majority of them coeds) and a football team that had won six games and lost 29 in four seasonin four seasons.

A new YouGov poll for UCU suggests that a clear majority of students stand in solidarity with strikers.

Sunday and Monday were the busiest days in terms of buyers, whereas the majority of visitors on the Tuesday seemed to be students and other designer - makers.

IS 318 was in South Williamsburg, near the border of Bedford - Stuyvesant — its most famous graduate was the rapper Jay - Z, who grew up in the nearby Marcy housing project — and the team reflected the student body; the students» families were mostly from the struggling working class, and the majority of their parents were employed but not college educated.

Students at these high - achieving schools can be ranked in the bottom quartile even with excellent grade point averages, and consequently feel «dumb» and «less worthy» compared to the majority of their peers.

[i] While certainly there are many factors responsible for what has become an epidemic of emotional problems, the fact is that the majority of students name «school» as the single greatest stressor in their lives.

As a majority of students participate in a number of extracurricular activities, students need as much lead - time as possible to complete any homework.

The district encompasses 357 schools and approximately 8,000 square miles in southern Nevada and is a minority majority student district.

A majority of the more than 1,385 high school students, 3,600 parents and 520 teachers of all grade levels who returned a questionnaire after this change was piloted in Palo Alto said, «If I controlled the school calendar, I would want first - semester finals to occur before winter break»; this included more than 85 percent of the high school students, according to Challenge Success.

Entering college as an athlete often means arriving on campus early and having a built - in group of colleagues and companions, even before the majority of students arrive in the dorms.

More than half the student population in Joliet School District 86 is at the poverty level and the majority are either Hispanic (47 percent) or African - American (31 percent).

But persuading lunchroom workers and students to accept the new rules isn't half as difficult as protecting the whole federal school lunch program from the scythe of the new Republican majority in Congress.

Here in Houston ISD, for example, Aramark (our FSMC) has put really lovely «made to order panini bars» in several Houston high schools, but the food is totally out of reach for the majority of our students, 80 % + of whom are F / R.

In 2013, for the first time, a majority of public - school students in this country — 51 percent, to be precise — fell below the federal government's low - income cutoff, meaning they were eligible for a free or subsidized school luncIn 2013, for the first time, a majority of public - school students in this country — 51 percent, to be precise — fell below the federal government's low - income cutoff, meaning they were eligible for a free or subsidized school luncin this country — 51 percent, to be precise — fell below the federal government's low - income cutoff, meaning they were eligible for a free or subsidized school lunch.

Although this might be true in poorer schools among poorer children, this is not the case for the majority of students.

Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?