Sentences with phrase «students than area»

Second, linear measurement is easier for students than area.

Not exact matches

«You see a higher share of people with student loan debt in predominately non-white areas than white areas.»

The center which has an office area spanning over more than 11,000 square feet with a world - class incubation space, state - of - the - art conference rooms and other amenities will help groom students to start up their own enterprise.

Private school students, on average, score better than public school students in reading, math and a host of other subject areas, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

More than 500 students from 30 area high schools entered the county contest.

More than 500 students from 26 area high schools entered the mock trials, but now only four teams remain.

The Unified races will be one of the many highpoints of Bay Area Games as more than 500 Special Olympics Northern California special education student - athletes compete in track & field events on Tuesday at Acalanes High School in Lafayette.

With this donation of $ 437,624, Staples helped 255 Boston area teachers, impacting more than 27,000 students across 96 schools.

We do have a several districts on the NSLP, and most of them, admittedly, are in more affluent areas with none more than 10 % of the students qualifying for free & reduced meals.

In partnership with Chicago Public Schools, the company offers free tickets to more than 5,000 Chicago - area low - income students each season.

As a graduate student, I agree there is no better source than the primary source, however, it is also tough to have the time to read thoroughly when one is very new to this area and babies grow quicker than one can read the developmental literature.

In addition to her more than sixteen years as a coach / cheerleader for Special Olympics in Area 10, Sandy serves on the board for Jacob's Ladder Learning Center, a private school where special needs students learn life skills, and she started a nutritional feeding program for the mentally and physically challenged children who attend Camp Silver Cloud.

While New York City leads the nation with more than 71 percent of students from colleges and universities remaining in the area after they graduate, many Upstate communities have struggled to retain graduates.

«He is superintendent of the largest school district in the area with more than 9,800 students and 1,800 staff members.»

This research shows that in a limited area, females do receive harsher punishments than males for having improper relationships with students.

The Buffalo - area teens began planning the event with Collins in mind, calling it a student forum rather than a town hall.

No fewer than 22 secondary school students died on Tuesday in fatalroad accident in Gaya local government area of Kano State.

Rochester Area Community Foundation RACF provides access to more than 30 local scholarship funds for Rochester city high school students.

No fewer than three youths including students were allegedly killed on Wednesday during the protest against the recent killings in Benue communities by suspected herdsmen which left over 50 persons in Logo and Guma local government areas of the state.

Students from Buffalo - area schools will join more than 2.5 million children across the world to celebrate «Read for the Record» tomorrow, Thursday, October 22 at 10:30 a.m. in the Auditorium of the Central Library in downtown Buffalo.

«Phase One of the initiative created more student internships than ever before and new academic programs were created in high - demand areas such as emerging technologies, cyber security and healthcare.

But since students used the space until the second - to - last day of the school year, the DOE was left with less than 36 hours to clear the area — costing the department tens of thousands of dollars in overtime from contracted workers scrambling to meet the onerous deadline.

«In the United States, only about 10 percent of physicians practice in rural areas, and less than 3 percent of entering medical students nationally plan to practice in a rural community or small town,» said Kevin Kane, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

As part of the study, more than 250 students in two Waco - area school districts played iCivics games for six weeks, twice a week for 30 minutes.

According to Spohrer, postdocs are more likely than doctoral students to match the company's ideal employee hiring profile: a so - called «T - shaped» professional, with both depth of training in one area and a breadth of experience, such as having worked in different countries or having both scientific and business skills.

To uncover that data, Purdue doctoral student Brendan Saltaformaggio theorized that rather than focusing on searching for that data, the phone's graphical rendering code could be retargeted to specific memory areas to obtain and bring up several previous screens shown by an app.

The scholar was visiting his department to give a talk in an area with seemingly very little connection to Reddi's expertise, but he cornered him nonetheless, because «as a doctoral student I had made it an issue to attend talks in areas other than mine and to cultivate learning from people who didn't speak the same language as I do,» he recalls.

Led by Fiellin, the research team recruited more than 300 students, ages 11 to 14, from afterschool and summer programs in the New Haven area for the study.

Because of their repeating patterns, fractal electrodes provide a large surface area that holds more electrical charge than the Euclidean electrodes, said the study's lead author, William J. Watterson, a doctoral student of Taylor's.

This half - life existence of graduate students can be minimized in a number of ways; pick a school and department that has a socially active graduate student body; bring a significant other with you to graduate school; attend a school in a major metropolitan area; live in a graduate dorm; find friends in more socially active departments; join a gym or go to the gym on campus; become involved in the surrounding community; suck it up and plan social events yourself for the uninitiated in your department; and finally desperately seek someone — anyone — who will halfway understand your life, i.e., make real friends rather than acquaintances.

So a Mexican ecology graduate student spent 1.5 years traipsing through that country, combing through dense jungles and braving areas controlled by drug cartels to net more than 900 of the nocturnal creatures.

«Bolstering a hidden population of an endangered species is better than starting a new population in the area,» said Ethan Kessler, a graduate student of natural resources and environmental sciences at the University of Illinois and a co-author of the study.

More than 100 area fifth - grade students will judge science models created by students, faculty and staff.

«I started work on pulsars for no other reason than that my thesis supervisor was looking for a student in that area,» Kramer recalls now.

Students who work on a project in which they are interested typically enjoy the science project experience more than students who are assigned a project topic or are guided to an area of science based on someone else's suggestions or inStudents who work on a project in which they are interested typically enjoy the science project experience more than students who are assigned a project topic or are guided to an area of science based on someone else's suggestions or instudents who are assigned a project topic or are guided to an area of science based on someone else's suggestions or interests.

Students from rural areas and high - poverty schools, as well as minority students, typically show gains that are two to three times larger than those of the totalStudents from rural areas and high - poverty schools, as well as minority students, typically show gains that are two to three times larger than those of the totalstudents, typically show gains that are two to three times larger than those of the total sample.

And in the other study with the Walton Arts Center we are surveying more than 2,000 7th grade students in area schools to link the past performances they have seen on school field trips to their current behaviors as cultural consumers and producers as well as some empathy and tolerance outcomes.

Benefits to School Life Looking at the lasting impact of LOtC experiences in terms of academic performance, Learning Away's recent research found that school trips resulted in higher academic achievement, with 61 per cent of students achieving higher than their predicted grade following a school trip based on the subject area.

Students who attend five charter schools in the San Francisco Bay area that are run by the Knowledge Is Power Program, or kipp, score consistently higher on standardized tests than their peers from comparable public schools, an independent evaluation of the schools concludes.

For the most part, he and others were not aware they were receiving anything less than white students were in other areas; they simply were not exposed to it.

Students cook the food, wash the dishes, clean the lodge and sleeping areas, keep the site clean, and do service projects to leave the site better than we found it.

As just one example, interviewing students in a San Francisco Bay Area high school a few years ago I was repeatedly told about a known student drug dealer who administrators were hurriedly trying to help graduate rather than risk exposing the school to a public scandal.

The contextually - driven design for the school's Senior Centre re-conceptualised an underutilised courtyard into a central modern learning environment, providing six general purpose learning areas and a presentation space catering for more than 150 Year 5 and 6 students.

The video would often blink in and out, and there were occasional language barriers — students in the most remote areas of the state can be more fluent in an indigenous language than they are in Portuguese.

Divergent thinking strategies offer the possibility of doing more than fostering a creative classroom environment; they can also help us better understand and appreciate difference in all areas of our students» lives.

Susan Brownlee of the Grable Foundation is thrilled with her Pittsburgh experiment: She reached more than 500 students, and believes that, for many of them, yoga provided relief from the tensions of living in impoverished areas with high crime.

The enrollment growth rate of Bay Area charter schools peaked in 2012 - 2013, with more than 18 percent additional students enrolled than in the previous year.

The focal measures in this table are shown in the last two columns, where the authors present the percentage of charter school students (from the entire metropolitan area) in schools with greater than 90 percent minority students alongside the similar figure for traditional public schools.

Of the more than 1,300 studies identified as potentially addressing the effect of teacher professional development on student achievement in three key content areas, nine meet What Works Clearinghouse evidence standards, attesting to the paucity of rigorous studies that directly examine this link.

Students in rural areas have to travel farther to reach school than their urban counterparts — a commute of several hours by boat is considered normal — and many of their parents may not have the education level necessary to help with high school homework.