Sentences with phrase «students than by»

For example, peer pressure to conform may be experienced in a somewhat different context by many academically talented females and minority students than by other agemates (Ford, 1994; Kerr, 1985).

Disproportionate rates should not be regarded as unjustified merely because they reflect higher rates of improper behavior by minority students than by white students.

Californians are more likely to favor allowing the formation of after - school clubs by Muslim students than by Evangelical ones.

«Disproportionate [disciplinary] rates should not be regarded as unjustified merely because they reflect higher rates of improper behavior by minority students than by white students.»

For example, Smarter Balanced's «Bias and Sensitivity Guidelines» point to the word foyer as unfair: «assuming a student knows what a «foyer» is would be unfair because the term: 1) is more likely to be known by some groups of students than by other groups of students, 2) is not required by the Common Core State Standards, and 3) is not likely to have been routinely used in the classroom.»

And I would much prefer to get stumped by a student than by a judge, a client or opposing counsel during a negotiation.

Not exact matches

In a three - month study with 7th graders, students who learned using interleaving scored 25 percent better than those who learned by blocking.

Like the study plan made by the students, your to - do list is likely simply a way to clear your brain of the annoying intrusions caused by the Zeigarnik effect rather than an actual list you consult to remember what you need to do.

According to a study of 367 college students conducted by biologist Christoph Randler, early risers perform better on the job, attain greater career success, and reap higher wages than people who start their day later.

(Today Blackboard is used by 42.2 % of U.S. institutions with more than 2,000 students, according to one independent study, compared to 11.4 % for Brightspace.)

Maybe those experiences can give these founders an advantage: more financial awareness than founders who haven't been burdened by hefty student loans, for example.

Of the nine winners who did report challenges building their startups because of student - loan debt, only three left school owing more than $ 35,000, the average amount for class of 2015 graduates (the highest in U.S. history), according to a report by financial aid resource Edvisors.com.

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

In K. Anders Ericsson's famous study of violinists, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell as the «10,000 hour rule,» Anders found that the best violinists spent more time practicing than the merely good students.

Since Sunday, the #BoycottFedEx hashtag has been included in more than 700 posts on Twitter, including one by Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school student David Hogg that has been shared more than 13,000 times.

The study, conducted by Sameer B. Srivastava, Ph.D. and doctoral student Eliot Sherman at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, found that low - performing women who switched from a male supervisor to a high - performing female supervisor earned substantially less than men who made a similar shift.

You might get more of a cuddle from a marketing major than an accounting student, but that's all by the way.

More than 40 percent of African - American families have student debt, generally taking on around $ 10,295, according to a 2013 study by the Urban Institute.

Women are also taking longer to pay off student debt, according to a report completed this year by the American Association of University Women, despite being more likely to enroll and earning higher grades than most of their male peers.

Some are more fun than others, but by the end of four years, any college student should be able to see the benefit of having all of them.

Even Kik, founded by a guy who worked at BlackBerry as a student at the University of Waterloo, claims to have 100 million users, which would make it larger than BBM.

Among the top 20 MBA programs in the U.S., at least four schools — Yale, Harvard, Northwestern, and UCLA — have increased their average scholarship payouts to students by more than 100 % since the 2004 - 2005 academic year.

The Director of Clinical Operations for the Penn State Heart & Vascular Institute, Ettinger is described as «one of the best students I have seen in more than 30 years of teaching Executive MBA students» by Dennis P. Sheehan, the school's faculty director for MBA programs.

She filed the lawsuit in 2011 claiming that the school made its employment data look more promising by including jobs such as part - time waitressing, misleading potential students into thinking that their job prospects in the legal sector were more favorable than they actually were.

Launched in 2013 by founders Ali and Hadi Partovi, Code.org offers courses in more than 30 languages and its intro class has been used by more than 1.5 million students worldwide.

To date, his first course, «Swift — Learn Apple's New Programming Language Step by Step,» has had more than 8,000 students enrolled.

According to the Wall Street Journal, seven in 10 bachelor's degree recipients were expected to graduate with student loans averaging $ 35,000 — more than twice the inflation - adjusted amount owed by students two decades ago.

Examination of data from the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances — the central bank's effort to examine the financial conditions of American families — by two Northeastern University scholars shows that households with more student debt are less likely to start businesses than other households.

«We heard from many students that they wanted help sequencing together courses in order to form more substantive programs of study than can be represented by a single course.

Researchers compared students» responses to those from the 1980s on things like «I have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me» and «I try to understand my friends by imagining how things look from their perspective.»

A study by Dan Ariely and Klaus Wertenbroch bears this out: They found that students who turned in work at regular intervals during the semester got higher grades than those who chose to turn in all their work on the last possible day.

Milyutin — who confesses that he struggled with math in primary school — cited a 1984 review by the late Benjamin Bloom, which reports that students who received one - on - one tutoring performed better than 98 % of students taught in a conventional classroom.

According to a recent survey commissioned by LendEdu, 11 percent of polled student loan borrowers said they were «more stressed» about «Game of Thrones» than they were about repaying their loans.

The oath has since been taken by students at more than 250 schools around the world, and while it is not a revolutionary thing, not a perfect thing, it is definitely a good thing.

A 2014 report from the New American Foundation estimated that 40 % of loan debt was held by the 14 % of students seeking graduate degrees and the College Board found that graduate students borrow an average of nearly three times more per year than undergraduates.

By the time they finish, they have had a far better practical education than most American students — equivalent to an American technical degree — and, as a result, they have an easier time entering the work force.

Take a cue from people like Derek Sall, who dug himself out of more than $ 100,000 worth of student loans, credit card charges and mortgage payments to become completely debt - free by 30.

The meta - analysis, published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluded that teaching approaches that turned students into active participants rather than passive listeners reduced failure rates and boosted scores on exams by almost one - half a standard deviation.

Reported by the school the student attended, indicates whether the student is (or was) full - time, three - quarter time, half - time, less than half - time, withdrawn, graduated, etc..

Although graduates now enter an exceptionally difficult job market with an average $ 25,000 in student loans, they are often hired more quickly than job searchers from preceding generations, in part because they are more willing to accept jobs for which they are overqualified, according to a survey conducted by Millennial Branding and Beyond.com.

Half of millennials are carrying student loan debt and the resulting financial pressures are so severe that fewer than two in five are saving for retirement, with many also delaying such key steps in life as buying a first home and getting married, according to a major new online survey of 1,016 millennials conducted in April 2015 by the nonprofit Investor Protection Institute.

First - year undergraduate students may borrow up to $ 5,500, with no more than $ 3,500 in subsidized loans if they are claimed as a dependent by their parents.

More than 200 current or recent students from UCLA Extension, the UCLA Anderson School, Pepperdine, LMU, and USC flocked to Covel Commons on UCLA's campus for a free job fair, organized by the Mortgage Bankers Association in cooperation with UNEX, that featured hiring managers from -LSB-...]

Even if a personal loan rate is lower than your current student loan rate, you might save even more by refinancing with new private student loans, instead.

According to the National Student Loan Debt Clock, the total amount of student loan debt is growing by more than $ 2,726 every Student Loan Debt Clock, the total amount of student loan debt is growing by more than $ 2,726 every student loan debt is growing by more than $ 2,726 every second.

For most of the public, the reputation of the Federal Reserve will continue to be measured mainly by our success in promoting economic growth with price stability, rather than by our interactions with educators and students.

Although the events, which together drew hundreds of thousands of demonstrators across the country, were inspired and often led by students, many protests simultaneously benefited from groups with more financial resources and organizational skills than the teenagers had on their own.

The letter comes after more than 9,500 people signed an online petition started by Shannon Fest, the mother of a 15 - year - old Douglas High student who struggles to make it through a full day of school.

Another example is Eric's portfolio company Handshake, which has onboarded millions of students onto its college recruiting platform by partnering with universities for distribution, rather than by directly targeting students.

In addition, borrowers who have lump - sum payments made on their behalf under a student loan repayment program administered by the U.S. Department of Defense may also receive credit for more than one qualifying PSLF payment.