To the extent that Asian American students are encouraged to remediate their weaknesses rather than dwell on their accomplishments, the mediating role of student competency beliefs would function differently for
these students than for those in other groups.
Teachers tend to have lower expectations for minority and low income
students than for other students (Hale - Benson, 1986).
Whether the measure is proficiency on standardized tests, graduation rates or college completion, the outlook in terms of school performance is significantly worse for low - income
students than for their middle - income and wealthy peers.
We find strong and consistent evidence of positive contributions of teacher assistants, an understudied staffing category, with larger effects on outcomes for minority
students than for white students.
If the school receives more
students than for which it has spots available, it is required by law to hold a blind lottery to determine which students will have the opportunity to attend.
In 20 of 22 comparisons, the achievement gap was actually lower — and better — for charter school
students than for students in traditional public schools.
These mindsets tend to be less systematically reinforced for black
students than for their white peers.
In general, state charter school legislation is less likely to contain requirements for enrolling ELL
students than for racial balance or diversity standards.
Using information from Chetty et al's results and Gormley et al's results, I calculate that in Tulsa, the predicted effect of pre-k on adult earnings would be about one - fifth greater in dollars for reduced price lunch
students than for free lunch students, and the predicted effect on adult earnings would be about one - fifth less in dollars for full price lunch
students than for free lunch students.
The size of this effect is larger in some studies than in others, and, in some cases, additional funding appears to matter more for
some students than for others — in particular students from low - income families who have access to fewer resources outside of school.
And the math boost was much stronger for white
students than for blacks.
In other words, Sanders's research suggests that teacher quality may matter more for high - performing
students than for their peers.
For instance, because there was greater between - school variance in outcomes for African American
students than for white students (especially in the South), Coleman concluded that black students would be more responsive to school differences.
Moreover, the reason for a school's failure to win an award was often not that African - American and Latino students were lagging behind, but that white non-Hispanic students experienced slower growth in achievement: the average school with multiple racial subgroups witnessed larger gains for African - American and Latino
students than for white students.
The estimated impact of the voucher offer on college enrollment was roughly 5 percentage points greater for African American
students than for Hispanic students, raising the question of why such a difference is observed between these two groups, both of which came from socioeconomically disadvantaged families.
All in all, it seems that the voucher option was less critical for Hispanic
students than for African American students.
We also find that these biases were slightly more pronounced for black male
students than for black female students.
Both GPA and standardized - test - score averages are lower for black
students than for white students.
Predicted spending increases are also associated with greater probabilities of high school graduation, with larger effects for low - income
students than for their nonpoor peers.
There are also articles about obstacles to greater progress: a study reveals that teacher expectations impact students» likelihood of completing college and are often lower for black
students than for their white counterparts, even after accounting for students» academic and demographic backgrounds; and a look at how allowing laptop use in the classroom actually distracts from student learning.
More than 25 years ago, James Coleman and his colleagues found that attending a private school was more beneficial for black
students than for whites, as measured by test scores.
All lottery winners travel farther to attend their first - choice school, but the distance is greater for high school
students than for middle school students.
But progress is generally much larger in math than in reading; in fourth grade than in eighth grade; in eighth grade than in twelfth grade; for African American and Hispanic
students than for whites; and for low performers than for high performers.
The degree of satisfaction is higher for current
students than for recent graduates, suggesting that departments are either improving with time or that current students are overly generous!
But in fact they allowed theology to become one academic discipline among others, with theologians writing more for one another and for seminary
students than for the church or the larger society.
In their 1969 report on Title I, Ruby Martin and Phyllis McClure showed that Title I dollars were being used on activities that did not serve students who were the intended audience of Title I. Goodwin Liu described how the current formulas actually provide lower - poverty states with more Title I dollars per poor
student than for higher - poverty states.
Not exact matches
More
than 190 representing both Christian and Jewish denominations received the waivers from the mid-1970s through the late 1990s, seeking permission,
for example, to only hire male teachers
for certain positions or to sanction
students or employees who had sex outside marriage.
Think long term, he advises: «If you don't get retirement fully funded, you're going to be on your kids» payroll
for 15 or 20 years,» which could end up being more expensive in the long run
than student loans would be.
(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.
The personal loan was easier to get
than one might expect: Sullivan applied
for it before finishing his MBA program at Norwich University, meaning his
student loans were still accumulating.
The professor has no context of the
student other
than his or her asking
for a favor.
Student - loan debt is a ticking time bomb
for our economy: It's higher
than ever before, and it may be preventing some of the best and brightest young graduates from making their mark in the world of entrepreneurship.
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.
With more MBA programs
than ever before serving a record number of
students — about 10,000
students are registered in Canadian MBA programs this year, up from 4,800 in 1998 — specialization has become a defining trend, helping schools compete
for the best
students, and graduates compete
for the best jobs.
edu email and haven't yet become a member with it, you can get a six - month trial of Prime
Student at no - cost and then pay 50 % less
than other Prime users ($ 6.49 per month) after the trial ends
for four years or until your indicated graduation date — whichever comes first.
And
for students and their families, what alternatives will suit them better
than curricula designed
for the past.
(And yes, I had to actually earn money when I was a
student too, so I realize that's easier
for some
students than others, but there's always a way to slip some kind of internship, work experience, or related extracurricular into your schedule between tying on that wait staff apron.)
Affordable unlocked phones are much more powerful
than they used to be, and any of our top picks would make an excellent first smartphone
for a kid or young
student who just needs a reliable cheap phone.
Paying off
student loans shouldn't feel like a bigger accomplishment
than earning a degree, but that's the unfortunate reality
for many graduates.
Yet, more
than half of
students surveyed cite a lack of resources as their main reason
for not starting up.
Those who are employed,
for example, are less lonely
than students and the unemployed, the latter of whom have the highest feelings of loneliness.
After purchasing the Android - powered devices
for less
than US$ 50 each from the web - services developer, the government would then sell them to Indian
students for just $ 35 each.
Last month, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won a competition among more
than 1,000 college
students who presented design concepts
for how the Hyperloop might transport pods of people from city to city at high speeds.
(See Making
Student Debt Less Sticky) While the very uniqueness of each loan and each employee's situation makes it inefficient and uneconomical for any one business to take on the problem, in the aggregate this problem is a large source of growing concern for more than 40 million student and parent debtors (as well as their empl
Student Debt Less Sticky) While the very uniqueness of each loan and each employee's situation makes it inefficient and uneconomical
for any one business to take on the problem, in the aggregate this problem is a large source of growing concern
for more
than 40 million
student and parent debtors (as well as their empl
student and parent debtors (as well as their employers).
Rather
than blowing off the suggestion, I thanked the employee
for bringing up the topic and laid out our benefits road map — which held potential
for student debt assistance once the company gained another 100 employees.
Students shouldn't borrow more in loans
than they'll make in their first year of employment, said Jeff Selingo, author of «There Is Life After College: What Parents and
Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare
for the Jobs of Tomorrow.»
Leaving the workforce
for graduate school can more
than double your
student loan debt.
These are obvious questions to ask, but according to a massive new analysis of more
than 45 million public school
students nationwide from Stanford's Sean Reardon (hat tip to Business Insider
for the pointer), they can actually be misleading cues to focus on.
What began with a simple video
for her pilates
students has grown into a channel with more
than 2 million subscribers and an e-commerce platform that founder Cassey Ho says drives nearly 70 % of the revenue
for this multi-million dollar brand.