Sentences with phrase «students than the population»

They tend to have higher average socioeconomic status students than the population of elementary schools overall.

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The school has increased its student population to more than 1,000 MBA students in four years and expects to boost enrollment to 1,400 students in 2016.

More than 40 million Americans carry student - loan debt — more than the entire population of Canada.

Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.

In non-U.S. cities with populations of more than 1.5 million, NYU Tisch Center students Camile Ake, Grace Chen, Juliana Coelho, Kaitlyn Darlymple, Shirley Lu, Michelle Ming, Estelle Wang and Xinyi Zhu surveyed 12 restaurants for each lunch and dinner.

There are more than 290,000 foreign students enrolled in Canada, accounting for 8 per cent of the post-secondary student population and ringing in $ 8 billion to the Canadian economy, said the Canadian Bureau for International Education.

On the other hand, more than 90 percent of the students in parochial schools, drawn from the same underclass population, go on to college or other advanced training.

That people were essentially a problem, even a pollutant, rather than a resource; that social, political, economic, and ecological catastrophe was right around the corner, unless drastic steps were taken to stabilize and then reverse world population trends - these were the themes, familiar to even the most casual student of the American anti-natalist lobby, that set the agenda for Budapest and Mexico City.

A January 2000 survey by the Panetta Institute found college students are less likely to vote than the population at large.

[6] African American students, men and women combined, amounted to less than 7.3 percent of the total student population.

BCPS has a student population of more than 225,000 students at nearly 230 traditional public schools.

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).

With more than 1.1 million children being homeschooled, the number accounts for 2.2 % of the total student population.

At minimum, one school nurse should serve no more than 750 students, depending on community and student population.

The report also shows that American Indian students, who account for less than 2 percent of the student population statewide, received more than one - third of all corporal punishment in North Carolina public schools, although most of that disparity was driven by one school district, Robeson County.

First did you identify any particular population of students that is lacking these healthy non-cognitive skills more than others?

Districts with high numbers of students from traditionally lactose - intolerant population (like Asians) can offer soy milk as an alternative, but the cost of individual cartons of soy milk is more than twice the cost of dairy milk, and eats up about half of the approx.

And while young people in general tend to vote at lower rates than the population as a whole, the signs are that student turnout in 2015 will be high.

The district had no training space that could accommodate groups larger than 50 people, limiting its ability to efficiently train larger groups of teachers, offer curricula to a larger population of students, or...

But SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson, in a hearing on the budget before state lawmakers Tuesday, pointed out that while full - time enrollment may be down at SUNY's community colleges, a large chunk of their population is made up of adult learners, who are far more likely than fresh - out - of - high - school students to study part time and require more services.

Labour targets Corby, Croydon Central, Plymouth Moor View, Morley and Outwood, Derby North, Gower, Thurrock and Telford all have smaller Conservative majorities than the additional number of voters since 2015 - although in these seats, with much smaller student populations and in some cases many elderly voters, other factors are likely to play a far bigger role in determining the outcome.

And at SUNY Fredonia, the population of students from Bronx, Kings, Queens, Orange and Westchester counties more than doubled over the past decade.

In all three, the population of white students is greater than 90 percent.

The most overcrowded high school in New York City is Francis Lewis High School in Fresh Meadows, whose student population now more than doubles the school's maximum capacity, Katz said.

Anxiety and depression are six times more prevalent among graduate students than the general population

A similar study that specifically addressed the relationship between burnout and suicidal thoughts found half of the 4287 surveyed medical students were feeling burned out and 11 % had thought about suicide in the previous year, a figure substantially higher than that in the general population.

Community college students who were accepted to medical school were also more likely than those students who never attended a community college to commit to working with underserved populations.

Graduate students are more than six times as likely to experience depression and anxiety as compared to the general population, according to a comprehensive survey of 2,279 individuals conducted via social media and direct email.

They should clearly state that graduate education is more about raising the general level of education in the Swedish population than about giving graduate students a chance to continue within their chosen field,» Lejon says.

A real - life zombie outbreak would leave the world's population in shambles, with less than 300 survivors remaining a mere one hundred days into the apocalypse, according to students from the University of Leicester.

As part of its upcoming examination of more than 2000 U.S. doctoral research programs, the National Research Council asked faculty members to weigh the relative importance, in percentages, of five types of diversity among faculty and student populations.

Lead author and PhD Student Jamie Hudson said: «Marine species are expected to develop populations whereby geographically close populations are more genetically similar than geographically distant populations.

Erika Eliason, a graduate student at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in Canada, wanted to know whether different populations of Fraser River salmon were better than others at handling the heat.

And finding in this population that immediate - release stimulants have a much higher likelihood of being misused than do extended - release stimulants emphasizes the usefulness of prescribing extended - release versions or possibly nonstimulant ADHD drugs for college students.»

«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 500 UT Southwestern Medical Center students, physicians, and health professionals will team up on Saturday, April 21, for the 14th annual Carnaval de Salud, which provides free health care services to underserved populations in Dallas.

«The galaxy we have observed, EGS8p7, which is unusually luminous, may be powered by a population of unusually hot stars, and it may have special properties that enabled it to create a large bubble of ionized hydrogen much earlier than is possible for more typical galaxies at these times,» Sirio Belli, a Caltech graduate student who worked on the project, said, in the statement.

«But not having a comparison to a control group [of children without ADHD], I'm not sure that's higher or lower than what the student population would be doing.»

al, 2005), studies of Internet dating that rely exclusively on students as participants may paint a biased portrait of Internet dating because their samples may enjoy greater natural access to dates than the broader population of Internet users looking for romance.

Catholics still make up about one - quarter of the American population, but their schools enroll less than 5 percent of all students (see Figure 3).

So today, calling students to the front means more than what you may imagine with our diverse student population.

Four per cent of the student population identify as Indigenous and 27 per cent have a language background other than English.

A separate study of the ECLS - K data, also by Peterson and Llaudet, similarly showed that private school students gained significantly more in reading achievement than demographically similar public school students in schools with similar student populations.

The school serves an economically disadvantaged and diverse population of students who speak more than 50 different languages.

Variables that measure student differences based on participation in government programs are problematic, however, especially when comparing different school sectors, since government - run public schools are much more likely to participate in such programs than are privately run schools, even if both types of schools have similar student populations.

Four decades ago the ground - breaking law of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) began to take effect and help ensure that more than six million students with disabilities have the right to a free and appropriate education, which means they too get to be included in with the general education population.

• Students tend to learn less from online courses than they do from equivalent courses with at least some face - to - face content — especially those from vulnerable populations.

And middle schools often serve a more diverse student population than many students encountered in elementary school.

Among the study population of charter 8th graders, students who attended a charter high school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to attend college than similar students who attended a traditional public high school.

If that is the case, studying New York City students, who arguably come from less advantaged backgrounds than, say, the students in New York City suburbs, may have led us to find a larger middle - school effect than had we followed a more - affluent student population.