Sentences with phrase «than other students from»

One study found that career academy students from a large district who entered a local university were more likely to complete their bachelor's degrees than other students from that district.

Not exact matches

Because up until now, college students were willing to exchange 20 hours a week for three to six months in return for something on their resumes and a recommendation from someone other than a professor or the lady they used to babysit for.

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.

You can't always be the student, so when you can, remember that there are others than can benefit from your guidance.

And a new report finds that while many low - income students fall behind and fail to graduate on time from U.S. colleges, the University of California system supports them significantly better than other schools do.

However because I was a student I was ineligible for any assistance other than the meager student aid that I got from the government that barely covered my tuition.

Drake pointed out that student loan interest is usually lower than other types of unsecured debt, like credit cards and personal loans from banks.

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.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

For the next few years, I was engaged mostly with parenting: working to develop the cooperative spirit and patterns so necessary for a department of 20 specialists if we were to listen to and learn from each other in such a way that we could train graduate students together rather than at cross-purposes.

In spite of the fact that Socrates studied with all diligence to acquire a knowledge of human nature and to understand himself, and in spite of the fame accorded him through the centuries as one who beyond all other men had an insight into the human heart, he has himself admitted that the reason for his shrinking from reflection upon the nature of such beings as Pegasus and the Gorgons was that he, the life - long student of human nature, had not yet been able to make up his mind whether he was a stranger monster than Typhon, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, partaking of something divine (Phaedrus, 229 E).

Intercollegiate rules kept first - year students from playing varsity, so Trice worked out with the freshmen team, which played no games other than scrimmages against the varsity.

No student member shall organise any activity overseas on behalf of any club, society or other organisation registered with the Proctors, whether during term - time or vacation, without applying to the Proctors for permission before any firm commitments are entered into and in any case not less than one calendar month in advance of the proposed date of departure from the United Kingdom.

The policy provides immunity from liability for those evaluating a student athlete during practice or an athletic competition, other than in acts or omission constituting gross negligence or wilful, wanton misconduct.

Up from 23.4 % in 2007, in 2017 40.6 % of students now spend 3 or more hours each day (on an average school day) playing video or computer games, or using a computer, smartphone, or tablet for something other than school work.

Overall, the students probably get fewer than 15 or 20 individual pieces of whatever in a day and I have tried to move from sweets to crackers and cereals and intersperse other tangibles (blowing bubbles, etc.) between the food rewards.

Students from authoritative families were more likely than others to say that their parents — not their peers — would influence their decisions (Bednar and Fisher 2003).

Hosted by Chief Clinical Officer Dr. Rachel McClements, Psy D, and Director of Clinical Training, Katherine Tsai, Ph D. this year's conference offered the more than two hundred clinicians from Five Acres and other local agencies a live seminar, «Understanding and Working Within Diverse Contexts of Child Development: Connecting Research to Applications» presented by Ioakim Boutakidis, Ph. D. Associate Dean of Student Success

This book uses studies and other data to argue that students from poverty and high - stress environments learn differently than their middle and upperclass counterparts.

Although this decision to exclude Sarah from circle time appears to wrongly shame her, one of her teachers demonstrated both compassion and insight to see that this form of physical structure — sitting on the chair at the table — with an activity to calm her mind and busy her hands — coloring — in fact enabled Sarah to participate fully in their discussions and add to it with more intelligent, creative contributions than most of the other students.

It is highly unfair to perpetuate this fast - track award merely on the assumption that a BA (Hons) from Oxford or Cambridge Universities justifies a complimentary equivalent award, for no reason other than the student in question attended the institution, and has stayed alive for a few years after completing the BA — nothing more is needed for them to be given an MA and so a significant advantage in the jobs market.

We are seeing increasing number of students coming from other West African countries to come and study here in Ghana because our education system is much better and is performing well than the system in their country,» he said.

Studies have shown that students in the new schools have fared better than their predecessors in the larger schools, but some other large schools have suffered from having to absorb more struggling students.

Our Rochester city students are less likely to go to college or graduate from college than other students in New York State.

«It's important that the [26 Broadway] space be used by a school serving local [students], rather than children from other neighborhoods,» said Silver, who has strongly advocated for Millennium to expand.

Over the last 15 years, spending on education in New York has more than doubled, from $ 28 billion to $ 58 billion, and we spend more per pupil than any other state in the nation, yet our students remain in the bottom half when it comes to results.

Students who resided with fewer than two parents, who earned over $ 50 per week from sources other than a job, or who go out 4 - 7 nights per week for fun, were at significantly increased risk for use.

Laila Noli, first author and PhD student from King's College London said: «Having two distinct ICMs within a single embryo of which one was bigger and more developmentally advanced than the other was an unexpected finding.

An extensive case study revealed that graduation rates from science have nearly tripled since PRISM's inception, that the number of students pursuing graduate degrees has grown nearly ten fold, and that students receive author credit on journal articles more often than at other institutions.

Although students said they did not personally mock the system, paradoxically, they reported that they mocked the system less than they had prior to the event; they also reported hearing less disparagement from others after the emergency.

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.

The Humboldt Foundation, Germany's largest agency that provides financial support for foreign students, funded German - based fellowships for more than 2000 scientists from other countries in the past year alone.

Students and teachers from more than 120 countries have surfed through these and other Spongelab - developed products online.

Kargel, Leonard, Dan Shugar of the University of Washington Tacoma, Umesh Haritashya of the University of Dayton in Ohio, Eric Fielding of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, UA student Pratima KC, and 58 other scientists, from more than 35 institutions in 12 countries, are co-authors on the research report.

The researchers used data from a five - year study that examined the negative consequences of students changing schools for reasons other than grade promotion and the impact of an outreach program designed to enhance relationships between families and school personnel.

«Our research shows female international students are potentially more protected from violence than other students,» Daigle said.

The title obtained from a Grande Ecole d'Ingénieurs is equivalent to a master's degree, and although students are referred to as ingénieurs, they are expected to assume greater responsibilities than most engineers would in other countries.

Perhaps because students in the study got the targeted help they needed to catch up, Ludwig said, «These effects on schooling outcomes are larger — much larger — than what we see from so many other educational strategies.»

Purdue University doctoral students, from left, Xuan Li and Seockmo Ku operate a new system that concentrates foodborne salmonella and other pathogens faster than conventional methods, representing a potential new tool for speedier detection.

Also, other studies have found that students from less - educated families tend to flock more to STEM fields or others with higher earnings returns than students of educated parents, who might be more inclined to choose a liberal arts degree.

Prior research suggests that more than 70 percent of college undergraduates have experienced harm from other students» drinking.

More than 60 percent of students believed that the inappropriate pictures alone should not result in rejection from the residency program, but that the pictures should be considered along with other factors.

For more than half a century after Boole's death, Boolean algebra was mostly of interest to mathematicians, but in 1937 a clever graduate student from MIT, Claude Shannon, recognized that Boolean logic could allow electronic circuits to «speak» with each other.

To find out if individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits were better at learning how to lie than others, the researchers recruited 52 students from The University of Hong Kong — 23 who showed low levels of psychopathic traits and 29 who showed high levels of psychopathic traits based on a questionnaire that can be used to assess psychopathy in a non-clinical setting.

«Our final image should show us a companion 100 times fainter than any other white dwarf orbiting a neutron star and about 10 times fainter than any known white dwarf, but we don't see a thing,» team member Bart Dunlap, a graduate student from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said in a statement.

However, full - time college students were less likely than others their age to believe there was great risk of harm from monthly cocaine use (59 percent versus 64 percent), trying heroin once or twice (about 77 percent versus 80 percent), and trying LSD once or twice (about 50 percent versus 58 percent), the findings showed.

I centralize most work from the pelvic floor on up... always starting class with ab work on the floor or the roller, having student feel their transverse abdominis as well as the complex muscles of the pelvic floor as stabilizers (allowing other body parts to move safely and with ease) rather than doing crunches.

In 2017 alone, more than three million students around the world registered on SeekingArrangement to find some relief from tuition, student loan debt, and other college - related costs.

Though obvious from start to finish - it's little more than a Public Service Announcement - there are a few moments in this that are thought - provoking: how these starlets balance their «jobs» and personal relationships (Silguero's boyfriend is clearly bothered by her sleeping with so many other people), how they regard each other (none of them likes Belle Knox, the famous Duke student who turned to porn) and especially how they view the difference between «on - screen performing» and «real - life romance» (I found the scene of the one girl awkwardly trying to get a male waiter's number to be completely adorable).

From USC and a dazzling student film, he caught the eye of none other than Steven Spielberg who tapped him -LSB-...]