Sentences with phrase «than other students who»

The first essay will investigate if students enrolled in CR are more likely to graduate from high school than other students who fail courses using a school and cohort fixed effects strategy with within - school and cohort propensity score matching.

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◾ The average GPA for students who were frequently physically harassed because of their sexual orientation was half a grade lower than that of other students.»

Still, there is no way that, for this Jerusalemite and all other Israeli husbands and fathers» along with students at university who miss their exams, and beginners in new jobs or careers who are one way and another bound to be set back» the burden of yearly, as I like to think of it, «fulfillment» is not at the least a nuisance and more often than not downright onerous.

There is on one side of this coin the students» tendency to attend lectures which they need for their examinations; on the other side is the fact that there is strong political support for Küng among the students (there was a huge rally and torchlight parade last December on the night following the Roman edict to withdraw his missio canonica), and for many students, both Protestant and Catholic, the issues in the Küng case are larger than the man himself, Küng's status at the university is not dependent on the number of students who come to his lectures (nor on the number of his doctoral students), but the fall semester will be some index of the viability of this new «third track» in theology.

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).

In other words, the fact that double the number of private school students go on to complete college degrees has more to do with who attends private school than what the private school is actually doing for the child's college prospects.

In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeed.

And, what he found is that there were certain teachers who were reliably better able than others to improve their student's performance on these proxy measures.

The NYC Department of Education has been trying to recruit and retain teachers of color, bilingual teachers and male teachers in an effort to have the adults in the classroom look more like the students, who are overwhelmingly students of color with many speaking a language other than English at home.

But they did a bit better than other failing students statewide who got the same scores the year before, officials said.

«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.

Donovan, who has been a middle school teacher for more than 20 years, explained that other science curriculum materials are often subject - specific, focusing lessons on individual scientific fields like biology and excluding disciplines like chemistry that can provide an essential foundation for students.

When fed brain scans produced by students looking at fresh paintings by the same artists, the program correctly identified the painter better than chance alone: it was correct 83 per cent of the time among the six students who were art majors and 62 per cent of the time among the others (NeuroReport, DOI: 10.1097 / WNR.0 b013e3283331322).

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.

In other words, students who thought they were being taught by women gave lower evaluation scores than students who thought they were being taught by men.

«But one of our key conclusions was that those children who enter the pre-k program with lower levels of English proficiency make gains at an even greater rate than the other students.»

As she grew up, she lost the ability to speak French fluently; although she took French in college, she was no more fluent than any other college student who has had some classes.

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.

On the other hand, «historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) such as Howard, Fisk and Clark Atlanta» enroll students who are «on average significantly weaker academically than the black students at Dartmouth and the other Ivies,» the book states.

Students who identified as «multiracial» or «other» also experienced higher levels of polyvictimization than their peers.

However, Ray said, women of color are more likely than other students to report having secondary advisers who respect their ideas and teach them how to navigate academia.

In contrast, the alternative pathway that requires prospective teachers to take courses that are not transferable to other fields yields teachers who are less effective at boosting student test scores than either traditional - route teachers or teachers who entered the profession through other alternative pathways.

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.

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.

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.

The lab - grown mini-brains, which researchers say are truer to life and more cost - effective than similar research models, came about thanks to the son of two Johns Hopkins scientists and two other high school students who were doing summer research internships.

«Scholarships give our students the gift of freedom: to make career choices based on purpose and passion, rather than the price of education; to use time to study, explore science, and volunteer to help others, rather than working to make ends meet; and to succeed because someone who never met them saw enough potential to invest in their dreams,» said Catherine Lucey, MD, vice dean for education at UCSF's School of Medicine.

The Department of Biomedical Sciences offers an opportunity for students who have majored in various fields other than medicine, dentistry, or veterinary medicine to acquire the core aspects of biomedical science and its applications.

This study showed that the students who became professional musicians earned less than their peers who had chosen other career paths.

A survey of students found that those who made use of their phones more than others had higher levels of feeling lonely, isolated, anxious and depressed.

You remind me of many of my students who really showed their intelligence through their grasp of reality and concern with things other than what is considered the norm for many your age.

This was particularly the case because many societies remain highly segregated: the average American public school student has less than one interracial friend, and around 90 % of people who attend religious services do so only with others of their own race.

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-...]

Gennaro and Kenzie have aged more believably than is the case with characters in a lot of other series: He's exhausted and scrambling for freelance gigs; she's a grad - school student and stay - at - home mom who misses the adrenaline rush of her old job.

Babyjohn Choi plays a young man who joins the eponymous department led by none other than comedy legend Richard Ng, Chin Siu - ho (one of the students in the original Mr. Vampire) and Yeun Cheung - yan (one of Yuen Woo - ping's younger brothers).

Other research indicates that low - income students in particular benefit from college, becoming nearly three times more likely to make it into the middle class than their peers who earn some (or no) college credits.

By a 31 - 4 vote on Feb. 8, the Senate passed a bill that would bar student parents who miss more than four weeks of payments from sports and other extracurricular activities, including drama, debate, and school publications.

More than 95 percent of FLVS students are part - time students who take their other courses in another school.

Likewise, according to The Civic and Political Health of the Nation: A Generational Portrait (a survey of Americans conducted in 2002), students who reported that their teachers led discussions of politics and government were more involved in their communities and more attentive to the news than other students.

You have to help all the stakeholders far more than you think: like parents, other teachers, and some students who don't have access elsewhere.

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.

Students who fail to make the connection between effort and results attribute their successes and failures to someone or something other than themselves.

Students attending KIPP schools have higher rates of high - school graduation, college enrollment, and college completion than students from similarly disadvantaged backgrounds who attend other types of Students attending KIPP schools have higher rates of high - school graduation, college enrollment, and college completion than students from similarly disadvantaged backgrounds who attend other types of students from similarly disadvantaged backgrounds who attend other types of schools.

«There are over 100,000 students with disability whose schools receive no support funding — one third of the total number of students with disability — and many others who get less than they need,» Ms Haythorpe said.

In schools that had a chance to achieve a Recognized rating, low - scoring students who were not designated as eligible for special education in 8th grade were 2.4 percentage points more likely to be newly designated as such in 10th grade, an increase of more than 100 percent relative to the 2 percent designation rate in other schools.

Students of teachers who were too unselfish performed worse than those who moderated their attention to others, the research found.

The results are worth the effort: When I surveyed students who were tracking their data, they were substantially more likely to respond that they were trying their hardest and felt in control of their learning than students in other classrooms.

F&M staff had long observed that students who came to the Lancaster campus through Posse tended to graduate at a much higher rate than other minority students.

For example, in a seniority - based system, black students are far more likely than other students to have been in a classroom of a teacher who received a RIF notice.