Sentences with phrase «than students attending»

For this «lie,» Rawls trots out the anti-charter crowd's favorite study — the CREDO study — which claims that «that charter school students generally perform no better than students attending traditional public schools.»

[23] This means that students attending a high - achieving school will tend to score around 1.5 standard deviations higher, on average, than students attending a low - achieving school.

Annual reports from the NEPC find that students in virtual schools «are more likely to be white and less likely to be poor, have disabilities and / or be English language learners than students attending brick and mortar schools.»

And students who performed below grade level in language arts and mathematics at successful schools were far more likely to receive intervention instruction in addition to their regular instruction than students attending unsuccessful schools.

So it is ironic that the media treat charters as identical as they zero in on one overriding question: do students attending them learn more than students attending traditional public schools?

According to the NCES study, students attending private schools performed better than students attending public schools.

Despite making far larger test - score gains than students attending open - enrollment district schools, and despite the emphasis their schools place on cultivating non-cognitive skills, charter school students exhibit markedly lower average levels of self - control as measured by student self - reports (see Figure 2).

Not exact matches

Data from the National Student Clearinghouse backs up this assumption, estimating that more than 31 million adults have attended some college, without receiving a degree or certificate.

The degree is identical in every way to one earned on - campus except for this: It costs less than $ 7,000, compared with around $ 42,000 when a student attends in person.

In the same way that students who attend top universities may be predisposed to getting higher paying jobs than those who didn't go to college at all, one could argue that the really great entrepreneurs don't need any help from an incubator.

Borrowers who are out of college or are attending classes less than half - time can consolidate their federal student loans.

With an annual price tag of $ 72,228 for tuition, room and board, and fees, attending Mudd for four years will run students, and their families, more than a quarter of a million dollars.

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..

The good news is that financial aid through federal and school grants is more widely available than ever, making it possible for many students in need of college funds to attend a postsecondary school.

According to the Washington Post more than 150,000 students attending at least 170 schools have experienced a shooting on campus since the Columbine massacre in 1999.

More than 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students attended the Indiana University - Purdue University Columbus in 2014 - 2015.

As The Washington Post reported Wednesday, since the 1999 Columbine shooting in Colorado, more than 150,000 students attending at least 170 schools have experienced campus shootings.

Beginning with Columbine 19 years ago, more than 150,000 students attending at least 170 primary or secondary schools have experienced a shooting on campus, according to a Washington Post analysis of online archives, state and federal enrollment figures, and news stories.

Recent analysis of the widely followed voucher experiment in Milwaukee shows that low - income minority students who attended private schools scored substantially better in reading and math after four years than those who remained in public schools.

Approximately 650 children are sitting in classrooms, thanks to the work of Restore International, and more than 100 students from these schools are now attending universities.

Students attending faith state schools in England are less likely to be absent from school than pupils... More

In several instances, Catholic students quite understandably prefer to attend a local parish rather than be isolated in a sometimes - cliquey chaplaincy environment.

I have been taught this less by my feminist professional colleagues than by the students who have attended my classes on passes from hospitals or after therapy sessions, in which they are being treated for wounds inflicted by men (and sometimes women) who abused them as children or as adults.

Further, older students are more than twice as likely as younger students to have attended a vocational or technical high school or a two - year or community college, and much less likely to have attended a private, nonreligious grade and high school.

That means, according to Shakeshaft, that «of the approximately 45 million students attending public and private K - 12 schools, more than 3 million will have been the target of physical sexual exploitation by an employee of the school by 11th grade.»

In Scotland there are still no university tuition fees for Scottish students, meaning that a student attending a Bible college has to pay significantly more than the country's average student.

Although we use «linguistic sweeteners and semantic somersaults» and call these schools «diverse,» the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (now at UCLA) has documented that more than 2 million students, including more than a quarter of black students in the Northeast and Midwest, attend schools in which 99 to 100 percent of the students are nonwhite.

Meta - analyses also indicate that young people of low socioeconomic status benefit more from attending these schools than do students from the middle and upper classes.

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.

They encourage the students NOT TO ATTEND DURING THE SUMMER TO complete their degrees and house the conference folks better than the students.

27Tuesday morning will see students with and without intellectual disabilities be more than just students who attend...

27Tuesday morning will see students with and without intellectual disabilities be more than just students who attend the same school ««they will become teammates.

The schools they attend are likely to be segregated by race and class and to have less money to spend on instruction than the schools well - off students attend, and their teachers are likely to be less experienced and less well - trained than teachers at other schools.

Remarkably, Jackson found that this simple noncognitive proxy was a better predictor than a student's test scores of whether the student would attend college, a better predictor of adult wages, and a better predictor of future arrests.

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.

More than 500 families have two students attending Downers Grove North or Downers Grove South and about three dozen families have at least three children in the district, officials said.

More than half of CPMs (and who knows how many non-CPM midwives) never attend any accredited midwifery school and are credentialed through a program that allows them to study with a single preceptor, who then signs off on the student's portfolio.

Last school year, more than 4,600 CPS students scored below the 24th percentile on a portion of the Illinois Standards Achievement Test and were required to attend summer school before moving to the next grade level.

«This event was valuable not only for our [athletic training] students, who were able to interact with a different than usual target group, but also for the attending children and parents, who gained valuable information regarding safe sport participation and child exercise recommendations,» states Jan Kretzschmar, Director of Exercise Science at King's College.

Because most of Chicago «s public schools have closed campuses and 88 percent of the children attending receive free or reduced - price lunches, Phillips is more concerned about getting the students to eat than losing them to outside competition.

More than 100 stakeholders, including school food service and nutrition directors, teachers, current students, youth ambassadors, district and school administrators, and representatives of the state departments of education, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Parent Teacher Association, nonprofit organizations, and industry, attended a meeting October 16 - 17, 2014, in Washington, D.C., hosted by the... Read More

More than 100 stakeholders, including school food service and nutrition directors, teachers, current students, youth ambassadors, district and school administrators, and representatives of the state departments of education, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Parent Teacher Association, nonprofit organizations, and industry, attended a meeting October 16 - 17, 2014, in Washington, D.C., hosted by the...

In addition to her more than sixteen years as a coach / cheerleader for Special Olympics in Area 10, Sandy serves on the board for Jacob's Ladder Learning Center, a private school where special needs students learn life skills, and she started a nutritional feeding program for the mentally and physically challenged children who attend Camp Silver Cloud.

Overall 320 athletic trainers attended the event including more than 40 athletic training students from the various approved athletic training education programs at universities and colleges from across the Commonwealth.

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.

ALBANY — More than 200,000 New York State college students would get free tuition if they attend a public university or community college in the state and have a family or individual annual income below $ 125,000, according to a budget proposal from Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Ms Turnely continued: «In the face of the government's campaign to broaden access to universities, elite public schools have actually increased the number of pupils they send to Oxbridge over the last five years, whilst ethnic minority students are twice as likely to attend modern universities than traditional universities.»

[178] In addition, the Career and Technical Education Department offers more than 20 academic programs, and is attended by about 6,000 students each year.

Locating the new building on the North Campus will hopefully persuade more students to attend ECC rather than NCCC.

Less than a year after Gov. Andrew Cuomo showed his commitment to public higher education by launching the Excelsior Scholarships free tuition program, he has undermined the very university system students would attend.