Sentences with phrase «than their classmates by»

Chetty's team tracked down 95 percent of those tested to see if students who scored well on kindergarten tests were earning more than their classmates by the time they reached their mid-20s.

Not exact matches

He has one of the three highest academic averages in the history of Mansfield High — he received a B for one marking period in seventh - grade English but nothing lower than an A since — and will certainly become the fourth member of his family named most likely to succeed by his classmates at graduation.

Meanwhile, the losers will be shunned by society... bullied by classmates for crying on national TV, forced into trying drugs and alcohol at an even younger age than the winning team before ultimately becoming lifelong criminals themselves.

Aside from fantasizing about seizing the Ginty from his bag and using it to commit parricide; aside from spending the weekend concealing my politics from my dad's gin - blossomed, tartan - blazered classmates; other than being treated by my wife, Laura, upon my return, like a man who had blown two weeks wages on a drinking and gambling binge, I could not have had a better time.

You refer to kids in your class as «the classmate who I don't sit by anymore,» rather than giving us names.

The proportion of poor teenagers who go to university has been rising at a far higher rate than that of their better - off classmates, a statistical analysis by Labour shows.

The city Department of Education plans to close more than a dozen struggling schools — including the Bronx high school where a student was stabbed to death by a classmate...

Fourth graders who showed signs of depression were more likely than their classmates to be victimized as fifth graders, and kids who were picked on in fifth grade tended to be less accepted by their peers in sixth grade.

The film directed by J.A. Bayona (who will direct Jurassic World 2 next) is based on the book of the same name by Patrick Ness and follows a 12 - year - old boy (Lewis MacDougall) who in dealing with his mother's (Felicity Jones) terminal illness, his less - than sympathetic grandmother (Sigourney Weaver), and bullying classmates, finds a friend in a nocturnal monster (voiced by Liam Neeson).

Mychal Bell, 17, the first of the classmates to go on trial, was quickly convicted in a kangaroo court by an all - white jury presided over by a white judge in less than three hours.

But given the fervently anti-Iranian sentiment stoked by the hostage crisis in Tehran, Ali's new neighbors and classmates prove less than hospitable, as the proliferation of signs reading «We Don't Serve Iranians» and «Terrorists Go Home» reveal.

In Lady Bird, characters do indeed come and go, including two boyfriends — played by Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges and Call Me By Your Name heartthrob Timothée Chalamet — and a host of bratty classmates at her all - girl Catholic school, but none are more important than her BFF Julie (Beanie Feldstein) and her exhausted parents (Laurie Metcalf and Tracy Lettsby Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges and Call Me By Your Name heartthrob Timothée Chalamet — and a host of bratty classmates at her all - girl Catholic school, but none are more important than her BFF Julie (Beanie Feldstein) and her exhausted parents (Laurie Metcalf and Tracy Lettsby the Sea's Lucas Hedges and Call Me By Your Name heartthrob Timothée Chalamet — and a host of bratty classmates at her all - girl Catholic school, but none are more important than her BFF Julie (Beanie Feldstein) and her exhausted parents (Laurie Metcalf and Tracy LettsBy Your Name heartthrob Timothée Chalamet — and a host of bratty classmates at her all - girl Catholic school, but none are more important than her BFF Julie (Beanie Feldstein) and her exhausted parents (Laurie Metcalf and Tracy Letts).

But the cultural accessories that fill each scene — the Bikini Kill poster above Lady Bird's bed, the striped Gap sweaters worn by Lady Bird and her classmates, the round - the - clock television coverage of the Iraq War — illustrate the social, aesthetic, and political influences of an era that modern technology has made feel much longer ago than it actually was.

Walsh - Peelo strikes a perfect balance between the insecurity of his feelings about Raphina and a stunning confidence gleaned by the self - awareness that he's more talented than his classmates.

Slapping the nickname «Needy» on Seyfried's only - possibly - nerdy - by - movie - standards - otherwise - hotter - than - 99 % - of - my - hs - classmates best friend character (full name: Anita Lesnicki, her nickname seems designed to add superfluous character the incredibly - talented Seyfried can supply with a mere inclination of her head) is the first hint of Cody doing her thing; by the time Jennifer is mocking Needy's bf Chip (the sublime Johnny Simmons) as «lime green Jell - o» the Cody Dialogue Effect is in full force within the film.

«By sharing perspectives and differing approaches, classmates can in some cases teach their students more effectively than the professor,» says Lani Guinier, describing the teaching practices she employs at Harvard Law School — practices that could be instituted in almost any educational setting.

You can avoid that by focusing on the student's improvement rather than on his performance relative to his classmates.

Students in KIPP schools may be surrounded by classmates who are, on the whole, more supportive of academic achievement than peers in traditional public schools with similar poverty rates.

We will also show, however, that the increased tracking by skill placed double - dose students among substantially lower - skilled classmates than non-double-dose students, which could have hurt student outcomes.

Assignment to double - dose decreased the average achievement of a student's classmates by more than 19 percentile points, and increased the size of regular algebra classes by 2.4 students.

Results of national tests known as Sats taken by 10 and 11 - year - olds in England show that children on free school meals do less well than their classmates, and the pattern continues to GCSE level.

Boys are being outperformed by girls in literacy because they read less thoroughly than their female classmates, new research has found.

But what Malek is suggesting is taking away the option to purchase anything other than ebooks; he's also suggesting removing the option to share a textbook with a classmate by having the bursar's office automatically bill the students for their digital textbooks when they enroll in the class (although the charge won't appear until after the deadline to drop the class).

The Survey also stated that female law students are more likely to be motivated by the fear of failing than their male classmates.

When I finished the exam, with just a minute to spare, I was disheartened by the fact that my essay was probably many fewer words than my classmates» and that my handwriting might be off - putting to the professor.

Exposure to violence exercised by support sources — teachers and classmates — explains more than 90 % of the total variance explained in bullying behavior.