Sentences with phrase «than their classmates who»

Students who participated in the Facebook group scored higher on quizzes, wrote stronger papers and did better on exams than classmates who did not take part, the study reports.

A study from Pediatrics, published in March 2008, looked at 2,000 teenagers and found that teens who ate breakfast weighed less, exercised more and ate healthier food than their classmates who didn't eat breakfast

These staggeringly figures are especially disconcerting, because these students are likely to need remediation in college — and far less likely to complete a degree — than classmates who enter with higher levels of skill.

High school dropouts unable to compete for high - paying, high - skilled jobs, earn roughly $ 9,000 less a year than classmates who graduate.

Not exact matches

But when news broke of a mass shooting in a Parkland, Florida, school — which killed 17 people and injured more than a dozen others — Brown said it shocked him: He graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 1999, and Aaron Feis, a football coach who died in the gunfire, was his classmate.

Professors and classmates who challenge them to think in new ways or who critique their preformed notions of truth are often dismissed as less than Christian.

So, Miller has been preaching attitude and aggression to his star pupil, who is more teddy than grizzly bear with friends, classmates and teammates.

Amid this chaos, Florida players struggled to cope, and perhaps none was more unnerved than sophomore wideout Carlos Perez, who was hurrying to a speech class that morning when he saw classmates walking toward him.

Campus gamblers seem old in much the same sense that college football players who weigh 280 pounds and bench - press sport - utility vehicles seem older than their classmates.

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.

In fact, rather than smothering their child through each stage of growing up, many AP parents are far more drawn to «let your preschooler play in the dirt, and your kindergartener deal with the classmate who pinches her» as Attachment Parenting author Katie Allison Granju writes in her article «Attachment Parenting vs. Over-Parenting.»

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.

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.

Roscoe is very sure of who he is, and he knows how to work a blinged out tee and designer handbag better than anybody, classmates and teachers be damned.

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).

«12 - year - old Conor (Lewis MacDougall), who is dealing with his mother's (Felicity Jones) illness, a less - than - sympathetic grandmother (Sigourney Weaver), and bullying classmates.

With some help from his fellow classmates, Winger forms a study group who eventually learn more about themselves than their course work.

When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt) who hasn't quite gotten over high school, either.

McAdams beguiles as Neil's old classmate who stirs fresh passions, but the character is little more than a device to set in motion the romantic triangle.

Amanda King, a recent Effingham High School graduate who plans to major in journalism in college, says that as a result of rewriting drafts of scripts based on her teachers» and classmates» critiques, the course has improved her writing skills more than her rhetoric class has.

Across all four districts, which together serve more than 465,000 students, the researchers found new elementary teachers were assigned students who had performed.1 to.3 of a standard deviation below their peers who were assigned to teachers with four years of experience or more — meaning that these students were about three to nine months of schooling behind their classmates.

«Studies on thousands of students show that learners who are better socially connected to their teachers and classmates are significantly more engaged and achieve better than their less well - connected peers,» notes Hunter Gehlbach, an associate professor of education.

I learned to navigate different social spaces from people with different backgrounds, especially while code switching for my middle to upper middle classmates in my AP classes who were «nerds,» to my friends who were jocks, and to my extended family members who came from a complete different background and life experience than even I knew.

At the seventh -, eighth -, and ninth - grade level, students who have access to technology at home and at school did better than their classmates on the writing portion of state tests.

School officials said the 6 - year - old, who weighs slightly more than 100 pounds, hit and bit his teacher, threw chairs and desks, hit his classmates, and kicked staff members at Circle View Elementary School.

Rather than a student presenting a report to his classmates ~ who are forced to become audience members ~ the project is presented to a genuine audience based on the nature of the work.

Perhaps more important than throwing a party for or presenting a gift to a child who is leaving is giving the child's classmates an opportunity to express their feelings.

A child who comes to school malnourished, from a poor household, having a mother with less than a high school education, or a parent whose primary language is not English is much more likely than a classmate without those factors to have academic and behavioral problems later on.

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.

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.

Since some students finish quicker than others, I had an extension problem for them to complete or, in some cases, these students assisted classmates who were struggling.

Readers who attended normally bad K - 12 schools and then went to selective colleges are likely to understand why: Your classmates who had gone to Phillips Exeter had taken much better courses than your school offered, and you may have envied their good luck, but you had read a lot on your own, you weren't that far behind, and you caught up quickly.

A multi-year study of students enrolled in two - way dual - language programs in North Carolina between 2007 and 2010, found that low - income black children in these programs scored higher in reading and math than their classmates of the same race and socioeconomic background who were being taught in one language.

«We need to get existing grammars moving in the right direction before we consider expanding their number «We can also see that those from families who the Prime Minister is concerned about are «just - about - managing» are also much less likely to gain a place than their better - off classmates.»

District alumni who attend Long Beach City College graduate at higher rates than their classmates.

They say it corrects an unfair situation, in which undocumented students who have spent most of their lives in Tennessee are charged as much as three times more in tuition than their American - born classmates.

My experience at SCWS made me more prepared than many of my classmates, who had very little personal responsibility in high school.

Fortunately, he has a competent, caring network of friends, family and neighbors: Lisa, his unlucky - in - love classmate, who moves in with him to help him care for little Frankie around the clock; his American cousin, Emily, always there with a pep talk; the newly retired Dr. Hat, with more time on his hands than he knows what to do with; Dr. Declan and Fiona and their baby son, Frankie's first friend; and many eager babysitters, including old friends Signora and Aidan and Frankie's doting grandparents, Josie and Charles.

Fortunately, being in the military offers more loan repayment options than civilian classmates, especially for those who enlist in the service after completing college.

I was older than many of my fellow classmates» grandparents, but that meant I could tell them about early antibiotics — that's just penicillin, sulfa, and streptomycin — as well as stories about my college president, Dwight Eisenhower, who then became the President of the United States.

He's only 15 years old, but when the shooting began on Feb. 14, Anthony transformed from a normal teenager into an extraordinary hero who saved the lives of more than 20 of his classmates.

For example, researchers have found that children who are unpopular nominate more friends from outside of the classroom and spend more time with younger classmates than nonrejected children (George & Hartmann, 1996; Ladd, 1983).

Witnesses who have information that bears upon your relationship with your child are more important than testimony from your high school classmate saying you were a wonderful person when she last saw you 15 years ago.

Since children who felt less confident about their academic competences may experience higher stress than their classmates with higher academic self - concept, learning how to deal with the possible stress, and developing strategies and skills to do so is crucial (Brooks - Gunn and Duncan, 1997; Duncan et al., 1998).