Sentences with phrase «than younger students»

Older students showed a higher offline friendship quality than younger students.

The improvement network's initial project is focusing on finding better ways to teach 9th - grade Algebra because middle and high school students struggle more with math than younger students, said Leyda Garcia, principal of the UCLA Community School, a district school that operates in partnership with UCLA and is part of the network.

Third, high school students are more likely than younger students to believe that their achievement and behavior in school will affect their admission prospects at more - selective colleges.

Second, for high school students rather than younger students, the tuition benefits of the Kalamazoo Promise are closer in time.

Older students may react differently to instruction than younger students.

Older students should produce a more accurate count than younger students.

Since the numbers of casualties are so large for some wars, older students will be able to do this much more easily than younger students; younger students might round off all numbers to the nearest thousand since unrounded numbers will have little meaning to them anyway.

The answer will also depend on the age of the student and the student's particular areas of strength and weakness — adolescents have different needs than younger students and students who already are competent in a requisite category of soft skills have different needs than those who are not.

Regardless of disability status, older students reported greater financial obstacles than younger students, but this was particularly true of students who reported having a learning disability.

This is unfortunate since, due to the demands of puberty and the childhood - to - teenage transition, middle schoolers tend to have greater psychological needs than younger students.

Needless to say it is more likely our agegroup can afford their 278 # handbags or a 358 # leather jacket rather than a young student... I like what Astrid said about Hollister (same with A&F of course!)

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Student - loan debt is a ticking time bomb for our economy: It's higher than ever before, and it may be preventing some of the best and brightest young graduates from making their mark in the world of entrepreneurship.

Affordable unlocked phones are much more powerful than they used to be, and any of our top picks would make an excellent first smartphone for a kid or young student who just needs a reliable cheap phone.

Today, more than half of young adults with a bachelor's degree are saddled with student loans.

Our recent survey of more than 1,500 young U.S. business school students and graduates finds that both men and women count on having flexible careers that provide room for life outside of the office.

Although college - educated people are more likely to have the financial wherewithal to buy a home than those without a college education, the mounting rate of default on student loans is hurting young people's credit ratings - and making it much harder for them to buy a home or condominium.

The brawling is about big salaries, offices, with soft leather chairs and jarrah - top tables, that overlook the Swan River, interstate and overseas trips, and the power to promote the next generation of young Laborites who, more often than not, hail from student union ranks on Perth's four publicly - owned tertiary campuses.

PROVIDING more than 100 of Perth's young journalism and film and television students with a break in their chosen vocations has been the highlight of Russell Goodrick's career with his production company, MRG International.The company, which produc...

In a study issued this week (Aug. 11 - 15), Goldman Sachs Bank USA economists Eli Hackle and Hui Shan showed that the homeownership rate of young adults, ages 25 - 34, who were carrying more than $ 50,000 in student, was 8 percentage points lower than for college graduates with less than $ 50,000 in student debt.

Both are fairly small, intimate experiences with the school entering less than 100 students in each of the past two years — and both are filled with a good bit of experiential learning opportunities to offset the younger age of the students here who tend to have a bit less work experience.

Student motorists are hit even harder than most: premiums for young drivers are at record levels.

Since opening its doors two years ago, MaRS has provided hands - on advisory services to more than 250 science and technology entrepreneurs, while thousands of students and young innovators have participated in entrepreneurship educational programs.

In Parkland, «while the students and parents speaking up were no more passionate than the young people of, say, the Black Lives Matter movement, it was clear that the political establishment was going to receive them a different way,» New Yorker contributor Emily Witt noted last week.

For older borrowers who rely on student loans to finance their own education, government statistics show their default rate is much higher than that of younger borrowers.

Young college - educated households without student loan debt have already begun to accumulate more retirement savings than similar households with student loan debt.

It turns out that many of these guinea pigs are now professionals» «people who need money and have a lot of time to spare: the unemployed, college students, contract workers, ex-cons, or young people living on the margins who have decided that testing drugs is better than punching a clock with the wage slaves.»

College administrators treat students as if they were biologically mature children rather than young men and women.

They remembered the courage and determination of the young civil rights workers («The real heroes were the black «Snick» [SNCC, or Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] personnel, who faced the worst dangers and took more than their share of the violence.

It is young men and women such as these that encourage me in my conviction that the world is much safer in the hands of the newer generation than it ever was with those of my own older generation or of the generation between me and those former students.

Though younger students are much less likely to be married than older ones — and although marriage in this and other Auburn studies is closely and positively associated with students» economic comfort levels — younger students are much more likely to be full - time students.

Considering all these measures, it can be argued that today's student bodies, with a majority of older students, are less able than they would be if the total group were to include more younger students.

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.

Older students are far more likely than younger ones to be enrolled part time, to be working full time or nearly full time, and to live at a considerable distance from campus.

Though not monolithic, younger atheists, according to Jesse Galef, communications director of the Secular Student Alliance, are more prone to celebrate a secular version of Christmas than to ignore the holiday.

Younger entering students have significantly higher grade - point averages than older students have.

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.

Before going any further, we must point out that youth work for teenage Catholics is a significantly different ministry than that for Catholic students and young adults.

When Mawarire was in primary school, Mugabe's Fifth Brigade killed more than 20,000 civilians in Matabeleland Province for perceived political dissent, leaving a profound impression on the young student.

According to this report «about 40 percent of households led by someone 35 or younger have student loan debt» totaling more than $ 1 trillion nationwide.

College administrators treat students as if they were biologically mature children rather than young men and....

He had time now to devote to one of the most able of the students who had gathered around him, Bartholomaeus Bernhardi, a mature student, graduate of Erfurt, only four years younger than Luther.

But as it stands now, all we can say for certain is that in 1988 at Clemson University, among the mostly young white students questioned, men had a greater tendency than women to try and like fiery - foods.

Student athletes are being recruited at younger ages and committing to schools of their choice earlier than ever before.

Upperclassmen talk about their classes with younger students and encourage them to make choices based on their interests rather than solely based on the letters that may appear in front of the course name.

She advises parents of younger students to let the teacher know if their children are spending more than the expected time to complete an assignment.

At 8:45 a.m., More than 500 students, parents, educational leaders and citizens from across New York State will gather for a day - long symposium on My Brother's Keeper, the initiative to help boys and young men of color — and all students — realize their full potential, Empire State Plaza Convention Center, Convention Hall, Albany.

The «plastic pick» idea was first put to Natural England by John Watson, a member of the Lindisfarne Wildfowling Management group, and within just a few short weeks, more than 50 wildfowlers, Young Shots and Newton Rigg college students were combing the reserve to gather plastic waste.

And while young people in general tend to vote at lower rates than the population as a whole, the signs are that student turnout in 2015 will be high.

We've already started to set out some of this, pledging to raise corporation tax by less than 1.5 percent to give an Education Maintenance Allowance to college students and grants to university students so that every young learner can afford to support themselves as they develop skills and get qualifications.

A few weeks ago, we were taken aback when the student — admittedly a little younger than usual — turned up with his dad.