Sentences with phrase «third of the student body»

On average, 20 - 30 students stay after school each day to do homework, and up to 40 students — nearly a third of the student body — show up on Saturdays.

«Limited» improvement is for schools whose shortcomings involve less than one - third of the student body.

And in an early test of their market - share strategy, Carroll and company decided to spend all of Gilder's money at just one school, offering $ 2,000 to 153 students, a third of the student body, at Giffen Elementary, «one of the worst public schools in New York State,» according to Forbes magazine, which featured the program on its cover.

It has a significant minority enrollment with two - thirds of the student body being Hispanic.

The 20 highest - suspending charter schools in 2011 - 12 all suspended more than two - thirds of their student body at least once; all but six of these schools had Black enrollment greater than 50 %.

Not exact matches

Visual Alternate Nostril breathing: rather than using the fingers to plug the nostrils, the instructor walks the student through a visual tour of the inner landscape of the body starting with finding the natural breath then exhaling out the left nostril and inviting the breath to travel all the way down the left side of the body toward the toes, then inhaling through the left foot and taking the breath back to the third eye and exhaling out the right nostril or right side of the body and so forth.

Running for nearly 20 years, English School of Canada has educated over 30,000 students from more than 50 countries.Students appreciate and are engaged with the multicultural student body they study with at our fully accredited school.Finally, the third class will illuminate how to write various academic, business, professional, and functional compositions.In addition to these practical objectives, this class will show students how to put themselves in the correct mindset to write, how to plan to write as well as how to implement editing and revision strategies.The program also teaches students the specific language skills and vocabulary needed in a health care workplace.It covers speaking, listening, and reading on a wide range of topics from technical skills to ethical concerns, from communicating with patients to discussing issues with colleagues.

Roughly 1,500 fellow students signed, she said, or about two - thirds of the high school's student body.»

Concerned about the absence of black and Latino students in the field of computer science, Margolis launched a three - year study of students» computing experiences at three high schools in Los Angeles — one with a predominately African - American student population, one with a largely Latino student body, and a third with a significant percentage of white students from wealthy families.

One thing led to another and we found ourselves spending the rest of the afternoon, unplanned and unexpectedly, at Chalmette High School, which has a popular and successful theatre and performing arts program that touches six hundred students a year, one - third of the entire student body.

We observe that there is virtually no relationship between the relative affluence of the overall student body of the school and the SES test score gap in that school: schools serving primarily high - SES students and those serving primarily low - SES students have the same average SES test score gaps (around 0.8 standard deviations) in both third and fifth grades.

The I.S. 192 building, which Winerip complained had a double - digit increase in its student body, was built for 1,527 students, meaning it still had room to spare after welcoming all the new students in 2003 (only a third of whom, as we saw, actually arrived because of NCLB).

Philanthropic foundations that support education causes are interested in serving as many poor and minority children as possible; when 30 % to 40 % of a student body is made up of white or affluent students, the school is deemed suspect, as reform - minded foundations see such programs as «wasting» a third of their seats.

On average, a black student with a black teacher in a school where more than two - thirds of the student - body is black is still more likely to experience exclusionary discipline, compared to a black student assigned to a white teacher in a school where black students accounted for less than a third of the student population.

Kristin shares demographic data from the Oklahoma City and Tulsa school districts, where ELLs represent one third and one fourth of the total student body, respectively.

Revere High School offers a respectful and safe environment for its diverse students — more than 12 percent of whom are immigrants and one - third who come from low - income families — with a Newcomers Academy, its own «genius bar,» culturally responsive instruction and other innovative programs designed to provide a personalized, rigorous and purposeful education while meeting the complex needs of the diverse student body.

May 28 — August 1, 2010 Social Skin - the third in a biennial series of exhibitions collaboratively curated by VCUarts Museum Studies students - included an eclectic mix of artworks and objects that present, explore, and delight in the body as cultural artifact.

The student acknowledges that the provider is not responsible for the actions of the third - party, including but not limited to the testing procedure and the delivery / transmission of the completion certificate (proof of completion) to the governing body.