Sentences with phrase «very high percentage of students»

To start unpacking the data, first we looked at the performance of just the low - income students by sorting all Oakland schools by their concentration of students in poverty — that is, those that had a very high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced price lunch..

Greg and his team improved student attendance and redesigned the instructional program that resulted in a very high percentage of students testing well on the SAT.

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The result: Stanford tends to attract a very high percentage of prospective students who want to do their own thing and, once in Silicon Valley, the school serves up enough opportunities to push the odds in their favor.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

Most countries that have a high percentage of students with very high cognitive skills also are ones in which basic skills are near universal.

The effects of the evaluation carried out in 2010 by teachers at the end of the first year of school education (grade 9) showed that the percentage of subjects failed by the students was very high.

Improvements in discipline and teacher - student relations at Ware County High School were accompanied by improvements in the overall learning environment, as indicated by the sharply lower percentages of teacher climate survey responders saying «very true» or «sort of true» to the statement «the learning environment in this school is not conducive to academic achievement for most students».

«We were very proud to see our percentage of A * / A grades increase this year and it's fair to say that a large number of our highest achieving students were heavy users of the Pods for revision.

Meanwhile, compared to high - poverty districts, few, if any, Commonwealth charter schools enroll the same percentage of children from low - income families, children with special needs, or children learning English as a second language — the very students who struggle most with standardized MCAS tests.

While some charter schools serve some of the students in highest need, analysis of TEA data for 2016 - 17 statewide reveals that there is very little difference in the percentage of students served who are considered at risk of dropping out: 50 percent in traditional schools compared to 52 percent in charter schools.

However, in the case of states where very many schools report proficiency rates in excess of 90 %, ECF provides an additional chart showing the percentage of students who have reached an «advanced» level of reading performance, i.e., a chart showing the percentage of students who have reached a higher cut score on that state's reading assessment.

Levine, Sato, Hashimoto, and Verma (1995) found that only a very few university students from Hong Kong (5.8 %) would agree to marry without being «in love» compared to a higher percentage of students from England (7.3 %).