Sentences with phrase «with high numbers of students»

For schools with high numbers of students with disabilities, this posed a problem.

The state Department of Education decided on the penalties after the U.S. Department of Education directed Connecticut and 12 other states to come up with plans to deal with high numbers of students that missed the annual exams last school year.

An analysis of the Sussex data suggests that schools with high numbers of students receiving the pupil premium are more likely to have had their music curriculum time decreased.

In cases where achievement is weighted heavily, as with the current formula, schools with high numbers of students who perform as above on state tests have lower school performance grades of C, D, or F. By simply shifting the formula to 50 - 50, many of those C schools would earn a B, and D schools would move to C, and so on.

SDP's analyses identified students at risk of dropping out of high school as early as ninth grade, allowing the district to identify schools with high numbers of students in need of intervention.

Districts with high numbers of students from traditionally lactose - intolerant population (like Asians) can offer soy milk as an alternative, but the cost of individual cartons of soy milk is more than twice the cost of dairy milk, and eats up about half of the approx.

With a high number of students living below the poverty level, Ferrua had been giving a lot of thought to the connection between nutrition and education outlined in Jensen's writings.

SeekingArrangement.com has released figures showing the 20 British universities with the highest number of students joining the controversial site.

Some of the districts» top - performing public high schools were among those with the highest number of students who didn't take the exams: Northside College Prep and Lane Technical High School on the North Side and Lindblom Math & Science Academy, a selective - enrollment school located in the West Englewood neighborhood.

Teachers with a high number of students with discipline issues are walking a fine line between extreme stress and a emotional meltdown.

According to a report from the Public Policy Institute of California, in 2014 - 2015, San Diego County was one of the regions in the state with a higher number of students with severe disabilities — meaning students with autism, cognitive impairment, deafness - blindness, emotional disturbances, multiple disabilities and traumatic brain injury.

Taking into account that Black and Latinx students had suspension and expulsion rates triple that of white students and that districts with the highest number of students expelled or suspended are also those with high poverty and low student performance in the state of Connecticut, there is an argument for a lack of support for underprivileged students.

Not exact matches

The programs with the highest proportion of women, the highest number of foreign students, the top schools by instructor - student ratio and more.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

The trip included VIP tours of a number of leading entrepreneurial space companies (including some of our portfolio companies), a high - altitude balloon launch with Stanford's Student Spaceflight Initiative, and special guests including Pete Worden and Steve Jurvetson.

While some of the high school students joining the trap shooting team have experience with firearms through hunting with family members or shooting BB guns and air rifles for sport, Jenson says that a large number of interested participants have never handled a firearm or ever done trap shooting.

Berger, who spent 25 years working as a public school teacher and educational consultant in rural Massachusetts before joining Expeditionary Learning, clearly feels a special connection with those EL schools, like Polaris, that enroll high numbers of students growing up in adversity.

«Overloaded and Underprepared» joins an increasing number of voices expressing concern about the future of the stereotypical high school student of today — the one with the non-stop schedule who is overstressed, anxious, not getting enough sleep and locked into rigid definitions of success that don't leave room for genuine engagement, critical thinking skills and creativity.

Interesting article:» «Overloaded and Underprepared» joins an increasing number of voices expressing concern about the future of the stereotypical high school student of today â $ «the one with the non-stop schedule who is overstressed, anxious,» Anxiety is comorbid with suicide, and yet PAUSD teachers criminalize anxiety through everyday worst practices in the classroom: excessive homework, test stacking, project stacking, inflexible deadlines, and uncaring response to pleas for relief.

New research confirms what doctors working with young athletes already suspected: the number of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears among youths, particularly high school students, has risen during the past 20 years.

Students at Stuyvesant High School, justifying and rationalizing what was described as a culture of «low - level cheating» there to a New York Times reporter, could not have been more preoccupied with numbers.

Allocations of place funding for institutions are underpinned by data about the number of pupils / students with high needs occupying places.

Schools with closed campus generally see higher numbers of students eating in the cafeteria (as opposed to bringing lunch from home.)

It's important to know these numbers, because a school or district with a substantial number of students on «paid» status may be generating a significant portion of their revenue from the paid price for meals, especially if they are charging a paid price around $ 4 or even higher.

Long Island is the region with the highest number of test refusals, with about 70,000 students opting out.

With the state English and math tests looming next month, opt - out movement advocates are predicting even higher numbers of students who take a pass than last year.

The high school programs that faced the highest number of complaints — five each — were Rockland Boces in West Nyack, in Rockland County, which had one verified, two unverified and two open allegations; Susan E. Wagner High School on Staten Island, with three verified and two open allegations; and Fayetteville - Manlius High School near Syracuse, where all five allegations related to the same incident, in which several students were arrested in 2007 for allegedly hacking into computer systems to change grahigh school programs that faced the highest number of complaints — five each — were Rockland Boces in West Nyack, in Rockland County, which had one verified, two unverified and two open allegations; Susan E. Wagner High School on Staten Island, with three verified and two open allegations; and Fayetteville - Manlius High School near Syracuse, where all five allegations related to the same incident, in which several students were arrested in 2007 for allegedly hacking into computer systems to change graHigh School on Staten Island, with three verified and two open allegations; and Fayetteville - Manlius High School near Syracuse, where all five allegations related to the same incident, in which several students were arrested in 2007 for allegedly hacking into computer systems to change graHigh School near Syracuse, where all five allegations related to the same incident, in which several students were arrested in 2007 for allegedly hacking into computer systems to change grades.

Beginning at 9:00 pm host Gary Axelbank will talk with Peter Murphy, the Policy Director of the New York Charter School Association, and Dr. Jessica Shiller of the Department of Middle and High School Education at Lehman College about student performance, a cap on the number of charter schools, funding, teacher's union issues, and more.

In communities of color, that number is closer to one in 10 students, with only 13 percent of black and Latino students graduate high school ready for the next level.

And Carl Paladino, the former Republican gubernatorial candidate with whom the board's majority typically sides, narrowly held onto his seat by a margin of just 107 votes against union - supported high school student Austin Harig, according to preliminary numbers.

But teachers should be high paid, advocates argue, adding that more teachers are needed in New York given the high number of students in the state living in poverty, with special needs or learning to speak English.

School districts with high percentages of minority students have the highest number of ineffective teachers.

Speakers there included a number of students with a connection to Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and several political figures, including Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, Tallahassee State Representative Loranne Ausley and Leon County School Superintendent Rocky Hanna.

An overall increase in the number of students in Higher Education without a commensurate increase in funding is placing another burden on PhD students which is making it difficult for them to get on with their research: An increasing teaching load is falling on them.

The good news is that foods with the highest number of eating occasions during the school day were fruit (23 percent of the students consumed it once per day) and vegetables (13.9 percent), followed by candy and chips.

We must also increase the number of students of color coming out of high schools with an interest in science careers.

The inadequacy of wet - lab training has, he notes, led «a number of prescient community colleges» to conduct «a «baccalaureate retread» business, allowing undertrained students to become competitive with students from more industry - responsive higher educational institutions.»

In an experiment with another set of students, each group played a game that involved choosing numbers between 1 and 7 — if everyone in the group chose 7, they would get the highest payoff.

This growth, reflecting the high interest of students in the astronomical sciences and the job opportunities that exist, contrasts with the declining number of graduates in physics (down by 11 percent) and chemistry (down by 6 percent) over the same period (NSF, 1999b).

Student projects are often of very high quality; students have been co-authors with faculty on a number of publications, and honors students frequently present their research at national or regional neuroscience meetings.

Marist is partnering with the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies to host a pilot project aimed at increasing the number of local high school students from underrepresented groups entering STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) careers.

The 200 - hour yoga teacher - training program provides students with the highest standards of continuous education qualification to teach internationally by using «WYA ID Number».

With only miniscule numbers of high school athletes making it to the big leagues, emphasizing the student part of student - athlete may be the best thing educators, parents and responsible adults can do to ensure a winning future for aspiring competitors.

«There were a number of things that appealed to me about the part,» the 21 - year - old actor says of Elio, a precocious high schooler summering with his parents — and a visiting graduate student, a friend of his father's — in their family seat in northern Italy.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

Schools not offering the subsidized lunch program also tended to overlap with schools having a higher concentration of white students, highly suggestive of the existence of a set of charter schools serving disproportionate numbers of non-poor, white students.

The upcoming EPE Research Center report examines a number of key issues facing students with disabilities ranging from the demographics of the population, educational settings, overrepresentation of certain student groups, achievement, high school completion, and transitions to adulthood.

This is especially the case in high - poverty settings with large numbers of Hispanic students.

During the past 12 years, the period in which inclusion has been used more extensively, the number of students with disabilities who have graduated from high school has tripled; the number attending college has doubled.

With nearly 6.3 million students, California is still far from being able to provide a laptop for everyone, as the state of Maine, with its total number of 189,000 students, was able to do for its seventh and eighth graders (as of fall 2009, about half of Maine's high schools had laptops for each studeWith nearly 6.3 million students, California is still far from being able to provide a laptop for everyone, as the state of Maine, with its total number of 189,000 students, was able to do for its seventh and eighth graders (as of fall 2009, about half of Maine's high schools had laptops for each studewith its total number of 189,000 students, was able to do for its seventh and eighth graders (as of fall 2009, about half of Maine's high schools had laptops for each student).