Value-added metrics wind up punishing perfectly good but not spectacular schools with above-average student bodies.
Indeed, the average student is studying for fewer hours and learning less than in the past.
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With the cost of undergraduate education steeply increasing recently, the average student is between a rock and a hard place.
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Burns, who had been a police officer, and McLelland were older than the average student at Texas Wesleyan and soon became study partners.
The average student enters KIPP two years below grade level in fifth grade, and leaves KIPP in eighth grade achieving at a ninth-grade level.
Probably the most famous average student was David Letterman, who openly admits he was not a high achieving student but as we all know, possesses the gift of creativity.
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How is it that colonists in the 1770s, many of whom had little formal schooling, had higher levels of literacy, more expansive vocabularies and a better command and mastery of a wide variety of subjects, than the average student today?
That allowed the two researchers not only to gather many more volunteers (560) than would have been possible from the average student body, but also to spread the profile of those volunteers beyond the halls of academe and beyond the age of 21.
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And when I was going to college, about -- and this was typical for I think college students -- the average student who needed financial assistance, about 70 percent of it came in grants and about 30 percent of it came in loans.
The program required more reading than the average graduate student had to complete in a similar time frame.
Ironically, the average college student in attendance will not be the only ones looking for work over the next several days.
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In 2006, the average white student scored 1063, out of 1600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test, which is widely used for university admissions.
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Most of our scholars are from communities of color and have a lower socioeconomic status and fewer resources than the average college student.
This marks a crucial development in the Internet's history: Far from being a place where geeks go to hang out with other geeks, the Internet is now as vital a part of the average college student's world as Spring Break.
The average cost of college per student has risen by three times the rate of inflation since 1983.
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Spain spends 28 percent more on education per student than the average European country, according to a report released last year by the Spanish government.
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Over the past 14 years the average debt for a graduating college student has doubled.
Today, CU's administrative spending per student is less than half the average of other big research institutions, according to federal data.
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Georgia State University said last month that it would accept credit for some classes offered by Coursera, but the grade won't be factored into a student's grade-point average.
In these cases, projected costs are an average of 14% less than an entering student will wind up paying, according to a study conducted by FinAid.org, a website that provides financial-aid information.
Rubin crunched his database for Forbes readers to find the best banks for five general types of customers: the international traveler, the tech-savvy professional, the average Joe, the new yuppie and the student.
The report shows that even though funding for higher education in the UK is above the average for the European Union, the amount per student has fallen.
"Harvard students certainly care more than the average Joe, " said Andrew Ujifusa, editor of the college's student news weekly, the Harvard Independent.
Nowadays the average software-engineering qualification becomes obsolete in around five years, so a student fresh out of college may be more valuable to a company than a 40-year-old.
It seems more than just coincidental that the two conferences with the lowest average football revenue would also be the two conference with the highest reliance on student activity fees.
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Loughborough - which has a very large student population - does not rank so highly, clocking up a monthly average of just over 3, 000 illegal music downloads, the data indicates.
During the above mentioned period, full-time equivalent weighted average tuition increased by an annual real rate of 3.3 percent, outpacing the growth in student aid over the period.
The below chart plots the growth in total federal and state student aid against the change in one measure of college affordability: the ratio of real average FTE enrollment-weighted tuition to real median family income.
The yearbook could hardly hold all his honors--student-body president, gifted singer, statewide debate champ and a nearly 4.0 average.
Never a star student, he graduated from Florida State University with a major in criminology but a grade point average of 2.0 in 1971.
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