Note that within both groups (the disadvantaged students and the regular students), the standardized scores INCREASED.
Some will argue that athletics offers disadvantaged students a chance at a college education.
During Year 1, say that she teaches 10 disadvantaged students (define any way you like) and 90 regular students.
He said his own reforms were delivering significantly more investment in outreach, retention and financial support for disadvantaged students.
Such evidence comes from studies of the effects of Title I, the largest federal education program aimed at disadvantaged students.
Our nation's commitment at the federal level has always been for our most disadvantaged students--that is, poor and minority kids.
C. and Baltimore (among other cities) to provide instruction in remedial math and reading for disadvantaged students, found that academic gains exceeded federal expectations for those programs.
His analysis and writing center on advancing our understanding of education in society and the role of educational systems in influencing access and opportunity among underserved and disadvantaged students.
Suppose that at the end of term, the average standardized test score for the disadvantaged students is 400 and the standardized test score for the regular students is 600.
Suppose that at the end of term, the average standardized test score for the disadvantaged students is 450 and the standardized test score for the regular students is 650.
Brown teaches 50 disadvantaged students and 50 regular students.
Walton's research has had a particularly dramatic effect on students' achievement, especially for minority students and women in overwhelmingly male-dominated majors, who may suffer from the dreaded minority achievement gap: the disparity in academic performance that often persists between minority and disadvantaged students and their white counterparts.
Garre reversed course, saying the school goes out of its way to recruit students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
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Rachel Wenstone, vice-president of the NUS, said urgent action was needed to tackle the decline, which would hit students from disadvantaged backgrounds especially hard.
Few are pitched at the introductory or remedial level that would provide economically disadvantaged or poorly prepared students a bridge to higher-level academic work.
And students from disadvantaged families need schools that expand time to learn through longer school days and years, in order for them to catch up.
Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems voiced concerns that the legislation was proposing financial penalties on universities failing to reach targets for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
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The first is a series of small bribes to encourage universities to recruit students from disadvantaged backgrounds (those with no family tradition of going to university, for example) and also to keep them studying once they start.
"No students will be disadvantaged because of Pearson's errors, " schools spokeswoman Erin Hughes said.
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The aim of this programme is to enable arts and crafts students coming from disadvantaged backgrounds to complete a study tour abroad.
He said the Northern Ireland education minister, John O'Dowd, was concerned that Northern Ireland students could be disadvantaged when they applied for university places outside Northern Ireland and this was something also evident from the consultation.
It added that the courses described in the article were "by no means secretive" as the information was freely available on its public website to ensure teachers and students were not disadvantaged in cases where teachers were unable to attend.
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But Earl Attlee said he hoped the students would not be disadvantaged in this way.
She said the loss of teaching jobs would have a "major impact on small group tuition, problem-based learning and on the pastoral care of students, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds who often need extra support".
Of all the challenges facing minority students and their schools, English learners are arguably the most disadvantaged.
One important trend in the 1990s has been an increase in the number of students who volunteer time for community service, such as tutoring disadvantaged pupils or visiting in retirement homes.
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