Only a fraction of students can perform at expected levels.
Public schools were only expected to send a small fraction of students on to college.
Only a small fraction of students may count as true digital natives, in other words.
Only a fraction of students from each class historically remain at their initial employers in the four years after graduation.
In Chattanooga, Tenn., the schools have abolished their multitrack curriculum, which pointed only a fraction of students toward college.
But the disciplinary process touches only a tiny fraction of students.
Recently, MIT increased financial aid to cover tuition and fees for a larger fraction of students.
A substantial fraction of students graduate with no debt at all.
Even in Wake County, the fraction of students in racially segregated schools has climbed a bit over the last decade, from 25percentto32percentcent.
At Tufts, Coffin said the university gradually will start phasing out any mention of rank in its marketing materials because just a fraction of students are ranked.
"A surprisingly large fraction of students believe it is acceptable to act – including resorting to violence – to shut down expression they consider offensive," he wrote.
